Pre-Conference Focus Day
Monday September 18, 2023
2pm – 5pm
(Separately Bookable Session)
Separately
Bookable Session
Designed for Future-Focused Manufacturers Re-imagning DE&I
Option A: Talent Acquisition
Inspiring a New Generation to Pursue a Career in Manufacturing
This focus day aims to encourage manufacturing HR leaders wanting to elevate their TA strategy in order to attract a new cohort of skilled labor into their manufacturing workforce. Tackling the main
challenges the manufacturing industry faces in finding, attracting and inspiring the talent needed to boost productivity and meet high-production demands.
This is your opportunity to hear the strategies for standing out in a competitive market, inspiring the
next generation to a career in manufacturing, and new recruitment & onboarding strategies for an
efficient time to hire.
Three topics to be addressed include:
1
Winning in an Intensifying Manufacturing Talent War
How manufacturing firms are setting themselves apart in the face of a competitive
employee market to attract a new cohort of top talent
2
Re-Imagining How You Find Manufacturing Talent
Creative ways to break into new talent pools, fresh approaches to internal recruitment
models, and culture-focused strategies to attract new hires
3
Boosting the Search for Talent & Increasing Production-Line Employee Attendance
How Tip Top Poultry founded the ‘Hope’ Program for bringing in talent that has been incarcerated, for business and community impact.
Your Talent Acquisition Focus Day Contributors:
Gregg Peterson
Vice President Human Resources,
Horton, Inc
Natalie Jackson
Director, Talent & Organizational Development,
Landscape Forms
Julie Teeters
Vice President Human Resources,
Joyce/Dayton Corporation
Christy Honeycutt
SVP Strategic Development
& Execution
AppyHere
Bryan Herwig
Sr Manager PGS Site People
Experience
Pfizer
Josh Stimpson
Senior Director Human
Resources
Hitachi Energy
Option B: DE&I
Transforming the Way You Support a Diverse Manufacturing Workforce
This focus day is for future-focused HR leaders looking to re-imagine DE&I for the future generations who may choose to commit to a career in manufacturing.
The afternoon will spotlight some of the future-focused strategies that manufacturing firms are implementing to progress Diversity, Equity & Inclusion within the sector to assess the needs of the
future generations, remove the barriers that currently exist, and build advanced DE&I Programs to reflect an ever-changing industry. With a meaningful panel to get beneath the skin of advancing DE&I within manufacturing, this focus session will leave you inspired with insights and new ideas to
implement for a better, more diverse manufacturing workforce in the future.
Three topics to be addressed include:
1
Rethinking the Role of HR in Driving Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in 2023 & Beyond
What more can we do to drive global inclusivity and a sense of belonging for a fully
diversified future in manufacturing?
2
Removing Bias From Your Core HR Strategies
Addressing policy and unconscious bias as well as gender gaps to empower a diverse
manufacturing workforce
3
Meeting the Needs of an Increasingly Multi-Generational, Diverse Workforce
Looking to the future and the needs of a new generation committing to a career in
manufacturing
Your DE&I Focus Day Contributors:
Quantaze Watts
Director Global Talent
INEOS Styrolution
Judy Castaño
Vice President Diversity Equity & Inclusion
Munters Corporation
Dionne Mack
Senior Director, Global Diversity & Inclusion and Early Career Programs
Brooks Automation
Cortes Rice, Sr.
Talent Acquisition Business
Partner – DEI Supply Chain,
Quality & EHS Positions for
PBNA
PepsiCo
Jakeim Jackson-Bell
Global Director of
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
& Belonging (DEIB)
Energizer Holdings