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2017USBLN
20TH ANNUAL NATIONAL CONFERENCE
ORLANDO, FLORIDA
AUGUST 20, 2017
RISING LEADERS ACADEMY
8:30 A.M. ET
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Good morning! Welcome to the Rising Leadership Academy. The CART captioning will be displayed on this screen.
> EMILY MALSCH: Good morning! All right.
Now that I have your attention.
All right, we got a little bit of a late start and we apologize for that. So thank you everybody for being here. This is an amazing turnout.
We're so so excited to get started today. I know it's Sunday and it's early. And you probably are like wow, you're starting on a Sunday, really? But we are. We're excited! So first of all, I want to thank all of our Going for the Gold employers if I have not personally come up and shake your hand, introduced myself, I know we talked a lot on the phone and via email. I apologize. But we will get to know each other over the next couple of days. So again, thank you guys for being out here and coming out to the conference early on Sunday before the conference begins to join us and to meet these awesome students, these Rising Leaders. Thank you. I also want to thank our Going for the Gold team. We've scattered through this room and that room but I want to thank them for helping us out this morning. If you see Lynn Symone, Leslie Wilson, Deb Dagit, make sure you say hello and thank you. I could not have done this without your support. My name is Emily Malsch. I'm for the USBLN Going for the Gold program and I have the great pleasure of working with all these awesome employers who joined us today and also you students, our Rising Leaders. So welcome. I'm going to first kind of go over the session, kind of why are we here? Right? Rising Leaders, our students. Why are we here today? What is the purpose here today? I'm sure you heard a lot from Keri and Lynn of kind of our purpose and our gathering, but let me just review real quick. Not only are we here to network and get to know each other and have fun, but we're also here to learn about some awesome opportunities that are available through these employers that have joined us today.
We want you to learn more about them, learn more about what they have to offer, learn about the awesome things they're doing in this field and about increasing disability inclusion in the workplace.
So all of these employers that have joined us today are part of a program and I keep saying this. Going for the Gold. So you're probably wondering what is Going for the Gold. You may have done research and learned a little bit about what Going for the Gold is. Let me take a moment because I want to keep us on track. But Going for the Gold if you've not already researched it, is a very unique program where we have worked with over soon to be 18 companies. It's the first program in the nation to connect participating corporate partners with USBLN subject matter experts like Deb Dagit that you'll meet today, Leslie Wilson, Bev cutler and unite them with disability inclusion over a set project term. We work with soon to be 11710 of them here today with us in a similar goal of increasing their inclusion of people with disabilities in their workforces. These employers I've got to tell you have accomplished a whole great deal in the time that we've spent with them and I'm really proud of what they've drop. So kudos to you guys. They have hired over 2,000 people with disabilities since the project started over three years ago.
And continue to push the needle on disability inclusion in the workplace, hence, why they're joining us today.
So to kick it off, I do not see her but maybe she's hiding somewhere. Is Jill Houghton in the room? Once I see Jill, I will grab her because she did want to welcome you guys and to say thank you for being here. So we're going to continue. Since we are running a little bit so real quick. Just to give you an idea what we're going to do today, we are going to do some brief presentations by our Going for the Gold employers. We're going to have them come up here in just a second. They're going to talk to you a little bit about who they are, what they do, what talent they're seeking along with a few other items they want to share with you guys. Due to limited time, we are actually going to hold off on questions and answers. We're going to hold off on questions. However, we encourage you to remember to think about them, write them down if need be and ask them during your interview rounds.
So, if you run out of time for your questions during these interview rounds, no worries, you can always seek these employers out at the conference. They will be here throughout the week and possibly at the end of our session if we have time.
So the interview rounds will as I mentioned after our companies do a brief presentation and you probably I'm sure you have had a schedule. There's 7 interviewing rounds. Each 15 minutes with three minutes in between to switch. And note, the employers will be at a table and you, our students, will be rotating to your employer tables.
And if you for some reason don't know where you're going, you don't know what employers you're supposed to be with, no worries, find me or another USBLN staff member and we have a schedule and we can make sure you get to your employer table. Jill, you want to take a few minutes?
JILL HOUGHTON:
This is a surprise because I didn't know I'm packing bags today, sitting on the floor doctor forgive my attire. But welcome. You're in for a real treat corporate partners because you're surrounded by the Rising Leaders class of.
> 2017.
JILL HOUGHTON:
Do it again. Rising Leaders, class of ...
> 2017.
JILL HOUGHTON:
We had the good fortune of hanging out at at the welcome dinner and interact with this class. This class rocks! There's double the number of Rising Leaders here since last year and I'm not going to stand in your way of interacting with them. So thank you. And if you need anything, seek any of the USBLN team out. We're here to help as well as our alumni and the Rising Leaders know who we are and who the alumni are. So get it today.
> Thank you, Jill.
(Applause).
> EMILY MALSCH: Just as Jill said, you've doubled our numbers and hence, the reason we have two rooms this morning. We have a whole other set of Rising Leaders in another room doing interviews and presentations. So pretty impressive. We're pretty excited.
So without further ado, I'm going to go ahead and ask our Going for the Gold employer representatives speaking to join us and grab a chair up front.
Drum roll. While they're getting situated, let me do a quick introduction so you know who's up on stage. If you need a chair, we can grab a chair. We have an awesome turnout of employers. I guess I didn't prepare very well. This is amazing.
All right.
Very good. So let me get joining us up on stage here we have from 3M, we have Chris Kondo veteran military recruitment and global program lead for 3M talent solutions.
We have from BAE Systems. You might want to raise your hands. BAE Systems Joanna I tried.
Technical writer, again with DAE systems from Bank of America.
We have Mary Abboud. Did I pronounce it right? VP diversity campus recruiter. She's also joined by Mary Lynn MacKenzie.
There she is raising her hand. Senior Vice President talent acquisition.
We also have from Boston Scientific, Joe Furino university relations manager. Talent acquisition. He's joined by Veronica Angel Toronto and Ken McKee, director of human resources in the green.
We have from DupontTomika Rodgers did I get your name right? Senior recruiter. We have Ivori Johnson, Universal relations recruiter and Shakti Harris organizational vibrancy and accessibility champion. From Facebook we have Anthony Rodari, recruiter, diversity programs joined by Desiree Morton, program and event manager specializing in diversity in the university initiatives. GM, Donetta.
I haven't had a chance to say hello to you this morning. Donetta human resources director global manufacturing engineering. From granger we have Alfred Johnston, manager, inclusion and diversity.
Qualcomm we have Courtney Lach, did I do it right? Manager campus recruiting.
And from TD bank last but certainly not least, Jocelyn Weyrauch VP talent diversity advisor andIvoFutselaar I'm so wrong, I'm really trying. Assistant vice president campus recruiter and university relationship manager and why don't we start off since I completely butchered your name, I'll give you the chance to start first. Awesome. TD bank will kick us off. Podium or mic.
> Podium.
JOCELYN WEYRAUCH: All right.
Well, good morning. So I'm so surprised that not that surprised we've been working together for so long that my name wasn't the one she messed up. Jocelyn Weyrauch, talent advisor and as such /my job is to partner with recruiters to expand our recruiting efforts in diverse talent goals. That includes talent pools made of up of minorities, women, veterans, LGBT and individuals with diverse abilities of course. I participated in this event last year and I was so preliminary esed that I knew I had to participate again this year. I do mentor a Rising Leaders myself who is graduating this December. So a little about TD. America's most convenient bank, one of the 10 largest efforts banks in the U.S. with roots in the community dating back over 150 years. We have over 26,000 employees serving over 8.5million customers across 1300 locations on the East Coast Maine to Florida.
Our products and services cover personal or retail banking, small business banking, commercial banking, and include products like checking accounts, savings accounts, credit carts, mortgage loans,, et cetera. TD bank a member of TD bank group and subsidiary of Toronto Dominion Bank of Toronto Canada, hence, TD. We see the world a little differently than other banks. We believe banking should be more than just about making moneyment our mission is to enrich the lives of our customers, communities, and colleagues.
As the human bank, we get that our people are our greatest asset. It's why we were able to become the top a top 10 U.S. Bank this just over a decade.
To provide employees the opportunity to join diversity business resource groups specific to foster a more inclusive workplace and workforce, we as I said, we do provide opportunities for employees to join those BRGs we call them. Not only do they serve as affinity groups for these employees, but they also serve as a way for our employees to network and gain exposure to leadership and provide stretch assignments leading to personal and professional development. When it comes to corporate personal responsibility we reaffirm our commitment to communities through community development, financial education, and corporate giving. We have an online TD volunteer network where employees are encouraged to log their volunteer hours and if you volunteer over 40 hours TD will make a donation to that organization for $500. We like to be as green as our logo. We have identified three areas of focus for US operations where we can be most effective and that's responsible paper usage, energy and emissions, engaging our employees and communities and TD bank was the first North American based bank to become carbon neutral in 2012. So great things about TD bank. I've been working here for over 15 years and I can't say enough about it. So I'm going to just ask Ivo to touch on our internship programs.
IVO FUTSELAAR: Thank you. Good morning, everybody. Again my name is Ivo Futselaar and I'm a campus recruiter in university relations for TD bank.
So obviously I'm also very excited to be here. And so as recruiter, I will say that you know, in a lot of companies we have diversity strategy, but it's actually what I do on a daily basis and all my effort as campus recruiter goes into actually the first year recruiting.
And as a campus recruiter at TD, we have basically two products. It's like we have internship program and 10week program from May until last weekend. And across Maine to Florida. We have businesses practically for every major we have internships. Primarily I would say retail banking, investment banking, technology, audit, finance, to name a few. And the goal of our internship program is to convert them into fulltime hires for full time an list class.
Analyst class which is starting the following year. As summer is almost over and the recruiting season is going to start for me after Labor Day, you know, really looking forward to seeing if I can get some great talent to join us for either one of our programs for next for the class of 2018.
As I said, like, come talk to me, I'm really excited to do the interviewing this morning. And feel free to reach out if you have any other questions.
> EMILY MALSCH: Great, thank you so much.
All right. How about Chris Kondo, 3M. Mic or podium?
> CHRIS KONDO: I'm going to be a professional and take a picture for my report.
(Laughter)
I'm Chris Kondo, I'm with 3M. and I program manage a number of programs. People with disabilities, veterans and a couple global programs. I hail from Minnesota and no, it's not snowing there. Yet.
I'm representing 3M. and we are a 90,000 person employee company. We have 30billion in sales. We are in 90 countries and do business in over 200 countries.
We developed a lot of technology solutions. Solutions that are in the plane that you came in, in the car, in this building. Even in your mouth.
We actually protect those who protect us as well.
We protect soldiers through armor as well as head protection, sight and hearing. As well.
In terms of this is our second USBLN conference and we're thrilled to be here. We've been involved with the GFG and just the ability to learn from others has been amazing. 3M. seeks and values people who are different. And that is experience, physical abilities, gender, experience, sexual preference all those are very important to us.
As you see, we have a product portfolio of 50,000 products and the way we have theo thousand products and developing those solutions is we have individuals who think differently who understand the customer's needs and collaborate with each other to develop new solutions.
So again, I'm looking forward to a great few days. And thank you all for being here.
(Applause).
> EMILY MALSCH: Thank you. How about Bank of America. Mary?
> EMILY MALSCH: Good morning. Thank you so much for allowing us to be here this morning. I'm a campus recruiter with Bank of America. I'm joined by my teammate Mary Lynn MacKenzie who is an experienced recruiter. We focus primarily in our role on hiring people with disabilities. We're part of a greater diversity talent acquisition team where we focus on all people of all abilities and backgrounds.
Bank of America is a global organization and as you probably are all aware, we're in many different markets across the United States.
We are we focus on hire be people from all different backgrounds for our campus programs.
Specifically here today we're looking for students that for our internship programs. One thing I'd like to tell you all is while you think Bank of America as a branch office we have 16 programs across retail bank, commercial banks support groups including finance, audit, HR, risk and compliance and technology and operations. We have a variety of different backgrounds and opportunities available and we'd like to talk to students about those communities. For an in10ship for 2018. A 10week internship and we look for students of all different backgrounds to join us in different locations for a 10week internship that includes working on a specific team for the duration of the internship program. We'll have executive speakers series, networking opportunities, and community service experiences as wells for those students.
The goal of the internship program is to hire for the fum time class the following year. We do have full time opportunities coming out of the internship program. We look forward to talking to you. If you have I in questions throughout the week please come talk to us but we look forward to getting to know you. Thank you.
> EMILY MALSCH: Boston Scientific, Joe.JoeFurino good morning, everybody. Joe Furino, manage university relations at Boston Scientific. I'm absolute salutely is thrilled to be here again this year. This is my second conference. Just curious how many are coming back for another conference? Great.
I'm sure you already shared with others what the experience is going to be like. It's energy.