AAAED Professional Development & Training Institute (PDTI):

COURSE CALENDAR AND REGISTRATION - ALL VIRTUAL

Webinar:

We Shall Overcome This Too - How to Ensure Ongoing Belonging & Instill Resilience Through Difficult Times 

May 13, 2025 / 1:30 - 3:00 pm EST (90 minutes)

Free to AAAED members / $150.00 for non-members

Please join us as Dr. Damion Jones, Senior Consultant at CMA Global, Inc leads a discussion on how best to continue instilling a sense of belonging and impact for everyone in your organization despite the current sociopolitical landscape. He’ll review the current array of executive orders, their impact on the work we do and best practices for self-regulating. The intention is to best support practitioners and their fellow employees during these, and other, challenging and divisive times.

This presentation will highlight:

• Tracking current EO’s and their relative impact

• The value of institutionalizing best practices

• What some companies are doing to continue ensuring best practice culture and talent management work

• Healthy coping strategies for your employees to manage stress - What does the research say about cultivating grit or managing resilience in self, and others-organizationally

This will be an interactive session with breakout groups & a summary of best practices and Q&A will follow after the breakout rooms: 

Breakout Groups (15 minutes)

• Discuss a challenge you would like assistance with

• Discuss healthy coping strategies

Breakout Group Report Out (15 minutes)

• One best practice for continuing the work

• One best coping mechanism you are considering employing

REGISTER

PRESENTER: Damion Jones, Ph.D., Senior Consultant at CMA Global

Damion has spent over 17 years in corporate America working on both national and global culture and process transformations. He specializes in the institutionalization of global diversity, equity and inclusion strategies and execution. From the start of his career, Damion has worked directly with HR leadership teams and the C-Suite to manage their executive talent review and succession planning process, led US compliance efforts and worked in HR analytics. As a Global Head of Diversity Equity and Inclusion for 2 companies, he’s driven strategy execution through the creation and administration of executive I&D Councils, employee resource groups, mentoring and sponsorship programs. Additionally, he’s done training and development on DEI topics for thousands of leaders around the world, integrated ERGs across continents and within leadership pipelining efforts. He’s also facilitated the creation of global gender pay equity analysis and has won awards for these efforts regarding overall DEI progress within an organization, metrics and ERG engagement.

Damion received a Bachelor of Science in psychology from Morris Brown College in Atlanta, GA. In graduate school, he double specialized and received a master’s degree and Ph.D. in both Social and Organizational Psychology from Saint Louis University in St. Louis, MO. Damion’s primary research focus was on intergroup dynamics, stereotype threat, racial identity and diversity in the workplace.

Certified Equal Opportunity Professional

*Formerly known as Certified Affirmative Action Professional (CAAP)

More information coming soon