Registration for the Summit is officially open, so plan to meet the JBC Team in LA!

1. Workshop: High-Impact ERGs: Building a Roadmap to Business Impact

FINAL Workshop Description: ERGs continue to evolve from community-building organizations to those that can have real and sustained impact on the business, from new product development to recruitment and retention to emerging market penetration. Does your ERG have the right structure, talent, and strategy in place to win that coveted “seat at the table”? Will it be able to maximize that opportunity when presented? JBC works with Fortune 500 companies to map this process and prepare ERG leadership, members, and executive sponsors to develop their capabilities to more effectively interact with internal stakeholders and their external communities, to add business value and provide development opportunities that cultivate next generation leaders. This workshop will share the JBC ERG Progression Model and challenge participants to consider their ERG’s value-add in a whole new light.

Workshop Presenters: Jennifer Brown & Brian Sorge

2. Panel on LGBT Inclusion and Generational Differences

ERGs work hard to deliver content-but end up leaving opportunity on the table if output does not align with organizational goals and needs. A strong business foundation and a well-structured plan that builds the business case for ERGs and its projects with clear success metrics is critical to receive buy-in and support from stakeholders. Panel representatives from Cisco and Genentech share tools and strategies for building a solid business plan that will document key project management dimension goals, timelines, success criteria, communication outlets, and more, for each initiative, in order to guide and maximize an ERG’s activities and prove its value to the organization.

Panel Moderator: Jennifer Brown

Date: Oct 9-12, 2011
Length: 4 Days
Location: Palm Desert, CA

Do you feel that you have been sabotaged or have seen other women not supported by other women in the workplace? If so, we invite you to attend this session and learn strategies for overcoming such barriers and learn how to become a role model in order to support the advancement and development of other women. By the end of 2010, women will likely make up the majority of the workplace, but are still not in the majority in regards to executive and management level positions. Although there have been so many gains, inequities still exist. Women supporting other women in their advancement and development is a significant piece of the solution to achieving workplace parity. In this session, we will share and have participants practice a dynamic model involving mentorship, coaching, sponsoring, and advocacy to help create a more supportive work environment.

Session Leader: Jennifer Brown

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The Best Practices in Leadership Development Summit

Mission

Linkage’s 13th Annual Best Practices in Leadership Development Summit: Tools, Processes & Systems for Developing Leaders is the one place where those who are responsible for accelerating the development of managers, executives, and leaders in their organizations can come each year to learn the state-of-the-art in their profession. Thought leaders, world-class practitioners, and expert instructors form an elite faculty to help attendees produce the results expected of them. Benchmark against the best in the industry and dramatically increase your know-how and ability to succeed in your role. Your organization’s future depends on it!

Key Learnings

* Executing on your leadership development strategy through large scale change
* Designing leadership development systems for efficiency and scalability
* Connecting business strategy and execution to leadership development initiatives
* Measuring the return-on-investment of your leadership development initiatives
* Identifying latest trends in leadership development
* Using coaching and 360-degree assessments to strengthen leadership development efforts
* Implementing a “leaders teaching leaders” approach
* Best practice case studies from the best learning and development organizations

Who Attends
Vice presidents, directors, and managers responsible for:

* Leadership Development
* Management Development
* Executive Development
* Organizational Development
* Corporate Universities
* Human Resources
* Talent Management
* Organizational Learning
* Executive Recruiting
* Succession Planning

Jennifer with mentor Carlos Dominguez from Cisco.

It was recently announced that Jennifer Brown, President and CEO of Jennifer Brown Consulting, was selected to participate in Cisco’s 2010 Executive Mentor Protégé Program.  This program indicates that Cisco has made a commitment to a small handful of woman- and minority-owned suppliers who currently do work with Cisco on a client basis, with the intent to invest in growing the relationship between each supplier and Cisco. In JBC’s case, this growth will mean a continuation and expansion of the well-known leadership development, executive coaching, and diversity and inclusion programs we’ve delivered to the Cisco community.
 
One of an elite handful of partners chosen, and the only human capital consulting company to be included, JBC has enjoyed a multi-year consulting partnership with many Cisco clients, building cutting-edge team development and leader coaching programs.  Jennifer is also considered a subject matter expert in the arena of inclusion and diversity, and her pioneering employee engagement strategies, as well as her work with Employee Resource Groups, were featured as part of last year’s Cisco Inclusion & Diversity Symposium, broadcast company-wide on Cisco TV. 
Jennifer and the JBC team are already leveraging the EMP2 program to broaden their business with Cisco, and with Cisco’s partners and customers, as well as spread the word generally about the opportunity of programs such as the EMP2.  Jennifer was quoted recently on the relationship between supplier diversity initiatives such as these, and building more inclusive organizations generally:

“We are so honored to be chosen to participate in Cisco’s program, and be invested in as one of Cisco’s minority-owned small business partners. Programs such as the EMP2 program demonstrate how companies can proactively drive diversity in all its forms, including the diversity of CEOs of Cisco’s company partners and suppliers. Leading companies are increasingly investing in incubator programs such as these, which encourage the participation of more diverse voices from the company’s existing supplier base.”

JBC has been assigned a key executive-level resource to enable the company’s exposure at Cisco, Carlos Dominguez, SVP, Office of the Chairman and CEO.  Carlos is an ideal mentor for the effort, as he shares many of the same passions as the JBC team for collaboration, new innovation strategies, and the role of technology in enabling a more engaged workforce. 

To find out more about JBC’s unique approach to developing leaders, harnessing the power of teams, and channeling the energy of diverse workforces towards real impact, please contact us, at www.jenniferbrownconsulting.com.

This amazing event was hosted by the NGLCC:

LGBT business owners, corporate allies, local chamber leaders, government officials and community leaders will gather, once again, at the 2009 National Dinner to celebrate courageous women and men in business, government and community activism. Guests will have the opportunity to meet and re-connect at the Founders & Friends Reception and Silent Auction prior to the start of the dinner program.

Jennifer was honored to chair the event along with talented individuals from IBM and AT&T.
Read the press release below.

The NGLCC is also proud to announce the honorary co-chairs for the 2009 National Dinner—Frank Kern, Patrice Knight, Jennifer Brown and Troup Coronado.

Frank Kern, senior vice president of IBM Global Business Services, has been with IBM for 30 years, during which time the corporation became the NGLCC’s first founding partner. Kern has led IBM’s global sales and distribution organization in the 170 world markets in which the company operates.

Also from IBM, Vice President of Global Supply Operations Patrice Knight has been a long-time advocate for diverse business owners, and currently serves on the board of directors of the National Minority Supplier Development Council.

Jennifer Brown is the founder and president of Jennifer Brown Consulting (JBC), a New York City-based leadership and diversity consulting firm and NGLCC-certified LGBT business enterprise that works actively with NGLCC corporate partners, Ernst & Young, Chubb, Cisco Systems and American Express. Brown helps build custom development and coaching programs for business leaders at all organizational levels, with a focus on advising clients on the changing demographics of the workforce, specifically with regard to LGBT issues.

Vice president of external affairs for AT&T, Troup Coronado, oversees the company’s external, charitable and government affairs in the Los Angeles area, and serves as AT&T’s lead executive in managing relationships with national LGBT organizations.

The NGLCC leadership noted that they are thrilled that this group of distinguished business leaders will be acting as honorary co-chairs for the 2009 National Dinner, and that the support they have demonstrated to the LGBT business community is invaluable.

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Thanks to everyone who has been leaving supportive messages and emails for Jennifer on this award!

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Jennifer Brown Consulting is proud to announce that Jennifer has been named as one of the top 40 Women honored this year by the Stonewall Foundation. There is an event hosted by the Stonewall Community Foundation in December honoring all nominees.

Join us for Stonewall Honors 2009, Stonewall Community Foundation’s signature cocktail reception, awards program, and dance party honoring the contributions of lesbians and other leaders to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community of New York. This year’s event will be held from 7:30 PM to 12 AM.

In celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, the Foundation will honor 40 outstanding women for their contributions to the LGBT Rights movement.

Honorees Include (click to view list): Dr. Brigitte Alexander, Sandra Benedetto, Stephanie Blackwood, Lauren Blitzer, Jennifer Brown, Karin Buchholz, Annetta Budhu, Yvette Burton, Dorothy Calvani & Dava Weinstein, Connie Cohrt, Lindsay Drucker Mann, Ana Duarte McCarthy, Kim Ford, Maria-Elena Grant, Barbara Glassman, Beth Greenfield, Darra Gordon, Reina Gossett, Natasha Haase, Sarah Holland, Maya Iwata, Ileana Jimenez, RoMa Johnson, Kimberly Kackerbeck, Amy Lesser, Carri Lyon, Honorable Rosie Mendez, Emily Morgan, Mai Nguyen, Kelli O’Donnell, Pauline Park, Oraia Reid, Kate Ryan, Alix Smith, Danielle Sonnenberg, Kimberly Turner, MJ Vineburgh, Sue Wicks.

Stonewall Honors promises to be exceptional event. We will assemble a crowd of more than 400 amazing women (and their friends) for an unforgettable night of awards, community and celebration. The event will feature the talented DJ Stacy at the turntables.

Proceeds from Stonewall Honors will support Stonewall’s Racial Equity Initiative, earmarking $300,000 in grants and capacity building resources to autonomous LGBT people of color organizations in the five boroughs. The monies we raise will match a grant from Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues, a national consortium of foundations.

CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE STONEWALL HONORS EVENT SITE.

Workplace Consulting 2.0 by Jennifer Brown– excerpt, high-quality scan.
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