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Bio of Donna Klein, Keynote Speaker - 2009 Maryland Youth Workforce Policy Summit

 
2009 Maryland Youth Workforce Policy Summit - May 21, 2009 - Governor's Workforce Investment Board
 

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Donna M. Klein President & Founder Corporate Voices for Working Families

Donna M. Klein
President & Founder
Corporate Voices for Working Families

 

Donna M. Klein
President & Founder
Corporate Voices for Working Families

Donna Klein is the President and Founder of Corporate Voices for Working Families, the leading national business membership organization representing the private sector voice in the dialogue on public policy to improve the lives of America's working families. As a nonpartisan 501(c) 3, Corporate Voices facilitates research to advance policy changes in government and business on Worker Flexibility, Family Economic Stability, Early Childhood Education and After School Care, Youth Transitions, and the future of the Mature Workforce.

Prior to Corporate Voices, Klein was Vice President of Workplace Effectiveness at Marriott International, Inc., Washington, DC, for 20 years. While at Marriott, Klein guided the strategic formation, implementation and management of corporate-wide diversity and work-life initiatives, including initiating Marriott's award-winning Women's Leadership Initiative.

 

She has also served as Chair of The Conference Board's WorkLife Leadership Council, and a member of the Conference Board's Diversity Council. She is also a member of the Board for Boston College's Center for Corporate Citizenship, the Advisory Board of Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Boston, MA, the After School Alliance, Washington, DC, the CICK Advisory Board and is a Board of Trustee member of America's Promise. Klein most recently served on the faculty of the Salzburg Global Seminar on Women in Business and Politics.

Donna and Marriott were recognized for her work by being selected to receive the Optimus Award for Corporate Courage, from the Personnel Journal, in l996. She was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Metropolitan Washington Work Life Coalition in December 1998. In l998 Donna was profiled in the National Association of Female Executives magazine. In 1999 Donna was honored to receive the Pacesetter's Award from the National Restaurant Association's Women's Forum for her work on women's leadership. Donna has been honored to receive the National Restaurant Association's Pacesetters Award for advancing women as leaders and the Work Life Legacy Award from the Family and Work Institute.

Donna received her Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Akron in Psychology and Business Administration.