Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Compassion Accelerator (February 2, 2023 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102334 102334-21803881@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 2, 2023 4:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

About the Thriving Accelerator Workshops:
A Thriving Accelerator is an immersive workshop from the Center for Positive Organizations about a topic in the science of thriving. After completing a workshop, students will be able to immediately implement their learnings to create lasting personal and organizational impact.

Workshop description:
Calling all leaders who want to create happiness in their organizations! You may not know it, but compassion competence is one of the most significant contributors to happiness. Compassion competence in a group is also a source of innovation, adaptability, well being, and resilience in organizations. This accelerator will give you everything you need to understand compassion from a scientific point of view. You will leave equipped with four ways to handle distress that offer real relief to you and to others who are suffering. If you’ve ever felt helpless in the face of difficulties or lost about what to do when others are stressed and burned out, this accelerator will offer you specific ways to approach and alleviate distress so that you can think, feel, and act with greater confidence and competence. Join us to accelerate your capacity to express compassion for yourself and for others and to harness compassion as a force for personal and professional success.

Instructors:
Betsy Erwin, Senior Associate Director, Faculty Associate, Co-Director Engaged Learning and Innovation, Center for Positive Organizations

Monica Worline, Faculty Director of Engaged Learning and Innovation, Center for Positive Organizations

Open to all University of Michigan students. Free registration required.

For information about all of the Thriving Accelerator workshops being offered, visit: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/learning-programs/thriving-accelerator/

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 16 Dec 2022 15:41:49 -0500 2023-02-02T16:30:00-05:00 2023-02-02T18:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Workshop / Seminar Compassion Accelerator
Positive Links Speaker Series (February 7, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98663 98663-21797038@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 7, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Christine Porath
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
2:00 - 3:00 p.m. ET
Free, registration required to obtain login information; please note this session will not be recorded

Event link:
https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/mastering-community-the-surprising-ways-coming-together-moves-us-from-surviving-to-thriving/

Positive Links:
The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical science-based strategies to build and bolster thriving organizations. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

About the talk:
Despite our deep desire to feel a sense of belonging, many of us feel isolated. The rise of technology and modern workplace practices have led people to be even more disconnected, even as we remain constantly contactable. And as our human interactions have decreased, so too have our happiness levels. This is sparking a crisis in mental health that will have repercussions for years, leaving people lonelier and organizations less productive and profitable, too.
Join us for a conversation with Christine Porath, author of Mastering Community, to discover just how important thriving communities are to our wellbeing and the success of organizations and learn what steps you can take to create them. In this fireside chat facilitated by Gretchen Spreitzer, Porath will share ways to unite and grow your communities—be it in the workplace, the PTA, sports, or places of worship—and make them thrive.

About Porath:
Christine Porath is a tenured professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. She’s the author of Mastering Community, Mastering Civility, and co-author of The Cost of Bad Behavior.

Her speaking and consulting clients include Google, United Nations, World Bank, Microsoft, Marriott, World Health Organization, and Cleveland Clinic.

She received her BA from College of the Holy Cross, where she was a member of the women’s basketball and soccer teams, and her PhD from Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Host:
Gretchen Spreitzer, Faculty Advisory Board, Center for Positive Organizations; Associate Dean for Engaged Learning and Professional Development; Keith E. and Valerie J. Alessi Professor of Business Administration; Professor of Management and Organizations

Series Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2022-23 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Series Promotional Partners:
Additionally, we thank Ann Arbor SPARK and the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the Academy of Management for their Positive Links Speaker Series promotional partnerships.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 21 Nov 2022 11:02:58 -0500 2023-02-07T14:00:00-05:00 2023-02-07T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Livestream / Virtual Christine Porath
Human Performance Accelerator (March 16, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102335 102335-21803882@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

About the Thriving Accelerator Workshops:
A Thriving Accelerator is an immersive workshop from the Center for Positive Organizations about a topic in the science of thriving. After completing a workshop, students will be able to immediately implement their learnings to create lasting personal and organizational impact.

Workshop description:
Join us for a unique learning experience that brings students at the University of Michigan together with business leaders from the Positive Organizations Consortium to focus on energizing yourself and others for sustainable high performance. Understanding the energetics of human performance and mastering techniques of energy management is a key to thriving for both individuals and organizations. You’ll have a chance to share energy management strategies with people who perform very different kinds of work and learn new ways to amplify, regulate, and calm energy in key moments. By bringing together people at all stages of careers, we can catalyze a conversation about sustainable human performance over the long term with practices that are both inspiring and practical. You will walk away with an energy management plan that is certain to fuel sustainable high performance and well-being for yourself as a leader and for the teams and groups that you lead.

Instructors:
Betsy Erwin, Senior Associate Director, Faculty Associate, Co-Director Engaged Learning and Innovation, Center for Positive Organizations

Monica Worline, Faculty Director of Engaged Learning and Innovation, Center for Positive Organizations

Open to all University of Michigan students. Free registration required.

For information about all of the Thriving Accelerator workshops being offered, visit: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/learning-programs/thriving-accelerator/

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 Feb 2023 21:42:03 -0500 2023-03-16T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-16T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Workshop / Seminar Human Performance Accelerator
Positive Links Speaker Series (March 23, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98666 98666-21797046@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Jamil Zaki
Thursday, March 23, 2023
2:00 - 3:00 p.m. ET
Free, registration required to obtain login information

Event link:
https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/the-war-for-kindness-building-empathy-in-a-fractured-world/

Positive Links:
The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical science-based strategies to build and bolster thriving organizations. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

About the talk:
Empathy is in short supply. We struggle to understand people who aren’t like us. Studies show that we are less caring than we were even thirty years ago. In 2006, Barack Obama said that the United States was suffering from an “empathy deficit.” Since then, things seem to have only become worse—but it doesn’t have to be this way.

Join us for a virtual fireside chat with Stanford University Professor Jamil Zaki as he discusses his groundbreaking book, The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World, with host Ethan Kross. You’ll learn about Zaki’s cutting-edge research, including experiments from his lab, showing that empathy is not a fixed trait—something we’re born with or not—but rather a skill that can be strengthened through effort. Zaki will share stories of people who embody this new perspective, fighting for kindness in the most difficult of circumstances. And you will learn ways to work on and build your own empathy—the same way you’d strengthen a muscle.

About Zaki:
Jamil Zaki is a tenured associate professor of psychology at Stanford University. His research spans a number of domains, including social influence, prosocial behavior, and especially empathy (see Stanford Social Neuroscience Laboratory for details). He has pioneered a new perspective on empathy as a learnable skill, and much of his work focuses on training individuals, groups, and organizations to empathize more effectively.

Dr. Zaki received his BA in cognitive neuroscience from Boston University and his PhD in psychology from Columbia University and conducted postdoctoral research at the Harvard Center for Brain Science. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed articles and received research and teaching awards from the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, the Society for Neuroscience, the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, Harvard University, and Stanford University. In 2019 he was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the U.S. Government’s highest honor for researchers at his career stage.

In addition to his academic work, Dr. Zaki is active in outreach and public communication of science. He has written for outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, and The New Yorker. In 2019, he published his first book, The War for Kindness, which NPR called a “wide-ranging, practical guide to making the world better.”

Host:
Ethan Kross, Faculty Associate, Center for Positive Organizations; Professor of Psychology and Management & Organizations, University of Michigan

Series Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2022-23 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Series Promotional Partners:
Additionally, we thank Ann Arbor SPARK and the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the Academy of Management for their Positive Links Speaker Series promotional partnerships.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 10 Mar 2023 16:36:46 -0500 2023-03-23T14:00:00-04:00 2023-03-23T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Livestream / Virtual Jamil Zaki
Purpose Accelerator (April 6, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102336 102336-21803883@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 6, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

About the Thriving Accelerator Workshops:
A Thriving Accelerator is an immersive workshop from the Center for Positive Organizations about a topic in the science of thriving. After completing a workshop, students will be able to immediately implement their learnings to create lasting personal and organizational impact.

Workshop description:
You’ve probably heard that “knowing your why” is the heart of motivation, but perhaps accessing your why seems difficult. This is true for many of us. Join us for this accelerator where we will demystify the process of tapping into a sense of purpose and share practices that help you bring your unique why to life. Accelerate your purpose in your studies and in your work on a more regular basis with evidence-based methods that make your purpose accessible in your everyday activities. You will gain access to a reliable source of motivation that you can call on whenever you need it, and you will learn to work with others to help them tap into this source of inspiration as well. Accelerating our sense of purpose on a daily basis involves celebrating the contributions we make to a community, as well as elevating the contribution of others, so this accelerator will conclude with a fun and energizing celebration of all the people who contributed to our thriving this year.
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Instructors:
Betsy Erwin, Senior Associate Director, Faculty Associate, Co-Director Engaged Learning and Innovation, Center for Positive Organizations

Monica Worline, Faculty Director of Engaged Learning and Innovation, Center for Positive Organizations

Open to all University of Michigan students. Free registration required.

For information about all of the Thriving Accelerator workshops being offered, visit: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/learning-programs/thriving-accelerator/

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 16 Dec 2022 15:47:43 -0500 2023-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-06T17:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Workshop / Seminar Purpose Accelerator
Positive Links Speaker Series (September 12, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111587 111587-21827279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 12, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Positive Links Speaker Series: For the Culture
Marcus Collins
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
2:00 - 3:00 p.m. ET
Free, registration required to obtain login information

Event link:
https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/for-the-culture/

Positive Links:
The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical science-based strategies to build and bolster thriving organizations. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

About the talk:
There is no force more influential on human behavior than culture. What we wear, what we watch, who we marry, how we vote, what we support, what we do, and just about every aspect of daily living is informed by—and in many ways governed by—our cultural subscription. However, our understanding of culture lacks the depth necessary to fully harness its power and integrate it into our business and leadership practices, which inhibits today’s leaders from fully leveraging its sway to get people to take action. Those who understand the dynamics of culture are more likely to have influence, while those who do not are almost always influenced by those who do. Therefore, the aim of this talk is to unpack what gets us to a level of cultural understanding that can be used to drive behavioral adoption—i.e., get people to buy, get companies to innovate, get teams to become more customer-centric, get employees to adhere to a new policy, and the like—and, subsequently, drive business success for positive leaders.

Student Watch Party: Watch this streamed session together with other students for an in-person community experience followed by a structured discussion about how to put insights from Positive Links into practice. Registration for the Student Watch Party is included as an option when registering for this session of Positive Links.

About Collins:
Marcus Collins is an award-winning marketer and cultural translator. He is the former chief strategy officer at Wieden+Kennedy, New York, a marketing professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, and the author of the best-selling book, For The Culture: The Power Behind What We Buy, What We Do, and Who We Want To Be. Collins is a recipient of Advertising Age's 40 Under 40 award and an inductee into the American Advertising Federation’s Advertising Hall of Achievement. Most recently, he was recognized by Thinkers50 and Deloitte among their class of 2023 Radar List of 30 thinkers with the ideas most likely to shape the future. His strategies and creative contributions have led to the launch and success of Google’s “Real Tone” technology, the “Made In America” music festival, and the Brooklyn Nets, among others. Before his advertising tenure, Marcus worked on iTunes + Nike sport music initiatives at Apple and ran digital strategy for Beyoncé.

Host:
Monica Worline, Faculty Director of Engaged Learning and Innovation, Center for Positive Organizations

Series Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, and Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies for their support of the 2023-24 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Series Promotional Partners:
Additionally, we thank Ann Arbor SPARK and the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the Academy of Management for their Positive Links Speaker Series promotional partnerships.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 05 Sep 2023 15:57:51 -0400 2023-09-12T14:00:00-04:00 2023-09-12T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Livestream / Virtual Marcus Collins
Science of Thriving Accelerator (September 19, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110967 110967-21825925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 19, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

About the Thriving Accelerator Workshops:
A Thriving Accelerator is an immersive workshop from the Center for Positive Organizations about a topic in the science of thriving. After completing a workshop, students will be able to immediately implement their learnings to create lasting personal and organizational impact.

In the Science of Thriving Accelerator, you will:
- Understand the indicators of a thriving organization (and the indicators of the opposite).
- Learn how to unlock greater potential organizationally and individually through the science of thriving.
- Discover why the science of thriving matters to you as a student – and why it is one of the most important things you can understand and implement as a business leader.

Instructor:
Sarah Kurtz McKinnon, Senior Associate Director of Engaged Learning and Innovation at the Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Open to all University of Michigan students. Free registration required.

For information about all of the Thriving Accelerator workshops being offered, visit: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/learning-programs/thriving-accelerator/

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 Aug 2023 10:32:20 -0400 2023-09-19T16:00:00-04:00 2023-09-19T17:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Workshop / Seminar Science of Thriving Accelerator
Strengths Accelerator (October 24, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110969 110969-21825928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

About the Thriving Accelerator Workshops:
A Thriving Accelerator is an immersive workshop from the Center for Positive Organizations about a topic in the science of thriving. After completing a workshop, students will be able to immediately implement their learnings to create lasting personal and organizational impact.

In the Strengths Accelerator, you will:
- Deepen your own awareness of your strengths.
- Learn how to deploy a strengths-based approach in school, recruiting, and life.
- Understand and practice how to recognize and elevate strengths in other people and within organizations.

Instructor:
Sarah Kurtz McKinnon, Senior Associate Director of Engaged Learning and Innovation at the Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Open to all University of Michigan students. Free registration required.

For information about all of the Thriving Accelerator workshops being offered, visit: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/learning-programs/thriving-accelerator/

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 Aug 2023 10:36:04 -0400 2023-10-24T16:00:00-04:00 2023-10-24T17:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Workshop / Seminar Strengths Accelerator
Positive Links Speaker Series (October 30, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111597 111597-21827296@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 30, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Positive Links Speaker Series: Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides
Geoffrey Cohen
Monday, October 30, 2023
2:00 - 3:00 p.m. ET
Free, registration required to obtain login information

Event link:
https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/belonging-the-science-of-creating-connection-and-bridging-divides/

Positive Links:
The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical science-based strategies to build and bolster thriving organizations. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

About the talk:
We live in enormously polarized times. From politics to race, religion, gender, and class, division runs rampant. In 2020, 40 percent of each political party said that supporters of the opposing party were “downright evil.” In 2019, hate crimes reached a ten-year high in the United States. One in five Americans suffers from chronic loneliness. How did we become so alienated? Why is our sense of belonging so undermined?

Join Geoffrey Cohen, author of Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides, in a fireside chat with Ethan Kross to learn science-backed techniques for navigating modern social life that can help us overcome our differences, create empathy, and forge lasting connections even across divides. Geoffrey will share useful takeaways for managers and educators of all stripes to create connection – even during challenging times – and improve daily life at work, in school, in our homes, and in our communities. Learn how belonging can help those around you thrive.

Student Watch Party: Watch this streamed session together with other students for an in-person community experience followed by a structured discussion about how to put insights from Positive Links into practice. Registration for the Student Watch Party is included as an option when registering for this session of Positive Links.

About Cohen:
Geoffrey L. Cohen is a Professor of Psychology and the James G. March Professor of Organizational Studies in Education and Business at Stanford University. He is a social psychologist by training and received his PhD at Stanford and his BA at Cornell.

Professor Cohen’s research examines the processes that shape people’s sense of belonging and self-concept and the role that these processes play in various social problems. He has studied the big and small threats to belonging and self-integrity that people encounter in school, work, healthcare settings, politics, communities, and relationships. He and others have developed concrete, science-backed strategies to create more welcoming spaces for people from all walks of life. He believes that the development of psychological theory depends not just on descriptive and observational research but on theory-driven intervention. He has long been inspired by Kurt Lewin’s quip, “The best way to understand something is to try to change it.”

Host:
Ethan Kross, Faculty Associate, Center for Positive Organizations; Professor of Psychology and Management & Organizations, University of Michigan

Series Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, and Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies for their support of the 2023-24 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Series Promotional Partners:
Additionally, we thank Ann Arbor SPARK and the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the Academy of Management for their Positive Links Speaker Series promotional partnerships.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 08 Sep 2023 13:55:16 -0400 2023-10-30T14:00:00-04:00 2023-10-30T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Livestream / Virtual Geoffrey Cohen
Relationship Accelerator (November 8, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110971 110971-21825942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

About the Thriving Accelerator Workshops:
A Thriving Accelerator is an immersive workshop from the Center for Positive Organizations about a topic in the science of thriving. After completing a workshop, students will be able to immediately implement their learnings to create lasting personal and organizational impact.

In the Relationship Accelerator, you will:
- Gain a foundation for new ways of seeing, understanding, and acting to build connections with others.
- Learn to take stock of your relational landscape and become more skillful and intentional in its navigation.
- Leave with new practices to help you tap into wellsprings of capability, strength, and resilience.

Instructor:
Sarah Kurtz McKinnon, Senior Associate Director of Engaged Learning and Innovation at the Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Open to all University of Michigan students. Free registration required.

For information about all of the Thriving Accelerator workshops being offered, visit: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/learning-programs/thriving-accelerator/

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Sep 2023 11:26:57 -0400 2023-11-08T16:00:00-05:00 2023-11-08T17:30:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Workshop / Seminar Relationship Accelerator
Positive Links Speaker Series (November 16, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113452 113452-21831028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Positive Links Speaker Series: Where Does DEI go from Here?
Laura Morgan Roberts
Thursday, November 16, 2023
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. ET

Event link: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/where-does-dei-go-from-here/

Positive Links:
The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical science-based strategies to build and bolster thriving organizations. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

About the talk:
Join us in conversation with one of the world’s most renowned voices bringing a positive organizational scholarship lens to topics of diversity, equity, and inclusion at work. Dr. Laura Morgan Roberts will discuss the headwinds slowing diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives amid an uncertain economy and efforts to dismantle diversity programs through court rulings and legislation. Laura emphasizes that leaders will benefit from a focus on an overarching goal, that of creating four freedoms that are central to creating conditions necessary for all workers to flourish. Laura will share how to foster these four freedoms at work – the freedom to be, the freedom to become, the freedom to fade, and the freedom to fail – and how doing so can make organizations more welcoming and safer for everyone. Laura will share practical and powerful approaches, including encouraging individual allyship, implementing strengths-based development programs, and enabling flexible work, and how these approaches can more evenly distribute these four freedoms, reducing rates of disengagement and burnout, especially for those in marginalized groups.

Student Watch Party: Watch this streamed session together with other students for an in-person community experience followed by a structured discussion about how to put insights from Positive Links into practice. Registration for the Student Watch Party is included as an option when registering for this session of Positive Links.

To jump-start learning for this Positive Links session, read the Harvard Business Review article “Where Does DEI go from Here?” authored by Laura Morgan Roberts.

About Roberts:
Laura Morgan Roberts, PhD, is the founder of The Alignment Quest Enterprise LLC and Frank M. Sands Sr. Associate Professor of Business Administration (with tenure) at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. With family roots in Gary, Indiana and Washington, DC, Laura earned a BA in Psychology (highest distinction & Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of Virginia, and an MA and PhD in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan. She has served on the faculties of Harvard Business School, Antioch University, and Georgetown University. She has also taught courses in organizational behavior, psychology, negotiations, group dynamics, diversity, leadership, and career development as a faculty affiliate of the University of Michigan, the Wharton School of Finance, Tuck, Georgia State University, UCLA Anderson, Simmons School of Management, and AVT (Copenhagen).

Laura Morgan Roberts researches the science of maximizing human potential in diverse organizations and communities. Her work on diversity, authenticity, and leadership development has been recognized by Thinkers50 (Talent Management Top 10 Thought Leader); LinkedIn (Top 10 Voice in Equity); ThinkList #Amplify; and the Academy of Management Organizational Behavior Award for Societal Impact. Laura has published research articles, teaching cases, and practitioner-oriented tools for strengths-based development, workplace equity, and inclusion. Her co-authored article, Toward a Racially Just Workplace, was featured among the top 12 articles in Harvard Business Review’s 100-year history. She has also co-edited three books: Race, Work and Leadership (2019 Axiom Business Book Award winner); Positive Organizing in a Global Society; and Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations. A frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and the Academy of Management Review, she is regularly quoted in global media outlets. Laura serves on the Boards of The Partnership, Inc., and the Descendants of Enslaved Communities at the University of Virginia.

Host:
Monica Worline, Faculty Director, Center for Positive Organizations

Series Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, and Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies for their support of the 2023-24 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Series Promotional Partners:
Additionally, we thank Ann Arbor SPARK and the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the Academy of Management for their Positive Links Speaker Series promotional partnerships.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 03 Oct 2023 15:18:22 -0400 2023-11-16T13:00:00-05:00 2023-11-16T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Livestream / Virtual Laura Morgan Roberts
Generosity Accelerator (December 5, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110972 110972-21825944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 5, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

About the Thriving Accelerator Workshops:
A Thriving Accelerator is an immersive workshop from the Center for Positive Organizations about a topic in the science of thriving. After completing a workshop, students will be able to immediately implement their learnings to create lasting personal and organizational impact.

In the Generosity Accelerator, you will:
- Learn proven tools that will help you and your teams accelerate the flow of resources.
- Understand the foundational pieces needed to build a culture of generosity within your organization.
- Increase your personal, professional, and organizational connections, performance, and well-being.

Instructor:
Sarah Kurtz McKinnon, Senior Associate Director of Engaged Learning and Innovation at the Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Open to all University of Michigan students. Free registration required.

For information about all of the Thriving Accelerator workshops being offered, visit: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/learning-programs/thriving-accelerator/

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 Aug 2023 10:40:59 -0400 2023-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 2023-12-05T17:30:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Workshop / Seminar Generosity Accelerator
Positive Links Speaker Series (January 22, 2024 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111599 111599-21827298@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 22, 2024 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Positive Links Speaker Series: The Prepared Leader: Emerge from Any Crisis More Resilient Than Before
Erika H. James & Lynn Perry Wooten
Monday, January 22, 2024
2:00 - 3:00 p.m. ET
Free, registration required to obtain login information

Event link:
https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/the-prepared-leader-emerge-from-any-crisis-more-resilient-than-before/

Positive Links:
The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical science-based strategies to build and bolster thriving organizations. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

About the talk:
The next crisis might be here now, or it might be around the corner. In no other time in recent history have leaders in every industry and on every continent grappled with so many changes that have independently and simultaneously undermined their ability to lead.

Join Erika H. James and Lynn Perry Wooten for a virtual fireside chat with Gretchen Spreitzer where they bring decades of world-renowned research on crisis leadership, diversity and inclusion, management strategy, and positive leadership to the table to help leaders better prepare themselves to lead through crises―and for whatever lies around the corner. They’ll discuss tools and frameworks from their book, The Prepared Leader: Emerge from Any Crisis More Resilient Than Before, for addressing and learning from crises so you can navigate through the distinct challenges of today and tomorrow. James and Wooten forcefully argue that the time to prepare is always.

Student Watch Party: Watch this streamed session together with other students for an in-person community experience followed by a structured discussion about how to put insights from Positive Links into practice. Registration for the Student Watch Party is included as an option when registering for this session of Positive Links.

About James:
Erika H. James became the dean of the Wharton School on July 1, 2020. Trained as an organizational psychologist, James is an expert on crisis leadership, workplace diversity and management strategy. Prior to her appointment at Wharton, James was the John H. Harland Dean at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School from 2014 to 2020. An award-winning educator, accomplished consultant, and researcher, she is the first woman and first person of color to be appointed dean in Wharton’s 141-year history. As such she has paved the way for women in leadership both in education and corporate America.

James has been instrumental in developing course material in crisis leadership and women’s leadership and in leading programs for executive audiences in these areas. She earned her BA from Pomona College and her PhD from the University of Michigan. James serves on the boards of Morgan Stanley, Momentive and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

About Wooten:
Lynn Perry Wooten, a seasoned academic and an expert on organizational development and transformation, is the ninth president of Simmons University and the first African American to lead the institution. Before coming to Simmons, she served as the David J. Nolan Dean and Professor of Management and Organizations at the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. Prior to that, she served on the faculty of the University of Michigan Ross School of Business for nearly 20 years.

Specializing in crisis leadership, diversity and inclusion, and positive leadership, Wooten is an innovative leader, presenter, and prolific author. Wooten holds a bachelor’s degree from North Carolina A&T State University, where she was valedictorian; an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business; and a doctorate from the University of Michigan. A resident of Brookline, Massachusetts, Wooten is actively involved in the Boston philanthropic and civic community.

Host:
Gretchen Spreitzer, Faculty Advisory Board, Center for Positive Organizations; Associate Dean for Engaged Learning and Professional Development, and Keith E. and Valerie J. Alessi Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Management and Organizations, University of Michigan

Positive Links Speaker Series Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, and Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies for their support of the 2023-24 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Positive Links Series Promotional Partners:
Additionally, we thank Ann Arbor SPARK and the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the Academy of Management for their Positive Links Speaker Series promotional partnerships.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 05 Sep 2023 15:57:08 -0400 2024-01-22T14:00:00-05:00 2024-01-22T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Livestream / Virtual Erika H. James and Lynn Perry Wooten