S2 EP 05 - Growing HBCU Talent Through Campus Programming

About this episode

Lori Spicer Robertson discusses her efforts in creating a campus engagement event for HBCUs to build a diverse talent pipeline.

Lori Spicer Robertson (she/her) is a creative change agent always pursuing opportunities to transform lives and foster sustainable progress. Formerly, she assumed the role of VP, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Saks Fifth Avenue to design a more inclusive experience for employees, customers, and partners. As a natural connector, she currently is the founder and Chief Joymaker of a digital media platform and membership community created to reconnect women and mothers to a life of joy called Wundher. As a thought leader on women and mothers; diversity, equity, and inclusion; leadership and authentic joy, she is sought after by companies, universities and organizations annually to share her narrative. Spicer Robertson is wife to her fellow community crusader Eric Robertson, mother to her amazing boys - Liam and Emory, and they all believe in their family motto to ‘live in your vision and not your circumstances’.In this episode, Lori explains how she put together an entire campus engagement event for HBCU and her organization that involved executives within the initiative of building a diverse talent pipeline.---We help businesses build more diverse and more inclusive…

People in this episode

Host: Natalia Eileen

Guest: Lori Spicer Robertson

Topics covered

• HBCU
• diversity
• inclusion
• campus programming
• talent pipeline
• leadership

Keywords

• HBCU
• diversity
• inclusion
• campus programming
• talent pipeline
• leadership
• women
• mothers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Saks Fifth Avenue, Wundher

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