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Leaders in the Association Celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month 

• Career Level: Basic-, intermediate-, and advanced-level career services, university relations and recruiting, and business affiliate professionals
• Competency: Organizing information, logistics, people, and processes toward desired outcomes
• Fee: FREE (member); $69 (nonmember)

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• Summary

  “Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc.”
  --Guy Kawasaki

  This event is free for NACE members.

  You have the power to effect change for yourself, your colleagues, your organizations, and for the students you serve or recruit. NACE’s Game Changers Series, in celebration of Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month, shines a light on game changers who share their personal stories and serve as models for working to bring about positive change.

  What can you do to bring about positive change? Join some of NACE’s leaders as they detail their stories, support of the Association’s mission, and thoughts on becoming game changers. The interviewees will also share their personal game changing experiences and what those have meant for their professional and personal selves.

• Presenters

  

  Ingrid Giordano , Director, Citi

  Ingrid Giordano is director of university relations, campus diversity, and campus marketing for Citi. She collaborates across the firm on key initiatives, including graduate recruitment at multiple colleges and universities, early engagement, campus diversity partnerships, talent attraction, and program management for early career programs. Giordano works with a team that manages efforts at all levels of the college experience, developing bespoke programming and experiences for students. She began with Citi in the late 1990s; previous roles there include program manager, recruiting manager, entry training head, and learning and development relationship manager. Prior to joining Citi, she served as a client manager at Johnson & Higgins and as an instruction manager at Prudential Securities. Her with NACE includes serving as co-chair on the 2019-20 and 2020-21 People of Color Affinity Impact Team and as a member of the 2019-2020 Inclusion, Equity, and Affinity Committee. She also contributed as a panel member during the 2020 NACE Connect virtual experience and as a mentor for the NACE Mentor Program. Ingrid is on the 2022-2023 NACE Board of Directors. She holds a bachelor's of business administration from Pace University.

  

  David Ong , Early careers leader, David Ong

  NACE President David Ong is the senior director, talent acquisition, for MAXIMUS Inc, a professional services firm based in Reston, Virginia, whose mission is “Helping Government Serve the People” by providing program management and consulting services to government agencies focused on public healthcare and social services programs. In his current role, Ong oversees activities related to university relations, diversity and inclusion, veterans, and disability recruitment. Ong has served in several leadership capacities for NACE as is the current president of the association.

  

  Kacheyta McClellan , Director of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, NACE

  Kacheyta earned a B.S. in Management and an M.B.A. in Human Resources from the University of Southern Indiana. Diversity & Inclusion as well as Career Development comprise 15 plus years of his experience in Higher Education and Associations. As a strategy architect, Kacheyta has developed successful conferences, retention initiatives, assessment tools, and diversity metrics that have earned him honors such as one of the Evansville Business Journal’s 20 under 40 Emerging Leaders and Leadership Evansville’s Individual Leadership Award recipient. He has also succeeded in developing partnerships with employers that have turned in to a variety of opportunities for students including internships, job shadowing, job placement, and more. Kacheyta has served on dozens of boards and committees that are community-focused with special attention reserved for people of color. In his current role as Director of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging for the National Association of Colleges and Employers, Kacheyta focuses efforts to advance the association and profession through a DEI lens. In addition to evaluating internal practices and analyzing all aspects of the association, Kacheyta also works with professionals throughout the nation to identify, investigate, and promote actions that move individuals and employers to be more inclusive. Some of his professional affiliations are with Career Development Professionals of Indiana (CDPI), National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE), NASPA Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, Kappa Beta Delta International Honors Society (Honorary), Beta Gamma Sigma International Business Honors Society, and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated (Life Member).

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