Thursday, October 21

12:00 – 1:00PM ET

Solutions for Supporting Female Employees

The burdens of the pandemic have unquestionably impacted everyone’s work lives. But women, particularly working mothers, have experienced some of the most impactful adversities. In this session Lisa will discuss practical strategies for employers to support female employees; planning for a post-pandemic world in relation to gender and minority equity, including pay equity and diversity and inclusion challenges; implementing action plans and programs to curb the economic and societal impact on women.

 Learning Objectives

• Solutions to implement in their organization to recognize and address unconscious bias
• How to nurture a culture in which women have equal opportunity to achieve their potential over the long term

Lisa McGlynn

Lisa McGlynn is an experienced employment attorney in Fisher Phillips’ Tampa office. She represents a variety of employers in all areas of labor and employment law. She defends employers in state and federal court litigation and arbitration on a wide variety of employment-related claims. Lisa also regularly counsels employers on employee relations including preventing issues before they arise. Lisa has been a longtime supporter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and has served in various volunteer leadership rolls.  Lisa is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay.

Katie J. Androff

As the Vice President of Talent Management, Katie supports the mission of the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay by serving as the chief people champion of the senior leadership team through highly developed human resource and organizational development capacities, including creating the environment, processes and tools that are efficient and effective in attracting, developing and retaining extraordinary coworkers who are compassionate, competent and devoted to supporting and improving the lives of people in crisis. The organizational environment at CCTB is integrity-driven, safe, empowering, offers choice and developmental opportunities, catches people doing things right, celebrates employee accomplishments and milestones, promotes teamwork and collaboration and is client focused.

Thursday, October 28

12:00 – 1:00PM ET

The Expectations Of Today’s Workforce: What HR Needs to Know

We have all witnessed how the pandemic has changed the way’s we have learned to work. The power of these new adaptive ways of working and collaborating have been embraced and will likely never be reversed. Allowing for more flexibility, work Rick will focus on training the workforce of the future, accommodating, and responding to different generations, attitudes, and expectations, creating a sense of belonging for upcoming generations who think differently about work and transforming companies to meet the new normal.

Learning Objectives

• Implementing a workforce of the future training program
• Understanding of generations who think differently about work

Brett Owens

Rick Grimaldi, Author of “Flex”

Rick’s unique perspective comes from his diverse career in high-ranking public service positions, as a human resources and labor relations professional for an international hi-tech company, and in private practice as a partner in a large law firm working with companies to help them adapt to the ever-changing business environment, achieve their workplace goals, and become better employers. Rick has been recognized as one of America’s best lawyers in three of the last four years.