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ELC CEO Skip Spriggs welcomes former Obama White House Counselor
Valerie Jarrett, with (l to r) Deloitte Board Chair Janet Floutty; Helene Gayle, president
and CEO, Chicago Community Trust; ELC Board Vice Chair Crystal E. Ashby; and ELC
Board Chair Tonie Leatherberry
the full organization and creating a their professional effec-
career development plan. Two three- tiveness and ignite their
day courses—Leading Innovation and careers. The corporate
Navigating the Corporate Landscape— co-lead sponsors are
offer the same population strategies Target and the PepsiCo
for influencing key decision makers, Foundation, and the sup-
strengthening innovative behaviors porting sponsors are
and embracing perspectives that can HSBC, FedEx, Citi, Bristol-
lead to organizational transformation. A Myers Squibb, Goldman
third three-day course—Strategic Path- Sachs, Apple, JPMorgan
ways—offers black women in that senior Chase and Honeywell.
cohort unique strategies for increasing ELC members share their
their leadership capacity. The fourth experiences in panel dis-
three-day course—Bright Futures— cussions and small group
offers newer black managers basic meetings.
leadership and management skills so For one year follow- Laysha Ward, executive vice president,
Target Corporation, welcomes 1,000 participants at
they can earn broader responsibilities. ing MLMS, all participants
The ELC’s Mid-Level Managers’ Symposium
More than 300 “students” attended LDW become Institute Fellows, join-
East and West. ing an online network affording
Now in its 25th year, the Mid-Level them access to The ELC’s Digi-
Managers’ Symposium (MLMS), in tal Learning Platform and the Fellows a single responsibility to shareholder
conjunction with the Annual Recogni- directory. value and toward a suite of responsi-
tion Gala, is a two-day event where In a groundbreaking move this sum- bilities to customers and employees
nearly 1,000 mid-level corporate man- mer, the Business Roundtable issued as well, including “foster[ing] diversity
agers engage with ELC members and its Statement on the Purpose of a Cor- and inclusion, dignity and respect.”
business thought leaders to provide poration, redefining the responsibilities The new definition reaffirms the impor-
leadership strategies and lessons of a corporation. The group of roughly tance of The ELC’s mission.
through the lens of race and gender, 200 CEOs representing the largest U.S.
explore the tools needed to improve companies declared a shift away from COMPETITIVE SCHOLARSHIPS
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