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Leadership Conference 2023-01-15T13:09:59-05:00
The State of the State of Hispanic Business

The GHCC presents every year The Cultivating Hispanic Leadership Conference with topics that are educational and are thought provoking.  The Leadership Conference is a conference for leaders with a passion to lead with purpose.

Lift Your Leadership to New Heights

Keynote Speaker: Douglas Conant: New York Times bestselling author, keynote speaker, and social media influencer with over 40 years of leadership experience at world-class global companies.

Leadership Panel

Moderator:

· Doug Conant
Founder of Conant Leadership

· Jose Turkienicz
Chief Procurement Officer
UPS

· Philippe Gilbert
President
UPS Supply Chain and Member of the UPS Management Committee

· Ramiro Cavazos
President, and CEO
United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

· Maritza Soto Keen, Ph.D.
Associate Director and Senior Public Service Associate J.W.
Fanning Institute for Leadership Development – University of Georgia

The first 125 people that register (Free) and attend the
Leadership Conference will receive the The Wall Street Journal
bestselling author Douglas Conant’s new book “The Blueprint”
6 Practical steps to Lift Your Leadership to New Heights.

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Agenda

Speakers

DOUG CONANT
DOUG CONANTFormer CEO and President of Campbell Soup. ConantLeadership
Bio
RAMIRO CAVAZOS
RAMIRO CAVAZOSPresident and CEO. USHCC
Bio
PHILIPPE GILBERT
PHILIPPE GILBERTPresident. UPS Supply Chain
Bio
JOSE TURKIENICZ
JOSE TURKIENICZChief Procurement Officer and President. UPS
Bio
MARITZA SOTO KEEN, Ph.D.
MARITZA SOTO KEEN, Ph.D.Associate Director and Senior Public Service Associate J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development – University of Georgia
Bio

Over 200 Attendees

Small Business Owners

Young Professionals

Corporations

Business Leaders

Date:

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020

Location:

Virtual event

Time:

5:30 p.m – 6:30 p.m

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Douglas Conant is a New York Times bestselling author, keynote speaker, and social media influencer with over 40 years of leadership experience at world-class global companies.

Author of The Blueprint: 6 Practical Steps to Lift Your Leadership to New Heights (A Wall Street Journal Best Seller):

Your Life Story is Your Leadership Story
Many of the problems leaders face today are rooted in compartmentalization. Leaders believe their work life and their “real” life are two different things, so they develop a siloed self-expression: a “work” identity and a “personal” identity. And they’re at odds. Managing this tension becomes yet another task in a crushing litany of expectations and pressures. It does not have to be this way. It’s time to try something else.

Many people teach you to emulate somebody else’s leadership approach; this one empowers you to lead more like you. Leveraging groundbreaking insights from a 40-year leadership journey coupled with the most current science on habit-building, Doug Conant’s The Blueprint combines true-and-tested exercises for self-discovery with an experience-backed manifesto on the ten foundational tenets of “leadership that works” to create the quintessential treatise and manual on leadership for our times

Watch:

• Introduction to The Blueprint
• 6 Practical Steps to Lift Your Leadership to New Heights

The first 125 people that register (Free) and attend the Leadership Conference will receive the The Wall Street Journal bestselling author Douglas Conant’s new book “The Blueprint” 6 Practical steps to Lift Your Leadership to New Heights.

Ramiro Cavazos is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Previously, he served as the President & CEO of the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce for 10 years. With his expertise in economic development, he has served as the Director of Economic Development for the City of San Antonio, Director of Research and Economic Development for the UT Health Science Center, and as the Global Public Affairs Manager for the Levi Strauss Company and Foundation for the Texas, Mexico, and Latin America region. Ramiro has a Masters of Public Administration from St. Mary’s University and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Government from The University of Texas at Austin. A native of Weslaco in the Rio Grande Valley, he is a 7th generation Texan. Ramiro and his wife Christa are parents of two boys, 13 and 10 years-old.

Philippe Gilbert is UPS’s President, Supply Chain Solutions, responsible for Global Logistics and Distribution, Global Freight Forwarding, UPS Freight as well as the technology-driven truckload freight brokerage business at Coyote.
Most recently, Philippe served as Regional CEO of the Americas for DB Schenker Logistics, based in Miami, Florida. In this role he led air, ocean, and land logistics in the United States, Canada, and eight countries in Latin America. He previously was Regional CEO for West Europe from 2013 to 2015, based in Paris, France.
From 2005 to 2013, Philippe served as Executive Vice President for GEODIS Wilson, the freight management division of international logistics provider, the GEODIS Group.
There, he managed an integrated network of 57 countries around the world and more than 80 agents. Philippe also held leadership roles in the logistics space with Saga S.A., Circle International, and Eagle Global Logistics (EGL).
Philippe earned a Finance degree from Institut Superieur de Gestion (I.S.G.) in Paris, France, and is fluent in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese.

Jose Turkienicz is Chief Procurement Officer and President of Real Estate and Risk Management at UPS with global responsibility for over $25B and a real estate portfolio of more than 4,000 properties across 220 countries and territories.

A true global citizen, Jose was born and raised in Brazil and is a triple citizen holding American, Brazilian and European Union citizenships. An expert in supply chain management, Jose has more than 20 years of experience charting a collaborative, diverse and a values driven mentality for Fortune 500 companies.

Before joining UPS Jose worked in multiple geographies at Mars, Campbell Soup and Aramark. Jose is also a director of the board with The National Minority Supplier Development Council
(NMSDC).

As associate director and senior public service faculty at the Fanning Institute, Maritza’s focus is on facilitation
and training for communities and nonprofits on leadership development, nonprofit governance, diversity and cultural competency, strategic planning, organizational and program assessment, and organizational capacity building for long-term sustainability. She is certified to conduct the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, a certified
executive/management coach and a certified Reflective Structured Dialogue facilitator. Her clients are principally in postsecondary institutions, nonprofit organizations and the healthcare sector.

In 2017, Maritza was one of four UGA faculty selected for the SEC Academic Leadership Program.

Her areas of expertise include: Career and Professional Leadership, Change Leadership and Succession Planning, Community Needs Assessments, Executive Coaching, Healthcare Organizational and Leadership Development, Latino Leadership Development, Nonprofit Board and CEO Executive Leadership Development, Nonprofit Board Governance.