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Keith Sonderling<\/h2>\n

Tuesday, April 19 | 12:00-1:15 p.m. ET<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/span>Keith E. Sonderling was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on September 22, 2020, to be a commissioner on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for a term expiring July 1, 2024. He previously served as the Commission\u2019s vice-chair.<\/p>\n

Prior to his confirmation, Commissioner Sonderling served as the acting and deputy administrator of the Wage and Hour Division at the U.S. Department of Labor, where he oversaw enforcement, outreach, regulatory work, strategic planning, performance management, communications and stakeholder engagement. During his tenure, the Division accomplished back-to-back record-breaking enforcement collections and educational outreach events. He oversaw the development and publication of large-scale deregulatory rules and authored numerous Opinion Letters,\u00a0<\/span><\/sup>Field Assistance Bulletins and All Agency Memorandums. Additionally, he was instrumental in developing the Division\u2019s first comprehensive self-audit program, which collected more than $4 million for nearly 10,000 workers.<\/p>\n

Before joining the Department of Labor in 2017, Commissioner Sonderling was a partner at the Gunster Law Firm in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he practiced labor and employment law. In 2012, Governor Rick Scott appointed Sonderling to serve as the chair of the Judicial Nominating Committee for appellate courts in South Florida.<\/p>\n

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Homa Tavangar and Eric Dozier<\/h2>\n

Wednesday, April 20 | 1:30-2:45 p.m. ET<\/strong><\/p>\n

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For three decades, Homa Tavangar\u2019s work has bridged topics from global competitiveness to global citizenship; economic development to storytelling; and fostering empathy, collaboration, inclusion, leadership and creative problem-solving. She connects timely topics of the moment with the timeless desire to work with purpose and make a difference \u2013 whatever one\u2019s circumstances.<\/p>\n

Homa\u2019s ability to translate culture, diversity and inclusion, innovation and globalization trends, and breakthroughs in academic and social-emotional learning has sparked initiatives to help audiences from CEOs to teachers and K-12 to graduate students learn and thrive in a global context \u2013 and have fun along the way. Homa works actively with K-12 schools and universities to build global, racial and cultural competence, through holistic programs engaging teachers, leaders, parents and students, as well as by offering keynotes, workshops, coaching and professional development across the life cycle of learners. She is co-founder of the\u00a0<\/span>Big Questions Institute, helping leaders design the future through inquiry, and co-founder of the\u00a0Oneness Lab, working with individuals and organizations to go\u00a0<\/span>deeper than diversity.<\/p>\n

Homa spent 20 years working in global competitiveness, organizational, business and international economic development with hundreds of businesses, nonprofits and public organizations, before turning her attention to global education.\u00a0She is the author of the widely-acclaimed books Growing Up Global: Raising Children to Be at Home in the World<\/em> and Global Kids<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Eric Dozier is a cultural activist, theologian, musician and father. The former musical director for the World Famous Harlem Gospel Choir, Eric is co-founder and National Director of Arts and Education for One Human Family Music Workshops, Inc., an organization devoted to eradicating discrimination by “Uniting the World … One Song at a Time,” and one-half of the duo Moanin’ Sons, which develops a creative context, through music, to address racial inequality. He co-founded the Oneness Lab, with Homa Tavangar, and through his insightful lyrical stylings, soulful melodies and interactive workshops, he continues to dedicate his musical, spiritual and intellectual talents to welding the hearts and minds of a divided humanity into one loving fellowship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jody Urquhart<\/h2>\n

Thursday, April 21 | 3:00-4:15 p.m. ET<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Jody Urquhart has been presenting her keynote addresses around the world for over 10 years. She is passionate about spreading the message of fun and meaningful work. Annually she\u00a0is a guest lecturer at more than 40 organizations and associations and is a top motivational speaker.<\/p>\n

She is author of the book All Work & No SAY<\/em> and writes a syndicated column called the “Joy of Work,” which is published in more than 40 magazines and trade journals. Her mission is to help motivate company employees to derive more meaning and satisfaction from their work. She is a featured guest\u00a0speaker for the GE Healthcare Tip-TV program broadcast in over 2,600 healthcare facilities.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Michael J. Sorrell<\/a><\/h2>\r\nSunday, October 20 | 5:00-6:15 p.m.\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\nDr. Michael J. Sorrell\u00a0<\/b>is the longest-serving president in the 146-year history of Paul Quinn College. During his 11 years of leadership, Paul Quinn College has become a small, private, minority-serving institution that, by focusing on the most persistent, prevalent and pressing problems of our society, is remaking higher education and becoming a movement.\r\n\r\nDuring President Sorrell\u2019s tenure, Paul Quinn College has won the HBCU of the Year, the HBCU Student Government Association of the Year and the HBCU Business Program of the Year. Additional achievements include the college being recognized as a member of the President\u2019s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the creation of the New Urban College Model, achievement of full-accreditation\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n
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Whitney Johnson<\/a><\/h2>\r\nMonday, October 21 | 8:30-10:15 a.m.\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\"\"Whitney Johnson<\/strong>, CEO of WLJ Advisors, is an innovation and disruption theorist, best-selling author, sought-after executive and performance coach, and management consultant. She is recognized as one of the world\u2019s most influential management thinkers by\u00a0Thinkers50<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Fortune<\/em>. Johnson specializes in helping leaders grow their awareness, building the skills needed to achieve maximum success in their organizations. Senior executives seek out Johnson\u2019s coaching and consulting expertise because she understands that productive workplace cultures begin with the leader. She excels at helping leaders break through to new levels of personal and organizational effectiveness. Johnson\u2019s services utilize her exclusive proprietary tools, such as her S-Curve coaching framework and team disruption diagnostics, which were first developed after co-founding the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard Business School\u2019s Clayton Christensen. At WLJ Advisors, she has mastered her formula for helping executives and organizations harness the unpredictability of change so they can thrive in today\u2019s volatile business environment.\r\n\r\nJohnson\u2019s best-selling book,\u00a0Build An A-Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve,\u00a0<\/em>is being used by leaders globally to build the culture and attract the talent they need to reach their big goals. This follow-up to her critically acclaimed\u00a0Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work (2015),\u00a0<\/em>outlines the key strategy to having an engaged, productive and innovative workforce, which is having a plan for developing all employees \u2014 no matter where they are on their personal learning curves. Using her book\u2019s frameworks, Johnson works with leaders to shape how their organizations embrace and manage disruption by leading individuals and teams up the S-curve of change.\r\n\r\nPrior to WLJ Advisors, Johnson was an award-winning Wall Street analyst. She is one of Marshall Goldsmith\u2019s original cohort of 25 for the #100 Coaches Project, is a coach for the Harvard Business School\u2019s Executive Education program, frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, a LinkedIn influencer and hosts the Disrupt Yourself Podcast.\r\n\r\n
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Michele Norris<\/a><\/h2>\r\nTuesday, October 22 | 8:00-10:15 a.m.<\/strong>\r\n

\"\"<\/h2>\r\nMichele Norris<\/strong>\u00a0is a Peabody Award-winning journalist, founder of The Race Card Project and executive director of The Bridge, The Aspen Institute\u2019s new program on race, identity, connectivity and inclusion.\r\n\r\nFor more than a decade Norris served as a host of NPR\u2019s\u00a0All Things Considered\u00a0<\/em>where she interviewed world leaders, American presidents, Nobel laureates, leading thinkers and groundbreaking artists. She has also produced in-depth profiles, interviews and series for NPR News programs as well as special reports for\u00a0National Geographic<\/em>,\u00a0Time Magazine,\u00a0<\/em>ABC News and Lifetime Television. Norris created The Race Card Project, an initiative to foster a wider conversation about race in America, after the publication of her family memoir,\u00a0The Grace of Silence<\/em>.\r\n\r\nBefore joining NPR in 2002, Norris spent almost 10 years as a reporter for ABC News in the Washington Bureau. She has also worked as a staff writer for\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em>,\u00a0Chicago Tribune\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0The Los Angeles Times<\/em>. In 2014, Norris earned a Peabody award and the Distinguished Dialogue Award for her work on the Race Card Project.\r\n\r\nIn 2009, she was named \u201cJournalist of the Year\u201d by the National Association of Black Journalists. The NABJ recognized Norris for her coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign \u2014 when she co-hosted NPR\u2019s Democratic presidential candidates\u2019 debate, covered both conventions, anchored multi-hour election and inauguration live broadcasts and moderated a series of candid conversations with voters on the intersection of race and politics. That series earned Norris and\u00a0Morning Edition\u00a0<\/em>Host Steve Inskeep an Alfred I. DuPont -Columbia University Award for excellence in broadcasting.\r\n\r\nNorris was honored with NABJ\u2019s Salute to Excellence Award, for her cove","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-454","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":113,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/454\/revisions\/2290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}