Speaking Engagements
Recruiting in a Permacrisis: Strategies for Finding Talent in Turmoil
2024 SIOP Annual Conference | Friday, April 19, 2024 | 9:00 AM - 10:20 AM CDT
In this panel discussion, DCI's Kristen Pryor will will share how they are responding to these environmental impacts, including strategies, solutions, and lessons they have learned for successful recruiting and hiring.
Navigating Employer Perceptions of Assessments and Aversion to Measurement
2024 SIOP Annual Conference | Friday, April 19, 2024 | 2:00 PM - 3:20 PM CDT
In this panel discussion, DCI's Sarah Layman will share her experiences with employer resistance to assessments, the reasons for this resistance, and the ways in which they have navigated these challenges to educate employers and gain their buy-in to adopt and implement assessments.
Messy Validation IX: Phone a Validation Friend
2024 SIOP Annual Conference | Saturday, April 20, 2024 | 8:30 AM - 9:50 AM CDT
In this session, DCI's Dave Schmidt will advise on assessment validation challenges (e.g., stakeholder buy-in, data collection, analysis, communicating results). In the first part of the session, attendees will discuss example messy validation scenarios in small groups before hearing how the expert panelists handled the situation. In the second part of the session, two to four attendees in each group will have the opportunity to pose a validation challenge that they are facing to their group for discussion and advice from one or more of the panelists.
Consulting 101
2024 SIOP Annual Conference | Saturday, April 20, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM CDT
In this panel discussion, DCI's Mark LoVerde will share practical advice for managing common challenges in both the internal and external consulting worlds. Topics discussed will include setting oneself up for success, getting results, and navigating challenges.
Simplify to Illuminate: How to IGNITE! Your Next I/O Elevator Pitch
2024 SIOP Annual Conference | Saturday, April 20, 2024 | 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM CDT
In this panel discussion, DCI's Sarah Layman, Lisa Harpe, and Amanda Bowman will present using the IGNITE! format (20 slides, 15 seconds each) with the goal of empowering attendees with clear, tailored talking points, helping them foster understanding and engagement in non-I/O audiences.
Looking Under the Hood 3.0: Tuning Up Practitioner Relationships in the AI Era
2024 SIOP Annual Conference | Saturday, April 20, 2024 | 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM CDT
In this panel discussion, DCI's Amy Yost and Jone Papinchock will provide guidance to assessment practitioners, vendors, and consultants involved in the use of automated employment decision tools (AEDTs) with focus on the selection context. Topics will include relevant legislation and legal issues impacting the responsibilities of employers and assessment vendors in ensuring compliance with laws and guidelines, in addition to practical considerations in fostering productive partnerships across organizational boundaries.
Affirmative Action, OFCCP Compliance, and Pay Equity Analytics in Higher Education
Live Webinar | Wednesday, May 8, 2024 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
Join Lisa Harpe and Dave Sharrer as they partner with Mitratech's OFCCP compliance solution, Circa, for an insightful webinar exploring the intricacies of affirmative action, OFCCP compliance, and pay equity analyses for higher education institutions. The webinar will delve into challenging nuances of employment in higher education.
Ensuring your AAP is Audit Ready
Ohio ILG Meeting | Thursday, May 16, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM EDT
In this in person meeting, DCI's Zach Olsen will present on ensuring your AAP is audit ready and communicating those results. Additionally, Zach will touch on OFCCP's Contractor Portal, including how to certify, the potential consequences of not certifying and how to navigate if you are a higher education institution among other topics.
Pay Equity Update: EEOC, OFCCP, and What to Expect in a Presidential Election Year
SHRM Annual Conference & Expo 2024 | Tuesday, June 25, 2024 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
In this presentation, DCI's Joanna Colosimo will update the SHRM community on the impact of EEOC and OFCCP enforcement pay trends, ramifications from pay data collection initiatives, and potential implications of the U.S. presidential election on the future of pay equity. The session will highlight the landscape and leave attendees with strategic and practical tips for analyzing and reporting pay data.
The Uniform Guidelines on Trial: Can They Meet the Challenge of Evaluating Artificial Intelligence?
NILG 2024 National Conference | Tuesday, July 30, 2024 | 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM EDT
In this panel discussion, DCI's Eric Dunleavy and fellow experts will focus on the following learning objectives: describe where the Uniform Guidelines seem particularly useful and where they may be limited, explain how other state and local frameworks offer novel approaches, provide practical recommendations for complying with the patchwork of regulations, summarize expectations for how the regulatory framework will change in response to the October 2023 Biden Administration Executive Order on AI.
The Future of Race and Ethnicity Standards
NILG 2024 National Conference | Tuesday, July 30, 2024 | 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM EDT
In this panel discussion, DCI's Bill Osterndorf and fellow experts will discuss what the major changes are since the 1997 standards were adopted, how these standards will have significant impact on employers and why some of these changes have long been needed.
A Real Company Making Real Changes
NILG 2024 National Conference | Tuesday, July 30, 2024 | 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM EDT
In this panel discussion, DCI's Rosemary Cox and Huntington Ingalls Industries' employees will discuss how Huntington Ingalls Industries is making impactful changes to the selection process based on the results of that research and explore how their DEI program works together with their compliance programs Participants will take away practical advice on making change, how to research results and strategy on working with top managers to drive change.
OFCCP Enforcement and Policy Update
NILG 2024 National Conference | Wednesday, July 31, 2024 | 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM EDT
In this breakout session, DCI's David Cohen for the 14th year will take a data driven approach to understanding OFCCP enforcement activity, and as such trends over time are beginning to emerge. This presentation will detail the results of FY2023 data and trends over time.
An I/O Psychologist, Labor Economist and Statistician Walk into a (Proverbial) Bar and Discuss Pay Equity….
NILG 2024 National Conference | Wednesday, July 31, 2024 | 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM EDT
In this panel discussion, DCI's Joanna Colosimo and other experts will address the top five most challenging analytical topics in today’s landscape. The panelists will share firsthand experiences and hard-earned advice. Attendees will obtain best practice recommendations on: strategic analysis aggregating compensation snapshots, providing OFCCP proof of a “pay evaluation”, analyzing and submitting state specific pay data, determining pay analysis groups, and assessing whether an explanatory factor is biased.
