Avaya Hosts CEO Action “Check Your Blind Spots” Tour Addressing Unconscious Bias
December 09 2019 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Avaya Holdings Corp. (NYSE:AVYA), a global leader in solutions
to enhance and simplify communications and collaboration, today
announced it will host the CEO Action “Check Your Blind Spots”
mobile tour at the company’s headquarters in Santa Clara,
California on Tuesday, December 10, 2019. The tour bus is an
interactive, mobile experience promoting diversity and inclusion in
the workplace and the community by exploring the nuances of
unconscious bias.
Created by the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion
organization, the tour bus features a series of immersive and
interactive elements including virtual reality and gaming
technology, designed to provide an introspective look at common
unconscious biases with the goal of creating a meaningful
conversation about enhancing inclusion in the workplace and the
community.
Featured activities include:
- Look Through a Different Lens: Via gamification and a
digital viewfinder, participants can watch an interaction between
coworkers setting up a work-related event and then identify moments
when unconscious biases were demonstrated.
- Face Yourself, Face Reality: In front of a mirror,
participants watch as their reflection fades away to reveal a
different person staring back at them. Through this touchscreen
experience, each new reflection shares a series of biases they've
experienced.
- I Act On Pledge: Avaya employees and others in the local
area can join thousands of people nationwide in committing to
checking their blind spots and changing behaviors through the I
Act On pledge.
“Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to Avaya’s core
values,” said Jim Chirico, Avaya President and CEO. “We joined the
CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion™ program to align us with
those who are focused on building a more inclusive and progressive
workplace that values differences and evolves understanding. We are
pleased to host the CEO Action Check Your Blind Spots tour at our
headquarters, providing a unique experience and opportunity for our
team and our community to learn together.”
If interested in attending, come join the tour stop at the Avaya
location at 4655 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA 95054 on
December 10th, 2019 from 10:30am - 3:30pm PT.
The tour is making 100 stops across the country through 2019.
For more information, visit
https://www.ceoaction.com/events/mobile-tour/.
About CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion™
CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion™ is the largest
CEO-driven business commitment to advance diversity and inclusion
within the workplace. Bringing together more than 800 CEOs and
presidents of America's leading businesses, academic institutions
and nonprofits representing 12 million employees, the commitment
outlines actions that participating organizations pledge to take to
cultivate a workplace where diverse perspectives and experiences
are welcomed and respected, employees feel comfortable and
encouraged to discuss diversity and inclusion, and where best
known—and unsuccessful—actions can be shared across organizations.
Learn more at CEOAction.com and connect with CEO Action on
Facebook: CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion and
Twitter: @CEOAction.
About Avaya
Businesses are built on the experiences they provide, and every
day millions of those experiences are built by Avaya (NYSE: AVYA).
For over one hundred years, we’ve enabled organizations around the
globe to win – by creating intelligent communications experiences
for customers and employees. Avaya builds open, converged and
innovative solutions to enhance and simplify communications and
collaboration – in the cloud, on-premise or a hybrid of both. To
grow your business, we’re committed to innovation, partnership, and
a relentless focus on what’s next. We’re the technology company you
trust to help you deliver Experiences that Matter. Visit us at
www.avaya.com.
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