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Closing Keynote: Living, Thriving, and Taking Care of Business with a Disability
1.0 SHRM & HRCI (BUSINESS) Credits/NOT AVAILABLE FOR ON DEMAND
Location: Kalahari Ballroom
Date: Friday, September 27, 2024 Beginning at 12:00 PM
Session Duration
1.0

Learning Objective
  • Developing Emotional Intelligence: Understand and manage emotions effectively. Cultivate empathy and compassion for self and others. Learn healthy coping mechanisms to deal with stress and setbacks.
  • Building Cognitive Skills: Enhance problem-solving abilities. Strengthen decision-making skills. Foster critical thinking and adaptability.
  • Encouraging Self-Efficacy: Cultivate a sense of agency and control over one’s life. Set realistic goals and work toward achieving them. Believe in one’s ability to overcome challenges.
  • Session Description
    Problems are simply one of the prices we pay for being alive. Although the details and level of difficulty may differ for each individual, all human beings face adversity from time to time. There is no escape. Fortunately, while there is no one-size-fits-all solution for everyone's problems, solutions that help one person can often help others as well. As a result, we can learn from others' struggles and sometimes alleviate some of our own. Understanding the power of finding solutions for herself and reinventing her own life, Dr. Donna R. Walton will take the audience on a journey through her personal experience of living with a physical disability and the difficulties associated with it. During this journey, she will share learning objectives that can empower participants to lead more joyful and fulfilling lives as they struggle with their own adversity.

    Session Speaker

    More About Donna Walton, PhD

    Dr. Walton is Founder, President & CEO of The Divas With Disabilities Project (DWD). At the young age of 18, Donna R. Walton's dreams of being a dancer, a singer, and an actress were shattered when she was diagnosed with life-threatening cancer and had to have her left leg amputated to save her life.

    As she struggled for decades to return to a "normal" life, she learned—despite disasters, setbacks, trials and tribulations—how to survive and even thrive with a disability.

    Through the power of reinvention, working with other amputees, receiving national recognition from the National Disability Institute, and being featured on C-SPAN for her community-building projects surrounding the beauty of being a black woman with a disability, Walton got a new lease on life.