Thursday, November 12, 2020 at 12:00:00 PM

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&lt;p&gt;Assess or Be Assessed.&amp;nbsp; How to Incorporate DE&amp;amp;I into Organization Culture From Day One.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Learn from Tanida Mullen, and Zoe Moore, CADAZO Consulting Group, how you can be proactive with your Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) journey.&amp;nbsp; Understand the difference between proactive (open and growth mode) and reactive (closed and defensive mode) and being open to wading into some unfamiliar terriory while gathering information necessary to make changes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Learn the three pillars of DEI - what you need to do, what you need to know and understand before you try to implement a DEI strategy in your organization and, discover how to assess your current situation.&amp;nbsp; After all, you do not know what you do not know.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Startup Grind is the world&#39;s largest community of startups, founders, innovators, and creators. We bring like-minded, yet diverse individuals together to connect, learn, teach, help, build and belong. We do this daily through our local events, our flagship conferences, the startup program, partnerships, and online media + content. Startup Grind collectively reaches over 3.5 million individuals worldwide, in 600 Chapters and in over 125 countries. The Startup Grind values include: We believe in making friends, not contacts. We believe in giving, not taking. We believe in helping others before helping yourself. &lt;/p&gt;</p>

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Speakers<br/>

Tanida Mullen - CoWorkMedia (Chief People Officer)<br/>

Tanida Mullen has a proven track record of excellence and has been a trainer in the hospitality &amp; restaurant industry for over 14 years. With a BS, Psychology, and a minor, Business Administration from Texas A&amp;M University-Central Texas, she has been able to tune into what customers want and create result-producing training programs to ensure that it benefits her client&#39;s bottom line.<br/>

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Zoe Moore, CDP - CADAZO Consulting Group (CMO, Founder)<br/>

Zoe Moore is leading the dialogue around Diversity, Equity, Inclusion in the meetings, events, and tourism industry. As co-producer, The State of Events podcast and co-founder of CADAZO Consulting Group, she is using her platforms to help leaders achieve supplier diversity, inclusive organizational culture, and diverse representation in leadership.<br/>

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Moderator<br/>

Carolynn Santos - CADAZO (CEO, Founder)<br/>

Carolynn has 40 years of business experience in Small and Enterprise organizations. Carolynn spent 15 years in global event and meeting planning; organizing and executing meetings, large-scale events, third-party trade shows, conferences &amp; incentive travel programs; organizing everything from a small business launch to corporate events on a global scale for 22,000 attendees.<br/>

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Hosted By<br/>

Carolynn Santos, Chapter Director<br/>

Carolynn is currently the CEO &amp;amp; Founder, with Dawn Bennett, CFO, and Zoe Moore, CMO, in a new venture called CADAZO. CADAZO's has a mission to create and execute conversations and to move the needle in the Inclusion &amp;amp; Diversity arena. The first program for CADAZO will be a video series, aligned workshops, and corporate leadership training programs for inclusion and diversity in the vendor supply chain and partner ecosystem.

Carolynn has over forty years of business experience in Small and Enterprise organizations. Carolynn started out managing a small business in the automotive industry and has built her career with a business background, knowledge, and hands-on experience in Property Management, Life Insurance, Retail, Catering &amp;amp; Restaurants, Pharmaceutical and High Technology.

While working in Silicon Valley she spent over fifteen years in global event and meeting planning; organizing and executing meetings, large-scale events, third-party trade shows, conferences, and incentive travel programs; organizing everything from a small business launch to corporate events on a global scale for 22,000 attendees.<br/>

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