When's the last time you felt like you actually belonged at work — not tolerated, not counted, but genuinely welcome to bring your whole self into the room?

We talk a lot in the Detroit Culture First chapter about building cultures where people thrive. But belonging — the thing that determines whether people stay, grow, and bring their best — is a conversation we haven't sat down with directly. It's time. McKinsey's 2021 Great Attrition research found that 51% of employees who quit cited a lack of belonging as a reason they left. That's not a culture problem; it's infrastructure.

This session is a group conversation from the start — not a lecture. Sandy Harvey, founder of Exodus Consulting Group and author of The Inclusion Architecture Blueprint: A Seven Pillar Strategy for Transforming Workplace Culture, will set the table — and you are invited to ask the hard questions. Where the conversation goes is up to the room: what's actually happening in your organizations, what's working, what's not, and what you're trying (or wishing you could try).

Come ready to think out loud, hear what other culture leaders are navigating, and leave with a few new ideas — and maybe a sharper question or two — to bring back to your org.