How Can We Create More Diverse and Inclusive Workplaces?
Leaders from across the beverage alcohol industry—and beyond—share strategic frameworks, fresh ideas, and actionable tips for effecting change
After more than 20 years in the male-dominated field of high-end technology and and as the owner of a marketing and public relations firm, Deborah Brenner discovered during a trip to Napa, California, that many women in the wine industry—as in her own—were underrecognized. Compelled to tell their stories, she wrote the best-selling Women of the Vine: Inside the World of Women Who Make, Taste, and Enjoy Wine, which Wine Spectator named a Critical Read of 2007. In 2015, Brenner organized the inaugural Women of the Vine & Spirits Global Symposium. Due to the overwhelming response to that event, Brenner and the Women of the Vine & Spirits Advisory Board went to work to develop a consortium to support female professionals in the beverage alcohol industry year-round: Women of the Vine & Spirits.
Leaders from across the beverage alcohol industry—and beyond—share strategic frameworks, fresh ideas, and actionable tips for effecting change