Mary Ellen Stanek Award for Diversity in Corporate Governance Announces 2022 Award Recipients

MILWAUKEE (Feb. 14, 2022) – The Greater Milwaukee Committee (GMC) in conjunction with Milwaukee Women inc (MWi), awarded the 10th annual Mary Ellen Stanek Award for Diversity in Corporate Governance to Cecelia Gore, executive director of the Brewers Community Foundation, and Froedtert Health on February 14th at the GMC’s Annual Meeting. The Mary Ellen Stanek Award is given to an individual or entity demonstrating a commitment to promoting equity and inclusion in their corporate structure resulting in increased gender and racial diversity in leadership and on corporate boards in the Milwaukee Region.

Past winners include the award’s namesake Mary Ellen Stanek, Managing Director of Baird; Ellen Gilligan, president and CEO of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation; Linda Gorens-Levey, partner at General Capital Group; Gale Klappa, Executive Chairman of WEC Energy Group; John Daniels, Jr., Chairman Emeritus of Quarles & Brady; and Gina Peter, Executive Vice President of Wells Fargo. Previous corporate winners include Manpower Group, Northwestern Mutual, Associated Bank, and Aurora Healthcare.

Cecelia Gore was recognized for her lifetime commitment to equity and community, including her recent co-chairing of the Greater Milwaukee Committee Racial Equity taskforce. She along with co-chair Wayne Morgan have expertly ed a process of reflection and accountability leading the GMC to a new trajectory for advancing equity within the organization, its membership, and the community.

MWi and the GMC Future Workforce Committee review nominees for the Mary Ellen Stanek Award on an annual basis, and the award is announced and granted to the recipient(s) at the GMC’s annual membership meeting

Froedtert Health was recognized its creation of a Diversity and Inclusion Dashboard, which is hosted on its website. Women comprise 41% of the organization’s board of directors, with people of color comprising 23.5%. On the executive leadership team, women comprise 44.4% with people of color comprising 9.3%.

Froedtert Health has also been recognized as being among the top three workplaces in the U.S. by the Association of ERGs and Councils for incorporating Equity, Diversity and Inclusion into the fabric of its culture. Additionally, the organization has received the Society for Human Resource Management’s Workplace Diversity Advocate Award and MKE’s Drive of Diversity Award.

 

About the Greater Milwaukee Committee

The Greater Milwaukee Committee comprises 200 passionate CEOs who work together to make Milwaukee the best place to live, learn, work and play. Currently led by President Julia Taylor and Chair David Lubar, the GMC creates new ideas and implements solutions in innovation and talent, economic prosperity and vibrancy of place. For more information, please visit gmconline.org.

About Milwaukee Women inc

Milwaukee Women inc is a nonprofit organization dedicated to achieving balanced representation of women on boards of directors to maximize the performance of Wisconsin businesses. The group carries out annual research and produces an annual report on the gender diversity of the boards and C-suites of Wisconsin’s 50 largest public and private companies. MWi promotes awareness on the benefits of gender diversity and offers educational programs to increase the number of qualified women board candidates. For more information, please visit milwaukeewomeninc.org.

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