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FEATURED GUESTS
Tonie Leatherberry
Antoinette (Tonie) Leatherberry is a Principal in Deloitte’s Risk and Financial Advisory practice. She has had a distinguished career with the firm, spanning over 28 years, serving Fortune 100 manufacturing, retail, and consumer business clients. Tonie also serves as the Board Relations Leader for the Risk and Financial Advisory practice. Tonie serves as the President of Deloitte Foundation, whose mission is to drive initiatives that develop future leaders through education. She also serves as Board Chair of The Executive Leadership Council and on several advisory boards. Tonie has received numerous accolades, most notably as one of the top 25 consultants by Consulting Magazine and by Black Enterprise as one of the Most Powerful Women in Business. She has also been recognized as one of Pennsylvania’s Top 50 Women in Business, The Network Journal*’s annual list of 25 Influential Black Women in Business, *Savoy magazine as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Blacks in Corporate America and one of the Top 100 under 50 Leader by Diversity MBA Magazine.
Skip Spriggs
Skip Spriggs is President and CEO of The Executive Leadership Council, the preeminent membership organization for black CEOs, board directors, and senior-most executives at Fortune 1000, Global 500, and equivalent companies. He leads the organization’s efforts to increase the number of global black executives in C-Suites, on corporate boards, and in global enterprises. Spriggs most recently served as senior executive vice president and chief human resources officer at TIAA. He has held executive leadership roles at The Home Depot, Levi Strauss & Co., and CIGNA Corp., where he served as senior vice president of human resources, chief diversity officer, and president of the Cigna Foundation. He is currently a member of the boards of TIAA, FSB (TIAA Direct), Savannah State University’s College of Business Administration, and the Institute for Corporate Productivity.
Mary-Frances Winters
Mary-Frances Winters is the founder and CEO of The Winters Group, Inc., a 35-year-old global organization-development and diversity and inclusion consulting firm. She was named a diversity pioneer by Profiles in Diversity Journal in August 2007. She received the Winds of Change award from the Forum on Workplace Inclusion in 2016 for her contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Winters was also featured in Forbes*’ June 2016 publication that honored some of the Washington, DC, area’s most powerful women. Winters is the author of four books: *We Can’t Talk about That at Work!: How to Talk about Race, Religion, Politics, and Other Polarizing Topics (2017); Only Wet Babies Like Change: Workplace Wisdom for Baby Boomers (2002); Inclusion Starts With “I” (2003); and CEO’s Who Get It: Diversity Leadership from the Heart and Soul (2006). Winters also authored a chapter in the book Diversity at Work: The Practice of Inclusion (2013) and numerous articles.
RELATED RESOURCES
• Winters, Mary-Frances. We Can't Talk About That At Work! How to Talk about Race, Religion, Politics, and Other Polarizing Topics. Berrett-Koehler Publishers; 1 edition (April 23, 2017).
• Lopez, German. " There are huge racial disparities in how US police use force." Vox, Nov. 14, 2018.
