Dates: April 2, 2024 12:00 pm – April 2, 2024 1:00 pm EDT

Empowering Diversity Webinar Series with Ren Navarro

Join us for an impactful webinar series with diversity champion Ren Navarro, focusing on the importance of diversity and inclusion and how it benefits everyone.

Series content:

• Defining Diversity: A clear understanding of diversity in a broader context, moving beyond the basics to encompass a wide range of experiences and identities.
  • Looking at basic definitions of EDI terms (including EDI – Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion)

• Appreciating Intersectionality: Insights into the complex layers of intersectionality, emphasizing the importance of supporting diverse groups across all aspects of business and community.
  • Providing examples and definitions of intersectionality and how it could look in your day-to-day experiences.

• Setting Goals for Inclusion: Practical advice on creating an inclusive environment that supports all customers, employees, and vendors.
  • Creating realistic timelines and how to measure changes.
  • Looking at immediate actions, 3/6/12 month actions
  • Understanding the needs of the communities
    • Internal community
    • External community 
    • Potential community

• Starting Conversations: Strategies for initiating and maintaining positive, productive discussions on diversity and inclusion in your own sphere.
  • Understanding what to do if you get things wrong
  • The ability to listen and understanding when to speak 

This series is perfect for anyone looking to deepen their understanding of diversity and inclusion, equip themselves with practical tools for change, and foster a more welcoming and supportive environment in any sector.

Register now to make a difference through informed action and conversation.

Facilitator

Ren Navarro (she/her) Owner/Operator at B Diversity Group

Ren Navarro (she/her) Owner/Operator at B Diversity Group

Ren Navarro brings over 20 years of corporate customer service and management experience, alongside 12+ years of hands-on knowledge and experience in the beer world. She is certified by some of the world’s largest alcohol programs, Prud’homme, WSET, Cicerone and AFicioNAdo (alcohol free certification). She has also appeared on national television talking about historical aspects of alcohol, new trends in alcohol, and the benefits of stronger communities.

In 2018, Ren created Beer. Diversity., a company/advocacy group whose focus was for folks to be able to have open conversations one beer at a time. With the evolution of the company into non-alcohol spheres, she introduced B. Diversity. in early 2023. This expansion aims to create safer spaces in which to have open and honest conversations and support to create meaningful change in a multitude of industries.

Since 2022, she has been working toward her HR management certification through Seneca College. She has also taught the History of Beer and Brewing course at Niagara College, teaching students about both the well known and the forgotten aspects of history, focusing on bringing diversity to the forefront of learning.

She has been the go-to diversity, equity and inclusion expert for breweries of all sizes, from small family run to multinational conglomerates. Ren has helped breweries with everything from procedures and policies through to hiring and retention, alongside understanding the community they inhabit. She has also worked extensively outside of the drinks world, assisting organisations with their DEI journey and learning.

She loves tattoos, goats, and gives pretty good hugs.