Overview

ABC's Byron Pitts sits down with asset and wealth management leaders to talk about executive accountability, industry sustainability, and the business imperative of DEI.

Moderator

Byron Pitts, Anchor & Chief National Correspondent, ABC News

Speakers

Lisa Jones, Head of the Americas, President and CEO, Amundi US, Inc.

Overview

Role models can help to create increased confidence and empowerment for under-represented communities. What is a role model and how are they impactful? How can organisations empower a culture of role modelling and empower their employees to thrive? This inspiring session will offer you an insight into LGBT Great’s new ground-breaking ‘Seeing is Believing’ global research study and provide you with 10 practical takeaways for consideration in your firms.

Speaker

Matt Cameron, Global Managing Director, LGBT Great

Overview

Learn how to keep DEI a business priority in a difficult economic climate, battle complacency, and establish actionable goals with measurable impact. This session will offer participants a roadmap for uniting organizations with a common mission, and fostering a long-term vision for our industry.

Moderator

Jun Li, EY Americas Wealth & Asset Management Co-leader, EY

Speakers

Erika Irish Brown, Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer and Global Head of Talent, Citi

Ryan Rue, President, American Funds Service Company, Capital Group

Erica Seremeta, Global Director of DEI Client Engagement, BlackRock

Overview

Diversity, equity and inclusion is a societal imperative that needs to be part of how we do business – not only in the way we hire, retain and lead teams, but with the products we develop and clients, vendors and intermediaries that we work with.

This panel of senior leaders will talk about how they encourage and motivate their teams to be conscious of diversity, equity and inclusivity while driving important commercial outcomes.

Moderator

Anna Paglia, Global Head of ETFs & Indexed Strategies, Invesco

Speaker(s)

Samara Cohen, Chief Investment Officer of ETFs and Index Investments, BlackRock

Kimberly Johnson, Chief Operating Officer, T. Rowe Price

Emily Portney, CEO, BNY Mellon’s Asset Servicing

Shundrawn Thomas, Founder and Managing Partner, The Copia Group, LLC

Overview

Business leaders are being increasingly thrust into a paradoxical world where employees expect their company to take positions on social issues, while corporate DEI efforts themselves are being further politicized and weaponized. Leaders face real dilemmas about how they weigh into often difficult conversations around DEI issues. For some, the traditional mantra of “If I don’t say anything, I won’t make it worse” is no longer a viable option.

This interactive, hour-long keynote will pose these and other real life examples that implore leaders to assess their own challenges that can keep them both nervous and separated from hot-button issues affecting employee engagement. Walk away with purposeful tips that every leader needs to employ to both discover, and often rediscover, their next steps as a more courageous, conscious, and competent inclusive leader.

Speaker(s)

Bill Proudman, Co-Founder and CEO, WMFDP LLC | FDP Global

Speaker(s)

Donna Wilson, Head of Investment Due Diligence, Invesco

Overview

Are leaders born or made?  Probably both.  Hear from leaders in different career stages and positions who will share what innate qualities have served them and events that have forged and refined their leadership skills.  We invite you to challenge your own notions of leadership and uncover ways you might be a leader in ways you didn’t realize.

Moderator

Megan Kronen, Managing Director, CRA | Admired Leadership

Speakers

Elba Vasquez, Senior Vice President, US Head of Client Management, HSBC Global Asset Management

Alfonzo Willoughby, Compliance Manager, Broadridge (Alfonzo is a 2022 Rising Star honoree)

Rheeta Wise, President, MFS Service Center

Overview

Bonfire’s Co-Founder Rachel Newton Bellow leads a discussion on creating systemic change, regardless of your position in the pipeline. Learn key principles and strategies of influence, and how to equip your teams with critical skills and essential perspectives, fueling them to shape the workplace of the future.

Speaker

Rachel Bellow, Co-Founder and President, Bonfire

Overview

Celebrate the industry’s brightest young talent during the Rising Stars Dinner where we will recognize the 2023-24 class. The Rising Star Program offers DPNA member firms a high-profile and meaningful way to celebrate and cultivate the next generation of diverse leaders. Click here to learn more.

Schedule of Events

6:00pm - 6:30pm: Dinner is served
6:30pm - 7:00pm: Keynote Presentation, Baroness Helena Morrissey
7:00pm - 7:30pm: Presentation of the 2023-24 Rising Stars
7:30pm - 8:00pm: Networking

Speaker

Baroness Helena Morrissey, Chair, Diversity Project