SAT-DD-001: Cultivating Conversations: An Open Dialogue to Effect Change in Organizational Culture

Saturday, November 12, 2022

2:00pm – 4:30pm PT

Location: Moscone Center, Room 304

2.50 PDH, LA CES/non-HSW, AICP, FL, NY/non-HSW
Ticket Price: $25 per person

Lead Speaker(s)

Lara Moffat, ASLA

Landscape Forms' Business Development | NE TX & AR
Landscape Forms
Dallas, Texas

Speaker(s)

April Philips, FASLA

Founder
April Philips Design Works
Medford, Oregon
Emily S. Henry, ASLA

Director of Business Development
Studio Outside
Dallas, Texas
Kene Okigbo, ASLA

Landscape Architect
RDG Planning & Design
Omaha, Nebraska
Ebru Ozer, ASLA

VP of Education & Associate Professor
ASLA & Florida International University
Coral Gables, Florida

Join us for engaging conversations centered around supporting design communities through the shifts arising from evolving needs in equity, representation, health and wellness, and tools and technologies. Hear from a diverse panel, share your experiences during moderated roundtables, and leave with ideas to adapt to your own practice and organizations.

Learning Outcomes:

Compare and explore the challenges and opportunities faced in the greater design communities as it pertains to diversity, equity, and inclusion plus the impacts on various stages within a career.
Discuss how flexible “work-life fit” policies attract and retain diversity, create access and equity, promote ownership, and provide growth opportunities for the individual and firm or organization.
Learn how to approach and converse about policy changing topics that embrace, promote, and ensure equitable opportunities from emerging professional to emeritus.
Identify mentors, sponsors, and allies to seek out and recognize that these professional relationships are most successful when viewed as a two-way exchange.
Prepare questions that will effect change within your own practice culture now and for the forward future, adapting with our ever-evolving world and for our personal and collective needs.
Leave with best practice take-aways, a wider networking group, and the momentum to cultivate environments that engage honest and transparent conversations to help create a change in your design culture.