Members of clinical and research teams often come from a wide range of cultural backgrounds and countries. Each culture has unique communication and interaction customs. How can you most effectively encourage people from many diverse backgrounds to join your team, and most importantly, invite them to contribute to your organization's innovation and efficacy?

This audio conference reveals how best to recruit team members from all communities and encourage increased participation from each of them, regardless of their background. The speaker shares her insights on how to increase cultural competency, improve cross-cultural communication techniques and develop team members into leaders -- ensuring that succession planning is proactive, not reactive.

This audio conference covers:

• Recruiting team members from various cultures
• Developing teams from diverse backgrounds
• Effectively dealing with cultural challenges
• Developing leaders from diverse teams
• Engaging team members across cultural diversity

About the speaker:

Wendy Willow Wark founded Inclusion Strategies to help transform organizations from places that simply look diverse, into thriving, inclusive places where everyone is invited to contribute to brilliant innovation. Since 1998, she has been facilitating education regarding workplace issues for organizations such as FedEx, Stryker Endoscopy, Cook Medical Group and many others.

Previously, Wendy was the EEO Director for New York City’s Department of Transportation and the Program Director of the New York City Commission on the Status of Women, as well as being New York City’s liaison to the United Nations’ Fourth World Conference on Women. She conducted her graduate studies at Columbia University and was a Ford Foundation Fellow at CCNY, CUNY and at Cambridge University, UK.

Who should attend?

• Clinical Operations
• R&D
• Human Resources
• Training/Learning Development
• Physicians & other medical staff

*Please note: Each registration covers one line connected to the audio conference. Attendees dialing from separate locations are required to have separate registrations.