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In the Human Resource world the saying goes that people do not quit companies, they quit managers/bosses/leaders. When I take this concept, and frame it for a conversation on diversity and inclusion, a person is not leaving or choosing to stay with a company due to the overall enterprise environment. Rather they are leaving or choosing to stay due to the environment and culture that an individual leader has created. For those of us in the Central Illinois area, Peoria was recently voted as one of the worst cities for black Americans to reside.  Which for me, as someone who was born and raised here, stings quite a bit. But, let’s be quite honest with ourselves - when it comes to prejudice in our community it still exists in subtle forms, many times in our unconscious mind of familiarity bias.  This indicates that the biases that people possess are significantly less overt as they were in the "deep south" 50 years ago, but that they still exist. Therefore, to say that the

My question to you today is, are we ready to set bold goals & go for them with true tenacity?   Well, GE has announced that they are publicly committing to hiring over 20,000 women for technical and product management roles. I discovered this information, just on the heels of our fantastic Women in Leadership Summit. Now, I am not saying, go out and make large public statements or promises. But, I am asking us to really think about ourselves and determine - if we are ready to commit to a new course of action.   "Currently, about 14,700 women work for GE in such roles, representing 18 percent of its technical workforce. That means the company will need to hire more than 5,000 engineers, technicians, and other skilled workers who are women within a few years." < https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2017/02/08/promises-women-stem-jobs/9RyMFQ871OhvMjoeII448O/story.html > Click Here   So have you and your teams considered a traditionally under-represent

I have spent the last 2 days, and countless hours leading up to this time, planning with the fantastic 2017 Women in Leadership Summit team. This is a summit that focused on the momentum of women in leaderships for our dealers, customers, and internally within our own organization.   As we progress through day 1, an amazing comment was made from the audience, "Why are we [women] always asked about work life balance, but not men? Do not ask me this! He has kids just as much as I do, if you ask me be prepared to ask him as well. Is he not equally accountable to his own family?!" This reminded me of   blog post that I wrote in May in 2013 Click Here , Link: http://www.duvettodesk.com/2013/05/work-life-what.html , I titled this blog post "Work-Life -What?!?!" I remember being so upset with all the question I received as my husband and myself settled into our new home in Waco, Texas. A lot of questions like: "You moved for YOUR job?"   Yes, why

Providing professional and person consult in the area of People Strategy. I have managed to exceed all of my customer’s levels of expectations by providing innovating thinking, continuous communications, influential leadership, customized solutions and focused collaboration.  I strive to always maintain a strong appreciation for feedback and personal development, for myself and those around me. While building strong relationships on trust, transparency/honesty and integrity by committing to delivering & achieving superior results and driving & developing best team people initiatives. Areas of Concentration:  Strategy Development & Deployment           Recruiting & Onboarding                           Regulatory Compliance Six Sigma                                             Labor/Employee Relations                         Strategic HR Consultation Project Management                               Diversity & Inclusion