Butler Center workshop to focus on strategies, tools to overcome adversity, barriers and obstacles

The Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence is inviting faculty, staff and students to its workshop on "Navigating the Invisible: Strategies and Tools to Overcome Adversity, Barriers, and Obstacles."

The workshop is conducted by Amy Diehl, an information technology leader and gender bias expert. Diehl is the chief information officer at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and previously served as associate vice president and chief information technology officer at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania.

The workshop is based on this premise: In today’s workplace, unconscious bias and invisible barriers embedded in organizational cultures constrain opportunities for women. Higher education is not immune. Though women are 50% of assistant professors, their representation among full professors is only 32.5%. They are also underpaid; full-time female faculty earn only 81% of their male peers’ salaries. In this interactive workshop, participants will learn to recognize gendered barriers, which hold faculty members back in the workplace, along with tools and strategies – individual and institutional – to navigate adversity, barriers and obstacles.

This virtual live session is scheduled for 3-4:30 p.m. Nov. 10. Registration is available online. For more information, contact butlercenter@purdue.edu.