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About the World Diversity Leadership Summit

WDLS Mission Statement

Launched in 2004, the World Diversity Leadership Summit is an important gathering of senior corporate, government and non-governmental organization (NGO) officials, focused on the complex challenges and opportunities related to global diversity management.

The World Diversity Leadership Summit has five primary objectives:

  1. To become the leading gathering of global diversity policy makers, experts and practitioners

  2. To serve as a central source of global diversity strategy, best practices and application

  3. To establish a global diversity collaboration network of policy makers, experts and practitioners

  4. To explore cutting-edge global diversity research topics

  5. To establish global diversity management as a core academic vocation

Previous WDLS Participants

The following organizations have sent speakers and participants to previous summits:

• AARP
• Aljazeera International
• American Cancer Society
• Arrow Electronics
• Association for Women’s   Career Development in   Hungary
• Aviva
• Black European Women’s   Council
• Boston Consulting Group
• BP
• Chicago Sinfonietta
• Citigroup
• Cleveland State University
• Colgate-Palmolive
• Confederation of British    Industry
• Cornell University
• Dale Earnhardt, Inc.
• Department for Work and
  Pensions, UK

• Deloitte
• Diversity Works for London
• Dublin Bus
• ESC Rennes School
  of Business
• European Commission
• Enterprise Rent-a-Car
• Federal Reserve Bank of   NY
• Georgetown College
• Glovsky & Popeo
• Google
• Greater London Authority
• Hewitt Associates
• Hilton Hotels
• HSBC
• IBM
• Jackie Robinson   Foundation
• John Deere
• Johnson Controls
• Johnson & Johnson

• KPMG
• Kraft Foods
• L’Oreal
• Lufthansa
• Major League Baseball
• Medgar Evers College,   CUNY
• Merck
• Merrill Lynch
• McDonald’s
• MGM MIRAGE
• Mintz Levin
• Monster Worldwide
• Motorola
• MTV Networks
• Procter & Gamble
• United Nations Global   Compact
• UNIFEM
• National Urban League
• Out and Equal
• Rockwell Collins

• Shell
• Sovereign Bank
• Starbucks
• Sun Microsystems
• Shell
• Sovereign Bank
• Starbucks
• Sun Microsystems
• Sodexo
• The Coca-Cola Company
• The New York Times Co
• Toyota
• USA Swimming
• US Department of   Commerce
• Upwardly Global
• UNICEF
• Visa USA
• Walt Disney Parks and   Resorts
• Weyerhaeuser Company

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