DIVERSITY BREAKFAST
Sponsored by the Southern Nevada Human Resources Association
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Making Diversity Work
March 13, 2012
Tam Alumni Center at UNLV (Map) (Parking Information)
7:30am - 9:30am
Our Diversity Award Breakfast
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This Event is Sponsored By:
UNLV
Our Diversity Breakfast will be held March 13th, 2012, at UNLV. We will honor diversity with a special award at the event.
Our Keynote Speaker will be Ginger Fidel from Valley Health System, presenting Making Diversity Work.
This year, SNHRA will present the OYA Award to the company that demonstrates the highest level of diversity awareness, initiatives and/or accomplishments.
In order for your company to apply for the OYA Diversity Award you must have:
- Initiated and/or maintained a diversity program between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2011
- Demonstrated a significant contribution toward diversity
- Demonstrated an outstanding commitment to the value of diversity
- Demonstrated outstanding efforts to promote an environment free from bias and discrimination
- Worked to provide management, staff and employees an experience rich in perspectives and opportunities to learn from each other.
To Nominate and Apply for the OYA Diversity Award, please complete and submit all portions of our online application form no later than February 17, 2012 to apply for a diversity award. If you have any questions, please contact one of our Diversity Committee Co-Chairs. Maggie Burke can be contacted, at Maggie_Burke@tjx.com or Leo Gobbo can be contacted at lgobbo@me.com.
This coveted OYA Award represents Oya (pronounced Oh-yah), the Goddess of Change. In Africa, Oya is the Yoruban Goddess of weather, especially tornadoes, lightning, rainstorms and transformation. She is also one of the most powerful of Brazilian Macumba deities.
 MORE ABOUT OYA:Oya storms in your life to tell you that change is calling, beckoning, and camping out on your doorstep. The way to wholeness for you lies in embracing change. Choosing to dance with change means you will flow with it. Prepare yourself for growth. Enter deeply into change’s chaotic dance and you’ll be richly blessed with abundant possibility. The Goddess says that the earth must be dug up before anything can be planted and that change always brings you what you need on your path to wholeness. Diverisity is embracing differences and embracing change, therefore allowing you to be richly blessed with abundant possibility. |
ABOUT OUR DIVERSITY COMMITTEE: |
Goals of our 2012 Diversity Breakfast:
- Celebrate Diversity in Southern Nevada
- Create Awareness of the Diversity of Our Population
- Deliver a Definition of Diversity
- Recognize those Companies Who Embrace Diversity
- Announce the Diversity Committee Goals for 2012
click here to fill out our online Diversity Awards Application
Making Diversity Work
This presentation will focus on identifying and acknowledging a diverse workforce from a socio-cultural and intergenerational perspective. It will also discuss using these differences to benefit not only the organization but the customers that are being served as well.
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Ginger Fidel is a Clinical Nurse Educator at Valley Health System University; she has practiced as a nurse for fourteen years. She is a doctoral candidate in the College of Nursing at the University of Arizona. Ginger received her graduate degree from the University of Phoenix with a Master's of Science in Nursing Leadership in 2006; during this time of study she focused on human capital, specifically recruitment and retention of nurses in acute care settings. |
She has taught undergraduate and graduate nursing students at Georgia Health Sciences University for three years before moving to Las Vegas and has taught at UNLV as a visiting professor; prior to educating nurses, she has worked in a variety of nursing roles including practice areas such as oncology, diabetes education, urgent care as well as management. Ginger has presented at local, state, national, and international meetings and conferences about her current research passion--end-of-life care.
UNLV has provided SNHRA with reserved parking for this event. The reserved parking is in Lot V off of Maryland Parkway. The security guard will direct you to the parking spots reserved for SNHRA upon arrival. Once the reserved spaces have been filled, overflow parking is located in Lot D in front of the FDH building (See Map).
You can view the UNLV Parking Map or you can visit the Tam Alumni Center page for directions.
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