"Disrupters" from Silicon Valley to Hollywood will headline women's leadership forum next week in L.A.

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Jul 24, 2015, 23:00 ET


LOS ANGELES, CA (PRWEB) July 24, 2015 -- More than 300 top retail and consumer products industry leaders will explore "creative disruption" at the Network of Executive Women's NEW Executive Leaders Forum 2015, July 28-30, at the Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.

The senior-level event opens Tuesday evening, July 28, with a conversation between actress and women's advocate Drew Barrymore and Walmart Senior Vice President Carmen Bauza. It will include keynotes by Instagram Chief Operating Officer Marne Levine, management author Daniel Pink and Gannett Co. Board Director Debra Sandler. American Express OPEN President Denise Pickett will be interviewed on stage by Trish Lukasik, senior vice president for PepsiCo.

Maria Renz, technical advisor to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, will join Cindy Kent, president and general manager of 3M's Drug Delivery Systems Division, and Marcus Shingles, senior principal for Deloitte Consulting's Innovation Group, to deliver 20-minute NEW Talks presentations Wednesday morning, July 29. Each speaker will expand on their talk in a 75-minute breakout session later that day.

The NEW Executive Leaders Forum is an annual invitation-only event for senior leaders, vice president level and above. For more information visit newonline.org/forum.

Media Advisory: Please contact Rob Wray (rwray(at)newonline(dot)org) at 323 702-4709 for information about press credentials

About the Network

The Network of Executive Women is the largest women's leadership organization serving the retail and consumer goods and services industry, representing 9,000 members, 750 companies, 100 corporate partners and 20 regions in the United States and Canada. For more information about its learning programs, events, research and the Network's "It's Time" Movement for women's leadership and workplace change, visit newonline.org.

Rob Wray, Network of Executive Women 1, http://www.newonline.org, +1 3236643198, [email protected]