LGBT@Work Conference 2017
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MADRID:
This is a very special year for the LGBT community in Madrid. Spain's capital will proudly host World Pride 2017, a historic event in which over 3 million people and associations from all over the world will take to the main streets of the city in an act of celebration to recognize and celebrate diversity and equal rights: LGBT@Work: June 29 / World Pride Week: June 28 - July 2
BUSINESS NETWORKING FORUM (EXCLUSIVELY FOR STUDENTS):
LGBT@Work's Business Networking Forum was designed specifically for students and corporations/organizations wishing to reach a target audience. This new section of the conference allows for our speakers and corporate partnering organizations to have more direct contact with graduating students transitioning into leadership positions in the working world.
BUSINESS NETWORKING FORUM AGENDA:
- Fundacion SERES – Corporate Best Practices Panel Featuring:
- Miguel Castro - Sr. Director, Lead for Culture & Identity - SAP Global Diversity & Inclusion Office
- Carla Otero - Head of Inclusion & Diversity (Spain) & Co-Chair Women & Supporters of Western Europe - Willis Towers Watson
- Ángel Rodrigo - Resourcing, Diversity & Inclusion Team Leader - Vodafone España
- Malek Nejjai - Global Chief Diversity Officer - Amadeus IT Group
- José Javier Muñoz Castresana - Security & Civil Protection Director - Metro Madrid
- Darren Spedale – Entrepreneur – Workshop (StartOut)
- Magda Markowska – Coming out story that led to creation of LGBT Network at Nielsen
- Pierre & Adrien Gaubert – Networking Presentation (myGwork)
LGBT@WORK CONFERENCE SPEAKERS:
On June 29th, leading LGBT professionals from around the world will share their company's best practices, present insight reports, and even walk us through their own personal coming out journeys, sharing what it means to be LGBT in the industries they represent. This year's conference proudly hosts a truly (i) gender-balanced; (ii) LGBTQ+ representative; and (iii) globally diverse line-up of speakers:
- Santiago Iñiguez (Opening Remarks): Executive President, IE University Chair of AACSB (SPAIN)
- Shelly McNamara: Vice President, Human Resources P&G Global Health & Grooming and Corporate Functions (USA)
- Brian Rolfes: Global Head of Recruiting for McKinsey and Company Co-founder of GLAM (GLBTQ at McKinsey) (CANADA)
- Vincent Doyle: IE Professor & Author of : Making out in the Mainstream - GLAAD and the Politics of Respectability (SPAIN/CANADA)
- Pauline Park: Chair of New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy, 2012 "Most Influential Asian LGBT Icons" (KOREA/USA)
- Sadiq Gilliani: Senior Vice President Lufthansa, Financial Times Top 100 OUTstanding Business Leaders (GERMANY)
- Imran Khan: Creative Agency Lead, Google (USA)
NETWORKING COCKTAIL & AFTER PARTY:
Following the LGBT@Work Conference, celebrate the evening by networking with over 250 attendees from around the world. The evening will include music, open bar, and countless networking opportunities with students, members of the LGBTQ community, busniess professionals, and ALLIES.
CONFERENCE AGENDA - JUNE 29:
16:30 - 17:00 Check-in Registration: Business Networking Forum
17:00 - 18:30 Business Panel Networking Forum
(For University & Graduate Students)
18:30 - 19:00 Check-in/Registration: LGBT@Work Speakers Series
19:00 - 19:15 LGBT@Work Conference Opening
Welcome Remarks - Santiago Iñiguez
19:15 - 20:15 Speakers Series (Part 1)
20:15 - 20:30 IEOut Club Leadership Award Presentation
20:30 - 21:00 Intermission - Refreshments & Snacks
21:00 - 22:00 Speakers Series (Part 2)
22:00 - 01:00 Networking Cocktail After Party
(Includes Dinner Tapas-Style & Open Bar)
TICKET PRICES:
IE University Students / MUST SHOW SCHOOL ID (COMBO): 35
Business Networking Forum
Conference
Networking Cocktail After Party
Ticket Price Includes: Refreshments & Snacks During Intermission, Dinner Tapas-Style & Open Bar
Non IE Students - GENERAL ADMISSION - (COMBO): 40
Business Networking Forum (Students Only)
Conference
Networking Cocktail After Party
Ticket Price Includes: Refreshments & Snacks During Intermission, Dinner Tapas-Style & Open Bar
For more information please visit our website: www.ielgbtatwork.com
Where
ABC Serrano
Calle de Serrano, 61, Madrid 28006, Spain
Speakers
Santiago Iñiguez
Executive President
IE University
Santiago Íñiguez de Onzoño is Executive President of IE University. As Executive President, he is heading the strategy of the five schools comprising this institution. He is also driving further internationalization coupled with a special focus on developing new formats for the integration of learning and technology, consolidating long-life learning projects, establishing international agreements to create learning platforms with leading universities, and setting up new programs that attract talent and further raise levels of diversity on campus. Santiago stepped down as Dean of IE Business School in January 2017. Santiago joined IE Business School in 1991 as professor of Strategic Management. He served as Director of External Relations from 1995 to 2004, when he was appointed Dean of the School, which under his leadership has positioned itself as a leading center of learning for managers and entrepreneurs, being ranked No. 1 in the world of Online MBAs. Santiago has also been the driving force behind IE’s strategic alliances with universities like Ivy League member Brown University (US), and the creation of the FT-IE Corporate Learning Alliance, a platform for premium executive education programs run jointly with Financial Times. Santiago has served since the summer as Chairman of AACSB, an international accrediting body based in the US, being the first dean of a non-US School to hold the position. IE University, which is ranked among the top 25 universities in the world for graduate employ-ability (Times Higher Education, November 2016), runs education programs with a markedly international focus in the fields of management, law, architecture, international relations, human sciences and technology. IE University has campuses in Madrid and Segovia, and a student body comprised of 131 nationalities. He has been portrayed by the Financial Times as “one of the most significant figures in promoting European business schools internationally.” Santiago holds a Degree in Law, a Ph.D. in Moral Philosophy and Jurisprudence (Complutense University, Spain) and an MBA from IE Business School. He was a Recognized Student at the University of Oxford, UK. Santiago is a frequent guest speaker at international conferences and one of LinkedIn’s 500 Global Influencers.
Imran Khan
Creative Agency Lead
Imran Khan has worked in media for over 10 years at CBS Television, Warner Bros., and Turner Broadcasting in various roles including scripted series development and sponsorship marketing. Prior to Google he launched a media startup, The Snack Content Network™, while pursuing his MBA at Columbia Business School. He has two diametrically opposite degrees in Biochemical Engineering and Musical Theatre from Northwestern University. Imran currently works with creative agencies to partner and develop brand initiatives for advertisers by capitalizing on dynamic opportunities in the digital world. He has been recognized for his efforts with prestigious Cannes Lion awards for his work with P&G Secret's Mean Stinks anti-bullying campaign and for P&G Always' #LikeAGirl campaign.
Shelly McNamara
Vice President-Human Resources, P&G Global Health & Grooming and Corporate Functions
P&G
Shelly McNamara is Vice President of HR for P&G’s Global Health & Grooming and Corporate Functions organizations. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from The University of Michigan in Organization Behavior and her Master of Science degree in Organization Development from Case Western Reserve University. She joined P&G in 1985 as a Sales Representative and has spent the last 25 years in HR. Shelly’s expertise is in strategic HR leadership, change management, leadership development, organization development, and cultural transformation. Some of Shelly’s key achievements include acquisitions and major organization redesign that span the company’s portfolio of brands and business. She has strong equity as a developer of talent, talent systems, and executive leadership.
In addition to her HR responsibilities, Shelly serves as a leader of P&G’s LGBT affinity group, and is an active member of P&G’s Corporate Women’s Leadership Team. She is a thought leader and role model in the areas of change management and Diversity & Inclusion. In 2016 Shelly was recognized with P&G’s inaugural Diversity & Inclusion Inspirational Leadership Award.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio as the youngest of 15 children, Shelly is an avid writer, storyteller, speaker, and humanist. She and her wife Cindy, have three daughters – Ali (19) and twins Kate & Nicole (17) – and “man of the house” canine companion, Casey. Shelly’s journey has brought her the experience of all that makes us human: loss, rejection, regret, healing, and deep love. Through these experiences she intuits and names the kernels of truth that must be amplified for the greater wisdom and good to emerge. Her words speak to anyone who has been hurt, wounded, or made to feel “less than.” Shelly is passionate about building bridges and connections that enable individual growth and the growth of communities and organizations.
Vincent Doyle
Director of the Master in Visual and Digital Media (MVDM)
IE Business School
Vincent Doyle is the Academic Director of the Master in Visual and Digital Media (MVDM) at IE University (Spain). Originally from Ottawa, Canada, he holds a PhD in Communication from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (USA), and an MA in Communication from McGill University, Montreal (Canada). He is a Fellow of the Sexuality Research Fellowship Program of the US Social Science Research Council (2000) and has received two top paper awards from the International Communication Association. He is the author of Making Out in the Mainstream: GLAAD and the Politics of Respectability, a critical, behind-the-scenes look at LGBT media activism in the United States (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016). Prior to his appointment at IE University, he was Visiting Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow at Macalester College, St Paul, Minnesota (USA).
Sadiq Gillani
Senior Vice President
Luftansa Group
Sadiq Gillani is a Senior Vice President at Lufthansa Group,and a Lecturer in Management at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and also holds a BA and MPhil in Management Studies from Cambridge.
Since 2011, Sadiq has been a Senior Vice President of Lufthansa, the largest airline in Europe. He started as Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, responsible for corporate strategy, portfolio, business development and innovation. He is currently Senior Vice President, Network & Fleet at Eurowings, the low cost subsidiary of Lufthansa
He was previously a Partner with Seabury Group, an aviation consultancy and was based in New York and Sydney. He has also worked in the start-up space: he served as the Chief Commercial Officer of WebJet Linhas Aéreas, a startup Brazilian low cost carrier, based in Rio de Janeiro. He also supported with the launch of two US startup carriers, namely Eos and Skybus, which ceased operations in 2008. He started his career at Bain & Company, the strategy consultancy, in London and Johannesburg.
He is on the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council for Travel, on the Board of Directors of SunExpress airline, Chairman of Lufthansa Consulting and Lufthansa Innovation Hub GmbH.
He is also a Lecturer in Management at Stanford Graduate School of Business, teaching the elective MBA class 'the Travel & Airline Industry’.
Brian Rolfes
Global Head of Recruiting & Co-Founder of GLAM
McKinsey & Company
Brain Rolfes is a long-time partner at the global management consulting firm McKinsey and Company and during his tenure at the prestigious firm he was one of the leaders that founded GLAM (GLBTQ+ at McKinsey) – one of the oldest known official LGBTQ+ associations. Brian is the Partner who leads global recruiting for McKinsey. He oversees McKinsey’s recruiting strategy, policy, and operations worldwide. He has been with McKinsey for almost 20 years.
Brian in his role as a diversity leader at McKinsey is also recognised for his work on equal marriage in Canada as Chair of the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto – Brian was presented with the Future Leader Award by the LGBT community in Toronto (Out on Bay Street) in 2011.
Hired out of Cambridge University in the UK, Brian was a lawyer and wanted to become a human rights academic. He is called to the Canadian bars of Ontario and Saskatchewan.
Brian holds an LL. M. from Cambridge, a BA Jurisprudence from Oxford (where he was a Rhodes Scholar), a J.D. from the University of Saskatchewan, and a Bachelor of Public Administration from Carleton.
Brian currently is the Secretary for the Ontario Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee and he is a member of the Selection Panel for the “Leaders to be Proud of” awards for Out on Bay Street. He also sits on the Universum Global Advisory Board. He lives in Toronto with his spouse Brad Berg, who is head of litigation at one of Canada’s largest national law firms.
Pauline Park
Co-Founder & Chair
New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA)
Pauline Park (paulinepark.com) is chair of the New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA) (transgenderrights.org), which she co-founded in 1998, and president of the board of directors of Queens Pride House (queenspridehouse.org), which she co-founded in 1997. Park led the campaign for passage of the transgender rights law enacted by the New York City Council in 2002. She served on the working group that helped to draft guidelines — adopted by the Commission on Human Rights in December 2004 — for implementation of the new statute. Park negotiated inclusion of gender identity and expression in the Dignity for All Students Act (DASA), a safe schools law enacted by the New York state legislature in 2010, and the first fully transgender-inclusive legislation enacted by that body. In 2005, She became the first openly transgendered grand marshal of the New York City Pride March. In 2005, Park became the first openly transgendered grand marshal of the New York City Pride March. In 2015, she was invited to keynote the Queer Korea Festival/Seoul Pride Parade, the largest event in the history of the LGBT community of Korea up until that time, drawing a crowd estimated at more 35,000. Park has written widely on LGBT issues and has conducted transgender sensitivity training sessions for a wide range of organizations. She did her B.A. in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, her M.Sc. in European Studies at the London School of Economics and her Ph.D. in political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana. In October 2012, Park was one of 54 individuals named to a list of 'The Most Influential LGBT Asian Icons' by the Huffington Post. In November 2012, she was named to a list of '50 Transgender Icons' for Transgender Day of Remembrance 2012. More information about her work is available at paulinepark.com.