What does the Colloquium Cover?

Dinner Roundtables – is an open Forum that will have as its focus this year – “Revisiting the Strategic Value of Women ERGs.”  Participants will have a chance to discuss an evolving question as to whether these groups are still as effective as originally conceived as vehicles for inclusion.

*Please note that the roundtables are designed to be an active discussion forum, not a social networking session. Each roundtable will be chaired by a discussion facilitator and is an essential part of the Colloquium Program.

Other highlights of the 2019 Colloquium:

• A Fireside Chat with Wall Street Journal’s Joann Lublin – a long-time WSJ Management News Editor, who has tracked women’s progress in the corporate arena, will share her views whether there has been progress or not for women in the workplace.

• Why Board Diversity is a Priority, which provides an update on U.S. and global progress in accelerating women’s access to board seats including the impact of California’s quota initiative and Blackrock’s CEO’s challenge to companies to create diverse boards.

• The ‘Emergency’ Behind Reskilling/Upskilling Workers, where McKinsey will share findings from their report and IBM, Walmart & Cisco executives detail what programs they developed to address this priority issue and why now.  

• The Concept of Belonging, which examines innovative inclusion strategies that provide a better way of promoting employee engagement internally within the company. 

• Why CSR and Diversity Practice Must Coalesce, which explores a continuing move among many companies to combine the two from the perspective of D&I senior executives at Sodexo, Time Warner and ADP, who have been charged with both portfolios.

• Defining CEO Leadership, which outlines Pew Research on what the public expects from CEOs as differentiated by gender, with reactive commentary from two such leaders. 

• Nipping at Pay Equity from the Outset, which presents different approaches to reducing the ever-present pay gap from the U.S., Germany and the U.K.

• Post #MeToo, which looks at resulting efforts to provide legal support to victims and the need for corporate board engagement given the impact of sexual misconduct allegations on corporate bottom lines and reputations.