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CBHL Member Leadership Conversation | Engaging the Workforce Amid Systemic Realities
April 28, 2022 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm MDT
As leaders, how do we keep the workforce engaged in direct service work when systemic racism, inequities, and barriers to change can make their work feel futile? During a recent leadership conversation, a member raised this question, prompting a request for further discussion with CBHL members. Even when organizational leaders attempt to engage at all levels – doing their part to serve individuals while pushing for systems change – operationally, individuals may not feel like change is happening quickly enough. How can we, as leaders, continue to support the workforce at all levels?
Join us for a participatory leadership conversation on Thursday, April 28 at 10am PST / 11am MST / 12pm CST / 1pm EST to further explore this topic and identify key actions we can all take as leaders.
Key themes from the conversation will be captured and used to identify training topics for a future webinar.
Session Facilitator

Jeffrey Ring, Ph.D. is an author, leadership coach, and consultant working to improve successful team leadership and functioning. He is also a bilingual Spanish-speaking health psychologist with a focus on fostering seamless integrated whole-person health care. For nineteen years, he served as Director of Behavioral Sciences and Cultural Medicine at the Family Medicine Residency Program at White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles, and he holds a Clinical Professorship in Family Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. His work has focused on health equity and justice and culturally responsive and respectful care. Dr. Ring is the first author of the book Curriculum for Culturally Responsive Care: The Step-by-Step Guide for Cultural Competency Training.
Dr. Ring has expertise in self-care, resilience and well-being and has provided teaching, coaching and facilitation for a wide array of businesses and healthcare organizations. In the summer of 2016, he taught mindfulness meditation to approximately 1200 agricultural workers in Spanish in Central California. In both 2019 and 2020 he was involved in planning and facilitation of travel for health care leaders through Alabama to better understand connections between slavery, racism, mass incarceration, environmental injustice, poverty and health inequities.