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Walmart Leadership Interview Series WALMART LAUNCHES LEADERSHIP INTERVIEW SERIES WITH HACR HACR PREMIERES INSIDER GAME 2 IVAN ZAPIEN VICE PRESIDENT OF FEDERAL GOVERMENT RELATIONS WALMART STORY ON PAGE 4 WALMART LEADERSHIP VOLUME 16, NO. 3 2013 INTERVIEW CORPORATE SERIES OBSERVER EMPLOYMENT · PROCUREMENT · PHILANTHROPY · GOVERNANCE A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT & CEO DEAR HACR STAKEHOLDERS, This year has been a great one for our organization- we’ve With this edition of the grown in ways that have allowed us to further develop Corporate Observer, we are also our programming and expand communication channels in proud to launch the Walmart order to generate awareness about our mission to a larger Leadership Series, which audience. features corporate executives In September, we premiered Insider Game 2, which picks from HACR corporate member up where the first installment of the documentary left companies. The series will also off and sheds light on the strategies that HACR and be available on HACR’s website its partners are invoking in order to push for greater and four social media platforms: inclusion of Hispanics in America’s corporate boardrooms. Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube. We are pleased to share with you the recently released biennial study from the Alliance for Board Diversity (ABD), And last but not least, we’re looking forward to celebrating Missing Pieces: Women and Minorities on Fortune 500 our 22nd Annual HACR Symposium: The Power of Hispanic Boards, 2012 Alliance for Board Diversity Census, which Inclusion™ in sunny Southern California. Please plan to reported women and minorities are still underrepresented join us on April 7 and 8 at THE US GRANT Hotel. You can in Corporate America. HACR, a member of ABD, register for the Symposium by visiting our website: www. collaborates with three other leadership organizations: hacr.org. Catalyst, The Executive Leadership Council (ELC), and Thank you for your support and we look forward to Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc. (LEAP), as another great year! well as the Prout Group who was instrumental in creating ABD. Sincerely, We are pleased to welcome three new corporate members to the HACR family: Chevron, Lowe’s, and The Walt Disney Company. All three are leaders in their respective sectors and have Hispanic inclusion on their boards of directors. Carlos F. Orta President & CEO BOARD OF DIRECTORS HISPANIC ASSOCIATION ON CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY CORPORATE OBSERVER Margaret Moran The Honorable Lincoln Díaz-Balart The Corporate Observer is a publication League of United Latin American Citizens Congressional Hispanic of the Hispanic Association on Corporate HACR Board Chair Leadership Institute, Inc. Responsibility (HACR). HACR’s mission is to advance the inclusion of Hispanics in Guarione Diaz Dr. Antonio R. Flores Corporate America at a level commensurate Cuban American National Council Hispanic Association of Colleges with our economic contributions. HACR Board Vice Chair and Universities Jennifer DuBois Ronald Blackburn Moreno Alma Morales Riojas Executive Assistant ASPIRA Association, Inc. MANA, A National Latina Organization HACR Board Treasurer Emma Etheridge Martha Montoya Programs and Initiatives Manager Dr. Juan Andrade, Jr. National Association of Hispanic Publications United States Hispanic Leadership Institute Dr. Lisette Garcia Cecelia Espenoza HACR Board Secretary Director, HACR Research institute National Hispana Leadership Institute Janet Murguía Kevin Klich Rafael Fantauzzi National Council of La Raza Finance and Administration Manager National Puerto Rican Coalition HACR Immediate Past Chair Jason León Manuel “Manny” Gonzalez Luis A. Vazquez-Contes Director of Corporate Relations, National Society of Hispanic MBAs American GI Forum of the United States Communications, and Programs Ignacio Salazar The Honorable Rubén Hinojosa Carlos F. Orta SER-Jobs for Progress National, Inc. Congressional Hispanic President & CEO Caucus Institute, Inc. Javier Palomarez Josh Silvia United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Senior Manager, Communications Ariana Solis Communications and Programs Associate Jeffrey Wuerstlin Research & Administration Associate 2 CORPORATE OBSERVER 2014 HACR HISPANIC ASSOCIATION ON CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY 22ND ANNUAL HACR SYMPOSIUM: THE POWER OF HISPANIC INCLUSION TM APRIL 7-8, 2014 THE US GRANT HOTEL SAN DIEGO • CALIFORNIA Follow us on: www.hacr.org 13_HAC_1096 _SavetheDate.indd 1 8/22/13 5:29 PM WALMART LEADERSHIP INTERVIEW SERIES WALMART LEADERSHIP INTERVIEW SERIES Over the next year, HACR will highlight leaders who are advocating for Hispanic inclusion. The Leadership Interviews will be featured in HACR’s publications and on social media platforms. Twenty-five interviews will be published between November 2013 and November 2014. The interviews will highlight Hispanic leaders who are making a difference within their companies and communities, including representatives from Walmart. During the interviews, topics will revolve around the lack of Hispanic inclusion in Corporate America, best practices to improve representation within companies, personal insights to help increase the representation in Corporate America, and advice on how they’ve been successful in their careers. “Certainly people younger than me and as old as me, I got news for all of IVAN ZAPIEN them, ‘You’re going to have to remake yourself. You’re going to have to VICE PRESIDENT, FEDERAL remake your set of skills, what you know, how you operate, over and over GOVERNMENT RELATIONS, and over again.” WAL-MART STORES, INC. BY: ERIC BACA Ivan Zapien “Essentially, I’ve managed those three For Zapien, the reality of his position says he’s spheres — politics, process, and policy — still surprises him and for the last essentially no matter where I was. So the job itself five years, has been impressed by the had the isn’t ever different in Washington. The culture that he finds at Walmart. same job platforms are always different, so you “Walmart, for me specifically, is a great throughout have to learn new language and lingo. company who wants to do better,” he his career. Transition-wise, none of the transitions said. “So, the part I really liked about No, Zapien have been difficult.” Walmart, and the part that keeps me hasn’t always Zapien, now the vice president of engaged in my job, is that it’s a big been a vice Federal Government Relations at place that is cognizant of the impact president for the Fortune 1 company Walmart, has held many different it has on the world, and all of its in the United States, but the Mexico- positions around the Washington, stakeholders, and it doesn’t think it’s native has always been attracted by the D.C. area, where he has lived, studied, perfect.” D.C. hustle and bustle, where no matter and worked for more than two “We are constantly trying to do better, the gig, politics, policy, and procedure decades, mostly in political offices and reinvent ourselves, and in a culture that are part of the job. campaigns. is frankly very, very non-defensive. The “I don’t know why, but as far back as In his role at Walmart, Zapien, hasn’t fact that I work at a place where we can I can remember, regardless of where gotten too far away from his D.C. have huge achievements one day, and I’ve worked, or what job I’ve had, I feel roots. Zapien is the chief lobbyist the next day we discovered something like I’ve had the same job,” Zapien for Walmart, which means that he is that we can do better without having said. “Whether it was my early days responsible for leading the team that to be defensive about are the things working in the Senate, or it was my advocates for the company in Congress that we want to fix or to acknowledge days working for the law firm, or when I and the Administration. the things we do really well. It’s a worked at the DNC, it was always a mix. remarkable environment to be in.” 4 CORPORATE OBSERVER WALMART LEADERSHIP INTERVIEW SERIES Zapien has been in his current role for During the day, Zapien worked very just teach it to them, in a history book five years, a moment of consistency in demanding jobs, including roles at or in textbooks, I think you lose some of a life that hasn’t had a lot of it. Since law firms and political firms. Upon the context that’s important, especially his youth, Zapien has spent much of his graduating, Zapien realized how for Latinos.” life in constant flux, a reality that would remarkable that accomplishment really In addition to CHCI, Zapien serves on impact his life more than he knew at was. the board of the Close Up Foundation the time. “Career-wise, I am still proud of myself and the advisory board of the Woodrow As a child, he traveled back and forth for sticking through it,” he said. “I felt Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute. between Mexico and the United States, like I was digging a tunnel from here Close Up, like some of the work at spending summers in D.C. with his to New York. I would say the first 10 CHCI, brings high school students grandmother. Later, Zapien attended years of my time here in Washington, to Washington and shows them how high school and college in Arizona. D.C. were really characterized by some government works. Zapien feels it’s Even when he moved to D.C. for really, tough, demanding jobs.” fundamental for them to get this graduate school and law school, The next five years Zapien spent education as soon as possible. Zapien was maintaining and living working with Senator Bob Menendez “If you read the headlines and watch out his bilingual, bicultural, and (at the time Congressman Menendez). the news every day, it’s no secret binational heritage. Now, several years When he joined the team, Menendez that we have fundamentally lost the later, Zapien sees the value that his was in his last year in the House and ability to civilly talk to one another if upbringing provided him, especially vying for a Senate seat.
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