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Challenging Conversations
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| As part of UMass Boston's annual Diversity Week, Commonwealth Compact, the statewide diversity initiative, is sponsoring a panel of CEOs to talk about the "Challenging Conversations" they experience within their own organizations on the way to becoming more diverse. We hope you will be able to join us. Fred Alvaro from Gonzalez, Saggio, & Harlan is our moderator, and other panelists confirmed so far are Beth Williams of Roxbury Technology, John Balise, Fidelity Investments, and Steve Grossman, the former state treasurer. Read more...
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Time: 8:30 a.m.
Date: Thursday, October 22,2015
Place: UMass Boston Campus Center Ballroom B, 3rd Floor
Cost to Public: $75.00/can pay by check at the door.
Ferdinand Alvaro is Partner-In-Charge of the Boston office of Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan LLP, the nation's largest minority-owned law firm, and Co-Chair of its Public Law Practice Group.
He has been a guest lecturer on a variety of domestic and international subjects at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University, Boston University Graduate School of Law and Northeastern University School of Law. He has been named a Boston "Super Lawyer" by Boston Magazine and recognized as one of Massachusetts' most influential Latinos by the Boston Business Journal and El Planeta. And, in 2011 he received the Influential Leader Award from Boston Latino TV Access and the Lifetime Achievement Award from The Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting.
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Beth Williams has been president and CEO of Roxbury Technology Corp., which for 13 years. The business reclaims used toner cartridges and sells them at an attractive price. The company employed as many as 75 persons at its peak, and has successfully come back from significant damage to its plant from the storms last Winter
Under Williams's leadership, Roxbury Technology has been one of the most prominent businesses created and operated in Boston's inner city.
Williams is a graduate of Brown University, and also trained at the Tuck School at Dartmouth,, and at the Kellogg School of Management.
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John Basile is vice president and chief diversity and inclusion officer of Fidelity Investments.
A graduate of the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, Basile has been with Fidelity for 29 years. Much of his career has focused on the human element in the workplace -- human resources strategy, organizational capability, talent management, executive coaching, and employee engagement. In 2006, he was named head of HR at the Fidelity International Office in Frankfurt, Germany.
As Fidelity's chief diversity officer since 2009, he is responsible for partnering with stakeholders and business leaders across the firm to advance its diversity and inclusion strategy.
Last year, he was recognized as an "outstanding corporate leader" by the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce and the National Business Inclusion Consortium at the Financial Services Diversity Leadership Awards.
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Steve Grossman, 69, of Newton, was named earlier this year as the CEO of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, founded by Michael Porter of Harvard Business School. Previously, Grossman was the elected treasurer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 2011 to 2015 and before that ran the family business, the Massachusetts Envelope Company.
He has been active in Democratic Party politics, serving as chairman of the Democratic State Committee and later of the Democratic National Committee. He is a graduate of Princeton and the Harvard Business School.
In roles both public and private, Grossman has consistently championed diversity, particularly in the workforce, as a necessary goal for the state's social and economic well-being.
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