Thought leaders from organizations like Harvard Business Review, Deloitte and Hackett have recently published studies about what types of people are currently in leadership and many agree that we need to think about how to diversify and leverage the talent and insights all people offer – from universities to internships/ apprenticeships to entry hires and management. 

Karmetria Burton and Latrina Pope, CPM CPA will share their journeys during this special webinar event.

Karmetria Burton is General Manager Corporate Supplier Diversity and Inclusion for Delta Air Lines and brings over 15 years' experience delivering value to global players in hospitality, travel and telecommunications while brokering sustainable partnerships with minority, woman owned and veteran owned businesses with large corporations.

Latrina Pope is Principal and Founder of Redlined with 25 years' experience, including General Manager of Supply Chain Management at Delta Air Lines and various roles with Virgin Voyages, Hershey and thought leadership in procurement services and tail spend management.

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Our Speakers:

Latrina Pope

Latrina Pope is a savvy business leader with more than 25 years of experience leading complex negotiations and building high-performance partnerships between global organizations.

In 2016, she made a move to the other side of the table and founded redlined®, a group dedicated to helping businesses find lost potential in dysfunctional deals. Now she's putting her expertise on the buyer side to help those with goods and services to sell.

She has worked with Fortune 100 and start-up companies, like Delta Air Lines and Virgin Voyages, to establish procurement strategies and robust contracts for everything from corporate services to outfitting cruise ships. She has developed strategic sourcing playbooks, comprehensive operational programs and technology solutions for Procurement Services and Tail Spend Management. She’s spoken at Gartner Outsourcing Summit (2008), Agile 1 Customer Forum (2017), Clark Atlanta University (2019) and World Aviation Festival (London, 2019).

Mrs. Pope is not only a Certified Purchasing Manager (CPM), but also a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and graduate of Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University.

Dr. Karmetria Burton

Dr. Karmetria Burton, General Manager Corporate Supplier Diversity and Inclusion, Delta Air Lines. Over the past 15+ years, Dr. Burton has a host of achievements brokering partnerships between global multinationals such as Delta Air Lines, Intercontinental Hotels Group, Xerox and BellSouth Telecommunications. At Delta, she has elevated the importance of supplier diversity for one of the largest airlines in the world, which included:

• Delta's first-ever billion-dollar roundtable strategy centered around increasing Tier 1 spend with diverse suppliers
• Introduced the initial Supplier Diversity Strategy and Policy that captured new revenue opportunities over ten years and bolstered triple-spend growth from $212M to $915M
• Recruited and appointed Delta’s first Supplier Diversity Stakeholder Council to engage community leaders as strategic business partners in supplier diversity opportunities at Delta.
• Formed the inaugural Supplier Development Academy to generate a long-term pipeline of suppliers of scale to meet Delta’s ever-growing requirements.

Dr. Burton holds a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) from Argosy University, MBA from the University of Nebraska at Omaha and Bachelor of Science Degree from Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College at Baton Rouge.

She is also a Certified Speaker, Coach and Trainer with the John Maxwell Team.