Taking Action! 5 Steps to Improving Your Diversity Hiring Strategy
Presented by:
John Coffee IV, MBA
This program is pre-approved for 1 SHRM PDC & HRCI Business Credit
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion within an organization has never been more important or relevant than in today's environment. In fact, studies show that companies with a strong, diversified workforce tend to perform better, generate more revenue and are often perceived more amicably by the public than their competitors! Assuring you have a strong diversity hiring strategy is mission critical to supporting a company's success. And let's be honest, tackling this topic as an HR professional can seem both daunting and overwhelming to achieve meaningful results as you navigate through organizational red tape and find yourself challenged with broad and unreachable goals. In this training, our goal is to provide you with 5 tangible steps to take action and immediately improve your diversity hiring strategy today! This program will provide the tools to develop a foundational blueprint for successful and sustainable diversity hiring.
Presentation Learning Objectives:
Learning Objective #1 Audit Your Current Diversity Hiring Process
Learning Objective #2 Pick One Metric to Improve Your Diversity Hiring Strategy
Learning Objective #3 Enhance Your Diversity Sourcing Strategy
Learning Objective #4 Promote Inclusiveness In Your Screening Process
Learning Objective #5 Measure Your Success and Strive For Continued Improvement
John Coffee IV, MBA: As HRG’s Director of Talent Acquisition & Technology, John brings over 14 years of experience in the talent industry with specialties ranging from: In-House Talent Acquisition, Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), staffing, recruitment technology deployment, and vendor management (MSP) in the recruiting space. He is responsible for managing the recruiting needs of HRG’s existing client portfolio, developing new recruiting relationships, and overseeing recruitment technology evaluation, implementation and deployment initiatives. Prior to HRG, John achieved success as an Implementation Leader and as a Senior Talent Acquisition Business Partner for over 7 years with ManpowerGroup, driving talent acquisition initiatives across multiple lines of business from mid-level to C- suite throughout the US, Canada, Mexico and other global markets.
John’s previous experience includes onsite staffing, leading a team of direct reports in recruiting and sustaining a workforce of up to 1000+ contingent employees in a staffing environment as well as oversight of targeted, niche searches servicing a variety of Fortune 50-500 companies across the US.
John takes pride in his ability to optimize technology and provide insight into market and competitive intelligence in the recruiting space. He has deep exposure working across a wide range of HRIS, ATS and VMS tools within the recruitment space. He is relentless in his pursuit to enhance ROI on talent investment and has dedicated his career to finding the right people, for the right job!
John holds an AACSB accredited MBA from Ohio University. He also holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Kent State University with a dual focus in Marketing and International Relations.

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