Michael Bach

Becoming an Attraction Magnet: How to Improve your Talent Attraction process to
attract a more diverse talent pool

As organizations seek to diversify their employee population, they need to accept that talent attraction processes, as we know them, are rife with potential for bias and exclusion. A study from Harvard, found that even when an employer uses pro-diversity language in their job postings, they are just as likely to exclude candidates of color as those employers that don‘t have a stated commitment to diversity and inclusion. To attract a boarder range of diversity in candidates, we have to be willing to change our talent attraction processes to make them more inclusive and equitable.

Becoming an Attraction Magnet presents the case for the “gold standard“ of inclusive talent attraction processes. Based on his book Birds of All Feathers: Doing Diversity and Inclusion Right and his extensive experience in inclusion, diversity, equity and accessbility, Michael Bach shares ideas of how to eliminate bias from talent attraction and make the process more inclusive, with the goal of diversifying the people you hire.

Participants will come away with a clear understanding of:

1. Areas where the talent attraction process is exclusive, including areas where bias may be at play.
2. Leading practices in how to improve the talent attraction process to make it more inclusive.
3. Ideas to successfully implement the change.

Stephanie Shrum

Maintaining Inclusive Workplaces

Through the Workplace Opportunities: Removing the Barriers to Equity project, the Canadian Apprenticeship Forum, working with Bison Transport, and the national Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) committee, Stephanie will discuss the challenges that employers in the Transportation Industry are facing with recruitment and retention. She will provide strategies, to not only increase, but to maintain a diverse workforce. These strategies have been used and recommended by peers in the Industry who have achieved great success with meeting and maintaining their hiring and retention targets. She‘ll share the challenges those companies faced; how they planned and prepared for changing their processes and what the implementation stage included.

All attendees will be provided the recruitment and retention guide containing recommendations gathered from research throughout Canada.

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MICHAEL BACH

Inclusion, Diversity, Equality & Accessability Thought Leader and Best Selling Author

If diversity is our strength, inclusion is our superpower. Michael Bach is a nationally and internationally recognized thought leader and subject matter expert in the fields of inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA). The founding CEO of the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion (CCDI), CCDI Consulting, and Pride at Work Canada, Bach brings a vast knowledge of leading practices in creating equitable workplaces in any industry. He also speaks openly about his lived experience as a member of the LGBTQIA+ communities and as a person with a disability.

With nearly 20 years experience within the IDEA space, Bach has advised thousands of clients on how to do IDEA right. Prior to CCDI, he was the national leader of diversity, equity, and inclusion for KPMG Canada. Additionally, Bach spent 2.5 years as Deputy Chief Diversity Officer for KPMG International.

Named one of the “10 Most Influential DE&I Leaders Revamping the Future” by CIO Views Magazine in 2023, Bach has received numerous awards and recognitions for his work. He is one of Women of Influence’s Canadian Diversity Champions and a Catalyst Canada Honours Human Resources/Diversity Leader, as well as the recipient of Inspire Award’s LGBTQ Person of the Year; Out on Bay Street’s “Leaders to be Proud of” LGBT Advocate Workplace Award; Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council’s Immigrant Success Award; and the Canadian HR Reporter Individual Achievement Award.

A bestselling author, Bach’s first book, Birds of All Feathers: Doing Diversity and Inclusion Right, is a Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, and Amazon bestseller. It also won the Silver 2020 Nautilus Book Award in the category of Rising to the Moment and was a finalist in the Legacy non-fiction category for the American Bookfest’s Best Books Awards. His latest book, Alphabet Soup: The Essential Guide to LGBTQ2+ Inclusion, is a Toronto Star bestseller and finalist in the general non-fiction category for the American Bookfest’s Best Book Awards.

Bach has a post-graduate certificate in diversity management from Cornell University and holds the Cornell Certified Diversity Professional, Advanced Practitioner (CCDP/AP) designation.

STEPHANIE SHRUM

Project Manager, Canadian Apprenticeship Forum

Stephanie has been in the employment services field for 18 years, in a number of different roles from Employment Counsellor to Director of Employment Services with Pathways Employment Help Centre before joining the Canadian Apprenticeship Forum as a Program Manager. Stephanie has worked largely with not-for-profit organizations funded by Employment Ontario as well as Ontario Works, but also has experience working in a business school setting. Stephanie brings extensive experience working with employers and job seekers and is dedicated to enhancing the labour market and community around her. She has served on multiple committees, including the Steering Committee of the Employment Sector Council, the Steering Committee of the Community Benefits Network, Co-Chair of the Job Developer Network, and as a member of the Apprenticeship Network in the London Economic Region.

Stephanie is currently the staff support person for the Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion committee with the Canadian Apprenticeship Forum. Stephanie is passionate about the skilled trades and is committed to working with apprenticeship stakeholders to promote and enhance careers in the trades across Canada.