
2023 iRelaunch Virtual Employer Summit
Career Reentry Programs in a Changing Economy

The iRelaunch Virtual Employer Summit brings together the leading minds in building career reentry programs. The Summit provides the opportunity to exchange ideas, discuss innovations with peers, and benefit from the subject matter expertise of iRelaunch. Attendees will have the added benefit of becoming part of the expanding network of career reentry champions and program managers that comprise the iRelaunch Employer Community.
*Registration has opened. The iRelaunch Employer Summit is exclusively for employers running, piloting or anticipating the future launch of a career reentry program. It is not a recruiting event. Attendance is limited to employer representatives only, and all registrants will be vetted in advance.
Agenda
Welcome Address - Carol Fishman Cohen
Carol Fishman Cohen welcomes attendees to the Summit, and discusses how employer career reentry programs have evolved through the economic cycles of the last 15 years and what makes the best programs great.
Program Evolutions and Transitions
An in-depth look at three mature career reentry programs and how they have evolved over time.




Proven Strategies to Solve the Top 5 Program Challenges
This will be a discussion among our consultants with a moderator from the iRelaunch team.
Points of discussion:
- The original piloting business group had a hiring freeze
- Importance of the Program Manager: program manager leaves unexpectedly/ new hiring where a manager replaces someone who had the training about the program and the relaunchers
- Growing pains - how to control internal messaging to ensure consistency with stakeholders, managers, recruiters team members
- Changing models of your reentry program/ hiring off cycle, while maintaining program integrity
- Level and compensation abt the beginning and the end of the returnship




BREAK
Recruiter Panel: Where do You Find Relauncher Talent?
Recruiters will discuss where to find relauncher talent and how to look for non-traditional talent.




DE&I Roundtable Discussion
Tips for how to diversify your talent pool.



Wrap Up

Speakers

Phillip Anderson
DTCC - Executive Director, Diversity & Inclusion and CSR

Simran Bajwa
iRelaunch - Director Global Growth Markets

Jen Cartland
Trane Technologies - Diversity & Inclusion Talent Placement Partner

Bika Carter
GlobalFoundries - Director, External R&D, GF LABS Technology and Innovation

Elizabeth Gish
iRelaunch - Managing Director

Margot Goodson, CPA, CSSGB, CDE
SAP - VP, Head of North America Diversity & Inclusion SAP America, Inc.

Brett Hemmerling
Moody's - VP-Global Head of Early Careers and Programs Talent Acquisition

Kuae Kelch
Mercury Public Relations - Vice President, Media Relations

Cedric Layton
Global ReEntry Program Co-Ordinator, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.

Ashley Miller
Goldman Sachs - Associate, Diversity Recruiting Programs

Nivedita Joshi Naithani
iRelaunch - Managing Director

Anjali Sinha
Deloitte - National Talent Acquisition Leader
Here's what 2022 Employer Summit attendees had to say...
2022 Employer Summit AttendeeA fantastic learning experience for all re-entry program managers and leads! I would recommend this event and partnership with iRelaunch to any company that is looking to start or redesign their company's re-entry program.

iRelaunch's Vision
At iRelaunch, our vision is for every employer running an entry level student internship program to be running a mid-career reentry program, side by side.
The goal is for employers to develop a dedicated talent pipeline to hire high performing, high caliber relaunchers using in-house career reentry programs.

Agenda
The iRelaunch Virtual Employer Summit agenda features topics we know our employers most want to learn about and discuss.
Highlights include:
- Welcome Address: Carol Fishman Cohen welcomes attendees to the Summit, and discusses how employer career reentry programs have evolved through the economic cycles of the last 15 years and what makes the best programs great.
- Program Evolutions: An in-depth look at two mature career reentry programs and how they have evolved over time.
- Proven strategies to solve the top 5 program challenges: A discussion by the iRelaunch consultants.
- Recruiter panel: where do you find relauncher talent? Recruiters will discuss where to find relauncher talent and how to look for non-traditional talent.
- D&I Roundtable discussion: Tips for how to diversify your talent pool.
- Wrap up: Carol Fishman Cohen highlights key takeaways from the Summit in her wrap up discussion.
2022 Employer Summit AttendeeThis Summit was amazing! Carol provided invaluable information and did a wonderful job of moderating. The speakers were incredible and provided great insight into their respective programs. Thank you for all of the resources. I am looking forward to sharing all of this information with my team and applying the best practices learned to redesign a best-in-class Returning Professionals Program. Thank you so much! I thoroughly enjoyed this Summit and learned so much!

Who Should Attend?
Employer representatives who:
- run career reentry programs and want to learn about innovations and problem solving at employer career reentry programs that have produced the best results
- have piloted career reentry programs, are now expanding them, and want to understand how successful expansions have rolled out
- want to recruit relaunchers but not necessarily through a formal career reentry program and are interested in learning more about this talent pool
- employer representatives who are thinking about starting a career reentry program and want to learn the benefits of hiring this talent pool
2022 Employer Summit AttendeeThe Summit was an excellent forum to learn more about iRelaunch, employer partners, and the state of re-entry programs. I highly recommend employer partners and employers thinking about starting a re-entry program to participate in the future!

Important note for Summit attendees
The Summit is a private event for a specific, employer-only audience. We vet all registrants, and are only able to admit representatives from employers with existing career reentry programs, or those interested in starting one.
Please also note that this event is not recorded, and we strongly encourage attendees to reserve their time on March 2nd to actively attend the Summit sessions. We adopt these policies to provide a private, comfortable setting for our speakers who are speaking frankly about their programs and their roles.
2021 Employer Summit AttendeeI absolutely LOVED the openness of communication at every session. Also the fact that you had sessions for companies starting from zero vs companies that are more established was great for ensuring the most relevant information sharing for everyone.