The Right Way to Leverage Employee Resource Groups/ Engage Corporate and Community Partnerships with Employee Resource Groups

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This episode's guest is Tennille Cooley. She is the founder of The C.L. Collective is a leading project management and program management consulting firm, dedicated to guiding organizations towards unparalleled success. Tennille is also a proud board member of the Black Employee Network, one of Coca-Cola's Inclusion networks, where she serves as the Ambassador and Community Liaison.

Sorority groups on college campuses can provide a foundation for belonging and community partnerships. It’s where Tennille Cooley’s love for corporate/ community partnerships began. From raising funds for community causes, hosting food drives and walks to leading and advising the Black Employee Network Employee Resource Group at Coca-Cola, breaking down internal silos, and hosting local business owners at the company headquarters, she does it all. Tennille’s prowess is a blueprint on how ERGs fill multiple needs of belonging, creativity and innovation and collaboration. She says the skills she leverages to manage and lead high complexity projects like these are:

• Passion and Perseverance
• Sales to be able to sell the vision
• Project Management and Organization
• Problem-Solving and
• Collaboration

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