Vanguard Mini-Forum for General Counsels

Online

January 13, 2021

Noon to 2pm

This mini-forum is presented at the request of our GC members who attended the 2020 Vanguard Forum for General Counsels. We will be working on two critical challenges for 2021: how to turn DEI rhetoric into reality, and how to navigate the regulatory landscape and government relations under the new Biden administration. Each session will be led by fellow GCs with deep experience in the topic. Tom Sabatino will be the Forum Chair.

Throughout 2021, our quarterly Vanguard mini-forums for GCs will address leadership challenges like these through intimate, interactive dialogues in a variety of highly engaging formats.

Mini-forums are complimentary if you are a Vanguard Network member. If you are not a member, you can join here, or you’ll be asked to contribute a guest fee of $100 when you register below.

SESSIONS:

1) Transforming D.E.I. from Rhetoric to Reality

2) Responding to a New Administration

SESSION LEADERS and ADVISORY BOARD:

Session leaders are highly experienced General Counsels, Senior Counsels, Board members, and top leadership experts. Advisory Board members help us plan the Forum agenda so that we include topics that are of the most importance to GCs.

Bob Bailey; Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Allergan
Noni Ellison; General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Corporate Secretary, Carestream
Mark Goodman; Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Mary Ann Hynes; Senior Counsel, Dentons; career General Counsel
Garrick Isert; President, Executas; past Managing Director of World 50, Inc.
Michael O'Connor; General Counsel, MassMutual
Tom Sabatino; Former Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Aetna; past GC of Hertz, United Airlines, Walgreens, Schering-Plough, Baxter
Brandon Smith; General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Tenneco
Bjarne Tellmann; General Counsel, GSK Consumer Healthcare
Caroline Tsai; CLO and Corporate Secretary, Western Union

FORUM SESSIONS:

The role of the GC in transforming Diversity, Equity and Inclusion from rhetoric into reality.

As at the recent Forum for GCs, we’ll break into small groups to look closely at the issue, this time focusing on the practical question of what works and what doesn’t, based on participants' experience. And we will explore the role of GCs around DEI: do we have a special mission to enable the total enterprise to do what is right in these areas, or should we be focusing on our own function?

Leading the response to the new U.S. administration.

There are enormous amounts of analysis and forecasting underway around the business implications of the Biden presidency. But this session will focus on the GC’s role, and on what pragmatic steps GCs will need to take to prepare for and respond to the coming changes.

How do we think about the regulatory, legal and societal impacts, and how our companies should respond? What are areas where we need to be proactive, and where should we be less so? If we have an office or representation in Washington, how do we get the most from it?

THE FORUM AND THE NETWORK:

This learning and networking experience builds on previous highly impactful Vanguard Forums, which The Vanguard Group for Leadership has been producing since 2014. The Vanguard Group, led by Ken Banta, is dedicated to helping current and future C-Suite executives build sustainable high performance in their organizations.