Talent Summits

Jacksonville Talent Summit
Date: March 9th, 2012
Time: 9:00-11:30am
Place: Nova Southeastern University – Jacksonville
Address: 6657 Corporate Center Parkway, Suite 115, Jacksonville, FL 32216
Learn More About Our Speakers

June Carter
SVP of Diversity and Inclusion, Eastern Region
Wells Fargo
In addition to her position at Wells Fargo, June has served as the former Vice Chair of the Board of Directors at Time Out Youth, a local 501c3 that supports lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth ages 13-23 in the Charlotte area, and continues to serve as a consultant to the organization. Recently, June served as one of many facilitators for the RACE Exchanges – “RACE: Are We So Different?” exhibition and community dialogues at Discovery Place in the spring of this year.

Esther Bryant Wright
HR Business Partner, North America Region
NorthgateArinso
Esther provides HR consulting and support to Client Services, Sales, Marketing, Operations, HR Consulting, and other business areas. She is a member of the North America Senior Leadership team. She acts as an integral part of the organization’s People and business strategy.
Locations include Toronto, Montreal, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Cincinnati, and other cities in North America.
With her team of twelve HR professionals, she responsible for Talent Management and Succession planning, Talent Acquisition, ensuring delivery of HR services for employees, Payroll processing, Learning and Development, and Compensation and Benefits.
Esther has served on the Diversity Council with her previous employeer at Convergys and is excited about the opportunity to support Diversity strategy at NorthgateArinso.
Esther graduated from Rockhurst College, in Kansas City, Missouri. She is a member of SHRM and HR People and Strategy organizations.
Esther is married to Emerson Wright, has three children, Brandon, Talia, and Sangita.
She and her husband has lived in Jacksonville for 5 years, attends New Life Christian Fellowship. Esther is involved in several local Leadership organizations and volunteers her time in several non-profit organizations.

Dana Smith
Staffing Specialist, HR
Mayo Clinic
After graduating from the University of North Florida, Dana completed a yearlong appointment in the AmeriCorps Program leading a literacy program in rural Maine. Other professional experience includes working with Communities in Schools a national non-profit to help children successfully learn, stay in school and prepare for life. Dana provided drop-out prevention case management and worked as a student/mentor advocate for Take Stock in Children, a mentoring scholarship program. In addition to her professional career, Dana has been fundraising and volunteers with the Muscular Dystrophy Foundation for the past 4 years.

Andreina Zubizarreta
Recruitment Strategies, HR
Mayo Clinic
Andreina is a proud Venezuelan with Basque roots, whose native tongue is Spanish and has a passion for travel, learning languages and different cultures. After completing high school she lived for one year in Copenhagen, Denmark as an exchange student where she not only learned Danish and some German, but also gained a unique life experience. She’s a member of diversity organizations such as ALPFA and NSHMBA and has always mentored Latino students on their transition from their home countries to achieve success in the US.

Cal Jackson
CEO
Diversity Inclusion Ventures, Inc.
Cal is most known in the Diversity and Inclusion community for his design, development and delivery of engaging and thought-provoking cultural competence workshops. Topics include generations, gender, lookism, self-awareness, discrimination, bias, classism and the cultural competence of managers.

Linda Plummer
Managing Partner
Plummer & Associates
Linda has an MBA from Georgia State and a Bachelors degree from Penn State. She has national certification as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR). She was awarded the First Coast Trainer Excellence Award in 2007 and the HR Professional of the Year award in 2011. She currently serves on the Board of the Business Leadership Network (BLN) and the Friends of Study Circles Board.
On a personal note, Linda is currently enjoying a 6 week Improv course and plays league tennis.


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