2023 #hireblack Summit

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About #hireblack Summit

Our third annual #HIREBLACK Summit is an impactful 3-day experience that will support attendees getting trained, hired, and promoted. Each day will be dedicated to providing knowledge, resources, and community to attendees with the goal of transforming their professional lives. 

Join us each day to:

  • Level-up with professional development workshops geared to transform your career

  • Meet our partners and attend company information sessions

  • Join breakout rooms for group discussions (Networking Access Pass Holders)

  • Find your career tribe, meet a mentor, or make a connection with your future employer using our AI-matching (Networking Access Pass Holders)

  • Schedule 1:1 20-minute career coaching sessions with industry leaders, recruiters, and hiring managers (Networking Access Pass Holders)

  • Have a chance to shoot your shot live and pitch to recruiters (Networking Access Pass Holders)

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Past Speakers

  • Alechia Reese is equal parts warm tea and Hennessy. Transformation coach, international speaker & host, she’s the principal for RGLP Group, co-founder of Tru3 Yoga Agency, and co-host of the Triggered AF & Got Value? Podcasts.

    She transformed her life from domestic violence victim to thriver building multiple lucrative brands. She now shows executives and marginalized emerging leaders how to leverage their personal and professional value to increase impact and decrease burnout. Her strategies guide leaders in building strong and strategic professional relationships that lead to upwardly mobile careers, expansive businesses, and lives that not only look good, but feel good.

    She’s worked with and spoken for a myriad of organizations and leaders from the entertainment stage to the corporate boardroom including Zendaya Coleman and Soledad O'Brien to UPS, Verizon, Bank of America, Vogue Italia, Essence, Buzzfeed, and more. Stay connected everywhere @alechiareese.

  • Trish Lindo is a Sr. digital media executive, content creator, executive producer, and writer. She has several years of digital media and television experience including BuzzFeed/Tasty, Yahoo! Shine, E! Entertainment/Live Events, CNN, and Oprah.com.

    Trish is currently a Senior Creator Manager at LinkedIn. She works exclusively with creators/entrepreneurs to empower, nurture, support and develop their content and presence on LinkedIn. Trish holds a B.S in Broadcast Journalism from Florida A&M University. She is passionate about initiatives that empower and support women of color.

    Trish is the social ambassador for Made by DWC in Los Angeles. A social enterprise operated by the Downtown Women's Center (DWC) that provides job training, transitional employment in product and retail that supports women transitioning out of homelessness.

  • An award-winning hybrid creative, Courtney Richardson is currently Creative Director at Droga5 where she leads creative direction for iconic brands and icons including Sean Combs, Combs Enterprises, The Africa Center, Hennessy and Chase Sapphire. Courtney credits her early beginnings watching her uncle direct music videos for the Wu-Tang Clan, Snoop Dogg, Master P & No Limit Records with igniting her passions and birthing her creative intuitions.

    Formerly Creative Director at PAPER Magazine, it was there she led original ideas and disruptive thinking for brands like Nike, Samsung, American Express, GAP, Target, Hulu, HBO, VH1 and more; while working with celebrities including Lena Waithe, Taraji P. Henson, Tiffany Haddish, Zendaya, Laverne Cox, Michaela Coel and others. Recognized as a 'Culture Shifter' by The Creative Collective NYC and inducted into their 2022 Creative Class of Black thought leaders and creatives, Courtney is also 2021’s 'Creative of The Year' by ADCOLOR and The One Club.

    Courtney has been featured by outlets, including AdWeek, Ad Age, PopSugar, Bustle, Refinery29, EBONY Magazine, XONecole, CBS Morning News and more. Her creative thinking has also been praised and sought after by Beyoncé Knowles-Carter. Driven and focused, Courtney’s life goal is to always uplift humanity, particularly Black women.

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Agenda

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Past Sponsors

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Ticket Pricing

GENERAL PASS: TBD

NETWORKING PASS: TBD

NETWORKING + AFTER PARTY: TBD

Join us LIVE! Best for those who can block out their entire day for the Summit. This ticket does not include access to career coaching sessions.

• General admission to all summit panels

• Virtual career expo

• Ability to submit your resume in our Mega #HIREBLACK Resume Book

• Virtual photo booth

• Walk away with your very own customized career playbook!

• No networking access or admission to the 2022 NYC After-Party.

Join us LIVE! Best for those who can block out their entire day for the Summit. This ticket grants access to networking and career coaching sessions.

• General admission to all summit sessions and roundtables

• Virtual career expo

• Ability to submit your resume in our Mega #HIREBLACK Resume Book

• Virtual photo booth

• Walk away with your very own customized career playbook!

• TWO (2) 20-minute virtual career coaching/office hours sessions with career coaches, recruiters, hiring managers and sponsors

• No networking access or admission to the 2022 NYC After-Party.

Join us LIVE! Best for those who can block out their entire day for the Summit. This ticket grants access to networking, career coaching sessions, and the 2022 After-Party.

• General admission to all summit sessions and roundtables

• Virtual career expo

• Ability to submit your resume in our Mega #HIREBLACK Resume Book

• Virtual photo booth

• Walk away with your very own customized career playbook!

• TWO (2) 20-minute virtual career coaching/office hours sessions with career coaches, recruiters, hiring managers and sponsors

• Admission to the 2022 NYC After-Party

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 FAQs

  • Per our last email… 😉 But seriously, check out the section labeled “Ticket Pricing” for more information on how to register for the #HIREBLACK Summit.

  • No, each person will have to register individually by buying a ticket in order to access the event.

  • In alignment with our mission, this event was created to center, amplify, and support Black womxn in the workspace. However, if you understand who we center and you’re an ally to our cause, we’d love for you to join, connect, and gain as well! The door is open to anyone who “gets us”.

  • As part of our terms and conditions, unfortunately, we do not offer refunds. We appreciate your understanding of this policy. Please do note that you can transfer your ticket to another person up to 30 days before the Summit.

  • We’d appreciate your help! Help us spread the word or consider supporting us with a “Pay-It-Forward” ticket. Pay-it-forward tickets help us subsidize our costs to keep the ticket costs affordable and fund our partial and full scholarships to our summit!

    If you are interested in purchasing a ticket for another person, please purchase them a content-only ticket or an all-access ticket with their e-mail.

  • We’d love to work with you! Fill out a partnership form here.