Stream: Copse
Time: 10:15 - 11:15
Does it seem as though white males are often relegated to the sidelines of diversity efforts? It's unclear what role they can play in improving the diversity and inclusion of their organizations. When it comes to mentors, most people tend to connect with someone like them. But white males can provide very valuable advice and support for women and people of color, if delivered appropriately. In this session, Misty Decker (mentee) and Derek Britton (mentor) will share lessons learned from their mentor/mentee relationship and help you learn how to explore a similar partnership in ensuring diverse talent grows and succeeds.
Through 30 years, 2 companies and 8 career changes, two things have remained constant in Misty Decker’s career: mainframes and a passion for helping people. Misty spent most of her career at IBM leading in roles such as system administrator, project management, customer satisfaction, HW development manager and academic outreach. She currently is a Product Marketing Director at Micro Focus helping companies learn how to modernize their existing mainframe applications with concepts such as DevOps, microservices and cloud.
With over 30 years in the enterprise software industry and a regular industry event speaker, Derek offers frequent commentary and insight on the world of mainframes, the COBOL language and application modernization. Derek is marketing leader at Micro Focus and founding member of the COBOL Working Group at the Open Mainframe Project.
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