Virtcom In the News Virtcom Consulting > News > 6 CEO's and the Commissioner of MLB.com - Major League Baseball Among Speakers and Awardees at World Diversity Leadership Summit June 4th -6th at the United Nations. May 21st, 2007 - The world's leading global diversity leadership conference will be featured in the New York Times and International Herald Tribune on June 3rd and 5th, 2007. New York, NY (PRWEB) May 21, 2007 -- The CEO's of HSBC, Adecco, MGM Mirage, P&G, Aviva, AIC and Commissioner of MLB.com - Major League Baseball will receive awards and deliver speeches at the third annual World Diversity Leadership Symposium (WDLS) to be held June 4-6, 2007 at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. Other honorees include Bennett College for Women and The Chicago Sinfonietta Symphony Orchestra. The UN Global Compact will host the conference, which is the world's premier gathering of senior corporate executives, experts, and policymakers focused on global and local diversity management practices. The UN Global Compact is designed to bring companies together with UN agencies, labor, and civil society organizations to support universal environmental and social principles. Douglas C. Freeman CEO of Virtcom Consulting, the world's leading global diversity management firm, founded the World Diversity Leadership Symposium and notes that "effective Global diversity management should positively influence the impact of globalization on diverse communities, suppliers, governments, workers, and customers." "When multinational corporations integrate global diversity management tools into their core business operations, they tangibly improve business performance in diverse markets, and uplift societies around the world," states Mr. Freeman. The world's leading corporations and media outlets agree, as the WDLS has attracted the sponsorship support of the New York Times/International Herald Tribune, Sun, Hilton, Arrow Electronics, KPMG, Toyota, Motorola, ProGroup, the Network Journal and Sovereign Bank. The conference will be featured in the June 3rd Sunday New York Times business section and June 5th International Herald Tribune business section. George Szell, Executive Director of the UN Global Compact states that "Thousands of companies from all regions of the world, along with international labour, and civil society organizations are engaged in the Global Compact, working to advance 10 universal principles in the areas of human rights, labor, the environment and anti-corruption. Mr. Szell also notes that, "Global Compact Principle 6 focuses on anti-discrimination in the workplace which directly aligns with the goals and objectives of the World Diversity Leadership Symposium." This year's innovative conference, "Globalization and Diversity: Unleashing the Power of Diverse Workers, Suppliers and Customers," will consider the impact of diversity on topics such as academia, global supply chains, major international cities, global workers, customers, and sports. Virtcom's Diversity Value Chain™ will also be unveiled in a case study report of 4 corporations, and will finally explain the financial foundations of the "Global Business Case for Diversity." For the first time, the conference will feature a CEO Roundtable, which brings together seven eminent multinational corporate chief executive officers to discuss their views on global diversity and how global diversity fits into their companies' goals and strategies. Virtcom Consulting commenced operations in 2000 and has grown to become the world's leading consultancy focused on global diversity management and the bottom-line. Contacts: |
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