Organizational Leadership Series with Laurel Richie

Monday, July 20, 2020
6 p.m. – 7 p.m. EST
Zoom link will be provided separately.
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As part of the Reuben Mark Initiative for Organizational Character and Leadership, Columbia Business and Law Schools will host a discussion featuring Laurel Richie, Former President of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), in conversation with Adam Bryant, New York Times best-selling author and the Reuben Mark Initiative Senior Advisor, as part of our Organizational Leadership Series. The conversation will focus on Laurel's effective leadership style in the sports industry, as well as her ability to help impart a strong organizational culture, specifically infusing diversity, equity and inclusion into all aspects of the business.

About the Speaker:

Laurel J. Richie has more than 35 years of leadership experience in the executive management, corporate governance, marketing, and communications. She currently serves as an independent director of Synchrony Financial and Bright Horizons, chair of the board of trustees at Dartmouth College, and a leadership consultant to fortune 100 c-suite executives with Merryck. She is a frequent keynote speaker and panelist on Leadership, Diversity and Inclusion, and Women in Business and Sports.

As President of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) from 2011 to 2015, Richie became the first African American to lead a major US professional sports league. Prior to joining the WNBA, Richie served as senior vice president and chief marketing officer at Girl Scouts of the USA. At advertising agency Ogilvy and Mather, she served as a senior partner, executive group director, member of the operating board and founding member of the Employee Advisory Council on Diversity and Inclusion.

Richie is a recipient of the Black Girls Rock Shot Caller Award, Sports Business Journal’s Game Changer Award, the YMCA Black Achievers in Industry Award and was awarded Ebony magazine’s Outstanding Women in Marketing and Communications award. Most recently, Savoy magazine named Richie to their “Power 300 List” of the most influential black corporate directors.

She graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in Policy Studies.