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Com­pa­nies are under sig­nif­i­cant media, cus­tomer, and share­hold­er scruti­ny late­ly for fail­ing to pro­vide equal access to oppor­tu­ni­ties and rewards for all mem­bers of the work­force. Despite research find­ings that work­force diver­si­ty is good for the bot­tom line, com­pa­nies con­tin­ue to strug­gle to attract and retain diverse employ­ees.  Although work­force ana­lyt­ics solu­tions have enabled busi­ness lead­ers to iden­ti­fy and track inequities like nev­er before, they remain unsure about what to do next to resolve the inequities they find. In this webi­nar we dis­cuss the key tal­ent deci­sion points that enable or impede work­force diver­si­ty, not­ing how tech­nol­o­gy can be applied toward data-dri­ven deci­sion-mak­ing in a way that reduces bias and pro­motes equi­table access for all mem­bers of the workforce. 

Gabriela Burlacu, SAP
Pat­ti Fletch­er, SAP

Dr. Pat­ti Fletch­er (@pkfletcher) is a sea­soned busi­ness exec­u­tive, award-win­ning mar­ket­ing influ­encer, board mem­ber, angel investor, author, and pre­sen­ter. She writes for drpat​ti​fletch​er​.com, Inc., Huff­in­g­ton Post, and The Guardian, and has con­tributed to and been fea­tured in Time Mag­a­zine, Al-Jazeera, Forbes, Newsweek, Xcon­o­my, The Muse and many more. Pat­ti advis­es cor­po­rate exec­u­tives and board mem­bers from lean start-ups to For­tune 100s, from small com­mu­ni­ty orga­ni­za­tions to large glob­al non-prof­its. She is an advo­cate and a sought-after speak­er on the top­ics of lead­ing large-scale cul­tur­al change, trans­for­ma­tion­al lead­er­ship, brand build­ing, cul­ti­vat­ing high per­for­mance teams, women on boards, women in the c‑suite, and women in high growth entre­pre­neur­ship. As a futur­ist, Pat­ti is cur­rent­ly work­ing with SAP Suc­cess­Fac­tors to help change how the world thinks about bias, diver­si­ty, inclu­sion, and the role of HR in business.

Gab­by Burlacu is a Cus­tomer Insights Man­ag­er work­ing in SAP’s Cloud Cus­tomer Office. Since join­ing the SAP/​SuccessFactors organ­i­sa­tion in 2011, she has con­duct­ed numer­ous research stud­ies designed to under­stand, mea­sure, and enhance the val­ue cus­tomers receive from their HR solu­tions. Her work has informed the devel­op­ment of strate­gic engage­ments and offer­ings that enable cus­tomer-fac­ing teams to part­ner with orga­ni­za­tions to ensure they have a long, valu­able, and reward­ing rela­tion­ship with SAP. 

Gab­by brings a pri­mar­i­ly aca­d­e­m­ic back­ground to her role at SAP. She received a doc­tor­ate degree in Industrial/​Organisational Psy­chol­o­gy from Port­land State Uni­ver­si­ty, where she stud­ied the impact of employ­ee per­cep­tions and atti­tudes on the effec­tive­ness of human resources ini­tia­tives. She has applied this knowl­edge to her under­stand­ing of SAP/​Successfactors cus­tomers’ strate­gic busi­ness and tal­ent needs. Gab­by cur­rent­ly works with organ­i­sa­tions of all sizes in all indus­tries, help­ing them.