In a moment when DEI is facing heightened scrutiny, legal constraints, and growing skepticism, many organizations are asking the same question: How do we sustain this work without losing its power—or its purpose? The answer is not louder messaging or more standalone initiatives. It’s integration. This webinar explores how embedding DEI across the employee and business  life cycle—creates resilience, relevance, and staying power, even in challenging environments. .

Designed for DEI leaders navigating today’s realities, this session moves beyond theory to focus on practical, systems-level approaches. We’ll examine the four stages of the business life cycle where DEI where it is crucial that DEI is embedded, why fragmented efforts are increasingly vulnerable, and how integration into core people and business practices reduces risk while increasing impact. Participants will learn how to partner more effectively with Business and HR,  leaders to ensure equity is not an add-on—but a shared responsibility embedded in how work and the business strategy gets done.

This is a hopeful conversation—but not a naïve one. We will acknowledge the backlash, the fatigue, and the real constraints DEI practitioners face today, while offering a clear path forward grounded in strategy, adaptability, and purpose. You’ll leave with a renewed sense of possibility, a sharper framework for action, and the confidence to evolve DEI in ways that are durable, defensible, and deeply human.

SPEAKERS

• Lewis Griggs, Griggs Productions, Executive Leadership Coach
• May Snowden, Snowden & Associates, Inc., President
• Edwin Mourino, PhD, Human Intelligent Workplace, President and Founder
• Shane Lloyd, Chief Inclusion Officer, Baker Tilly US