*What*: Carla Villoria and Alan Krumholz: Impact Sourcing -- changing
the role of disadvantaged youth in the global economy.
*When:* Tuesday, May 13th at 12pm
*Where:* The Allen Center, CSE 203
Please join us Tuesday for another exciting Change Seminar. Carla
Villoria and Alan Krumholz will be joining us to talk about their Global
Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC
<http://www.foster.washington.edu/centers/gbc/globalsocialentrepreneurshipcompetition/Pages/GSEC.aspx>)
entry and their efforts to expand it beyond to the competition to Microsoft.
*Abstract:*
Industry trends show that a growing number of companies are searching
for socially responsible services while still achieving efficiency and
cost advantage. Impact Sourcing, a social-driven outsourcing approach to
Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) focuses on employing the poor and
vulnerable. While still relatively new, with approximately 144,000
workers and a market size of about $4.5 billion, Impact Sourcing is an
exciting, emerging space expected to reach $20 billion by 2016 and
employ 1.4 million underprivileged workers worldwide.
Carla and Alan are very passionate about this topic and became finalists
with their GSEC entry to bring impact sourcing to Mexico. They also lead
a grassroots initiative to bring the impact sourcing model to Microsoft
on a large scale. They have partnered with the citizenship office and
global procurement to drive the concept forward. They are currently in
conversations with various business groups at Microsoft and some impact
sourcing organizations to find outsourcing opportunities for this model.
Please join us to hear about their business proposal as well as their
journey to bring this model to Microsoft.
*About the speaker:*
Carla Villoria was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela until she was
20 years old and migrated to U.S. due to political issues in her home
country. She graduated with a degree in Computer Science and a minor in
Business from Texas A&M University, and became a full-time employee at
Microsoft Corporate Headquarters in July 2011, where she works today.
She joined the company as part of a rotational program for which she
completed four 6-month rotations across the company -- she worked as a
technical project manager of security tools, developed the Microsoft IT
strategy and the CIO scorecard, was an analyst in the Finance World Wide
Organization in Munich Germany, and worked as a Quality & Business
Excellence consultant. She is currently a Solution Manager in the Modern
IT team, driving the implementation of a company-wide work stream to
increase adoption of digital productivity. Carla recently started
pursuing an Executive Masters in Public Administration from the Evans
School at the University of Washington.
Alan Krumholz was born and raised in Mexico City and graduated with a
Computer Science degree from Monterrey Institute of Technology and
Higher Education. He has worked for Hewlett-Packard Laboratories,
Oracle's special projects group, and then joined Microsoft as part of
the accelerated professional experiences rotational program. He had the
opportunity to work as a software engineer for the Product Activation,
Global Strategic Initiatives, and Windows Phone teams before changing
his career path and becoming a data scientist. He currently works for
the Microsoft's Data and Decision Sciences group, a team that provides
advanced analytic consulting services to very diverse internal and
external clients. He serves the team as a subject matter expert in
Machine Learning, Big Data, Statistical Modeling, Natural Language
Processing, and Software Development. Alan is half-way through a
Professional Computer Science Masters at the University of Washington.
Carla and Alan are intrapeneurs at Microsoft. Together, they have put in
place many internal programs related to corporate citizenship and
philanthropy, and have a great established relationship with the
Citizenship team at Microsoft as well as other citizenship-related teams
around the company.
Some of the initiative they have driven together are the following:
* Drive the implementation of the Leaders in Action program, from
ideation to execution, for the Microsoft IT organization (4,000
people). A program to build leadership, collaboration, and
innovation skills in employees by empowering them to drive change
through impactful social development projects. Essentially giving
employees the opportunity to spend 15% of their time working in
social good projects with non-profits around the world. Three pilot
projects will kick off in July 2014.
* Implemented the Microsoft Ambassadors Program to improve the
current volunteer efforts of employees and better support nonprofits
all over the world
* Drove the end-to-end implementation and deployment of the Explore
Program, an initiative for rotational program members to dedicate 20
business days out of a 6 month period to social good projects
outside of their rotation work. The program kicked off in July 2013
and 10% of members signed up for projects, half with local
nonprofits and the other half went to work on projects in Kenya with
an internal initiative called 4Afrika.
* Assisted the Microsoft 4Afrika initiative shape their company-wide
volunteer program, and volunteer with them to deliver project
management and business intelligence trainings in Nigeria.
* Members of the leadership team for the Net Impact Microsoft
corporate chapter
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