Velocity Conference 2020 - Kara Helander - Keynote Speech

The Managing Director and Chief Diversity Officer of The Carlyle Group talks about high-level inclusivity and elevated strategies at UCLA Anderson's 2020 women's leadership summit, Velocity.

Prior to joining Carlyle, Ms. Helander was a Managing Director at BlackRock where she led the firm’s global inclusion and diversity, and philanthropy initiatives. Harvard Business School profiled those efforts she directed in the case study, “BlackRock: Diversity as a Driver of Success”. More recently, Ms. Helander consulted with organizations to develop corporate social responsibility and diversity strategies. She founded the Science of Diversity and Inclusion (SODI), a coalition of top companies and behavioral scientists working to design and test new approaches to accelerate diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. Ms. Helander also led CSR at Barclay’s Global Investors (BGI). Prior to BGI, she launched and led the Western Region for Catalyst in Silicon Valley.

She serves on the Board of Directors of Leading Educators.

Ms. Helander received her M.B.A. from The Wharton School and her B.A. from Vanderbilt University.

Velocity 2020, Elevate was held at Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles on January 31, 2020.

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