Building a Diverse and
Inclusive Work Environment
October 28, 2021
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Speaker: Julie Achee,
HR Unlimited, Inc.
// Virtual Event \\
via Zoom
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Tips for Tearing Down Roadblocks in Building
a Diverse and Inclusive Work Environment:
1. Defining diversity
2. Defining inclusion
3. Defining unconscious bias
4. Examples of microaggressions
5. Ways to diminish unconscious bias
6. Tips to reduce biased employment decisions
7. Best practices for inclusive work environments
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Thank you to our Sponsor!
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About our speaker
Julia Méndez Achée is Chief Consulting Officer for HR Unlimited In. She has experience working as an affirmative action, equal employment opportunity law, and diversity/inclusion consultant and trainer since 1995. Based in New Orleans, her duties include managing and overseeing the projects and work produced by consultants, creating content and delivering training in areas such as equal employment opportunity (EEO), affirmative action (AA) compliance, and other diversity and inclusion topics. She has assisted hundreds organizations through OFCCP compliance reviews and offered technical assistance both to clients and internal customers. She has been invited to speak at national, regional and local conferences on topics such as recruiter compliance with AAPs, regulatory requirements for veterans and individuals with physical and mental disabilities, updates on EEO laws and settlements, as well as recognizing unconscious bias and other diversity topics. She served in 2020-2021 as the first chairperson for the employee resource group, Allies and People Living with Disabilities, with her prior employer.
Julia is a graduate of the University of New Orleans where she obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in General Business Administration and a Master of Business Administration. She has a Master of Arts degree in Professional Counseling from Liberty University where she graduated with distinction.
She holds a Professional in Human Resources certification from the HR Certification Institute, is a Society of Human Resources Professional Certified Professional, is a Certified Disability Recruiter from The Sierra Group, is a Certified Employment Law Specialist from Columbia Southern University, is a Certified Affirmative Action Professional from the American Association for Access, Equity and Diversity, and is a Certified Diversity Professional through the Institute for Diversity Certification.
Memberships in professional organizations include the Louisiana Liaison Group (LLG) where she served two years as President and served on the board through 2020; Society for Human Resource Management; New Orleans SHRM where she served as Diversity Chairperson for five years; Society for Diversity, and is a member and past Personnel Committee Chair for the American Association for Access, Equality, and Diversity.
She served on the editorial board for INSIGHT into Diversity for numerous years. She was appointed in 2016 by the governor of Louisiana to the Louisiana Commission on Human Rights where she currently still serves.
