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DEADLINE TO REGISTER IS SEPTEMBER 18th!

We are thrilled to invite you to the Chamber & CREDC’s 2024 IDEA Workshop! This annual event celebrates Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) by offering impactful experiences to empower you and your organization with essential practices in these areas.

This year’s workshop features dynamic, interactive training designed to help you explore effective strategies for attracting and retaining a diverse workforce. Through engaging sessions, participants will gain practical insights and techniques to implement immediately in their careers or organizations.

Attendees will hear from our Keynote Speaker, Monica Gould!

Session Overview: An inclusive environment with minimal stress and psychological safety is a key factor in encouraging overall employee well-being. Employee well-being brings added benefits such as enhanced productivity and innovation. The workshop will equip attendees with strategies to implement in their organizations to focus on whole-self well-being in the workplace.

At the conclusion of the program participant will have the opportunity to:

• Understand Well-Being in the context of work
• Discover the attributes of a positive-healthy workplace culture and its impact on building an inclusive workplace
• Identify the spectrum of stressors that can impact employee engagement and productivity.
• Correlate the impact of stress on workplace culture and individual effectiveness
• Learn the employer's role in supporting individual and workplace culture
• Understand the importance of allyship in creating a culture of belonging
• Garner strategies and tools to enhance workplace culture so employees can bring their whole selves to work.

Don’t miss this opportunity to be part of a transformative experience that will help you and your organization thrive. Be sure to register today.

Event Agenda

8:00 a.m. - Doors Open, Visit Resource Tables, Breakfast, & Networking

8:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. – Welcome Remarks

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. – Workshop Training with Keynote Speaker

10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. – Break & Visit Resource Tables

10:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. – Workshop Training with Keynote Speaker

11:20 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. – Closing Remarks

Meet our Keynote Speaker

Monica Gould
Strategic Consulting Partners
President & Founder

As the president and founder of Strategic Consulting Partners, an award-winning management consulting firm, Monica Gould thrives on leading organizational change, navigating disruption, and building diverse and highly productive teams.

Celebrating 30 years of advising corporations, public and private entities, and government agencies in 2024, Gould and her team have developed a reputation for extraordinary results and trust among some of the world’s highest profile brands.

A 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021 Central Penn Business Journal Top 100 Power Player, one of Pennsylvania Business Central’s 2024 Top 100 People, a 2023 Empowering Women Award winner, and a 2022 City & State PA Fifty Over 50 honoree, Monica has led thousands of strategic planning and training sessions. Her expert facilitation skills have been at the forefront of leadership training and organizational development programs for USDA Dairy, NRC, FDA, PA Bureau of Forestry, PA DCNR, PA Department of Veterans and Military Affairs, Virginia State Police, Pennsylvania State Police, UPMC, Bloomberg, Carlisle Construction Materials, Comcast, United Way, Pennsylvania Parks and Forests Foundation, Big Brothers Big Sisters, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, and US AID to name a few.

“Our IDEA (Inclusion Diversity Equity Accessibility) programs have emerged as one of SCP’s most-requested services. As a team of thought leaders and subject matter experts in the inclusion space, we have shaped our IDEA services methodically, insights-driven, and with compassion for all,” says Gould.

Strategic Consulting Partners is a Certified WBENC Women's Business Enterprise and EMSBC, a PA SDB, and WMBE and they are a 2021 and 2020 Department of Labor – HIRE Veterans Gold Medallion winner.

As the proud daughter of immigrants, Gould has deep experience and passion for coaching clients on all aspects of diversity. She has equipped more than 100,000 leaders to meet the future with clarity, confidence, and optimism. Connect with Strategic Consulting Partners on Instagram at @SCP_DEI, LinkedIn at @Strategic-Consulting-Partners, and Facebook at @StrategicConsultingPartners, or visit YourStrategicConsultant.com.

Thank you to our Sponsors!

Exclusive Platinum Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors

Bronze Sponsors

Members 1st Federal Credit Union

Hershey Entertainment & Resorts

Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

HACC, Central Pennsylvania's Community College

Interested in Sponsoring this event? 

For more information regarding sponsorship opportunities for the IDEA workshop contact our Senior Director of Investor and Member Engagement, Heather Eyster or fill out a sponsorship form.