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RAL & Associates

FountainBlue's Transitions Series,
produced in partnership with RAL & Associates


We hope that you will join us on February 18 for our final Transitions event.

Our long-term partners at RAL and Associates will adopt the series going forward, while we remain involved working with entrepreneurial executives.

FountainBlue's Transitions Event, Produced in Partnership with RAL & Associates

Topic:    From the Layoff to the Onboarding: What Executives Need to Know to Navigate the Process

Date & Time: Thursday, February 18, from 11:30 AM to 2:00 PM

Location: Bay Cafe Clubhouse, 1875 Embarcadero, Palo Alto

Pre-Registration Cost: $32 members, $42 partners, $52 general

Late and On-Site Registration: $52 members, $62 non-members, $134 for Ongoing membership and admission

Registration: Please pre-register by noon on 2/16 using the PayPal link at http://www.svexecs.com.

 

Audience: Senior executives who have served at the director and C-levels, and generally transitioning into a similar level position

 

From the Layoff to the Onboarding: What Executives Need to Know to Navigate the Process

So, you're another statistic, a victim of that dreaded corporate layoff. What does it take to land to your next job?  Find out how to successfully navigate your way to that job and what to do when you reach that destination.  

This month's facilitator will discuss the end-to-end process, from the layoff to the on-boarding, with specific ideas on what's challenging for senior executives, why it is different and more difficult now, and how executives can proactively manage through the process. You are sure to gain new insights, while also sharing your connections and expertise.

 



Pre-register as a member for any upcoming FountainBlue Transitions event. Note that registrations must be time-stamped by noon on the business day prior to the event.
Event Admission
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Company Name
Brief Introduction
Burning Question
Additional Instructions and Comments
 

As a member, you are welcome to pre-register for any other upcoming FountainBlue event as well. Note that registrations must be time-stamped by noon on the business day prior to the event. Registrations arriving after that deadline will be applied to NEXT MONTH's event.
Event Admission
Is it OK to share your e-mail address
Company Name
Brief Introduction
Burning Question
Additional Instructions and Comments

Panelist Bios


About Our Speaker: Karen Colligan, Founder and Principal Manager, PeopleThink

For more than 20 years, Karen Colligan, founder and principal manager of PeopleThink, has specialized in developing high-performance individuals, teams and leaders. As a corporate leader, consultant, facilitator and coach, Karens greatest achievements have centered on inspiring people to discover and apply their natural talents, skills and interests to create the career they want. Her broad industry experience and progressive approach to dealing with human capital issues have made her a leader in the fields of career, leadership and team development. Her full-service career planning program The Get Real Guide to Your Career – A no-nonsense plan for finding the work YOU want is a proven system that directs individuals on the path to a career that will be more fulfilling, make better use of their skills and allow them to do what they love.

Karen is a graduate of the Coach Training Program at Coach U., and plays a key role in the Bay Area business community. She works with women entrepreneurs starting new ventures. She is a member of the National Speaker’s Association (NSA); Bay Area Consulting Network (BACN); Women in Consulting (WIC) Womens Baby Boomer Association (WBBA; and the National Associated of Female Executives (NAFE). Karen also works as a volunteer with the Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation.




Since January 2006, FountainBlue has been producing monthly events for senior Silicon Valley Executives in transition. Our monthly meetings provide networking, education and peer-to-peer support for senior executives in career transition, as well as those seeking networking and educational opportunities with fellow senior professionals. 

Our  monthly programs feature interactive discussions with an industry expert on relevant business, technology and leadership issues facing the high-tech, clean-tech and life-science executive decision-makers in attendance. We also take pride in drawing on the collective experience of the group and making the discussion interactive and relevant for everyone.

In addition, to further encourage connections between the quality executives in attendance, FountainBlue facilitates interactive discussions and exercises about networking for senior executives.

In 2008, FountainBlue is partnering with RAL and Associates, who will produced the 2008 programs. FountainBlue remains involved with the marketing, with the networking exercises, and with providing general support for the programs. FountainBlue will continue producing programs starting in 2009, working in partnership with both RAL & Associates and FWE&E.

Transitions Agenda -
11:30 - Networking and Registration
12:00 - Welcome and Introductions in numerical order, slightly timed to be under 1 minute (Background, Career Objectives, Thoughts or Questions on Topic, NO COMMERCIALS ALLOWED.)
12:20 - Networking Activity, presented by Linda Holroyd, FountainBlue or Job Search Process Topic
1:00 - Facilitator Introduction and Presentation
1:55 - Final Questions, Meeting Review and Next Meetings
2:00 - Close/Adjourn/Networking



Below is a list of topics, themes and speakers for 2010.

Date

Topic

Facilitator

Description

Thursday, January 21

Identifying and Developing Your Executive Brand

Susan Schwartz, You Who Branding

Any successful leader is known by the work that they do and the way they lead, even during the most challenging circumstances. Identifying your specific leadership style, your personal brand of leadership will help you understand what drives and motivates you and what you need around you to succeed. Communicating your personal brand, your executive style, particularly while transitioning to another position in a tough market will help you clarify what you're seeking, and give you an edge for the types of positions best suited to you.

Join us this month as we examine your successful leadership traits, especially during difficult circumstances, and learn what that means about us, and how that might lead us to our next leadership position.

Thursday, February 18

From the Layoff to the Onboarding: What Executives Need to Know to Navigate the Process

Karen Colligan, PeopleThink

So, you're a victim of that dreaded corporate layoff. What does it take to land to your next job?  Find out how to successfully navigate your way to that job and what to do when you reach that destination.  

This month's facilitator will discuss the end-to-end process, from the layoff to the on-boarding, with specific ideas on what's challenging for senior executives, why it is different and more difficult now, and how executives can proactively manage through the process. You are sure to gain new insights, while also sharing your connections and expertise.

Thursday, March 18

Tips for Changing Roles, Changing Industries

Facilitator Roberta LaPorte, RAL & Associates
Panel of Landed Execs who changed to clean energy, life science, etc.

With the rapid pace of technology advancement and global business dynamics, it is more challenging for senior execs to stay within an industry. Our surveys have shown that the current executive job marketplace has created a very competitive environment with many qualified candidates vying for a handful of positions in their industry and it has become necessary for execs to leverage their skills, passions and interests to other industries, including clean energy and life science.

So executives in transition must be able to transfer and translate their skills to different industries, and bring their executive management skills from older, more established industries to emerging industries with great opportunities and the need for seasoned executives. Whether you’re considering the move from high tech to clean energy or life science, or from a corporate role to a small business professional or a non-profit setting, this month’s event is sure to provide the insights, advice and connections to assist in the shift from one role or one industry to another.

Thursday, April 15

Leading in a Multi-Generational Workforce

TBD

While generational differences have always existed, for the first time four very distinct generations are being asked to co-exist in the workplace, with each brings different perspectives, work-styles and needs. There are the Baby Boomers who are pushing retirement, yet out of desire or necessity, are still in the workforce, contributing at the executive and entry levels, and everything in between. There are the mid-career professionals, who are driven by different socio-economic forces than their predecessors, and the Gen Y workers, just entering the workforce, with different desires altogether.

Please join this month's facilitator as she provides practical advice and ideas for managing and leading a multi-generational workforce. From this workshop, you will gain an understanding for the various differences in perspectives, as well their preferred communication style so the next time you bump into someone from another generation whom you don't relate to, stop and remember that no one is right or wrong; we're just different.

Thursday, May 20

The First 90 Days: Positioning Yourself for Success

Sharon Richmond, Exec Coach at Stanford GSB

Now that you’ve landed that new executive position, how do you ensure you get off to the best start possible? We all know the importance of making a good first impression. As a senior executive, the impression you make in the first three months of a new position is critical. In this program, we’ll look as what you need to do to be ready and prepared on day one, and positioned for success a quarter later. Among the areas we’ll cover:
- The pre-work you need to do before you even walk in the door
- Transitioning from candidate to company executive
- Understanding the stakes—and the land mines
- Using the honeymoon to your best advantage
- Storytelling and branding as leadership tools

Please join this month's facilitator as she covers these thoughts and more, and provides practical advice and ideas for navigating the first ninety days on the job.

Thursday, June 17

Behavioral Interviewing for Executives

Leila Bulling Towne, The Bulling Towne Group

Whether you are an executive in transition or entrenched in a career, you can work on developing your leadership skills to improve your marketability and the skills of the team you are/will be leading. This program shares learnings from four years of the Getting to the Top® career development series at Stanford GSB and UCLA Anderson School on the skills needed for success and leadership advancement.

This presentation will give you strategies to:
Identify skills most important in VP or C-Level roles
Define skills needed for your own career development
Understand leadership skills in other functional areas of the company or your team
Put in place a career action plan focused on areas for leadership development

Thursday, July 15

Bringing an Innovative Edge to YOUR Organization

Krista Henley and Rossella Derickson, Corporate Wisdom and SBODN

As an experienced senior executive, are your greatest contributions and successes behind you or ahead? Many companies that were successful 100 years ago no longer exist.  Trapped by their own success, they gradually learn to reduce risk, avoid failure at all costs, and consequently squelch or kill innovation and creativity.  This makes them vulnerable to competition from new or more aggressive companies with less to lose.

A similar hazard faces successful executives.  It can be hard to see new possibilities that will allow future success, especially when it requires letting go of previously successful strategies that have served so well throughout a career. Diversity doesn’t just apply to ethnic groups, and innovation doesn’t just apply to products.  Learn to apply both to refresh your approach to business and give you a competitive advantage in an increasingly competitive business environment. You’ll enjoy this engaging and highly interactive session, and leave with strategies to:

- spark creativity and innovation
- promote sensible risk-taking and thinking differently
- inspire and leverage diversity of thought in yourself and others
- commit fully to what you can uniquely contribute to the business world

Thursday, August 19

Negotiating for that Dream Job

TBD

In these demanding times, we are all required to do more with less - whether it's with your personal or investment corporate investment dollars, your corporate revenues or your corporate resources. As senior executives, the bar has been raised to deliver on stakeholder demands, while also being more attuned to the needs of the customers and valued partners and employees.

With all that said, for the first time in decades, executive compensation has actually decreased over the past few years. While some of the scrutiny on executive compensation is warranted, and there should be a reasonable re-set of expectations on compensation in general, what can effective executives do today, to negotiate for fair value compensation in today's competitive job market?

This month's facilitator will walk us through an unbiased assessment of the value executives brings, and provide practical tips on managing the job negotiation process. We invite your active participation and opinions for what is sure to be an animated conversation!

Thursday, September 16

Leveraging LinkedIn and LinkSV to Find New and Hidden Executive Opportunities

TBD

Do you have industry and target companies identified?
Do you know the best places to look for your target jobs?
Do you know how to use your network to find opportunities and help you to be considered amongst the hundreds of other applicants?

In the current market real jobs are scarce and companies with jobs are reluctant to advertise. When they do they get inundated with applicants and many irrelevant job applications. To find qualified applicants they often use internal referrals programs and hidden places to advertise jobs. This session will show you how to find those hidden places using the popular networking sites and also share the skills necessary to discover the jobs postings. Attending this session will improve your efficiency and productivity, maximize your job search results and help you find the hidden places for an “A” job opportunity!

Thursday, October 21

How the Search for Executive Positions Has Changed and What That Means for YOU

• Moderator Roberta LaPorte, RAL & Associates
• TBD funded entrepreneur
• TBD tech exec, marketing
• TBD tech exec, engineering
• TBD tech exec, finance

FountainBlue is partnering with Bobbie LaPorte of RAL & Associates to document how the process for transitioning into executive positions has changed during this economic downturn and what you need to do differently to land that next great position. Thank you to those of you who have completed our eight-question online survey at http://tinyurl.com/pgu9cj. Our survey results show that:
• Executives have changed jobs up to 3 times a year over the past three years, more than ever before, and not generally at their option;
• Career positions are non-existent now, so networking, although always important is even MORE important now;
• Online job applications, and even additional training are not the key differentiator for executives today;
• However, online tools and reinventing yourselves ARE making a difference for executives.

This month, we will facilitate an interactive group session and brainstorm the challenges and opportunities which arise with the new search process. From this workshop, you will gain insights from others on what has worked and not worked, and you will build connections to others who can assist you in your search.

Thursday, November 25

Recruiter Panel: NEW Secrets for Securing Executive Positions

• Moderator Roberta LaPorte, RAL & Associates

Recruiters TBD

Last month, we worked together to strategize and brainstorm how the search for executive positions has changed. This month, we’re polling the recruiters themselves to ask them not only how the search process has changed, but WHY it has changed and what it means for senior executives.

Join us for this interactive and informative panel discussion, and share your thoughts and advice.

Thursday, December 16

Holiday Break

Holiday Break

 



Please join us in thanking all our facilitators and speakers for 2009.

Meeting Date

Program Theme

Facilitator

Description

Thursday, January 22

Executive Hiring Trends for 2009

Brian Boyer and Basil Fthenakis, Partner, TIPS Group
Kristy Louie, InTouch Staffing
Prashant Shah, Hummer Winblad

For our first Transitions event of the year, we have invited a venture capitalist to speak on the early-stage business funding and technology trends and a recruiter to speak on the executive hiring picture in the Valley entering 2009.  Whether you are in the job market or not, this program will provide senior executives with a snapshot on the market, thoughts on trends and expectations going into 2009, and advice on how they can remain marketable in a rapidly evolving business climate.

Thursday, February 19

From the Layoff to the Onboarding: What Executives Need to Know to Navigate the Process

Francine Gordon, FGordon Group and SDForum Women's Group

So, you're a victim of that dreaded corporate layoff. What does it take to land to your next job?  Find out how to successfully navigate your way to that job and what to do when you reach that destination.  

This month's facilitator will discuss the end-to-end process, from the layoff to the on-boarding, with specific ideas on what's challenging for senior executives, why it is different and more difficult now, and how executives can proactively manage through the process. You are sure to gain new insights, while also sharing your connections and expertise.

Thursday, March 19

Tips for Changing Roles, Changing Industries

Sandra Wales, Wales Investments

With the rapid pace of technology advancement and global business dynamics, it is more challenging for senior execs to stay within an industry. The current executive job marketplace has created a very competitive environment with many qualified candidates vying for a handful of positions in their industry. So executives in transition must be able to transfer and translate their skills to different industries, and bring their executive management skills from older, more established industries to emerging industries with great opportunities and the need for seasoned executives.

Please join this month’s facilitator as she covers the trends for shifting roles and industries and strategies on how to successfully do so. Whether you’re considering the move from high tech to clean energy or life science, or from a corporate role to a small business professional or a non-profit setting, this month’s event is sure to provide the insights, advice and connections to assist in the shift from one role or one industry to another.

Thursday, April 16

Leading in a Multi-Generational Workforce   

Kristi Royse, KLR Consulting

While generational differences have always existed, for the first time four very distinct generations are being asked to co-exist in the workplace. Each brings different perspectives, work-styles and needs. There are the Baby Boomers who are pushing retirement, yet out of desire or necessity, are still in the workforce, contributing at the executive and entry levels, and everything in between. There are the mid-career professionals, who are driven by different socio-economic forces than their predecessors, and the Gen Y workers, just entering the workforce, with different desires altogether.

So, how would an executive manage today's multi-generational workforce, with their different desires, capabilities and motivations? How would you build alignment, buy-in, commitment, and get everyone focused on achieving the same strategic corporate objectives?

Please join this month's facilitator as she covers these thoughts and more, and provides practical advice and ideas for managing and leading a multi-generational workforce. From this workshop, you will gain an understanding for the various differences in perspectives, as well their preferred communication style so the next time you bump into someone from another generation whom you don't relate to, stop and remember that no one is right or wrong; we're just different.

Thursday, May 21

The First 90 Days: Positioning Yourself for Success

Linda Popky, L2M Associates

Now that you’ve landed that new executive position, how do you ensure you get off to the best start possible? We all know the importance of making a good first impression. As a senior executive, the impression you make in the first three months of a new position is critical. In this program, we’ll look as what you need to do to be ready and prepared on day one, and positioned for success a quarter later. Among the areas we’ll cover:
- The pre-work you need to do before you even walk in the door
- Transitioning from candidate to company executive
- Understanding the stakes—and the land mines
- Using the honeymoon to your best advantage
- Storytelling and branding as leadership tools

Please join this month's facilitator as she covers these thoughts and more, and provides practical advice and ideas for navigating the first ninety days on the job.

Thursday, June 18

Developing a Leadership Pipeline

Kathy Ullrich, Ullrich & Associates

Whether you are an executive in transition or entrenched in a career, you can work on developing your leadership skills to improve your marketability and the skills of the team you are/will be leading. This program shares learnings from four years of the Getting to the Top® career development series at Stanford GSB and UCLA Anderson School on the skills needed for success and leadership advancement.

This presentation will give you strategies to:
Identify skills most important in VP or C-Level roles
Define skills needed for your own career development
Understand leadership skills in other functional areas of the company or your team
Put in place a career action plan focused on areas for leadership development

Thursday, July 16 at Pillsbury Winthrop

Diversity and Innovation as a Competitive Advantage

Kimberly Wiefling, Wiefling Consulting
Behavioral Interviewing – Leila Bulling Towne, The Bulling Towne Group

As an experienced senior executive, are your greatest contributions and successes behind you or ahead? Many companies that were successful 100 years ago no longer exist.  Trapped by their own success, they gradually learn to reduce risk, avoid failure at all costs, and consequently squelch or kill innovation and creativity.  This makes them vulnerable to competition from new or more aggressive companies with less to lose.

A similar hazard faces successful executives.  It can be hard to see new possibilities that will allow future success, especially when it requires letting go of previously successful strategies that have served so well throughout a career. Diversity doesn’t just apply to ethnic groups, and innovation doesn’t just apply to products.  Learn to apply both to refresh your approach to business and give you a competitive advantage in an increasingly competitive business environment. You’ll enjoy this engaging and highly interactive session, and leave with strategies to:

- spark creativity and innovation
- promote sensible risk-taking and thinking differently
- inspire and leverage diversity of thought in yourself and others
- commit fully to what you can uniquely contribute to the business world

Thursday, August 20 at DLA Piper in San Francisco

Get Back In the Game

Bobbie LaPorte, RAL Associates

We are still in the midst of a serious recession – broader and deeper than previous ones – that is having a dramatic and lasting impact on the executive job market. Many executives find themselves in an extended job search; those who are employed are concerned about job security and about making any career moves. Overcoming disappointment and inertia, keeping a positive attitude and focusing on proactive career management are challenges for the heartiest job seekers.

In this interactive session, we will help executives hit their personal “Reset” button, focus on what’s really important, understand how their personal value proposition can benefit employers and once again take charge of their careers to “Get Back in the Game”.

Thursday, September 17 at Bowne

Leveraging LinkedIn and LinkSV to Find New and Hidden Executive Opportunities

Curt Ward

Do you have industry and target companies identified?
Do you know the best places to look for your target jobs?
Do you know how to use your network to find opportunities and help you to be considered amongst the hundreds of other applicants?

In the current market real jobs are scarce and companies with jobs are reluctant to advertise. When they do they get inundated with applicants and many irrelevant job applications. To find qualified applicants they often use internal referrals programs and hidden places to advertise jobs. This session will show you how to find those hidden places using the popular networking sites and also share the skills necessary to discover the jobs postings. Attending this session will improve your efficiency and productivity, maximize your job search results and help you find the hidden places for an “A” job opportunity!

Thursday, October 15

How the Search for Executive Positions Has Changed and What That Means for YOU

Bobbie LaPorte will moderate our panel of recently-landed execs will share their thoughts on the trends above and their advise on what YOU can do to land that dream job, drawing on their own recent successful experience in the executive job market.

• Moderator Roberta LaPorte, RAL & Associates
• Rosemarie Carbone, Director of HR, Torani (R Torre & Company)
• Barry Holroyd, CTO, Masher Media
• Phil Metz, Director of Business Development, SolFocus Inc.


FountainBlue is partnering with Bobbie LaPorte of RAL & Associates to document how the process for transitioning into executive positions has changed during this economic downturn and what you need to do differently to land that next great position. Thank you to those of you who have completed our eight-question online survey at http://tinyurl.com/pgu9cj. Early results show that:
• Executives have changed jobs up to 3 times a year over the past three years, more than ever before, and not generally at their option;
• Career positions are non-existent now, so networking, although always important is even MORE important now;
• Online job applications, and even additional training are not the key differentiator for executives today;
• However, online tools and reinventing yourselves ARE making a difference for executives.

It is our hope to document and share how the game has changed for executives seeking positions in today’s market. Here’s how you can contribute to these efforts:
• Please weigh in on YOUR thoughts about how the game has changed for YOU as an executive in transition today and in the past. Complete our eight-question online survey at http://tinyurl.com/pgu9cj by October 1 at noon.
• Volunteer to take a ten minute telephone survey to provide more details about your executive job search experience.
• Forward the request for survey to interested others in your network.
• Recommend an association, recruiter or others who might be interested in participating in a telephone interview, or forwarding our survey to interested executives in their networks.

Thank you for your support in this endeavor. We look forward to sharing our findings with you and others in our network.

Thursday, November 19

How the Search for Executive Positions Has Changed: A Recruiter's Perspective

• Moderator Roberta LaPorte, RAL & Associates
• John L. McDonald, Senior Partner, Executive Search Practice, DURAN HUMAN CAPITAL PARTNERS
• Gretchen Sand, Principal, SKYLINE RECRUITING
• Ann Zeichner, Managing Director, TAYLOR WINFIELD

Last month, we heard from recently-landed executives about how the search for executive positions has changed. This month, we’re polling the recruiters themselves to ask them not only how the search process has changed, but WHY it has changed and what it means for senior executives.
It is our hope that last month’s event, this month’s event, and the survey results will help us document and share how the game has changed for executives seeking positions in today’s market. Here’s how you can contribute to these efforts:
• Please weigh in on YOUR thoughts about how the game has changed for YOU as an executive in transition today and in the past. Complete our eight-question online survey at http://tinyurl.com/pgu9cj by November 1 at noon.
• Volunteer to take a ten minute telephone survey to provide more details about your executive job search experience.
• Forward the request for survey to interested others in your network.
• Recommend an association, recruiter or others who might be interested in participating in a telephone interview, or forwarding our survey to interested executives in their networks.

Thursday, December 17

Holiday Break

Holiday Break

 



Below is our calendar of topics, dates and speakers for 2008.

Meeting Date Meeting Theme Facilitator
1/17 The Economic Forecast for 2008: What Does it Mean for the Executive Job Market? Mary Beth Deans, Founder and Managing Partner of Douglas Partner
2/21 From the Layoff to the Onboarding: What Executives Need to Know to Navigate the Process Roberta LaPorte, RAL & Associates
3/20 The Evolving Role of C-Suite Executives: Today’s CFO Crisis Ken Warburton, Partner with Tatum LLC
4/17 Developing a Leadership Pipeline Nancy Monson, founder and CEO of Nancy Monson Coaching, Inc., 
5/15 The First 90 Days: Positioning Yourself for Success Linda Popky, L2M Associates
6/19 Hot Positions and Markets for Senior Executives Linda Holroyd – CEO, FountainBlue
Bob LoPresto – President Rusher, Loscavio & LoPresto Executive Search
Rod McDermott – Managing Director, McDermott and Bull Executive Search
7/24 The Ins and Outs of Executive Compensation Packages Janet MacAulay, Chrysalis Consulting
8/21 Diversity and Innovation as a Competitive Advantage Cathy Caserza Light
CEO, HRLeaders
Brian Boyer, Partner, TIPS Group
Greta Mowry, Keiretsu Forum and Verge Innovation Group
9/18 Leading from Any Chair Camille Smith, Work in Progress Coaching
10/16 Play and Levity as Innovation Advantages in a Competitive Marketplace Kathy Klotz-Guest, Powerfully Funny
11/20 What Executives Can Expect in 2009 Facilitator Roberta LaPorte, RAL Associates
Panelist Jennifer Colosi, founder, Colosi Associates
Panelist Dana Johnson, Devine and Virnig
Panelist Marty McMahon, Principal Consultant, McDermott & Bull Executive Search


We are pleased to acknowledge our speakers and their topics for 2007.

Meeting Date Meeting Theme Networking Topic Facilitator
25-Jan What Executives Can Expect in 2007   Mitchell Levy, Happy About
22-Feb Learning from Bad Management Practices   Jay Michlin, OnStor
22-Mar Using Age to Your Advantage   Jean Walker, Pathways/OI Partners Inc.
26-Apr Working with Women Executives Getting the Right Doors to Open Bonita Banducci, Banducci Consulting
24-May The Competition for Top Talent - How Does This Affect You? Profiling/Identifying the Right Executive to Target
Getting Past Gatekeepers and Into Conversations
Building Executive Connections in Different Roles, in Different Industries
Leveraging Successes and Testimonials to Build New Relationships 
Patti Wilson, Career Company
21-Jun Leveraging Your Personal Brand 101 Lame Excuses Not to Network Susan Schwartz, You Who Personal & Corporate Branding
19-Jul Enhancing Your Leadership Presence Getting Busy Executives to Say Yes Linda Holroyd, FountainBlue
16-Aug Negotiating an Executive Compensation Package Trimming and Pruning Your Network Janet MacAulay, Chrysalis Consulting LLC
Michael Whitman, Bernstein Global Wealth Management
20-Sep Developing a Leadership Pipeline Levels of Networking Roberta LaPorte, RAL and Associates
25-Oct Time Management at the Executive Level Preferred Tools for Managing an Executive's Network Kristi Royse, KLR Consulting
29-Nov Recruiter Panel: Trends in Executive Hiring Growing Your Network Strategically Facilitator Roberta LaPorte, RAL and Associates
Panelist Sue Salvesen, STRe Solutions
Panelist Robert LoPresto, Rusher, Loscavio & LoPresto
Panelist Martin McMahon, Principal Consultant, McDermott & Bull Executive Search
Panelist Rita Scroggin, Director of Sales and Recruiting, Thinknicity


We are pleased to acknowledge our speakers and their topics for 2006.

Meeting Date Meeting Type Facilitator
Thursday, January 26 Job Search Linda Holroyd, FountainBlue
Thursday, February 23 Leadership Jay Michlin
Thursday, March 23 Employment Trends Don Lee
Thursday, April 27 Job Interviews Dilip Saraf
Thursday, May 25 Leveraging Social Networking Tools Linda Holroyd, FountainBlue
Thursday, June 22 Strategies for Negotiating Executive Salaries Jay Michlin
Thursday, July 27 Strategic Execution for Today's Executives Dave Mathisen, The Virnoche-Frigon Group
Thursday, August 24 Managing an Organization through Change Pat Obuchowski
Thursday, September 28 Entrepreneurial Options for Executives Mike Jones, Onyx Associates
Thursday, October 26 Networking Tips for Executives Linda Holroyd, FountainBlue
Thursday, December 14 Recruiter Panel Roy Fiebiger, Sanford Rose Associates-Silicon Valley
Sue Salvesen, STRe Solutions
Gretchen Sand, Skyline Recruiting Corporation
Max Shapiro, PeopleConnect


We are pleased to acknowledge and thank our cross-marketing partners below, and welcome your inquiries about becoming a cross-marketing partner for this series.

  • FWE&E
  • Harvard Alumni Association
  • Intel Alumni
  • Lee Hecht Harrison
  • Oracle Alumni
  • Right Management
  • Torchiana
  • SBODN
  • Stanford Alumni Association
  • Wharton Business School Alumni


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