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Sara Prince

Sara Prince is a Partner in McKinsey & Company’s Atlanta Office. Sara is a core leader in McKinsey’s Marketing & Sales Practice with 15 years of experience serving travel, transportation, logistics, consumer and financial services clients on growth strategy, commercial capability building and growth transformation. Sara has helped clients with a full suite of multi-faceted strategic issues and leads McKinsey’s Growth Accelerate practice which focuses on building individual capabilities required to deliver a company’s growth strategy and sustained impact.

In the continued pursuit of helping clients broadly in the areas of talent and capability, Sara has co-authored McKinsey’s ground breaking series, Diversity Matters, linking financial performance and levels of gender and ethnic diversity in a company’s leadership team. The latest in the series, Diversity Wins, also frames the imperatives around inclusion. Sara has also published in the area of sales capability building and performance transformation.

Prior to joining McKinsey as an Associate in 2005, Sara traded U.S. Treasuries on the Government Bonds Desk at Morgan Stanley. Sara holds an M.B.A. from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, where she was recognized as a Shermet Scholar. Sara also earned a bachelor’s degree with honors in economics from Duke University. Sara lives in Atlanta, GA with her husband and their two children.

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Shelly Stewart

Shelley Stewart is a leader within McKinsey’s Marketing & Sales Practice and focuses primarily on serving B2B clients. He has worked with numerous privately held and publicly traded companies across the automotive, chemicals, diversified industrial, technology, and medical-device industries to help clients identify opportunities for accelerated growth, design new go-to-market models, improve effectiveness of sales-force deployment, and improve margin through comprehensive pricing programs.

Shelley’s recent client projects include helping to develop a global strategy focused on organic growth for a top specialty-chemicals company, delivering an analytic-enabled sales-force effectiveness transformation at a medical-device company, and leading a pricing transformation at an oil-and-gas equipment manufacturer.

Alongside his client work, Shelley is an active leader in driving national initiatives in both recruiting and external relations on behalf of the McKinsey Black Network. Additionally, he coleads McKinsey’s research on building black wealth in the United States. He has published articles and is a speaker on the topic. Shelley is also an advisor to the New Jersey Law and Education Empowerment Program, a not-for-profit serving underprivileged high-school students in the greater Newark community, as well a member of the Advisory Council for National Black MBA.

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Duwain Pinder, MBA 2017

Duwain Pinder is an Associate Partner in McKinsey’s New Jersey office. Over his tenure at McKinsey, Duwain has served several higher education and state / local government clients, helping them identify opportunities for performance improvement and transform their organization and operations to accelerate towards their goals. He is also a leader of the Black Economic Forum event that is hosted by McKinsey, the Executive Leadership Council, and Boule. Duwain led research on racial disparities in wealth and the impacts of automation. He is the co-author the recent McKinsey reports entitled “COVID-19: Investing in black lives and livelihoods”, “The economic impact of closing the racial wealth gap”, and “The future of work in black America”

Prior to joining McKinsey, Duwain worked for Teach For America as the Director of Growth, Development and Partnerships where he helped launch two Teach For America offices (one in Cleveland, one in Cincinnati). Duwain has a B.S. in Finance from Case Western Reserve University. He also earned both an M.B.A. and an M.P.P. in Business and Government Policy from Harvard University. Outside of work, Duwain enjoys traveling with his wife and volunteering at his church.

Moderator

Jacqueline Adams, MBA 1978

Jacqueline Adams launched a second career as a communications strategist after more than two decades as an Emmy Award winning CBS News correspondent. Her boutique firm, J Adams: Strategic Communications, LLC., has served a variety of corporate and non-profit clients.

She has co-authored a new book which is scheduled for publication in the fall of 2020, “A Blessing: Women of Color Teaming Up to Lead, Empower and Thrive.” For more information or to pre-order the book, visit www.leadempowerthrive.com.

Ms. Adams covered the groundbreaking campaigns of Jesse Jackson for President and Geraldine Ferraro for Vice President before spending five years as a White House correspondent during the Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations. In the 1990s, she was a prolific contributor to the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and CBS News Sunday Morning. She won a News and Documentary Emmy Award for the 48 Hours broadcast, “The Search for Matthew.”

A graduate of Harvard Business School, Ms. Adams serves on the Board of Directors of the Harvard Business School Club of New York and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations as well as the U.S. Institute of Peace International Advisory Committee.. A music aficionado, she is studying the classical composers at the Juilliard School of Music’s Evening Division.