The Corporate Culture Factor: Productivity and Longevity for Women in the Workplace

Mauryo Jones is Group Director-Safety, Health & Security at Ryder System. Shas supported all of Ryder’s businesses in the Safety organization with increasing levels of responsibility since joining Ryder in 2000. In her current role, Jones is responsible for leading the North America Safety organization and providing functional leadership, guidance, & support to Ryder's operations to ensure consistent development, implementation, and execution of integrated Safety, Health and Security (SHS) solutions.

Prior to Ryder, Jones attended graduate school at Tulane University, where she received a MS in Industrial Hygiene. Mauryo is married to her husband Courtney, and they have a daughter, Myah.

Loan Mansy is an accomplished business leader with 28 years of global experience in the chemical and waste management industries.  She has held roles in technology, operations, supply chain, sales and marketing, strategy, and business management. 

Ms. Mansy is currently the Executive Vice President for Clean Harbors’ Technical Services, Fields Services, and Safety-Kleen businesses.  She has $2 billion in P&L responsibilities and manages over 5000 Sales and Service employees, of which 1700 are drivers and 14% are women drivers. 

Prior to Clean Harbors, she worked at Republic Services, AkzoNobel, Eastman Chemical, Solutia Inc., and Monsanto.  She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and an M.B.A. from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston.

Shanay Lewis is a leader in Talent Development and Diversity and Inclusion practices. She collaborates withexecutive teams, internal and external industry leaders and global partners to identify and grow high potential talent and early adoption of inclusive workplace and community strategies. After spending nearly twenty years in learningand development across multiple industries, including; banking, insurance and now, logistics, Shanay trulyunderstands what motivates performance, culture and leadership transformation. Shanay pursues strategy development and implementation within the industry focused on these five concepts; communication, engagement,experience, trust and transparency in action at all levels.

Focusing on most recent impacts, Shanay has successfully launched global programs that connect enterprise levelnew hire and cultural onboarding, diversity and inclusion learning and global high potential development as well asthe promotion of women in leadership.

Shanay drives the development of rising leaders and employees as well as her own with the support of herexperiences and educational background in Organizational Communication, a Master’s in Business Administration and her current pursuit of a PhD in Organizational Development and Leadership with an emphasis in OrganizationalDiversity.

Shanay’s passion for influencing meaningful change extends to her community, her family and hobbies as she is an avid volunteer along-side her husband of 20 years and her two teenage children who are actively committed to serving several communities and organizations across their very own town of Atlanta, GA and globally with causesthat support the well-being and forward movement of all people.

Erica Manento is vice president of HR operations at Penske Transportation Solutions, the umbrella brand for Penske Truck Leasing, Penske Logistics, Epes Transport Systems and Penske Vehicle Services. In her role, Erica oversees multiple HR operations including Penske’s Diversity & Inclusion team, Penske’s field and corporate HR teams, and the organization’s centralized HR team. She is passionate about creating and supporting organizational initiatives that benefit both the company and the associate. She is a leader who is always balancing short-term solutions with long-term strategies to meet the business and people where they are while setting them up for success in the future.

Erica has nearly 20 years of experience as a human resources leader. A decade of that experience has been in the transportation industry. Erica holds a number of certifications that have been integral to her work including: “Principles and Practices of Organizational Design,” from Teachers College, Columbia University, “Coaching” from the Center for Creative Leadership, (CCL), and certifications in the areas of 360 feedback, personality assessment and change leadership. Erica earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Human Resource Management from Cedar Crest College and a Master of Science degree in Human Resource Development from Villanova University. 

Ryan McDaniel is Senior Vice President of Supply Chain at Walmart. Being there for over twenty years, McDaniel is a seasoned professional with the company. Starting as a Logistics Engineer, McDaniel rose through the ranks and expanded his expertise in international logistics and supply chain and operations management.

McDaniel received a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.