Cole Scott Group is launching a global platform for strategic diversity that brings together experts to increase profits and innovation. We believe in diversity as a collective mix of strengths that improves corporate agility. Acknowledging the need for continued social progress with traditional demographic-based diversity, our platform introduces cognitive solutions that are gender/race/preference-blind. By aligning corporate strategy with Individual employee strengths, companies perform better in the rapidly-changing information age.

Join select executives for the Strategic Diversity Symposium in Nashville on April 25-26 as experts share next-generation methods for success.  Meet our featured speakers:

Access the Future with Generational Diversity: What’s Your Gen IQ?

Amy Lynch, founder and CEO of Generational Edge, is the author and international speaker who pioneered Generational Intelligence. She brings together generational trends and global insight to illustrate the power of strategic generational diversity. Amy translates complex demographics into everyday examples you’ll recognize immediately, and she’ll guide you to identify strategies that give you the results you need. Amy has a long list of clients, including: Nissan, Comcast, MTV, Johnson & Johnson, Cisco and the staff of the US Senate.

Cognitive Diversity: The Science Behind Demographic-Neutral Diversity

Neil Rodgers will discuss a scientific context for diversity and offer a perspective on analysis of corporate life cycles and the impact of varying employee skills and orientations on successful management of corporate life cycles.  Neil is qualified to provide AEM Cube analysis and will offer participants the opportunity to receive a personalized evaluation report.  The AEM Cube is a unique and eclectic instrument, developed by the Dutch academic and consultant Professor Peter Robertson.  Amongst other things, the AEM Cube brings a fresh outlook on diversity in organizations and was recently lauded by the Harvard Business Review.
 
Neil is an independent consultant to international organizations with a strong orientation towards the human side of the enterprise.  Formerly, he served for over twenty years as a corporate executive, including in roles such as Director, Prudential Pensions Ltd. and Chief People Officer, Egg Plc (at the time, Egg was the world’s largest purely on-line bank).

 

The “Unmentionables”–Diversity Fatigue May be Costing Your Company

Russell W. West, Ph.D., knows what you’re thinking, and he’s not afraid to say it aloud. This Marine Drill Instructor-Turned-Social Scientist wants you to admit: just when we thought we were done with diversity, the cultural competence of executive leaders is squarely in the headlines. Equipped with data-driven expertise from the fields of behavioral economics and executive performance, West makes mentionable the “cultural confidence gaps” that most jeopardize a company’s “Diversity ROI.” West, a seasoned facilitator with more than 10,000 hours of face-to-face coaching, views diversity as a matter of executive effectiveness, brand credibility. He will get you thinking, moving and laughing and then thinking some more. He will do so with vivid personal investment, candor and humor.

Inclusion for Innovation: Why Strategic Diversity = Better Business

Tabitha Scott, CEO of Cole Scott Group, shares original processes that were designed to improve corporate profitability and agility in the Information Age. Tabitha is founder of Cole Scott Group and has served as an international business executive for companies such as Lend Lease and Balfour Beatty on innovation and behavior change in the U.S., UK, and Australia. She has extensive experience in creating programs and university curricula guidance that are relevant and actionable—not “pie in the sky” theories. Tabitha developed tools, such as the “i-Lab”, that walks employees through a self-evaluation and coaching process while exploring new market initiatives tied to director strategy. 

True Colors: Assessing Employee Strengths to Boost Productivity

As an entrepreneur, wedding and events expert, productivity therapist, motivational speaker and a savvy designer, Angela Proffitt wears many hats.  The number one tool Angela uses in her business is True Colors.   She is passionate about the program and was invited to become a Certified Facilitator to teach around the world. True Colors® is a strengths finder that takes a unique approach to assessing the strengths of yourself in relation to others. It is able to identify your core personality traits and the personalities of others using relatable images, language, actions and communication techniques. True Colors is used in many different industries and has become a staple approach that Angela Proffitt uses within her business.

Other event sessions will include LGBT Inclusion = Smart Business, Talent Management Trends in Today’s Environment and more. Create an inclusive company that boosts profits, retains key staff and increases competitiveness. Join our incredible speaker line up at the gorgeous new Cambria hotel in “Music City” USA. The number of attendees will be limited to ensure seminar effectiveness. Registration opens soon!