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DR. SHELTON GOODE is Chief Executive Officer of Icarus Consulting, a veteran-owned firm that helps companies build a diverse workforce and create an inclusive workplace. He partners with clients to develop strategies to attract, develop, and retain highly skilled talent from an emerging diverse workforce and enhance the engagement, knowledge, and skill of current employees. Dr. Goode has over 20 years of HR and D&I experience including executive positions in global companies. He is a strategic yet results-oriented leader whose expertise includes Talent Management, Change Management, and Executive Coaching. He was the first person awarded the Roosevelt Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award in the field of diversity, equity and inclusion. Forbes Magazine selected him as one of the country’s Top 10 D&I Trailblazers. Dr. Goode received his Doctorate from the University of Alabama and his Master’s Degree from Troy University. He is currently an adjunct professor with Duke University’s Corporate Education department. Dr. Goode’s most recent book, “Winter in America; The Impact of the 2016 Presidential Election on Diversity in Companies, Communities and the Country”, is on the Outskirts Press Best Seller list. See: www.icarusconsult.net CATHY LIGHT is CEO of Liderança Group, Inc., a Business and Workplace Acceleration Firm. Cathy’s award-winning entrepreneurial career spans decades in her multi-faceted ability to grow technology businesses and drive results across global organizations. Following her time at Apple in Marketing and PR, she led Global Sales and Marketing with Fuji Optical Systems, a Division of Fuji Film, and launched an innovative dental technology product for the company that became a $500M market in 5 years. Cathy also served as VP and GM of Sunrise Technologies, a publicly traded developer of lasers in the ophthalmology and dental industry. Cathy’s passion is to help organizations and individuals reach their highest potential. In 1998 Cathy founded Business Builders, a strategy advisory firm. In 2016 she established Liderança Group with four divisions: Leadership Balance® and three other growing enterprises: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Assessment Leaders, and Be Well Perform Well. In recognition of her extraordinary work, Smart Business nominated Ms. Light for the “Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year”. In January 2020, she was recognized as an emerging Women in Cloud Microsoft Commercial Marketplace Enterprise. See: www.CathyLight.com www.LiderancaGroup.com www.DiversityEquityInclusion.com For Leadership Balance® www.WinningTeamsWin.com
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Opening for Business – by Shelton Goode and Cathy Light

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Finding New Ways to Serve
Employees, Customers and Communities

Over the past few weeks, we have been exploring the effects of the coronavirus on organizations and ways to mitigate the cultural and economic damage they face. To assess the current landscape, we conducted an informal survey of roughly 80 organizations from across metro Atlanta in partnership with HR Executive Roundtable and the HR Leadership Forum. The sample includes organizations from a variety of industry groups. While it is not representative of the U.S., Georgia, or metro Atlanta economy as a whole, it does capture the intense distress being experienced by mid-size, tech, and retail-oriented companies — a snapshot of the crisis, collected recently. We wanted to understand how organizations were dealing with the disruption and what they planned to do once their companies decided to re-open. We were particularly interested in their human resource and leadership resilience and the challenges of bringing employees back to work.

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