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Gary Abernathy

Vice President, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Practice Leader

Gary has over twenty years in the DE&I, employee engagement, and professional development industry. Gary has a proven track record of partnering with employers and human resources professionals, looking to understand their business and human capital goals in order to develop prescriptive solutions. Since joining Marsh McLennan Agency, Gary has leveraged his understanding of the challenges facing business leaders today. Gary leads MMA’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Practice providing guidance for organizations along their DE&I Journey. As the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Practice Lead, Gary strategically collaborates with clients in order to help them establish and implement DE&I into the fabric of their organizations. Additionally, as a founding member and former co-Chair of the MMA Enterprise Council, Gary helped to provide thought leadership to assist MMA’s 9,100 Colleagues along their own journey.

I appreciated the MMA presenters sharing relevant life experiences.

I really liked the training style of consistently getting the groups ideas on the topics before sharing what it is.

I especially valued this course because the content was specific and realistic. Sometimes, discussions about DEI are too general with no specific examples which weakens the message.

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Diversity, equity, and inclusion has been proven as a resource that has engaged employees, and driven better business results. Is that still factual and why has DE&I come under such significant attacks?

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The current state of diversity, equity, and inclusion

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Unconscious bias is the ingrained habits of thought that, when left unchecked, may lead to errors in how we perceive, remember, reason and make decisions--especially about other people. The primary goal of this webinar is awareness: helping uncover the unconscious biases that you have, then helping to begin to change your automatic responses to those biases.

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Uncover unconscious bias

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Attorneys Gina Janeiro and Michael Moberg will share 2023 updates on federal, state, and local employment laws impacting employers and anticipated legal trends affecting your workplace in 2024.

1/23/24 | 9AM CT

Employment Law Landscape 2024—What All Employers Need to Know

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Gary.Abernathy@MarshMMA.com | 248.633.7233

Alysia Green

Senior Culture & DEI Consultant

Alysia (pronounced Aleesha) joined Marsh McLennan Agency (MMA) in 2022. In her role as a consultant, she assists clients in developing and implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) strategies to transform the organization and appeal to and support all employees. Alysia brings to her role more than 20 years of community relations, strategic partnerships, and talent development experience for and within complex organizations. She has DEI project management and strategic planning experience related to collecting and analyzing metrics, instituting supplier diversity initiatives, establishing employee resource groups (ERGs), implementing DEI education and training, facilitating DEI live workshop sessions, organizing cultural events, and developing a DEI focused annual report.

Alysia.Green@MarshMMA.com | 248.822.4130

Whitney White

Senior Culture & DEI Consultant

Whitney has over ten years' experience utilizing best practices to develop, lead, market, and implement corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) strategies, programs, and events. Whitney has a proven track record of navigating through complex problems, analyzing processes, synthesizing data, and driving toward solutions. Additionally, she is the author of Five Essential Competencies of Effective Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leaders, a guidebook that documents what leaders need to know and be able to do to elevate their DE&I efforts. Since joining Marsh McLennan Agency, Whitney has leveraged her skills to enhance the value proposition of the MMA MI Health & Benefits practice by understanding and applying leading-edge thinking around employee culture and DE&I strategy. She utilizes consulting and process improvement methodology to help MMA clients develop and implement key strategies to advance culture and DE&I integration within their organizations.

Whitney.White@MarshMMA.com | 248.822.1225

Valada Sargent

Culture & DEI Consultant

For over 25 years, Valada (V) has worked in corporate and school communities guiding students, employees, and colleagues through a lens of wellness and equity. She is a woman of faith who is grateful for her journey as an educator, trainer, and consultant. Prior to joining MMA, V worked primarily for Farmington Public Schools in Michigan. She was instrumental in leading the district’s adoption of the restorative philosophy and the furtherance of DEI initiatives. During her tenure, Farmington realized a 50% decrease in student suspensions while developing a model for diversity planning.

Valada.Sargent@MarshMMA.com | 248.822.6208

Mass shootings in the U.S. are at unprecedented levels and continue to trend upwards. As current world affairs unfold and political and social pressures rise, the increasing threat of malicious events is a major concern for all types of organizations. Marsh McLennan Agency (MMA) wants to connect you with resources to help navigate the many intricacies of keeping your organization safe and preparing a response to the worst case scenario.

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Our society is far more diverse than ever and businesses need to reflect that. Learn about the three misconceptions of DEI programs and how to make DEI and integral part of your business and culture. DEI programs are proven, smart business strategies.

Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson coined the term Psychological Safety which is the belief that one can speak up and speak out without risk of punishment or humiliation. After researching medication errors in hospitals, what Dr. Edmondson found was that teams with the fewest errors weren’t the ones with the most experience or highest standards but instead were the teams that had open environments where they actively talked about mistakes and worked together to find new ways to reduce them.

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California Resources:

CA Workplace Violent Facy Sheet

CA Workplace Violence Written Policy Template

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External Websites:

Retail: Addressing Workplace Violence

Retail: Safety Matters - Confronting Retail Violence

Restaurants: Avoid Violence in the Workplace

Healthcare: MMA's Workplace Violence Overview

Healthcare: NIOSH - Workplace Violence Prevention for Nurses

Healthcare Senior Living: MMA’s Workplace Violence Training Guide

Healthcare Senior Living: MMA’s Workplace Violence Policy Template for Home Care

Domestic: Intimate Partner Violence Definition Video

Domestic: Intimate Partner Violence: Prevention Strategies

Domestic: FBI Statistics

Schools: DHS School Safety -Threat Assessment

Schools: Preventing Violence in the Classroom

Security: FEMA Online Workplace Security Awareness Training Course

FEMA Retail Security Awareness: Understanding the Hidden Hazards

Workplace Violence Overview

Healthcare Workplace Violence Overview

Workplace Violence

Active Shooter Prepardeness

Bureau of Labor Statistics - Workplace Violence in Healthcare

NIOSH Violence Risk Assessment Tools

Attacks in Crowded and Public Spaces

Active Shooter Resources:

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DHS Active Shooter How to Respond

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FEMA Online Active Shooter Training Course

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FBI - Run, Hide, Fight Video

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MMA’s safety consulting team works to improve your organization’s safety culture with the goal of preventing injuries and accidents. Fill out the form below and an MMA representative will contact you with more information on insurance options and safety resources.

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Listen to MMA's Safety Consultants explain the ways your organization can be prepared for an event under a variety of circumstances. This one-hour recording covers: - Types of workplace violence for early detection and resolution - Procedures for reporting workplace violence - Active shooter emergency preparedness planning & employee training - Law enforcement response About Webinar Speaker Scott Rief is a Safety Consultant who helps clients manage their occupational hygiene and safety risks. Scott is skilled in making worksite assessments to determine risk, identifying potential hazards and controls, investigating incidents, maintaining and evaluating incident and loss records, and preparing emergency response plans with a particular focus on workplace violence. He takes pride in helping clients come up with creative solutions to ensure that workers go home safely to their families each night.

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MMA's proprietary insurance solution includes crisis response services By bringing together London’s insurance market leaders for active shooter insurance, MMA offers a tailored product that provides broader and more comprehensive coverage than traditionally available. This product addresses the potential coverage gap between a terrorism incident, a lone shooter event, and a violent crime. Our Active Assailant insurance solution includes access to critical incident response services such as: - Pre-incident mitigation - Incident response - Post attack recovery To learn more about the options of coverage and if this is the right path for your team, reach out to an MMA representative and they will share more information on this exclusive market and the best practices that go along with it.

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