
Building Resilience Through DEI: Empowering Women of Color Engineers
A Talk by Michele Heyward (Founder & CEO, PositiveHire)
About this Talk
As economic uncertainty challenges the AEC industry, building resilience is critical. This webinar explores how empowering women of color engineers through DEI initiatives can drive innovation, reduce turnover, and strengthen leadership pipelines.
What You’ll Learn:
- The Promotion Gap: Why Black women are 20.3 percentage points less likely to be promoted on time and how this affects organizational resilience.
- The Double Disadvantage: How compounded racial and gender biases impact leadership opportunities for women of color engineers.
- Inclusive Team Dynamics: The importance of creating diverse teams to improve retention and promotion outcomes.
- Measuring Impact with Data: How PH Balanced tracks promotion disparities, evaluates DEI progress, and supports workforce resilience strategies.