On Thursday, June 18, 2009, The United States Senate Office of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, will host Diversity
Spectrum’s Executive Diversity Council at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C.
The Council consists of representatives from member companies and
organizations including News Corp/Fox Entertainment Group, Anheuser-Busch,
Fannie Mae, The World Bank, State of Kansas, Talbots, Arrow Electronics, Whirlpool, US Steel, SER-National, Discovery
Communications, American Chamber of Commerce in Spain, GeorgetownUniversity and many others.
The day-long meeting will address critical issues relevant to both
domestic and global diversity and inclusion.
Focus will include best
practices and special reports concerning workfamily policies, effecting
organizational change through consent decrees, disparities in
work-related illness, diversity programs as a profit center, and
promoting workplace mobility for women and minorities.
Presentations and discussion leaders will include the following:
Dr. Kenneth Chase of Council Member Washington Occupational Health Associates will present:
"Race, Racial Discrimination, and the Risk of Work-Related Illness,
Injury, or Assault: Findings from a
National Study.”
Barbara Gault and Ariane Hegewisch of the Institue for Women's Policy Research, will present:
“Comparative Work Family Policies and Impacts on Women, Employers, &
Men”
“How Consent Decrees
in Employment Discrimination Cases Effect Organizational Change”
Tom Duckenfield, Lynn Heffron and Kevin James of Diversity Spectrum will present the following Executive Summaries:
“Strategies for Turbulent Times”
“Diversity
in the Workforce – Can It Be Profitable?”
“Women
and Minorities in Management and Effective Ways to Promote Social Mobility”
The Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper,
elected by the members, serves as the protocol and chief law
enforcement officer and is the principal administrative manager for
most support services in the United States Senate. The
protocol responsibilities include escorting the President and other
heads of state or official guests of the Senate who are attending
official functions in the Capitol; making arrangements for funerals of
senators who die in office; assisting in plans for the inauguration of
the President and organizing the swearing-in and orientation programs
for newly elected senators. The Sergeant at Arms leads the senators
from the Senate to the House chamber for joint sessions of Congress, to
the presidential inaugural platform, or wherever the Senate may go as a
body. As executive officer, the Sergeant at Arms has custody of the
Senate gavel.
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