2nd Annual Black History Month Future Leaders Program

Plans are underway for the Second Black History Month Future Leaders Program to kick off in February 2019. This will mark the second time participants from across the financial sector will gather together to recognize future leaders from their respective firms who have shared their own strength, skills, and talent to change the face and shape the success of their firms. I'm so thrilled to stand alongside firms that supported us last year, including Société Generale, Gartland and Mellina Group, DTCC, BMO, TD Ameritrade, HSBC, to name a few, who have led in developing the next generation of active leaders in finance. We have empowered Future Leaders to advance their work and connect them with established leaders so they can achieve more together than they can alone.

The financial services community is made up of thousands of individuals around the world, who are striving towards building successful
careers. We are uniting a new generation of leaders to move companies forward. That's why we're inviting companies to participate with us in this historic event in February 2019. There’s still time to add your firm.

Together, we can advance the conversation about what corporate diversity leadership in action means today, recognizing and developing future leaders to address our shared challenges and offer them a pathway to a meaningful careers.

This year's Future Leader Program celebrates that shared goal, focusing on the theme Scaling Up: Striving Higher Towards the Highest Levels of Excellence.This is an opportunity for your firm to nominate Future Leaders of color who will receive recognition for their contributions at what promises to be another successful event. But we haven't heard from you yet. There's still time to add your voice!

We hope that you participate in our Black History Month Future Leaders Program to help us do just that. Your firm’s support helps us to engage in thought-provoking conversations to increase the number of people of color in senior management position and develop a pipelines for students of color to access career opportunities in the financial services sector. Attached, is information on the various sponsor levels and on Expanding Communities with Economic Education (ExCel), our not-for-profit organization.

We encourage you to sign up now to make sure you don’t miss this opportunity and also donate to support ExCel’s mission. Feel free to contact me with questions at MaryAnn@excelinc.org or call me at 917-836-0194.

Regards,

MaryAnn Fappiano
Event Steering Committee Member