Ben Berry, CIO Oregon Department of Transportation

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Martin Marched So Barack Could Run
Barack Ran So We All Could Fly
Everybody can be great because
everybody can serve!

• Ben Berry, CIO Oregon Department of
  Transportation
• Ben.berry_at_odot.state.or.us
• September 16, 2009

State of Oregon Diversity Program
Salem Conference Center 200 Commercial Street SE,
Salem, Oregon http//www.oregon.gov/ODOT/CS/ISB/c
io_report.shtml

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Americas Cross Roads of Change
DECREASING
INCREASING
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Lifes persistent and most urgent question is,
What are you doing for others?
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.Historical
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Like anybody, I would like to live a long life.
Longevity has its place, but I'm not concerned
about that now. I just want to do God's will,
and He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
And I've looked over, and I've seen the
promised land. I may not get there with you,
but I want you to know tonight, that we, as a
people will get to the promised land.

• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. just hours before his
  assassination in Memphis, Tennessee on April 3rd
  1968.
• Within a week of the assassination, the Open
  Housing Act is passed by Congress.

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Everybody can be great, because everybody can
serve!
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Forgive everyone for everything
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Martin Marched So Barack Could Run,
Barack Ran So We All Could Fly
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Diversity The condition of being unlike
unique of variety and differences.
Culture
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What is a culture?
An integrated pattern of indigenous knowledge,
beliefs and behaviors that are transmitted to
succeeding generations.
Whats Cultures impact on Trust Inclusion?
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• Prepare for Broad Based Change
• Take Opportunities to Get Involved
• Serve the Community
• Build a Diverse Society
• Build Commitment Through Trust

The Diversity Iceberg and Culture
How do we unite these attributes through trust
and inclusion to build effective cultural change?
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Ok, what is Inclusion?
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• Inclusion
• To take in become part of to include.

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C H A N G E
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More Change
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Cultural Buy-in Understanding
Requires agreed goal, principles or scope
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44 Presidents Leading to CHANGE
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And so today I ask you to keep on marching. As
long as there are those who are jobless, I ask
you to keep marching for jobs. As long as there
are those who struggle to raise a family on low
wages and no benefits, I ask you to keep marching
for opportunity. As long as there are those who
can't organize or unionize or bargain for a
better life, I ask you to keep marching for
solidarity. As long as there are those who try
to privatize our government and decimate our
social programs and peddle a philosophy of
trickle-down and on-your-own, I ask you to keep
marching for a vision of America where we rise or
fall together as a nation. My friends, it's time
to march for freedom. Time again to march for
hope. Time again to march towards the tomorrow
that so many have reached for so many times in
ourpast. I know we can get there.

• Barack Obama speaking at the AFSCME on August 7,
  2006.

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Barack Obama Iowa Caucus Victory Speech
They said this day would never come. They said
our sights were set too high. They said this
country was too divided too disillusioned to
ever come together around a common purpose.
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Barack Obama and Race Relations Speech






Shared

Vision
I chose to run for the presidency at this moment
in history because I believe deeply that we
cannot solve the challenges of our time unless we
solve them together - unless we perfect our union
by understanding that we may have different
stories, but we hold common hopes' that we may
not look the same and we may not have come from
the same place, but we all want to move in the
same direction - towards a better future for our
children and our grandchildren.
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McCain and Obama on the Bailout Crises
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McCain and Obama Presidential Debates
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Rudy Giuliani Obama, the Community Organizer
September 3, 2009 Chicago, Illinois
He worked as a community organizer, and maybe
this is the first problem on his resume.
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Barack Obama on Community Organizing
I would argue that doing work in the community
to try to create jobs, to bring people together,
to rejuvenate communities that have fallen on
hard times, to set up job-training programs in
areas that have been hard hit when the steel
plants closed, that that's relevant only in
understanding where I'm coming from, who I
believe in, who I'm fighting for and why I'm in
this race.
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Barack Obama Elected 44th U.S. President

Change We Need.
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Informational Interviewing
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Nina DiConcini - Teaching Others
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Ron Hunter Samaritans Feet
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Everybody can be great, because everybody can
serve!
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Break-out Group Questions
Martin Marched So Barack Could Run
Barack Ran So We All Could Fly
Everybody can be great because
everybody can serve!
Break-out Group 1 Sajal Maheshwari,
Facilitator a) What impact has this change had on
your worldview? b) How has this changed your
perception of the people around you?
Break-out Group 2 Majed Al Harbi,
Facilitator a) What barriers do you face when
working with a diverse society? b) What steps
would you undertake to overcome these barriers?
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They want us to BELIEVE we can all be one people
Realizing the Dream Together.
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Martin Marched So Barack Could Run
Barack Ran So We All Could Fly
Everybody can be great because everybody can
serve!
State of Oregon Diversity Program
This presentation was supported by Majed Al-Harbi
and Sajal Maheshwari, graduates of Willamette
University MBA Program. For more information
contact Ben Berry at mail to ben.berry_at_odot.state
.or.us