Leadership Forum: Navigating the Return-to-Office Movement
with Milena Berry, Sienna Brown, Rob Ribar
Building an Inclusive Workplace: From Concepts to Action
Jocelyne Wright-McLemore, Randy Jackson-Alvarenga, Marcos Valdez
Your workplace environment affects everything you do: from hitting career goals to enjoying healthy relationships with colleagues. Therefore, it’s crucial to foster a culture that hinges on caring, empathy, and respect — one rooted in diversity, inclusion, belonging, and equity...
Your workplace environment affects everything you do: from hitting career goals to enjoying healthy relationships with colleagues. Therefore, it’s crucial to foster a culture that hinges on caring, empathy, and respect — one rooted in diversity, inclusion, belonging, and equity (DIBE).
Everyone has a role to play when it comes to creating people-focused workplaces.
Jocelyne Wright-McLemore, Head of Total Rewards at Zapier, Marcos Valdez, Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging, Equity (DIBE) Program Manager, and Randy Jackson-Alvarenga, Technical Talent Sourcer, will share their experiences and best practices for turning concepts into action. They’ll talk about their areas of expertise and the successful policies Zapier has implemented to make DIBE second nature.
You’ll take away:
- How to bake DIBE into workplace DNA – organically
- Why an “ownership mentality” is necessary for building inclusive spaces
- Intentional efforts to attract talent from underrepresented groups
- Tips for initiating conversations with leaders to improve workplace experiences
- How embracing diverse perspectives can make you a stronger collaborator
Meet The Speakers
Jocelyne Wright-McLemore
Head of Total Rewards, Zapier
Jocelyne is the Head of Total Rewards at Zapier with almost 20 years of HR experience and over 10 specifically within Compensation and Benefits.
She joined Zapier almost 3 years ago as the first Total Rewards employee to design and scale the Total Rewards experience.
She’s worked across different industries, from small to enterprise companies, focusing on building scalable programs that are designed with empathy, and focus on attracting and engaging teams to enable a company’s growth and success.
Randy Jackson-Alvarenga
Talent Sourcer and BIPOC ERG Vice-Chair at Zapier
Randy Alvarenga is an experienced technical talent sourcer with a demonstrated career in executive search and in-house recruiting.
A first-generation college graduate and leader of Zapier's BIPOC ERG, he is a champion for building out diversity and inclusion practices in the recruiting field.
Marcos Valdez
Program Manager, Zapier
Marcos Valdez is a people-focused professional that believes individuals do their best work when they feel seen, valued, and heard for who they are.
As a DIBE (diversity, inclusion, belonging, and equity) Program Manager at Zapier, Marcos is committed to building measurable, systemic solutions so that every Zapien has the resources they need to succeed and to feel like they belong.
