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We are excited to inform you about the 55th events in our “GreytEvents” series, and we hope you are excited to participate and reap its benefits for the company’s networking endeavors.
Event Details: Strategic DEI Budgeting: Maximizing Impact with Limited Resources
Date and time: Thursday, September 19 · 9:30 - 10:45pm GMT+5:30
Venue: Online
Event Information:
About this event
Join us for an interactive masterclass where we delve into the often overlooked but critical aspect of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work: budget considerations. In this 75-minute session, we’ll explore how financial planning can amplify the impact of your DEI initiatives, ensuring they are sustainable, effective, and aligned with organizational goals. Through real-world examples, practical exercises, and group discussions, you’ll gain insights into optimizing (or advocating for) your DEI budget to drive meaningful change and foster a more inclusive workplace culture.
Learning Objectives
- Maximizing Impact with Limited Resources: Learn strategies for optimizing the impact of DEI initiatives within constrained budgets, including prioritization techniques, creative resource allocation, and leveraging partnerships and existing infrastructure to amplify outcomes.
- Ensuring Accountability and Measurement: Learn how to incorporate accountability and measurement mechanisms into your budgeting process to track the effectiveness and ROI of DEI expenditures, enabling data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement.
- Engaging Stakeholders and Building Buy-In: Explore techniques for engaging key stakeholders, including senior leadership, HR, and frontline employees, in the budgeting process, and building buy-in for DEI investments by highlighting their alignment with organizational values and objectives.
ABOUT THE FACILITATORS
Tenisha “Ava” Williams is an experienced diversity, equity, and Inclusion consultant, speaker, and facilitator with over a decade of experience with organizational assessment, strategic planning, and equity-centered change management. Ava has led project teams focusing on identifying and addressing inequities for various leaders and executives at over 100 organizations. She is known for introducing frameworks and tools beyond conventional DEIA discussions - urging audiences to imagine how their work can build an organizational culture that strives for belonging for all and deliver tangible and measurable outcomes for communities affected by structural inequities.
Gabrielle Roffe works to understand the unique ways people connect to and protect their environments and, through transformative community practices, redefine environmental stewardship. She has spent the past 13 years leading in DEI work to amplify voices of underrepresented communities to advance equity, inclusion, and belonging in the access and design of cities, neighborhoods, and other public spaces and services. Gabrielle has partnership and DEI capacity-building, community engagement, and creative placemaking expertise. She enjoys leading equity committees to develop innovative strategies and tactics to address internal and external organizational DEI needs.
Yinka Ajirotutu is an award-winning innovative thought leader, social justice advocate, and senior consultant who is known for developing, motivating and leading diverse teams to achieve unprecedented goals in the areas of change management, JEDI, and creating cultures of inclusion and belonging. She has extensive experience working with executive leadership and supporting the development and implementation of their strategic vision for their organizations for nonprofits and other public sector organizations.
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