Join our 11th annual Diversity@Work conference where we will delve into the future of inclusion in the workplace and how specific populations needs must be met for businesses to thrive and succeed in a global economy.

This conference will be offered complimentary and will be accessed via Zoom.

In lieu of ticket prices this year, we kindly ask for your generous support to donate a small amount to our charity. Your donation will go towards programming to support our vulnerable clients.

Inclusion at Work: Building Responsive Workplaces for Existing and New Challenges

Moving from inclusion policies to practice is more relevant today than ever, and leads to the question, what are organizations doing to address the specific and distinct challenges to inclusion faced by vulnerable groups?

Automation, COVID-19, the global Black Lives Matter movement have shaped 2020 and challenged all organizations to act. COVID-19 has exacerbated the labor market vulnerabilities faced by vulnerable groups: newcomers, immigrants, and individuals from BIPOC communities. Black Lives Matter has shone a light on the historical systemic racism that exists within institutions that continues to disenfranchise black people.

As such, this conference will focus on what opportunities exist for organizations and institutions to drive meaningful change? Themes discussed will include:

– Anti-Black Racism in the Workplace

– COVID-19 and it’s impact on precarious work for immigrants and non-status persons

– Understanding intersectionalities in developing effective inclusive practices- How companies are addressing automation and the possible displacement of the older worker

– The lack of access to employment for marginalized youth

– Inclusivity as crucial to the success of a digital workplace

We hope you can join us on November 24, 2020!

Skills for Change is proud to host Diversity@Work Conference, an annual professional conference dedicated to building inclusive and productive workplaces.

Many organizations distribute diversity policies alongside their HR manuals, but inclusion at work is not merely a formality — it’s a nuanced arena facing many intersecting challenges, changes, uncertainties, and grey areas. We need, now more than ever, to build a better culture of inclusion in the workplace to uphold Canada as a globally competitive economic power.

Nearly forty years ago Skills for Change, a nonprofit settlement agency in Toronto, assumed a leadership role in its community to address policy, undertake public education, and research challenges facing immigrants and refugees. At the same time, Skills for Change pioneered innovative service models specific to internationally trained professionals, in part because we have always recognized the invaluable contributions newcomers make to the Canadian economy.

For the past decade Skills for Change has hosted Diversity@Work, the professional development conference dedicated to building an inclusive and productive Canadian workforce. This conference was also created for corporate leaders and HR professionals alike to discuss how to better increase the participation of marginalized groups in the Canadian labour market through the lens of diversity and inclusion.

Grace-Edwards Galabuzzi

Ryerson University

Wade Poziomka

Human Rights and Labour Lawyer,
Ross & MsBride

Monica H.Kang

InnovatorsBox

Dean Delpeache

Lindsay Clayborne

Gail Strachan

Denise O’Neil Green

Rahma Siad Togane

Dr. Wendy Cukier

Chanel Grenaway

Brooke Stewart

Kathryn Bird

Jake Allen

Sunil Johal