Bringing your true and authentic self to work creates a better work environment for you, your colleagues, stakeholders and customers at large. It ensures psychological safety and fosters a true sense of belonging. Research shows that feeling like you can show up as your authentic self improves employee engagement, morale, empowerment, trust, relationships, and general levels of happiness. Join Cummins as their Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion unpacks this topic.
Carolyn Butler-Lee
Bridget FinkeldeyCarolyn is a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion executive known as a trusted advisor to business leaders and an advocate for employees globally. She leverages strong business acumen with global strategic and tactical leadership experience across countries, functions, work environments and personalities. Carolyn possesses an innate ability to solve complex problems by simultaneously looking at the big picture and managing the details. She is uniquely skilled at fostering collaboration and challenging stakeholders constructively. Her high learning agility matched with high standards for self and others consistently yields talent identification, development, and retention results. Throughout her career, Carolyn has been recognized as a strategic business partner and empowering coach who effectively integrates human capital with business success.
Carolyn inspires an unwavering commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) to leverage the power of all. She creates strategies that connects the interrelationships and interdependencies of policies, practices, behaviours, and structures to create and sustain systemic institution-wide transformation designed to enable a culture of belonging where every team member encourages diverse perspectives leading to innovation.
Hunter Canning
Bridget Finkeldey
Hunter Canning is a New York based performer, public speaker and events moderator. A conscience citizen of the world, his ethos is bringing people together through all the facets of life. Be it producing live performance or creating corporate recruitment content; Hunter has a passion for bringing people together to foster growth, kindness and a true understanding of each other.