Workshops & Events

How Culture Influences Your Effectiveness
Presented by Dr. Mitch Owen, North Carolina State University

Dr. Owen reviewed how culture is determined by personal experiences and background and directly influences one’s ability to communicate and effectively influence others.

Dr. Mitchell Owen is the Chief Operating Officer of Mitchen Incorporated, an innovative training and organizational development company. Dr. Owen also serves as the Innovation and Organizational Development Leader at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C., USA. He has developed and provided educational workshops across the United States and internationally for over 20 years. He is internationally respected as a leader in programs on leadership, facilitation, organizational development, branding, technology, multicultural issues, collaboration, and organizational change. Dr. Owen is professionally certified to administer and interpret a host of instruments for professional development, management training, and team building.

Sponsored by the USDA International Science and Education Grant Program, Purdue Cooperative Extension, International Programs in Agriculture, and the Youth Development & Agricultural Education Department.

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Multicultural and Gender Forums
The Multicultural Forum is a multiple-day, off-campus experiential workshops conducted by professional facilitators. Within a small group setting, faculty, staff, students and alumni interact about these personally meaningful topics. The Forum is balanced between didactic information about race and ethnicity and individual sharing about personal experiences.

The Forum on Gender Issues is an opportunity for Purdue University faculty and staff to come together for two days at an off-campus location for the purpose of exploring the ways in which relationships and practices in the workplace are impacted by gender. In order to explore attitudes, awareness and practice; participants will discuss gender styles, patterns, expectations, stereotypes and sexual orientation in a safe environment. These discussions will also include practice in ways to become more competent engaging across gender lines.

The diversity forums will be conducted again jointly among the College of Engineering, the Schools of Science and Agriculture.

The dates of the Diversity Forums are listed here on the Diversity Forums site.