Event Details
Diversity and Inclusion - Workplace bias and developing inclusion tools and techniques
| Date: | January 22, 2020, 11:30am – 1:00pm |
| Organizer: | SHRM RGV (Chapter 390) |
| Location: | Cambria Hotel McAllen Convention Center 701 S Ware Rd McAllen, TX 78501 (956) 618-7207 |
| Price: | Pre-Payment Registration Fee: Members $25, Non-Members $35, Students $15. At the Door: $40 |
| Event Type: | Meeting |
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Diversity and Inclusion
Workplace Bias and developing inclusion tools and techniques
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Learning Objectives:
- Have a better understanding of how successful companies implement tools and skills that help leverage diversity and inclusion in the workplace
- Learn what steps you can do as an individual to help move your company forward on developing inclusion tools and techniques based on best practices
Speaker: Tanya Thirlwall - Organization Development Specialist
A native from Brownsville, she went to the University of St. Thomas in Houston Texas and graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor’s in International Studies and International Development with minors in finance and economics. She focused her thesis on the role of women in political and social economics in Iran during the time of the Iranian revolution. As a recent graduate during the recession, she took a change in her career path and was the operations supervisor for Victoria’s Secret in the Houston Galleria where her primary focus was workforce management of a team of 200 employees. From there, she moved back home in 2012 where she enrolled to gain her second bachelor's in Accounting from UTRGV and became the controller and director for her father’s commercial construction company specializing in sheet metal manufacturing and installation. Graduating in December 2015 she moved back to Houston to have had her first child in February of 2016 and became a family office accountant where she managed two large high-net-worth individuals of the combined net worth of $265 million dollars. In August of 2017, after having her second child in June she moved back home as a single mom. In February of 2018, she went back into the workforce to be the finance and contracting manager for insurance advisors agency and in January of 2019 as the organization development specialist for McAllen Valley Roofing. She is active with the IMA, the institute of managerial accountants, where she started the local student chapters as a student at UTRGV in the fall of 2013, went on to help manage the young professionals in the Houston Chapter, and is now a director and the secretary interim for the Texas Regional Council. She had an article published in October 2019 in strategic finance magazine on social media as a means to diversity. In 2019 she was named the first alternate for the Young Professional Award for the IMA as well. Hobbies include anything fashion, motorcycles, real estate, writing, development of systems and processes for organizations and keeping up with two very active little boys Antonio and Gabriel.
