Students from New York Institute of Technology’s School of Management participated in SHRM National’s Workplace Convos and Coffee event at the NYC Oculus Sept 25 & 26. The visit to the event was organized by the NYIT-SHRM Student Chapter and included Human Resources Management and Business Students, professors, and staff. The event had two focuses—for SHRM to introduce new research about the financial and other impacts of poor workplace cultures, and to give event participants a chance to network and talk with each other over free coffee about their own workplace cultures, and what they can do to improve them.

Our students had the opportunity to hear from and meet Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., SHRM’s CEO and President, as well as Miss USA 2019, Cheslie Kryst, MBA, JD, Esq., who is a practicing civil attorney and Impact Ambassador for Dress for Success. They talked about many of the issues that impact workplace culture, and how workplace culture affects business and the five generations of people who make up our workplace.

The students had a great time and learned a lot!

By William Ninehan