June 3, 2009 – The always popular 2009 Diversity Counsel Program seeks sponsors for this annual event, which is scheduled for Friday, Oct. 2.
Diversity and Empowerment: Your Competitive Edge, will be held at the Italian Community Center in Milwaukee, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. The program includes two morning sessions with guest speaker Jane DiRenzo Pigott, managing director of R3 Group LLC. Her topics are
Speed Networking: Maximizing Your Investment and
Creating Positive Visibility for Effective Self Promotion. The luncheon speaker is coanchor of
Primetime Live, John Quinoñes. The afternoon workshop topics are not yet finalized.
Keynote Speakers. R3 Group LLC managing director Jane DiRenzo Pigott specializes in providing leadership, change, and diversity/inclusion consulting to organizations. Her services enhance an organization’s competitive edge by allowing the organization to more fully use, retain, and promote its key personnel. She approaches leadership, change, and inclusion strategically and produces measurable results towards her clients’ goals and objectives. Her clients include professional service firms, corporations, and universities. Before starting her own business, Pigott practiced law for more than 20 years, most recently at the international law firm Winston & Strawn LLP where she was chair of the global environmental law practice. Pigott served on the firm’s Executive Management Committee, the first woman to do so, and Compensation Committee. She also created and chaired the firm’s diversity initiative, rendering the firm a leader among its peers and dramatically improving recruitment, retention, and promotion of attorneys.
Luncheon speaker John Quiñones is a coanchor of Primetime Live and was most recently a correspondent for Primetime Thursday and 20/20. He also served as a coanchor of the newsmagazine Downtown, which premiered in October 1999. Quiñones has contributed reports to ABC News’ 24-hour, live, global Millennium broadcast, which won the George Foster Peabody Award. He was honored with a Gabriel Award for his poignant report about a young man’s emotional journey to Colombia to reunite with his birth mother. He has won six national Emmy Awards for his Primetime Live, “Burning Questions” and 20/20 work. His reports for 20/20 included an in-depth look at the lawsuit against the Cuban government by a woman who claimed she unknowingly married a spy. He earned an Emmy for his coverage of the Congo’s virgin rainforest, which also won the Ark Trust Wildlife Award. He also received an Emmy for “Window in the Past,” his look at the Yanomamo Indians. Quiñones also earned a World Hunger Media Award and a citation from the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards for “To Save the Children,” his report on the homeless children of Bogotá. Quiñones was awarded an ALMA Award from the National Council of La Raza. He has reported on a wide range of stories originating from Central America, including the political and economic turmoil in Argentina and civil war in El Salvador. In 1988, Quiñones filed more than 50 reports from Panama, detailing the country’s turmoil and U.S. efforts to oust Panamanian president Mañuel Noriega.
The complete schedule and topics are not yet available. Watch future issues of InsideTrack for updates. The Diversity Outreach Committee seeks sponsors for this event. All donations are tax deductible and can be made through the Wisconsin Law Foundation.
For more information, please contact State Bar Diversity Committee liaison Patricia Morgan at (608) 250-6107, pmorgan@wisbar.org.
