Designing Your D & I Strategy Thursday, March 10, 2022 1:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. How is Diversity built? What does Inclusion mean in your organization? Where do you even start? All great questions to ask when thinking of how to build and/or expand your D&I practice.  Tune into this session to learn about the steps to take to understand how to think through your strategic approach to building D&I that is right for your company. Additionally, how to identify and engage your stakeholders along the way. Sarah Hassaine is currently the Global Director of Diversity at the MedTech company ResMed, a global leader in digital health and connected medical devices. She has over five years of experience in the D&I space, starting at Amazon where she helped with recruiting and retaining women in Applied Sciences, and at Qualcomm where she led their conference engagement, affinity group expansion, and their inclusion building programs and initiatives for over four years. At ResMed, Sarah is focused on building a global strategy, expanding their affinity groups, and working closely with leaders and stakeholders across the company. Prior to finding her niche in D&I, Sarah worked in international development and government consulting around the world. Sarah is very devoted to community empowerment and has done a lot of work in San Diego with refugees and across the border in Mexico with orphanages through Corazon de Vida. She is part of the San Diego Tech Women Coalition, the San Diego Diversity Council and is on the Board of the Southwest chapter of Planned Parenthood, the Kim Center of Social Balance at UCSD and the Annual Women Symposium at the Our Lady of Peace High School. She just completed her Executive MBA from the Wharton Business School at UPenn and has an MA in Policy from George Washington University and a BA in International Affairs from UCSD. She is trilingual, fluent in both French and Arabic.