NorthEast Regional Council
Quarterly Educational Session
Session 1 9:00 - 10:15 Understanding & Embracing DEI for Business Success
Ilhiana Rojas Saldana – 1.5 CPE
Session 2 10:30 - 11:45 Diversifying U.S. Accounting Talent:
The Current & Future State of DEI in the Profession
Daryl Jackson – 1.5 CPE
The Northeast Regional Council (NERC) of the IMA invites you to the first educational session of the fall focusing on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). We are excited to announce this session will be the first NERC in-person educational session since January 2020, due to the pandemic.
Agenda
8:30 – 9:00 Check-in and continental breakfast
9:00 - 10:15 Presentation by Ilhiana Rojas Saldana
10:15 -10:30 15-minute break
10:30 -11:45 Presentation by Darryl Jackson
12:00 -1:00 Lunch
Council Board Meeting to follow
If you cancel after November 8th, you will be responsible to pay the fee.
Cost includes 3 CPE, morning refreshments and lunch.
All attendees must be vaccinated and sign a waiver of liability before entering the session. COVID protocol, including mask wearing when not eating, must be observed per the university.
A copy of this waiver needs to be signed by all attendees and handed in (or before) prior to the start of the event.
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Location: UMASS – Lowell
Address: Alumni Hall, 84 University Avenue, Lowell, MA
Hosted by Accounting Department, Manning School of Business
Parking is available at the Cumnock Parking lot across the street from Alumni Hall and also at the Standish and University Crossing parking lots if Cumnock is full.
Presentation information:
9:00-10:15- Understanding & Embracing DEI for Business Success
Ilhiana Rojas Saldana
UNDERSTANDING & EMBRACING DEI FOR BUSINESS SUCCESS
In this presentation, the speaker will work with participants to understand their role as leaders who can successfully develop a culture of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Using an interactive and action-oriented framework, participants will learn actionable strategies and practices to model and promote inclusive behaviors, and cultivate a culture of inclusion.
Specifically, participants will:
- Understand Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as an integral part of business growth.
- Learn the fundamental drivers for employee engagement.
- Gain self-awareness on their individual approach to equity and inclusion.
- Learn practices to model and promote inclusive behaviors.
Speaker Bio
Ilhiana Rojas Saldana is a Transformation Strategy Coach & Consultant, a Diversity & Inclusion Catalyst, a Hispanic advocate, bestselling author, and an international motivational speaker. She has over 20 years of global executive experience in top Fortune 500 companies leading, coaching, and transforming professionals and businesses for success. Her specialties include leadership development, diversity & inclusion practices, enabling high-performance teamwork, building resilient & agile behaviors, emotional intelligence, and personal branding.
In addition to coaching, Ilhiana serves on various Boards and organizations supporting diversity & inclusion efforts to empower the Latino Community. Ilhiana is an ICF and DISC PLUS Certified Coach and has a Diversity & Inclusion Certificate from Cornell University. Ilhiana graduated with honors as a Chemical Engineer in Mexico City and lives in Rhode Island with her husband and two children.
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10:30-11:45- Diversifying U.S. Accounting Talent: The Current & Future State of DEI in the Profession
Darryl Jackson
Diversifying U.S. Accounting Talent: The Current & Future State of DEI in the Profession
In this session, the speaker will present an assessment of the state of DEI in the US accounting profession through key findings of a joint research study conducted by IMA® (Institute of Management Accountants) and CalCPA (California Society of Certified Public Accountants), working collaboratively with research partners, contributors, and advisors.
This study focused on three demographic areas: race and ethnicity, gender, and LGBTQIA orientation. The first in a multi-part global series, this study included an online survey of more than 3,000 current and former U.S. accounting professionals and interviews of more than 50 accounting, human resources, and DEI practitioners and academics.
The presenter also examines the role of ethics in the profession’s DEI progress and suggests solutions to drive change as presented by the study’s participants. All organizations and researchers involved in this study intend to use the report as a catalyst for widespread, targeted, and coordinated DEI improvement across the profession.
Speaker Bio
As the Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Darryl is responsible for oversight of IMA’s DEI activities, furthering IMA’s commitment to cultivating a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture among IMA’s members and the accounting and finance profession at large. In this role, Darryl leads IMA’s efforts toward creating more opportunities for all accounting professionals and closing a profession-wide diversity gap. Darryl also develops solutions to drive pipeline development, recruitment, and retention in the accounting profession. Certified by Cornell University in Diversity and Inclusion, Darryl employs his philosophy focusing on four primary areas: access, exposure, recognition, and development.
Darryl began his career in government and finance as a loan officer for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and later moved into mortgage loans. After seven years in finance, Darryl pivoted to a career in non-profit and association management, serving as director of membership services and marketing for Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, as chapter development specialist for the Project Management Institute (PMI), as manager of chapter operations and mentoring relations for the National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC) where he worked with organizations such as Comcast, Viacom, ESPN, Charter and Cox Communications to ensure that they were indeed diverse and inclusive behind the cameras, as well as in front of the cameras. Prior to IMA, Darryl served as director of membership acquisition and engagement with the New York State Society of CPAs and as a senior consultant for Marlon Moore Consulting, where he advised organizations in areas including diversity, inclusion, cultural competence and corporate social responsibility to improve decisions in the development of policy, procedure, products, programs and initiatives.
He is an active member of the American Society for Association Executives (ASAE) and has served on their Committee for Diversity and Inclusion. Darryl received his Bachelors of Science in Agricultural Business and Economics from Virginia State University, where he was a U.S. Department of Agriculture National Scholar, and his Masters of Business Administration from University of Maryland University College in Management. Darryl is a graduate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for Organization Management (IOM), and holds ASAE’s Certified Association Executive (CAE) certification.