This past year has been a time of impressive growth as we've sought to deepen our Task Force community, expand the reach and scope of our research, and enhance our external visibility and credibility. I'm thrilled to report success on all fronts.
Our Task Force for Talent Innovation continues to grow and thrive. We've added nine stand-out companies to our roster over the last twelve months and our community is now 85 members strong. A warm welcome to Accenture, Baxalta, BNP Paribas, The Estée Lauder Companies, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, L-3, Microsoft, Novo Nordisk, and PepsiCo. Our Co-chair group also expanded this last year, with Trevor Gandy bringing Chubb onto our leadership committee. We are enormously grateful for the commitment and dedication of our Co-chairs. They shape our research and spearhead our actions around the world. Their thought leadership and practical on-the-ground help is invaluable.
On the intellectual capital front, we continue to be at the cutting edge of global talent management. In October 2015, our advisory arm Hewlett Consulting Partners was named a top ten global diversity consultant by The Economist and in January of this year our study, Out in the World: Securing LGBT Rights in the Global Marketplace, was featured at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Two new studies are set to launch in June and July: Ambition in Black & White and Misunderstood Millennials. Other research published since the last Summit includes Growing Global Executives: The New Competencies and Mission Critical: Unlocking the Value of Veterans in the Workforce. Kudos to project leads Michael Abrams, Julia Taylor Kennedy, Joan Kuhl, Melinda Marshall, Ripa Rashid, Tai Wingfield, and Jennifer Zephirin—and to Laura Sherbin who heads up our remarkable research team. These are fascinating and highly actionable studies. They also comprise "new news" which we push out in social media and the mainstream press as well as scholarly journals.
Going forward we have a remarkably rich pipeline of research projects in 2016/17 ranging from "Employees with Disabilities" to "Disrupting Bias," to "Securing the Safety of Trans Employees," to "Faith, Race and Other Intersectionalities," to "Lifting Up Women in the Digital Economy." Get involved and help lead and shape one of our new projects! Jenn Zephirin and I have crafted imaginative ways of bringing in new players.
As our impact has deepened the CTI brand has acquired resonance across the globe. In 2015/16 we co-hosted high-profile events in London, São Paulo, Berlin, Paris and Bangladesh, as well as in Silicon Valley, and of course, New York. Media interest in our research and action is white hot—due in part to the extraordinary skills of Tai Wingfield. Indeed her small team at CTI received a prestigious PR Week Team-of-the-Year award in early 2016.
Of course, all of this success rests on you—the CDOs, CHROs, talent heads, and business leaders that make up our wonderful Task Force community. In fundamental ways we depend on your expertise, enthusiasm and generous support. It is our partnership with you that allow us to dream big, reach high, and deliver on our promises.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Warm wishes,
Sylvia Ann Hewlett
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