A roundtable discussion about starting a neurodiversity Employee Resource Group (ERG).
Panellists
Laura Harris, Database Manager at Pepper Money UK
Aurora Pakenham-Smith, Director, Site Reliability Engineering at Kevel
Beckett LeClair, Head of Compliance at 5Rights
Karthik Raghuraman, Global Digital Learning Lead at Cognizant Host
Matthew Bellringer, Chair of NeurodiverseIT
Agenda
16:00 - Welcome
16:10 - Roundtable discussion
17:00 - Group discussion
17.30 - Close
Synopsis
Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) or Affinity Groups are a popular way of supporting marginalised and minoritised people in organisations.
Whilst many organisations have ERGs for women and people of colour, far fewer have those for disabled and/or neurodivergent people. Of those that do, many of those groups are quite new. In this event, or panellists will share experiences of setting up such groups in different organisations.
You will learn what's worked and what hasn't in a range of circumstances, and how to approach setting up an ERG in your own organisation.
The topics we will explore include:
Making the case for an ERG internally
- Finding volunteers
- Getting a charter
- setting governance/purpose
- Deciding who can join
- Exec sponsorship and representation
- Finding allies or supporting as an ally
- Structure/cadence/ritual/targets
- Running your first session
- Sources of support out there for people setting up an ERG.
Please join us if you are interested in supporting neurodiversity in your own organisation.
We will start with a roundtable discussion featuring the panellists, and then have a chance for winder discussion and questions with all attendees.
Our events are for adults aged 16 years and over.
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This event is brought to you by: NeurodiverseIT specialist group
