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Career and Entrepreneurship Summit

Wednesday, November 8, 2017 from 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
DePaul University, Loop Campus, DePaul Center
1 E. Jackson Blvd., 7th Floor Coleman Entrepreneurship Center
Chicago, IL 60604

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST RECEPTION & OPENING REMARKS

KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Deidra Jenkins
Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer for the Americas | Northern Trust

Deidra Jenkins is a Senior Vice President and recently appointed Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer-Americas at Northern Trust. She is responsible for the development, execution and leadership of the regional strategy for the Americas and collaboration with the Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer – APAC and EMEA. In this new role, her primary areas of focus includes collaboration on people representation, talent acquisition, retention, and development; creating, deploying and managing diversity and inclusion initiatives for employees throughout the Americas region; and ensuring all diversity and inclusion initiatives are directly aligned with the core strategic imperatives of the organization. Prior to becoming Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer-Americas, Deidra was the Director of Supplier Diversity in the Global Procurement Group. She was responsible for expanding the company’s business opportunities and strengthening corporate partnerships with diverse businesses. Under her leadership, Northern Trust experienced double-digit percentage increases year-over- year and the diverse vendor base expanded by 60%. Deidra began her career with Northern Trust in 1989 and has over 24 years of experience as a banking professional with expertise in operations, client servicing, product management, and change management. Deidra has served as a board member of The Chicago Minority Business Development Center (CMBDC), Secretary of the Executive Committee of CMBDC, Chair of the Education and Training Committee of CMBDC, certification committee member for the Women’s Business Development Center (WBDC), a WBDC Corporate Partner and Chairof the Membership Committee for the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) Financial Services Roundtable of Supplier Diversity Industry Group. Deidra earned a bachelor’s degree from Aurora University in Finance.

PANEL
Facilitator: Dr. Regina Spellers Sims | Eagles Soar Consulting
Panelists: Dr. Horace Hall | DePaul College of Education; Dr. Patrick Murphy | DePaul Business School; Adam Malaty-Uhr | Bunker Labs/1871; Lasheda House | DePaul Law School Student; Michael Slaughter | DePaul School for New Learning Student; Miranda Standberry Wallace | PLATE45 Institute-Empowerment Collaborative

MORNING CLOSING REMARKS
Kelli McMiller| DePaul CAEA Board Member
Diversity & Inclusion Consultant & Entrepreneur | Onyx Rising Financial Services

NOON VETERANS CEREMONY AND LUNCH

AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS, BLOOD DRIVE AND VENDOR FAIR

Workshops by:
1. “Entrepreneurship in the Arts: Hip-Hop, Comic Books & Social Responsibility” by Dominique “D-Nick” Stockman, The Microphone Misfitz
2. “Cultural and Social Accountability in Entrepreneurship” by Dr. Horace Hall, College of Education & The REAL Program
3. “The 4 Targes of Business Development through Growth Wheel” by Brandon Evans, Manager of Business & Entrepreneurship, YWCA Metropolitan Chicago
4. “Collaborative Engagement on Campus, in Business & Community” by PLATE45 Institute with Veterans Advocacy Group, Veterans Advocacy Service Organization and Shannon Stone Consulting, LLC
5. “Entrepreneurship & Bunker Labs” by Adam Malaty-Uhr, Fellowship Coordinator, Bunker Labs/1871
6. “Social Media Lab” by LinkedIn (FINAL TOPIC TBA)

ENTREPRENEURSHIP VENDOR FAIR AND AUTHOR TABLES
*Come prepared to shop and support our entrepreneurs and authors!

BLOOD DRIVE
DePaul University—Veterans’ Day Blood Drive
Wednesday, November 8, 2017 | 11:30A-3:30P
To make an appointment, ask eligibility questions (or if you’ve lived or traveled outside the U.S. or Canada within a year), please call 1-800-7TO-GIVE or go to www.heartlandbc.org.
Eat iron-rich foods and drink extra water before the donation.
Appointments preferred; walk-ins welcome! Bring a photo ID.

Collaborative event by DePaul University Veterans Advocacy Student Organization (VASO), DePaul Coleman Entrepreneurship Center, DePaul Adult & Veteran Student Affairs and Veterans Advocacy Group with Shannon Stone Consulting, LLC.

BUSINESS OWNERS VENDOR CALL – JOIN THE SHOPPING EXPO
Contact us to join the Entrepreneurship Expo. FREE! Rates includes: Table and chairs, refreshments, and access to adult and diverse students, faculty, staff,alumni along with business execs. Contact Shannon Stone-Winding, ASK Mentor and President & CEO, Shannon Stone Consulting at (312) 371-7411 or shannon@shannonstoneconsulting.com.

SPONSOR BIO
ABOUT SHANNON STONE CONSULTING, LLC
With an ever-changing workplace environment and market, Shannon Stone Consulting works as your COO concierge team. With our social good entrepreneur services, you can be confident that your project, event, department or non-profit will have the perfect partner in your corner. Shannon Stone-Winding leads this group and has over 20 years of marketing, event, project and consulting experience and is an experienced brand and business strategist with a social but professionally efficient approach to team management.

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