LAS VEGAS, June 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The MGM Resorts
Foundation is proud to announce Patricia
Russell-McCloud as a keynote speaker at 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.
Russell-McCloud, named one of the top five business motivators
in the country by Black Enterprise Magazine, has more than
20 years on the lecture circuit and is categorized as one of the
nation's best speakers. Each year she speaks to more than
200,000 people in private and public organizations in the U.S. and
around the world. Her style is engaging, highly substantive,
well-researched, entertaining and unforgettable.
The 2015 Women's Leadership Conference theme is "Women Inspiring
Women." The two-day conference, which sold out last year, will
offer a wide range of learning opportunities, career guidance and
personal growth tools, including:
- Exposure to diverse, nationally recognized speakers and
accomplished women role models
- Career-oriented workshops that will give participants hands-on
opportunities to develop skills based on their career needs
- Three distinct learning tracks for participants who are
Emerging Leaders, Emerging Executives and Executives
Patricia Russell-McCloud
encourages her audiences to surmount every obstacle that stands
between them and the possible. Her client list includes, but
is not limited to, AT&T, General Motors, McDonald's, Northrop
Grumman, General Electric, Xerox and Proctor & Gamble.
As a member of the Council on Legal Education Opportunity, she
studied at Harvard University. She
earned her Juris Doctorate Degree at Howard
University School of Law, Washington D.C. Prior to her
speaking career, she was an attorney with the Federal
Communications Commission. She decided to follow her true
passion of being a business entrepreneur and global speaker.
Born in Indianapolis, IN, and
graduating from Kentucky State
University she knew her true career was to prepare
meaningful presentations for diverse audiences. She has
received many honors, including being presented more than 300 keys
to American cities. She has been featured in ESSENCE
Magazine and in EBONY Magazine as one of the most
influential people in the United
States and featured as the cover story of SPEAKER magazine,
National Speaker's Association 2007.
The Women's Leadership Conference is open to women of all
ethnicities, professions and social backgrounds, locally and
nationally, and the 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.
Registration is $350, which
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 conference
participants 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.
Current sponsors include CBS – Radio; The Coca-Cola Company; Ernst
& Young; Nevada Public Radio, and Cox Communications. For more
information about the Women's Leadership Conference, please
visit:
www.mgmresortsfoundation.org/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
International (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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