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The Network - April 2013

National alumni survey – we received your feedback!

Our national alumni survey results¹ show that more than 70% of you use LinkedIn at least monthly (nearly 40% use LinkedIn every day or every week).  Do you know about the ways LinkedIn can enhance your alumni experience?

• Join our official US and US India alumni group and maximize the value of your network! Click here to join
• Already a group member? Post a discussion to promote interesting articles, thought ware, and discussions in the group
•  Import your LinkedIn profile to AlumNet to keep your information current

Register on AlumNet and follow the instructions below to import your LinkedIn profile.  

1. Click the Update Profile link to view your profile
2. Click the Import LinkedIn Profile button
3. Enter your email and password and click the Ok, I’ll Allow It button to approve the connection from  AlumNet/ LinkedIn
4. You should see the Success window after a successful connection
5. Once approved, Click the Import LinkedIn Profile button again and choose your LinkedIn details to import into AlumNet

Please note that your AlumNet profile will not automatically update every time you update your LinkedIn profile.  You must complete step 5 each time you make an update.

¹Stay tuned for additional results which will be shared with you in June newsletter.

Launch of the DU Leadership Center for Inclusion

On March 4-5 a group of Deloitte professionals and leaders, clients, and thought leaders came together in Westlake, Texas at Deloitte University (DU) to engage in an interactive dialogue around inclusion topics and to celebrate the launch the Deloitte University Leadership Center for Inclusion

The agenda included an interactive experience with Deloitte Inclusion leaders and a series of breakout sessions with thought leaders to discuss leading practices for attracting, developing and retaining premium talent in today’s competitive marketplace. Deloitte hosted over 50 clients and another 40 thought leaders well versed in these topic- including people from Catalyst, NABA, Working Mother, ALPHA and many other organizations.

The Deloitte University Leadership Center for Inclusion (DULC4I) is where we gather to engage with our people on issues of inclusion to foster a new understanding of what inclusion looks like in the 21st century workplace. Moreover, at the DULC4I, we recognize the promise of diversity: with clients, who are themselves increasingly more diverse, and in a marketplace where no single point of view or way of seeing the world prevails.

Some of the topics discussed included:

• Minority Recruiting: Connecting with Top Talent
• Social Media: Recruiting in the Information Age
• Spanning Generations in the Workplace  
• Proven Leaders: Recruiting Veterans for Civilian Workforce
• An Analytic Approach to Inclusion Insights

For detailed agenda and speaker bios click here.

For more information on DULC41 click here.

Celebrating 20 years: Past and present Deloitte leaders reflect on WIN

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Deloitte’s Women’s Initiative (WIN). When WIN was launched in 1993, there were fewer than 100 women partners, principals, and directors. Now there are over 1,100. WIN jump-started Deloitte’s Inclusion journey which helped us build a stronger organization; and it will continue to be a driver of sustaining our Inclusion efforts and in strengthening a culture where all leaders thrive.

During the Deloitte University Leadership Center for Inclusion launch earlier this month, Deloitte’s Chief Inclusion Officer Deb DeHaas sat down with Mike Cook, retired Deloitte chairman and CEO, who established and chaired the Task Force for the Retention and Advancement of Women in 1992, which quickly led to the formation of WIN.

Watch the video to learn, first-hand from Mike, why there was a business imperative for change.

What’s next?
As an organization, we’ve made tremendous strides with WIN in helping to attract, retain, and develop high-talent women. But according to Deloitte’s WIN managing partner Julia Cloud, we need to move the needle even further. “We should be very proud of how far we’ve come, but there is more work to do to become the firm where all leaders thrive. As we look ahead, we will continue to improve upon the retention and advancement of our women with a specific focus on advancement of women into leadership positions and women of color.”

CFO Signals Survey: Ready to accelerate; hoping for a tailwind

Deloitte’s CFO SignalsTM Survey tracks the thinking and actions of CFOs representing North America’s largest companies. The Q1 CFO Signals results reveal CFOs and their companies appear poised to move forward. Cash-rich and lean, many are getting even more aggressive about finding and exploiting pockets of growth, spurring both organic and M&A expansion. And in the hope of igniting corporate engines, many are combating lingering uncertainty and stagnation by becoming more proactive about influencing government policy. Learn more.

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