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2014 Diversity & Inclusion Conference
 

In this new age of collaboration, most organizations are striving to transform outmoded business models, embrace new leadership styles, and recalibrate the skills necessary to outpace the competition.  What will it take to “leap the chasm” - to fulfill your organization’s top objectives and drive exponential business value in the process?  Shari shares her own journey and the bold new steps Cisco is taking to drive value across the organization and for its partners and customers as well. 

In this session, you will:

  • Explore new perspectives and expanded  new models that may radically change the way your organization views  inclusion
  • Discover specific new capabilities and the mind sets, tool sets, and skill sets that will be critical to unlocking exponential business value
  • Learn first steps and next practices for leaping the chasm and how HR and Inclusion leaders at every level can begin to leverage these strategies
 
Date(s) & Time(s): 
Tuesday, October 14, 2014 - 8:30am to 9:45am
Presenter: 
Shari Slate
Chief Inclusion & Collaboration Officer
Cisco
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Cisco Chief Inclusion & Collaboration Officer Shari Slate is responsible for building a strategy that enhances Cisco’s vision to be a world class, benchmark company for inclusion and collaboration, driving exponential value across Cisco, its partners and customers. She is promoting thought leadership across Cisco’s people strategy enabling employee engagement and inclusion outcomes to fuel innovation and market leadership. She is also directing the integration of new models of inclusion and collaboration designed to guide future workplace practices to realize the $19 billion opportunity of the Internet of Everything over the next decade.

In her previous role, Slate served as Chief Inclusion and Collaboration Strategist for Cisco’s Sales Organization. She was responsible for making inclusion relevant in the revenue generating arm of the business and incubating new strategies for fostering full spectrum participation to unleash the power and potential of people.

Slate joined Cisco in 2010. Prior to that, she was Chief Diversity Officer and Director of Global Community Affairs at Sun Microsystems. Slate has been widely recognized for her visionary leadership and her transformational views on the true value of inclusion. The YWCA recently named her a 2014 “Tribute to Women in Industry” honoree. In 2013, she was named one of Diversity Woman Magazine’s “Stars Who Mean Business”. Previously, she was honored by the California Diversity Council as one of the “Most Influential Women in California” and a “Woman Worth Watching” by Diversity Journal Magazine. She received the National Coalition of 100 Black Women 2010 Corporate Leader Award and The Network Journal's "40 Under Forty" Achievement Award. Slate serves on numerous charitable and community organizational initiatives and advisory boards.

Slate holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political, legal, and economic analysis from Mills College.

SESSIONS:
Location: 
Sheraton New Orleans
Amount of Credit: 
1.00
Credit Type: 
•Business Credit
Session Type: 
General Session
Competency: 
Global & Cultural Effectiveness
Business Acumen
Intended Audience: 
All Levels

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