Noblesville Equity & Advancement Team (NEAT)

Vision: A Noblesville economy achieving its growth potential; fueled by a multicultural community that embraces all businesses and individuals.

Mission: To serve as a catalyst for awareness and understanding of the strength of an inclusive multicultural community through education, resources, and empowerment for employers and employees

Role: to provide guidance, resources, training, and support to employers for the development and implementation of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

NEAT FOCUS AREAS

• Workplace: Adopting policies and practices that include and embrace people who have historically been absent/silent from organizations.

• Workforce: Concerted effort to recruit qualified employees from traditionally underrepresented groups.

• Marketplace: More deeply involve minority-owned enterprises and consumers in the regional economy.

• Community Collaboration: with educational institutions, government, civic organizations, and residents to advance understanding of DEI value, expand opportunities to all, and stem the tide of discrimination, racism, and marginalization.

PROGRAM CONTENT

• The case for cultural competence.

• The neuroscience of bias - strategies for identifying and reducing bias.

• The role of emotional intelligence in bridging differences.

• Building understanding across difference.

• Adapting communication in unfamiliar situations.

• Listening and learning in conflict.

• Understanding the worldview of others.

• The role of leaders in raising cultural competence