Diversity Supplier Event Drives Success
WEST CHESTER, OHIO—Adriene K. Bruce, vice president of consulting at DiversityInc, addressed the South Central Ohio Minority Supplier Development Council’s 2012 Cincinnati Business Golf Classic on Sept. 14. This Driving ‘Fore’ Business and Economic Growth event, held at the Wetherington Golf & Country Club, featured two workshops for minority- and women-owned business enterprise (MWBE) suppliers: Measuring Your Progress and Reporting Your Outcomes, and Improving Fiscal Operations for Business Success.

NYC Admin Breakfast Celebrates LGBT Pride
NEW YORK CITY—Barbara Frankel, senior vice president and executive editor of DiversityInc, spoke at the City of New York’s Department of Citywide Administrative Services’ LGBT Pride Month Breakfast on June 27. Frankel spoke about what being an inclusive organization entails and the increasing importance of LGBT rights to corporate America. She is a member of the board of directors of GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network. Approximately 250 people attended the breakfast.

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André Wyss, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation:

“Now more than ever, our customers and patients we serve are counting on us for innovative breakthrough medications for increasingly complex medical needs. These include cancer, multiple sclerosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart disease, and many others. The communities in which we work are relying on us. These are our business goals as well as a mission to do good. We also were recognized as a DiversityInc Top 50 company and are committed to doing what’s necessary to attract, retain and motivate the diverse talent we need to succeed now and in the future.”

John Bryant, Kellogg Company:

“The Kellogg Foundation gives away $360 million a year to children’s education and healthcare around the world. So we are very honored—and indebted to our founder—but honored to be part of an organization where so much of what we do goes back to kids in the communities in which we serve.  That’s in our past, but it’s also what we want to make very much true today and in our future. As we look at the Kellogg Company, we have a very special bond with our consumers. Every day around the world, millions of people bring our products into their homes and feed our products to their children. That special bond between us and our consumers, we take incredibly seriously. And our goal is to help us understand our consumers so well that every day we’re in even better position to bring our best to those consumers.”

Michelle Lee, Wells Fargo:

“Reinvestment is an integral part of our culture, and it’s one of the things I enjoy most about my job—giving back to our communities, engaging as a volunteer and serving on nonprofit boards. It’s my responsibility at Wells Fargo as a leader. Last year, we invested over $213 million in 19,000 nonprofit organizations, and 165,000 Wells Fargo team members are involved in community-development activities across the country.”

Steve Howe, Ernst & Young:

 “I can tell you that we truly do believe that inclusiveness is critical. It’s critical to us performing at a consistent, exceptional level all around the globe. It makes us better, more insightful; it helps us solve problems, manage risk and seize opportunities that much better. And we believe that driving multicultural teams is an absolute must.”

John Lechleiter, Eli Lilly and Company:

“Now, since I’m among friends this evening, I have a confession: Early in my tenure as CEO, I made a decision, based on a variety of reasons at the time, to cut back on our flexible work programs. And employee engagement suffered. In fact, when I commissioned a small team to find creative ways to strengthen employee engagement, their first recommendation was to bring flexible schedules back. At least I was smart enough to listen. And I did, and it’s one of the best decisions I’ve made.

Arne Sorenson, Marriott International:

“Marriott’s approach to diversity and inclusion is deeply rooted in our company’s purpose, which is to open doors to a world of opportunity. This includes the opportunity to build a career, the chance to own one of our hotels, or to provide products and services as one of our suppliers. For 85 years, we’ve said, ‘Take care of our associates, and they’ll take care of our guests.’ This core value of putting people first underpins our commitment to diversity, but we also believe that it drives our profitability. Hospitality is by definition a diverse industry. A couple of recent statistics: Obviously, people come from all over the world to visit New York. Last year, 2 million Mexicans came to the United States; 1.5 million Brazilians; over 1 million Chinese—and those numbers from each of those countries are up about 50 percent year-to-date from last year.”

Steve Price, Dell:

“Our purpose is to bring technology solutions to the world that enable people everywhere to grow and thrive. The one thing we know about growing and thriving: No one grows and thrives alone. We all grow and thrive in relationships. That’s why our employee resource groups are so important because this is where people come in from all walks of life and become part of a community. They get connected and become part of a relational community, irrespective of where you come from or what part of the globe you sit on. You can come to this company and you can be your best and you can do your best work.”

Mark Clouse, Kraft Foods:

“The beauty of splitting a company like Kraft into two is that we have two organizations born of the same value of understanding—the power of diversity. Two organizations that understand that, in a world of global connections, our ability to reflect the consumers we serve—and the people and colleagues that work with us—is paramount to our success.”

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The six CEOs and eight senior executives at our event demonstrated how their personal passion and commitment to diversity have become a critical factor in making strategic business decisions. In many cases, this helped gain traction within senior leadership and generated measurable results in workforce diversity, while sometimes improving market share.

The two-day event featured two panels with six chief diversity officers—one focused on best practices for executive diversity councils and the other on using compensation to drive diversity-management results. Additionally, DiversityInc Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Barbara Frankel presented exclusive advice on what companies need to do to improve their DiversityInc Top 50 rank.

Watch all the presentations from this event via the players below or view our YouTube playlist. Videos of all the speakers will be posted throughout the day.

Also, be sure to save the date for our upcoming 2013 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity Announcement Dinner, April 23–24, 2013.

How New York City Drives Diversity Results
R. Fenimore Fisher, Deputy Commissioner, Chief Diversity & EEO Officer, City of New York
How does the City of New York drive diversity metrics and results? Find out from a world-class diversity expert.

Diversity in the Workplace: Leadership Counts
Jorge Benitez, Managing Director – North America, Chief Executive – United States, Accenture
This CEO really values work/life issues. He tells us how he includes spouses and encourages family priorities.

Panel: Best Practices on Executive Diversity Councils
Debbie Storey, AT&T; Rhonda Crichlow, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation; Michelle Lee, Wells Fargo 
Three companies with the best practices—and results—on diversity councils talk about CEOs chairing the councils, setting goals and accountability.

Building a Strong Diversity Brand
John Bryant, President and CEO, Kellogg
The CEO of Kellogg tells us why his company has invested so much over the last two years in its diversity-management efforts.

Workplace Diversity: The Personal Connection in Leadership
Forest T. Harper, CEO, INROADS 
The son of migrant workers, who went on to be a top Pfizer executive, talks about how INROADS helps Black and Latino college students become corporate leaders. Click here to download the presentation slides.

Corporate Diversity at the Top: Q&A With Luke Visconti
Steve Howe, Area Managing Partner – Americas, Ernst & Young
The U.S. head of Ernst & Young discusses how corporate values drive business decisions at his firm

Diversity & Inclusion: Accountability & Your Business Future
Thomas F. Zenty III, CEO, University Hospitals
The CEO of this Cleveland hospital system tells us how outreach to Blacks and Latinos is driving hospital growth.

Workplace Diversity: Using Leadership to Save Lives & Talent by Creating Inclusive Workplaces
Dr. Eliza Byard, Executive Director, GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network)
The head of the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) tells you about young lives saved through the help of corporations like yours.

Panel on Diversity Metrics: Using Compensation to Drive Results
Maruiel Perkins-Chavis, Marriott International; Joy Fitzgerald, Rockwell Collins; Chad Johnson, Sodexo
Three companies with the most effective diversity metrics tell you what’s on their diversity scorecards and how they link goals to compensation.

Corporate Diversity: A Personal Story of Why Corporate Values Matter
Michelle Lee, Executive Vice President and Northeast Regional President, Wells Fargo
This exec shares her remarkable story of how and why she became a banker and the challenges she faced as the only young, Black woman in her management-training program.

DiversityInc Benchmarking: Tips on How to Move Up on the DiversityInc Top 50 List
Barbara Frankel, Senior Vice President and Executive Editor, DiversityInc
See our tips on the best ways to answer questions on The 2013 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity survey. Click here to download the presentation slides.

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KPMG, No. 22 in the 2012 DiversityInc Top 50, is one of eight leading companies that presented at our Managing Relationships Between HR & Diversity Departments event held in New York City.

Visit DiversityInc.com/events for a schedule of our upcoming learning sessions, such as our DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity Announcement on April 23 and 24 in New York City.

Video Minutes

00:58 The Four Success Factors of Mentoring

02:27 KPMG’s Mentoring Expectation

08:30 Business Impact: Advancement Opportunities & Senior Leadership

12:20 How to Improve Mentoring Through Sponsorship

16:05 Sponsorship at KPMG: Different than Mentoring

17:53 Audience Q&A Session

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Dana Green, national manager, Corporate Diversity & Inclusion, and Nikki Nance, corporate manager administration, discuss at our diversity event how the car manufacturer’s innovative approach to diversity-management and HR enables the entire company to find, recruit, engage and retain the best talent, especially from underrepresented groups. Watch the video below.

Toyota Motor North America, No. 41 in the 2012 DiversityInc Top 50, is one of eight leading companies that presented at “Managing Relationships Between HR & Diversity Departments” held in New York City.  Visit DiversityInc.com/events for a schedule of our upcoming learning sessions. Also, register today for our  diversity web seminar on diversity councils on Oct. 16, where executives from Kellogg Company and Comcast will provide case study examples to help you  implement a successful diversity council–or better utilize the one you have–to drive measurable results.

For more on Toyota’s innovative recruitment and talent-development strategies, watch this Innovation Fest! presentation–How Recruiting People With Disabilities Solved Toyota’s Costly Problem–where executives detail how the company leveraged its employees with unique talents to speed up its production line, improve public relations and diversify its workforce.

Video Minutes:

0:00:00 How Manufacturing, Sales, Marketing & Finance Collaborate

0:01:15 Senior Execs Lead as Diversity Champions

0:02:14 Building Accountability for Diversity

0:03:30 Recruitment: Launching Mentoring Programs

0:04:25 Diversity Training for Diversity Champions

0:05:00 Diversity Benchmarking & Measuring Data

0:06:33 Executive Diversity Advisory Board

0:07:34 Recruitment: Work/Life Benefits, Messaging & Job Postings

0:10:52 College Recruiting

0:12:20 Talent Development & Measuring Employee Engagement

0:19:29 Toyota’s Two Pillars: Continuous Improvement & Respect for People

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The nine diversity innovations presented by leading companies at our Innovation Fest! demonstrate how they’ve transformed effective diversity management into a true source of innovation, capable of generating the business solutions they need to differentiate their company, get a leg up on competitors and capture new market share.

Diversity Management: A Source of Innovation

Held in New York City, DiversityInc’s second Innovation Fest! featured a series of quick-fire, 30-minute presentations from corporate leaders quantifying the benefits diversity management has on business results. [View presentations from our February Innovation Fest!]

These include positive results in sales, productivity and pipeline development from innovations in resource groups, recruitment and talent development, supplier diversity, employee engagement/productivity, and corporate communications.

Watch videos of the presentations from PricewaterhouseCoopers, Brown-Forman, Wells Fargo, Rockwell Collins, BASF, AT&T, Travelers, Marriott International and Monsanto in the player below, plus watch University Hospital’s Dr. Drew Hertz, the lunchtime speaker. (For closed captions, press the CC button in the YouTube player.)

The full Innovation Fest! presentations with PowerPoint slides are available on DiversityIncBestPractices.com by clicking the links below.

DiversityInc Innovation Fest!: How 9 Companies Capitalize on Innovation

Increasing Engagement, Retention & Talent Development of New Black Hires
Elena Richards, Talent Management Leader, Office of Diversity, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

How a Liquor Company Benefits From Resource Group for Non-Drinkers
Matt Hamel, General Counsel and Executive Sponsor of the Non-Drinker Resource group, and Judy Spalding, the resource group’s founder and co-leader, Brown-Forman

Accredited Domestic Partnership Advisor Program
Kyle Young, Certified Financial Planner and Vice President, Investment Officer, Wells Fargo

Improving Healthcare for 68,000 Black & Latino Children
Dr. Drew Hertz, Medical Director for UH Rainbow Care Network and an Assistant Clinical Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Innovative Ways to Develop & Support Supplier Diversity
Amber Janey, senior project manager for supplier diversity, and Evette Creighton, Diversity Program Manager, Rockwell Collins

How Diversity Dashboards Improve Leadership Accountability
Tina Kao, vice president, Talent Development, and Patricia Rossman, Chief Diversity Officer, BASF

The Innovation Pipeline: Promoting Cross-Function Collaboration
Sam Zellner, Executive Director of Innovation Applications and Services Infrastructure, AT&T

Diversity Training Equals $2M Savings for Insurance Company
Nicole Hughey, Director, Enterprise Diversity & Inclusion at Travelers

Social Gaming: A Diversity Strategy for Cross-Cultural Engagement
Francisca Martinez, Vice President, Global Talent Acquisition, Marriott International

Talent Acquisition Integration
Melissa Harper, Vice President of Global Talent Acquisition, Monsanto

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Diversity leaders and HR experts from eight leading companies shared their proven strategies at our “Managing Relationships Between HR & Diversity Departments” diversity event held in New York City, revealing take-away best practices for maximizing organizational-behavior implementation and the successful navigation of corporate cultures.

Companies included: Sodexo, Toyota Motor North America, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, General Motors, KPMG, Accenture, Ernst & Young, and MasterCard.

Watch videos of the presentations in the player below. (For closed captions, press the CC button in the YouTube player.)

Click on the links below to view the presentations’ PowerPoint slides, available on DiversityIncBestPractices.com.

Managing Relationships Between HR & Diversity Departments

Should Diversity Report to HR?
Dr. Rohini Anand, Senior Vice President and Global Chief Diversity Officer, Sodexo

Working Collaboratively With HR
Recruitment & Talent Development: Dana Green, National Manager, Corporate Diversity & Inclusion, Toyota Motor North America

What HR Really Needs to Succeed
Rhonda Crichlow, Vice President and Head, U.S. Diversity & Inclusion, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation

Navigating Large Organizations
Cindy Brinkley, Vice President, Global Human Resources, General Motors

Can Diversity & HR Leave Room for Organizational Development?
Dr. Walter McCollum, Senior Director, Organizational Development, Sodexo

HR, Diversity & Mentoring
Dana Foote, Partner, Member of Diversity Advisory Board, Co-Chair, Abilities in Motion Network, KPMG

HR, Diversity & Resource Groups
Pedro Suriel, Senior Executive, Accenture

HR & Communications
Karyn Twaronite, Partner, Americas Inclusiveness Officer, Ernst & Young

HR & Legal—Setting Goals
Donna Johnson, Chief Diversity Officer, MasterCard Worldwide

Panel on How to Build Synergy Between Diversity Departments & HR
Dr. Rohini Anand, Sodexo; Dana Foote, KPMG; and Pedro Suriel, Accenture

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