Our special event with L'Oréal kicked off with an introduction from Stephanie Messner, introducing the global powerhouse beauty brand, the Leadership & Diversity Program, and the strategic alignment between the two. Following the event initiation, our Director, Junko Takagi, conducted a Q & A session with students, assisted by L'Oréal managers in DEI. In concluding the event, students were graced with an overview of the recruitment process with our sponsor, L'Oréal. 

Thank you to all the students who joined us for this absolutely wonderful event. We can't wait to see you at future events and hope that you apply for the chair this year! 

Join us on September 21st at 6pm in the Grand Amphi (Cergy Campus) to learn all about L'Oréal and our opportunities for you!

LINK FOR REGISTRATION: L'OREAL/ESSEC EVENT

15 years later, the chair continues its mission to cultivate the talent of tomorrow. Merging academia, practical business implementation, and a continuous loop of feedback, our student's final presentations made manifest our beliefs in how leadership and diversity are inextricably linked. Our students persuasively expressed the social and business case for moving the needle on DEI.

Congratulations to all our chair members for addressing your topics with clarity and grace. You supported each other through the intense process of synthesizing solutions to incredibly complex problems. As a group, our cohort this year ruthlessly pursued creating substantive, long-term strategies for YSL Beauty on the topics of LGBTQ+, Inclusion vs Exclusion, Representation, Ageism, and East vs West. 

Brilliance, intention, and a resolute disposition. These are the characteristics of the 2021/22 cohort of Leadership and Diversity Chair students!

In our last feedback session, the students continued to synthesize their findings to unlock actionable and relevant solutions for inclusive beauty. Internal L’Oréal experts Veronica Lalov, Antoine Le Quinquis and Stephanie Messner were joined by our alumni Bradley Smith, Aurélie Jeanvoine, Peiao Yang, and Krishnav Roy. 

Their insights are helping guide the students' final steps before the presentations on the 28th of June. Streamlining and simplifying a large amount of research and insights to present a clear and succinct solution, all of the students are incorporating the feedback provided. See you all at the final presentation! 

After several weeks of building the foundations of their final projects, our students met on-site with L'Oréal team representatives to refine their work. 

With the constructive feedback students received about their second project manifestation, they will move toward a refined and penultimate version. In the next feedback session, students will solidify their concepts for final review before presenting in June. 

Thank you to the L'Oréal representatives who provided outstanding suggestions in this review period!

Thank you to our speakers, who gave a thoughtful account of how one's professional life as a member of the LGBTQ+ community unfolds. At the event, industry veterans discussed some of the challenges as a community member within heteronormative work environments and some recommended ways to strategically navigate. 

Students walked away with concrete actions to implement as they progress in their professional careers.

Thank you to our speakers, who gave a thoughtful account of how one's professional life as a member of the LGBTQ+ community unfolds. At the event, industry veterans discussed some of the challenges as a community member within heteronormative work environments and some recommended ways to strategically navigate. 

Students walked away with concrete actions to implement as they progress in their professional careers.

Please sign up here for more information and to secure your spot! - https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-mentoring-and-lgbtqwork-314593095417