Queen City Certified Launches 'Elevating Equity' Speaker Series With Best-Selling Author on Inclusion

Queen City Certified Launches ‘Elevating Equity’ Speaker Series With Best-Selling Author on Inclusion

Queen City Certified — the nation’s first data-informed employer certification and cohort-based leadership program for promoting gender and racial equity — has announced “Elevating Equity,” a series featuring thought leaders on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Dr. Stefanie K. Johnson, author of Inclusify: The Power of Uniqueness and Belonging to Build Innovative Teams, will share practical strategies for leaders to mitigate unconscious bias and develop more cohesive teams. An associate professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, her work has been featured in The WSJ, Forbes, The Economist, Newsweek, Time, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, CNN, ABC, NBC, and The Harvard Business Review.

“There is little doubt that diversity and inclusion in the workplace enhance engagement, innovation, decision-making, and performance. Studies show that inclusive teams are more productive, developing more creative and innovative solutions that drive value,” according to Dr. Johnson. “I’m excited to join Queen City Certified’s community to facilitate this very important conversation.”

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About the Author: DrStefanieKJohnson

Dr. Stefanie K. Johnson is an Associate Professor of Management at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a Ph.D. from Rice University and is particularly interested in the effects of unconscious biases in the evaluation of women and minorities, with the goal of finding ways to mitigate those biases. Dr. Johnson brings bias to light with an engaging and humorous approach to advanced scientific research, which has earned her numerous accolades and invitations to present her work at meetings around the world, including the White House for a 2016 summit on diversity in corporate America on National Equal Pay Day, and the 2016 Harvard Negotiation and Leadership Conference. She has published over 70 journal articles and book chapters in outlets such as Harvard Business Review, Journal of Applied Psychology and The Academy of Management Journal. She has extensive consulting experience and has created and delivered leadership-development training with an emphasis on evidence-based practice. In recognition of her unique research, Dr. Johnson has been awarded nearly three million dollars in external funding to study leadership and create leadership development programs aimed at increasing safety. Media outlets featuring her work include: The Economist, Newsweek, Time, and CNN. Stefanie lives in the Boulder Bubble in Colorado with her Biology Professor husband, two young kiddos, and two old kitties.