Speaker & Panelist: Lisa Ahmad at Mayo Clinic’s RISE for Equity Conference

Topic – Digital: The Great Opportunity and Peril for Equity, Inclusion and Diversity

Segment from Lisa’s speaking presentation: "Digital: The Great Opportunity and Peril for Equity, Inclusion and Diversity"

July 21 - 23, 2022 – Chicago, IL

Our Founder, Lisa Ahmad, had the honor of being a speaker and panelist for Mayo Clinic’s RISE for Equity: Reflect, Inspire, Strengthen & Empower 2022 conference. The conference’s focus was “prioritizing and addressing diversity, equity and inclusion in workforce development and organizational culture is essential to providing optimal patient care, achieving health equity, and attracting and engaging the workforce of the future. [ . . . ] Participants [joined] a national healthcare dialogue on this important subject and explore evidence-based solutions and innovative initiatives.”

Topic: “Digital: The Great Opportunity and Peril for Equity, Inclusion and Diversity” – Lisa spoke about the digital transformation of the healthcare sector and how applying a DEI lens to new initiatives leads to greater strategic success.

The other thing I’ve come to fairly recently is we need to be worrying about changing systems, not people. Bias training is great – if we can move a few people along in the process, I think that’s wonderful. But I think our focus needs to be on what I call “bias interrupters”. Those are tools that we’re using to change historic patterns of behavior.
— Lisa Argrette Ahmad
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