Keynote Address by:                                                                            

Stephen Pemberton

Chief Diversity Officer for Walgreens

Former CDO and Vice President, Diversity & Inclusion for Monster.com

From Best Practices to Next Practices:

A New Paradigm for Creating and Sustaining Workforce Diversity

Steve Pemberton, Chief Diversity Officer for Walgreen's and formerly Chief Diversity Officer of Monster.com, will explore the current challenges organizations face in attracting diverse talent and how they can create structure and processes to address those challenges. This is an engaging interactive address that will ask you to look at diversity and inclusion through an entirely different lens.

Credits:

The HR Certification Institute has pre-approved this activity for 2.25 hours toward general recertification credit.

Fee:

$25 for MIDC Members/$75 for nonmembers

Parking:

$5 Cash or Credit

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Agenda

8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.                Networking Reception & Continental Breakfast

9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.                MIDC Welcome & Introductions

9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.               Keynote Address

10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.            Question & Answer

10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.            Networking Break

11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.            Panel Discussion

11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.            Question & Answer

Business casual attire

Panel Moderator:

Jerome Vaughn - News Director, WDET

Panelists:

Gayle Hamilton, Director of Labor Studies, Wayne State University

Adam Kaplan, Founder, Big Tent Jobs, LLC

Lynne Sebille-White, Senior Assistant Director, Employer Relations, The Career Center-University of Michigan

Stefanie Thornton, Director of Talent Acquisition, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

Keynote Speaker:

Stephen Pemberton

Steve is Divisional Vice-President and Chief Diversity Officer for Walgreens, the first such person to hold that responsibility in the company’s 110 year history. Prior to assuming his role at Walgreens, Steve Pemberton was Chief Diversity Officer and Vice-President of Diversity and Inclusion at Monster.com, the leading global online careers property. As Vice-President of Diversity and Inclusion, Steve had end-to-end management responsibilities for the Diversity and Inclusion business unit which focused on helping employers diversify their workforce.

Under Pemberton’s leadership, revenues in the business grew 60% while seeing commensurate levels of performance in managerial profit and customer satisfaction. During that same time, Monster grew to possess one of the most diverse audiences on the Internet which it in turn leveraged to revolutionize the way corporate America recruits and retains diverse talent.

Pemberton is the first Chief Diversity Officer of an Internet company and has become recognized as one of the nation’s leaders on matters of diversity and inclusion and its importance to the growth of the American industrial complex. In 2006, Fortune named Pemberton one of the Top 20 Chief Diversity Officers in corporate America. In 2007, Pemberton was called to Capitol Hill to provide expert testimony on best practices in diversity recruiting and in 2008 he was named by Savoy as one of The Top 100 most influential African-Americans in corporate America.

A ward of the state for much of his childhood, Steve has made opportunity, access and equality pillars of his personal and professional life. His memoir, A Chance in the World (www.achanceintheworld.com), is scheduled to be published by Thomas Nelson in January of 2012. He currently serves on the boards of Citi Performing Arts Center, Home for Little Wanderers and National TRIO Alumni Association. Steve and his wife, Tonya are the proud parents of three wonderful children-Quinn, Vaughn and Kennedy.