DIVERSITY ROLE MODEL SPOTLIGHT:
Sharon Harvey Davis
For more than 15 years, Sharon Harvey Davis, Ameren Corporation vice president and chief diversity officer, has been making diversity and inclusion a priority.
To facilitate employee learning, training videos are produced each year to help co-workers feel more comfortable having what can sometimes be difficult discussions involving diversity and inclusion.
“ Ameren’ s training has been effective in generating productive dialogue inside our organization,” said Harvey Davis.” We felt it was important to provide high quality diversity and inclusion training videos that the community can take advantage of as well. This led to our decision to make the training series available to the community at no cost.”
In January 2016, Ameren introduced“ Discussion Across Differences,” a series of videos and discussion guides that explore and encourage honest dialogue around the issues of diversity and inclusion. Ameren developed the resources to help foster healing and promote inclusion across the St. Louis region.
“ Events in our region over the last year demonstrate that successful diversity efforts are essential to community health and economic growth,” said Harvey Davis.” They are important as our community strives to heal and rebuild from the events in Ferguson and beyond, events that remind us that business leaders must make a commitment to promote and encourage diversity and inclusion in the workplace.”
Urban League members can view the videos and materials on Ameren. com.
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