NEW YORK – March 9, 2009 – SelectMinds, Inc., the leading provider of corporate social networking solutions, today announced the addition of Stakeholders, Inc. to its growing client base of leading organizations.
Stakeholders, Inc., a leading provider of career training and conference programming, recently launched a social network for members of its Stakeholder 100 program. The Stakeholder 100 is a national effort led by several of the most successful attorneys in corporate America, whose mission is to identify, train, and support the most gifted associate level law firm attorneys of color in the United States.
The Stakeholder national and regional selection committees identify 100 top performing young, diverse attorneys who are named to the Stakeholder 100. Up to 100 attorneys are selected from a pool of over 300 candidates nominated by leading law firms. Selected attorneys receive training, mentoring, and professional support for the rest of their careers from a group of more than thirty senior corporate in-house attorneys.
SelectMinds implemented a corporate social network for members of the Stakeholder 100, to better connect and network this group of talented, diverse, attorneys. The network provides them with the ability to connect and network with other members of the Stakeholder 100 community, and share and receive the premium information and resources vital to career development.
“This network represents a unique forum for Stakeholder 100 members to have access to the necessary tools and resources to help foster relationship building and collective career investment,” said Kellye Walker, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Diageo-North America and Chair of the Stakeholder 100 National Selection Committee. “We wanted a way to better connect and network these talented attorneys on an ongoing basis and SelectMinds proved to be the optimal solution to help us achieve this goal.”
Anne Berkowitch, CEO, SelectMinds said, “We are excited to be working with Stakeholders and welcome them to our client community. Their corporate social network will help build, enhance and strengthen relationships among and between their community of talented legal professionals, making it a truly unique and beneficial network that is specifically designed for them. We look forward to helping them achieve successful results as part of this national effort.”
About SelectMinds
SelectMinds is the leading global provider of secure, corporate social networking solutions. Using the power of Web 2.0, SelectMinds helps organizations build connections among and between groups of employees, alumni, retirees, women, and other constituencies. These powerful connections drive increased knowledge sharing and collaboration, enable strategic talent sourcing, and foster employee development and retention. The result is a higher performing organization with the ability to innovate quickly, increase productivity, and hire and retain key talent. SelectMinds clients consist of leading organizations including J.P. Morgan, Dow Chemical, Lockheed Martin, Latham & Watkins, Schlumberger, and Deloitte. For more information, visit www.selectminds.com.
About Stakeholders, Inc.
Stakeholders, Inc. is a leading provider of career training and conference products. The company delivers active career management training to over fifty (50) law firms and corporations. Stakeholders operates the Charting Your Own Course Career Conference, one of the nation’s largest career development conferences for attorneys. Stakeholders also operates the Stakeholder 100, an effort designed to identify and provide lifetime investment in top performing associates. For more information, visit www.stakeholder100.com or Werten Bellamy, President, Stakeholders, Inc. at (301)704-9628.
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