Objectives
Design High-Impact
Innovations
- Work in a small mixed team of researchers and corporate practitioners
- Clarify top priorities in D&I efforts
- Discuss low-cost, high-impact interventions informed by research
- Design beta-test innovations that enable rapid feedback and precise measurement of impact
Create Partnerships
& Shared Agenda
- Build researcher-company partnerships
- Advance evidence-based solutions enhancing workplace diversity and inclusion
- Drive progress toward company diversity objectives
- Identify top priorities of practitioners to help guide future research.
Exchange Knowledge
& Evidence
- Engage in both formal talks and informal discussions to learn from each other as leaders in our own respective areas expertise
- Ask the important questions: What has research and experience taught us?; What works, what doesn’t?; What are best practices?; Where must we improve?; What remains unknown?
Keynote Speakers
John List
Chairman, Department of Economics
Professor of Economics
University of Chicago
Expertise: World Leader in economic experimentation. Understanding the gender wage gap. Chief Economist at Uber.
Amanda Pallais
Professor
Department of Economics
Harvard University
Expertise: Understanding why disadvantaged groups struggle in workforces and schools
Patrick McKay
Professor of Human Resource Management
School of Management & Labor Relations
Rutgers University
Expertise: How organizational diversity climate impacts performance
Up & Coming Researchers
Denise Lewin Loyd
Associate Professor of Business Administration
Gies College of Business
University of Illinois
Expertise: Unlocking the power of diverse teams
Olga Stoddard
Assistant Professor
Brigham Young University
Expertise: Increasing hiring rates of underrepresented groups
Diversity & Inclusion Leaders
Isabel Cruz
Global Inclusion Leader
General Electric
Melissa Gilliam
Professor of Obstetrics/Gynecology and Pediatrics
Ellen H. Block Professor of Health Justice
Vice Provost for Academic Leadership, Advancement, and Diversity
University of Chicago
Agenda
Day One (Half Day)
- Insights from cutting-edge research in tackling D&I’s most pressing problems
- Small group discussions to apply research insights to company-specific context
Day Two (Full Day)
- Structured partnership-building activities
- Panel of D&I leaders on top opportunities for collaboration in diversity efforts
- Innovation Design Sessions: matched researcher-company teams will develop ways to advance firm-specific diversity/inclusion goals
- Closed meetings with Innovation Partners
Participation Levels
Engagement is based on organization interest
Accelerator
- Committed to inclusion and diversity
- Interested in research insights
- Wants to learn more about running experiments in their organization
Innovation Partner
- Interested in working with researchers to conduct experiments in organization
- Wants to join a cohort of other Innovation Partners to collaborate
- Committed to the dissemination of research findings
Contact SODI for details: neela@sodi.org
Who should attend?
Senior Business, HR, and/or Diversity Leaders, along with select members of their team
