Episode 224: Eastman Chemical Shares Their Award Winning Program on How-to Mitigate Unconscious Bias
Guest: Stacey Helstrom, Global Enterprise, Learning and Leadership Development Leader- Eastman Chemical Company
Topics include:
- Becoming a learning leader
- The design of the Award-Winning Program: Inclusive Leadership Training Empowers Eastman Leaders to Recognize and Mitigate Unconscious Bias to Drive High Performance
- Mitigating unconscious bias
- Fostering an inclusive culture
- Building inclusive teams
- Accelerating diversity in leadership
- Facing challenges and obstacles
- Generating greater flexibility in how we define the workplace and measure performance
- Retention of diverse hires
- Success stories
- Advice and recommendations
- Insights from Stacey’s journey
- And more!
To read the Executive Interview from the podcast with Stacey Helstrom, download the pdf here: https://go.brandonhall.com/Eastman_EI_224
Stacey joined Eastman to lead the enterprise’s Learning and Leadership Development function in the fall of 2016. She works with organizational leaders and teams to analyze business objectives and align organization development strategies and espoused values to accelerate performance and success. She also advises the company’s Latinx employee resource group and leads the global cadre of senior coaches who are strategically leveraged to support talent development and change initiatives across the enterprise. In 2022, she won the Brandon Hall Group Gold Award for Best Learning Program for Unconscious Bias.
Stacey joined Eastman to lead the enterprise’s Learning and Leadership Development function in the fall of 2016. She works with organizational leaders and teams to analyze business objectives and align organization development strategies and espoused values to accelerate performance and success. She also advises the company’s Latinx employee resource group and leads the global cadre of senior coaches who are strategically leveraged to support talent development and change initiatives across the enterprise. In 2022, she won the Brandon Hall Group Gold Award for Best Learning Program for Unconscious Bias.
Prior to Eastman and after a 12-year career in health care as a Speech-Language Pathologist, Stacey joined Watson Wyatt Worldwide (now Willis Towers Watson) where she designed and implemented flagship global programming to fast-track consulting skills in early career associates and the enterprise onboarding programming which received the Silver Quill Award from the International Association of Business Communicators.
In 2010, she joined Cargill where she led the (re)design and implementation of Leadership in Largescale Change in support of operating model changes necessitated by the implementation of SAP. She was also accountable for elevating the impact of programming within Cargill’s High Performance Leadership Academy. Her “Leading in Complexity” program received the Brandon Hall Group Gold Award for Best Advance in Leadership Development in 2016.
Stacey and her husband Dean have two grown children and enjoy time together with family, hiking, cooking and relaxing on their boat.
Eastman Chemical Company Founded in 1920, Eastman is a global specialty materials company that produces a broad range of products found in items people use every day. With the purpose of enhancing the quality of life in a material way, Eastman works with customers to deliver innovative products and solutions while maintaining a commitment to safety and sustainability.
As a globally inclusive and diverse company, Eastman employs approximately 14,000 people around the world and serves customers in more than 100 countries. The company had 2021 revenues of approximately $10.5 billion and is headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee, USA.
Social Media Handles:
Eastman social handles:
Facebook: @eastman
LinkedIn: @eastman
Twitter: @EastmanChemCo
Instagram: @eastmanglobal
Stacey Helstrom:
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/staceyhelstrom
Twitter: @StaceyHelstrom
Instagram: @sdhelstrom
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