Events

Webinar: The Importance of Sponsorship in Career Growth

Written by Professional Women in Healthcare | 06/28/2023
Sponsorship is critical for career growth and for many it has had a significant impact on career advancement. Learn about what sponsorship is, how it differs from mentoring and coaching and how unconscious bias impacts who gets sponsored. Also take away tools for how to build a culture of sponsorship within your organization. You will understand why it is important to sponsor outside of your network and how to make yourself a candidate for sponsorship.

Speaker:

Monica Davy
Chief Culture Diversity and Inclusion Officer
Vizient, Inc.

As the Chief Culture, Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Vizient, Inc., Monica Davy guides overarching strategy, program implementation and ongoing support for the company’s Culture, DEI, Engagement, Community Impact and Corporate Responsibility initiatives.

Prior to joining Vizient, Davy served as the Director of the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion, responsible for promoting, monitoring and enforcing diversity and equal employment opportunity standards at NCUA. She oversaw the diversity requirements of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act within NCUA’s business practices and among regulated entities.

Davy has more than 28 years of workforce diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, supplier diversity, cultural transformation, EEO, civil rights and alternative dispute resolution experience. Prior to joining NCUA, Davy served as executive director of the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the Internal Revenue Service. Her previous work included leading the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Equal Employment Opportunity and Diversity Management as acting director and serving as senior trial attorney at the Department of Health and Human Services where she litigated cases involving employment discrimination and federal personnel matters.

Davy holds degrees from Howard University School of Law and George Mason University. She sits on the Advisory Board of Children’s National Foundation.