February 2019 WFHRMA Luncheon Meeting: Diversity in the Workplace – The Facts About the LGBTQ Community

When
12 Feb 2019
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
Location
Vernon College - Century City Center Rm 606, 4105 Maplewood, Wichita Falls, Texas 76308
Registered
51 registrants

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The February 2019 meeting of the Wichita Falls HR Management Association (WFHRMA) will be:

Tuesday, February 12th, 2019

11:45 AM to 1:00 PM

Vernon College Century City Center

Room 606

4105 Maplewood

Wichita Falls, TX 76308

(940) 689-3714

As always, lunch will be provided.

The cost is $10 for members and FREE for first time guests! Guests joining us after their first visit will be charged $15 for lunch.

Topic: Diversity in the Workplace – The Facts About the LGBTQ Community

Speaker: Ashley McErlean, LMFT-A and Penny Miller, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, CEBS

Summary Description: A diverse workforce has many components. In this presentation, we'll be discussing the LGBTQ community, highlighting terminology, issues of discrimination and how to make the workplace more inclusive for this segment of our community.

Learning Objectives:

Understand the terminology associated with the LGBTQ community
Know various issues relating to discrimination against LGBTQ individuals in the workplace, to include the current EEOC position
Develop a better understanding of gender and how gender stereotypes affect the employee and workplace
Take way ideas for a more inclusive workplace

Bio: Ashley McErlean, LMFT-A

Ashley McErlean is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Associate in private practice, specializing with the LGBTQ community. In 2017, she founded The Opal Center, which is a local LGBTQ resource center serving the Texoma area. The mission of The Opal Center is to provide free counseling, support, legal, and medical services to the LGBTQ community, and to educate the public and professional organizations on the challenges faced by this population, and to promote LGBTQ-affirmative practices and attitudes.

Bio: Penny Miller, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, CEBS

Penny Miller made her way into the HR field via the U.S. Air Force, after getting her bachelor's degree in biology from Purdue University. She 'retired" after 21 years in the military, closing out her career at Sheppard AFB as the Commander, 86th Mission Support Squadron (Basically, the HR person for the base). She was an executive recruiter for the construction industry before becoming the Director of HR and later CO-COO at a large multi-specialty clinic. She currently owns My HR Department, an HR consulting/outsourcing company, based in Wichita Falls.

Penny has a master's degree in management and is certified as an SPHR, SHRM-SP and CEBS.

RSVP no later than noon Friday, February 8th, 2019.

A reservation made is a reservation paid unless cancelled before noon on the Friday before the event.