Los Angeles Business Journal's Diversity & Inclusion Summit


The Diversity and Inclusion Summit consists of morning panel discussions featuring companies and individuals who have shown an exceptional commitment to promoting practices that advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace and in business leadership. Executives will explain the importance of leading and developing an increasingly diverse workforce, and how they achieve company goals.

CEO Commitment
This panel will consist of CEO’s sharing their views on challenges and opportunities when building and measuring a culture of diversity and inclusion within their organizations; and the effects it has on productivity.

Human Capital
Forward thinking companies will share their perspectives on the best practices for recruitment, hiring, retention and mentorship of employees in a diverse work environment as well as the legal considerations that should be of concern.

Supplier Diversity

Influential executives will help to define supplier diversity, and talk about the strategies used by successful businesses to procure minority contracts and secure access to capital.

Leadership

This panel will discuss how managers can improve communication, manage conflict, and create a vision that will raise the effectiveness of a company in a diverse and inclusive environment.

Building a Diverse Team

Top business leaders will share the issues that need to be considered when building a diverse team and how that correlates to productivity, profitability, business growth and morale.


Supplier Diversity 
Priscilla Chavez, Manager, Diversity & Inclusion, PCL Construction Services, Inc.
Dr. Lois M. Shelton, Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship, California State University, Northridge- David Nazarian College of Business and Economics
Erin Henning, Director of Supply Chain Services, Los Angeles Department of Water & Power 

Building a Diverse Team 
Patrick McClenahan, President & CEO, Goodwill of Southern California
Michael Ormonde, Los Angeles Region Bank President, Wells Fargo
Anita Wu, Principle, Green Hasson Janks

Leadership & CEO Commitment 
Janet Lamkin, California President, United Airlines

Keynote Speaker
Sahar Andrade, Sahar Consulting, LLC

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