尼尔森最近在亚特兰大举办了首次黑人员工论坛，由尼尔森首席财务官贾梅尔-杰克逊（Jamere Jackson）和首席多元化官安吉拉-塔尔顿（Angela Talton）赞助。我们的多元化和包容性团队设计了为期两天的活动，以丰富黑人员工与尼尔森员工体验的联系：做自己，与众不同，与我们共同成长。
By providing visibility, access and opportunity, this professional development opportunity sought to increase engagement and retention and empower associates to strengthen networks through access to senior leaders, cultural events and business strategy workshops. Although this forum was Nielsen’s first cultural employee development and networking event, the design was based upon best practices used at other high-performing companies to build an internal culture that supports diversity and inclusion.
"正如我们的首席执行官米奇-巴恩斯（Mitch Barns）所说，多元化和包容性对于尼尔森的发展、实力和创新能力至关重要。要实现这一点，多元化和包容性必须不仅仅是在谈判桌上占有一席之地。安吉拉在论坛开幕式上说："我们在设计论坛时就考虑到了这一点。"在我们设计论坛时，我们知道让黑人员工感受到组织的重视是非常重要的，而且更重要的是，让他们明白我们希望并需要他们在尼尔森的会议桌上发言，并让他们的声音被听到"。
200 多名美国员工、6 家客户以及 12 个社区合作伙伴齐聚亚特兰大巴克海德 J.W. 万豪酒店。在为期两天的会议中，多位尼尔森高层管理人员与 Jamere 和 Angela 一起，介绍了尼尔森关键举措的最新情况，并分享了他们在多元化和包容性方面的经验。论坛期间举办的两场专题讨论会让与会者有机会聆听高级领导者在组织内部的不同经历，以及我们如何在任何级别上都能增强学习能力。首席人力资源官 Mary Liz Finn 主持了 "与我们一起成长 "的讨论，Angela（与观众洞察部客户解决方案执行副总裁 Sara Erichson、技术/电信部董事总经理 Amilcar Perez 和扩展垂直行业部总裁 Karthik Rao 一起）主持了关于在会议上发表意见的讨论。
该计划还包括一个外部小组，展示工作场所的多样性如何最终创造更强大的企业。来自 UPS、可口可乐和特纳广播公司的代表与尼尔森北美采购执行副总裁格洛丽亚-考克斯（Gloria Cox）共同探讨了各自公司如何从多元化和包容性中获益。尼尔森首席执行官米奇-巴恩斯（Mitch Barns）也以虚拟方式参加了此次活动，他对此次活动表示非常兴奋，同时强调了多元化和包容性作为尼尔森整体战略的关键运营理念的重要性。
Additional sessions focused on the contributions of Black Americans: Bernard Kinsey discussed The Kinsey Collection, and the group visited the Center for Civil & Human Rights. As a responsible corporate citizen, Nielsen and was proud to support of the African-American community and award three scholarships during the program: one to The Ron Clark Academy, a highly-acclaimed, nonprofit middle school located in Southeast Atlanta, and two others to HBCU (Historically Black College and University) students at Morehouse College and Spelman College. The philanthropic component of the event also featured a Nielsen Cares skills-based community outreach activity with high school students from Atlanta Cares and POSSE, an organization dedicated to providing college access and youth leadership development. Almost two dozen students were given a lesson in building their personal brand and their elevator pitch.
The Black Employee Forum was a pilot initiative, created to provide a template for future events to enrich other diverse groups within Nielsen in 2017 and beyond.
"'做自己，与众不同，与我们一起成长'对于尼尔森来说不仅仅是一个巧妙的标语，"贾梅尔说。"为多元化员工提供能见度、机会和机遇是一种投资。我很荣幸能成为与我一起坚持这一信念的公司的一员，我期待着参与未来的员工参与活动。"
