The theme of the 2009 Governor’s Conference for Women is “Shaping the Future.” Attendees will participate in a variety of workshops on women’s health and wellness, personal and career development, and financial management in today’s economic climate.
Keynote Speakers:
Cokie Roberts (Political Commentator and Writer)
Maya Angelou (Poet, Playwrite, Actress)
Sessions will include:
Diversity Challenge
What are today’s needs? Has the diversity movement changed? Look at how women in the workplace have progressed. The glass vs. the marble ceiling – what is the difference?
Hail to the Chief
Hear from women leaders on how to cultivate your skills to become a leader in your field. You will learn how to become assertive and how to take charge of situations to achieve positive results and how to stay grounded.
Get What You Really Want!: The Art of Negotiation
The success of your negotiating skills can make or break a deal. Hear ways to achieve a win-win outcome and close the deal in a way that builds relationships.
Shifting Gears: Passages in a Woman’s Career
Change is a part of life so why should careers be any different? Hear from women who found and embraced new career opportunities in the midst of industry or lifestyle changes and how to take that first step for yourself.
How to Best Market Yourself
In this session you will learn about how you can apply tried and true resiliency techniques that will help you face the significant challenges we are encountering in today’s environment. You will walk away knowing how to have a resilient mindset and be able to launch an effective campaign to search for and capture a new job or career opportunity.
How to Survive in Today’s Economy
Economic recessions affect everyone, especially the most vulnerable among us. Find out what New Jersey resources are available to help people struggling in your communitiesAdditional conference highlights include anetworking reception on Monday, May 11, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Crown Ballroom of the Sheraton Atlantic City Convention Center Hotel. And back by popular demand, visit our enhanced health fair all day long for FREE health screenings and healthy giveaways.
Registration is now open for the 2009 Governor’s Conference for Women. For more information or to register, visit us online at www.njwomensconference.com.
Factors that Sustain Successful Women Leaders
Expert Answers, FeaturedWomen seek meaning in work while men seek status and pay and that gives women an advantage over men in the workplace.
So declared Joanna Barsh, a director at McKinsey and co-author of the McKinsey report “Centered leadership: How talented women thrive” in a lively keynote speech at the Forté Foundation’s annual corporate best practices conference hosted by Ernst and Young in NY on Tuesday, April 30th.
According to the report, the McKinsey leadership project – “an initiative to help professional women at McKinsey and elsewhere – set out four years ago to learn what drives and sustains successful women leaders….It’s about having a well of physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual strength that drives personal achievement and, in turn, inspires others to follow,” says Joanna and her co-authors in the report. More than 85 women where interviewed worldwide. From those interviews a model was created with 5 broad and interrelated dimensions of leadership – Meaning (finding your strengths and putting them to work in the service of an inspiring purpose); Managing Energy (knowing where your energy comes from, where it goes, and what you can do to manage it); Positive Framing (adopting a more constructive way to view your world, expand your horizons, and gain the resilience to move ahead even when bad things happen); Connecting (who can help you grow, building stronger relationships, and increasing your sense of belonging) and Engaging (finding your voice, becoming self-reliant and confident by accepting opportunities and the inherent risks they bring, and collaborating with others).
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Ask-A-Recruiter: When Can You Take It Easy In Your Search
Ask A RecruiterI have been to several interviews and am waiting to hear back. I like the idea of taking a break and also want to wait and see what happens with this first group of companies. I have other companies I could start researching, but I don’t want to spread myself too thin. How do I know when to keep pushing for more leads or focus on the ones I’ve started?
One of my coaching clients should have wrapped up her search months ago. But with budgets tightening, the job that she seemed poised to get may not be filled after all. This happened now in her search. The first time, she had other companies in play but slowed down the pace on those leads and then had to rebuild. Now she knows to keep searches going simultaneously even when one seems promising. When the second imminent offer fell through, she barely missed a beat. Welcome to the age of the 24/7 job search.
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Take Charge of Your Success: Why Are You Stuck?
NewsHow will you position yourself for personal and professional success?
What simple actions will yield the biggest payoffs?
What’s holding you back?
Find out how you can take control through self-awareness and gain increased perceptions about the reactions you have to your life events (experiences).
This workshop offers the opportunity to identify, clarify and then refine why you may be stuck, either personally or professionally. This is a chance to renew your commitment to creating the career and life you desire. In this dynamic workshop, you will learn the four questions that may free you to become the “new you.” Wendy Weidenbaum will share her story of how she took a step back, analyzed her life and then made bold steps to change her life. You will learn how to design your personal strategy for getting (going) beyond obstacles as you move forward to achieve your success.
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The Softer Side of Finance
Spotlight on PeopleThe financial services industry has been on a rollercoaster ride since last fall when markets tumbled and the world was reminded that what goes up must come down. Many advisors have lost jobs, changed careers or in some unfortunate cases taken their lives over the turbulent market place. But there are many advisors who have risen to the challenge in this time of crisis, held their clients’ hands and helped them navigate the emotional ups and downs of the global economy. It is not surprising that many of these successful advisors are women and that a historically male dominated industry is now getting in touch with its feminine side.
The Female Advantage
According to G. Scott Budge, Ph.D, the author of the book The New Financial Advisor: Strategies for Successful Family Wealth Management, the new competitive frontier for financial advisors is centered on building and managing client relationships. Active listening, building trust and understanding what a client needs both emotionally as well as financially are paramount in this new world. And who better to do this than female advisors. By nature, women are relationship oriented and excel at helping others. Never before has the softer side of finance been more important and, according to some female advisors, a real advantage to growing a successful practice.
“I love to hear people’s stories,” says Eileen Burkhart, CFP, Principal of Eileen Burkhart & Company. She uses these stories to learn more about her clients, their values and what makes them tick. Kim Zwick, a CPA turned Personal Financial Specialist and owner of Full Circle Financial believes women are good at gathering information and multitasking. In an industry with so many bits and pieces this goes a long way toward being an effective financial advisor. Kim believes that in this field you need to sweat the small stuff.
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2009 New Jersey Governor’s Conference for Women
NewsThe theme of the 2009 Governor’s Conference for Women is “Shaping the Future.” Attendees will participate in a variety of workshops on women’s health and wellness, personal and career development, and financial management in today’s economic climate.
Keynote Speakers:
Cokie Roberts (Political Commentator and Writer)
Maya Angelou (Poet, Playwrite, Actress)
Sessions will include:
Diversity Challenge
What are today’s needs? Has the diversity movement changed? Look at how women in the workplace have progressed. The glass vs. the marble ceiling – what is the difference?
Hail to the Chief
Hear from women leaders on how to cultivate your skills to become a leader in your field. You will learn how to become assertive and how to take charge of situations to achieve positive results and how to stay grounded.
Get What You Really Want!: The Art of Negotiation
The success of your negotiating skills can make or break a deal. Hear ways to achieve a win-win outcome and close the deal in a way that builds relationships.
Shifting Gears: Passages in a Woman’s Career
Change is a part of life so why should careers be any different? Hear from women who found and embraced new career opportunities in the midst of industry or lifestyle changes and how to take that first step for yourself.
How to Best Market Yourself
In this session you will learn about how you can apply tried and true resiliency techniques that will help you face the significant challenges we are encountering in today’s environment. You will walk away knowing how to have a resilient mindset and be able to launch an effective campaign to search for and capture a new job or career opportunity.
How to Survive in Today’s Economy
Economic recessions affect everyone, especially the most vulnerable among us. Find out what New Jersey resources are available to help people struggling in your communitiesAdditional conference highlights include anetworking reception on Monday, May 11, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Crown Ballroom of the Sheraton Atlantic City Convention Center Hotel. And back by popular demand, visit our enhanced health fair all day long for FREE health screenings and healthy giveaways.
Registration is now open for the 2009 Governor’s Conference for Women. For more information or to register, visit us online at www.njwomensconference.com.
Employ A Woman
Pipeline, What's OnVeronica Akinyemi hugs me hello. “I’m so used to hugging everyone,” she says. The Employ A Woman team is setting up the event and she’s pulled herself away from organising to greet me.
I watch recruiters putting up stalls in a conference room The London Hilton on Park Lane. The main room is set up with 100 chairs, a table of warm croissants, tea and coffee, and a small podium ready for this morning’s speakers, all under a teardrop chandelier. Women are beginning to drift in for the early morning session, an extra event before the main exhibition starts; she disappears again.
This is the first Employ A Woman event, and its aim is to establish strong and lasting connections between smart women and top employers. The one day event is designed to connect some of the UK’s most ambitious women from diverse sectors and backgrounds with organisations looking to meet female talent in the UK. It’s not just about recruitment. After spending her career in learning and development Veronica is passionate about professional development and networking, and the event includes time for those too.
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The Second Annual Women Who Tech TeleSummit
NewsWomen Who Tech brings together talented and renowned women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change. We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights.
On May 12, 2009 the second annual Women Who Tech TeleSummit (held via phone and web) will bring together hundreds of women from across the US and abroad in the non-profit, political and business world for an incredible lineup of thought provoking panels featuring technology change makers such as Joan Blades of MoveOn and Moms Rising, Allison Fine of Personal Democracy Forum, Lynne D Johnson of Fast Company, Charlene Li, Holly Ross of NTEN, Rashmi Sinha of SlideShare, Lisa Stone of BlogHer and more. To get the latest info on the Women Who Tech event please sign up for our mailing list. You can also join us on Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, LinkedIn.
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City Women’s Network: Inspirational Women of the Year Awards
NewsThis awards ceremony, held in support of Wellbeing of Women, is a great opportunity to celebrate the achievements of women around the UK. Women from all walks of life have been nominated by the public and five regional winners will come to the event. Before the winner is announced by Kirsty Young, there will be a champagne reception. Afterwards there will be dinner, an auction, cabaret and dancing. Proceeds will go to Wellbeing of Women, the only UK charity dedicated to solving the health problems that only affect women.
To book for this event please contact Wellbeing of Women, 27 Sussex Place, London, NW1 4SP.
Venue information: nearest tube is Marble Arch; telephone number is 020 7493 1232; dress code is Suit/Cocktail Dress.
Voice of Experience: Karen Leetzow, Deputy General Counsel and Vice President, NASCAR
Voices of ExperienceWhen it comes to hocus pocus potions for success, NASCAR Deputy General Counsel and Vice President Karen Leetzow says it wasn’t a magic wand that led her to success. Instead, she claims the male-dominated sport has taught her to listen — that is, if you can hear above the roar of the firing engines.
“If you listen – you learn,” Leetzow said. “If you learn, then you know your stuff. And if you know your stuff, and work hard, then you will get the respect, assignments and the success you deserve — whether you are a man or woman.”
But it’s her role as a woman that has added the diversity Leetzow likes to see in her workplace. She’s proud of the fact that world-popular organization has taken on the idea that “women can do what men do in every area of the business.” Take a look at the company today, and one will see women not only in corporate positions, sales and marketing, but also hitting the track officials, engineers and team owners.
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Legal Issues in the Energy Industry
NewsThis conference is designed for general counsel and senior legal in-house counsel working in the Energy Industry. It will cover the latest regulatory, legal and business issues in this continuously evolving industry. This conference will cover both traditional and alternative energy industries.Topics to Be Covered include:
Private Actions
State Actions
Class Actions
Impact of Exploration/Production and Water Resources
Prospects for Partnership?
Who Should Attend:
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