LAS VEGAS, March 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The MGM
Resorts Foundation is proud to welcome Natalie Allen as the returning host of the 2015
Women's Leadership Conference. The non-profit event will be held at
MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las
Vegas, NV July 13 and 14.
As host of the conference, Ms. Allen will preside over the
two-day event designed to inspire and encourage women to achieve
success in their personal and professional lives. The 2015 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: 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 for conference participants is
$285 until April 1, after which registration will cost
$375. 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.
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