LAS VEGAS, April 14, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The non-profit MGM
Resorts Foundation is proud to welcome Natalie Allen as host of the 2014 Women's
Leadership Conference. The event will be held at MGM Grand Hotel
& Casino in Las Vegas, NV
Aug. 6 and 7.
As host of the conference, Ms. Allen will preside over the
two-day event designed to inspire and encourage women to achieve
their highest potential personally and professionally. The 2014
Women's Leadership Conference theme is "Women Inspiring Women."
The conference will offer a wide range of learning
opportunities, career guidance and personal growth tools,
including:
-Exposure to diverse and nationally recognized speakers and
accomplished women role models
-Two days of career-oriented workshops that will give women
hands-on opportunities to develop skills based on their career
needs
-Three distinct learning tracks for women who are Emerging
Leaders, Emerging Executives and Executives
-Workshops for entrepreneurs who are well-established or just
thinking of starting their own businesses
An award-winning journalist, Ms. Allen has 25 years of
experience in broadcast news. Before becoming an anchor and
correspondent for CNN International, Ms. Allen was an anchor for
CNN from 1992-2001. She also served as news anchor for MSNBC.
Ms. Allen started her career at WREG-TV in Memphis, Tenn., becoming the first newsroom
intern elevated to General Assignments Reporter while still a
student. Three years later, she was named Co-Anchor of WREG'S
10 p.m. News.
In 2011, Ms. Allen videotaped, produced and wrote a three-part
"Freedom Project" special for CNN International on child
trafficking from Vietnam and
Cambodia, primarily focusing on
one community in the Mekong Delta. As a correspondent for NBC, she
appeared on "The Nightly News," "The Today Show" and CNBC.
Beginning in 2007, Ms. Allen served as The Weather Channel's
first full-time environment and climate correspondent. As Primary
Anchor for the network's weekly news program, "Forecast Earth," she
traveled the country interviewing environmental pioneers and
leaders in sustainability.
The conference is open to women of all ethnicities, professions
and social backgrounds, locally and nationally, and men who support
them. The MGM Resorts Foundation is the conference's presenting
sponsor. Proceeds of the conference after costs will be donated to
one or more local nonprofit agencies devoted to the welfare and
development of women and girls.
The early registration fee is $275
through May. Regular registration will be $350 from June to Aug.
7. Registration includes the full conference and all
workshops and lectures, a networking reception, and continental
breakfasts and lunches catered by MGM Grand. Time is also
allotted for attendees to build key professional relationships with
other women attending while enjoying the hospitality and
entertainment of MGM Grand and other resorts of MGM Resorts
International.
Participating sponsorships are available to organizations or
companies who share the vision and goals of this conference. For
more information about the Women's Leadership Conference, please
visit www.mgmresorts.com/womensleadershipconference.
About The MGM Resorts Foundation
The purpose of The MGM Resorts Foundation is to collect and
distribute monies and assets donated by employees of MGM Resorts
(NYSE: MGM) for the aid and support of qualified community
nonprofit programs, agencies or organizations designated
exclusively by MGM Resorts employees. In addition, the Foundation
collects and distributes donations to the Foundation by third-party
non-employees to support charitable, scientific, literary, and
educational activities approved by the Foundation's Board of
Directors and organized by MGM Resorts employees to benefit
qualified non-profit charitable organizations designated by the
Foundation's Board.
SOURCE MGM Resorts International