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June 9, 2016

CHICAGO

Edelman200 East Randolph, 66th Floor Chicago, Illinois

OPENING DOORS FOR WOMEN®

POWER Opening Doors for Women® is a 12-year organization with programs on three continents. We convene economists, sociologists and corporate leaders – women and men – from across the globe to discuss the new business imperative, inclusivity. Global economic recovery depends on women entering and contributing to the workforce. Women and men working together will create inclusive environments that spur creativity, innovation and leadership.

POWER continues to provide engaging discourse on today’s foremost career and leadership topics, and intimate gatherings with preeminent thought leaders and business leaders, as well as tomorrow’s leaders. POWER is recognized, supported and sponsored by Fortune 500 companies, top law firms and leading civic organizations.

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A special thank you to the Schiff Hardin Reproductions Team

CHICAGO ORGANIZING TEAM

EdelmanMike Lovell, John Scanland and catering by Renee Bradford, C’est Si Bon! Ltd.

Baker & McKenzieJeff Kessler, Laurel Rhodes, Jennifer Tyderek and catering by Entertaining Company

Sandra & Deven Rand dinner panel Catering by Premier Catering & Events

POWER AdvisorsKate Bensen, Regine Corrado, Agnes Estes, Erin Gardiner, Vicki Kramer, Fay Hartog-Levin

Strategic Development Consultant Mary Morten, Morten Group

Operations Durre Muhammad, Michella Goodwin-Garcia

Creative Tanen Directed Advertising

Editorial Lisa Wilder

Graphic Design Jill Dible

Public Relations and Social Media Pat Keenan, Shawn Mayberry, Tallulah Group

Transportation Rita Joyce, Aries Charter

Print Sponsor Leslie R. DeLuca, KPMG LLP

Florist A Always Floral, Daisy Eng

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BUILDING INCLUSIVE WORK ENVIRONMENTS: CONQUERING SILOS AND GENDER BARRIERS

What structural and institutional barriers prevent talent, and thus organizations, from reaching their full potential? Unconscious bias, organizational silos, and individual self-limiting thoughts and behaviors are three contributing factors. The POWER Chicago 2016 program explores ways to work through these challenges to retain a talented global workforce.

What is the impact on the overall corporate culture when there are more women on corporate boards or in the C-suites? POWER Chicago 2016 delves into this topic and examines the barriers to progress despite evidence of the positive effect of gender equality and a critical mass of women on boards.

POWER: Panel DescriptionsProgram Description

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UPCOMING POWER PROGRAM DATES

REGISTRATION & NETWORKING

WELCOMELiz Aguinaga, Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, CNA

INTRODUCTION OF POWER Deirdre Joy Smith, Founder & CEO, POWER: Opening Doors for Women®

KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONYvonne Thompson CBE, Personal Development & Leadership Coach and Author, 7 Traits of Highly Successful Women on Boards* Yvonne will join the panel discussion

PANEL DISCUSSIONModerator, Madeleine Condit, Founder & CEO, Condit Associates, and Project Director, Every Other One, Committee for Economic Development of the Conference Board

Roxanne Decyk, Member, The Committee of 200; Executive Vice President, Global Government Relations, Royal Dutch Shell (retired); Board Director: DigitalGlobe, Ensco Plc and Orbital ATK

Vicki W. Kramer, President, Thirty Percent Coalition

James H. Wooten, Jr., Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Illinois Tool Works Inc. (retired), and Board Director: Hyatt Hotels Corp. and Morae Legal

Q & A

CLOSING REMARKSMary Kate Phillips, Vice President/General Manager, Brand Identity Division, ITW

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SCHEDULE:

Edelman, 200 East Randolph, 66th Floor

Building Inclusive Work Environments: Conquering Silos and Gender Barriers

1:30 PM

2:00 PM

POWER: Opening Doors for Women®

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NETWORKING BREAK

WELCOMERegine W. Corrado, Partner, Baker & McKenzie

KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONGillian Tett, U.S. Managing Editor, Financial Times, and Author, The Silo Effect – The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers* Gillian will join the panel discussion

PANEL DISCUSSIONModerator, Trisch L. Smith, Executive Vice President & Managing Director of Diversity and Inclusion, Edelman

Susan Gallagher, Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, Patina

Q & A

SOUTHWEST GIFT DRAWING & CLOSING REMARKSDeirdre Joy Smith

DEPART FOR EXECUTIVE DINNER PANELS Round-trip transportation provided

3:30 PM

4:00 PM

5:30 PM

Participants will receive autographed complimentary copies of:

The Silo Effect – The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers

by Gillian Tett

7 Traits of Highly Successful Women on Boards by Dr. Yvonne Thompson CBE

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FROM MANAGER TO LEADER – TOOLS FROM YOUR TOOLKITBaker & McKenzieModeratorsRegine W. Corrado, Partner, Baker & McKenzie

Erin Gardiner, Senior Vice President, Edelman

PANEL DISCUSSIONKate Bensen, President and CEO, The Chicago Network

Miguel Noyola, Partner, Baker & McKenzie

Thea Polancic, Founder and Chair, Chicago Chapter of Conscious Capitalism, and Managing Partner, ClearSpace

Anzhelika Shatrov, Controller, Bria Health Services

GLOBAL STATUS OF WOMEN ON CORPORATE BOARDS AND IN C-SUITESHome of Sandra and Deven RandHost, Sandra Rand

Moderator, Vicki W. Kramer, President, Thirty Percent Coalition

PANEL DISCUSSIONCheryl Mayberry McKissack, COO and President of JPC Digital, Johnson Publishing Company, and Board Director for PrivateBanc Corp. and Deluxe Corp.

Lois Scott, President, Epoch Advisors, and Board Director for MBIA Inc. and Chicago Stock Exchange

Yvonne Thompson CBE, Personal Development & Leadership Coach, and Author, 7 Traits of Highly Successful Women on Boards

6:00-8:00 PM

SCHEDULE: Executive Dinner Panels

Speakers

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Liz Aguinaga Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, CNA

Liz Aguinaga is Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, and is responsible for strategies and operations for global human resources across the entire CNA enterprise.

Liz joined CNA in 2010 as a Vice President and Human Resources Business Partner. Her responsibilities included the development of talent solutions and a human capital strategy for CNA’s global business, encompassing 64 branches around the world. Prior to that role, she served for nine years in both recruiting and human resources generalist functions at Chubb.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the University of Illinois and a Master’s in Human Resources from Loyola University.


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Kate Bensen President and CEO, The Chicago Network

Kate Bensen joined The Chicago Network in April 2010 as Executive Director and became its President and CEO in 2013. Previously, Kate led the nonprofit capacity building practice for Conlon Public Strategies and was a partner at Schiff Hardin LLP, specializing in corporate and public finance.

Kate is a director of the Chicago Club, Grammy award winning ensemble eighth blackbird and The Arts Club of Chicago. Kate is a member of the Commercial Club, Economic Club, Chicago Club, International Women’s Forum, Executives’ Club and the Women’s Board of the University of Chicago (past Chair). She also serves on the President’s Advisory Council for Governors State University and the Board Development Committee for the Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana. In 2008 she received the University of Chicago’s Alumni Service Medal for her work in securing an Alumni House for the University.

Kate received her AB in economics from the University of Chicago and her law degree from Loyola University of Chicago School of Law. Her LinkedIn profile is http://www.linkedin.com/in/katebensen.

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Madeleine ConditFounder and CEO, Condit AssociatesProject Director, Every Other One, Committee for Economic Development of the Conference Board

Madeleine Condit is a globally recognized consultant who has worked for over twenty years with major corporations and boards of directors on the key fundamental issues that fuel sustainable growth and good governance. Her areas of expertise are building strong leadership teams and structuring corporate boards to enable their success. She is an acknowledged expert on board composition and has been a contributor to several national publications.

In her role as Project Director of the Every Other One Initiative of The Committee for Economic Development of The Conference Board, she is consulting on increasing the awareness of the economic imperative of having more women on corporate boards.

Madeleine is the founder of Condit Associates, which provides growth planning support including board composition, senior leadership assessment, incentive and total compensation plans, new market entry, global expansion, and sophisticated marketing communications solutions to small and mid-size companies.

Madeleine has been a leader on civic and non-profit boards throughout her career. She is currently a member and former Chairman of the External Advisory Board of the University of Pennsylvania Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy; Member and former Director of The Chicago Network; and Member of the Advisory Board of WEL, among others. She was the 2014 recipient of the Women Executive Leadership Florida Trailblazer award for her pioneering work in placing women on corporate boards.

Madeleine earned a BA from the University of California Berkeley, an MBA from the University of Colorado and is an Executive Urban Fellow at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management.


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Regine W. CorradoPartner, Baker & McKenzie

Regine W. Corrado is a Partner at Baker & McKenzie LLP. Her cross-border practice includes the coordination and implementation of multicountry corporate transactions and restructurings outside the US.

In addition, she counsels US multinationals in connection with their international operations, as well as corporate and foreign investment compliance and maintenance of their global corporate portfolio.

She is an active member of the Chicago Bar Association, and currently serves as Co Vice-Chair of the Alliance for Women. She is also a member of the American Bar Association, International Law Division.

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Roxanne DecykMember, The Committee of 200Executive Vice President, Global Government Relations, Royal Dutch Shell (retired) Board Director: DigitalGlobe, Ensco Plc and Orbital ATK

Roxanne Decyk retired in 2010 from the position of Executive Vice President, Global Government Relations for Royal Dutch Shell.

Previously, she was a member of the Executive Committee of Royal Dutch Shell Plc and served as Corporate Affairs and Sustainable Development Director, Chief of Staff for Shell Oil and Head of Strategy for Royal Dutch Shell.

She has also held senior positions with Amoco Oil Corporation and Navistar. Early in her career, she practiced law with a major U.S. firm and worked in the advertising and public relations fields.

Roxanne has served on the boards of several companies in both the U.S. and the UK and currently is a non-executive director of Digital Globe, Ensco Plc and Orbital ATK. She currently chairs the Orbital ATK compensation committee and the Digital Globe risk committee. Roxanne has been awarded the Directors Choice Award.

In 2013, Roxanne was appointed to the Defense Business Board, a civilian advisory board to the Department of Defense, and has served on the Subcommittee for Capacity Building and Skills Training of the International Council on Women’s Business Leadership for the U.S. State Department. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the Committee of 200.

Roxanne graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in English literature and advertising and from Marquette University with a Juris Doctor.

She continues her research and lecturing on comparative international governance and sustainable development topics and is a Ford Scholar at the Ford Center for Global Citizenship at Northwestern University.


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Susan G. GallagherExecutive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, Patina

Susan Gallagher has significant experience in growing companies and building leadership teams that perform. She has over 35 years’ experience in the professional services industry. As Chief Operating Officer, Susan led the 105% growth of Patina over the last three years and has recently become CFO. She now leads the international business, channel partners, and new office growth and is a member of the Executive Management Team.

Susan was formerly Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer at True Partners Consulting and prior to True Partner’s Susan was one of 25 founding Managing Directors of Huron Consulting Group. From the company’s inception to 2006, she served as the Head of Strategic Development and served on the company’s Executive Management Team. Prior to Huron, Susan was a partner at Arthur Andersen and held a number of leadership positions.

Susan is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Mercy Hospital and Medical Center, the former Board Chair and current Board member of Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago, a former board member of The American Red Cross of Greater Chicago, and current Advisory board member of Gallagher Safety and Environmental Services consulting firm. She is a Board member of The Chicago Network and The International Women’s Forum and Founder and Chair of The Senior Businesswomen’s Forum and a member of The Economic Club of Chicago.

Susan is a graduate of Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana.

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Erin GardinerSenior Vice President, Edelman

Erin Gardiner is a public relations leader specializing in healthcare. Since joining Edelman five years ago, Erin has led account teams for clients such as CVS Health, Eli Lilly & Company, Medtronic and Lundbeck. From thought leadership programs to regulatory milestone support to navigating complex regulatory issues, Erin provides corporate and product public relations counsel. Her specialties include executing new product introductions, developing consumer and healthcare professional engagement programs, and health issues management. Additionally, Erin leads the Chicago chapter of Edelman’s Global Women’s Executive Network (GWEN).

Erin held in-house roles on the provider (Advocate Health Care), payer (First Health, now part of Aetna) and industry (Baxter International) side prior to joining Edelman in 2011.

Erin serves on the board of human services agency Metropolitan Family Services.

Erin is a graduate of the University of Dayton, where she earned a B.A. with honors in communications/public relations.


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Vicki W. KramerPresident, Thirty Percent Coalition

Vicki W. Kramer is president of the Thirty Percent Coalition, a unique and groundbreaking national organization committed to the goal of women, including women of color, holding 30% of board seats across public companies. The Coalition includes corporations, professional service firms, government officials, institutional investors, national women’s organizations, and business executives for the first time working together to drive the pace of change.

From 1996 until 2013, Vicki was principal of V. Kramer & Associates, providing consulting, group facilitation and executive coaching to nonprofits, businesses, and professional firms; and conducting research. Prior to that she co-founded and co-directed Options, a nonprofit career and human resource consulting service, and was formerly on the faculty of Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges.

She led a national study to determine whether it makes a difference in corporate governance to have a critical mass of women on a corporate board. The results were published by Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College (Critical Mass on Corporate Boards: Why Three or More Women Enhance Governance), and she has co-authored articles about the study for the Harvard Business Review, numerous corporate governance journals, and a chapter for the 2008 book Women on Corporate Boards of Directors: International Research and Practice.

She was a founding director of ION (InterOrganization Network), a national organization of executive women’s organizations. She chaired the governance committee for two nonprofits on whose board she served.

She holds a B.A. from Wellesley and a Ph.D. from Harvard.

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Cheryl Mayberry McKissackChief Operating Officer and President of JPC Digital, Johnson Publishing Company Board Director: PrivateBanc Corp. and Deluxe Corp.

Cheryl Mayberry McKissack is the Chief Operating Officer and President of JPC Digital for Johnson Publishing Company (JPC), best known for its flagship publication, Ebony. Cheryl is responsible for managing media operations including technology development, production, media sales, marketing, business development and all functions of the digital business unit, JPC Digital.

Prior to joining JPC in 2014, Cheryl was the Founder, President and CEO of Nia Enterprises, an online research, marketing and digital consulting firm. Before that, she enjoyed a successful 23-year corporate career in operations and technology, including serving as the Worldwide Senior Vice President and General Manager for Open Port Technology.

Cheryl has more than 14 years of corporate board experience and an expertise in corporate governance. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the PrivateBanc Corp., where she is the Chair of the Corporate Governance Committee and Vice Chair of the Compensation Committee. She also serves as a Director of the Deluxe Corporation and currently serves on the Finance and Compensation Committees. She also is actively involved in the Chicago community and has held positions on numerous non-profit boards.

Cheryl received her B.S. Degree from Seattle University and her MBA from the Northwestern J.L. Kellogg School of Management.

Cheryl has received numerous awards. Most recently, she was recognized by Directors & Boards magazine as one of the 2015 “Directors to Watch”. A published author, Cheryl‘s next book, The Entrepreneurial Sell: How Selling Impacts Every Step in Start-Up Success—And How To Get It Right, is scheduled for distribution in 2017.

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F. Miguel Noyola Partner, Baker & McKenzie

Miguel Noyola is a partner at Baker & McKenzie LLP where he chairs the International Commercial Practice Group in North America. He advises leading multinational companies on doing business and investing in Mexico and Latin America.

Miguel concentrates his practice on cross-border acquisitions and joint ventures, and has extensive experience advising on cross-border supply chain strategies and complex commercial and licensing arrangements. He has assisted many clients in developing and implementing solutions to investment, operational and compliance challenges faced in cross-cultural and international settings.

Miguel is an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches a course on Cross-Border Transactions. He served as chairman and is a current board member of the US/Mexico Chamber of Commerce, Mid-America Chapter. He received the “Client Service All-Star” designation by BTI Consulting in 2011. The global International Commercial practice, led by Miguel in North America, received an exclusive Band One ranking in the Global Commercial Contracts section of Chambers Global in 2015 and 2016.

Mary Kate PhillipsVice President/General Manager, Brand Identity Division, ITW

Mary Kate Phillips is the Vice President/General Manager of Brand Identity, a division of Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW). ITW is a Fortune 200 global diversified industrial manufacturer of value-added consumables and specialty equipment with related service businesses. The company focuses on profitable growth and strong returns across worldwide platforms and businesses. These businesses serve local customers and markets around the globe, with a significant presence in developed, as well as emerging markets. ITW’s revenues totaled $14.5 billion in 2014, with more than half of these revenues generated outside of the U.S.

Mary Kate joined ITW in 2013 as the Vice President of Brand Identity, part of the Specialty Segment. The division supplies highly technical printing solutions to the Medical, Financial Card, and Automotive Markets, with manufacturing on 3 continents and customers all over the world.

Her career started in 1993 at International Paper as a Sales Trainee, and later spent 5 years as a Sales Representative. In 1999, Mary Kate moved to Alcoa where she spent several years as a Sales Manager and Plant Manager in the Flexible Packaging Business Unit. Following that, she was promoted to General Manager in Alcoa’s Building and Construction segment.

Mary Kate earned a Bachelor of Science in Consumer Affairs from Purdue University and a Masters of Business Administration from Loyola University.

She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Reverend Robert J Loftus Endowment Fund. She is actively involved in Junior Achievement.

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Thea Durfee Polancic Founder and Chair, Chicago Chapter of Conscious CapitalismManaging Partner, ClearSpace

Thea Polancic is a passionate advocate for the power of business as a force for good in the world. She is the Founder and Chair of the Chicago Chapter of Conscious Capitalism - a movement dedicated to elevating humanity through business, founded by John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods.

The Chicago Chapter is the first in North America, and in less than 18 months it has grown to more than 1,100 members. Under her leadership, the Chicago Chapter produces programs for the general public and private events for senior executives who are committed to leading organizations that are both purposeful and unapologetically profit-driven. As a result of her efforts, the international Conscious Capitalism Annual Conference has taken place in Chicago for the past two years.

Thea is also the Managing Partner of ClearSpace, LLC, a consulting firm that helps CEOs transform themselves, their teams and organizations to meet the challenges of the future and grow and thrive. Over the past 15 years, Thea has worked closely with many senior leadership teams to grow organizations with a higher purpose, creating value for all stakeholders, developing servant leaders, and having healthy, values-based cultures. Her firm’s clients include organizations large and small across the country. She is a mentor to Chicago accelerators TechStars Chicago, Healthbox and The Impact Engine and the Conscious Venture Lab in Maryland.

Thea is a sought-after speaker on leadership and the future of business.

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Sandra RandCivic Leader and Philanthropist

Sandra Rand served her entire corporate career at United Airlines. She held progressively more responsible positions until being appointed the Director of Supplier Diversity. As Director, she was responsible for leading all aspects of United’s diverse procurement initiatives. This included identifying viable, competitive and certified minority and women-owned businesses to participate in the competitive bid process, developing and monitoring individual department participation goals, and acting as liaison to the small business community.

Sandra’s work also included building strategic alliances, on behalf of United, with local and national external partners. She is a past Chair of the National Minority Supplier Development Council Chairpersons Committee; past chair of the NMSDC Airline Transportation Group; former member of the Chicago Minority Business Development Council; past director of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council and past chair of its ad hoc Board Development Committee; and was a key contributor to the Chicago United Blue Ribbon Panel that developed the “Professional Services Model”. Her participation on the Panel led to her subsequent election to Chicago United’s Board of Directors.

Her commitment and passion for diversity made her a sought-after subject-matter expert, which yielded numerous awards in her career from public and private sector organizations.

Sandra continues to serve the business and civic community through philanthropy. She serves on the Women’s Business Development Center Board’s Audit and Board Governance committees and is the current Treasurer. She is also a member of the Beloved Community Family Wellness Center Board, the Art Institute of Chicago Woman’s Board, and the Landmarks Illinois Board, among others.

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Lois A. ScottPresident, Epoch Advisors Board Director: MBIA Inc. and Chicago Stock Exchange

Lois Scott, President, Epoch Advisors, is a senior finance executive, entrepreneur and civic leader. She serves on the board of MBIA Inc. where she is a member of the Audit Committee, the board of the Chicago Stock Exchange and the boards of other privately held financial services companies.

Lois’ functional experience includes financial and business strategy, driving revenue growth and profitability, investor relations, financial turnarounds, and asset and liability management in government and regulated industries.

From 2011-2015, Lois served as the Chief Financial Officer for the City of Chicago, the first woman to ever serve in that capacity. Lois brought corporate-style investor relations and enhanced disclosure to municipal government, launching the City’s annual investor conference in 2011. She was the most requested speaker of the Emanuel administration, and she served as special advisor to the Clinton Global Initiative on infrastructure and finance.

In 2011, Lois co-founded and chaired the Municipal CFO Forum with the Harris School of the University of Chicago.

She also was one of the founders of Women in Public Finance, a professional organization started in 1995 that now has 12 chapters across the country. She was also the driving force behind creation of the “Women of the Year” event honoring accomplishments of women in the public finance field.

Lois’ work has been recognized by many. Most recently, she won the 2015 “Freda Johnson” award for trailblazing women in finance.

Lois completed her MBA in Finance from Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Business.

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Anzhelika ShatrovController, Bria Health Services

Throughout her career, Anzhelika Shatrov has demonstrated astonishing versatility and made measurable contributions to organizations in the areas of financial performance, operational efficiency, HR, corporate governance, and business growth. She has piloted programs that have up-leveled team performance, driven sales, and increased brand awareness. Her leadership experience encompasses the industries of healthcare, long term care nursing, mortgage banking, nonprofit business management, and broadcast media.

In addition to her role as controller at Bria Health Services, a premier provider of rehabilitation, skilled nursing, and long-term residential, care, Anzhelika serves as a producer for advisorTV, a video content curation platform owned by Mabbly, a Chicago, Illinois-based digital marketing agency.

Anzhelika graduated from Loyola University in Chicago with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biochemistry, where she also minored in Business Management. She earned her RAC-CT® Certification, the nationally recognized standard of excellence in resident assessment in the long-term care nursing profession, in 2012, and is also a licensed Nursing Home Administrator in the State of Illinois. She is also an active supporter of numerous charitable causes.

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Deirdre Joy Smith Founder & CEO POWER: Opening Doors for Women®

Deirdre Joy Smith is the founder, CEO and visionary behind POWER: Opening Doors for Women®. She has received numerous awards including the Chicago Foundation for Women Impact Award, the “Women on the Rise” Award, and the “Women Making History” Award.

Prior to founding POWER, Deirdre was the Midwest Finance Director for the Democratic National Committee. She subsequently became principal of DJS Consulting LLC, a political and nonprofit fundraising firm. Deirdre has lived and worked abroad in the Netherlands and Turkey. Her career has included domestic and international trade experience at the U.S. Department of Commerce. She has also worked with Women in International Security, a nonprofit organization at the University of Maryland’s Center for International and Security Affairs.

Deirdre is a member of the Chicago Executives’ Club, where she sits on the Talent Development and International committees. She is a member of the Chicago Global Council of Affairs and the Board of Trustees for WTTW, Chicago’s PBS television station.

She is a board member of the Thirty Percent Coalition, a national organization committed to the goal of women holding 30% of board seats across public companies. She is a former board and executive committee member for the Chicago Foundation for Women, Working in the Schools, and Athena International.

Deirdre is a graduate of KPMG’s Executive Leadership Institute for Women for senior-level executives. She received a Bachelor of Science from Purdue University and studied at the London School of Economics and Obirin University in Machida, Japan.

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Trisch L. Smith Executive Vice President & Managing Director of Diversity and Inclusion, Edelman

Strategic, focused, creative and committed are just a few words used to describe Trisch L. Smith. During her 15 years with the top global PR agency, Smith has managed stakeholder outreach, strategic positioning, reputation management and public affairs campaigns for a host of Fortune 500 corporations, non-profits and associations, such as Chevron, Toyota, Starbucks, United Negro College Fund, United Way of America and Walmart.

Smith also helps lead the firm’s award-winning Multicultural client practice. She provides senior counsel to a wide range of organizations to protect, promote and evolve their brands and effectively engage diverse thought leaders, media, academics, elected officials and consumers.

In January 2015, Smith became the company’s first Managing Director of Diversity and Inclusion. Smith partners with leaders across all offices, practices, sectors and HR to guide Edelman’s organizational structure and programming surrounding diversity and inclusion. Smith oversees D&I training and development efforts, diversity recruitment, external partnerships and Edelman’s overall engagement strategy.

Smith sits on the Board of Directors of the National Black Child Development Institute, Color Comm: Women of Color in Communications, and the corporate advisory board of Mentoring USA.

Her efforts have been recognized by many. Most recently in 2016, Savoy Magazine featured her as one of the top 100 Most Influential Blacks in Corporate America, and she was recognized in the Upstanding 100 list for top diverse executive leaders globally.

She earned a master’s in broadcast journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park and a bachelor’s in communications from Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD.

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Gillian TettUS Managing Editor, Financial TimesAuthor, The Silo Effect – The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers

Gillian Tett serves as US managing editor, leading the Financial Times’ editorial operations in the region across all platforms. She writes weekly columns, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues throughout the globe.

Gillian previously served as assistant editor, US managing editor, and prior to this as assistant editor responsible for the FT’s markets coverage. Her other roles at the FT have included capital markets editor, deputy editor of the Lex column, Tokyo bureau chief, Tokyo correspondent, London-based economics reporter and a reporter in Russia and Brussels.

Her latest book The Silo Effect, published by Simon & Schuster in 2015, looks at the global economy and financial system through the lens of cultural anthropology.

In 2015, Gillian was given an honorary doctorate from Lancaster University in the UK. She has received numerous awards. Most recently, in 2014, she was named Columnist of the Year in the British Press Awards and received the Royal Anthropological Institute Marsh Award. In 2012, she received a Society of American Business Editors and Writers Award for best feature article, “Madoff spins his story.”

She is the author of New York Times bestseller Fool’s Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe (2009), and Saving the Sun: A Wall Street Gamble to Rescue Japan from its Trillion Dollar Meltdown (2003).

Before joining the FT in 1993, Gillian was awarded a PhD in social anthropology from Cambridge University based on field work in the former Soviet Union. She is a graduate of Cambridge University.

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Yvonne Thompson CBE Personal Development & Leadership CoachAuthor, 7 Traits of Highly Successful Women on Boards

Dr. Yvonne Thompson has spent over 30 years working in the communications industry. During most of this time she campaigned for minorities, small business owners and closest to her heart, race and women’s equality in the workplace, especially the boardroom.

Having spent nearly half that time being the only woman on a board with nine men at Choice FM (the UK’s first legal black music radio station, now Capital Xtra), she experienced first-hand how lonely being at the top can be for a woman. Having decided to share her experience, thoughts, hints, tips and advice to help other aspiring women, she spent a year researching and talking to other highly successful women in boardrooms. She chose 22 women’s stories to share with readers. With her book, 7 Traits of Highly Successful Women on Boards, she moves the women-on-boards conversation from facts and figures to an easily accessible and achievable read that both women and men can aspire to.

Recognised by Queen Elizabeth II for her work with women enterprise and minorities, Yvonne was awarded a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2003. This was followed by her Doctorate in Enterprise, Small Business Women and Minorities Issues through the London Metropolitan University in 2005, and a further Doctorate was awarded by Greenwich School of Management and Plymouth University for her work in Global Diversity and Enterprise in 2015.

She was recently listed in the Top 10 Diversity Consultants by The Economist magazine.

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James H. Wooten, Jr.Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Illinois Tool Works Inc. (retired) Board Director: Hyatt Hotels Corp. and Morae Legal

James H. Wooten, Jr. retired in 2012, as the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW), a Fortune 200 Company with $14.5 billion dollars in revenues annually. James began his career with ITW in 1988 as a Senior Attorney providing legal counsel to the Company’s decentralized business units around the world. He was elected in 2005 to the position of Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary and was promoted to Senior Vice President in 2006. He was responsible for legal, environmental and safety, risk management and governmental affairs, managing an annual legal budget in excess of $40 million dollars.

Prior to joining ITW, James was in private practice with the law firm of Gardner, Carton and Douglas, which is now a part of Drinker, Biddle & Reath LLP. Prior to entering the legal profession, James was a Chicago Police Officer where he obtained the rank of Sergeant.

James holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Illinois and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Chicago.

James is a member of the American and Chicago Bar Associations, Executive Leadership Council (ELC) and The Black Corporate Directors Association. He is a Board Director of Hyatt Hotels Corporation, Morae Legal, LLC., Lurie Children’s Hospital, Window to the World Communications (WTTW), National Merit Scholarship Association, and Congo Square Theater.

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