(workshop followed by Multicultural Happy Hour)
ready for something completely different?
Join us for a one-of-a-kind workshop that combines innovative thinking on workplace diversity, inclusion, and immigration strategies.
As a business professional, you’ve likely participated in workshops that have tackled issues of workplace inclusion, attracting/retaining diverse talent, globalization and America’s changing demographics.
You may have also attended learning sessions on immigration law, H-1B visa petitions, employment-based green cards and even I-9 compliance.
However, workplace inclusion and immigration sponsorship have largely been separate disciplines, separate departments, and separate conversations.
Until now.
The facilitators, Richard Herman, Todd Q. Adams, and Charmaine Rozario, will challenge the participants to think holistically and integrate the issues of talent attraction, diversity, and immigration sponsorship into ONE strategy and ONE goal: Building the Smartest Company on the Planet!
The world is changing. Fast.
In order to compete and win in the global marketplace, companies must develop new strategies to access resources from around the world — including highly-skilled talent.
Without getting bogged down in too much legalistic detail, basic knowledge of the immigration sponsorship process (and debunking the myths) will help. Greater awareness of what foreign-born professionals are looking for as they land their first American job will also help.
What is often lost, however, is the importance of integrating foreign-born professionals into the workplace and community-at-large, particularly when the local environment is not globally diverse and may at times even be antagonistic.
Building trust and cooperation between the American and foreign-born workers, in the company and within the community, requires deliberate and strategic steps.
Relying on a black/white or black/white/Latino paradigm of racial diversity is not sufficient or sustainable in this global context.
A new approach is needed.
This workshop is timed to coincide with the upcoming H-1B filing date. The window for filing new H-1B professional worker visa petitions for foreign-born employees will open on 4/1/2014, and a new quota of 85,000 visas will become available for those workers not previously counted toward the cap. It is expected that this quota may be exhausted within weeks, or even days.
Now is the time to prepare your petitions and get them ready to be delivered to the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Service ON 4/1/2014.
In this workshop, Richard, Todd and Charmaine will present key information and facilitate a discussion among the workshop participants on how best to develop an “immigrant-friendly” culture and maximize your ability to recruit the world’s best and brightest for many years to come.
WORKSHOP TAKE-A-WAYS:
* How to encourage your company to become more “Immigrant-Friendly.”
* New Strategies and Thinking: Holistic Approach to Diversity, Talent & Immigration.
* Information on how to demystify the H-1B visa and other immigration matters by creating a toolkit for HR and other company executives to use when hiring foreign nationals.
* Public Relations: Why Public Engagement and Communication Planning are Important to Foreign-Born Workers.
* Trends in Immigrant Inclusion in the Workplace.
* Data on the changing landscape in American companies in relation to immigrant-led innovation, patents, startups and executive positions.
* What Immigrant Employees Need to be Successful in the United States.
* Multi-Stakeholder Engagement Strategies to Support Immigrant Workers: This includes value propositions for legacy stakeholders and new strategic partnership development.
* Ideas on how to minimize cultural barriers in the workplace by facilitating connections and sharing between American-born and foreign-born colleagues.
* Data on the foreign-born wave of STEM and bilingual talent graduating from American universities.
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Projected Participants |
Human Resource Professionals Diversity Professionals Corporate and Civic Leaders Minority Community Leaders International Students Immigrant Professionals Young Professionals |
| Goals |
Transform current thinking and encourage participants to begin integrating diversity, talent and immigration functions into one strategy. |
RSVP
Workshop is complimentary. Cash Bar for Multicultural Networking Happy Hour. Seats will go fast. Make your reservation on Eventbrite
We hope you will stay after the program and join us in the hotel bar for a Multicultural Networking Happy Hour! Get to know some new people, share new perspectives, and open up to the world! Cash Bar will be available.
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Program presented by the Herman Legal Group & Visibility Marketing.
Facilitators:
Richard Herman, Esq
Principal,
Co-Author of Book, Immigrant, Inc.
As an immigration and business lawyer, nationally-recognized author, and diversity advisor to cities and companies, Richard Herman has dedicated his life to changing the conversation on immigration and helping immigrants and their partners succeed.
He has helped shape the national movement to revitalize America’s economy through federal and local policies which welcome immigrants and leverage the talents they bring to this country. Along with Robert L. Smith of The Plain Dealer, Richard is the co-author of the acclaimed book, Immigrant, Inc. (John Wiley & Sons, 2009) a powerful interweaving of success stories and research which will forever change the way you look at immigrants —- and America.
Richard has spoken around the country on behalf of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s initiative Partnership for a New American Economy, a national coalition of over 400 CEOs and mayors who make the case that smart immigration makes America stronger and economically more vibrant. Richard has appeared on FOX News (The O’Reilly Factor), ABC News 20/20, National Public Radio, and has appeared in the New York Times, USA Today, BusinessWeek, Forbes, Inc., PC World, Computerworld, CIO, TechCrunch and InformationWeek. Richard is the President of the Herman Legal Group, a nationwide immigration and business law firm based in Cleveland and Columbus, serving a global clientele in over 10 languages.
Richard is the co-founder of TiE Ohio
Todd Q. Adams
Chief Officer of Sustainability and Innovation
Todd Q. Adams has over 25 years experience as a technology and energy management professional. He holds a BBA in Computer Information Systems from Howard University. Adams has delivered solutions to clients within the electric utility, water utility, and government sectors. As a C-level consultant and technology strategist, he helps clients to better deliver on economic, environmental, and social outcomes.
As the Chief Officer of Sustainability and Innovation for Visibility Marketing Inc., Adams delivers organizational change management solutions and strategic planning services to clients within the areas of Smart Metering for Smart Grid, Electric Vehicles Readiness for Smart Grid, and strategic customer engagement for Smart Water Management. He also helps clients realize operational and environmental benefits for Intelligent Transportation initiatives.
Adams managed public-interest broadband initiatives in Miami, Florida, Detroit, Michigan, Biloxi/Gulfport, Mississippi and Gary, Indiana. He facilitated establishing public-private partnerships that utilize technological innovations to improve social outcomes within the industry sectors of healthcare, education, energy and water, and government.
Adams developed the North American marketing strategy for a major Smart Metering company. His responsibilities in that leadership role included public affairs strategy development, business-to business marketing, new business development, customer relationship management, and trade show management. He also served on the Business Council for the United States Conference of Mayors from 2005 – 2007.
He has worked for the City of Cleveland (2003 – 2005) as a program manager responsible for the deployment of a $3 million enterprise resource planning application across 11 departments. This included a mobile workforce solution for more than 100 City inspectors and was the first ERP and mobile workforce application deployed by the City of Cleveland. His role also included managing implementation services, technology outsourcing partners, and the training plan for 400 uses.
Adams is a former adjunct college instructor teaching professional development strategies to technology professionals. He also conducted software user training in Mexico. He began his career as a software developer within the automotive and public utility industries.
Charmaine Rozario, Esq.
Director, Employment Immigration Division
Since 2002, Charmaine Rozario has led the Herman Legal Group’s Employment Immigration Division. Ms. Rozario represents some of the Northeast Ohio’s fastest growing and dynamic employers. Ms. Rozario received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Commerce from the University of Bombay and Bachelor of Law degree from the Government Law College in Bombay. In the United States, she was awarded a Master of Law degree with Honors from Case Western Reserve University (2001) and is admitted to the Ohio Bar. Prior to joining our Firm, Ms. Rozario served as immigration counsel to one of the top 20 software companies in the United States. Ms. Rozario is fluent in Hindi, and conversant in Arabic and French. Ms. Rozario works closely with prominent Arab-American and Indo-American organizations in the United States. In addition to India, Ms. Rozario has resided in Egypt and Bangladesh.
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