ERGs need to be attractive and engaging in order to thrive and grow. In this episode, you will hear two group Chairs, Monifa D. Drayton from Atrium Health and Lynn Pellerano from MassMutual sharing the secrets that have helped them grow robust and highly engaged groups.

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How to Make Your Group Attractive and Engaging to Your Members

In this episode, we will talk with a management practice expert on the advice she gives leaders and department managers, which is also of equal value to informal managers like ERG leaders.

How to be a Good Group Manager and Reap Top Benefits

Companies spend billions of dollars a year on unconscious bias training programs in an effort to create greater workplace inclusion. In this episode find out how you and your ERG can provide a vital element of support toward success to these efforts.

How Your ERGs Can Support a Reduction in Bias and Increased Inclusion

ERGs and Learning and Development professionals have a lot to gain by forming mutually respectful and beneficial partnerships. In this episode, we will explore the specific ways of forming and sustaining these partnerships effectively with my three guests: Theo Bowling a diversity manager at Lowes Corporation, Kee Meng Yeo Adjunct Professor at Grand Valley State… Read more

The Benefits of Partnering L&D and ERGs

ERGs and Supplier Diversity efforts have a great deal to gain by partnering. In this episode, we will explore the functions and needs of the supplier diversity manager in a corporation and how ERGs and their leader can benefit by supporting them.

How ERGs Can Increase Their Impact and Get More Benefits by Partnering with Supplier Diversity

In the last couple of years, many organizations have had to pay to retrofit physical space that was built without consideration of people with different ranges of physical, intellectual. developmental and sensory abilities. As technologies that will one day make working from home easier than ever are developed, we need to “bake-in” those considerations, instead… Read more

How ERGs Can Help Make The Physical and Virtual World More Accessible

There is a huge opportunity for you to lead your company to a new level of inclusion and flexibility by starting with your ERG. In this episode learn from Dr. Inga Carboni of the College of William and Mary, Christian Baldia Constellation SAS CEO and Brian Vigeant CEO of CultureHQ how to apply the relatively… Read more

How to Build More Influential and Inclusive ERGs

Have you ever felt that you needed something to spark your passion and get you up and moving forward? So did my guest in this episode of ERG PowerTalk. Simone Morris, who once found herself less than enthusiastic about her career,is currently the highly energized and dynamic CEO of her own company, Simone Morris Enterprises… Read more

How ERG Membership Ignites Your Passion

Would you like to know how to leverage your ERG to acquire the 7 skills that can put you on your companies radar? Then join me and my guest Stephen Krempl, executive and expert on making yourself stand out in this episode of ERG PowerTalk. And learn how to stop being invisible. After my interview with… Read more

How to Leverage Your ERG to Make Yourself Visible

Since 2015 companies have been futilely spending about $721 million dollars per year and climbing towards $1.5 billion to achieve greater employee engagement. All of this investment, in the hopes that this will increase employee productivity. However, new research shows that there is another ingredient in addition to engagement that’s needed to spark this productivity and its one… Read more

How ERGs turn Your Employees into Performance Rock Stars

Imagine you’re caught in the middle of a budget cuts and you’re asked “so what value does your ERG bring to the company?” The fact is that you are very likely bringing more value than you think, but if you can’t prove it you’re out of luck. Before that happens to you, join me and… Read more

What’s Your ERG Worth?

If you are looking for more ways to keep your ERGs and other diversity groups going while respecting social distancing, this episode will give more then a dozen ways to do it. Join host, Joe Santana, and his panel, Shary Tran of Froedtert Health & Medical College of Wisconsin, Erica Fletcher of Avanade, and UK… Read more

Keeping Your Groups Going In Spite of Coronavirus

A brief look at how others are using this podcast to get the most out of it.

Season One Bonus

An interview on the benefits and ways of engaging middle managers in D&I and ERG efforts with Andres Gonzalez of Froedtert Health, Rosanna Durruthy of LinkedIn and Dan Lester of Clayco.

Engaging Middle Managers

An inside look at the “secret sauce” ingredients that makes top performing company ERGs, BRGs and Councils Great, led by host and Supercharge Your ERG Author, Joe Santana!

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