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This week on HR Power Hour we have a replay of Tawny Alvarez and Asker Saeed, of Saeed Consulting LLC, discussing the steps organizations must undertake before instituting effective diversity and inclusion programs and why so many companies’ diversity and inclusion efforts are unsuccessful. 
 
Specifically, in this episode we will discuss the impediments that already exist in many companies that disrupt the ability to maintain a diverse culture and interfere with inclusion, as well as why companies are failing (or refusing) to hold themselves accountable when their diversity or inclusion undertakings are unsuccessful. 
This Week's Guest

Asker A. Saeed is Principal of Saeed Consulting LLC, a full service consulting firm for law firms, legal departments, and other organizations with an emphasis on diversity and inclusion process improvement, strategic plan development, assessments, and awareness training.
 
Asker also serves as the Executive Director of the South Asian Bar Association (SABA) of North America. With over 8000 members and 29 chapters across the United States and Canada, SABA North America provides the South Asian legal community with a trusted forum for professional growth and development while at the same time promoting civil rights and access to justice for the South Asian community. Previously, Asker headed up the diversity and inclusion initiative at international law firm Fried Frank and prior to that at northeast regional law firm Day Pitney.
 
Prior to becoming a diversity and inclusion professional Asker held various roles at United Technologies Corporation (now known as Raytheon Technologies), including as Vice President, Customer Business, Commercial at International Aero Engines AG and Assistant Counsel at Pratt & Whitney. Asker started his legal career as an associate at Connecticut based law firms Murtha Cullina and Robinson & Cole. He has also held management level roles at Robert Half Legal Consulting Solutions and Future Shop. Mr. Saeed is a long time speaker on diversity and inclusion and career development and has received numerous awards for his efforts, including the 2015 Edwin Archer Randolph Diversity Award from the Lawyers Collaborative for Diversity.
 
Originally from Canada, Asker is a founding member of the South Asian Bar Association of Connecticut.
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David Ciullo

David is the CEO of Career Management Associates cmacareer.com, a 27+ year New England HR services company. He is also a HR thought leader, speaker and emcee as well as the talk show host of the HR Power Hour national radio show.

David currently serves as a Member of the Maine State Civil Service Appeals Board, President of HRASM (Human Resource Association of Southern Maine), and serves as Vice President and on the Board of Directors of NNEAPS (Northern New England Association of Personnel Services). 
Tawny Alvarez

Tawny prides herself on helping clients comply with the law while simultaneously creating an amazing place to work.

She centers her practice on the understanding that the employment landscape is ever-changing and organizations do not have the time or resources to keep abreast of all these changes-from medical (and recreational) marijuana's effect on drug testing to the effect of social networking in the workplace, including the effect of the use of mobile devices on wage and hour issues. 
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