Supplier Diversity – Leading Business Transformation with Disability Inclusion



This two-part session includes:
- 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:
- Supplier diversity definitions
- How to measure diverse vendor spend
- How to conduct a spend analysis
- Establishing goals
- Understand the landscape of existing contracts and develop strategies to increase diverse spend
- Building relations with diverse vendors
- Data scrubbing tools
12:00 pm – 1:00 – pm
Share the benefits of DOBE certification. Hear testimonials from certified disabled business owners
Learning Objectives:
- The DOBE certifications process
- Benefits of your DOBE certification
- DOBE certification scholarships
- Understand the challenges of disabled owned businesses
- 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:
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- 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
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