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Presentation Highlights (what can the audience expect to learn or take away?):

History of workforce discrimination. Why companies should hire diverse candidates. Why Executive Leaders should be held accountable. How to attract and retain diverse candidates.

D&I Resources, Recommendations, & Inspiration

• Book: The Loudest Duck: Moving Beyond Diversity While Embracing Differences to Achieve Success at Work and We Can't Talk About That at Work
• Person: Laura Liswood and Mary Frances Winters
• Advice to someone starting, or continuing on their D&I journey:
  • Advice for someone just starting out in the DEI space: listen and try to examine situations in their personal life when you felt left out, not included.
  • Advice for others who have been doing DEI work for a while: Analyze their strategy.

More About Thaddeus

Thaddeus Dunn is originally from New York City. He has supported clients across the nation delivering high-impact recruiting, training, and development programs to exempt and non-exempt employees and organizations. As a certified Minority Business Enterprise business, Thaddeus has spent a considerable amount of time over the last 20 years developing, aspiring talent as they position themselves for higher levels of responsibility and accountability.

Areas of Expertise:
A component of his experience and his current practice includes Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality (DEI) as well as the Recruitment of candidates from under-represented backgrounds. He has 20 years of Human Resources experience. He has learned how to “Humanize” the Recruiting Process by ensuring that candidate slates are intentional and purposeful.

Thaddeus’ work and consulting experience has provided him an opportunity to specialize in driving large-scale organizational change and the development of short- and long-term business strategies to advance company goals within the Human Resources industry. His work involves helping leaders understand the challenges and complexities of inclusion and transformational change to achieve tangible business transformation. Thaddeus has been appointed to the Board of the National Association of African Americans in Human Resources representing Buffalo, New York, and the Canisius College Physician Assistant Student Selection and Program Committee.

He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mass Communications from Canisius College, in Buffalo, New York, and currently lives in Buffalo, New York. He is also the Sr. Faculty Talent /Retention Advisor for Morehouse School of Medicine located in Atlanta, Georgia.

Contact:

Thaddeus B. Dunn | Founder Right Fit Recruiting, LLC
Email: thaddeus@rightfitrecruiting.net
Morehouse School of Medicine Sr. Faculty Talent/Retention Advisor tdunn@msm.edu