Driving DEI Action in the Workplace - Everyone Has a Role to Play

Join the Smith community for the next Smith Alumni Chapter Board Unlocking Experiences Event: Driving DEI in the Workplace. Alumni panelists will share meaningful actions that helped move DEI efforts in their organizations. Learn about their roles in helping to support and change the DEI culture at work and the importance of getting others involved to support those efforts.

Grab your lunch and get ready to listen! The Smith Analytics Consortium is pleased to invite you to the first-ever Alumni Lunch & Learn on February 12, 2021, from Noon to 1 p.m. Our first speaker is Athena Abbott who is the director of pharma data product strategy & customer success at CVS Health.

Committed to creating an innovative team? Want to learn why your (or your team’s) creative ideas seem to go nowhere? Ready to learn about the roadblocks to innovation?

Join Maryland Smith professor Vijaya Venkataramani, associate professor of management & organization, as she discusses her research about creativity in the workplace. This interactive discussion will include a short presentation followed by time for participants to ask questions.

Join the Smith alumni community for a webinar designed to help with your financial goals for 2021. The webinar will cover how to plan and achieve your financial goals in 2021 and provide attendees with important financial updates and tips for the New Year. Information will be presented for alumni at all career levels. The discussion will feature Smith alumni Ben Offit '09 and May Jiang '12 of Offit Advisors.

Speaker Bios

How do you define being an ally, partner, accomplice or co-conspirator? Join the Smith community to learn more about what it means to show up as an ally.

Smith alumni panelists will share examples of effective and ineffective forms of allyship at work. Moderated by Jeanette Snider, Ph.D., associate director of undergraduate programs, this open discussion will provide steps on how to navigate moments where you can show up in the workplace for your team and colleagues.

Alumni Panel