Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Certificate Course – Week 2: Communicating DE&I

Kim Clark is an affiliate consultant with Ragan Consulting Group and specializes in diversity and inclusion communications, culture, and employee communications. She leads the Conscious Communications group on LinkedIn and you can find her on Twitter @KimClark1. Kim has long focused on messaging, audiences and how communications shape people's experience. Since entering corporate cultures at KLA-Tencor, PayPal, NetApp and GoDaddy, she has used various channels to engage employees and facilitate transparency and trust in organizations. At GoDaddy, she built an infrastructure and internal communications strategy from scratch and moved the needle 13 points in trust in just six months as measured by its annual engagement survey.

Janet Stovall is a Senior Client Strategist at NeuroLeadership Institute (NLI), where she helps companies replace subjectivity with science to evolve diversity, equity and inclusion practices to be more brain-friendly, more human—and more effective. Her career evolved from a technical systems analyst role at Morgan Stanley into various corporate and agency marketing and public relations roles, including founding her own firm. Her most recent position was speechwriter for the CEO and senior leadership of UPS, one of the world’s largest shipping and logistics companies, with more than 500,000 employees globally. She is one the few Black speechwriters to have worked at the C-level in the Fortune 500. She also led UPS’s diversity, equity and inclusion communications, writing and producing an award-winning video, The Power of Difference, writing award-winning executive speeches, and serving as a founding member of the UPS Equity, Justice & Action Task Force. Her TED talk challenging business to get serious about inclusion has nearly 2 million views.

Na Eng is a social impact executive and Emmy Award-winning storyteller As Chief Communications Officer for People For the American Way, she oversees teams with a portfolio that includes research, creative content production, media relations, and digital organizing. Previously, Na directed external affairs for the McKnight Foundation. Under her leadership, the Foundation advanced its thought leadership in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), and she led board-staff work groups to revise its strategic framework and cast a vision to transform the foundation's policies and practices on DEI. Na refined her instinct for storytelling over two decades as a journalist in New York City. Producing for PBS and CNBC, she traveled the globe to translate complex economic trends and social issues into understandable human narratives. She is a graduate of Columbia University.