Registration for the 2024 Community Engagement Day is now closed.
If you are registered, keep an eye on your inbox for more information as the event date approaches. We look forward to your participation.
Networking for the Community
For the past six years we have been elated to bring together individuals from across the metroplex to the Community Engagement Day. This year Community Engagement Day will offer the opportunity for nonprofit organizations to meet and connect in person four times throughout the year.
You are invited to attend the next quarterly Annual Community Engagement Day Luncheons for 2024. This is your chance to connect with other nonprofits in order to share resources and discover new opportunities to collaborate. Submit your information below and instruction on attending and parking will be emailed to you soon.
2024 Community Engagement Day
When: October 15, 2024
Time: 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Where: Briscoe Carpenter Livestock Center at Fair Park
1403 Washington St.
Dallas, Texas 75210
Topics for Discussion: Leadership for the Greater Good: Inspiring Your Team and Community
Discuss how effective leadership that prioritizes people and community engagement can lead to sustainable business success. This session includes actionable strategies for leading with empathy, vision, and community involvement.
Lunch will be provided.
Join the Community Affairs NewsletterMeet Our Guest Speaker
MICHELLE BURGESS, MBA | DIRECTOR OF INCLUSION & DIVERSITY FOR COCA-COLA SOUTHWEST BEVERAGES
Michelle Burgess, MBA is the Director of Inclusion & Diversity for Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages. As a certified DEI in the workplace practitioner, Michelle promotes an inclusive environment of belonging in the CCSWB culture and delivers the DEI strategy not just as a business imperative, but to ensure the BEST outcomes throughout the entire employee cycle of the associates (referred to as heroes) which are as diverse as the products Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages produces for 31 million friends and neighbors.
She coaches leaders to become self-aware, creates vulnerable spaces for people to share their realities, while teaching others to lean in and move from being a believer of diversity, to taking action and becoming a builder of inclusion and impact! As a true change agent, she has been a volunteer, advocate, board member and speaker on the issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, access, belonging, healthcare equity, exclusion in the classroom, food deserts, housing discrimination and workplace systems. Michelle is the Founder and CEO of “Just Reset It, LLC” which helps organizations to promote inclusive cultures while delivering a people strategy, that begins by leading with integrity. She believes ethical leadership builds trust and leads to long-term success, for the business and the people!
Michelle’s unique background and mix of 30+ years’ workplace leadership experiences (technology, bottling and beverage, manufacturing, healthcare administration, non-profit, education, early childhood, and retail) equip her to provide insight, with engaging, practical, and immediately applicable transformation solutions to real-world situations, for organizations and even individuals seeking direction.