ACHE 2018 Concurrent Sessions
Network Beyond Bias: How to break out, break in, and break through
Session Description
Is your professional network as diverse as the workforce and community around you? If not, you could be missing important opportunities for your career and your company. Learn about the challenges we all face in making meaningful connections, the impacts of these missed connections, and how to recognize and overcome them. This session will help you remove the artificial barriers that may be keeping you from your next mentor, star hire, or big customer.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Understand the role unconscious bias plays in everyday decision-making
- Recognize how you may be engaging in and affected by affinity bias
- Identify inclusive behaviors and effective networking strategies
- Develop a personalized action plan for expanding the diversity of your network
Primary Presenter
Amy C. Waninger, Lead at Any Level LLC
Brief Bio
With over a decade of management experience in the technology and insurance industries, Amy’s passion is helping others develop their leadership skills to reach their full potential at work. She founded Lead at Any Level to promote leadership, diversity and inclusion, and career management through career coaching, public speaking engagements, and other offerings.
In addition to running her own company and her “day job” with a Fortune 100 company, Amy serves on two national diversity committees. She is a Prosci Certified Change Practitioner, holds numerous insurance industry designations, and is the author of the forthcoming book Network Beyond Bias: How to Make Diversity a Competitive Advantage for Your Career.