Jun 14, 2022
Evette Ellis is the Co-founder and Chief Workforce Officer at ChargerHelp!, a technology solutions company focusing on the electric vehicle supply equipment industry. Their services are designed to help maintain EV charging stations. Evette is a workforce specialist, having worked with the US Department of Labor’s Job Corps from 2012 to 2017 as a career transition specialist and outreach specialist. She is also passionate about diversity and inclusion, especially when it comes to moving the careers of underrepresented professionals forward.
Evette joins us to discuss the services ChargerHelp! offers and how they manage their DE&I program. She explains how the company is employee-centric and values equity above all. She describes how they’re spearheading an industry that will be in demand in the coming years. Evette also shares their hiring practices and discusses the future of ChargerHelp!.
"If your goal is to be diverse, you have to go the extra mile." - Attribution
This week on Breaking Barriers:
- Who Evette is and what ChargerHelp! is all about
- Achieving both the vision and mission of ChargerHelp!
- How they made DE&I achievable in their business
- Valuing the people who keep your business running
- Solving problems of equity and opportunity in the EV industry
- Why Evette feels some deserving professionals are underrepresented
- What Evette thinks causes the salary gap between minority and non-minority professionals
- Why Evette is actively recruiting more women
- The ridiculous gap in the EVSE Tech world
- The training Evette’s employees undergo
- What's in the pipeline for ChargerHelp!
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