The Breakfast Club: Leveraging cross-disciplinary expertise to create strong interprofessional teams

Education Session Description: Studies have shown that there are immense benefits to having diverse teams in the workplace--from increased productivity to creative breakthroughs--but what is it really like to work on one? While our time spent in the library is not for detention like in the 80’s classic film, we do spend our days working together to find common ground. Join four professionals, with diverse backgrounds ranging from grassroots organizing to public health to arts non-profits to library administration, as they discuss working on an interdisciplinary start-up team, housed within an academic health sciences library.

In this session, we will discuss our backgrounds and how our unique expertise has contributed to forming a cohesive and dynamic work relationship. Learn how we’ve built a culture filled with empathy, trust, healthy conflict, and lots of humor. Explore how to maximize diverse skill sets, work experiences, and both formal and informal education, to create cohesive workplace teams. Attendees will reflect on ways to integrate their own unique career experiences into their current or future work environments.