Dr. Tana M Session: Performance Leadership

    • Highlights:
      • Whether you're looking to build a best-in-class company culture, implement a competitive and cutting-edge talent strategy, or modernize your Human Resources processes, Dr. Tana M. Session is equipped to help organizations transform.
      • As an Organizational Development Strategist, Dr. Tana M. Session partners with multiple clients across various industries to help assess their individual company cultures and develop transformational workplace strategies to increase employee retention and engagement with a focus on Inclusion, Diversity, Equality, and Belonging.
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    • Travels from: Los Angeles, CA
    • **Fee range: On Request

    Keynote Topics

    • Uncovering Unconscious & Implicit Bias In the Workplace
    • The Power of Diversity
    • Let’s Talk: The Path to Anti-racism, Racial Equity &
    • How To Be An Ally
    • Let’s Talk About Race Relations in the Workplace
    • Generational Competencies: Leadership Requirements for the
    • Multigenerational Workforce
    • Cultural Competence
    • Propel Your Leadership/Success/Peak Performance
    • Stop Being the Best Kept Secret (R)
    • Own Your Power

    Dr. Tana M Session is an award-winning Consultant, International Speaker, Executive-level Performance Coach, Best-selling Author, recognized Inclusion, Diversity & Multigenerational Thought Leader and Media Contributor.

    Dr. Session was recently recognized as a “Top Company Culture Consultant” by Fond.co, “Top Employer Branding Expert” by Eightfold.ai, and a Huffington Post “Top Female Expert to Follow.”

    Tana is the official LinkedIn Learning expert for Diversity & Inclusion in recruiting and interviewing and was also recognized by Forbes as a “Next 1000” and a “Top Diversity & Inclusion Business Leader,” and a “DEI Champion” by the National Diversity Council.

    Additionally, her business was recognized by Design Rush as a “Top 5 California Business Consulting Firm” and a “Top 10 California HR Outsourcing Company,” and CORE Magazine/USA Today recognized her as “CORE 100 Most Influential Blacks Today.”

    Dr. Tana M Session

    As an Organizational Development Strategist, Dr. Session partners with multiple clients across various industries to help assess their individual company cultures and develop transformational workplace strategies to increase employee retention and engagement with a focus on inclusion, diversity, equality & belonging.

    A corporate trainer and performance coach, Dr. Session provides actionable tools & strategies catered to each organization to help both leaders AND employees excel in the workplace. Her unique skill is making people MORE of who they already ARE!

    Dr. Tana M Session holds the PHR, GPHR and SHRM-SCP certifications as well as multiple ICF-approved performance coaching certifications.

    INTEGRITY

    As role models in the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging space, Dr. Tana M Session strictly adheres to doing what’s right. It is important to us that we act with open honesty, dependability, and loyalty to our clients.

    TRUST

    By partnering with our clients, Dr. Tana M Session operates with mutual respect and push ourselves and our clients to create a psychologically safe space for all, so that we can strive to create a better workplace without fear of judgment or retaliation.

    COMPASSION

    Dr. Tana M Session approach enables us to truly understand the pain points of our clients. We operate with an “empathy-in-action” mentality for all employees. We keep the “Human” aspect of the work in everything we do.

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