Collection:LPB

Genre: Speech

Place Covered: Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana

Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority

Date Issued: 2021-01-27

Duration: 00:35:27

Subjects: Rotary Club of Baton Rouge | Work environment | Diversity, equity & inclusion

Contributors:

• Harris, Ron Speaker

This episode of the series “Newsmakers” features a speech by Ron Harris before a virtual meeting of the Baton Rouge Rotary Club on January 27, 2021. Harris is the vice president of diversity and inclusion for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Tennessee. He discusses: the changing demographics of the world and the workplace; diversity as organic and inclusion as intentional; the need for cultural competency in the workplace; unconscious bias; the need to close the communication gap; and the differing communication styles of the different generations of workers.