Block #3: Impact, Legacy, & Expanding Opportunity

Session 1

Political Influence as a Private Sector Leader

Political engagement is an important lever for enacting change and private sector leaders have many avenues for asserting influence within the political sphere. 

This session is a practical guide for private sector leaders who want to grow their influence and build their relationships in the political arena. The session will cover strategies for common ways that private sector leaders influence politics, including as donors, fundraisers, advisors, connectors, and campaign surrogates. Whether you’re exploring this path for the first time or looking to deepen your involvement, this session will help you understand your options and take action with clarity and confidence.

You’ll leave with:

  • A clearer understanding of the different ways professionals engage in politics

  • Insight into how to choose the level of involvement that matches your interests and capacity

  • Practical steps for getting started with campaigns, candidates, or political organizations

  • A concrete plan for your next step in political engagement

Ricardo Garcia-Amaya
Founder & CEO, Ripple Talks; MLT Alum

Tom Gannon
EVP, Chief Advocacy Officer, LPL Financial

Nicole Jefferson
Vice President, Government Affairs, Dell Technologies

Reggie Van Lee
Executive Partner & Managing Director, AlixPartners

Andrea M. O’Neal
Senior Advisor to the CEO, Fmr. Biden White House Senior Official, Black Economic Alliance

Session 2

Influencing Others to Build More Inclusive Organizations

In today’s environment, many organizations are rethinking, reframing, or pulling back from efforts to build more inclusive workplaces. For those committed to this work, the challenge is no longer just knowing what matters, it’s knowing how to communicate, collaborate, and keep moving forward when the work feels harder than ever.
This session is for leaders, practitioners, and changemakers who want to strengthen their influence and stay energized in the work. Together, we’ll explore how to communicate with clarity, build alignment across audiences, navigate resistance, and partner with others who are also working to create inclusive and high-performing organizations.
The goal is to create space for practical learning, honest connection, and renewed momentum so attendees can continue driving meaningful change with greater clarity, confidence, and support.

You’ll leave with:

  • Practical tools to communicate with clarity, credibility, and confidence when navigating common narratives or resistance

  • Strategies to tailor your message across audiences, including peers, direct reports, senior leaders, employees, and external stakeholders

  • Renewed momentum and a stronger peer network to help you continue advancing inclusive, meritocratic organizations

Damien Hooper-Campbell
Board Director, Mammoth Brands; MLT Alum

Felipe Chaquea
Sr. Director, Partner Advisory & Workforce Solutions, MLT; MLT Alum

Bradley Akubuiro
Partner, Bully Pulpit International & Author

Xochit A Leon
Financial Services Executive & Wealth‑Building Advocate, Independent; MLT Alum

Session 3

AI Ethics, Equity, & Opportunity: How to Use AI for Good and Avoid Encoding Bias & Inequity

Artificial Intelligence has immense potential to increase fairness, mitigate bias, expand opportunity, and enhance well-being. It also carries significant risks and tradeoffs. 

This session will explore AI policies, practices, and use-cases that organizations, institutions, and individuals can use to make sure AI is a force for maximum good. AI is already reshaping decisions across workplaces, markets, and institutions—from talent systems and performance evaluations to lending, risk assessment, and everyday digital interactions. AI leaders will share lessons and best practices for ensuring AI improves fairness and doesn’t perpetuate human bias or codify historical discrimination. We’ll also hear from innovative leaders about how AI is being used as a tool to try to solve long-standing organizational and societal challenges.

You’ll leave with:

  • Best practices for ensuring AI mitigates, rather than reinforces, human biases in common use cases

  • Insight into where risk enters automated decision-making systems

  • Practical ways leaders can shape responsible AI adoption inside organizations 

  • A framework for thinking about AI’s role in expanding long-term economic opportunity

Dale Allsopp
Director, Tech & Society, Google

David Vasquez
Executive Director at Noesis Collaborative; MLT Alum

Adam Dumey
Global VP, Retail at World Wide Technology; MLT Alum

Session 4

Advancing Economic Mobility and Wealth Building: Strategies That Drive Real Change

This session will spotlight the solutions, strategies, and leadership needed to expand economic opportunity in the U.S. From innovative approaches to economic mobility to new pathways for long-term wealth building, the conversation will focus on what is working, what is possible, and how MLTers can contribute — individually and collectively — to lasting progress. Leaders who have dedicated their careers to this work will share insights, lessons learned, and practical advice for MLTers eager to help shape the future.

You’ll explore how corporate influence, investment decisions, policy engagement, philanthropy, and community leadership intersect to expand opportunity at scale, and how your leadership can contribute.

Participants will leave with:

  • A clearer understanding of the drivers behind wealth building

  • Insight into the initiatives producing measurable progress today

  • Ways that you can contribute to progress via your work, capital, time, and influence

Amina Casewit
Managing Partner, Portfolio Investing, New Profit

Garnesha Ezediaro
Greenwood Initiative Lead, Bloomberg Philanthropies

James Johnson Piett
Principal and CEO, Urbane

Spencer Kympton
Managing Director, Blue Meridian Partners

Everyone chooses to impact the world in different ways. In this session, leaders who have built successful careers centered on their desire to impact the world for the better will share advice on how to navigate a purpose-driven career path. 

Leaders will discuss how to find career paths and specific jobs that combine impact, growth potential, and appropriate compensation in the for-profit, non-profit, and government sectors. They’ll share advice on how they’ve navigated purpose-driven career paths, which tend to be less linear than more traditional paths. And they’ll share personal stories and perspectives on how they’ve navigated tradeoffs and benefits associated with impact-oriented careers, lessons learned, and things they wish they would have known before starting their journeys.

You’ll leave with:

  • Broader knowledge about potential career paths that combine doing well with doing good

  • Guidance for finding and securing a career that matches your passion for social impact

  • Advice on navigating a career advancement path that centers social impact

Session 5

Building a Purpose-Driven Career

Tony Awojoodu
Sr. Director, Business Development, DaVita

Yordanos Eyoel
Founder and CEO, Keseb; MLT Alum

Frances Messano
CEO, NewSchools Venture Fund; MLT Alum

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