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Contributors
Leela StakeLeela is a director who helps businesses innovate, collaborate and communicate to be more successful. She’s based in San Francisco, has worked in six Asian countries and is interested in the relationship between long-term business success and community prosperity.
Laura PalantoneLaura is a member of our corporate communications team and is based in New York.
James RobinsonJames is a director who brings ten years of experience working on CR strategy and communications in New York, Beijing, and Jakarta. He looks at how CR is employed as part of broader business strategy and has a particular interest in the evolving role of technology and innovation in managing social and environmental issues.
Julie JackA director in APCO's New York office, Julie works on corporate responsibility with a focus on business strategy and emerging issues and trends. Her currents interests and work focus on sustainable agriculture and supply chain management, the integration of CR and financial communications, and CR in the consumer goods space.
Ellen MignoniEllen is a senior director and helped build APCO’s global corporate responsibility practice. She works primarily with APCO’s corporate clients on business alignment and corporate responsibility, stakeholder engagement and partnership development, and communication and outreach.
Trailblazing at the Clinton Global Initiative
Among its many successes, CGI has helped elevate girls and women to the world stage through featured programming for several years. Never before with such consistency and depth has such a major global platform put the spotlight on the needs and opportunities facing girls and women today. Leaders from Michelle Bachelet to Queen Rania have come together at CGI to raise awareness, launch new programs and celebrate successes.
Yet CGI took their own game to the next level this year by infusing a women and girls’ lens through the programming. To me, this marks a turning point in how we address this subject matter. There is value in hosting focused discussions on investing in women and girls, but you tend to attract the usual suspects – and mostly women. But by making women and girls a core part of every global development conversation, you have an opportunity to reach new people and compel people to start thinking and acting differently.
Over the next decade, the impact of women on the economy is expected to be at least as significant as that of China’s and India’s respective 1-billion-plus populations. This is just one reason why these are not “women’s issues,” but should be everyone’s priorities.
Be sure to follow the proceedings of this year’s meetings using the player below.
*APCO joined CGI in 2008. As part of our CGI Commitment to Action, APCO provides communication counsel, training and media relations support for CGI annual meetings.
Catogories Economic Development, What's Next for CR, Women and Girls and tagged CGI, Clinton Global Initiative, Leela Stake
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