PCMA Ascent
Promoting Inclusion & Diversity in the Business Events Industry
- Ascent is an initiative by PCMA to promote inclusion and diversity across the business events industry.
- Ascent seeks to empower those who might have found their gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, or disabilities to have created unfair barriers to their success in our industry.
- Ascent strives to motivate and to educate decision-makers on the business case and best practices for inclusive workplaces and events.
- We believe that greater inclusion across the industry will foster new voices to strengthen our leadership, our businesses, and our world.
- By working together toward inclusion and diversity within our workplaces and at the events we produce, we will enact meaningful social change.
- Our CEO Promise has been signed by over 100 industry leaders. Add your name.
ASCENT RESOURCES
ON-DEMAND SESSIONS & WEBINARS
Through meetings and events, we are always striving to include as many different perspectives as we can to expand our education and satisfy our audiences. With the industry growing throughout the years and perspectives differing per generation, how do we expect everyone to open their minds and possibly shift their ...
Ascent Webinar: In Need of a Change: Understanding Perspectives to Lead
Length:
01:01:26
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1.0
Risha Grant talks about Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion through the lens of humanity using terms like BS or Bias Synapse as a way to explain our brain's involvement in the processing and validation of bias ...
Ascent Webinar: Unconscious Bias: Get Rid of the BS
Length:
00:56:18
Clock Hours:
1.0
As we navigate these unprecedented social, economic and political times in America, many members of the HR and Diversity & Inclusion space are getting similar questions from leaders and professionals wondering - What should we be doing? How can we become more informed and aware? How can we better support ...
Webinar: Realistic Steps for Building a Diverse and Inclusive Workplace
Length:
01:01:48
Clock Hours:
1.0
LGBTQ+ business events attendees can still face challenges despite the best inclusion efforts of events organizers. In this session, we’ll take a closer look at the LGBTQ+ audience and how efforts including gender-neutral language and bathrooms can make all business events participants feel welcome ...
Welcoming Diverse Travelers with More Inclusive Events
Length:
00:57:52
Clock Hours:
1
The method by which we engage with employers and employees has fundamentally changed and at the root is organizational culture. Join New York times best-selling author, Lindsey Pollak, as she delves into millennial and gen z trends and expectations that can strategically support your organizational strategy ...
Webinar: Creating Tomorrow’s Leaders: How to Attract, Retain and Engage Millennial and Gen Z Talent
Length:
00:55:51
Clock Hours:
1.0
Organizers want everyone to feel welcome at their events, but LGBTQ+ attendees face challenges that are often not understood or even addressed by the industry. In this webinar, we’ll take a closer look at the who LGBTQ+ attendees are and how their experience can inform a more inclusive welcome for ...
Webinar: Welcoming Diverse Travelers with More Inclusive Events
Length:
01:07:20
Clock Hours:
1.0
The Ascent CEO Promise
ASCENT STORIES
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PASS THE MIC
Looking to make your next business event more diverse, inclusive, and welcoming? There’s no better place to start than with your speakers. We’ve hand-picked a few who may fly under the radar in the speaker circuit but raise the bar in making events more diverse — and way more interesting.
Courtney D. Cogburn
Assistant professor of social work at Columbia University and pioneer in the use of VR to show racism’s impact
Jodi Bondi Norgaard
Consultant, with JB Norgaard Enterprises, founder and creator Go! Go! Sports Girls
Arwa Mahdawi
Founder, president, chief hopes and dreams officer, and chief minority officer at Rent-a-Minority
ASCENT LUMINARIES
The Luminaries series is part of the PCMA Ascent initiative, which seeks to promote inclusion and diversity across the business events industry.