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De'onn Griffin, Research Director for Gartner, will be discussing raising awareness with diversity and improving engagement with inclusion in a talk entitled, “WIT: Gender Imbalance and You.”
** Please bring a friend to the meeting, all genders welcome, and help drive change at Harvard for women in technology! **
Please sign up for the meeting here: https://goo.gl/forms/kc5XEXmi6bSjG7D52
This is not required to attend the meeting, it is just so we have an idea of head count for refreshments.
Date: Monday, December 17th, 2018, 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Location: Lamont Library Forum Room
Title: Raising awareness with diversity and improving engagement with inclusion
Who: De’onn Griffin
Summary: Although women make up nearly half of the global workforce, women are only 31% of IT employees. Unlike other professions where women have made significant strides to reach leadership positions, only 22% of IT leaders are women. This WIT session will be a discussion about what we can do today to start to shift the tides of diversity and create an inclusive environment no matter where we sit in the organization.
De'onn Griffin bio:
De'onn Griffin is a Research Director with Gartner's CIO Research group that creates actionable and applicable research focused on leadership and learning development. This includes exploring concepts related to team development, management and leadership skills development and self and team motivation. Ms. Griffin brings with her an expertise in establishing corporate universities and leading learning functions that serve technical and nontechnical functions.