C-Suite Advertising Leaders
Through Executive Leadership Roundtables and Retreats with exceptional speakers and examples of diversity success, the CEA Education Program will provide a platform for C-Suite executives to learn additional ways to overcome challenges of meeting diversity goals

Session 1: May 14, 2009 Diversity: The Ultimate ROI - featuring David Plouffe
Session 2: TBD

Moving Up in Advertising (PILOT)
Minority Managers with 3-5 years experience will strengthen their supervisory skills, develop career mapping strategies and develop strategies to address challenges and perceived roadblocks to promotion.

Sessions Begins: TBD

Building Diverse Management Teams (PILOT)
Current managers and executives in all disciplines of the advertising industry will be equipped with skills to motivate and engage diverse teams to become high performing units and strengthen their current supervisory skills.

Session Begins: TBD

Making a Lateral Move in Advertising (PILOT)
Minority mid-level managers with transferable skills will be poised for success in advertising via intensive training and hands-on experience in agency and client communications.

Session 1:  Feb. 24, 2010: Advertising 101 

The Next Generation (PILOT)

New pools of talent will be cultivated from Historically Black Colleges and Universities for advertising internships and seminars. Academic professionals will also receive insight into the private sector world of advertising so they can prepare students for challenges they will face in the advertising industry.

CEA ADVERTISING BOOT CAMP

CEA’s first Annual Advertising Boot Camp is a two-week intensive training program specifically designed to identify and recruit talented HBCU students for entry-level positions in the advertising industry.

Twenty- Five (25) selected students will get the tools they need to enter the advertising industry and more importantly, learn what they must do to advance within the industry. Boot Camp participants will also be competing for 10 six-week internships at high profile advertising agencies across the country that will start immediately after the boot camp.

CEA’s HBCU Advertising Boot Camp will be June 7 – 18, 2009 on the campus of Howard University in Washington, DC.

HBCU Advertising Boot Camp (June 7 - 18, 2009) To request an application, email Darnell Hammock (dhammock@ceahoward.org) Deadline to apply:  April 9, 2009.

**all session start dates are subject to change