2025 Leadership Seminar Series
Empowering healthtech leaders with information, strategies and tools to support inclusion and health equity in this new era
DxD HealthTech proudly presents a new webinar series addressing the current environment around diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Like the 2024 Building a Business of Purpose series, these webinars are designed for healthtech leaders including startup founders, executives and HR managers. Kimberly Jones, CEO of Kelton Legend, will provide context, case studies, resources and support for your evolving efforts to foster teams that expand your market reach and drive health equity.
Addressing Resistance to Equity Efforts in Medtech in 2025
March 27, 2025 @ 9 a.m. PST on Zoom
In this webinar, you’ll see the current resistance to diversity initiatives within the context of shifting workplace culture over the decades, and discover its impact on innovation. You’ll learn how to make the business case for inclusion in medtech by showing how it drives market share and improves patient outcomes. We’ll discuss strategies for reframing the conversation around inclusion, and give you practical tools for building resilient, sustainable programs that advance health equity.
In this session you’ll master:
Understanding the pushback:
- Analyzing the reasons behind resistance to inclusion efforts (e.g., political polarization, “anti-woke” movements, misperceptions of quotas vs. meritocracy).
- Exploring the impact of this resistance on workplace culture and industry innovation.
The business case for inclusion in medtech:
- Data-driven insights showing how inclusive teams improve decision-making, problem-solving, and patient outcomes.
- Examples of medtech products that failed or succeeded based on the inclusivity of their development teams.
Strategies to reframe and reinforce inclusion efforts:
- Shifting the conversation from compliance to business and human innovation.
- Focusing on shared goals, such as advancing health equity and tapping into broader markets.
- Training leaders to manage resistance constructively and communicate the long-term benefits of inclusion.
Practical tools for building resilient inclusion programs:
- Embedding equity and representation into company values and strategy to withstand external challenges.
- Engaging skeptics through allyship, education and storytelling.
- Creating measurable objectives tied to innovation and market success.
Cost: $15 | $5 for students | Free seats available for DxD Affiliates
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Leadership Seminar TBA
August 19, 2025 @ 9 a.m. PST on Zoom
About the presenter
Kimberly Jones is the Chief Executive Officer of Kelton Legend, a full-service talent acquisition consulting organization specializing in hiring strategy and process development, team optimization, resource management, and HR technology utilization. Kimberly is also an Instructor at University of California, Irvine where she teaches a course on Technology Applications in Talent Management. Previously, Kimberly was a Senior Talent Acquisition Leader at companies such as NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, GE Aviation, Raytheon, and Nationwide Insurance. A Six Sigma Green Belt and Certified Project Manager, she has been fortunate to create and lead diversity initiatives that included engagement with NSBE, SHPE, SWE, NBMBAA, NSHMBA, ROMBA, Inroads, UNCF, Tom Joyner Foundation, AISES, NAAAP, and SAES.
