L111725 2025 Children's Minnesota ERG Summit
The ERG Leadership Summit 2025 serves as a dynamic forum for exploring the vital role of employee resource groups in fostering an inclusive, supportive, and innovative workplace culture. The event is dedicated to:
Empowering ERG Leaders: Offering practical tools, resources, and strategies to enhance the effectiveness and impact of ERGs.
Promoting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Facilitating discussions on best practices for creating inclusive environments that respect and celebrate diverse perspectives.
Sharing Knowledge and Insights: Providing a platform for ERG leaders to exchange ideas, experiences, and success stories that drive positive organizational change.
Strategizing and Planning: Creating opportunities for both outgoing and newly elected ERG leaders to come together in a dedicated time of visioning, strategizing and planning for the future of their respective ERGs.
Target Audience
Children's Minnesota ERG leaders consisting of Clinical/Patient Care staff, Leadership & Management staff, Operations & Support staff, and Equity, Education & Development staff.
Learning Objectives
- Identify best practices for high-impact ERG performance based on foundational change concepts and organizational research
- Explain the vital link between the hospital's Annual Operating Plan (AOP), employee engagement, and the strategic role of ERG's in organizational connection
- Communicate the ERG's finalized strategic plan clearly and confidently to both members and organizational stakeholders
- Propose actionable solutions and next steps for both overcoming identified barriers to commitment and ensuring leadership continuity
Agenda
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 am | Executive Welcome | James Burroughs |
| 9:05 am | ERGs and the Annual Operating Plan | Keisha Powell & Greg Johnson |
| 9:20 am | Change Management in Leadership | Alex Heisel |
| 10:15 am | CEO Remarks and Q&A | Emily Chapman, MD |
| 10:30 am | Break | |
| 10:45 am | ERG Strategic Planning + Work Time | La'Anna Johnson & Ron Jarvi |
| 11:45 am | Break | |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch | |
| 12:30 pm | Regroup/Buffer Time | |
| 12:45 pm | Strategic Planning Share-Out | ERG Leaders |
| 1:30 pm | Be Well Overview + Guided Stress Break | Shanna Larson |
| 2:15 pm | Break | |
| 2:30 pm | Leadership Commitment | Allen Malicsi |
| 3:30 pm | Closing | E&I Team |
| 4:00 pm | Adjourn |
Room: CBC Canteen
Parking:
- Employees should utilize the parking ramp at the bottom of the hill when they arrive. Parking up top is reserved for visitors but often fills up fast on certain days. We try to keep that area open for visiting Foundation donors and committee meeting attendees or visitors/employees needing special accommodation due to physical limitations or injury.
- Enter through the lower level EMPLOYEE entrance across from the parking ramp.
FACULTY:
James Burroughs - Senior Vice President Government & Community Relations, Chief Equity & Inclusion Officer
Emily Chapman, MD - President & Chief Executive Officer
Alex Heisel - Manager Change Management Program
Ron Jarvi - Senior OD&L Consultant
Greg Johnson - VP Talent & Strategy
LaAnna Johnson - Clinical Equity Education Specialist
Shanna Larson - Be Well Program Manager
Allen Malicsi - Senior Equity & Inclusion Consultant
Keisha Powell - Director Equity & Inclusion
PLANNING COMMITTEE:
Kris Donnelly, MBA - Senior Equity & Inclusion Consultant
LaAnna Johnson, BSN, RN, PHN, CCRN-K, QA - Clinical Equity Education Specialist
Allen Mallicsi - Senior Equity & Inclusion Consultant
Traci Shannon - Equity & Inclusion Specialist
DISCLOSURE STATEMENT:
It is our intent that any potential conflict should be identified openly so that the listeners may form their own judgments about the presentation with the full disclosure of the facts. It is not assumed any potential conflicts will have an adverse impact on these presentations. It remains for the audience to determine whether the speaker’s outside interest may reflect a possible bias, either the exposition or the conclusions presented.
Planning committee members and presenter(s) have disclosed they have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing selling re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients and have disclosed that no conflict of interest exists with the presentation/educational event.

Accreditation Statement:
In support of improving patient care, Children’s Minnesota is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Children’s Minnesota takes responsibility for the content, quality and scientific interest of its accredited continuing education events.
Credit Statement:
AMA
Children’s Minnesota designates this live activity for a maximum of 4.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent to their participation in the activity.
ANCC
Children's Minnesota designates this live activity for a maximum of 4.25 ANCC nursing contact hour. Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
ACPE
Pharmacists and Pharmacy Techs will have their attendance reported in the CPE Monitor for ACPE credits provided they have entered their NABP-ePID and birth month and day where indicated when setting up their profile.
This program offers 4.25 contact hours of continuing education. Most medical professional organizations accept AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. It is the individual’s responsibility to determine whether an education activity meets the continuing education requirements of their respective licensures and/or professional boards. Go to your respective organization’s website for more detailed information regarding credit requirements.
Available Credit
- 4.25 ACPE
- 4.25 ACPE Pharmacy technician
- 4.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 4.25 ANCC
- 4.25 Attendance
- 4.25 Approved AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

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