Submit your proposal to speak at the NILG 2025 National Conference!

As the end of the year approaches, consider how we help by “Fostering Inclusion, Ensuring Equity” – which is the theme of the NILG 2025 National Conference! Keep this in mind as you prepare your proposals for consideration at the NILG 2025! With the holidays fast approaching, the November 25, 2024 deadline will be here before you know it.

From Exploring, Enabling, and Evolving to
Fostering Inclusion, Ensuring Equity

We are looking for thought-provoking workshop speakers, dynamic education sessions, and unique ways to network and connect with peers from across the country as we look for proposals related to subjects such as:

• Changing the culture in your organization
• Expanded Self-identification Categories
• Contractor Obligations – The 40,000 Foot View
• How to build proactive Affirmative Action programs with engagement from the C Suite
• Disability and Veteran Inclusion Practices
• Psychological safety
• Trends in Enforcement following the 2024 election
• FLSA and state laws as it applies to pay analysis:  For example, tracking hours worked, base for overtime, commissions, bonuses
• Joint employment from EEOC, NLRB, and wage hour definitions and impact on analyses
• What is next for DEI?
• Multijurisdictional leaves laws and impact on accommodations
• Paying for unbudgeted claims: from legal fees to final settlements
• When hiring goes wrong – identifying the most qualified candidates
• The ins and outs of testing
• Strategies to increase self-identification
• Surviving construction audits
• Artificial Intelligence and inclusion
• Integrating DEIA & Affirmative Action goals
• Higher Ed – How to stay focused when enrollment is down
• How to create a talent strategy that increases diversity while supporting your affirmative action programs
• Leveraging employee resource groups
• Difficult and crucial conversations
• Performance management: documenting it correctly
• The true costs of compliance (why doing it the right way from the start is more cost effective)
• Hiring best practices
• Change management while increasing inclusion
• Termination best practices
• Multi-state pay laws
• The effect of remote work on DEIA & Affirmative Action objectives
• Intersectionality – what is it and how to effectively use it
• ESG reporting
• What you need to know about remote employees
• AND other topics that foster inclusion and ensure equity!

Whether you’d like to speak solo, or include a co-presenter,
gather your information and submit by November 25, 2024
to be considered for the 2025 program!

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