Learn How to Sustain and Build Global Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives in Front and Center of the Business

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Date:

February 9, 2010

Time:

8:00am - 3:45pm

Location:

The New York Times Company

620 8th Avenue

15th Floor

New York, New York

Building and Sustaining Global Diversity Initiatives

New York Times
620 8th Avenue, 15th Floor Conference Center
New York, NY
Hosted by the New York Times Company

Now in its fourth year, Diversity Best Practices' Global Best Practice Session offers its members a full day of research insights, best practice case studies and interactive discussion structured around three provocative topics:

•   Implementing Global Gender Strategies: Utilizing Metrics and Accountability for Driving Gender Equality,
•   The Workforce and Long-term Implications: Innovative Strategies for People with Disabilities and
•   Corporate Social Responsibility as a Vehicle to Deliver Diversity and Inclusion Results

Following the symposium you and your global diversity colleagues will join an exclusive group of Global CEOs for our first Global CEO Roundtable at St. Bart’s. Both groups will report out findings from their various perspectives.

The CEO Roundtable is part of DBP’s prestigious CEO Diversity Leadership Initiative. A CEO Report will be issued from the proceedings to all DBP members.

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Presentations:

Agenda

February 9, 2010

8:00 am - 8:45 am Breakfast and introductions

8:45 am - 9:05 am Opening Remarks

Carol Evans, CEO, Diversity Best Practices
Desiree Dancy, Chief Diversity Officer, The New York Times

Emcee:
Andres Tapia, Chief Diversity Officer & Emerging Workforce Solutions Leader, Hewitt Associates

9:05 am - 10:00 am Implementing Global Gender Strategies: Utilizing Metrics and Accountability for Driving Gender Equality

Powerful social and economic change is brought about when girls and women have the opportunity to participate in their society. The gender gap maintains to be a main focus as US Secretary Clinton stated in her November 6th, speech that advancing the right of women is now a cornerstone of US foreign policy.

Women perform 66 percent of the world’s work and produce 50 percent of the food, while earning 10 percent of the income and owning 1 percent of the property (United Nations Development Fund for Women 2008). Even the political profile of women is still low: Only 18.6 percent of Parliament members globally are women, according to the Geneva-based Inter-Parliamentary Union. During this session participants will hear from leaders who’s companies utilize metrics and accountability to drive gender equality.

Leslie Traub, President/CEO, Cook Ross, Inc.
Dr. Rohini Anand, Senior Vice President & Global Chief Diversity Officer, Sodexo

10:00 am - 10:50 am Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): A Vehicle to Deliver Diversity and Inclusion Results

Leaders of global multinationals are looking to CSR as a key tool, to not only maintain but also to sustain the workforce. No longer is CSR viewed as a “nice thing to do” but rather as a key strategic tool in creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. Stanford University surveyed 800 MBA students from eleven leading North American and European business schools and found that 94% would accept a lower salary --an average of 14 percent lower--to work for a firm with a reputation for being environmentally friendly, caring about employees and about outside stakeholders such as the community. Furthermore, in reviewing employees’ evaluations companies are considering their involvement in the community in determining their performance and compensation. How can companies align their business units more effectively in order to implement and execute sustainable as well as customized CSR programs? What’s being done to shrink the gaps and take steps forward?

Sam Taylor, Founder, Reputation Dynamics
Peter Lamberta, Manager, Office of Global Diversity & Inclusion, Whirlpool Corporation
Orlando D. Ashford, Senior Vice Presdient & Chief Human Resources Officer, Marsh and McLennan Companies (MMC)

10:50 am - 11:05 am Break

11:05 am – 11:55 am The Workforce and Long-term Implications: Innovative Strategies for People with Disabilities

The International Labour Organization estimates there are 610 million individuals with disabilities worldwide, 386 million of working age with approximately 80% live in developing countries. Unemployment is significantly higher among people with disabilities than in the workforce as a whole; unemployment rates range from twice as high to 80% higher than average in some countries. In addition, race gender and social background are factors that put differently abled individuals at a further disadvantage. As the workforce is shrinking in some areas of the world, hiring and retaining differently abled individuals needs now to be framed as an opportunity, rather than a gesture of good will. What are the barriers in some countries to hiring disabled individuals? What savvy strategies have proven to be successful in some countries and in other countries appear to fail? What are the measurements tools to increase the representation of individuals with disabilities?

Dana Foote, Audit Partner & Co-Chair of National Disabilities Network, KPMG
Frances West, Worldwide Director, Human Ability & Accessibility Center, IBM

11:55 am – 12:15 pm Closing remarks & next steps

12:30 pm – 1:45 pm Luncheon

1:45 pm – 2:30 pm Transportation to St. Bart's

2:30 pm – 3:45 pm Joint Report Out with CEOs at St. Bart’s

At this time global diversity practitioners and CEO of leading companies will report out findings from their various perspectives.

• Implementing Global Gender Strategies: Utilizing Metrics and Accountability for Driving Gender Equality
• The Workforce and Long-term Implications: Innovative Strategies for People with Disabilities

A CEO Report will be issued from the proceedings to all DBP members.

Draft as of 1-25-10 – subject to change