WANT TO POWER UP YOUR ENTIRE DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION PRACTICE SO YOU CAN STOP STRUGGLING TO REACT IN THE POSTNORMAL WITHOUT BREAKING YOUR DEI BUDGET?

WHY QUALIFIED CHIEF DIVERSITY OFFICERS WANT TO JOIN THE CDO POWERCIRCLE!

We’re not just another DEI association or board. Watch this brief video to learn about the unique benefits the CDO PowerCircle offers qualified CDOs and their extended teams!

WHAT MAKES THE CDO POWERCIRCLE DIFFERENT FROM OTHER DEI LEADER ASSOCIATIONS ACCORDING TO THE MEMBERS?

 

IS THE CDO POWERCIRCLE FOR YOU, AND ARE YOU RIGHT FOR THE CDO POWERCIRCLE ACCORDING TO OUR MEMBERS? 

 

Here’s What We Do For CDOs Who Are Qualified and Become Members

Simply put, we use a set of leading-edge approaches to help you power up the performance of every link in your diversity, equity, and inclusion practice so that you can succeed in today’s rapidly changing, disruptive business environment.  Here are just a few of the challenges you face that we help you address:

  • CDO’s today live in a world of accelerating change—where technology, scientific progress, and social disruption are changing everything we do faster than ever before. And the pace is speeding up. Working longer and harder is not enough. To succeed today, you need to anticipate what’s coming your way and prepare to avoid obstacles and pounce on opportunities.
  • More than ever, CDO’s can’t do it alone. CDO’s need to fully empower every member of their extended team (by “extended team,” we refer to members of the office of DEI, resource group leaders, and executive sponsors). The old top-down model, where the CDO went to a four-day conference and then returned to the office with a new one-year strategy, is simply not adequate. It just results in a stressed-out CDO. Having resource group leaders and their sponsors attend separate conferences doesn’t make sense either. CDOs need every member of their extended team on the same page, empowered, and learning how to anticipate and respond to the changing landscape.
  • Attracting and securing top talent from an increasingly diverse pool of candidates is at the top of the list and rising. Reaching these people has also changed dramatically. The bulk of working-age people today, across all demographics, are not reading one of the hundreds of diversity magazines that mention your brand as an employer of choice for DEI. Full-length pages in these magazines or listings of top companies for this or that social dimension are seldom seen by these job candidates.

It’s new challenges like these and more that we focus on helping you address. We are a Board of top thought leading CDOs from some of the most respected and well-known organizations who collectively have close to a million employees worldwide and generate almost Three-Quarters of a Trillion US dollars in revenue. We’re all about looking to the future, not the past. We’re about getting measurable results today while positioning you to win in the future.

How do we do this? Here are just a few of the things we provide to our members:

Future Foresights That Lead to Current Insights

You get seats to the DEI Future Foresight Summit for your entire extended DEI team. In this Summit, you will get a peek into the emerging future and gain the insights that will allow you to foresee how business trends will impact your DEI practice. Instead of fighting a losing battle, struggling to react to ever-faster disruptive changes, you, and your team, will leave this event armed with the strategies you need to lead the way throughout the year and beyond.

Virtual Academy

You get seats to six to seven 90-minute instructor-led DEI Virtual Academy workshops for your entire extended DEI team. The DEI Virtual Academy is an online learning environment designed to provide top-notch training in a convenient, cost-efficient way. The programs cover a broad range of topics, including emotional intelligence, influence, and leadership through a DEI lens.  Our Learning Partners who lead these sessions are top of the line thought leaders in their space that will keep your entire team current on the timeliest topics in their fields.

Quarterly Trends in DEI Newsletter

A look at the signals that tell you how DEI-impacting trends are developing and advice on how to prepare to seize opportunities and avoid obstacles.

Communicating Your Employer of Choice Brand

Your employer of choice branding message is distributed through our podcast ERG PowerTalk on channels that reach over 300+ million podcast listeners. Podcasts are a large and growing information source that attracts millions of new working-age listeners every year. Our podcast is designed to offer hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of free inspiration and training to resource group leaders, their members, and their sponsors around the globe. So our appeal is highly targeted to women, people of color, vets, LGBTQ+, and other dimensions of diversity. Each episode begins with acknowledging the CDO PowerCircle members who support this fresh approach for distributing DEI education to anyone, anywhere, and anytime for zero cost. CDO PowerCircle members are employers of choice who are supporting women, people of color, vets, LGBTQ+, and other dimensions of diversity within and beyond their organization.

Your Resource Group Leaders and You Meet Our Thought Leading Podcast Guests

You and your extended DEI team are invited to sit in on live recordings of our podcast interviews. Not only do you get early access to the unedited interview, but you also get the opportunity to interact directly with our program guests. There are two easy ways for you to join the live show. You can directly enter our virtual recording room using a link we provide or watch the recording from a Facebook Livestream.

Sharpen the Axe Series: Where Thought-Leaders Meet External Thought-Leaders

You and your extended team also get access to eight monthly meetings where we interview top thought leaders on a host of timely topics. These leaders include CEOs, New York Times Bestselling authors, and other key experts. These sessions are designed to get us to broaden our thinking with new innovative and insightful perspectives needed to succeed in today’s world of constant disruption. 

The Annual CDO PowerCircle Summit

You are invited to attend the annual in-person Spring CDO Summit, where members and external thought leaders gather to develop and establish long-term goals toward their DEI vision within the ever-changing landscape of the postnormal.

 We Multiply the Impact of Our Member’s Budget Dollars

Members enjoy the benefit of providing a comprehensive DEI practice development program for a fraction of the cost of memberships that offer far less.

The CDO PowerCircle Board Chair and one of its key founders is DEI Futurist Joseph (Joe) Santana. Joe is also a member of the Forbes Business Council and the Fast Company Executive Board and a frequent contributor of articles to both organization’s magazines. These articles, written for senior business leaders, aim to help CEOs and investors understand why their support of DEI is vital to their current and future success. His expertise in the postnormal evolution of DEI has also been covered in interviews with media outlets such as ABC, PIX, Fox, Ticker News, and The Black List, a streaming business interview show. His two most recent DEI books, “The New DEI and ERG Frontier” and “SuperCharge Your ERGs,” are available on Amazon, offering invaluable guidance to those ready to embark on the journey toward 21st-century DEI-fueled success. For more about Joe, his company and other brands, visit www.joesantana.com