Portia Mount
Vice President
Center for Creative Leadership
Portia Mount
Vice President
Center for Creative Leadership
Recommended for:
Senior managers and executives in publishing, marketing and operations. Space is limited.
Session 2
Talent Sustainability: Developing the Next Generation of Leaders
Your company’s long-term success hinges largely on your human capital. What are you doing to cultivate it? In this session, we will explore the key elements of developing your company’s next generation of leaders. We will focus in particular on talent sustainability – your organization’s ability to continuously attract, develop and retain the leaders who will drive success for you in the future. We will help you assess the current state of your talent pipeline – and cover practical steps for taking it to a new level.
Presented by:
Portia Mount is Vice President of Global Marketing at the Center for Creative Leadership® (CCL®), a nonprofit institution that develops better leaders through its exclusive focus on leadership education and research worldwide. She directs the Center’s global marketing, communication, and customer satisfaction initiatives. Portia also oversees the Center’s Client and Assessment Services Group, which manages interactions with many of CCL’s clients globally.
Before joining the Center, Portia served as a director at Burson-Marsteller, one of the world’s leading public relations agencies. She co-led the firm’s office in Shanghai, China, where her clients included JPMorgan Asia-Pacific and Turner Broadcasting. She has also served as a vice president at Edelman, a global public relations firm headquartered in Chicago and New York. Prior to her career in public relations, Portia was director of community leadership programs for the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation and Affiliated Trusts.
Portia holds a B.A. in Visual Anthropology from Mills College in Oakland, Calif., and an M.A. in Cultural Anthropology with a concentration in East Asian studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also studied at Nagasaki Wesleyan College in Japan. Portia is involved in numerous civic activities including sitting on the board of the Women’s Fund of Winston-Salem, which awards grants to local non-profit organizations servings women and girls.
