Managing Corporate DEI Challenges: A View From Inside

Over the last two decades, numerous employers dove head-first into implementing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives to create work environments that were more welcoming and provided spaces for employees to feel heard and seen as their authentic selves. These initiatives intensified following the 2020 summer of unrest. Well-intentioned as these efforts are, they have not been without pushback or backlash. Growing claims of reverse discrimination and “anti-woke” movements have caused some employers to either slow-roll or pause their programming efforts, or worse, reverse progress.

Join ACC Charlotte, Parker Poe attorneys, and in-house attorneys who are also responsible for overseeing the DEI function of their organizations for a virtual session where the panel will discuss ideas to:
• Identify activities or programs that seem to commonly trigger opposition to DEI initiatives
• Prepare attendees to respond to assertions of reverse discrimination from employees
• Provide strategies to combat and proactively address pushback to these initiatives