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Pathway to Belonging: Building a Culture Where Difference Thrives
What does true belonging actually look like — and how do we build it intentionally rather than hope it happens on its own?
Join NAWBO Columbus for an interactive monthly meeting with Suzanne Roberts, founder of UnifyingSolutions and the creator of The Great Reconnection.
In this interactive session, Suzanne draws on more than five decades of work in leadership, cultural competency, and organizational development to offer both an honest reckoning with history and a practical, energizing pathway forward.
Using the intelligence of biodiverse forests as a living model — where diversity is not just tolerated but required for the whole system to thrive — Suzanne explores what it takes to shift organizational culture so that difference is genuinely celebrated, not just accommodated.
Suzanne will share the raw, real stories from her own leadership journey. Discover what happened when she mandated a requirement for 50% racial diversity in her own leadership trainings—what that decision cost, what it created, and the powerful signal it sent to the broader business community.
This event is specifically designed for business owners, executives, and leaders who want their organizations to be places where everyone genuinely thrives. Come prepared to connect, collaborate, and walk away with a real commitment—not just a good intention.
Because belonging is not a policy. It is a culture. And culture is built — intentionally, together, one table at a time.
Key Takeaways:
- The wisdom and power to build a culture of belonging already exists in this room — we activate it together.
- Belonging is not just the right thing to do — it is what makes organizations thrive. Like a biodiverse forest, we are stronger and more alive together than apart.
- The moment to act is not someday. It is now — with the people in this room, starting today.
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Meet our Speaker: Suzanne Roberts, UnifyingSolutions
Suzanne Roberts is the founder of UnifyingSolutions and the creator of The Great Reconnection™ — a body of work that emerged from more than five decades of coaching, consulting, facilitation, and training.
A Master Somatic Coach and past faculty member of Strozzi Institute, Suzanne has spent her career working with executives, entrepreneurs, diverse leaders, organizational teams, and communities — guiding individuals and systems toward lasting, transformative change through an intersectional lens.
Her work spans executive and leadership development, cultural competency, organizational effectiveness, and social equity — including co-creating Safe Conversations About Race with James A. White, Sr., supported by the YWCA and The Columbus Foundation, and developing Women Generating: Collective Power for Positive Change.
A sought-after keynote speaker, Suzanne has addressed WBEC and multiple women's leadership organizations, bringing her distinctive blend of somatic practice, intersectional leadership, and transformative frameworks to stages across the country.
She is the author of the book and documentary It's Deeper Than That: Pathway to a Vibrant, Purposeful, and Liberated Life, and the host of the Purpose for Life podcast — now reaching listeners in 73 countries and 618 cities.
Her work is rooted in a simple but radical premise: people are not broken. They are disconnected. And the reconnection they are longing for has been available to them all along.
Meeting Agenda:
11:00am- Doors open, Networking & Exhibitors
11:30pm- Welcome, Keynote and Q&A
12:30-1:00pm- Networking & Exhibitors
Registration closes Sunday, November 8th at 5pm.
Sponsorship & Exhibit opportunities are available at registration.
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