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tionally focused, featuring guest speakers, roundtable discussions,
benchmarking, best-practices sessions and other relevant topics.
Members are encouraged to share their views and have open, candid
dialogue in a confidential environment. “We adhere to the Vegas
principle — what goes on at CSDP, stays at CSDP,” Marshall said.
organizaTional endorseMenT
Teresa LeFevre, the council’s board secretary, and vice president,
supplier diversity manager, Comerica Bank, joined the council in
2005. “I realized all the people I looked up to in supplier diversity
and wanted to emulate and learn from were either in the council
or a part of the council,” she said.
Equipped with purchasing and automobile industry experience,
she recognized her new supplier diversity role at Comerica
included components of her former role, plus some new ones.
It was “a unique mix of part-time purchasing [professional], strategist,
team-builder and liaison between suppliers and buyers, as well as
making sure diversity suppliers fit the company going forward,” LeFevre
said. “The council was very helpful as I transitioned to my new role,
providing the perfect mix of training and development in those areas.”
If a member has confronted a challenge, someone in the council’s
network has probably already tackled it and is willing to share
his or her success story. It might happen in a one-on-one conversation,
a best-practices presentation or a roundtable discussion.
“The council has a wealth of information you won’t find anywhere
else. We’re developing and shaping and molding it, as we
go along, to fit the needs of our members,” LeFevre said.
She added that she had solved a challenging workplace situa132
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tion by discussing it with a council member who had resolved a
similar challenge.
The gig eConoMy is real
The industry itself is facing challenges as global markets experience
tremendous disruption. The gig economy is real, and artificial
intelligence is changing how work is getting done.
“The future of CSDP and our profession — now more than ever
— is going to depend on our ability to remain relevant and understand
the changing role supplier diversity plays in the corporate ecosystem,”
Marshall said. “How we make the shift is key to elevating
our practice as a business asset in the race to win … the difference
between supplier diversity management and value creation.
“The new business paradigm for supplier diversity and inclusion
is driven by innovation, collaboration and profit generation, which
requires cultural competency, thought leadership and scalability,”
she added. “Our network of cross-industry supplier diversity professionals
allows us to stay ahead of the curve, providing a support system
for benchmarking, professional development and knowledge
exchange to ensure our members have access to the tools needed
to deliver long-term value … We call it sustainability!”
Advancing the profession of supplier diversity and inclusion
comes down to business results, Marshall said.
“CSDP is a community of real people, real solutions, real impact
… that’s the power of the network!”
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For More inForMaTion on The CounCil oF suPPlier
diversiTy ProFessionals, visiT www.nCsdP.org.
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