In this podcast you will hear from Travelers and Augsburg University about the benefits of Employer Pipeline Programs. These two partner organizations will take you through the history and structure of Travelers premiere employer pipeline program, Travelers EDGE.

Learn how EDGE is transformational in the lives of its participants and why more employer pipeline programs like this are needed in our society.

Equitable Dinners at Work are custom programs supporting your workplace commitment to advancing equity and belonging through meaningful opportunities for empathy, understanding, and a safe space to practice talking about race and other difficult topics. Based on Out of Hand Theater’s model of Art + Information + Conversation = Culture Shift ©, Equitable Dinners at Work is our solution to a common problem of embedding diversity, equity and inclusion principles in daily organizational practice and gives you skills to enact it in your context. You will leave this session with: 1) Increased understanding of how the arts can be used to activate empathy for people of diverse identities by making the lived experiences of other people appreciatively visible. 2) Increased awareness of how using the Art + Information + Conversation = Culture Shift © model supports ease in naming and discussing equity, diversity and inclusion issues in the workplace. 3) Increased understanding of how this model inspires participants toward taking positive action in alignment with your workplace commitment and their spheres of influence.

There is a compelling body of data that shows how limited access to reproductive health services will harm America's workforce and negatively impact US companies. Limits on reproductive health access also disproportionately harms marginalized communities and is therefore a worker equity issue.

Join us for a deep-dive workshop on how employers can best protect the reproductive health access of their workforce with seven key benefits. Using Gender IDEAL's Pro Repro Playbook, we'll dig into the why and how to provide these benefits, reviewing a cost/benefit calculator, the process for adding benefits, and specific platforms that have developed products to support employers' ability to safely and confidentially provide these benefits.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Understanding the business case why organizations should protect workers' reproductive health access and why it is an equity issue.

2. The seven benefits that are critical to protecting worker reproductive health and safety

3. How to price the costs and benefits of the seven benefits, and specific tools that exist to help employers provide these benefits to their workforce