Ep. 23 Culture Clash Conversation: Q&A with Andrés Tapia of Korn Ferry

12/16/19 • 50 min

The Forum on Workplace Inclusion Podcast

In this special bonus episode of The Forum Podcast, Andrés Tapia (Korn Ferry) answers questions from listeners that attended his popular webinar Culture Clash: Can Latino Culture Identity and Corporate Culture Be Reconciled?

About Andrés Tapia (Korn Ferry)

Throughout Europe, Asia, North America, and his native Latin America, Mr. Tapia has served clients in shaping their enterprise-wide diversity and inclusion business cases and strategies across industries—including financial, technology, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, government, not-for-profits, and education—with dozens of Global 500 organizations as well as non-US multinationals in Brazil, South Korea, and India.

Mr. Tapia, the author of a groundbreaking book, The Inclusion Paradox: The Obama Era and the Transformation of Global Diversity, as well as the co-author of Auténtico: The Definitive Guide to Latino Career Success. He is a frequently sought-after speaker globally on the topic of diversity and inclusion. He has been published in major dailies throughout the US and Latin America, primarily through his writing for the New America Media wire service as well as on the Huffington Post.

He is the recipient of numerous leadership and diversity awards and has served on a number of boards, including currently serving on the editorial board of Diversity Executive Magazine, the corporate advisory board for the Bentley University Center for Women and Business, the Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement (HACE), and Ravinia Festival.

Mr. Tapia received a bachelor’s degree in modern history from Northwestern University in the Chicago area with an emphasis in journalism and political science. He grew up in a bilingual/bicultural home in Lima, Perú.

This Podcast is a follow up to our October 24, 2019 webinar, Culture Clash: Can Latino Culture Identity and Corporate Culture Be Reconciled?

About Andrés Tapia (Korn Ferry)

This Podcast is a follow up to our October 24, 2019 webinar, Culture Clash: Can Latino Culture Identity and Corporate Culture Be Reconciled?

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Ep. 22 New Voices, New Visions: IDEAS About The Future of D&I From Next-Gen Leaders

In this episode of The Forum Podcast, Dan Egol and Minjon Tholen of Inclusion NextWork draw on the insights of Inclusion NextWork’s community of rising leaders across backgrounds, geographies, industries, and experience levels to explore new ways in which our generation engages with Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Social Justice (IDEAS).

As next-generation leaders continue to define our world, bridging the gap between generations is vital for ensuring strong talent pipelines, mutual knowledge sharing, collaborative innovation and sustainable growth. One of the core hallmarks of the millennial generation is the high value we place on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Social Justice (IDEAS). In this session, we will draw on the insights of Inclusion NextWork’s community of rising leaders across backgrounds, geographies, industries, and experience levels to explore new ways in which our generation engages with IDEAS. What does incorporating an IDEAS lens across generations mean for the current and future trends in inclusive leadership in our organizations and communities? How can you as an organizational leader advocate for intergenerational collaboration by identifying and fostering the voices of emerging talent to inform your D&I strategy? Conversely, what can you as a rising leader do to cultivate your own voice and be an IDEAS champion regardless of industry, department, seniority level or background experience? Whether a current or emerging leader, you will leave this session with new insights and inspiration to engage next gen leaders as powerful partners in the future of D&I!

Learning Outcomes

Hear new insights from next generation leaders on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Social Justice
Leverage these insights from the next generation to innovate your D&I approach
Cultivate strategies to drive D&I impact from any position in your organization or community

This Podcast is a replay of our November 14, 2019 webinar, New Voices, New Visions: IDEAS About The Future of D&I From Next-Gen Leaders

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Ep. 24 Increase Success in High Stakes Conversations

In this episode of The Forum Podcast, Kristen Stockton, Vice President, Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Advisor of JASKAP Consulting explores how to influence anyone, employees, investors, customers, and your colleagues to get phenomenal results in ways that actually strengthen relationships.

If you and your team were as influential as you wanted to be, what would be possible? This podcast will support leaders with 8.5 principles of influence and 7 steps to a greater conversation. Listeners will discover how to influence anyone, employees, investors, customers, and your colleagues to get phenomenal results in ways that actually strengthen relationships. Influence is key to leadership, and yet one of the most misunderstood skills. Influence is what sets top leaders apart from the rest, unfortunately even at the top levels of an organization, many leaders struggle with how to really influence others. Develop the skill for career success and serious performance gains. Many leaders want to just jump into initiatives and rush into high-stakes meetings using their default communication/influence style without knowing that different approaches work better in different situations, or they don’t have a clear outcome in mind. Don’t be that leader. Today we will highlight model for achieving maximum results in your high-stakes meetings.

Learning Outcomes

Understand influence as a leadership competency
Examine several high stakes situations and discuss effective approaches
Learn a model for planning and preparing for one-to-one influencing conversations

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