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We know you’ll find some treasures in our conversations with Marie, join the conversation as we dive into:

* Key elements of multicultural marketing strategies for consumer products, retail, and healthcare companies 

* Authentically incorporating diverse voices into your marketing efforts  

* Building a legacy  

* And personal, pivotal moments on resilience and determination as Marie and her family fled from Cuba and adapted to a new life in the states. 

Marie Quintana serves as an organizational advisor leveraging 30+ years of strategic marketing expertise, digital transformation, GTM, product launches, rebranding, communication strategies and D&I strategies to help private and public companies achieve their goals. She previously served as the CMO and EVP of Communications at Tenet Healthcare, and held various leadership roles at PepsiCo, Perot Systems, and IBM, where she pioneered multicultural strategies, established centers of excellence, and oversaw technology infrastructure consolidation.

Marie is passionate about building strong, responsible corporate workplace cultures, delivering shareholder value, and supporting the community. Most recently, she authored a book called "Last Flight from Havana", a memoir reminding us that to live an authentic life we must allow ourselves be vulnerable and bold.

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In this talk, Tiara shares experience, anecdotes, and advice as we touch on: 

* Prioritizing inclusion in your organization and ensuring your employees feel empowered to be authentically themselves  

* Leveraging leadership development, training, and external tools like the intercultural development inventory to create widespread cultural awareness and intentional impact in the communities you serve 

* Creating platforms focused on equity – such as leadership development, mentorship, and supplier diversity programs 

* And why it’s important to leverage external communities to keep DE&I momentum in challenging times 

Tiara Chesmer-Williams is Vice President and Head of Inclusion, Diversity & Equity at Moët Hennessy. In this role, Tiara punctuates Moët Hennessy’s commitment to building a deeply inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace by collaborating across the organization to develop and lead strategies that align with the organization’s business and accelerate IDE actions and results. Tiara works closely with LVMH, to ensure that MHNA principles and practices are consistent with those of the LVMH Group and serves as a member of the MH Global DE&I Leadership Committee, leading MHNA in the implementation of a Global Action Plan.

Tiara is a passionate mentor who loves developing talent at all levels and spends her spare time working with Politiscope - A non-partisan app democratizing the political landscape and decorating homes and spaces with the interior design business, True Dwellings, LLC. Beyond that, Tiara is a huge foodie, basketball, and football fanatic, loves to travel and relishes time with her super tight-knit family.

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In this talk, Katie talks about her journey in overcoming perfectionism and the power of vulnerability as a leader in your reorganization. Through her anecdotes, we learn how vulnerability ties directly to culture and business performance in ways that lead to impactful organizational transformation.

Katy Jones is the CEO of FoodLogiQ, an organization with a mission to map the world’s food supply chain, make it as safe as possible, and empower people to make informed decisions on the food they eat. Under Katy’s leadership, FoodLogiQ has consistently earned recognition and awards for innovation, performance, and investor funding.

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In this talk, Lynn shares her unconventional brand-building story, shares insights on the importance of de-risking, the art of efficient brainstorming, hypothesis-based solutioning, and so much more. When it comes to crafting your brand, realize you’re never stuck and sometimes it’s ok to get ‘scrappy'!

Lynn Altman is a fearless leader, brand-builder, and the President of Brand Now. For over 20 years, Lynn has been the behind-the-scenes disruptor for big companies including Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, Gillette, McDonald’s, American Express, and UBS.

Lynn is also the author of Brand It Yourself: The Fast, Focused Way to Marketplace Magic, has been interviewed on nationally syndicated radio shows, and has appeared on CNBC’s On The Money and ABC’s News Now.

Lynn believes that working efficiently is the key to working effectively, but traditional branding and innovation processes not only take too much time—they rely too heavily on consumer input for inspiration. In order to get ahead of the curve, companies need to think more entrepreneurially, act more decisively and validate more thoughtfully.

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In this talk, Danny leverages his experiences in inclusive storytelling in the travel industry to discuss how brands can better understand the culture, connect with their consumers, and treat multicultural marketing as mainstream marketing. Danny shares the importance of brands doing their research and doing the work to know their consumers intimately in order to market to the culture effectively.

Danny Guerrero is the Founder of The Culturist Group, a 100% minority-owned travel marketing company. Danny is an award-winning 20+ year travel and tourism marketing expert and thought leader for multiculturalism and diversity in travel.

CULTURIST as a concept and consultancy practice bridges emerging cultural values and the needs of diverse consumers to travel brands via marketing and communications strategies to help the industry become more prosperous, and inclusive. Prior to founding The Culturist Group, he spent nearly 10 years of his career building and leading agency teams at two well-respected marketing firms, and another decade client-side leading marketing and communications teams.

Danny is an Advisory Board Member with the Black Travel Alliance and Travel Unity and was the recipient of the ‘Outstanding Contribution Award’ granted by the World Travel and Tourism Council for his work advancing diversity and equity in the industry in 2021.

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In this talk, Brittany shares her perspective, inspiring anecdotes, and actionable exercises on how both employers and employees can find and amplify their passions and purpose - leveraging the power of unapologetic authenticity. Through her lessons learned through entrepreneurship and corporate experiences, Brittany shares how you can “connect the dots” to better tell your story.

Brittany Applegate is the Director of Culture Strategy at Ten35, a full-service advertising company that transforms brands through culture. Brittany has spent the last 9 years helping small Black & Brown businesses throughout the Chicagoland area and nation build and grow marketable and profitable businesses.

Brittany uses the knowledge she’s acquired to help small business owners develop strategies to solidify a favorable reputation in the hearts of their most valuable clients, while acquiring new clients month over month to ensure their potential profit pipelines don’t run dry.

As a multi-hyphenate entrepreneur, she’s the founder of, Brand Chicago, a growing community of Chicago's most ambitious Black and Brown millennial entrepreneurs and professionals on a mission to transform their businesses and careers She also owns The Resume Agency, a resume writing company designed to help to transition career professionals make their best, first impressions with polished resumes and other professional resources.

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In this talk, Nicola discusses the many ways businesses can be more efficient and effective when it comes to corporate sustainability. We dive into the branding of sustainability, the right questions to ask to be intentional about starting a sustainability program, making change “sticky,” the importance of leveraging data to inform decisions, and so much more!

Nicola Peill-Moelter is the Director of Sustainability Innovation where she collaborates with teams across VMware to develop features and functionality that have business value for our customers by reducing the private/public cloud infrastructure needed to run their workloads which leads to less energy use, carbon emissions, and electronic waste. Nicola believes that we can make the fastest progress addressing the world’s most urgent sustainability issues when sustainability and business value are aligned.

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In this talk, Steve Rosenstock talks us through how imperative it is for companies to transform their talent and organization by focusing on their biggest asset, their people. We highlight the importance of work-life integration, creating space to pursue passions, the importance of authenticity, the concept of loyalty, and so much more!

Steve Rosenstock has been helping senior executives in the consumer products industry address their business challenges for the past twenty years. He has provided strategic direction to leading Consumer Products companies leveraging a deep understanding of industry-leading practices. In addition, I have enabled peer-to-peer networking groups for industry leaders through the development of the Consumer Products Executive Exchange, helping our clients share ideas, build relationships and drive strategy.Listen to Steve’s Podcast Taking Stock where he sits down with experts and thought leaders from the consumer products, life sciences, and retail industries.

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In this talk, John Tabis talks about his idea to disrupt the floral industry with sustainability and customer experience in mind. We learn about the history of The Bouqs, expanding your product and service incrementally, leveraging customer data to inform decisions, and preparing your team for growth.

John Tabis is a proven brand builder and entrepreneur with deep experience in innovative media ventures and consumer products. He is the Founder and Chairman of The Bouqs Company. In 2012, along with co-founder Juan Pablo Montúfar, Tabis launched the Marina del Rey, California-based company, now an industry leader in the online floral space that delivers flowers and plants fresh from eco-friendly, sustainable farms around the world to doorsteps nationwide. Prior to launching Bouqs, Tabis worked in corporate brand strategy for Disney and ShoeDazzle and advised Fortune 100 clients at Bain & Company.

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In this talk “passion-preneur,” Tirrell Whittley, talks about how he conquers fear and taps into possibilities of the future. We talk about dreaming in “color” and “surround sound,” how to be your own motivation, leveraging constructive criticism, and operating in humility. Tirrell walks us through his calculated journey moving from Corporate America to building LIQUID SOUL with passion and purpose.

Tirrell D. Whittley is a filmmaker, entrepreneur, and visionary media executive leader of LIQUID SOUL. Since founding the company in 2001, it has grown into one of the nation’s leading brand marketing agencies specializing in advertising, marketing, social media, influencer marketing, branded content, and publicity for entertainment, sports, and corporate brands.

Tirrell is recognized as an expert in millennial and multicultural marketing and has become a trusted advisor for brands looking to find impactful ways to target consumers.Mr. Whittley is a cum laude graduate of Florida A&M University, with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting. He is an ordained deacon in his church and resides in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia with his wife and two daughters.

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