A free event to explore how to evolve in our roles to gain the skills needed in the future of work and how to have a mindful exit when leaving our roles.

How do we create an environment where DEI talent can evolve and grow in their role? What are the skills needed in the future of work (FoW)? How do we secure the social, financial and skill capitol before exiting our role? How do we mindfully fire/lay off talent? How do we reframe our exit story?

More info to come!

Want to get involved or have a question? Contact Sarah here:

[email protected]

www.turningbasinlabs.com

We are grateful to our event sponsors - Contact us if you'd like to sponsor the event.

Learn more about our past events here.

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A free event to explore how to motivate and engage top talent.

Turnover is expensive. How do we engage, motivate and ultimately retain DEI talent? How can we empower talent to have the agency to create an innovate? How do we connect talent to purpose? How do we create a culture of feedback and accountability?

More info to come!

Want to get involved or have a question? Contact Sarah here:

[email protected]

www.turningbasinlabs.com

We are grateful to our event sponsors - Contact us if you'd like to sponsor the event.

Learn more about our past events here.

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An event to explore how to build the most effective Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).

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Who We Are

Turning Basin Labs is a cooperative staffing agency owned and operated by workers. Our vision is to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace by placing fair chance and diverse workers in high road jobs. Part of how we will achieve that is through hosting monthly events based on the recruitment journey and explore how to improve DEI efforts throughout.

We are excited to partner with Stride Health for this event. Stride helps people working for themselves save money and time on insurance and taxes. Providing simple, fast and affordable coverage and support.

About This Event

Our last events focused on attracting, recruiting and onboarding diverse talent. Once we have hired talent, how do we shape the culture to support them? How can we create the psychological safety needed to navigate discrimination and office politics? This event aims to bring together employers, funders, and workers to explore how to build the most effective allyship ERGs.

Event Structure

The structure of the event will include lightning talks to frame the discussion and then we will move into a world cafe where we break into small groups and discuss various subtopics around building ERGs.

Speakers

Caroline Hou is the Member Experience Lead at Stride.

Stoddard Meigs is a Data Analyst at Stride.

Together they have built out many DEI initiatives at Stride including a DEI playbook, an allyship ERG and they run the Diversity and Inclusion Organizers community where they support diversity advocates within startups to bring their DEI initiatives to life. Caroline and Stoddard will walk through best practices around building allyship ERGs in the workplace.

Samantha Harmon is the Cofounder of qb. consulting, a purpose-driven strategy and communications firm, delivering a fresh perspective on ESG strategy and reporting for Fortune 500 companies, brands and nonprofits. They envision a world where all organizations prioritize inclusive, diverse communities and invest in climate resilience. Samantha will bring her perspective around what she sees within organizations when supporting them to build their ERGs and other DEI initiatives.

World Cafe Topics:

How to start and enroll people into ERGs

What programming and initiatives to consider for ERGs

How to measure the ERG impact

How to institutionalize ERGs

Each session will be ~15-20 minutes and will be supported by a moderator.

You will leave with resources and tools to create ERGs in your organization.

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Schedule

Session 1: Welcome - 4:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Session 2: Lightning Talks 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM

Session 3: World Cafe 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Session 4: Regroup & Summarize 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Session 5: Snacks & Networking 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Want to get involved or have a question? Contact Sarah here:

[email protected]

www.turningbasinlabs.com

We are grateful to our event sponsors - Contact us if you'd like to sponsor the event.

Learn more about our past events here.

Stay up to date: Join our online community!

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A free event to explore how to level the playing field and provide the extra support needed for previously incarcerated talent to succeed once placed in their role.

More info to come!

Want to get involved or have a question? Contact Sarah here:

[email protected]

www.turningbasinlabs.com

We are grateful to our event sponsors - Contact us if you'd like to sponsor the event.

Learn more about our past events here.

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A free event exploring what it means to have progressive recruiting habits including featured hiring organizations that value DEI.

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Who We Are

Turning Basin Labs is a cooperative staffing agency owned and operated by workers. Our vision is to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace by placing fair chance and diverse workers in high road jobs. Part of how we will achieve our vision is through hosting monthly events where we will explore how to improve DEI throughout the recruitment journey and connect workers and employers committed to DEI.

About This Event

This event will explore what it means to have progressive recruiting habits and highlight employers who do so through a reverse job fair. We are looking to partner with Oakland/Bay Area based organizations committed to workforce development, supporting their local community and economy, and DEI. We hope to bring awareness to the broader job seekers in Oakland/Bay Area of these purpose-driven organizations and their initiatives to better serve the community and their employees.

Event Structure

The structure of the event will include lightning talks from the employers and then we will move into a world cafe where we break into small groups and discuss various subtopics around progressive recruiting habits and how to support job seekers in navigating the recruitment journey within tech. Finally, we will end with networking and a job fair where organizations will have recruitment tables and a chance to get to know workers better.

Speakers

This is a “reverse” job fair because organizations will pitch their company to job seekers. Employers will focus on the impact they’ve made on the community, the initiatives they run to intentionally build inclusive workplace culture and any other relevant initiatives around their commitment to workforce development. Success stories, learnings, and toolkits to support them in living out their values are all welcomed here.

World Cafe Topics:

• What are the current hurdles that the Oakland/bay area community face when considering a tech job? How can we breakdown these barriers? 

• What are real ways companies are minimizing unconscious bias in the recruitment cycle and creating more inclusive recruiting habits?

• How can we reduce the wage gap and ensure growth opportunities within the organization?

Each session will be ~15-20 minutes and will be supported by a moderator.

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Schedule

Session 1: Welcome - 4:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Session 2: Employer Lightning Talks 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM

Session 3: World Cafe 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Session 4: Regroup & Summarize 6:10 PM - 6:30 PM

Session 5: Job Fair and Snacks 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Location Details TBD

The event will be hosted at one of our employer partners.

Want to get involved or have a question? Contact Sarah here:

[email protected]

www.turningbasinlabs.com

We are grateful to our event sponsors - Contact us if you'd like to sponsor the event.

Learn more about our past events here.

Stay up to date: Join our online community!

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A FREE VIRTUAL EVENT TO EXPLORE HOW TO GET MORE WOMEN INTO YOUR TALENT PIPELINE.

Who We Are

Turning Basin Labs is a cooperative staffing agency owned and operated by workers. Our vision is to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace by placing fair chance and diverse workers in high road jobs. Part of how we will achieve that is through hosting monthly events based on the recruitment journey and explore how to improve DEI efforts throughout.

We are excited to partner with the Diversity and Inclusion Organizers community for this event.

About This Event

Our last event focused on building an inclusive brand (and therefore culture) to attract diverse talent. Once talent has discovered your organization, how do we connect to talent and get them into roles? In honor of Women’s History Month last month, this event aims to bring together employers, funders, and female workers to explore how to strengthen the hiring pipeline with women.

Event Structure

The structure of the event will include lightning talks to frame the discussion and then we will move into a world cafe where we break into small groups and discuss various subtopics around sourcing female talent.

World Cafe Topics:

Engaging women in previously male dominated roles.

Addressing the gender wage gap.

Supporting women into leadership positions.

How the intersection of motherhood affects hiring women and supporting them in their roles.

Each session will be ~15-20 minutes and will be supported by a moderator.

You will leave with resources and tolls for workers and employers to help hire more women and support them in their roles.

Speakers

Paria Rajai is the Founder and CEO of ModelExpand who helps companies attract and recruit talent from underrepresented backgrounds. She will bring her perspective around employer branding and diversity recruiting. ModelExpand focuses heavily on top of funnel and has run Diversity Recruiting Bootcamps for companies such as Lyft, Twitch, and Coinbase. She has been featured in Forbes as a leader in diversity, tech and recruiting.

Ann Wenzell serves as a Managing Director of Blueprint Search Partners, a boutique research, recruiting, and executive search firm with a focus on building diverse workplaces for companies of all sizes.  Ann brings her perspective as an advocate for placing women as an underrepresented and undervalued group, especially at the executive level, in organizations both locally and across the globe. 

Cherlyn Medina is a Senior Independent Contractor in program management. She helps clients like Facebook, Salesforce, and Uber develop strategies and processes behind large-scale marketing campaigns and product launches. She will be speaking from the perspective of a female worker currently in the system, navigating the complex culture of Silicon Valley, and thriving as a contractor.

Kim Morris is a Recruiting Consultant for Wells Fargo with 9 years in the banking industry. She developed a passion for recruiting, hiring, and retaining great talent after serving in service and branch management roles. She brings her perspective around talent strategies and initiatives across multiple regions within a large organization like Wells Fargo.

Schedule

Session 1: Welcome - 4:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Session 2: Lightning Talks 4:45 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 3: World Cafe 5:15 PM - 6:15 PM

Session 4: Regroup & Summarize 6:15 PM - 6:30 PM

Location Details

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Want to get involved or have a question? Contact Sarah here:

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We are grateful to our event sponsors - Contact us if you'd like to sponsor the event.

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A roundtable uncovering how to authentically build DEI into the workplace to create an inclusive brand and attract and retain DEI talent.

About this Event

Turning Basin Labs is a cooperative staffing agency committed to building business value by placing workers at employers that are committed to building sustainable and inclusive workplaces.

Each month we are hosting an event following the recruitment journey and exploring how to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts throughout.

The first step of the recruitment journey starts with talent discovering your organization. In our transparent marketplace, the internal culture of your organization is your external brand. In order to attract diverse talent, you must create an inclusive culture and therefore, an inclusive brand. Our featured Black History Month event aims to bring together employers, funders, and workers to explore what it means to create an inclusive brand and how to do it right.

This month's event partner Think Human will bring their perspective around their experience helping organizations create inclusive brands. Think Human is a workplace culture consulting company that's purpose is to unleash the soul of businesses through expert coaching and training.

The structure of the event will be a roundtable format. We want to be sure to highlight worker experience and perspective as well as employer success stories around their DEI initiatives. We will provide resources and skills that employers can implement tomorrow to help build inclusive brands that will support the growth of your organization.

The event will be hosted at Oakstop, a place-based enterprise, offering affordable workspace, event space, and arts programming to catalyze collaboration, professional development, and economic sustainability for creative entrepreneurs and small local businesses.

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Want to get involved or have a question? Contact Sarah here:

[email protected]

www.turningbasinlabs.com

We are grateful to our event sponsors - Contact us if you'd like to sponsor the event.

Learn more about our past events here.

Stay up to date: Join our online community!

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A roundtable to explore the challenges and possible solutions to tackling wage disparity in the Bay Area.

About this Event

Hosted by Turning Basin Labs in Oakland and as part of our monthly event series addressing DEI in the workplace, we are hosting a wage disparity roundtable in collaboration with 81cents at our Oakstop office over on 17 and Broadway. This will be an intimate event including up to ~12 workers and 12 employers where workers are the experts in the room, sharing their direct experience around the wage gap.

Our goal is to walk away feeling supported, resourced and with real solutions that we can implement at our workplaces to address wage gap disparity. Breakfast included! In an attempt to maintain intimacy, there are limited spaces available.

Turning Basin Labs is a staffing cooperative with a vision to increase fair chance employment for temporary and full time employees within the service, manufacturing and tech industries. Our work and the conversation will focus on Tech, Manufacturing and Service/Office based work and some useful reading is below:

- American Assoc. of University Women's The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap Report - Recent, short, easy-to-digest; all of their data is sourced

- Payscale's The State of the Pay Gap Report - Easy to read. However, it's worth noting that their data is self-reported and not necessarily verified.

- Forbes piece on the intersection of Race and the Pay Gap - Invisibility of Race In Gender Pay Gap Discussions Forbes

We look forward to meeting you!

Breakfast will be provided.

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An immersive event to authentically build DEI into the workplace – hear from employers, workers, and workforce funders.

About this Event

Turning Basin Labs is a cooperative staffing agency committed to building business value by placing workers at employers that are committed to building sustainable and inclusive workplaces.

Turning Basin Labs, Workologie and Checkr welcome you to this event that brings together employers, funders, and workers to explore what it means to be an ally for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace. Employers and workers will engage in an innovative three-part event that (1)identifies best practices to support allyship and DEI in the workplace, (2)engages attendees and the public in a reflective panel discussion on DEI at work, and (3) connect employers to local candidates through a reverse job fair – all surrounded and supported by good food, music, and fun. An overview of the day is below and a detailed agenda can be found here.

Our panel speakers and contributors on the day will include:

Rehana Lerandeau - Checkr - Speaking from the perspective of an employer and what Checkr is doing in this space to drive "fair chance" hiring.

Cherlyn Medina - Senior Independent Contractor - Speaking from the perspective of a worker currently in the system, and thriving as a contractor.

Sabrina Mutukisna - Workologie - Speaking from the perspective of developing materials, tools, and techniques to support organising in the workplace.

Salem Kimble - Change Catalyst - Speaking from the perspective of setting the scene in terms of where DEI, fair chance and Allyship is today, and helping to frame where we want to get with this agenda.

Rob Hope - San Francisco Foundation - Speaking about the role of funders and the workforce system in pushing an inclusive agenda through philanthropy.

John Austin - Autodesk - Speaking about what Autodesk is pursuing to diversify the talent and education systems that use its software.

Stephen Bediako - Turning Basin Labs - Speaking about the role that offering benefits and cooperative ownership can make to better DEI in the workplace.

With up to 15 employers in the room alongside workers and other partners and local stakeholders, this will be a practical and outcome focused event.

The agenda is as follows:

3pm to 3.30pm - Welcome and introductions

3.30pm to 4.30pm (including break) - Separate workshops on allyship for Employers and Workers - Chaired by JP and Sabrina

4.30pm to 5.30pm - Panel discussion - What does it mean to do DEI work well? Chaired by Stephen

5.30pm to 6.30pm - Reverse Job Fair / Networking

6.30pm - Close

For a detailed flow for the event please have a look here and for more information please contact Stephen Bediako:

[email protected]

+1 415 359 5590

www.turningbasinlabs.com

We are grateful to our event sponsors - the wonderful team at Checkr - https://checkr.com