OWL: Advancing Diversity in Leadership
Mark Your Calendar
OWL Signature Event at ASCRS
Sunday, April 27, 2025
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
OWL Leadership Summit
Thu, July 24 - Fri, July 25, 2025
We're working to prepare for our 2025 Summit and are excited to continue this program.
Details to be added below - information coming soon!
Upcoming Events
Leadership Summit
July 24-25, 2025
OWL's annual Leadership Summit is a staple in the event calendar. Our 2024 Summit, held September 26-27 in New Orleans, was an impactful, engaging two days. This important event, aimed at fostering leadership development and increased diversity within the eyecare field, brought an engaging lineup of speakers and interactive sessions that left attendees inspired and informed.
Our 2024 agenda covered many topics relevant to career advancement, including:
- Inspirational Keynotes to start each learning session off on the right track!
- Communication/Speaking Skills Development
- Keeping DEI top of mind – an interactive workshop
- The excellent networking opportunities you’ve come to expect from OWL
- The “Pat Morris Impact Session” – this year, we packed over 7000 meals for those in areas of food insecurity with "Rise Against Hunger"
We're working to prepare for our 2025 Summit and are excited to continue this program. Look out for information coming soon!
Featured Champions
Sean Clark
Sean Clark is Vice President & General Manager, Global Surgical Franchise for Alcon, a position he has held since 2024. Prior to that he has held various roles of increasing responsibility at Alcon including General Manager for the US Vision Care business and Country Head for the Japan Vision Care Business. Sean originally joined Alcon in 2008.
In addition to his experience with Alcon, Sean has worked in operations management with General Electric, consulting with the Boston Consulting Group and marketing with Procter & Gamble.
Sean holds a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and a Masters of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Rhonda Sciarra
As Senior Director, Corporate Communications, at EyeCare Partners, Rhonda Sciarra leads a team to develop and implement external, digital and internal communications strategies, and execute internal and external communications to ensure understanding, engagement and support of the company’s reputation and mission to elevate eye care.
Rhonda is a results-driven storyteller with more than 20 years of experience across internal and external communications, public relations and marketing, non-profit fundraising and organizational management. Her past roles include leading corporate communications at CSL Plasma and leading external communications in the U.S. at LEO Pharma, a Denmark based dermatology company. She has held roles of increasing responsibility on communications teams at Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, Peabody Energy and Enterprise Mobility (formerly Enterprise Rent-A-Car).
Before going into corporate communications, she worked as a newspaper reporter at The Daily Herald, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Southern Illinoisan. She holds an undergraduate degree in journalism from Southern Illinois University – Carbondale and a Master of Arts degree in Media Communications from Webster University in St. Louis, where she taught undergraduate journalism. She has achieved certification as a Strategic Communication Management Professional (SCMP) — for highly skilled business communicators practiced in providing strategic communication advice and counseling to an organization's leadership.