Inclusion in Aviation
Topic: Assault on DE&I: Now What?
This session will review the Executive Orders on DE&I and what they mean. The words have become lightning rods, but the concepts are still very important for our workplace. We will review the concepts/principles and discuss why they are important to productivity in our workplace. Bring your DE&I questions. We will have an intense discussion on how to ensure that the principles remain intact.
Speaker: Cheryl D. Orr, Co-Managing Director, NFBPA - Institute for Excellence in Public Service
Cheryl D. Orr retired from Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) as the Vice President of Human Capital, responsible for the Human Resources functions. She has spent over 30 years working in Human Resources as an Assistant Director and subsequently Director/Vice President. After relocating to Dallas from Northern Virginia, she was hired by the City of Dallas to establish their Ethics and Diversity program under the auspices of the City Manager. In all her HR positions, Ms. Orr has always assumed EEO/Diversity responsibilities in the positions where she worked.
Ms. Orr has taught personnel practices at the university level and re-engineered several Human Resources offices that required a “facelift.” She served on the National Public Service HR Association and State HR Board committees that supported HR practitioners for many years. Currently, she is serving a term on the PSHRA Texas Chapter Board of Directors.
In 2019, she established a Human Resources consulting business, Insight HR Partners (IHRP), available to assist companies and organizations with any HR issue and provide specific HR services to an intact HR office. Her business has also focused on DE&I consultation and training. Ms. Orr is the MWBE vendor on a five-year contract with the Benefits Consultant at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport.
Ms. Orr is also the Co-Managing Director of the Institute for Excellence in Public Service (i4x), the National Forum Black Public Administrators' consulting arm. i4x provides consulting services to jurisdictions throughout the country on a variety of public sector issues.
Ms. Orr is a prolific trainer, speaker, facilitator, and consultant on various workplace subjects. She has served as an EEO officer throughout her career. She developed and delivered a host of sexual and workplace harassment training for various audiences. She is a contract trainer and consultant on EEO issues, now Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion topics in the workplace. Ms. Orr developed a variety of EEO plans for several jurisdictions and demonstrated to jurisdictions how to incorporate EEO principles into their Performance Management Systems.
During her tenure at the City of Dallas, TX, Cheryl D. Orr played a pivotal role in designing and launching the City’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion program. She authored the Diversity statement and convened a representative Diversity Roundtable (40 employees) to chart the DE&I direction for the city. Her commitment to EEO and Diversity principles in Performance Management activities, oversight of the development of Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), and her role in developing or rewriting personnel and specifically EEO policies and practices to provide Equity guidance to demonstrate her leadership and initiative further. She also co-authored an article on women in the workforce for ICMA’s Public Manager’s Magazine and regularly provides training and consultation on DE&I practices and issues.
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