Please join Rob Stepen from Insperity for an exclusive lunch and learn with Ahmed Flex Omar on Return to equity.
We would like attendees to walk away from this presentation with an appreciation for how personal narratives can be an accessible and powerful medium for connection in the workplace. Additionally, we like to inspire attendees to consider their own stories, and how their identities impact their presence at work and contribute to the cultural landscape in the office.
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Ahmed Flex Omar is the Chief Experience Officer and co-founder of MALA (Muslim American Leadership Alliance), a 501c(3) nonprofit arts & culture organization dedicated to community building and cultural exchange through storytelling. Through a career that has spanned finance, accounting, IT, hospitality, and grassroots organizing, Omar has developed a unique perspective and expertise in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion which prioritizes empowerment through mentorship, storytelling, and relationship building.
Omar is a nonprofit vetted representative at the UNCSW and the UN ECOSOC, and has been awarded the President's Volunteer Service Award by President Obama. He is a co-founder of the Chicago Leadership Alliance and consults with dozens of startups and social enterprise ventures across the U.S.
Fun Facts about Ahmed Flex Omar
- Ahmed Flex Omar arrived in Chicago as a refugee from Somaliland in 2000, where he got his start working in IT, building computer labs in public schools on the city's West Side.
- Omar's organization, MALA, worked with the national Library of Congress to build the first ever oral history archive dedicated to Muslim American Narratives.
- Flex is fluent in over a dozen different world languages and dialects.
