This past June at Cannes, in partnership with Makers, the WIE Suite hosted a lunch and conversation with GLAAD President and CEO, Sarah Kate Ellis. The talk, which took place at the Yahoo Beach Club, was moderated by The WIE Suite CEO, Dee Poku and focused on how brands can better support LGBTQ inclusion. Attendees included the head of Makers Alicin Williamson, the new head of inclusive content at Warners Bros/OWN, Shereen Miller; and Nasdaq’s Chief Digital Officer, Sehr Thadhani.
Among the many pearls of wisdom, Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO of GLAAD shared the following on brands and impact: “I think what you need to decide is how are you going to use your platforms to make it better for the community, not just pump your own fist up in the air, and say we're inclusive. It's more about how you enrich the world for people of color, for LGBTQ people, for women, for people with disabilities, and I think you need to take a look at how you’ll then utilize your platforms versus just speaking out of it.”
Additionally, The WIE Suite hosted its fourth annual A Dinner For Women, which took place at La Cirque and was supported by Johnnie Walker and Greenhouse. The exclusive gathering of CEOs, CMOs and agency heads included guest speaker Kenya Hunt Editor in Chief of Elle Magazine; Nadja Bellan White CMO of Vice; Stephanie Dobbs Brown, CMO of the NYSE; Carole Diarra, CMO of UGG and agency leaders Jennifer DaSilva, President of WPP’s Berlin Cameron; Shannon Washington, Chief Creative Officer at RGA; Jaime Robinson, Co-Founder of Joan Creative and other c-suite leaders from the likes of Google, McKinsey, Tik Tok, Pinterest and Meta. The discussion focused on mentorship and legacy.
As part of the conversation, Kenya Hunt, Editor in Chief of ELLE UK shared the following on the power of mentorship: “I loved talking to all the guests present and hearing the stories of women who’ve created opportunities for each other, and helped one another rise up. It was a series of relationships, mainly with black women that pulled me up into the spaces where they were already operating. And that had a real foundational impression on me as I was coming up in my career.”
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