COVID-19 Task Force Meeting
2020-06-24 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Video Call
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Equity and Opportunity Committee
2020-06-25 17:30 - 18:30, 2020-07-09 17:30 - 18:30, 2020-07-23 17:30 - 18:30, 2020-08-06 17:30 - 18:30, 2020-09-03 17:30 - 18:30, 2020-10-01 17:30 - 18:30, 2020-10-15 17:30 - 18:30, 2020-10-29 17:30 - 18:30 | Video Call
CEO Connection represents the largest group of Mid-Market CEOs in the world. As business leaders, we have the opportunity to impact not only the businesses we have the privilege to run but also the communities in which we live and work.
The CEO Connection Equity and Opportunity Committee, includes over 25 Mid-Market CEOs, and is charged with identifying and implementing programs that make equal opportunity in our companies and communities a way of life not just a slogan.
We are working on initiatives for the Mid-Market around equity and opportunity:

Minority Business Funding Program (Chair: Van Freeman, Director, Future Workforce Development & Strategy, Aerospace Industries Assoc.) CEO Connection member companies can deposit excess cash into designated partner minority owned financial institutions that will be used to provide capital and support to minority owned businesses.
Board Diversity  Chair (Anne Ward, CEO, CURiO Brands)  Identify and prepare minority executives to serve on corporate boards then match them to openings to help mid-market companies diversify their boards of directors and advisors.
Supply Chain Diversity   (Chair: David Hinson, Former National Director, Minority Business Development Agency) Match minority owned businesses to mid-market companies to access contracts together and make it easier to diversify supply chain.
Workforce Diversity (Chair: Sindy Benevides, CEO, League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)) Create a pipeline of qualified minority candidates for mid-market companies to hire.

Read our statement to the community.
If you are interested in joining the task force to help create one of these programs and/or to utilize one of these programs for your company, click here.

Coronavirus Action Meeting
2020-06-29 17:30 - 18:30, 2020-07-13 17:30 - 18:30, 2020-07-27 17:30 - 18:30, 2020-08-03 17:30 - 18:30, 2020-08-10 17:30 - 18:30, 2020-08-17 17:30 - 18:30, 2020-08-24 17:30 - 18:30 | Video Call
A small, interactive, 60-minute video conference call.
Here is the call agenda:
– Confidential, Small Group, Video Meetings. CEOC will convene a series of small, interactive, 60-minute video conference calls for our Premium members. This format will enable close, confidential conversation and meaningful dialogue. We will consider scaling this program to additional CEO members as well.
– Focused Agenda. The agenda for each meeting will be focused on each CEO sharing what he/she is seeing and doing in four areas:

Individual Observations – Both in the U.S. and internationally (if applicable);
Financial/Business Impact – Impact to operations, supply chain and financials;
People strategy – Communication/morale/remote work strategies; and,
Forecast/Planning – Insights about what might happen next, ways to prepare, etc.

Coronavirus Business Resources
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Talent Management Committee Meeting
2020-07-01 17:30 - 18:30
The CEO Connection Talent Management Committee focuses on helping mid-market companies compete in the war for talent … and win.
The mission of the Talent Management Committee is to:

Identify and create opportunities for CEO Connection members and the mid-market at large around recruiting, onboarding, training and retaining talent.
Develop and encourage programs that can be support individual mid-market companies and the mid-market at large compete for talent.
Connect CEO Connection members to resources that can help with Talent Management.

Social Impact Committee Meeting
2020-07-15 17:30 - 18:30 | Video Call
The CEO Connection Social Impact Committee develops mid-market social impact initiatives and strategies that provide access to opportunities for economic growth and vitality.
The mission of the Social Impact Committee is to:

Identify and create opportunities that enable CEO Connection members to maximize its social impact.
Support the efforts of CEO Connection members making and/or attempting to make a meaningful impact on their communities and beyond.
Connect CEO Connection members to opportunities for social impact and to share best practices in the social impact space.

Technology Committee Meeting
2020-07-20 17:30 - 18:30 | Video Call
The CEO Connection Technology Committee works to close the digital divide in the Mid-Market
The mission of the Technology Committee is to:

Develop and create opportunities that enable mid-market companies to enhance their digital capabilities.
Support the efforts of mid-market companies that are expanding their technology and artificial intelligence and/or going through digital transformation
Connect CEO Connection members to resources and share best practices that can enhance their use of technology

COVID-19 CEO Action Video Meeting
2020-08-31 17:30 - 18:30, 2020-09-14 17:30 - 18:30, 2020-09-21 17:30 - 18:30, 2020-09-28 17:30 - 18:30, 2020-10-05 17:30 - 18:30, 2020-10-12 17:30 - 18:30, 2020-10-19 17:30 - 18:30, 2020-10-26 17:30 - 18:30 and 2 more dates | Video Call
Designed for you to connect, share insights, and to strategize with other Mid-Market CEOs regarding opportunities created by COVID-19 and anything else you want to discuss, these weekly calls are:

Interactive results orientated focused discussions about the topics you bring
Limited to 10 CEOs to ensure quality and intimacy in discussions
Confidential, Small Group, Video Meetings

Over the past 20 weeks over 200 connections have been made based on the discussion on these calls including:

A CEO who needed COVID support to a CEO of a hospital that could help
A CEO who needed short term funding to a CEO who could provide it
Three CEOs who were looking for a joint venture to each other
Four CEOs creating a new business opportunity together

Register here for the Video Meeting
Coronavirus Business Resources

Equity and Opportunity Committee
2020-09-17 17:30 - 18:30 | Video Call
CEO Connection represents the largest group of Mid-Market CEOs in the world. As business leaders, we have the opportunity to impact not only the businesses we have the privilege to run but also the communities in which we live and work.
The CEO Connection Equity and Opportunity Committee, includes over 25 Mid-Market CEOs, and is charged with identifying and implementing programs that make equal opportunity in our companies and communities a way of life not just a slogan.
We are working on five initiatives for the Mid-Market around equity and opportunity:

Minority Business Funding Program  Chair: Van Freeman, Director, Future Workforce Development & Strategy, Aerospace Industries Assoc.  CEO Connection member companies can deposit excess cash into designated partner minority owned financial institutions that will be used to provide capital and support to minority owned businesses.
Board Diversity  Chair: Anne Ward, CEO, CURiO Brands  Identify and prepare minority executives to serve on corporate boards then match them to openings to help mid-market companies diversify their boards of directors and advisors.
Supply Chain Diversity  Chair: David Hinson, Former National Director, Minority Business Development Agency  Match minority owned businesses to mid-market companies to access contracts together and make it easier to diversify supply chain.
Workforce Diversity  Chair: Sindy Benevides, CEO, League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Create a pipeline of qualified minority candidates for mid-market companies to hire.
Equity and Opportunity Awards Program  Co-Chairs: Derek Peterson, CEO, Soter Technologies and Dave Lundquist, Former CEO, Rome Memorial Hospital  Recognize, publicize and reward companies that actively promote equity and opportunity and create specific positive results using the programs we create.

Read our statement to the community.
If you are interested in joining the task force to help create one of these programs and/or to utilize one of these programs for your company, click here.
