Sentences with phrase «business leaders in an effort»

BROOKLYN — Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams plans to meet Tuesday afternoon with black and Asian business leaders in an effort to diffuse tensions ahead of sentencing for disgraced ex-NYPD Officer Peter Liang.

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Saujani, whose six - year - old organization is tackling the gender gap in tech by training young girls in computer science, encouraged the nation's business leaders to double down on the effort in a wide - ranging panel discussion on attracting and retaining diverse talent.

My hope is that the business community can continue to be a leader in this effort.

Jennifer Tory, a regional president in Greater Toronto Region with RBC, won the 2011 Business Leader Champion award for her efforts to advance women and visible minorities, both in the bank and her community.

For help and inspiration in my efforts to persuade business leaders to run their companies in a socially responsible way, I enjoy spending time with Jamie Oliver and Jochen Zeitz, both of whom have built successful companies that make a difference.

Big - business leaders are fed up with the tactics of conservative Republicans, who instigated a partial closure of the Federal government and engaged in brinksmanship over the debt ceiling in a failed effort to stop the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

While it was a true team effort to develop the strategy and action plan for the platform play, it was crucial for the plan to be communicated to leaders across our near 500 - person business, to our regional offices in the U.K., Australia and Singapore, and understood and internalized by all of our staff.

The chances of something like Iceland's law being passed in the U.S. these days are quite slim, though business and political leaders like Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, and California Senator Kamala Harris are ramping up their efforts to achieve pay equity in America.

Prior to the elections, business leaders thought immigration reform would only happen in a piecemeal fashion, so they limited their efforts to their own needs, which is for highly skilled workers.

They were all there for a roundtable discussion intended to kick off a new binational effort called the «United States Canada Council for the Advancement of Women Business Leaders - Female Entrepreneurs», an awkwardly - named effort with the broad mandate of advancing women in the workplace.

Nestlé has been a leader in the «shared value» movement — an effort to show businesses can do good in the world, even as they are doing well for shareholders.

In it, she recounts her own struggles with becoming a business leader in a male - dominated industry and suggests that efforts to support and help those like her may actually have unintended negative consequenceIn it, she recounts her own struggles with becoming a business leader in a male - dominated industry and suggests that efforts to support and help those like her may actually have unintended negative consequencein a male - dominated industry and suggests that efforts to support and help those like her may actually have unintended negative consequences.

If a business leader, teacher or coach is stubborn and refuses to make changes despite evidence that what they're doing is not successful, then their efforts will eventually end in failure.

How should global business leaders position their companies to prosper in a dynamic, but uncertain, future and how can technology and innovation aid in this effort?

Business leaders across Canada have watched with dismay as Kinder Morgan Canada encounters one obstacle after another in its efforts to expand the Trans Mountain...

«The Sustainability Leaders Forum is all about encouraging businesses to step up their efforts to tackle climate change and preserve natural resources, and edie must lead by example in this regard.

«The Sustainability Leaders Forum is all about encouraging businesses to step up their efforts to tackle climate change and preserve natural resources, and edie must lead by example in this regard,» said Baker.

Will Steele — Frontera's President and CEO is an advocate for fair business practices and a fresh produce industry leader in food safety efforts.

The conference will unite industry experts, leading scientists, neurologists and international business leaders with current and former professional athletes in effort to create consensus on the path forward for scientific research and commercial development.

The leaders also agreed to accelerate efforts to sign a bilateral investment pact to promote Japanese business operations in the African country, which is rich in natural resources and is politically stable.

The idea was borne from a conversation with a constituent in Battery Park City — and it became law because of the tireless efforts of local community and business leaders who worked with us to get it done.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo spent Sunday in Israel, a trip that sought to show solidarity amid a spate of anti-Semitic attacks in United States as well as one to meet with business leaders to discuss economic development efforts with New York.

In a speech to the British Confederation of Industry, which is usually critical of efforts to regulate industry, Chuka Umunna will tell business leaders that reform of the economy was necessary to modernise the British economy.

Cuomo and legislative leaders last year agreed to repeal an annual wage notification requirement for businesses, an effort to crackdown on bad bosses that ended up as an exercise in busywork.

Later today, Mr Cameron will launch a «messianic» trade offensive at a meeting with business leaders, in an effort to move on from Lockerbie and focus on driving economic recovery in the UK in the face of the vast budget cuts.

The polls are part of community effort by Prescription for Progress: United against opioid addiction, a newly formed coalition of of leaders in healthcare, media, law enforcement, education and business in New York's Capital Region aimed at raising awareness and taking steps to mitigate the crisis.

Legislative meetings in Albany are only part of the push to get GENDA over the finish line — an effort in which ESPA, Housing Works, and the New York Civil Liberties Union play prime roles among a broad coalition of labor, faith, women's, business, and law enforcement leaders.

But in the effort to do good, community lab leaders may have ignored the fact that they're also running businesses, and the current business models, which rely on classes and membership dues for revenue, aren't sustainable.

Last year, at the National Education Summit, governors and business leaders concluded that «efforts to set clear, common... academic standards for students in a given school district or state are necessary to improve student performance.».

This focus on outcomes has its roots in her experiences in Texas, where during the 1980s and 1990s she was chief lobbyist for the Texas Association of School Boards and worked on several education improvement efforts piloted by business leaders, including a commission headed by billionaire H. Ross Perot.

Tired of living in the only Southern state without a publicly financed program of early - childhood education, business leaders across Mississippi have launched a three - year pilot effort to improve the educational quality of child - care centers and better prepare children for school.

Charging that America is «moving backward» in its efforts to ensure full participation by minority citizens in the nation's life and prosperity, a panel of leaders from education, business, and government last week urged all segments of the society to work toward boosting opportunities for minorities.

Washington — Business leaders should push to raise local taxes to pay for early - childhood and other education efforts if money can not be found in other public programs, Paul H. O'Neill, chairman of the President's Education Policy Advisory Committee, told a group of business leaders here laBusiness leaders should push to raise local taxes to pay for early - childhood and other education efforts if money can not be found in other public programs, Paul H. O'Neill, chairman of the President's Education Policy Advisory Committee, told a group of business leaders here labusiness leaders here last week.

The Minnesota Leadership Academy for Charter and Alternative Public Schools pairs practicing and aspiring principals and other school administrators with business leaders, in an effort to give school leaders better training on how to manage their employees and get better results.

Reviewing the mission statement is an annual collaborative effort of faculty, staff, administration, students, parents, and business and community leaders in the area.

Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein have ramped up the citys efforts to infuse arts into New York City public schools, but the pressure is on all of us — our schools, arts education advocates, business leaders — to seize opportunities for partnerships that can build the type of successful communities that we all want to live in, and support our kids — the future of this city.

It also sought out new supporters in the form of local legislators and business leaders, held hundreds of hours of public meetings, took out ads in local media, and communicated directly with parents about efforts to articulate and grow a more productive culture.

Beginning in the 1980s and 1990s, American business leaders became aware of other countries» efforts to improve their schooling to compete for jobs.

«At my request, business leader Austin Beutner has assembled the LA Unified Advisory Task Force, bringing together innovative civic, education and other leaders to support our efforts to improve District schools and accelerate student achievement,» King said in a statement.

The effort is spearheaded by the Michigan Higher Education Partnership Council, which includes a unique panel of business, government, college and university leaders who are collaborating to improve educational attainment in Michigan.

More than 300 cross-sector representatives joined in the effort, including school district superintendents, business and nonprofit leaders, city officials and university presidents.

The Prichard Committee sees the report as a conversation starter and framework for discussions and plans to follow up the report with data updates and support for local action, said Brigitte Blom Ramsey, the group's director, pledging «an aggressive and consistent effort in the months ahead to galvanize support among community and business leaders, advocates, policymakers and others to move with urgency.»

''... Public university leaders working through the Science and Mathematics Teacher Imperative will catalyze action across sectors — state and federal governments, the business community, the K - 12 community, and others to seriously undertake the challenging effort of adequately preparing teachers to teach science and mathematics in the 21st century..»

This has been accomplished by the dedication of a statewide coalition of educators, administrators, legislators and business leaders in a consistent effort over a period of twenty years.

This has been accomplished by the dedication of a statewide coalition of educators, administrators, and legislative and business leaders in a consistent effort over a period of twenty years.

Ralph Smith, managing director of the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading, a collaborative effort of political, education, business and advocacy leaders to close the nation's literacy gap, said «We shouldn't be at all surprised by the NAEP scores... we can point to nothing substantial in terms of interventions or programs that would have made that number different.»

The Campaign for Grade - Level Reading is a collaborative effort by foundations, nonprofit partners, business leaders, government agencies, states, and communities across the nation to ensure that more children in low - income families succeed in school and graduate prepared for college, a career, and active citizenship.

They will only go away when we focus on a complete collaborative effort that involves our parents, teachers, principals, business leaders, and local community members where we discuss what their goals and dreams are for the children in their schools.

These efforts involve school districts, colleges and universities, businesses, and civic leaders working together to set regional education goals, to align leaders, resources, and decision - making, and to measure progress — all in pursuit of student success and thriving communities.