A staffing veteran of more than 21 years, Meg Ksenzakovic began her diversity and inclusion journey with understanding the value of supplier diversity and expanded to actively seeking to grow program participation with diversity suppliers and workers.
Ksenzakovic believes one of greatest opportunities of promoting a diverse workplace is engaging individuals who see through a different lens and inviting those individuals to proactively share their experience — and then incorporating that experience into operation.
It was her team’s first placement of a neurodiverse worker that showed her what was possible. “The work was in a manufacturing environment and a cleanroom, requiring a cleanroom suit” Ksenzakovic said. “The candidate enjoyed the work and the facility and the staff enjoyed having the worker being part of the team.”
Encouraged, she saw the contingent workforce as an opportunity to open additional channels for diverse worker engagement. “That placement demonstrated how effectively we could prepare, facilitate and engage our hiring managers to work with our suppliers, candidates, external support — all members of the ecosystem — in the important work of creating a diverse and inclusive workforce.”
She is immensely proud of her team’s ongoing efforts to increase all diversity engagement across the external workforce.
“It changes how we look at things when you have someone else’s unique perspective.”
Ksenzakovic sits on the ALLY and Family and Loved One Advisory Teams as part of the PRIDE Alliance, and belongs the Differently Abled Working Network (DAWN) people and business resource groups. She also recently joined the PA division of Free Mom Hugs, a charity comprising moms who hand out free hugs to LGBT+ youth.
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