Reimagining Diversity Through More Equitable Culture

OKC Design+Tech is celebrating 🌈Pride month🏳️‍🌈!

Steven Wakabayashi from QTBIPOC Design in New York will be giving a presentation on how to increase the diversity of teams in your company.

Establishing diversity within our teams starts with reevaluating our everyday creative processes. In this talk, you will learn some of the pitfalls of diversity hiring, why they haven't worked, and ways to create a more equitable creative culture that leads to more diverse thinking, innovation, and hires. He'll share some of our QTBIPOC Design organization principles and methods that have guided us in building a thriving and diverse creative team and community.

1. Encourage teams to re-examine their ways of approaching diversity in the workplace and make a radical shift in approaching everyday creative processes and culture.
2. Learn tactical solutions to can apply to internal reviews, meetings, critiques, and delivery that shifts away from perfectionism and metric-driven processes to a more mindful, equitable, and innovative model.
3. Feel re-energized to hold safe space for one another that is less judgemental and defensive, and where challenging issues can be discussed without fear of conflict.

We're really excited to have this talk and event!

OKC Design+Tech is always looking for speakers. If you are interested in speaking, have any questions about this event, or if you have any questions about OKC Design+Tech in general, please contact Gaia Boyd, Alec Danz, Tory Willbanks, Jarvis Moore, or Dodzi Dzakuma via the Techlahoma Slack for more information.

We look forward to seeing you at the event!