2011 Kellogg Black Management Association Conference

Just over three weeks from now, students, alumni, prospective students, and professionals with ties to the Kellogg community will come together for a game-changing event here in Evanston.  The event looks not only to inspire the students and professionals to think about the opportunities and challenges that exist in America, but also to highlight the African American community more broadly to those in the professional and academic communities.

At long last, it’s finally that time of year again. Time where winter quarter at Kellogg is moving full speed ahead and time to start counting down for Kellogg’s Annual BMA Conference. This event is one the nation’s largest Black MBA conferences and it’s coming up in Evanston on February 25-27th, 2011.  We’re expecting a large number of people this year, and BMA is planning on making it one of the best BMA conferences in the history of Kellogg

The theme for the BMA Conference is “The Real ROI: Maximizing Investments while Building Communities”.  And this year it will focus on “the intersection of finance, marketing, and community”. To that end, the conference has invited a group of highly influential African American leaders, including John Rogers from Ariel Capital Management and Terdema Ussery, Dallas Mavericks President and CEO. Likewise, leading women in the business arena such as Soledad O’Brien from CNN and Bridgette Heller (KSM Alumni) from Merck will also be in attendance. (Click here to see the list of keynotes, click here for the list of panels, and see below for a video on Terdema Ussery)

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This year’s conference was led by co-chairs from the class of 2011 Stephanie Dorsey and  Brianna English and a very hard working group of Kellogg MBA students who have been actively planning the conference for quite some time. And because of this effort, they’ll be able to showcase the strength of the BMA community at Kellogg at the conference in February.

A number of my Kellogg classmates will be there, including me. Further, a number of Kellogg alum as well as students and alum from other business schools will also be in attendance.  And together, we’ll all partake in the opportunity not only to come together and celebrate the success of the community, but more importantly to support the “race” to bring diversity to forefront of our professional communities.

So what about you  … Are you coming?