Inclusive Leadership: Embracing Diversity in the Workplace

An inclusive work culture promotes innovation, productivity and profitability. How well do leaders and teams embrace difference? In this session, we will discuss the leadership role in embracing diversity, inclusion and equality within their organization, the characteristics of Highly Inclusive Leaders and examine the impact of trust and unconscious bias. After all, the way forward begins with leaders and how open and active they are to foster healthy, diverse and inclusive environments and teams. Topics will be covered through discussions, self-assessment and activities.

Who should attend?

Business owners and Managers who want to understand what it means to be an inclusive leader and their role in embracing diversity, inclusion and equality within an organization.

Learning Objectives:

  • Practice techniques to better understand participant identity, and to facilitate working together without judgement, with greater respect and with better effectiveness.
  • Understand how diverse teams yield more creative, synergistic and effective outcomes and improve reputation and profitability.
  • Identify strategies to broaden participant perception of diversity and increase cultural competence in the organization.

Workshop Outline:

  • Why all the hype about Inclusive Leadership?
  • Diversity’s Impact on Team Performance
  • Inclusive versus Exclusive Leadership
  • The Keys to and Habits of Inclusive Leadership
  • Why Unconscious Bias Matters for Inclusive Leadership
  • How Unconscious Bias Affects Decision-Making in the Workplace
  • Strategies to Overcome Unconscious Bias
  • Inclusive Leadership and Decision Making
  • Characteristics of Highly Inclusive Leaders

Business Boot Camp Skills for Launching a Start Up

SPECIAL EVENT FOCUSING ON SAUK AND COLUMBIA COUNTY ENTREPRENEURS

Learn how to effectively launch a new business! Featured Topics:

  • Exploring your Idea
  • Business Model Canvas
  • Understand Legal Entities
  • Accounting Best Practices
  • Financing your Start Up
  • Branding and Online Presence

Network with area entrepreneurs and get connected to business resources!

Brought to you by the Innovation Champions Group

2018 Governor’s Freight Industry Summit

If you are a local engineer, elected official, an economic development professional or a manufacturer that relies heavily on freight, this is a meeting for you!

As a continuation of Governor Scott Walker’s Freight Friendly Wisconsin Initiative, this gathering of freight industry stakeholders from the private and public sectors will focus on the critical role that local roads play in the freight transportation chain. Three different panels, comprised of representatives from the private and public sectors, will discuss ways to protect and invest in local transportation systems.

Panel topics include:

  • Strengthening Local Transportation Systems
  • Infrastructure Protection
  • Funding Strategies

Please join us in the discussion and learn more about these topics from law enforcement, local government, and private freight carriers and shippers.

A catered lunch is included in your registration fee. If you would like a vegetarian version of the lunch, please send your request to freight@dot.wi.gov

This will be the sixth Governor’s Freight Industry Summit.

Online registration is recommended but tickets will be available the day of the Summit for $55.

Wisconsin Biohealth Summit

BioForward’s annual Biohealth Summit serves as a platform for Wisconsin’s biohealth community to celebrate our successes and collaborate on what’s next for our booming industry. Last year they had over 400 attendees, kicked off a women’s initiative, hosted a professional development track, and welcomed two keynotes from the technology industry that highlighted the shift in healthcare innovation. They’re in the works of planning another exciting event to connect biohealth companies statewide, highlight our industry’s strengths, and announce several national initiatives BioForward has actively been working on.

SUMMIT HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Full-day event built with our attendees in mind, including dedicated networking time, business development opportunities, industry career fair, and insight into where the biohealth industry is going
  • Two keynote speakers from the health and technology industry speaking on the future of healthcare followed by question and answer sessions
  • Chances to meet and network with industry peers, executives, investors, and researchers from organizations such as GE Healthcare, FUJIFILM, UW-Madison, Illumina, Blood Center of Wisconsin, Covance, Medical College of Wisconsin, Promega, Advocate Aurora Health, Exact Sciences, UW Health and more!
  • Five Panel Sessions covering topics from emerging trends in health technology, Wisconsin success stories, professional development, to biomanufacturing
    Afternoon Networking Reception with networking, signature cocktails, and hors-d’oeuvres!

Rebuttal Comments Due (PROPOSED NEW TARIFFS ON CHINESE IMPORTS – SECTION 301 DETERMINATION)

On Tuesday, July 17, 2018, the US Trade Representative (USTR) published a proposed extensive list of products imported from China that could be subject to additional 10% tariffs. The spreadsheet includes all three lists (Lists 1, 2 and 3) converted to Excel for easy sorting. This is an extensive list, covering a thousand or more tariff subheadings, so you may have to go through it carefully to identify your specific subheadings.

Interested parties should strongly consider filing comments and possibly appearing at the public hearing to make the case that certain tariff items should be excluded from List 3. As an FYI, following the comment period for List 1, over 500 tariff lines were removed from the original proposed list. USTR requests that commenters address specifically whether imposing increased duties on a particular tariff item would be practicable or effective to obtain the elimination of China’s current (adverse) acts, policies, and practices that were identified in USTR’s initial Section 301 determination, and whether maintaining or imposing additional duties on a particular listed product would cause disproportionate economic harm to U.S. interests, including small or medium-sized businesses, and consumers. Important next steps, dates and timelines

  • Requests to testify at the public hearing must be filed by July 27, 2018.
  • Written comments must be filed by August 17, 2018.
  • The public hearing will take place August 20-23, 2018.
  • Rebuttal comments will be due on August 30, 2018.