Speed Networking

Join in 10 minutes of conversation with old friends and new people, network new connections in this fast and fun way to meet other professionals.

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Secure Your Financial Future

Please join us for this inspiring seminar designed to help you understand and manage the many facets of your financial well being.

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Executive Women’s SIG Networking Event

Network with the Executive Women’s SIG, meet new people and reconnect with old friends.

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Rising Stars: Katherine Bradford, Global Head of Marketing and Public Relations at Patsystems

By: Sophie Fletcher

“It’s important to have a woman mentor,” said Katherine Bradford, who was recently promoted to Global Head of Marketing at the trading technology firm, Patsystems. “Not only can you ask her about business and your career, you can also ask if it’s appropriate to wear dangly earrings in a business meeting.”

Joking aside, at the age of 26, Katherine Bradford has stepped into an important role at one of the leading technology providers in the futures industry. When I saw Katherine last, she had just returned from London, spending six weeks at the company’s headquarters. She was working with her new manager, colleagues, and clients to become better acquainted with Patsystems’ operations in Europe.
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Legal Week Strategic Technology Forum

Join Legal Week to gather the very best from the legal IT industry.

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Techleaders: Strategic Persuasion & Change Leadership

A two day workshop designed for women in technology to increase their skills in negotiation and effecting organizational change.

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The Corporate Boardroom: Sometimes It’s What You Don’t Say

Contributed By: Sue Kaye

656924000_ed810cc6b3_m.jpgGo to any top-level business meeting and you’ll find two languages spoken or, to be more precise, unspoken. There’s power talk – direct,muscular and sure. And there’s the gentler give-and-take of conciliatory, careful conversation. Guess which approach gets the job done in a tough situation.

“We spend so much time thinking about what’s going into our mouths and so little time thinking about what comes out “ complains Laurie Puhn, a Harvard family and divorce attorney/mediator, and best-selling author of Instant Persuasion: How to Change Your Words to Change Your Life. Differences in language and style can put women at such an inadvertent disadvantage that Lois Frankel, author of See Jane Lead: 99 Ways for Women to Take Charge at Work , has made a career of building awareness among her female colleagues.
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Teaming With Men For Success

Contributed By: Maureen Frank, Managing Director of Emberin.com.au

Men are a big key to our success. As an advocate for women in the workforce, I never thought I would be putting that in writing!

Recently, I attended the Catalyst Conference in the US – Catalyst is a research firm associated with working women (it is an esteemed institution in the US with fortune 500 members and high profile board members – I was excited to see our very own Sol Trujillo amongst the other global CEO’s on the stage!). In true American style, and using the ‘Oprahesque’ language that became the buzz word for the conference – I had an ‘ah – ha’ moment. I now understand how critical male involvement is to the whole gender equity challenge.

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Can The Economic Downturn Force More Work/Life Balance?

By Bailey McCann

61056391_31343afdc6_m_1.jpgSunday’s New York Times ran an interesting take on the fallout from the subprime crisis and economic slowdown: the rich are less rich. While the rest of us probably aren’t crying any tears over this development, the ramifications of the rich being less rich is a study in how a crisis in the financial markets may be a catalyst in forcing all of us to pare down, clean up and come out on the other side of this with a whole different perspective and perhaps a little more balance.
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Confessions of an Office Newbie

Contributed by Rebecca Ang

Oh my God, that girl from accounting is walking straight towards me. Oh, what is her name? Is she the one on my team or is it the other brunette with the bangs? Why do they both have bangs?

Am I supposed to say hello? Look past her? Look at the floor? Do I ask her how she’s doing? What if she asks first? What if we ask each other at the same time and the awkward jinx thing happens? Neither of us will know when to say we’re doing fine. Will we have to say it at the same time?.

Or even worse, what if we say ‘how are you’ like we’re singing a round, one right after another?

“Hihowareyou?” stumbles out of my mouth.

She is already two feet past me, the wind from her pistachio green wool cardigan stinging my fragile cheek.

That was my first week at my new job. Now that I’m in my sixth week, I feel like she and I really understand each other.

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