Dallas Mavericks CEO Cynthia Marshall Headlines Final Day of NJBIA Women Business Leaders Forum

Cynthia “Cynt” Marshall, the CEO of the Dallas Mavericks and first African American woman to lead an NBA team, will close out NJBIA’s weeklong  6^th Annual Women Business Leaders Forum in a virtual fireside chat with NJBIA President & CEO Michele Siekerka at 12 noon on Friday, Sept. 11.

Marshall has been a dynamic force for inclusion and diversity within the Mavs organization, as well as at AT&T where she previously was head of human resources and chief diversity officer. After Mavericks owner Mark Cuban persuaded Marshall to come out of retirement in 2018, she helped transform the workplace culture at the Mavericks’ organization and successfully diversified its top management ranks.

NJBIA’s Women Business Leaders Forum, which is the largest statewide conference of its kind in New Jersey, changed to a virtual format this year because of COVID-19. More than 500 women and men have registered to participate in the conference, which began Sept. 8 and has included professional development workshops, TED-style talks, Zoom-room networking and dynamic speakers renowned for insights on increasing gender and racial diversity in corporate leadership.