Equip yourself to build a fair and inclusive workplace. This course empowers you to recognize, prevent, and effectively address all forms of workplace discrimination.
Discrimination in the workplace undermines trust, morale, and organizational integrity. This course provides participants with a comprehensive understanding of what constitutes discrimination under U.S. federal law and organizational ethics frameworks, including protected classes, implicit bias, and disparate impact. Through practical examples, case studies, and reflective exercises, learners will explore how discriminatory behaviors can manifest in hiring, promotions, compensation, and everyday interactions.
The course emphasizes the shared responsibility of employees, managers, and leaders to promote equity, respect, and inclusion. Participants will learn to recognize both overt and subtle forms of discrimination, understand complaint and investigation processes, and adopt proactive strategies to foster a fair and inclusive workplace culture.
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Through practical case studies, discussions on navigating subtle or unintentional behaviors, and an emphasis on continuous learning, this course equips you with the knowledge and tools to ensure a fair, respectful, and legally compliant workplace. Join us to build a culture of accountability, transparency, and mutual respect.
Lynn Fountain has over 45 years of experience spanning public accounting, corporate accounting and consulting. 24 years of her experience has been working in the areas of internal and external auditing. She is a subject matter expert in multiple fields including internal audit, ethics, fraud evaluations, Sarbanes-Oxley, enterprise risk management, governance, financial management and compliance. Ms. Fountain has held two Chief Audit Executive positions for international companies. In 2011, as the Chief Audit Executive for an international construction/ engineering firm, she was involved in the active investigation of a joint venture fraud. The investigation included work with the FBI and ultimately led to indictment of the perpetrators and recovery of $13M. Ms. Fountain is currently engaged in her own training and consulting business and is a regular trainer for the AICPA. Ms. Fountain is the author of three separate technical books. “Raise the Red Flag – The Internal Auditors Guide to Fraud Evaluations” was published by the Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation. -“Leading The Internal Audit Function” and -“Ethics and The Internal Auditor Political Dilemma” were published by Taylor & Francis In addition Ms. Fountain was a contributing author to the certification program exam for the National Association of Accountants. She also has certificate programs on various on-line platforms. Ms. Fountain has performed as an adjunct instructor for the School of Business for Grantham University and developed the first internal audit curriculum for the School of Business at the University of Kansas. Ms. Fountain obtained her BSBA from Pittsburg State University and her MBA from Washburn University in Kansas. She has her CGMA, CRMA credentials and CPA certificate (non-active).
