Despite a deepening skills shortage in Canada's workforce, marginalized groups continue to face systemic barriers to employment. Employers often lack the support and the resources to create more inclusive workplaces and effectively recruit and retain marginalized groups.

This workshop will offer employers an innovative approach on how to take their EDI profile from awareness to action and will offer many tools for employers to build more inclusive work environments and improve employment practices

Learning Outcomes for this Workshop:

1)  How to transform the uncomfortable discussions into enlightening discussions
2)  How employers can move from awareness to action

Canada Wide At:

• 11:00 - 12:00 PDT

• 12:00 - 13:00 MDT/CST

• 13:00 - 14:00 CDT

• 14:00 - 15:00 EDT

• 15:00 - 16:00 ADT

• 15:30 - 16:30 NDT

Presenter:

Wessam Ayad (She/Her) Project Supervisor, Workplace Inclusion Charter, KEYS Job Centre

Wessam Ayad is the Workplace Inclusion Charter Supervisor at KEYS Job Centre. For many years, Wessam has supported underrepresented individuals and has successfully introduced creative methods to support them to achieve their career goals. Struggling as a racialized person herself, she decided to use and strengthen her education, work, and life experience to support underrepresented communities in Canada.

Through her work at KEYS Job Centre, Wessam has supported many underrepresented individuals as well as many employers for many years and successfully introduced creative methods to help create more inclusive and welcoming workplaces for many equity seeking groups.

Examples of her achievements are the creation of The Begin Again Group Co-op for refugee women and the highest achieved employment rate in the province for the Destination Employment program as well as supporting with her Charter’s team more than 30 employers to improve their EDI profiles.

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