Leading From The Heart; Advancing Inclusion, Equality & The Bottom Line with Ray Arata

Ray Arata helps great organizations grow profit through heart centered inclusionary leadership which advances both inclusion and equality by leveraging the differences between men and women through gender partnership.

Ray's keynoteS and workshops help organizations:

Inspire executive management to lead from the heart and/or engage male allies.
Develop more productive and successful internal team relationships and communication.
Connect with and serve their market(s) with more appropriate offerings.
Tap into and make full use of talent they may not be aware of on their existing staff.
Grow employee retention and attract young high level talent.

Companies are experiencing increased pressure to create gender-balanced leadership teams and cultures of inclusion. However, in many cases, current leadership teams, boardrooms, and the overall organizational cultures do not reflect gender equality. Instead, there is an inherent gender inequality throughout most organizations from the top to the bottom.

Imagine that you could successfully leverage and maximize the value of different viewpoints of the men and women on your team towards mutual and organizational success. In this presentation, you'll learn how leading from the heart makes gender partnership possible and is a win/win for men, women and their organizations.

ABOUT RAY ARATA:

Ray speaks or has spoken in front of corporate leaders from Visa, Microsoft, Ebay, Intel, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Kaiser Permanente, PwC, PG&E, Genentech, Hanson Bridgett and more. He also brings key insights serving both as a moderator and panelist. He also enjoys working with small to mid-sized businesses and a range of professional services organizations/associations.

Professionals connect with Ray because he not only leads from his heart and practices what he teaches in his own businesses and personal life but because he’s got an extensive business background too. Through his keynote presentations, workshops, executive coaching and management training, he applies the same heart-based principles that lead him to running a thriving business and personal life today.

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Co Founder of Inclusionary Leadership Group (ILG) with a focus on the business value of creating full partnership between men and women by leveraging their differences. They create scalable, sustainable, and measurable solutions to drive fundamental cultural change for large companies such as Kaiser Permanente, Teva Pharmaceuticals and Telstra.

Founder of the Better Man Conference, which educates, activates and mobilizes men as inclusionary leaders by leveraging their position and privilege to support and empower women and minorities.

Coach to corporate executives, business leaders, owners and entrepreneurs, Ray has created a system for emotional maturity and accountability that empowers men with practical guidance and tools to prevent and resolve conflict in their families, workplaces and communities. Ray does this with coaching programs, workshops & speaking that are designed to support men in their transformation to new, happier lives.

HeForShe Male Champion Of Change, 2016 awarded by UN Women of San Francisco Bay Area Chapter

10,000+ hours of working with men to advance their emotional literacy and intelligence with the ManKind Project over the last 18 years.

Author of Wake Up, Step Up: Transforming Your Wake Up Call to Emotional Health and Happiness and the forthcoming Power of the Heart: A Guidebook for Inclusionary Leaders

Ray lives in Marin County near San Francisco, and is a recent empty nester. Ray has three young adult children and has been married for fifteen years now to his life partner, Anna. Ray has learned first hand what gender partnership means as both he and his wife work full time. He earned his Juris Doctorate in 1992 at San Francisco Law School, worked as an accredited Wealth Manager for 16 years, completed a Process Training at the Advanced Coaching and Leadership Center, and is a certified culture consultant through the Tribal Leadership Academy. In his spare time he enjoys the outdoors and sports such as cycling, cross country skiing, hiking and cooking.

To explore how a keynote presentation, workshop or coaching can be tailored to your organization's needs, join Ray on a short 15 min. call.

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Dale Thomas Vaughn

- Inclusion and Millennials

- Engaging Men in Gender Partnership

- The Next Generation in Gender Partnership

Dale's keynote and workshops help organizations:

Inspire executive management with the Business Case for Gender Partnership.
Develop more productive and successful internal team relationships and communication.
Build systemic solutions to grow and empower talent on their existing staff.
Grow employee retention and attract high-level young talent.

Vaughn presents and leads workshops about engaging men in ending sexism and sexual violence - without shame and blame. He works with community organizations, universities, and corporations like the International Summit to End Sexual Violence, the Women In Tech International summit, the Los Angeles Diversity Council, Fordham University, Loyola Marymount University, E & J Gallo, Telstra, and many more.

On the Women In Tech International conference 2017 Main Stage.

Vaughn’s work uses inscrutable data and evidence to disrupt logical myths, but he combines the intellectual and academic contexts with his depth of experience leading men to be able to then dive into the emotional subtext and create profound engagement where there was once resistance. After establishing solid footing, he then creates a palpable momentum to install systems, strategies and tools that affect real change in the culture.

ABOUT DALE THOMAS VAUGHN:

As an activist at the forefront of the conversation around gender equality and healthy masculinity, Dale was acknowledged as a "leader of men of quality" by feminist attorney Gloria Allred, and presented at the International Conference on Masculinities alongside other leaders like Gloria Steinem, Sheryl Sandberg and Michael Kimmel. As seen on CNN, CBS, Huff Post Live, TEDx, dozens of top podcasts and blogs, and in the LA Weekly, Dale’s work has received multiple Best of LA awards, Telly awards, and the M Award for service and leadership from his alma mater SMU.

Co Founder of Gender Leadership Group (GLG) with a focus on the business value of creating full partnership between men and women by leveraging their differences. They create scalable, sustainable, and measurable solutions to drive fundamental cultural change for large companies such as Kaiser Permanente, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Gallo, and Telstra.

Co-Founder of the Better Man Conference, which educates, activates and mobilizes men as inclusionary leaders by leveraging their position and privilege to support and empower women and minorities.

10,000+ hours of working with men to advance their life of purpose and emotional intelligence with programs like the EmpowerMentorship Institute, the Balanced Man Program and the Good Men Project over the last 17 years.

Vaughn is the author of the best-selling book "The Good Life Plan: For Men"

As a Renaissance Man
He has written and edited seven best-selling books, run with the bulls in Pamplona, trekked the 500-mile pilgrimage that is the Camino de Santiago, become a certified specialist of wine, played competitive dodgeball at a national level, and his recent learning endeavors involve learning the guitar, the piano, and taking real estate classes. Also, he can solve a Rubik's Cube in about 3 minutes.

Dale lives in Los Angeles with his partner Elizabeth Menzel, founder of the Happy Woman Academy.

Ed Gurowitz

Inclusionary Leadership

Tools for Inclusionary Leadership

Ed Gurowitz gives organizations hands-on, practical tools to leverage differences and optimize business results by creating a culture of accountability, performance, and inclusion.

ED'S KEYNOTES AND WORKSHOPS HELP ORGANIZATIONS TRANSFORM THEIR CULTURE

Understand the “three cases” for Inclusionary Leadership
- The Business Case
- The Personal Case
- The Moral Case
Confront unconscious bias and unearned privilege and learn how to counter them in yourself and others
Acquire hands-on tools to leverage differences
Heightened engagement and performance
Enhanced talent acquisition and retention of top talent

Companies are experiencing increased pressure to create balanced leadership teams and cultures of inclusion. However, in many cases, current leadership teams, boardrooms, and the overall organizational cultures do not reflect equality. Instead, there is an inherent inequality throughout most organizations from the top to the bottom.

Imagine that you could successfully leverage and maximize the value of different viewpoints of the men and women on your team towards mutual and organizational success. In this presentation, you'll learn how Inclusionary Leadership can work in your organization.

ABOUT ED GUROWITZ:

Ed has spoken and led trainings in front of corporate audiences in the US, Germany, Sweden, Hungary, France, the UK, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Thailand, Israel, Brazil, Argentina, and the United Arab Emirates. His clients include and have included HP, Engelhard Chemical, Magma Copper, Eli Lilly, Teva Pharmaceuticals, DeBeers, Dow Chemical, IBM, AT&T, BP, Maersk, Honeywell, the City of San Francisco, and more. He has spoken before audiences including the Jerusalem Institute of Management, Israel Society for Quality Management, WIN Nevada, the International Transactional Analysis Association and others.

Ed brings over 40 years’ experience in organizational development, leadership development, and Diversity and Inclusion. He was a pioneer in the field of organizational culture change and has worked with government officials and agencies, non-profits, and business organizations.