LABJ: Women's Leadership Series & Awards 2021 (C) | Los Angeles Business Journal | 23 June 2021 | Virtual

The Los Angeles Business Journal is excited to host the 2021 Women’s Leadership Series & Awards throughout the month of June.

This year’s free three-part series provided readers with an opportunity to join in our virtual symposiums and awards event. With the goal of continuing to engage, inform, educate and inspire, this year’s panelists covered topics of ongoing importance from leading through change and mentorship, to the road to entrepreneurship and navigating today’s work-life balance demands.

2021 Speakers & Panelists

Corinne Bendersky
Professor of Management and Organizations, UCLA Anderson School of Management

Dr. Bernice Ledbetter
Dean of Students and Alumni Affairs, Faculty, Organizational Theory and Management Director, Center for Women in Leadership, Pepperdine Graziadio School of Business

Dee Dee Owens
Partner, Advisory Market Leader for the Pacific Southwest, KPMG LLP

Jodie Porier
Executive Managing Director, Greater Los Angeles, Colliers

Angela Reddock-Wright
Employment Mediator & Arbitrator, Reddock Law/Judicate West

Julee Brooks
Chief Executive Officer, Woodcraft Rangers

Ellen Cervantes
Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Child Care Resource Center

Elisa Paster
Partner and Co-Chair, Government and Regulatory Department, Glaser Weil, LLP

Kate Seitz
Assurance Partner, RSM US LLP

Alice Juarez
Region Bank President, Wells Fargo

Precious Mayes
CEO and President, Pacifica Hospital of the Valley

Dayle M. Smith, Ph.D.
Dean, LMU College of Business Administration

Ellen Way
Director of Field Operations, Shangri-La Construction

Katherine Zabloudil
Co-Founder and CEO, The Vertical Collective LLC

Janki Lalani Gandhi
Managing Director, Goldman Sachs

James D. Kelly
Partner and Co-Chair of Washington, D.C. Office, Co-Chair, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, Blank Rome LLP

Audrey McLoghlin
Founder & CEO, Frank & Eileen

Stacy D. Phillips
Partner, Blank Rome LLP

Eula Smith
Creator & Owner, EMS Consulting

Dr. Michele Nealon
President, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

Jackie Keller
Founding Director, NutriFit, LLC, Board of Directors, Foundation of the Womens' Presidents Organization

Patty Juarez
National Diverse Segment Leader, Wells Fargo

Misty De Lamare
Director of Communications, L.A. Care Health Plan

Lynn Jochim
Chief Operating Officer, FivePoint Holdings, LLC

2021 Sponsors

PLATINUM:
• BLANKROME
• RSM
• Anderson UCLA
• WELLS FARGO

GOLD:
• The Chicago School
• Child Care Resource Center
• Colliers
• FIVEPOINT
• Glaser Weil
• Hanson Bridgett
• KPMG
• L.A. Care
• CBA Loyola Marymount University
• NutriFit
• Pacifica Hospital of the Valley
• Pepperdine
• Reddock Law
• Shangri-la
• UBS
• The Vertical Collective
• Woodcraft Rangers