Inc. Editor Jane Berentson is moderating five complimentary teleclasses on growth strategies for your business for the Principal Financial Group. The next teleclass is to be held April 29 and the topic is "A Woman Business Owner's Multi Million Dollar Success Story". Read more about the Principal program for women business owners on prinicpal.com.
The Women in Leadership Forum of Stuart Country Day in Princeton is presenting "Women Shaping the Media: Four Unique Perspectives" on April17,08, open to all interested in women moving into leadership positions. The speakers include:
Carol Massar, who is Anchor of Bloomberg's "Morning Call";
Jenny Alonzo, who is Executive Vice President of MIO.TV;
Caroline McCarthy, who is a staff writer for CnetNews.com;
Justine Schiro, who is a Producer for World News Tonight on ABC.
Read more about these women, selected to represent different aspects of the media as well as different career points, in the press release on stuartschool.org.
The 15th Annual Columbia Women in Business Conference is to be held February 22,08. Andrea Jung, CEO of Avon Products, is the featured speaker (image borrowed from avon.com). Read more about the conference and its other speakers on columbia.edu. See highlights from the 2007 Columbia Women in Business conference below.
Katrina Markoff of Vosges-Haut Chocolat, who was named the 2007 Entrepreneur Magazine and OPEN from American Express Woman of the Year, will speak at the "Women in Charge: Winning Strategies for Women Business Owners" Conference January 29,08 in Miami Beach, Florida. Read more about Katrina in the Entrepreneur press release on yahoo.com and in the article by Margaret Littman on the Chicago Magazine website (image borrowed from chicagomag.com). Learn more about the conference on entrepreneur.com.
I generally don't cover politics, but I was fascinated by the meeting of the candidates' wives at the Womens Conference in California hosted by Maria Shriver, the First Lady of California. I don't ever remember seeing anything like this panel in previous elections. You can see the conference at californiasgovernorsconference.org where you can hear what's happening and read more about what's going on there.
Cokie Roberts is the featured speaker at the Third Annual Women in Leadership Forum at the Stuart Country Day School in Princeton, New Jersey October18,07. Read more about the program.
Deborah W. Brooks T'86, President and Co-Founder of the Michael J. Fox
Foundation for Parkinson's Research, will give one of the keynote speeches at the third annual Tuck Women in Business Conference, September 29, from 1:15 to 2 p.m. at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Brooks, who oversees the largest global fund for Parkinson's after the U.S. government, will speak about her journey from the corporate world to her current position in the non-profit sector. Brooks previously worked in the sales and trading and asset management divisions at Goldman Sachs.
Organized by the Tuck Women in Business club, the student-run conference
features keynotes, workshops, and panel discussions geared toward personal and professional development and skill-building. This year's theme is "Navigate Your Career: With Confidence. With Direction. With Success." In addition to Brooks, attendees will also hear from visionary software CEO Christine Comaford-Lynch, an entrepreneur and technology advisor. The Tuck Women in Business Conference runs from September 27-29,07.
Flexible Work strategies will be among the topics of conversation October 18,07 at the San Francisco Mommytrackd Working-Mom-Event. A distinguished panel of working mothers, including Lori McAdams, Vice President of Pixar, and Risa Green, Author of "Notes From the Underbelly", will share their thoughts and experiences. To find out more about the other panelists, read the announcement on mommytrackd.com.
The 2008 Women's Leadership Conference presented by The Conference Board will take place April3,08 in New York and May1,08 in California. The 2008 Conference, "It's All About Winning", will cover topics such as networking, women's initiatives, and creating a pipeline for and retaining women leaders. Read more about the Women's Leadership Conference on conference-board.org.
