NOTE: Due to COVID-19, the February Chapter meeting is being held virtually. The link to the virtual meeting will be sent out 24-48 hours prior to the start of the meeting; it will also be available on the online event page that is available to all individuals who have registered for the event.

Prices have been modified to reflect the change to a virtual meeting; LCHRA members may apply for scholarship assistance for registration. For more information, please visit https://lchra.org/scholarship.

Close! The Neurology of Equity and Inclusion

Our time together will be spent learning about and discussing the neuroscience of equity and inclusion.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand our neurological core needs;

• Identify how and when they are threatened by racism and related behaviors; and

• Identify ways to protect them in the workplace.

Speaker Bio:

Tia B. Coachman is the Founder and Principal of Affirma Consultancy which provides bespoke HR Advisory services to HR and Executive leadership. Her consultation is centered on strategic HR partnership, talent management, equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives, policy development, and facilitating internal organizational change. She has over 15 years of experience partnering with C-Suite and Senior Executives, Executive Directors, and Boards in various industries such as federal and district government, non-profit, advertising and marketing, media, and hospitality.

Aside from consultative services, she has offered guidance through panel sessions and workshops on the topics of equity, the theory of intersectionality in the workplace, talent acquisition and retention strategies, and talent management with organizations such as Portland State University, Brand Innovators, TimesUp Advertising, PDX Women in Tech, Women's Center for Leadership, PDX Executive HR Forum, and others.

In her former life, Tia most recently served as the Director of People Operations at 24/7 Laundry Service, a full-service agency with content creation, production, and media buying. Prior to that, she served as an HR Manager at Wieden + Kennedy, an independent, creatively led advertising agency where she helped to transform the agency's HR initiatives and programs. In the earlier years of her HR career, Tia served in the Federal and District of Columbia Government as a Management Analyst and HR Advisor. And, in her first entrepreneurial endeavor, she served as the Managing Director of the Sevan Group - an African American woman-owned photography and design studio which she also co-founded.

Tia is no stranger at the intersection of blackness, feminism, queerness, and motherhood. Rooted in the community with a desire to progress the lives of African-Americans and women, her community work is through the local Boards of Directors where she has served as an executive or committee member including the Black United Fund, Bitch Media, Portland Workforce Alliance, and Jack and Jill of America, Inc. She is also a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc, a service organization.

Tia is an honors graduate of Howard University with a BBA in International Business and Marketing and an MBA from the University of Maryland University College. She holds the SHRM-Senior Certified Professional Certification and recently contributed to the Career Thought Leaders 10th Annual White Paper revealing the new and next in the careers industry.

HRCI and SHRM Recertification Credits Applied For

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