[Salisbury, Maryland]: The Eastern Region Small Business Development Center today announced an upcoming webinar created to answer questions and provide expertise insights regarding inclusiveness. Join us as Annette Johnson, an accomplished global professional development strategist, leadership excellence coach, and diversity and inclusion champion instructs virtually on July 15th at 10am. Diversity, equity and inclusion are critical success factors for business, especially during unsettling times. In this one-hour webinar participants will explore unconscious bias and its impact on organizational cultures and employee engagement. Inclusive leadership is a strategy for business success and a competitive advantage. Six essential characteristics of an inclusive leader will be shared as a best practice for enhancing one’s leadership excellence.
Annette has 30 years’ experience as a corporate leader, in a Fortune 100 global company. Her experience encompasses the financial services, higher education and non-profit sectors. Annette designs and facilitates professional development programs that integrate inclusive leadership as a critical business tool to accomplish strategic goals. She uses her extensive business background to help organizations identify professional development action plans to drive employee engagement, promote leadership excellence and nurture inclusive cultures. Annette is the author of FLY: Forgive & Love Yourself (Amazon.com) and currently hosts her new podcast, Living In The Good Space – Conversations on thriving wherever you are in life.
Taking place on Wednesday, July 15, 2020 from 10am to 11:00am. Registration is free and located at https://mdsbdc.ecenterdirect.com/events/16269 For questions please contact Catherine Raley at ccraley@salisbury.edu
An outreach of Salisbury University’s Franklin P. Perdue School of Business, the SBDC serves the citizens of Maryland in improving the success of their small businesses through low cost training, no fee consulting and research. The Eastern Region serves the Eastern Shore of Maryland through its offices at SU, Chesapeake College and the Dorchester Chamber of Commerce. A listing of course offerings and services is available at the SBDC Web site, http://marylandsbdc.org/eastern/index_eastern.php.
