Inclusion Workshop

Making Inclusion Work | Readiness, Rightsizing & ROI

May 11, 2025 | Marco Island, FL

NSAA and PepsiCo are excited to have Damaris Price on deck to facilitate an all-day workshop geared toward ski area HR professionals, upper-level managers, general change agents and industry stakeholders. The workshop takes place May 11, 2025, in Marco island, FL. Registration is separate from the National Convention and Tradeshow. Keep reading for the full course description.

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Mountain Foundation Scholarships

NSAA is committed to making education accessible for the next generation of industry leaders. Scholarships cover the cost of registration for this workshop. Deadline to apply is March 15, 2025. Fill out the application here.

Course Description

Few would argue the business sensibility of welcoming a variety of people into your organization and onto the mountains to find place, purpose, community, and recreation, all while treating them well and fairly in the process. These days, when we say diversity, equity, and inclusion, no one is surprised that the refrain is that it’s complicated.

As a critical change agent in your organization, you align with the principle, but maybe you still find yourself saying, “Now what?” Perhaps you want to respond to a changing talent and guest market, but DEI, a political hot potato, has become too divisive to touch. It could be that you are feeling stuck, wondering how to proceed amidst a movement that seems to have lost steam and momentum. Maybe you are worried about doing the wrong thing, at the wrong time, the wrong way. Or it could be that DEI’s enormity and complexity just seem to outweigh its actionable usefulness.

Because building a pathway towards inclusion is never one size fits all, Making Inclusion Work | Readiness, Rightsizing & ROI answers how to incorporate an actionable and measurable strategy that meets your organization at the point of its readiness in ways that are not too big or too small.

Participants Will Discover:

  • Why welcoming and inclusion are critical to your business’ survival and thriving.
  • How can you assess the readiness of organizations (and its people) and rightsize your strategy to meet staff and guests where they are while creating positive and measurable change?
  • Actionable micro, moderate, and macro moves toward universal outcomes everyone wants and the success formula to help you achieve them.
  • How to build responsiveness strategies to handle guests or staff who write these efforts off, speak out against them, or worse–behave in ways that threaten safety, welcoming, and inclusion.
  • How to maintain positive advocacy in a resistant climate – without too much push or pull.

Thank you to PepsiCo for supporting this important work in the inclusion space.