Leading Change: Perspectives from Outside of Medicine

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Bonita Stewart, vice present of global partnerships at Google, and Jacqueline Adams, communications strategist and co-author of A Blessing: Women of Color Teaming Up to Lead, Empower and Thrive, will give a talk entitled "A Fresh, Bold Analysis of Black Female Leadership for Successful and Sustained Corporate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" as the next installment of Leading Change: Perspectives from Outside of Medicine "Conversation Series 2020."

Please attend the event by using the Zoom link (passcode: 640010).

Bonita C. Stewart joined Google in 2006 and her career spans three decades leading multi-billion dollar operations, accelerating digital technology adoption and driving business transformation for major corporations in the IT, automotive and technology fields. Currently as vice president of global partnerships, she oversees the largest U.S. publishers across media/entertainment, news/publishing, mobile apps, search, and commerce. Widely hailed for her astute leadership, in 2014 Crain's named her a Woman to Watch in Tech. Stewart also pioneered the concept for Howard West, a computer science immersion program for historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), powered by Google. Stewart serves on the Board of Directors for Deckers [NYSE:DECK], Pluralsight [NASDAQ:PS] and the New York Women's Forum. Stewart received her B.A. with honors from Howard University and MBA from Harvard Business School. She resides in New Jersey with her husband, Kevin Stewart (HBS 1979).

Jacqueline Adams launched a second career as a communications strategist after more than two decades as an Emmy Award winning CBS News correspondent. Adams covered the groundbreaking campaigns of Jesse Jackson for President and Geraldine Ferraro for Vice President before spending five years as a White House correspondent during the Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations. In the 1990s, she was a prolific contributor to the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and CBS News Sunday Morning. She won a News and Documentary Emmy Award for the 48 Hours broadcast, "The Search for Matthew." Adams, a graduate of Harvard Business School, serves on the Board of Directors of the Harvard Business School Club of New York and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. A music aficionado, she is studying the classical composers at the Juilliard School of Music's Evening Division.

The goal of the series is to help attendees think about ways to improve "the patient experience" at Johns Hopkins by learning from experts in other fields and disciplines. The lectures are open to all members of the Johns Hopkins community and we look forward to seeing you there. In order to allow for an open exchange between the speaker and the audience we will not record or broadcast the lecture.