On a brisk Friday afternoon in Chicago, at the Chicago Minority Supplier Diversity Council’s rolling out met with one of the most dynamic and resourceful business women we’ve encountered in some time. We were invited to the CMSDC’s elegant Holiday Brunch in a lavish ballroom at the Hyatt Regency hotel on Wacker Drive to eat, drink and be merry while rubbing shoulders with entrepreneurs and CEO’s from companies across Chicagoland. And while any number of business experts claim to have a solid working knowledge of the concept of diversity and all that it entails, Jackie Dyess, the organization’s Minority Business Development Council chair and president of Inner City Supply and Inner City Supply Ban,k has moved the concept from just that — concept — to tangible reality. What’s more Dyess continues to aggressively move the diversity agenda forward in a manner not often seen in the corporate world.
