When: April 29, 2023

Location: Bradford Woods – Martinsville, IN

Schedule

• 8:15 – 9:00 am
  Registration & Continental Breakfast
• 9:00 am – Noon
  How a Diverse Leadership Can Make a Bigger Impact: Challenges and Opportunities
• 12:00 – 1:15 pm
  Working Lunch – Committee/SIG/District/Delegate Meetings
• 1:30 – 3:00 pm
  APTA Indiana Board Meeting

How a Diverse Leadership Can Make a Bigger Impact: Challenges and Opportunities

Speaker: Carmen Elliott, CAE, APTA Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Executive Director of the Physical Therapy Fund

Moderator: Jeremy Houser, PT, DPT, PhD, Board-Certified Clinical Specialist in Orthopaedic Physical Therapy

Program Description: The commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion must start at the top. Leadership starts at the highest level of the association, with each leader expected to play a role in the development of the organization’s strategic vision, operations, and overall culture. The leader role is evolving as the world continues to change rapidly. Data shows that companies whose leadership is in the top quartile of race/ethnicity and gender diversity are 28% more likely than their peers to outperform financially (McKinsey and Company, 2019). The session explores how organizations can embed DEI as core organizational values in creating a more diverse leadership pool and inclusive culture.

Learning Objectives

In this session, participants will learn:

1. Strategic benefits of a diverse leadership relating to race, gender, age and skill sets.
2. The importance of leadership evaluations and turning ideas into action.

Meaningful diversity and inclusion in practice for organizational leadership.

A CERTIFICATE FOR 3, CATEGORY I CONTACT HOURS WILL BE GIVEN AT THE END OF THE SPRING MEETING