Jess Jackson
Instructional Designer, Writer, Speaker, TorranceLearning
Jess Jackson is an instructional designer, writer, speaker and has over 15 years’ experience as a diversity peer educator. She is the author of TorranceLearning’s curriculum Cultivating Racial Equity in the Workplace (CREW), a holistic microlearning training program that addresses equity barriers in the workplace using evidence-informed best practices from social psychology research. She has worked within education addressing access, retention, and success of diverse learners, and her commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion has been recognized at the international level. Her work has been featured on platforms such as Mic, TedX, Michigan Advance, Learning Solutions Magazine, and ACPA, among others.
Latest from Jess Jackson
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Nurture an Inclusive Culture: What L&D Can Contribute
Creating an inclusive culture—one where all people can work, learn, and thrive—is an essential element of improving accessibility and diversity in your organization. It’s a process that requires ongoing attention, starting with fostering and nurturing psychological safety. In this session, we’ll define key concepts such as diversity and power imbalances, microaggressions, implicit bias, and social identities. We’ll provide guidance on handling issues when they arise and describe strategies for employees to learn and use when they experience or witness incidents that compromise a colleague’s psychological safety. From there, we’ll delve into what L&D teams can do to create a culture…
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Designing for Inclusion: A Checklist
Download this checklist and get a thorough guide on how to reach every employee and ensure advancing awareness of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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5 Shifts in Perspective That Can Strengthen Your DEI Efforts
Organizational leaders are focusing more than ever on DEI—diversity, equity, and inclusion—initiatives. These perspective shifts can set you up to succeed.
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Learning’s Role in Advancing Diversity and Inclusion (Panel)
Diversity and inclusion are becoming increasingly importantto organizations; affecting recruitment, development, advancement, andretention. For many organizations, these initiatives represent significantchanges in workflows, policy, and culture. In this paneldiscussion we will explore the important role learning and development departmentsplay in advancing diversity and inclusion in their organizations. You willexamine not only how L&D directly supports formal diversity and inclusionprograms, but also how we approach our work in general can have an indirectimpact. Join us for a conversation that will share important tips on how youcan make learning a leader in driving advancement of your organization’sdiversity and inclusion efforts.
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Explore xAPI in Free 12-Week Course
The free, 12-week xAPI Learning Cohort starts September 3, 2020 and will attract hundreds who want to energize their learning and performance ecosystem.