CSAC’s 125th Annual Conference was held in San Francisco
City/County during the first week of December. The conference
offered a variety of workshops, speakers, policy committee
meetings, and networking opportunities – and the Women’s
Leadership Forum (WLF) had a strong presence.
The WLF held a business meeting on Monday, December 2 where
members discussed the WLF by-laws, topics of interest to the
group and elected Supervisor Lynda Hopkins with Sonoma County as
the new Suburban Co-Chair replacing Supervisor Susan Gorin also
with Sonoma County.
After the business meeting, the WLF hosted a workshop on implicit
bias facilitated by Cassandra Walker Pye. The workshop focused on
how biases develop (naturally) and how those biases affect our
decisions and actions in the workplace and beyond; assist
leaders, department heads, managers and associates understand the
source of unconscious bias; and include structural and individual
strategies that can be utilized when managing the impacts of
biases in the workplace.
The workshop provided attendees with valuable information
and strategies to take back to their counties. Lastly, to end the
day, the WLF held a reception where elected, county staff,
sponsors and corporate partners had an opportunity to network and
optimize relationship building.
