Diversity Best Practices

Thursday, July 23, 2009
Diversity Best Practices Session
hosted by HRACI and DRTCI
7:30a.m. - 9:00a.m.
IUPUI's Taylor Hall at University College
815 West Michigan Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202 <download a map>

Charge: Free to Members of HRACI and DRTCI
Non-member charge $10
Continental Breakfast Included

This Diversity Best Practices session will feature a roundtable discussion with Human Resources Diversity professionals educating attendees about their programs/services and answering questions in a small group setting. The session includes four 20-minute segments, and attendees will choose four topics of interest.

Featured HR Diversity Professionals

• Tony Pickell, Precision Planning AAP speaking on Affirmative Action, EEO
• Dale Hinshaw, Omni HR Consulting speaking on Re-entry programs
• Deloris Duff, Document Developers speaking on Career Coaching/Transitional Services
• Julie Paini, IBLN/Mayor’s Office speaking on disabilities and Indianapolis Business Leadership Network
• Heather Lermont-Pape, The Lermont Group, speaking on non-financial retirement preparedness
• W. Douglas Gibbens, ESGR Program Director speaking on National Guard and Reserve
  
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About the Professionals

Deloris Duff, Principal, Document Developers - Dee Duff, CPRW, JCTC, CEIP embarked on a new career as a résumé writer after retiring from 25 years at Eli Lilly & Company and 8-year employee of the federal government.

In March 2009, Duff celebrated 15 years as an active member of the careers industry, coached and written job search documents for hundreds of clients to reap the rewards of new career aspirations. She is an active member of Professional Association of Résumé Writers/Career Coaches (PARW/CC), Career Management Alliance (The Alliance) (formerly Career Masters Institute), and Career Directors International (CDI), three of the major national professional careers organizations.

For Duff’s corporate years at Lilly, she often represented the company for various community relations activities, recruited and coordinated hundreds of company employees for multiple company-sponsored volunteer programs. During another assignment, she served as the primary contact individual for all consumer inquiries to the company. Throughout her career and multiple assignments, she learned advanced desktop publishing and graphics that sharpened her eye for document design and layout. Her last assignment, prior to retirement, was in international marketing as a meeting planner. She accepted early retirement in 1993.

Doug Gibbens, Executive Director, Indiana Committee, Employer Support of National Guard and Reserve – Doug works with Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), a Department of Defense organization that seeks to promote a culture in which all American Employers support and value the military service of their employees, and became Executive Director in 2007. Doug concentrates his efforts on behalf of service men and women of all branches of our armed forces.

The nation's Reserve components (referring to the total of all National Guard members and Reserve forces from all branches of the military) comprise approximately 48 percent of our total available military manpower. The current National Defense Strategy indicates that the National Guard and Reserve will be full partners in the fully integrated Total Force.

ESGR was established in 1972 to gain and maintain employer support for Guard and Reserve service by recognizing outstanding support, increasing awareness of the law and resolving conflict through mediation. Doug previously served as a Program Support Specialist for ESGR.

Dale Hinshaw, SPHR, Director, Chaplains at Work – Dale has a 50 year professional career in human resources and general management. He has been with a Fortune 500 steel manufacturer, a major Indiana bank (INB), and an area electronics manufacturing firm. He also led a consulting / search firm, and was president of a temporary employment company. For the past nine years, Mr. Hinshaw has served as president of Synergy-OMNI Resources-PEO, a professional employer organization, serving Indiana based employers and their employees. He was President of Omni HR Consulting, serving employers through broad human resources services. Currently Director of Chaplains at Work A Faith -Based Workplace Initiative.

Previously, Mr. Hinshaw was extremely active in The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), serving as past president of three SHRM chapters (Middletown, OH, Kansas City, MO and Indianapolis, IN). He also served as the first chairperson of the HRACI Consultants Forum. Currently, Mr. Hinshaw actively participates in several faith-based efforts.
Heather Lermont-Pape, Founder, The Lermont Group - Heather founded The Lermont Group, with 25 years experience in executive coaching, corporate training, financial planning, leadership and development. In recent years, she has transitioned to being a full-time, non-financial retirement coach because she has seen the growing need for people to plan for retirement, not just financially but in the areas of second careers, family relationships, time management, status, socialization, location, leisure, travel — every aspect of retirement. She realizes the importance of helping people assemble the framework, gathering the different pieces of their ‘retirement puzzle’ into a picture that they will be excited to make a reality.
Heather earned her Retirement Coaching Certification through Retirement Options Coaching Program and is a graduate of Coach U’s Coaching Core Essential and Coaching Clinic Facilitation Programs. Along with the other associates in The Lermont Group, Heather enjoys the challenge of helping people crystallize their view of retirement. Retirement is just a beginning. And, with this new beginning, it is a time to refocus each day on personal growth, opportunities, and expanded horizons to conquer.

Juli Paini, Coordinator, Indianapolis Office of Disability Affairs - Juli works with government officials and members of the community to enhance universal access and inclusion in Indianapolis. From 2004 through 2007, Indianapolis's efforts resulted in recognition as one of the most disability friendly cities in the United States by the National Organization on Disability. Before her appointment, Juli was a staff attorney at Legal Services Organization of Indiana (now Indiana Legal Services, Inc.) practicing in the areas of disability law, fair housing, and family law. Previously, Juli also served as a judicial law clerk on the Indiana Court of Appeals. A graduate of Indiana University magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in political science in 1991, Juli went on to obtain her law degree from Indiana University in 1994. She has served in the past as Program Chair for the Indianapolis Bar Association’s Women and Law division, on the Board of Directors of Fresh Start, a non-profit organization assisting survivors of domestic violence, and as the Chairperson of the Public Policy Committee of the Board of Directors of CICOA Aging & In-Home Solutions. Juli currently volunteers on the Board of Directors of the Indiana Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation, where she serves as Assistant Secretary and participates in planning various events and programs. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Indianapolis Neighborhood Resource Center and is a member of the Indianapolis Bar Association’s Diversity Taskforce. In 2006, Juli was recognized by The Indianapolis Business Journal as one of Indianapolis’s “Top 40 Under 40.” Juli is a member of the Canterbury Neighborhood Association.