• Corporate Presentation
• Supplier Diversity Certification Presentation

Supplier Diversity: Leading Business Transformation Through Disability Inclusion – two part session

11:00 am – 12:00 pm  

Provide thought leadership and best practices on corporate Supplier Diversity initiatives

Learning Objectives:

1. Supplier diversity definitions
2. How to measure diverse vendor spend
3. How to conduct a spend analysis
4. Establishing goals
5. Understand the landscape of existing contracts and develop strategies to increase diverse spend
6. Building relations with diverse vendors
7. Data scrubbing tools

12:00 pm – 1:00 – pm

Share the benefits of DOBE certification. Hear testimonials from certified disabled business owners

Learning Objectives:

1. The DOBE certifications process
2. Benefits of your DOBE certification
3. DOBE certification scholarships
4. Understand the challenges of disabled owned businesses
5. Business sustainability

SPEAKERS

Panelists – discussion facilitated by Mark Sebree

Corporate Presentation 

• Mark Sebree, Director of Diverse Sourcing & Inclusion – Franklin Energy
• Charlie Sieb, VP Supply Chain – CUNA Mutual,   
• Refilwe Goll, Sr Category & Supplier Diversity Manager – Northwestern Mutual
• Jackie LaJoei, Manager, Supplier Diversity – Trane Technologies

Supplier Presentation

Speakers:

• • Philip DeVliegher, Sr, VP Supplier Diversity – Disability:IN
  • Cami Turcotte, Manager of Certification and Supplier Engagement – Disability:IN
  • Victor Agapov DOBE – Wallo Brands
  • Tracey Andrus, DOBE – Rangam