Network and Affinity Leadership Congress (NALC) – Chicago 2012
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This year's theme is: CREATING VALUE: ERGs as Talent & Business Drivers
ATTEND NALC Chicago 2012 for an in depth learning experience!
- Discover ways to increase the business value of employee groups
- Learn new program ideas and strategies & tools to take your network to the next level
- Experience peer-to-peer learning with case studies and best practices
- Understand the power of full engagement
- Network with colleagues from leading companies
Who Should Attend
- Network and Affinity Group Member or Leader
- Program Manager
- Diversity or HR Professional
- Corporate Executive Sponsor
- Company considering the business benefits of network & affinity groups
What our 2011 attendees said about NALC:
- “Great ideas on how to improve ERGs to bring business value and relevance.”
- “This experience has opened my mind and perspective to ERG opportunities and best practices.”
- “Gave me information and ideas I know I can really use.”
- “This conference has been a great source for networking and information
from both panelists and attendees. It was great that the sessions were
real-life experiences.”
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Agenda
Thursday, September 6, 2012 *
7:30 am - 8:30 am Networking Breakfast/Registration
8:30 am - 8:55 am Welcome
Carol Evans / CEO / Diversity Best Practices
President’s Remarks: Next Generation ERG
Andrés Tapia / President / Diversity Best Practices
8:55 am - 9:30 am Keynote and Conversation
Tracey Gibson / Director, Global Diversity and Inclusion / Cargill Incorporated
9:45 am - 11:00 am Round I: Structure/Organization
A. EMERGING LEADERS: Creating Measurable Membership Value to Encourage & Retain Participation
Successful organizations understand that they must grow their people to grow the business. Employee Resource Groups are really business resource groups—they recruit talent, assist with mentoring and talent development, and help to build future leaders within the organizations. Learn new ways to ignite membership by identifying measurable value and critical takeaways. For example, Northern Trust partners their ERG Leadership Team with their Training team to create and conduct development programs. KPMG will share how they leverage networks to increase employee engagement, ensure strategic alignment to key business objectives to bolster membership visibility, and link ERG participation to Talent Development by creating opportunities for leadership skills enhancement and mentoring. At the Hartford Financial Services Group, find out how the Professional Women’s Network inspires and leads members to embrace their core mission, and achieve positive outcomes for professional women.
FACILITATOR:
Sharon Susberry Grace / Vice President, Strategic Program Manager / Northern Trust
PRESENTERS:
Mark Steinbrunner / Senior Designer / KPMG (LGBT)
Wendy Zacchio / Vice President / The Hartford Financial Services Group (Professional Women’s Network)
B. PROGRAM MANAGERS: Securing & Engaging Senior Management Support of ERGs
The true strength of an ERG is often linked to effective and rich engagement of senior partners—to do so, requires a strong foundation in terms of vision, mission and business alignment. FINRA will share how the early and frequent involvement of senior leadership in designing, implementing and championing of ERGs has been instrumental in the successful alignment of the program with the overall business strategy. GlaxoSmithKline shares the details, challenges, and effective approaches leveraged on the journey to engage senior leaders—and how they effectively organized a company-wide panel discussion to communicate the value of participation, show support from senior management, and address middle management reluctance. Ernst & Young shares best practices in securing the engagement of senior management as Executive Sponsors and connecting network leaders to the people, business and markets strategy.
FACILITATOR:
Audria Pendergrass Lee / Associate Director Diversity & WorkLife / Financial Industry Regulatory Authority FINRA
PRESENTERS:
Samira Akpan / Sr. Clinical Trial Administrator / Stiefel, a GSK company (Asian Employee Resource Group)
Jackie Lillie / Inclusiveness & Flexibility Leader-Midwest / Ernst & Young, LLP
C. EXPERIENCED LEADERS: Developing Succession Plans to Sustain & Meet Challenges Faced by ERGs
A well-thought out succession plan for ERGs - and effectively communicating the importance of succession planning to members and advocates - can make all the difference in terms of longevity and impact. A representative from CDW’s Pan Asian Council highlights the benefits of a succession plan to ERGs sustainability along with the tactical responsibilities of executing a proper succession plan. Northern Trust addresses the benefits of involving older, experienced employees to retain valuable intellectual capacity, tap and engage experienced employees, and increase mentoring resources.
FACILITATOR:
Nadine Vogel / Founder & President / Springboard Consulting LLC
PRESENTERS:
Ken Jatczak / VP, Program Manager, IT / Northern Trust (Experienced Professionals)
Bharat Walia / Sales Account Manager / CDW PAC (Pan Asian Council)
D. BURNING ISSUES FORUM: Globalizing ERG: Exploring How Organizations Launch ERGs Across Global Regions
ERGs have gone global! So… what’s involved in having ERGs that span multiple geographic regions? Is it more effective to run them as independent chapters, or align them tightly to a global D&I strategy? How do you fund and support them, if you don’t have regional D&I budgets? Come prepared to share where you’re stuck, your questions and your successes when it comes to globalizing ERGs in your organization.
FACILITATOR:
Monica Francois Marcel / Managing Partner & Co-Founder / Language & Culture Worldwide (LCW)
11:00 am - 11:15 am Refreshment Break
11:15 am - 12:30 pm Round I Repeated (4 Tracks)
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm “Great Ideas” Networking Luncheon
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm Round II: Leadership Development
A. EMERGING LEADERS: Grow Your Career Through ERG Leadership
ERGs are the perfect training ground for leadership in your business. Find out how leading an ERG will take your career to the next level and showcase your ability to influence, “lead up” and engage employees. Presenters will identify ways to leverage leadership roles to become more influential in your team and in your organization, while managing your commitment to strategic goals and increasing visibility.
FACILITATOR:
Lacetti Fields / Diversity & Corporate Social Responsibility Manager, Social Responsibility Manager / Hitachi Consulting (Women's Interactive Network)
PRESENTERS:
Julie Fryer / Principal HR Business Partner / CA Technologies (ERG Program Manager)
Christopher Janc / Vice President, Banker / JP Morgan Private Bank (VETS Voices for Employees That Served)
B. PROGRAM MANAGERS: Designing Professional Development Plans for ERG Success
When striving to bring your vision to life and ensure your ERG’s success, a Professional Development Plan often plays the foremost critical role. Understand and harness the power of the transformational ERG leader and learn the specifics of an effective professional development plan. In this session, learn how Fannie Mae assigns their ERG leaders by focus groups to design, communicate, implement and articulate an action plan to elevate their ERGs by utilizing internal and external stakeholders. CDW will share how they align their ERG leader development plans to be intentional about the results they want to see, bringing inclusion full circle from intent to impact focusing on purpose, power, potential and presence.
PRESENTERS:
Torrance Hucks / Diversity Associate I – ERGs / Fannie Mae (Project Manager)
Jen Malone / Inclusion Practices Manager / CDW
C. EXPERIENCED LEADERS: Leveraging Employee Networks to Recruit, Retain & Promote Diverse Talent
Diversity and inclusion remains a top priority on the c-suite agenda. An active Diversity & Inclusion strategy that incorporates highly engaged ERGs is an important strategy to develop a diverse pipeline and communicate the value of a career with your organization. Find out how companies involve members to strategically partner with internal and external recruiting efforts, and raise awareness about the importance of integrating ERG activities with the retention and development efforts of the business.
FACILITATOR:
Consuelo Rodriguez / Senior Manager, Global Diversity & Inclusion / Dell
PRESENTERS:
Kevin Jordan / National Manager, Diversity & Corporate Responsibility / KPMG (African American Network)
Dave LaGassa / Managing Vice President, Business Analysis / Capital One (Military Network)
Walter McCollum / Director, Organizational Development / Sodexo Honoring Our Nation's finest with Opportunity & Respect (HONOR)
D. BURNING ISSUES FORUM: Next Generation Recruiting
To truly hire diversity we must stop recruiting for the masses and recruit for the individuals. With all the electronic screening processes and checking off boxes, we have stopped recruiting for talent and are recruiting just to meet qualifications. To truly recruit the best diverse candidates, we need to get to know the candidates, their skill sets and transferable skills that will make an impact in the job.
Sometimes those candidates don't check off all the requirements, don't come from the same industry and appear to be not a safe hire. But these are candidates that will create change and that will be game changers for your company.
FACILITATOR:
Isaias Zamarripa / CEO / Three Degrees from Isaias
3:15 pm– 3:30 pm Refreshment Break
3:30 pm – 4:45 pm Round II Repeated (4 Tracks)
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Cocktail Reception
Friday, September 7, 2012 *
7:30 am - 9:00 am Networking Breakfast
9:00 am - 9:05 am Welcome
Carol Evans / CEO / Diversity Best Practices
9:05 am - 9:15 am Opening Remarks
Bo Young Lee / Global Diversity & Inclusion Practice Leader / Diversity Best Practices
9:15 am - 10:00 am Keynote and Conversation: Four Lenses for Reframing Diversity
Dr. Kevin Kumashiro / President-Elect / National Association for Multicultural Education
10:15 am - 11:30 am Round III: Aligning with the Business
A. EMERGING LEADERS: Tools for Launching & Supporting ERGs that Add Value to the Business
What are the fundamental requirements for launching and building a successful partnership between employee resource groups and employers to increase the value-add to the business? JPMorgan Chase will share tips and tools for launching and growing partnerships and highlight the model that has proven successful within their organization. EQT will outline key points of note for people just starting out in organizations that are increasingly putting more emphasis on diversity & inclusion efforts—and will identify the benefits of these critical partnerships. Learn how GE’s corporate leadership engaged all affinity groups to lead its Developing Health initiative—underlining the impact of mobilizing affinity groups at the corporate level to drive a major company effort.
PRESENTERS:
Karen Morgan / Senior Services Engineer / GE (GLBTA Alliance)
Dawne Pollard / VP, Project Manager / JPMChase BOLD (Black Organization for Leadership Development)
B. PROGRAM MANAGERS: Leveraging Metrics to Demonstrate Connection to Business Strategy
While ERGs have grown in size and sophistication, methods for evaluating performance have not. The inability to accurately access performance leaves organizations without data to make decisions on how to improve. Learn how Allstate utilized the 4C ERG Assessment Model to determine the overall effectiveness of their ERGs and how they applied the assessment results to optimize their ERG performance. Oliver Wyman’s Women’s Network reveals best practices for building a solid data baseline and interpreting that data as a foundation for an ERG’s success, while engaging its members around issues that matter to the business and delivering high impact initiatives.
FACILITATOR:
Robert Rodriguez, PhD / President / DRR Advisors LLC ERG Consultant
PRESENTERS:
Alina Polonskaya / Principal / Oliver Wyman Group (co-leader Women’s network: Women at Oliver Wyman WOW)
Jorge Quezada / Director - Diversity & Inclusion / Allstate Corporation (ERG Program Office)
C. EXPERIENCED LEADERS: How to Broaden & Deepen Awareness of ERGs as a Business Resource
ERGs not only enhance professional development, recruiting and retention efforts internally, but also drive change and help build and strengthen external community and client relationships. Learn about the evolution of ERGs at Deloitte from social networks to business resource groups. Ernst & Young shares a business development model for driving additional client relationships through ERG connections. Find out the benefits to the business of Cisco’s Inclusion Leadership Team (ILT)—a business resource group that brings together VPs, sales Directors and Managers and HR business partners and staffing—with one collective objective: to disrupt business as usual and drive inclusion and collaboration. And learn about the evolving role of employee network groups, and the value this change brings in today’s complex and ever-changing marketplace, from Sodexo’s Intergenerational Network Group including what it takes to get stakeholders on the same page, identifying intersection points between business needs and ERGs, and leveraging technology without abandoning “grass roots” efforts.
FACILITATOR:
Lisa Rubens / Chief of Staff, Diversity & Inclusion / Deloitte Consulting
PRESENTERS:
Susan Berger / Sr. Manager, Inclusion & Diversity for the Americas / Cisco Systems (Inclusion Leadership Team ILT)
Casey Horton / Senior Manager – Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services / Ernst & Young, LLP (Beyond – LGBTA)
Chris Weiser / Senior Director, Operations / Sodexo (Intergenerational Network Group i-Gen)
D. BURNING ISSUES FORUM: Cross Collaboration: Optimizing Partnerships Across ERGs Without Losing the Focus of Each
ERGs emerged from the need of diverse employees to gather, learn from each other, and create a sense of community with individuals with shared experiences. ERGs have since evolved to become strategic, business-aligned, and contributors to a company's business goals and strategy. Through this evolution, many ERGs have discovered the benefit and increased impact of building partnership and collaboration with each other. In this session, we'll explore how to build a partnership strategy that both enhances impact for all ERGs while retaining the ability of each ERG to serve the unique cultural needs and profile of its members.
FACILITATOR:
Bo Young Lee / Global Diversity & Inclusion Practice Leader / Diversity Best Practices
11:30 am - 11:45 am Refreshment Break
11:45 am - 1:00 pm Round III Repeated (4 Tracks)
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Intersections of Inclusion Luncheon
Keynote and Conversation
*Agenda subject to change
Registration
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Attendee Prices
| Early Bird Rates* | Regular Rates | DBP Member | |
| Individual | $1,495 | $1,595 | $1,225 |
| Pre-event | $470 | $495 | $370 |
| Government/ nonprofit | $1,195 | $1,295 | $995 |
| Group (per person, 5-9) | $1,395 | $1,495 | $1,145 |
| Group (per person, 10-14) | $1,275 | $1,375 | $1,055 |
| Group (per person, 15-19) | $1,125 | $1,225 | $945 |
| Group (per person, 20-25) | $1,075 | $1,175 | $905 |
| Group (per person, 26+) | $1,050 | $1,150 | $890 |
| * Early Bird by July 5th **No Refunds after August |
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Hyatt Regency McCormick Place
2233 South Martin L. King Drive
Chicago, Illinois, USA 60616-9985
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