Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are groups of employees within a company who identify with or share the concerns of a gender, race, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, or other characteristics. They provide community for employees who often feel excluded. They provide benefits for the company as well – promoting diversity in the company, aiding employee development, assisting recruitment and retention. ERGs also provide an opportunity for senior management to connect with and hear from diverse employees.

Many employees do join ERGs and they have views on what’s working well and what needs improvement. The summit participants shared the following best practices to help address the issues that keep employees from joining or continuing in an ERG.

Join us in a discussion on starting and sustaining an ERG, and how to plan programming successfully. Also, hear about how essential it is to make the value proposition of ERG clear to the bottom line of the company. You'll also hear about ALLY's new ERG Council, and how it plans to provide members with cutting edge best practices, solutions, as well as tools and resources for building individual ERG and Council member skills.