Tag Archives: leadership

BBJ: Southwest Airlines aims to double leadership racial diversity in 5 years

Posted on October 20, 2020
Double the percentage of racial diversity within the Senior Management Committee by 2025. The Senior Management Committee includes job titles of managing director, vice president, senior vice president, executive vice president and the executive suite. 
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BBJ: ‘Let’s lead by example’: Calvin Butler, new GBC chair, calls for change

Posted on October 14, 2020
Calvin Butler Annual Meeting 2020
"We have to be intentional about our efforts to drive change," Butler said. "We cannot remain static. We cannot remain silent. That to me is how you provide leadership. We are the leaders to do it. Let's lead by example."
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BBJ: Former Baltimore mayors bemoan city having ‘more will than wallet’

Posted on September 21, 2020
The event focused on reflections of former mayors Dixon, Schmoke, Martin O'Malley and Stephanie Rawlings-Blake as the city prepares to change leadership. 
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GBC President & CEO Don Fry and 11 other GBC members named The Daily Record Most Admired CEOs

Posted on September 16, 2020
Daily Record's Most Admired CEOs
The GBC congratulates Donald C. Fry, President and CEO, on the honor of a Most Admired CEO and for being an inductee to the Circle of Leadership.
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BBJ: McCormick’s 1st Black president says she will strive for diverse hiring, mentorship

Posted on August 6, 2020
Nneka Rimmer said she will seek diverse candidate pools when hiring and will mentor Black leaders in and outside of McCormick.
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TEDCO appoints Troy LeMaile-Stovall as new CEO/Executive Director

Posted on July 23, 2020
LeMaile-Stovall has more than 25 years of experience in the fields of investment management, higher education, telecommunications, information/communication technology, management consulting, and non-profit leadership/management. 
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For 2nd Consecutive Year, M&T Bank Named a Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion

Posted on July 16, 2020
As part of M&T Bank's employee engagement efforts, the company operates more than 60 employee resource groups in communities across its footprint, which provide valuable insights into the company's diversity and inclusion efforts.
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BBJ: Here’s where employers can start in addressing structural racism in the workplace

Posted on June 26, 2020
Bell-McKoy shared some of these essential questions with an online audience of nearly 200 Baltimore businesspeople June 26 during a Greater Baltimore Committee webinar largely focused on the role that structural racism plays in perpetuating wage and other achievement gaps between white and Black folks in America, and in Baltimore....
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Baltimore Sun: Tradepoint Atlantic says pandemic isn’t slowing growth at the Baltimore County distribution hub

Posted on June 17, 2020
Tradepoint Atlantic
The pandemic has tested and exposed weaknesses in national supply chains, said Aaron Tomarchio, Tradepoint Atlantic’s senior vice president of corporate affairs during a virtual GBC Newsmaker event.
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