Hello, everybody what is up? It is February. I cannot believe it is already February. Oh 2023 Just yesterday it was 2000 I promise you it was my senior year in college. It was the year 2000. That nine nine and a 2000. Okay, I know I got a little excited. But I want to welcome each and every one of you to tonight's lace of communications. We are excited. Yes, we are. Just in case you forgot. Melissa Amber's is joins me for these lanes of communications conversations. Tonight we're going to be talking about the importance of humanizing workplace communication. Yes. humanize like what, how, what ..read more

What is going on? Everybody? Thank you so much for joining joining us. So it's probably not as many of us who had RSVP because well, we want to do like, so I'm gonna go share that. And we're starting about 20 minutes later due to tech issues, but we will definitely, definitely get this party started. I have with me, because with me four lanes of communications communication specialist, Melissa Amber's, Melissa, why don't you tell the people a bit about yourself while I go share us out in a couple other places. Okay. Hello, everybody, thank you for joining me. And you know, like Michelle said ..read more

I want to welcome Christina, on to the virtual summit today, Christina, how are you doing? I am doing great. Michelle, I'm so excited. You're doing this. This is just, it's fantastic. Because you know, we need to come together and have these conversations so we can network, we can figure out what's working with other people who resources can be like, I've got Gil in my back pocket now. I can't wait to reach out to him. So this is great. I love it. Love it.  Yes. And people often ask me, I need to find somebody who does like Yeah, I had somebody that interviewed in my Summit. And I was li ..read more

What is going on everybody? This is Michele Heyward. I'm really, really excited to be here with you. If you are new to me new to PositiveHire don't worry, we are going to get well acquainted with each other. We all know each other like weed next door neighbors in South Carolina where I am from, because I have with me tonight, Angela hurdle, who is part of the positive hire community. At positive hire, we focus on connecting black Latina and indigenous women who are experienced scientists, engineers and technology professionals to management roles. And guess what I don't Well, I do often becaus ..read more

Our next speaker who's actually part of the positive hire community. And when I say community, we have a community of women who are black, Latina and indigenous, who are experienced scientists, engineers and technology professionals. So, Angela is a business intelligence, analytics and data reporting executive with proving experience leading successful data projects with diverse teams. She has worked in industries such as banking, healthcare, higher education and marketing. Now, I'm gonna pause right there. So Angela went a couple months ago, like Michelle, I didn't even tell you what I did kn ..read more

I'm really excited to introduce you to he comes from another country not too far away. His name is Gil Cohen. And he will be joining us. And I want to tell you a bit about Gil and his experience. And background is he's not HR, but he definitely definitely has rich experience working with other HR professionals and getting them up and ready to go. So when Gil is ready, he'll come off of mute but in camera, and there he is. And outside tell you a bit about Gil, he has been helping organizations with talent management and employee experience for over 20 years, he has a passion for helping compani ..read more

LaStarr is a graduate of Sacramento State with a Bachelor of Science degree in business with a concentration in entrepreneurship. She served as the social chair of the Sac State Honors Program honors committee. She'll be talking about Engagement and Retention in this podcast episode ..read more

Ron Perkins is currently a workforce development strategist and a native of Pittsburgh's historic Hill District. He has over 20 years of experience in retail, hospitality, and construction. He is a certified MBE masonry contractor and small business owner. Throughout his professional career, Ron has worked diligently to make the region a place for all. He has collaborated with local and state governments on workforce and economic development efforts and training to meet the community's demand among employers, job seeker,s and MWDB II businesses ..read more

Next up is a fantastic speaker who is also here with me in the great state of South Carolina. So I am excited to introduce her to sub and some of you probably already know her, especially if you hang out on social media. Ranada Samuel is a human capital leader, focus on internal mobility and Diversity Equity inclusion. Her work revolves around the employee design experience. As she works closely with learning and development and Talent Management, she facilitates the change management process within organizations as they evolve their human capital strategy. Per her project management team is s ..read more

I'm excited to continue this conversation, and to continue talking about data, how to utilize it to retain and develop underrepresented employees. And in the coming in the previous two years, organizations, especially after the murder of George Floyd, have come forward to say, hey, we want to, we want to have more black employees, right? But what does that look like? What does that look like for employers to do this work? So before we get started, before I get started, I should say, I want to ask you a question Which of the following theories on workplace issues faced by women? Have you heard ..read more