Organizations must look at where they have been and reassess if what they have done in the past will apply to the future – especially on the topic of supplier diversity and inclusion. Through the years, we have seen sourcing strategies change regarding supplier diversity. Nearshoring, for example, has been providing opportunities for diversity suppliers, and over this last year diversity suppliers have pivoted by looking at adjacent markets and attempting to play in those markets as well.
In this session we will look at the future of procurement and at what opportunities are available in terms of supplier diversity and inclusion. Key items to be discussed:
The most critical factors for adapting to future sourcing strategies.
Nearshoring and diversifying suppliers.
Making sure you are forward thinking when working with corporations on supplier diversity and inclusion – the critical issues that need to be addressed.
What enterprise executives have learned over the past 12 months and how those learnings are impacting future processes.
Join us for this timely and dynamic panel discussion on supplier diversity and inclusion facilitated by Dr. Janice Greene, Women’s Business Enterprise Council - Pacific and joined by Lisa Roben, Comcast, Erica Hill, CBRE, Sandra Duckworth, Delta Air Lines, and Stacie Harwood, T-Mobile. This session is sure to deliver an educational and thought-provoking conversation.
Women’s Business Enterprise Council Pacific (WBEC Pacific)
Dr. Janice Greene is an experienced leader who has demonstrated the ability to successfully design, integrate and align economic development and strategic work placement into enterprise business objectives. She is a recognized subject matter expert in various political, trade, industry, and professional associations supporting economic development, supplier diversity, and business intelligence. Through her career, Janice continues to provide leadership to several domestic and international industry associations.
Industry strengths: strategic planning, key stakeholder relationships, cross functional leadership, program development and implementation, and effective communication skills
Vice President Global Supplier Diversity and Inclusion
CBRE
I am an executive-level procurement strategist and sourcing team leader for multinational organizations seeking to create partnerships between the procurement function and stakeholders across the business. I am known for my talents in strategically sourcing goods and services quickly at impressively lower costs.
Most recently, I helped to launch a Boston flagship store for a European fashion retailer (Primark) planning to expand into the US market. Earlier roles (Brown Shoe Company, MeadWestvaco, and Georgia-Pacific) focused on building a top-shelf procurement program and identifying the processes, technologies, and teams to accomplish corporate goals. In my earliest career, I led procurement consulting functions for global Fortune 100 companies as a manager / senior consultant with both Deloitte Consulting and Ernst & Young / Cap Gemeni.
In fact, in every position, I lowered costs, increased diversity spend, and elevated the value of procurement within the organization and specifically to the executive team. By believing that the relationship between procurement and the various departments is one of true partnership, I also found ways to improve operations and decrease the time to market.
To learn more about my procurement and leadership expertise, please connect with me on LinkedIn.
Program Manager, California Supplier Diversity Lead
Comcast
Lisa Roben, Program Manager, leads Comcast California’s Supplier Diversity Program, which is designed to promote, increase and improve participation of diverse businesses within the procurement process. Lisa and the Comcast California Region team, work with incumbent diverse suppliers and provide outreach/technical assistance to prospective diverse suppliers. The program focus includes Comcast California’s collaboration with business inclusion of women, minority, service-disabled veteran, LGBT+ and disabled enterprise. Over the past three years, Lisa has enjoyed her position in working together with procurement to advocate for diverse suppliers, advocate and strengthen Comcast California’s Supplier Diversity Program. Before joining Comcast in 2016, Lisa represented a minority business enterprise as a Corporate Account Manager. This experience helped her to become an advocate of diverse suppliers and understand the need for and value of supplier diversity programs – this truly prepared her for her role in Comcast.
Sandra Duckworth serves as Program Manager in Delta Air Lines Supply Chain Management, Supplier Diversity & Inclusion team, which identifies and builds relationships with high quality small, minority and women-owned business enterprises. Sandra is responsible for the Tier 2 Program, managing the diverse reporting of 88 of Delta’s large businesses. Additionally, Sandra fosters and maintains relationships with our advocacy organizations, in which Delta serves as a corporate partner.
Prior to joining Delta, Sandra worked for CSM Bakery Solutions as an SAP Analyst managing contracts for several ingredients across 23 different US plants. Before then, she worked for The Coca-Cola Company for 23 years in various Procurement and Supply Chain roles. Her latest role at Coca-Cola was Tier 2 Program Manager in Supplier Diversity, where she worked to increase 2nd Tier spend by 26%.
Sandra holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Shorter University in Business Management. She and her husband, Danny, live in Fayetteville, GA.
Stacie Harwood is a 12-year T-Mobile veteran and responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the Un-carrier’s Supplier Diversity team, which oversees organization-wide initiatives concerning diversity and opens doors for minority-owned businesses to thrive with the carrier.
In her current role, Stacie utilizes her proven interpersonal skills to speak with organizations about possibilities within T-Mobile while also working with suppliers to help get them certified and primed for success. Her impact spans multiple regions and national markets and can provide significant beneficial opportunities for professional entities across the U.S.
Before T-Mobile, Stacie built her repertoire as an accounts receivable specialist first at U.S. West Communications, then at kidney dialysis company DaVita before taking her talents to T-Mobile. Prior to her current role, Stacie gained invaluable experience as a program manager for the Un-carrier’s tower operations and safety team, ensuring tower climbers and their overseers remained safe and secure while helping to make the T-Mobile network sing.
Originally from Montana, Stacie and her husband currently reside in the greater Seattle area with their three dogs and two cats. The two humans of the household support various animal rescue organizations and love to travel abroad, preferably to lounge on warm sandy beaches.
Organizations must look at where they have been and reassess if what they have done in the past will apply to the future – especially on the topic of supplier diversity and inclusion. Through the years, we have seen sourcing strategies change regarding supplier diversity. Nearshoring, for example, has been providing opportunities for diversity suppliers, and over this last year diversity suppliers have pivoted by looking at adjacent markets and attempting to play in those markets as well.
In this session we will look at the future of procurement and at what opportunities are available in terms of supplier diversity and inclusion. Key items to be discussed:
Join us for this timely and dynamic panel discussion on supplier diversity and inclusion facilitated by Dr. Janice Greene, Women’s Business Enterprise Council - Pacific and joined by Lisa Roben, Comcast, Erica Hill, CBRE, Sandra Duckworth, Delta Air Lines, and Stacie Harwood, T-Mobile. This session is sure to deliver an educational and thought-provoking conversation.
Dr. Janice Greene
Dr. Janice Greene is an experienced leader who has demonstrated the ability to successfully design, integrate and align economic development and strategic work placement into enterprise business objectives. She is a recognized subject matter expert in various political, trade, industry, and professional associations supporting economic development, supplier diversity, and business intelligence. Through her career, Janice continues to provide leadership to several domestic and international industry associations.
Industry strengths: strategic planning, key stakeholder relationships, cross functional leadership, program development and implementation, and effective communication skills
Erica Hill
I am an executive-level procurement strategist and sourcing team leader for multinational organizations seeking to create partnerships between the procurement function and stakeholders across the business. I am known for my talents in strategically sourcing goods and services quickly at impressively lower costs.
Most recently, I helped to launch a Boston flagship store for a European fashion retailer (Primark) planning to expand into the US market. Earlier roles (Brown Shoe Company, MeadWestvaco, and Georgia-Pacific) focused on building a top-shelf procurement program and identifying the processes, technologies, and teams to accomplish corporate goals. In my earliest career, I led procurement consulting functions for global Fortune 100 companies as a manager / senior consultant with both Deloitte Consulting and Ernst & Young / Cap Gemeni.
In fact, in every position, I lowered costs, increased diversity spend, and elevated the value of procurement within the organization and specifically to the executive team. By believing that the relationship between procurement and the various departments is one of true partnership, I also found ways to improve operations and decrease the time to market.
To learn more about my procurement and leadership expertise, please connect with me on LinkedIn.
Lisa Roben
Lisa Roben, Program Manager, leads Comcast California’s Supplier Diversity Program, which is designed to promote, increase and improve participation of diverse businesses within the procurement process. Lisa and the Comcast California Region team, work with incumbent diverse suppliers and provide outreach/technical assistance to prospective diverse suppliers. The program focus includes Comcast California’s collaboration with business inclusion of women, minority, service-disabled veteran, LGBT+ and disabled enterprise. Over the past three years, Lisa has enjoyed her position in working together with procurement to advocate for diverse suppliers, advocate and strengthen Comcast California’s Supplier Diversity Program. Before joining Comcast in 2016, Lisa represented a minority business enterprise as a Corporate Account Manager. This experience helped her to become an advocate of diverse suppliers and understand the need for and value of supplier diversity programs – this truly prepared her for her role in Comcast.
Sandra Duckworth
Sandra Duckworth serves as Program Manager in Delta Air Lines Supply Chain Management, Supplier Diversity & Inclusion team, which identifies and builds relationships with high quality small, minority and women-owned business enterprises. Sandra is responsible for the Tier 2 Program, managing the diverse reporting of 88 of Delta’s large businesses. Additionally, Sandra fosters and maintains relationships with our advocacy organizations, in which Delta serves as a corporate partner.
Prior to joining Delta, Sandra worked for CSM Bakery Solutions as an SAP Analyst managing contracts for several ingredients across 23 different US plants. Before then, she worked for The Coca-Cola Company for 23 years in various Procurement and Supply Chain roles. Her latest role at Coca-Cola was Tier 2 Program Manager in Supplier Diversity, where she worked to increase 2nd Tier spend by 26%.
Sandra holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Shorter University in Business Management. She and her husband, Danny, live in Fayetteville, GA.
Stacie Harwood
Stacie Harwood is a 12-year T-Mobile veteran and responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the Un-carrier’s Supplier Diversity team, which oversees organization-wide initiatives concerning diversity and opens doors for minority-owned businesses to thrive with the carrier.
In her current role, Stacie utilizes her proven interpersonal skills to speak with organizations about possibilities within T-Mobile while also working with suppliers to help get them certified and primed for success. Her impact spans multiple regions and national markets and can provide significant beneficial opportunities for professional entities across the U.S.
Before T-Mobile, Stacie built her repertoire as an accounts receivable specialist first at U.S. West Communications, then at kidney dialysis company DaVita before taking her talents to T-Mobile. Prior to her current role, Stacie gained invaluable experience as a program manager for the Un-carrier’s tower operations and safety team, ensuring tower climbers and their overseers remained safe and secure while helping to make the T-Mobile network sing.
Originally from Montana, Stacie and her husband currently reside in the greater Seattle area with their three dogs and two cats. The two humans of the household support various animal rescue organizations and love to travel abroad, preferably to lounge on warm sandy beaches.