Planning for Change

Please join us for a webinar!

Keep the Momentum Moving!
Planning to ensure your program continues strong in the face of change

Thursday, December 4, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM, Pacific (12 pm Mtn / 1 pm Central / 2 pm Eastern)

Cost:  Free

Please register for the webinar here.

With a new administration in the White House as well as changes in some state and local governments, this webinar discusses how to successfully plan for change.

Presenters:

	Angel McCormick Franks Director, Missouri Office of Supplier and Workforce Diversity
	Teo Tijerina Executive Director, EDCO Ventures, Austin, Texas
	Jeff Jones Sr. Vice President, Bank of America Supply Chain Management

This webinar will address how to create structures and processes that ensure that your program maintains its strength in the face of change, whether that is a change in executive, key staff, or Board, loss in funding, a natural disaster, or major downturn in the economy.  Presenters will discuss why this is especially important for supplier diversity programs as well as nonprofits and government agencies that are working with minority, immigrant, and women-owned businesses. Even new organizations need to consider what structures to put in place and how to do that, so that programs are sustainable.

Facilitator:  Tim Lohrentz, Director, Inclusive Business Initiative

Bios:

• Angel McCormick Franks is currently the Director of the Office of Supplier and Workforce Diversity, State of Missouri (OSWD). As Chief Diversity Officer, she is charged with promoting a diversified workforce within state government and assisting women and minorities in developing opportunities to contract with the state thus economically empowering traditionally underserved communities and improving the overall fiscal vitality of the State of Missouri.
  
  Angel serves in the state's Personnel Advisory Board, Workforce Diversity Council, State Training Advisory Council, Contract Compliance Council as well as the UMSL-Columbia Diversity Advisory Council.  She is the winner of the 2008 Community Outreach Person of the Year from the Asian-American Chamber of Commerce of Kansas City.
  
  Under her leadership, OSWD has become a national force in supplier and workforce diversity best practices.
   
  
• Teo Tijerina is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of EDCO Ventures.  EDCO Ventures is 501 (c) (3) business development organization that partners with universities, government laboratories, risk capital, and individuals to discover and commercialize technologies and launch innovative business ideas.  EDCO Venture’s mission is to create companies and jobs with living wages in economically distressed areas.  Currently, EDCO Ventures is executing a program covering the Texas Border Region.
  
  EDCO Ventures began operations in the Fall 2006, and already has various projects in the capitalization stage.
  
  Mr. Tijerina is an entrepreneur who co-founded Innovei International, LLP in El Paso, Texas.  He has held executive and senior engineering positions with Dell Computers, Rockwell Semiconductor Systems, and Dow Chemicals.

• Jeffrey W. Jones is the Senior Vice President for Global Operations & Supplier Relationship Development, Bank of America Supply Chain Management.  Jeff Jones is a Supplier Relationship Development Manager for Bank of America’s Supply Chain Management organization.  He is responsible for leading the company’s efforts to increase opportunities for diverse businesses to participate in the company’s competitive contracting and procurement processes.  Jeff is also responsible for enhancing the Bank’s revenue by leveraging supplier relationships.
  
  A native of Lakewood New Jersey, Jones joined Bank of America in 1982.  He has been a member of the Inclusive Business Initiative's National Advisory Committee since 2007. In 2008, Governor Kaine re-appointed Jeff to a 4-year term to the Virginia Small Business Financing Authority.

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