Professional Development for Women and Minorities

Inspirational Leadership

Learning Outcome: Explore traits that make a successful leader and how women leaders can inspire others

 

In today’s workforce, standout leaders come in all shapes and sizes. She could be a blue jeans marketing student who is running a major company out of her apartment or a middle aged woman presenting the latest groundbreaking device at a major conference.  What really matters is that leaders are able to create enthusiasm, empower their workers, instill confidence and be inspiring to those around them. Join us as we address what great women leaders do every day. 

 

At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:

 

1. Explore your own leadership style through conversations with your peers.
2. Develop the necessary self-confidence to help make good decisions based on the opinions and ideas of others. 
3. Examine perspectives on leadership from outstanding experts in the leadership field.

Creating Your Best Future! The 7 Habits of Successful STEM Students

Hang in there! You are somebody's hope. There is a rumor mulling around in colleges across the land that science, technology, engineering, and math are the "hardcore" fields that some advance, others try, and many avoid. Women and minorities are grossly underrepresented in STEM careers and the numbers continue to decline. In a 2010 Bayer Corp. survey of 1,226 women and underrepresented minority chemists and chemical engineers, 40 percent said they were discouraged from pursuing a STEM career. Sixty percent said college was where most of the discouragement happened. STEM careers offer a rewarding journey of innovation and powerful contributions, solutions, and tools that secure and advance our future. So, what do you need to do to overcome challenges and succeed in these fields?

At the end of this workshop, college students will:

1. Explore STEM Stats and common reasons students get discouraged.
2. Create a resource toolbox and networking plan to overcome challenges.
3. Explore 7 key habits that can increase success.
4. Examine the benefits and options of a great STEM Career Path.

2017 Dean's Rountable

2017 HBCU Engineering Deans' Roundtable

High Performance Collaboration

Learning Outcome: Discuss the essential skills to develop and expand your leadership repertoire 

 

Are leaders born or made? How do aspiring managers succeed in an ever-changing business environment? How do they lead different groups to action? Throughout this seminar, we will explore how great leaders assess themselves and lead collaborative teams that effectively manage negotiations and conflict. 

 

At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to: 

 

1. Discover how leaders communicate through storytelling and employ other communication strategies to influence. 
2. Explore and analyze leadership styles.
3. Identify how organizations can develop team charters to optimize their groups, and develop a game plan for effective negotiation

 

Act Like a CEO, Think Like a Leader

Learning Objective: Examine the challenges and strategies of gender barriers

 

Be strong in the work place? Wait, not too strong? Be assertive? Wait, that’s aggressive? For every piece of advice a woman leader receives, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This workshop brings leaders together to share perceptions, management challenges, and leadership strategies. Leaders speak up and share candid thoughts for getting results and overcoming stereotypes and barriers. If information is power, this workshop is your source.

 

At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:

 

1. Engage in a candid dialogue regarding the perceived challenges of managing/leading women and being managed/led by women.
2. Discuss mutually beneficial techniques to build strong professional relationships.
3. Explore the impact of race, gender, and perceptions on pay and promotion.

Corporate Governance: Increasing the Number of African American Corporate Directors

Corporate Governance: Increasing the Number of African American Corporate Directors

Life in the Zone

Learning Objective: Learn strategies to increase balance, clarity, and efficiency for better life and work outcomes.

Many women feel torn between competing priorities, obligations, and personal goals. Some experience a daily struggle to find the balance that reflects harmony and fulfillment. There are two zones of professional and personal fulfillment. One is lived in the comfort zone and the other is in the life zone. You can only be in one zone at a time. In the Comfort Zone, you are driven by fear and perceive life as a series of risks you rather not take. But, in the Life Zone you are tuned into actions, decisions, and ways of thinking that are in line with your success vision. This seminar will provide inspiration, motivation, strategies, and mental shifts that may change your life. Join our diverse panel as they share tips to feel good, balance your life and work, and make each day count.

At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:

1. Explore personal definitions of success
2. Examine stress management tools to relax your mind and increase clarity
3. Use organizational and motivational tools to control the calendar/schedule
4. List solutions and tips to stay motivated and inspired
5. Create a personalized strategy for weighing the costs and benefits of important decisions

Lessons in Leadership

Leaders and managers are charged with meeting diverse needs to maximize value and productivity. As a proficient leader and manager, your role is to create opportunities, to empower others, and leverage the specialized skills of employees. One continuing challenge is managing team members from various cultures, locations, and backgrounds. Communication presents numerous impediments such as how to increase quality and efficiency of knowledge sharing and how do we improve value? Collaboration and sharing of knowledge practices are essential to finding a workable solution augmenting professional relationships, increasing productivity, and cultivating work quality. This session will discuss the tools needed to transform your team’s working experience to achieve amplified results.

Act Like a CEO, Think Like a Leader: Top Men and Women Leaders Get Real About Gender, Leadership, and Perceptions

Act Like a CEO, Think Like a Leader: Top Men and Women Leaders Get Real About Gender, Leadership, and Perceptions

Be strong in the work place? Wait, not too strong? Be assertive? Wait, that's aggressive? For every piece of advice a woman leader receives, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This workshop brings men and women leaders together to share perceptions, management challenges, and leadership strategies. Men leaders speak up and share candid thoughts for getting results and overcoming stereotypes and barriers. If information is power, this workshop is your source.

Learning Objective: Examine the challenges and strategies of gender barriers

At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:

1. Engage in a candid dialogue regarding the perceived challenges of managing/leading women and being managed/led by women
2. Discuss mutually beneficial techniques to build strong professional relationships
3. Explore the impact of race, gender, and perceptions on pay and promotion

Presenter: Cheryl Moo-Young, Senior Infrastructure Manager, Accenture, LLP

Panelists:

Nicole Funk, Senior Vice President, Defense & Intelligence Group, Booz Allen Hamilton

Theresa Spralling, CEO, Women of AT&T

Business Cultural Competence and Etiquette: Understanding Culturally Sensitive Executive Manners

Business Cultural Competence and Etiquette: Understanding Culturally Sensitive Executive Manners

Learning Objective: To improve the capacity to understand and negotiate around business and cultural expectations to increase interpersonal effectiveness.

Executive manners refer to professional and corporate expectations. Cultural competence includes the capacity to apply and adapt executive manners in a wide variety of settings and cultures. We all make occasional cultural and business missteps and will likely agree that a better understanding of appropriate practices help protect and enhance our image. There are bad manners that can be avoided with awareness and education. This session is designed for both new and seasoned professionals to gain understanding of new ways to attract diverse talent, influence customers, and maximize interpersonal effectiveness.

At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:

1. Identify and explore common business etiquette mistakes.
2. Explore global cultural practices and blunders made by professionals.
3. Identify personal and professional expectations based on cultural experiences.
4. Explore opportunities to learn more about executive manners and cultural competence.

Panelists:

Beth Howell, U.S. Employment Compliance Officer, General Dynamics Land Systems

Melisa Folwer, Sr. Business Project Manager, PECO

Pamela Harris, Director, Raytheon Company