Driving our business through diversity

Building on our momentum and success from our first summit, our second forum focused on how diversity and inclusion can galvanize and drive measurable business value for an organization. We featured perspectives and best practices from two distinguished groups of panelists, including keynote speaker Andrés T. Tapia.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Agenda

8:45 – 9:00 a.m.
Welcome Remarks 

• Rino Piazzola
  Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, AXA Equitable

9:00 – 9:45 a.m.
Keynote Speaker

• Andrés T. Tapia
  President, Diversity Best Practices
  
  Andrés Tapia is President of Diversity Best Practices, a preeminent diversity and inclusion think tank and consultancy. He assumed this position on January 11, 2011 after having served as Hewitt’s Chief Diversity Officer and Emerging Workforce Solutions Leader for seven years, where he was responsible for leading the company’s internal and external diversity vision and strategies.

9:45 – 10:45 a.m.
Panel Discussion 1 – Organizations lauded for their diversity efforts that have yielded business value

Moderator

• Tracey Gray-Walker
  Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer, AXA Equitable

Panelists

• Richard Jones
  Senior Vice President & Chief Communications Officer, The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
• Stephan Klaschka
  Stephan Klaschka Consulting, LLC
• Susan Esper
  Partner, Deloitte

10:45 – 11:00 a.m.
Break

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Panel Discussion 2 – Diversity efforts across AXA Equitable that have yielded business value

Moderator

• Andrea Nitzan
  Executive Vice President, Head of Financial Planning and Analysis

Panelists

• Stuart Flaum
  Managing Director, Special Needs Family Planning, AXA Advisors, LLC
• Eleana Cheng
  Vice President, Retail Strategy and Innovation, AXA Advisors, LLC
• Mary Bradach
  Vice President, Risk Management, AXA Equitable
  AXA Pride (LGBT)
• Fanny Lawren
  Pan Asian Resource Council (PARC)
  

12:00 – 12:15 p.m.
Diversity in Action Part 1: Case Study, AXA Equitable
How AXA Distributors partners with an Employee Resource Group  (ERG) to drive business goals

Speaker

• Mark Scalercio
  Senior Vice President, Employer-Sponsored Markets, AXA Equitable
  

12:15 – 12:30 p.m.
Diversity in Action Part 2: The Big Picture, AXA Global Speaker

Speaker

• Lisa Kepinski
  Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, AXA Group

12:30 – 12:45 p.m.
Closing Remarks

• Mark Pearson
  Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, AXA Equitable

12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
The Employee Resource Group (ERG) Experience 
Located in the 15th floor lounge (A portion of the event will run concurrent with Diversity Summit)