Employer Coalition: Representative Recruiting Strategies: Hiring for Impact in a Complex Climate

In today’s evolving environment, finding and retaining top talent is more complex than ever. This session explores practical ways organizations can strengthen their hiring strategies - ensuring fairness and consistency, expanding access, and aligning talent - while navigating a shifting legal and political landscape with clarity and confidence.

SCHEDULE: 

1:00–2:20 PM – Core Session

• Community check-in
• Context: the shifting legal and social landscape (hiring/talent impacts)
• Organizational health: aligning talent with performance and purpose
• “Lifting vs. Leveling” framework
• Five pillars of representative recruiting
• Resources for staying informed and grounded in the current climate

2:20–3:00 PM – Resource Roundtable
A moderated, conversational “speed round” with:

• Natasha Nuytten – Clara
• Kellee Mikuls – Ignite Nebraska
• Abigail Moland – McGrath North
• Emily Adams – Inclusion Analytics

This group will be offering insightful information over the following: 

• What’s still legal, smart, and sustainable in hiring
• Innovative philosophies to guide progress
• Tools, partnerships, and practices that help organizations drive impact

Featrured Speaker: As the CEO, Founder and Principal Consultant of Mindpower Strategic, Angela Cooper helps organizations shape cultures that empower, engage, and energize people. With a background in strategic planning, organizational communication and change management, Cooper has 25+ years of experience leading workplace culture transformation. Angela now serves as a culture strategist, change architect, and trusted partner for forward-thinking business leaders who are shaping healthier, higher-performing cultures where everyone can operate at their best. Mindpower Strategic offers a full spectrum of services to advance organizational health, from strategy development and special project leadership to speaking, training, and toolkits that help transform workplace culture