More than 120 attendees stressed the need for women as well as men to be mentors at a program for “International Women’s Day” held by Porter Novelli in partnership with LMHQ March 8 at LMHQ’s meeting space in lower Manhattan, an area that has become a hub for creative start-ups and established companies like Conde Nast and Fast Company.
The Women + Mentorship event was part of the firm’s diversity and inclusion efforts.
Twenty acknowledged yesterday’s “Day Without a Woman” stance for solidarity and wore red.
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(L to R) Moderator Soon Mee Kim, executive VP and PN’s leader of global diversity and inclusion; Tania Salarvand, head of marketing, North America, for Thoughtworks; and Chandra Briggman, founder of Wide Angle Media.Helpful advice to PR careerists was given by Soon Mee Kim, executive VP and PN’s leader of global diversity and inclusion; Chandra Briggman, founder of Wide Angle Media; Nancy Reyes, New York managing director of TBWA, and Tania Salarvand, head of marketing, North America, for Thoughtworks.
Purpose of the program was to show how valuable women mentors can be both for women as well as men.
"Speed Mentoring" Provided
“Sometimes we are not our best advocates,” Kim said. “We are not always the ones to be proactive and seek out those allies, leaders, mentors.”
Salarvand said her primary role is being a mother of her three-and-a-half-year-old son, and six-months-old girl and her secondary job is leading the North American Marketing at Thoughtworks.
She recounted some of her experiences as a consultant for 15 years, saying she found the business world to be “a man’s world” and it’s not a world that is conducive to working mothers.
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Speed mentoringThe speed mentoring mimicked speed dating where you had five minutes to sit and talk with one of the 12 prominent women across the industry as mentors:
• Jen Bloom, senior talent manager, employee experience at Warby Parker
• Chandra Briggman, founder at Wide Angle Media
• Shana Dressler, co-founder, NYC Innovation Collective
• Colette Ellis, founder, InStep Consulting
• Mindy Gikas, EVP global talent at Porter Novelli
• Anneke Hansen, choreographer, performer, and teacher
• Sandi Harari, SVP creative director at BARKER
• Soon Mee Kim, global diversity & inclusion leader, EVP at Porter Novelli
• Jessica Lappin, president of Alliance for Downtown New York
• Tania Salarvand, North America head of marketing at ThoughtWorks
• Karen Short, group creative director at Droga5
• Amy Whitaker, author of Art Thinking and NYU Professor
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