Corporate Leadership Award Dinner 2025

2025 Corporate Leadership Award Dinner to Honor Verizon and Vandana Venkatesh.

Please join the ADR community in celebrating the dispute management achievements of Verizon and Vandana Venkatesh, Verizon's Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, in New York City on Thursday, May 29. 

The CPR Corporate Leadership Award, presented annually since 2004, honors corporations and their leadership that have demonstrated commitment to the field of alternative dispute resolution and as well as their overall efforts, demonstrated leadership and continued support for the considered use of alternate dispute resolution. 

Past honorees include Qualcomm, Visa, Amgen, CVS Health, General Motors, Microsoft, and many other leading companies.

We will celebrate Verizon and Vandana Venkatesh at the beautiful event space Guastavino's in Midtown Manhattan. The dress code is black-tie optional.

Read the press release here.

Agenda:
6:00 pm VIP Reception
6:30 pm Cocktails
7:30 pm Dinner

Attended by general counsel of Fortune 100 corporations, partners of leading law firms, and industry leaders, the Corporate Leadership Award Dinner is an important fundraiser for CPR Institute's programs, initiatives, and thought-leadership in the areas of alternative dispute resolution, dispute prevention, and dispute management.

The CPR Institute seeks to help others manage conflict so that they might better pursue their chosen purpose and lessen the costs, financial and otherwise, of disputes.

To learn more about joining in the celebration, please download the Donor Opportunities document.

Contact Stephanie Arcella at sarcella@cpradr.org for more information and to let her know you want to honor Verizon.

CLICK HERE FOR DONOR OPPORTUNITIES

Thank you to the supporters of this event and CPR’s mission: