Join us for a conversation with Pat Dobbs, a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Consultant specializing in hearing health and hearing loss. She helps organizations understand how hearing loss affects workplace communications and identify strategies to support employees with hearing loss. Pat has adult-onset hearing loss wears bilateral cochlear implants and openly shares her experiences, challenges, and opportunities living with hearing loss.
In this session, Pat will unravel the intricacies of living with hearing loss and explore the ways it impacts not just the workplace but personal lives too. We’ll explore the physical and emotional nuances of living with hearing loss, and how it can affect communication, productivity, and relationships in the workplace. Fostering an inclusive and empathetic work environment that acknowledges and addresses hearing health starts with awareness. Join us to learn about fostering an inclusive culture, accommodating employees with hearing loss, and implementing strategies for better communication and productivity. We hope you join the conversation!
Learning Objectives:
- Summarize the impact of hearing loss on workplace communication
- Identify accommodations to support employees living with hearing loss
- List strategies to foster an inclusive and supportive workplace
Jina Etienne, CPA, CGMA
Etienne Consulting
Diversity & Inclusion Consultant, Speaker & Trainer
[email protected]
(301) 778-5510
Jina is a consultant and speaker on diversity, inclusion, culture, and belonging. She creates training programs and workshops to help clients move forward in their D&I journey. She is a storyteller and speaks candidly about her experiences, hard lessons, and ‘aha’ moments that helped her understand the importance of individuality, the value of curiosity, and the courage it takes to “just” be yourself. Often described as “approachable” and “relatable” by her clients, she works with purpose and the intention of being engaging, practical, and immediately applicable to real-world situations. Jina draws from her unique background and mix of work experiences to offer examples and share insights designed to benefit everyone across the workplace ecosystem – executives, management, employees, and customers.
Previously, she was Principal Consultant at EtiennePartners (EP), a boutique consulting firm that offered a unique strategy development, workshops & coaching to leaders, executives and entrepreneurs. Co-founded with her husband, EP was a full-time partnership in both work and life. Although in different professions, their work often intersected around the importance of self-awareness in leadership and navigating conflict within teams. Combining their experiences, backgrounds, and work led to the development of their unique approach to D&I, which she continues to use in her practice today.
Pat Dobbs
Being Heard
Founder
[email protected]
Pat is a DEI Consultant specializing in hearing health, with an emphasis on how hearing loss affects individuals and organizations in the workplace. She also coaches individuals on how to achieve hearing health at work and at home. Pat’s work is deeply connected to her lived experience of adult-onset hearing loss. She wears bilateral cochlear implants and shares her experiences to help her clients identify with and connect to her work every day.
She founded the Hearing Loss Association of America, Morris County Chapter, NJ in 2011, and today is President of the international online support group, the SayWhatClub, saywhatclub.org. Now a resident of Deer Isle, Maine she recently formed the DownEast Chapter of HLAA. Her updated website BeingHeard.net, will be launched in January 2024.
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About Our Presenter
Etienne Consulting's work is informed by their unique mix of experience in public accounting & business consulting, association management & member engagement, and diversity & inclusion consulting and training. Although in a variety of roles and industries, their work has always intersected around the importance of self-awareness in leadership, clarity of purpose, and navigating conflict within teams.
This led them to develop techniques to deepen awareness and strengthen communication — core skills necessary for driving meaningful change in organizations. They work with businesses and firms to infuse diversity, equity, and inclusion across all aspects of people experience, operations, policy, communications, branding, and community & social responsibility. Their training programs and workshops are designed to bridge the gap between diversity and inclusion by offering concrete skills and communication strategies teams and use to build teams capable of leveraging their full diversity to drive innovation, growth, and lasting cultural change. They also offer support in developing, implementing, executing, and reporting on D&I strategy.
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