The Urban League of San Diego County is proud to present the Diversity Works! Employer Diversity Networking LuncheonSeries. The luncheons are an interactive forum designed to address the many different ways employers can Make Diversity Work in San Diego. Each month we will give an overview of our Diversity Works!initiatives and partnerships and feature a keynote speech by a member of our Diversity Advisory Council or a special invited guest speaker. The goal is to expose attendees to the best diversity experts in the field, create a forum for discussion and growth, and attract new Diversity Works!Employer Partners.
All lunches will be held in the League's Manpower boardroom located at 720 Gateway Center Drive from 11:30 to 1:00 - please check in with the receptionist at the front desk in suite A.
Lunch will be provided by various caterers (we accept suggestions) and is limited to the first 50 RSVP's; registration is required. All are welcome to attend. Lunch is $10 for Diversity Works!Employer Partners and $15 for all others. Please call Dawnetta Hickerson at 619-266-6247 or e-mail diversityworks@sdul.org to make a reservation - indicating the date/topic you are interested in attending. If you need special accommodations due to a disability, please call at least 72 hours in advance. Also, if you cannot attend after making a reservation, please contact Dawnetta at least 48 hours prior so she can cancel your order, otherwise, you will still be responsible for your reservation.
Agenda: 11:30am-12:00pm - Networking (mix and mingle) 12:00pm-12:15pm - Welcome & Introductions, Diversity Works!Partner spiel (Lunch Served) 12:15pm-12:45pm - Keynote speech 12:45pm-1:00pm - Table Discussion, afterthoughts 1:00pm Adjournment 1:00pm - 1:30pm - (Optional) Post-Luncheon Dialogue and facility tour
About the speaker: Nancy Clark is CEO and Founder of WomensMedia, a media company focused on promoting women in the workplace, as well as the host of the "Women's Lunch Talk" blog and the weekly podcast "Working in Heels". Starting out in rocket science with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, she moved into computer technology at the University of California, Berkeley and then became committed to helping women overcome obstacles in business. For thirty years she has been dedicated to gender equity in business.
Topic: "Bridging The Cultural Gap for Optimal Diversity Management"
About the speaker: Meskerem Tadesse (“Meski”) is the Founder and President of The Optimize Group, an executive management consulting firm dedicated to provide strategic and financial management consulting services as well as executive coaching and training to small and mid-businesses.
Meski is a former Fortune 100 corporate executive with 20 years of diversified expertise in various aspects of strategic and financial management; cash management and banking relations; international finance and international business. she has extensive experience in working with the financial and investment banking community, both in domestic and international financial transactions, with direct responsibilities for numerous complex and varied financial transactions, including a $250 million asset-based financing and restructuring of $80 million pollution control bonds with five State Governments She has a strong reputation for her integrity, and skillful negotiating expertise as well as her ability to effectively structure and execute creative forms of financing when financial conditions are not conducive.
Thursday, July 24 -
Tommie Lane
Topic: "Why And How To Retain Top Diverse Talent"
About the speaker: Tommie Lane is the Client Services Manager for ABCOW Staffing, a temporary and permanent personnel agency for Administrative, Accounting, Customer Service and Engineering and Light Industrial candidates.
Before joining ABCOW Staffing last year, Tommie headed her own Consulting Coaching and Training Organization for over 25 years. During that time, through tailored research and design, she assisted some of the country’s leading companies to create the most honest, open, ethical and humorous work places that drove profits up and mistakes and accidents down.
Her professional and personal mission statements are identical: “To prove the ‘theory of integrity: THE TRUTH WORKS!
About the speaker: Dee Sanford has earned international acclaim as an exciting, impassioned, and content-rich conference speaker and trainer. Her powerful and practical business-focused presentations are soundly based on 28 years of corporate and entrepreneurial experience, and an in-depth study of best business practices.
A professional member of the National Speakers Association with 18 years of experience as a keynote and workshop speaker, Dee Sanford has presented at industry and government meetings and conferences throughout the US, Brazil, Holland, Mexico, Canada, Germany, South Africa, and Namibia.
About the speaker:
President and Co-Founder, Orlando-Ward &
Associates.Gregg oversees the development and delivery of all of Orlando-Ward & Associates’ training programs and is recognized as the nation’s leading expert in the use of live, professional theater, interactive facilitation and experiential learning as training and development tools.
He is also a trainer, consultant, executive coach and mediator on diversity, harassment, leadership and change. Gregg began using theater as an organizational training tool in 1986 with his partner Donna Orlando while they were serving as specialist trainers for the New York City Police Department. For five years he served as Producing Artistic Director of Plays for Living Inc.
Luncheon sponsorship opportunities are available, please contact us for more information. This is a networking opportunity. Diversity Works!Partners are encouraged to bring material for distribution and promotion. To become a Diversity Works! Partner click hereor call 619-266-6244
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About the speaker: Nancy Clark is CEO and Founder of 
About the speaker: Tommie Lane is the Client Services Manager for ABCOW Staffing, a temporary and permanent personnel agency for Administrative, Accounting, Customer Service and Engineering and Light Industrial candidates. 
