LAS VEGAS, June 29, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The MGM
Resorts Foundation is proud to announce Alison Levine as a keynote speaker at the
10th annual Women's Leadership Conference. Hosted by MGM
Resorts International (NYSE: MGM), the 2016 conference will be held
Aug. 8 & 9 at the MGM Grand Hotel
& Casino in Las Vegas, NV.
A world-renowned adventurer, Levine served as the team captain
of the first American Women's Everest Expedition; scaled the
highest peak on every continent, and skied to both the North and
South Poles, an accomplishment known as the Adventure Grand Slam.
Less than forty people in the world have accomplished that
task.
Whether discussing the unpredictable environments in the
mountains or business world, Levine is a highly-sought after
motivator who is known for entertaining audiences with practical,
humorous, and often unorthodox lessons learned from the harshest
and most remote places on earth.
"Alison is a living legend and a great role model for our
conference attendees," Dawn
Christensen, the conference's organizer and director of
National Diversity Relations for MGM Resorts. "Her journey is sure
to inspire others to scale whatever big peaks they aspire to climb,
figurative or literal."
Levine's success in extreme environments is especially
noteworthy because of her medical history. She was born with a
congenital heart defect and she suffers from Raynaud's disease,
which leaves her at extreme risk for frostbite.
Levine currently serves as an advisor to the Thayer Leader
Development Group at the United States
Military Academy at West Point, where she spent four years
as an adjunct professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences
& Leadership. She is also on the board of the Coach K Center on
Leadership and Ethics at Duke
University. Over two decades, her professional career has
encompassed healthcare, technology and finance. She holds an MBA
from Duke University.
She is the founder of the Climb High Foundation, which trains
jobless women in western Uganda to
work as trekking guides in the Rwenzori Mountains. She has
presented at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. Her best-selling book, On the
Edge: Leadership Lessons from Everest and Other Extreme
Environments, was released in 2014.
Conference Background
The two-day, Women's Leadership Conference will offer a wide
range of learning opportunities, career guidance and personal
growth tools, including:
- Exposure to diverse, nationally recognized speakers and
accomplished women role models
- Career-oriented workshops that will give participants hands-on
opportunities to develop skills based on their career needs
- Three distinct learning tracks for participants who are
Emerging Leaders, Emerging Executives and Executives
It is open to women of all professions, job levels and social
backgrounds, locally and nationally, and men who support
women. Conference registration is available at $450 per person. Proceeds of the conference after
costs will be donated to one or more local nonprofit agencies
devoted to the welfare and development of women and girls.
The non-profit MGM Resorts Foundation is the conference's
presenting sponsor.
Participating sponsorships are available to organizations or
companies who share the vision and goals of this conference.
Current sponsors include: CBS – Radio, The Coca-Cola Company, Las
Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, Millennium Staffing
Solutions, R&R Partners Foundation, Cirque Du Soleil, Cashman
Photo Enterprises, DAVID Magazine, Large Vision Business Network
Mixer, Las Vegas Metro Chamber of
Commerce, Girl Scouts of Southern
Nevada, and Agilysis, Inc.
Conference supporters include Caesars Entertainment Corporation,
Candid Worldwide LLC, Capital One, City
of Las Vegas, Clark County Department of Aviation, Deloitte
& Touche LLP, Global Gaming Women, Nevada State Bank, Phyllis A. James, Scientific Games, and Whiting
Turner Contracting Company.
For information or to register for the conference, please visit
www.mgmresortsfoundation.org/womensleadershipconference.
About MGM Resorts International
MGM Resorts
International (NYSE: MGM) is one of the world's leading global
hospitality companies, operating a portfolio of destination resort
brands including Bellagio, MGM Grand, Mandalay Bay and The Mirage.
The Company is in the process of developing MGM National Harbor in
Maryland and MGM Springfield in
Massachusetts. MGM Resorts
controls, and holds a 73 percent economic interest in the operating
partnership of MGM Growth Properties LLC (NYSE: MGP), a premier
triple-net lease real estate investment trust engaged in the
acquisition, ownership and leasing of large-scale destination
entertainment and leisure resorts. The Company also owns 51 percent
of MGM China Holdings Limited (HK: 2282), which owns the MGM Macau
resort and casino and is developing a gaming resort in Cotai, and
50 percent of CityCenter in Las
Vegas, which features ARIA Resort & Casino. MGM Resorts
is a FORTUNE Magazine World's Most Admired Company. For more
information about MGM Resorts International, visit the Company's
website at www.mgmresorts.com.
About The MGM Resorts Foundation
The purpose of The
MGM Resorts Foundation is to collect and distribute monies and
assets donated by employees of MGM Resorts (NYSE: MGM) for the aid
and support of qualified community nonprofit programs, agencies or
organizations designated exclusively by MGM Resorts employees. In
addition, the Foundation collects and distributes donations to the
Foundation by third-party non-employees to support charitable,
scientific, literary, and educational activities approved by the
Foundation's Board of Directors and organized by MGM Resorts
employees to benefit qualified non-profit charitable organizations
designated by the Foundation's Board. For more information about
MGM Resorts Foundation, visit their website at
www.mgmresortsfoundation.org.
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