ESSHRM Monthly Chapter Meeting- Diversity and Inclusion 

Join your fellow HR professionals on Tuesday, January 24th for a fun and interactive *virtual* chapter meeting.

Topic: No Shame, No Guilt: How HR Professionals Can Address Discomfort With Diversity and Inclusion Using Behavioral Science

In this engaging, interactive, and entertaining presentation, you will dramatically improve your ability to address discomfort with diversity and inclusion. Typical diversity and inclusion programs rely on shame and guilt, in the form of confrontational, blaming, and legalistic content. Unfortunately, behavioral economics and cognitive science research shows that such typical diversity and inclusion programs often struggle to reach their goals. That’s because our brains are wired to be tribal: they evolved for the ancient savanna environment when we lived in small tribes of 50-150 people, not the modern globalized multicultural environment. Thus, our intuitions and gut reactions are to be tribal, and when guilt and shame go against gut reactions, people often trust their gut over the typical diversity and inclusion programming. In fact, some research shows that such programming may backfire and cause even more unconscious bias due to resentment inspired by shame and guilt. What works much better is to inform people about the evolutionary psychology of how our minds cause us to feel tribal impulses, and that such feelings are natural. Yet they are not functional in the modern world, just like the desire to eat sugary foods was functional in the savanna environment but does not serve us well today. Moreover, people need to be given tools to address these intuitions – tools that don’t rely on shame and guilt. This training will address the evolutionary background of our impulses and instincts, showing that tribalism is natural but harmful in the workplace: even if our intuitions feel true, they are not to be trusted in evaluating others. In addition, audiences will learn research-based techniques to assess information about other people and make good decisions about them using emotional self-awareness tools and self-management tools to overcome tribalist impulses and elevate diversity and inclusion.

About our Speaker:

Dr. Gleb Tsipursky helps HR professionals make the wisest people decisions and drive diversity and inclusion as the CEO of the boutique future-of-work consultancy Disaster Avoidance Experts. A best-selling author of 7 books, he is especially well-known for his global best-sellers Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters (Career Press, 2019) and The Blindspots Between Us: How to Overcome Unconscious Cognitive Bias and Build Better Relationships (New Harbinger, 2020). His newest book is Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams: A Manual on Benchmarking to Best Practices for Competitive Advantage (Intentional Insights, 2021). His writing was translated into Chinese, Korean, German, Russian, Polish, Spanish, French, and other languages. His cutting-edge thought leadership was featured in over 650 articles and 550 interviews in prominent venues. They include Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Inc. Magazine, CBS News, Time, Business Insider, Government Executive, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Fast Company, USA Today, and elsewhere. His expertise comes from over 20 years of consulting, coaching, and speaking and training for mid-size and large organizations ranging from Aflac to Xerox. It also comes from his research background as a cognitive scientist. After spending 8 years getting a PhD and lecturing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he served for 7 years as a professor at the Ohio State University’s Decision Sciences Collaborative and History Department. A proud Ukrainian, Dr. Gleb lives in Columbus, Ohio (Go Bucks!). In his free time, he makes sure to spend abundant quality time with his wife to avoid his personal life turning into a disaster.

Approved for 1.0 SHRM and 1.0 HRCI General Credits

Cost of the event: $0 Meeting Card holder/$15 Member/$25 Non-Member

If you have any questions with registration, please contact easternshoreshrm@gmail.com