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About
Dr. Gia Suggs specializes in delivering business consulting services that improve human performance and organization outcomes. Her work as an organization performance thought partner with Fortune 500 companies, nonprofit organizations, and government entities results in dramatic improvements in business outcomes.
Dr. Gia has a proven track record of working effectively with academic institutions. She designs, develops, and delivers high-impact adult learning experiences for undergraduate and graduate programs in person and virtually, both synchronous and asynchronous.
Skills & Expertise
As an organization development expert, Dr. Gia manages a private consulting practice. She is a distinguished adjunct professor at Olivet Nazarene University and adjunct faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Gia combines her educational accomplishments and professional consulting experience to ensure she remains current in both the academic and business worlds.
Consulting Experience
Dr. Gia has designed, developed, and delivered over 1,000 business learning courses for clients in the following industries: Public Health, Food Service, Private Equity, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Insurance, Non-profit, Government, Academia, Associations, and Commercial Banking, Financial Services, Sales and Social Service.
Areas of concentration include:
• Onboarding
• Instructional Design
• Culture Transformation
• Adult Learning
• Public Speaking &Facilitation
• Team Development
• Leadership Coaching
• Process Improvement
• Problem Solving
• Team Building &Inclusion
Areas of concentration include:
• Onboarding; Maximizing the Success of New Employees (Suggs, 2013)
• Shattering the Glass Ceiling; How to Break Through Without Breaking Down (Suggs &Suggs, 2017)
• Onboarding Quick Guide (Suggs & Suggs, 2018)
SESSIONS
Cultivating Resilience: Infusing Lifelines to Protect DEI Success
Workshop participants will examine diversity, equity, and inclusion trauma. We will share how protective factors can help mitigate risk factors from becoming predictive factors. Participants can expect a fast-paced, highly interactive workshop aimed at developing sustainable otherness-driven DEI support systems. Participants will receive lifeline supports for DEI efforts..Learning Objectives
- Differentiate between risk factors, predictive factors and protective factors.
- Identify DEI experiences that can result in trauma events.
- Articulate best practices for sustainable otherness-driven DEI support systems.
Participant Outcomes
- Leverage best practices to create a sustainable otherness-driven DEI support systems.
- Employ tips and tools for empathy-drive, resilience-based, action-oriented soft skills.
- Proactively respond to risk factors, with appropriate protective factors, to mitigate predictive factors.