Mentoring is uniquely impactful and more critical than ever – sharing stories, lessons learned, championing, and even opening doors. Mentoring offers a unique opportunity to provide support in a highly personalized way. And we know it works.

Ada-Renee is the Global Head of Hiring Equity & Strategy supporting Google Recruiting. She is responsible for the strategic direction and implementation of an inclusive culture; creating and delivering equitable and inclusive strategies for change while building the capability of Google’s senior leaders at scale. Previously Ada served Google in a wide range of people-focused roles: Employee Relations Partner, Senior Diversity Business Partner, Staffing Manager, Head of Diversity Pipeline - Tech, and a Human Resources Business Partner on the Technical Infrastructure HR team where she provided consultative guidance on people operations strategies to North America and Latin America Datacenter leadership. Ada is passionate about helping black women navigate a successful career in corporate America.

Mentoring is uniquely impactful and more critical than ever – sharing stories, lessons learned, championing, and even opening doors. Mentoring offers a unique opportunity to provide support in a highly personalized way. And we know it works.

Vanitha is Director of Engineering at BuildASign.com. With over twenty-five years of experience managing enterprise programs, and application development in the high technology sector, Vanitha is skilled in new product development, re-engineering, budgeting, financials, building teams, and resource management. She’s passionate about helping women be true to themselves while emphasizing their strengths. On a personal note, Vanitha lives in Austin with her husband and daughter and loves reading, traveling, and history.

“What is a mentor?” “What’s the difference between a sponsor and a mentor - aren’t they the same?”

These questions come up often in our conversations with leaders who are looking to provide the right kind of support for their teams. The differences are not always clear, so we pulled together a handy reference guide to help you understand the differences and commonalities across different types of support needed for career growth and success.

In this on-demand session, you’ll hear from a panel of experts in the fields of HR, DE&I, and Psychology, on how best to support diverse talent in your organization. We touched upon several meaningful approaches that leaders can implement immediately in their day-to-day leadership.

Jennifer is Vice President of Customer Success at TrustRadius. Over the years, she has worked in a variety of customer-centric roles and has grown from an individual contributor to the VP level, thanks to some great formal and informal mentoring along the way. Jennifer is very process-oriented and has a track record for helping to grow and scale teams.  She has informally coached several people throughout her career and constantly works to maintain a good work/life balance with two kiddos at home. Jennifer is passionate about helping women navigate the corporate ladder while maintaining work/life balance with kids.

McKinsey recently came out with an article calling out the significant opportunity that PE firms have to leverage DE&I efforts in order to derive significant value from their portfolio companies.  PE firms have a unique opportunity to play a role in changing the face of business leadership.

Ceresa Community Manager, Emily Worthington, talks with Tara about her experience being a participant in the Ceresa Accelerator, and the impact it’s made in her life.

Laura is Senior Director of Partner Success and Sales at Vrbo, part of Expedia Group. Her tenure consists of sales and operational leadership roles with extensive P&L ownership in B2B organizations with consumer-facing products. She has a track record in scaling organizations and implementing practices designed for optimization, operational efficiencies, and the development of leaders. On a personal note, Laura is passionate about helping others with career advancement and building and leading great teams. 

Erantzeri leads all digital marketing efforts at Viking Cruises.  Previously he built and led marketing teams at BrentwoodHome, MoviePass, and Hulu, and started his professional career in Finance.  Erantzeri has been around technology and the web since early on (1995) at which point he began learning HTML/CSS, then the LAMP stack, and is now a hobbyist data analyst.  He is a husband and father to two teenagers and believes dogs are people (has two dogs). 

Ceresa Community Manager, Emily Worthington, talks with Sarah about her experience being a participant in the Ceresa Accelerator, and the impact it’s made in her life.

Tamra worked at National Instruments for 27 years, serving in a variety of leadership roles, including Vice-President of Global Support and Services, Director of Product Strategy, Director of Product Management, and Director of Software Marketing.  She has also served on several non-profit boards and is passionate about mentoring people to help them advance their own careers.

Ceresa Community Manager, Emily Worthington, talks with Jessica about her experience being a participant in the Ceresa Accelerator, and the impact it’s made in her life.

Anudit is a business and technology leader in the advertising and marketing technologies space. His deep experience in data centric product innovation and design and innate understanding of the ad-tech space make him a frequent contributor to industry publications, conferences, and round-tables. As the Chief Product Officer for MediaMath, Anudit is responsible for the strategy and roadmap of the entire suite of MediaMath’s product capabilities. He drives the evolution, positioning, and launch of new features and programs across all regions and brings MediaMath’s product vision to life.

In this on-demand session, Sharon Miller, help us better understand unconscious bias, how it develops and what we can do as individuals to become more aware and curious about how to evolve. Sharon has developed this approach in collaboration with scientists from the University of Wisconsin who’ve been working in the area of unconscious bias for over 10 years.

Ryan oversees franchise development and operations for WeWork.  Prior to his current role, he was Co-CEO for WeWork India. In this capacity, he managed numerous aspects of WeWork's India operations, including growing the building portfolio through design and development, scaling local infrastructure and personnel, and continuing the WeWork tradition of first-class operations and community-building. Ryan was the first person hired to help scale operations back in 2012 when WeWork had 5 open locations and 35 employees. Prior to WeWork, Ryan spent time working in Sales and Account Management for Marriott Hotels in New York City. Ryan received his BS from the University of Delaware with a double major in Marketing & Management.