Over 1,500 Professionals Are Gathering In Las Vegas for the Women of Power Summit

The day that we’ve been planning for a year with great intention has arrived. Today we are excited to kick off the 15th Annual Women of Power Summit hosted by ADP! Over 1,500 women are joining us at the Mirage in Las Vegas for the year’s most anticipated professional women’s conference.

This year marks two distinguished anniversary’s for BLACK ENTERPRISE as we embark on 50 years of serving the diaspora and 15 years of amplifying the voices of black women in corporate America through the Women of Power franchise.

Over the next three days, we will be celebrating the excellence of women leading in their industries and communities.

Tonight we will be honoring leaders Debbie Allen, award-winning actress, director, and producer; Gale King, EVP & chief administrative officer at Nationwide; Debra Lee, former chairman & CEO of BET Networks and the CEO of Leading Women Defined Inc.; and Myrtle Potter, former executive vice president & COO of Genentech and the CEO of Sumitovant Biopharma at the Legacy Awards Gala hosted by PepsiCo.

On Friday, Legacy Award winners Gale King and Myrtle Potter will be taking center stage to discuss relevance, leadership, and legacy. And women will hear from the one and only Misty Copeland, Glenda Squire, and Women of Power Chief Brand Officer Caroline Clarke for a conversation that counts on how to stay on point! ADP CEO Carlos Rodriguez will also be taking the stage with Debbie Dyson for a one-on-one conversation about innovation.

During the lunch hour, past Legacy Award winner Phylicia Rashad and Freda Lewis-Hall will take the stage for a conversation about the myth of the black superwoman and the importance of self-care and sisterhood presented by Pfizer.

Throughout the day there will be several executive sessions on visibility, self-advocacy, microaggressions, moving up the corporate ladder, and body language.

On Saturday, Donna Brazile is going to kick the morning off with a bang! And Mara Brock Akil and Jodie Patterson will take the stage for an authentic conversation on how to continuously build and believe in yourself along your journey hosted by AARP. We’ll also be paying tribute to the 50 most impactful women in business over the past 50 years hosted by Accenture.

Women will also receive the tools they need to reconstruct the corporate ladder during executive sessions centered on negotiating, getting ‘board ready,’ and what it takes to lead in global roles. And those who identify as intrapreneurs will have the opportunity to hear from angel investors at the highly anticipated SistersInc. session hosted by JPMorgan. There will also be a timely conversation about hair politics in the workplace.

Throughout the summit, attendees will also receive executive coaching, style coaching hosted by Macy’s, and financial coaching hosted by JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley.

It sounds like a great time right? It’s because it will be!

If you’re joining us, be sure to keep up with the latest information about the event. The app is available for Apple and Android.

If you aren’t able to make it to Vegas, tune into the Women of Power Summit Livestream to get your digital front row seat! Be sure to follow the conversation online by exploring and using the hashtag #BEWPS.

 

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Joy Reid urged as Chris Matthews’ replacement on MSNBC’s ‘Hardball’

MSNBC is reportedly looking at three possibilities to replace Chris Matthews on Hardball and people are pushing for Joy Reid to succeed him.

Reid, Steve Kornacki, and Shepard Smith are all being considered for the 7 p.m. nightly position, reported MSN. Reid hosts MSNBC’s weekend show, AM Joy. Kornacki is an NBC and MSNBC national political correspondent. And Smith formerly hosted Shepard Smith Reporting on Fox but he quit his show last October. He is prepping to return to TV soon.

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Some are calling on the network to name a woman to the job and are lobbying for Reid.

“This slot should go to @JoyAnnReid!!! She’d be brilliant and MSNBC has no Black hosts in primetime. Shameful,” tweeted political commentator Aisha C. Moodie-Mills.

This slot should go to @JoyAnnReid !!! She’d be briiliant and MSNBC has no Black hosts in primetime. Shameful. https://t.co/5sn1rIikIN

— Aisha C. Moodie-Mills (@AishaMoodMills) March 3, 2020

“@JoyAnnReid please but I feel like they will give it to white man,” wrote #EnoughisEnough.

This slot should go to @JoyAnnReid !!! She’d be briiliant and MSNBC has no Black hosts in primetime. Shameful. https://t.co/5sn1rIikIN

— Aisha C. Moodie-Mills (@AishaMoodMills) March 3, 2020

“Would love to see Joy Ann get his slot. I stopped watching him years ago. could not stand the way he interrupts people,” agreed Nancy Smart.

This slot should go to @JoyAnnReid !!! She’d be briiliant and MSNBC has no Black hosts in primetime. Shameful. https://t.co/5sn1rIikIN

— Aisha C. Moodie-Mills (@AishaMoodMills) March 3, 2020

Matthews announced his retirement during his show on Monday. He had faced recent allegations that he made inappropriate comments to freelance journalist Laura Bassett, then a guest on his show. Bassett wrote about the comments in a column in GQ. Matthews also received backlash for comments he made after Bernie Sanders (I-VT) won the Nevada caucuses, equating the win to the Nazi takeover of France. Matthews later apologized to Sanders.

Matthews opened his Monday night broadcast by stating, “I want to start with my headline tonight: I’m retiring.”

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“This is the last ‘Hardball’ on MSNBC and obviously this isn’t for a lack of interest in politics,” he said, adding he was retiring to make way for “younger generations” who are “improving the workplace.”

In addition to hosting AM Joy, Reid also fills in for MSNBC hosts, including Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes.

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ADP Division President Debbie Dyson: Find Your Voice—People Want to Hear From You

Featuring a broad cross-section of women who have distinguished themselves across a rich variety of careers, our Portraits of Power series is a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Black Enterprise, and of black women. It’s a place for today’s businesswomen to share their own favorite images and their own stories, in their own words. Today’s portrait is Debbie Dyson, who’s been with ADP for more than three decades and is a member of its senior executive team.

Debbie Dyson

President, National Account Services, ADP

Nickname The Doctor

My first job was Key Account Manager at ADP

My big break came when I saw the red sign of “ADP” and approached the interview table.

I’ve had to work hardest at my current job—most challenging in my 32 years.

I never imagined I would be sitting in the C-suite.

I wish I’d learned sooner that finding your voice is nothing to shy away from; people want to hear you.

The risk I regret not taking is … I learned early to not have regrets, as I cannot change the past.

If I could design my fantasy self-care day, it would be spent in Hawaii.

Nothing keeps me up at night. I don’t need a lot of sleep.

When I’m struggling, I say to myself, “You always have tomorrow; don’t let defeats get you down.”

I am unapologetically honest.

 

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Portraits of Power is a yearlong series of candid insights from exceptional women leaders. It is brought to you by ADP.

Debbie Dyson will be a speaker at the 2020 Women of Power Summit, March 5-8 at The Mirage in Las Vegas. Register here to join us!

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ADP Division President Debbie Dyson: Find Your Voice—People Want to Hear From You

Featuring a broad cross-section of women who have distinguished themselves across a rich variety of careers, our Portraits of Power series is a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Black Enterprise, and of black women. It’s a place for today’s businesswomen to share their own favorite images and their own stories, in their own words. Today’s portrait is Debbie Dyson, who’s been with ADP for more than three decades and is a member of its senior executive team.

Debbie Dyson

President, National Account Services, ADP

Nickname The Doctor

My first job was Key Account Manager at ADP

My big break came when I saw the red sign of “ADP” and approached the interview table.

I’ve had to work hardest at my current job—most challenging in my 32 years.

I never imagined I would be sitting in the C-suite.

I wish I’d learned sooner that finding your voice is nothing to shy away from; people want to hear you.

The risk I regret not taking is … I learned early to not have regrets, as I cannot change the past.

If I could design my fantasy self-care day, it would be spent in Hawaii.

Nothing keeps me up at night. I don’t need a lot of sleep.

When I’m struggling, I say to myself, “You always have tomorrow; don’t let defeats get you down.”

I am unapologetically honest.

 

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Portraits of Power is a yearlong series of candid insights from exceptional women leaders. It is brought to you by ADP.

Debbie Dyson will be a speaker at the 2020 Women of Power Summit, March 5-8 at The Mirage in Las Vegas. Register here to join us!

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Hillary Clinton doesn’t think Bernie Sanders is the strongest Dem nominee

Hillary Clinton said if Bernie Sanders receives the Democratic Party’s nomination, it lessens the party’s chances to defeat President Donald Trump.

“I don’t think he’d be our strongest nominee, no,” Clinton told Good Morning America in an interview on Super Tuesday. “And that’s what this primary process is about. Let’s see who emerges, but for everybody voting today or in any of the contests ahead of time, the most important issue is who can defeat Donald Trump.”

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The Sanders campaign offered no response to Clinton’s remark.

It’s no secret that Clinton is not a fan of “The Bern.” The former secretary of state and the Vermont senator were bitter opponents during the 2016 democratic presidential primary. Even though Clinton emerged victorious from that scrapple, the damage was already done.

On March 6, Hillary’s four-part docuseries, Hillary, will be released on HULU. But in January, her fierce criticism of Sanders from the series emerged.

“He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It’s all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it,” The Hollywood Reporter reported.

At the time, Sanders also declined to comment on the docuseries criticism, saying he was focused on beating Trump.

Since the criticism of Sanders surfaced from the docuseries, Clinton has said she will back the Democratic nominee whoever that is. And in Tuesday’s GMA interview, she didn’t go so far as to say Sanders couldn’t beat Trump.

She just made it clear that she doesn’t think he’s the party’s best option.

Clinton told GMA she’ll be “watching and hoping that we nominate whoever is the strongest candidate to take out the current incumbent.”

When the network asked Clinton her opinion on Sanders’ position that he should win the Democratic nomination if he receives a plurality of pledged delegates but doesn’t reach the golden number, Clinton laughed and told the morning show: “Let’s follow the rules. We’ve got rules.”

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When asked if she still feels Sanders’ campaign in 2016 was “just baloney,” as she said in her docuseries, Clinton responded that she said what she said.

“That was my authentic opinion then. It’s my authentic opinion now.”

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