Advance DEI Using Talent Development Expertise
Talent development professionals can and should do more to advance DEI. While focusing on effective diversity training programs is a natural start, TD professionals have additional opportunities to move DEI forward with knowledge management, career and leadership development, and coaching. In this issue of TD at Work, Ed Hasan and Ifedapo Adeleye focus on those three high-impact but underused capabilities. They address:
- The top DEI priorities and challenges facing organizations and how TD professionals can help tackle them
- Strategies and tips for unleashing the power of knowledge management to facilitate DEI change
- Challenges and solutions for creating effective career and leadership development programs to advance diverse talent
- Evidence-based approaches for coaching for inclusive leadership and for coaching historically excluded groups
Tools & Resources in this issue are a DEI knowledge management strategy questionnaire and a career development diversity questionnaire.
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Full Profile
Dr. Ed Hasan is an author, speaker, coach, and professor. He is the founder and CEO of Kaizen Human Capital and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. Additionally, he is a subject matter expert for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and Association for Talent Development (ATD) and serves as an IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility) practitioner for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). His expertise includes organization development, change management, and workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Dr. Ed was recognized as one of George Mason University’s Prominent Patriots in Business, exemplifying his engagement as a well-rounded scholar and a person prepared to act through innovation. He was a recipient of Georgetown University’s Outstanding Faculty Award, which recognized him as a consummate professor and a role model for inclusive excellence.
Dr. Ed received a doctoral degree in education from the University of Southern California, where his research focus was religious inclusion in the workplace. He received his MBA from the University of Scranton and a BS in Decision Sciences & Management Information Systems from George Mason University. He is a SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP) and a Certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR). He also holds the SHRM Inclusive Workplace Specialty Credential and the SHRM California Law HR Specialty Credential.
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Ifedapo Adeleye is professor of the Practice of Human Resources Management and faculty director of the Master’s in the Human Resources Management program at Georgetown University. He teaches diversity, equity, and inclusion courses on graduate and executive programs and conducts research in the areas of pay equity, diversity governance, and inclusive HR management.
