Dr. Hazzard will be leading a session entitled “Creating Inclusive Campus Cultures Where All Genders Thrive: Actively Assessing and Advancing Intercultural Competence” at the National Women in Leadership for Higher Education Conference.

“We posit that the key to creating inclusive campus cultures where women and other historically excluded identities can thrive in faculty leadership and administration is making intercultural competence, defined here as the ability to effectively engage across difference, a strategic institutional priority. At University of South Carolina's Darla Moore School of Business (DMSB)--the only business school in the country bearing the name of a women--we launched an intercultural competence pilot program in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd to advance inclusion and facilitate intentional interaction and engagement across difference.

Leveraging the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) assessment tool, we administered pre-assessments to participants to establish their baseline level of intercultural competence, developed and facilitated customized training interventions informed by those pre-assessments, and then administered post-assessments to gauge the impact of the training interventions on participant levels of intercultural competence. The IDI pilot program has since expanded beyond DMSB to include other units across the University of South Carolina's campus. We are excited to share insights and data from our IDI pilot program with higher education colleagues attending the 2023 Women in Leadership for Higher Ed Conference.

This interactive and engaging session will provide keen insights regarding the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) assessment, a valuable developmental tool that has proven useful in advancing intercultural competence. Given that the IDI is descriptive, not prescriptive, it can help frame and inform the experiences and mindsets of people as they engage across difference. It can also help chart a path forward for training and developmental purposes at the individual, team/group and organization levels.

Session participants will gain relevant knowledge about monocultural and multicultural mindsets and behaviors, as well as related institutional impacts on women and other historically excluded populations. Participants will also gain practical insights and knowledge that will enable them to champion and advance inclusive practices in their workplaces using the IDI assessment tool. Dr. Hazzard, the session facilitator, is a Qualified Administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) assessment tool, a Certified Diversity Executive (CDE) and is Hogan Personality Assessment.

Inventory certified.”

Dr. Hazzard will be co-facilitating a session entitled "Moving Business Education from Performative DEI to Genuinely Impactful Social Justice Leadership" at the 2023 National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in Higher Education (NCORE).

“While corporate America is racing to add Chief Diversity Offices, Employee Resource Groups, equitable pay practices and racial justice statements, Business Colleges and Schools are too reacting, responding, examining, and adjusting their racial equity stances and evaluating best practices for inclusion and belonging. Business Management schools and colleges are setting strategies that evaluate curriculum, student programs, and internal practices in an effort to ensure that the talent they are preparing for the workforce is fully prepared to effectively engage in the global business environment and can be instrumental in the advancement of inclusion beyond the higher education spheres.

The session will be a panel presentation from three four-year public business programs regionally in the South East. These three programs are utilizing strategies that engage faculty and staff in learning, enhance student learning outcomes and seek to improve equitable experiences of historically underrepresented student groups. The panelists will illuminate the nuances of their initiatives so that participants can take away ideas that could work for their campuses.”

Is a toxic workplace culture negatively affecting productivity, employee engagement, and your organization’s ability to thrive? Are you concerned about employee well-being, low morale, or inability to attract or retain quality talent? Is your organization struggling to achieve its diversity and inclusion (D&I) goals, or have you failed to set any goals relative to D&I for fear of disagreement or backlash from some employees?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, join us for a highly interactive and engaging webinar where we'll share insights and best practices for transforming toxic workplace cultures to cultures that are engaging, inclusive, and highly productive. Participants will gain practical insights and knowledge to transform the culture in their workplaces by advancing inclusion at an individual, team and organizational level. SHRM PDC available for attendees.

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