Two days in Nashville


Cole Scott Group launched a global platform for strategic diversity that brings together business experts to increase profits and innovation. Diversity is a collective mix of strengths that improves corporate agility and team performance.By aligning strategy with individual employee strengths, companies perform better in the rapidly-changing information age.

Our first-of-its-kind platform provides a think-tank opportunity for thought leaders to simultaneously learn and shape industry tools. Join select executives in Nashville on April 25-26 as experts share next-generation methods for success.

April 25-26, 2018

Nashville, TN
$695/Person

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Symposium Schedule

Attendees will take away a strong understanding of how:

  • Cognitive Diversity can improve business performance
  • Generational differences strengthen corporate agility
  • Strategic Diversity planning reduces risks and improves brand
  • Innovation through inclusion produces successful, sustainable companies

Wednesday, 25


  • Registration / Breakfast
  • Strategic Diversity Overview: Why Now?
  • Accessing the Future—What’s Your Generational IQ?
  • The Science of Cognitive Diversity
  • Inclusion Brings Higher Profits / Lunch
  • The Unmentionables”: Is Diversity Fatigue Costing Your Company?
  • Cybernetics & AI: Machine Integration Panel
  • True Colors Communication Workshop
  • Nashville-Style Networking Reception

Thursday, 26


  • Breakfast
  • Disruptive Diversity–From Transactional to Transformational
  • Intersectionality: Assessment & Business Benefits
  • Power Panel (Host Wall Street Analyst)
  • Lunch / Crashing Barriers to Win
  • AEM Cube Insights & Innovation Lab
  • Generational IQ Workshop
  • Optional Workshop: Starting Your Plan

The speakers


Amy Lynch
Founder & CEO
Generational Edge
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Robert Lawrence Wilson
Executive Director, Tennessee Diversity Consortium
Partner, Culture Shift Team
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Russell W. West, PhD
Global Executive, Author, Speaker, Professor
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Tabitha Scott
Founder & Principal
Cole Scott Group
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Neil Rodgers
Cognitive Diversity Expert, UK
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Angela Proffitt
Event & Productivity Consultant
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Terrian Barnes
Founder & Principal
Fe-smart LLC
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Lisa Howe
CEO at Nashville LGBT Chamber of Commerce
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Carl Dorvil
Chief Executive Officer and President
GEX Management, Inc.
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Brian Tanquilut
SVP Healthcare Services,
Jefferies
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Demetria Miles-McDonald
CEO of Decide Diversity
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Cambria Hotel


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Thanks to our Sponsors

Diversity = smart business. Thanks for noticing!

Sponsorship Options


Consider a sponsorship opportunity at the 2018 Strategic Diversity Symposium in downtown Nashville, TN. The symposium will be held at the brand-new Cambria Hotel on April 25 and 26th. Cole Scott Group is organizing this educational symposium with global strategic diversity experts who are focused on helping companies achieve greater success through diversity. The support of your organization, along with others, will help us raise awareness about important diversity challenges facing companies today.

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