2024 CEO VISION BREAKFAST

From the Top:

Advancing DEI in a Complex Landscape

Join Vibrant Pittsburgh on May 2, 2024 for THE 2024 CEO VISION BREAKFAST, a convening designed to engage regional executives on actionable diversity, equity, and inclusion measures for the workplace.

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CEO Vision Breakfast

Once a year, cross-industry leaders gather for the region’s only executive-level diversity, equity, and inclusion convening.

Over 150 of Pittsburgh’s most prominent corporate CEOs, C-suite executives, and community leaders join Vibrant Pittsburgh for our CEO Vision Breakfast. This year’s theme, From the Top: Advancing DEI in a Complex Landscape, promises to ignite insights and conversations that are not to be missed!

Join local Executives in the southwestern Pennsylvania region at the 2024 CEO Vision Breakfast: From the Top: Advancing DEI in a Complex Landscape to proactively equip yourself to lead DEI initiatives in any corporate landscape.

2023 Highlight Reel

2024 Sponsors

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Sponsor

Vibrant Pittsburgh enthusiastically invites you to engage with C-suite leadership from across the Greater Pittsburgh Region as a sponsor for our 2024 CEO Vision Breakfast. Each level provides valuable exposure to the region’s top executives and event participation for your organization’s executive leadership.

Ensure your organization is represented at this gathering by becoming a sponsor today!

Hello,

I’m excited to welcome our region’s CEOs and executive cabinet members to the upcoming CEO Vision Breakfast hosted by Vibrant Pittsburgh. Tailored exclusively for C-suite professionals, the CEO Vision Breakfast provides a distinctive chance to strengthen your commitment to regional DEI initiatives. 

This year’s theme, From the Top: Advancing DEI in a Complex Landscape, offers compelling conversations and curated learning, to proactively equip yourself to lead DEI initiatives in any corporate landscape.

The CEO Vision Breakfast continues to be one of the largest invitation-only executive convening centered around DEI in the Pittsburgh region; with annual engagement of 150 regional executives. 

Don’t miss this exclusive opportunity to elevate your leadership in diversity, equity, and inclusion.

See you there!

Sincerely,
Sabrina Saunders Mosby
President & CEO
Vibrant Pittsburgh

Tara Jaye Frank is an equity and inclusion strategist who has advised and educated thousands of Fortune 500 executives across multiple industries and large member organizations.

Her work, fueled by a deep belief in the creative power and potential of every ONE, focuses on building bridges between people, ideas, and opportunity.

Before founding The Waymakers Change Group, a culture and leadership consultancy, Tara spent twenty-one years at Hallmark Cards, where she served in multiple executive roles, including Vice-President Creative Writing and Editorial, Vice-President Business Innovations, Vice-President Multicultural Strategy, and Corporate Culture Advisor to the President.

Her most recent book, The Waymakers: Clearing the Path to Workplace Equity with Competence and Confidence (May 2022), is an invitation to all people with power and position to open doors, remove barriers, and facilitate access and opportunity for those who have been historically denied.

Tara resides in Dallas, Texas, with her husband, two of their six children, and their three dogs. She is also a proud Spelman Alumna, a member of the Executive Leadership Council and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and was named a 2022 SUCCESS 125 honoree by SUCCESS Magazine, and is listed among CORE Magazine’s 100 Most Influentials Blacks for 2022.

DEI Innovation Award

Vibrant Pittsburgh is honored to again recognize a top regional leader of diversity, equity, and inclusion with the 2024 DEI Innovation Award. This award will recognize one individual who is leading innovative and impactful DEI work in southwestern Pennsylvania, aiding in making our region more diverse, equitable, and inclusive. Accomplishments and lines of work from nominees are not specific to sector or industry. As such, innovation and impact are the two largest tenants of selection for this designation. Nominations close at noon on March 8.

2023 Inaugural DEI Innovation Award winner, Dr. Jessica Spradley (middle) with Vibrant Pittsburgh’s President & CEO, Sabrina Saunders Mosby (L), and Board Chair, Caitlin McLaughlin (R).

Schedule

7:00 AM

Registration

7:30 AM

Breakfast and Opening Remarks

  • Sabrina Sanders Mosby, President & CEO
  • Caitlin McLaughlin, Chair of the Board
  • Sara Innamorato, County Executive
  • Ed Gainey, Mayor

7:40 AM

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Innovation Award

8:00 AM

Keynote Speaker – Tara Jaye Frank

9:15 AM

Networking

Employers know that diversity, equity, and inclusion are strategic differentiators for the workforce and workplace. Vibrant Pittsburgh Employer Members have invested in the work of building a more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and Vibrant Pittsburgh for today and the future.

Who We Are

As an economic development nonprofit that seeks to address one of the greatest challenges facing the Pittsburgh region, its aging population, and workforce, Vibrant Pittsburgh provides leadership to accelerate the growth rate of diverse workers in the region. We do this in the following ways:

 Serve as the region’s central resource, spokesperson, and convener on workforce diversity, equity, and inclusion issues;

 Amplify the efforts of members to monitor, measure, and meet diversity goals;

 Assess and compare DEI policies and practices throughout the region and offer recommendations to improve employer workplaces; and

 Cultivate experiences that are welcoming, engaging, and exciting for residents and newcomers of minority populations.

Our Values

We believe that a diverse workforce is essential to the ongoing economic vitality of the Greater Pittsburgh region. We must attract, retain, and elevate people of all backgrounds while creating an environment that is inclusive and welcoming.

The regional workforce must attract qualified and diverse talent from across the country and around the globe to be prepared for the job requirements of today and tomorrow.

Our Community Pillar Members​

FAQ

The 2024 CEO Vision Breakfast will be on Thursday, May 2, 2024. Registration will open at 7:00 AM with the program beginning at 7:30 AM and will conclude by 10:00 AM

The 2024 CEO Vision Breakfast will be a live, in-person event.

2024 CEO Vision Breakfast attendance is exclusive to Chief Executive Officers, executive cabinet members, and heads of departments such as

  • Corporate Responsibility,
  • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI),
  • Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG),
  • Human Resources (HR).

Registration will open closer to the event. Please check back at a later time or complete our contact submission form below to be added to our invitation list.

Sponsorship opportunities for the 2024 CEO Vision Breakfast can be found HERE.

The 2024 CEO Vision Breakfast schedule will be available closer to the event. To receive event updates, please complete our contact submission form below.

If you have registered and cannot attend or would like to transfer your ticket for the CEO Vision Breakfast, please notify Lisinda Nelson by email at lisindan@vibrantpittsburgh.org by Monday, April 29, 2024.

Economic inclusion affords all necessary opportunities and resources to everyone regardless of demographics or background. An inclusive economy entails equal access to labor markets, finance, entrepreneurship, and other economic activities.