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FountainBlue: When She
Speaks, Women in Leadership Series
Topic: Women Who Make Up
Their Own Rules
Date & Time: Friday, September 10 from 11:30 a.m. until 1:30
p.m.
Pre-register: $21 members, $32 partners, $42 general, $156
corporate passes for up to 10 people
Late and On-Site Cost: $42
members, $52 non-members, $124 Ongoing membership plus admission
Registration: Please pre-register by noon on 9/9 using the adjacent PayPal link
Audience: Women and men who support having
women in senior technology positions.
Women Who Make Up Their Own Rules
Successful women create
their own brand - their own personal way of making things happen. Sometimes
they play within the rules, sometimes they make up their own rules, but the
results speak for themselves. Join us and hear the stories from dynamic women
who are making up the rules, as they go, while succeeding and advancing within
the traditional system. Learn from them, and start thinking about how you can
change the rules that are hindering your own success.
Facilitator Pat Obuchowski, Chief Empowerment Officer, inVisionaria
Panelist Daniela Bayer, Business Intelligence
Manager for Central & Eastern Europe, Cisco
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Facilitator Pat
Obuchowski, CEO (Chief Empowerment Officer), inVisionaria
Pat Obuchowski, MBA,
CPCC, is a Business Consultant and certified and credentialed Coach. She is an
executive and leadership coach who helps clients become even more successful by
sharpening their leadership, interpersonal, and organizational skills. She achieves
life changing results with her clients on both a business and personal level.
Her company is a certified Women Business Enterprise by WBENC and the
CA-PUC.
She has been in
business at several different levels for over 25 years. She served in many leadership
positions with companies such as Visa U.S.A., Otis Spunkmeyer, and General
Electric and was the CEO and partner in a woman owned fulfillment company.
She currently serves
on the Global Board of Directors for the International Coach Federation, recently
co-authored "Scrappy Women in Business" and is a co-founder of the national
Catalyst Youth Leadership Program.
Panelist Daniela Bayer, Business
Intelligence Manager for Central & Eastern Europe, Cisco
Daniela Bayer was born in the Czech Republic. She
left her home country after receiving MA degree from University of Economics in
Prague. After a short stay in Vienna (Austria), Daniela relocated to the United
States where she graduated with MBA from Suffolk University in Boston and
started a wonderful career in high tech. In Boston she worked at EDS and Boston
Scientific, and for the past 10 years she has been with Cisco in San Jose.
Since 2006, Daniela holds the position of Business Intelligence Manager for
Central & Eastern Europe, and travels frequently.
In her free time Daniela enjoys gardening. She
also continues developing her skills of alternative healing arts, and holds
certificates in Medical Hypnotherapy and First & Second Degree Reiki.
Inspired by her own personal experience and life journey, it is Daniela's
desire to encourage you to take risks, follow your heart, and write your own
rules of engagement.
Sheryl Chamberlain works at EMC in Global Alliances and is
responsible for developing, building and establishing global cross industry
corporate and regional relationships with Computer Sciences Corporation, a 14
Billion dollar Outsourcer and Consulting Organization. Specific emphasis on vertical and
horizontal global solution development including Healthcare, Life Sciences,
Financial Services, Oil & Gas, BPM,
Compliance, SAP or Oracle. She is the Founding President of the Women's
Leadership Forum West Coast representing over 4,000 employees in EMC's Western
Region.
Prior to EMC, Sheryl owned and operated a
business consultancy practice focused on providing system integration business
reengineering services to organizations with revenues of 5M to 1Billion. That
was after she held key sales, marketing, project management and financial
positions for Fortune 500 companies including IBM, PepsiCo, Norton Simon Corp.
and Deloitte Touche. She was the CFO for Arizona based John Carlier General
Commercial Contractor and application software implementation consultant for
IBM ISV Computer Guidance Corporation.
Sheryl has been involved in a number of
leadership programs including serving as the Founding Officer and President of
the Construction Financial Management Association Valley of the Sun, Institute
for Women's Leadership - Executives Leading Sustainable Change, Santa Clara
University Global Women's Leadership Network Women Leaders for the World, Director Mentoring Program Alliance of Technology
and Women Silicon Valley, Advisory Board Foundation for Self Reliance and Forum
for Women Entrepreneurs and Executives.
Panelist
Sudha Jamthe, Social Media Strategist, PayPal
Sudha Jamthe is the Social
Media Strategist at PayPal. She is passionate about innovative energy of
communities, and specializes in partnerships that build ecosystems. She has
15 yrs experience in marketing and has built social media infrastructure and
communities for AOL/Bebo, Intuit, Dash Navigation (now RIM), Network World and
built out the web business for Harcourt (now Reed Elseiver). She is a venture
mentor at MIT and leads the Bay Area Facebook meetup and Twitter meetups. She
has a MBA from Boston University. She blogs at coolastory.com and tweets as @sujamthe.
Sharon is Director, Americas Customer
Solutions for LifeScan, Inc. and has over 25 years of experience in domestic
and international supply chain roles including, building materials, consumer
goods and medical devices. Her organization at LifeScan is responsible for all North America revenue order processing, warranty and
revenue fulfillment, inbound and outbound transportation, eCommerce, and
Reverse Logistics. She has dotted line
responsibilities for the LifeScan business in Latin America.
Sharon is from Indiana
originally and grew up on a farm. She earned
a BS degree at BallStateUniversity
and an MS Ed. degree at MiamiUniversity in Oxford,
OH.
FountainBlue stimulates collaborative innovation, one
conversation, one leader, one organization at a time through our monthly
events, our dynamic communities, our ongoing discussions on entrepreneurial
issues, our invitation-only CEO forums, and through our consulting services.
FountainBlue When She Speaks women in leadership events were
launched in May 2006 and have continued to grow and become an exceptionally
high value event for women and men leaders in Silicon Valley, celebrating women
leaders in Silicon Valley, inspiring the next generation of leaders, and
building a proactive, collaborative and supportive leadership community
overall. These events are organized as panel discussions, featuring senior
executives in high tech companies across the valley. We routinely attract
between 50-150 women and men corporate leaders and others each month.
Our events are held on the second Fridays of the month, at
the facilities of one of our corporate partners, from 11:30 a.m. until 1:30
p.m., and include a half hour for registration and networking, a quick breakout
discussion to identify objectives and build connections, and then an
interactive panel discussion with questions from the audience at the end. Past
and upcoming topics are listed below in our calendar and notes from all our
previous sessions are available at http://fountainblue.biz/whenshespeaks/whenshespeaks.html.
We welcome your continued participation and input and hope to
connect with you soon.
Join our community on BigTent by visiting https://www.bigtent.com/groups/fountainblue See the list of upcoming events for the month and register to
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Send us an e-mail to tell us how we can best serve you! info@whenshespeaks.com
Below is a list
of program themes, speakers and sponsors for 2010. We welcome your
recommendations for corporate women high tech executives for each of our
upcoming programs. E-mail us at volunteer@whenshespeaks.com if you
would like to recommend someone.
Expanding Your Influence, With or Without Direct Authority
Facilitator
Jo Miller, CEO, Women's Leadership Coaching Inc.
Panelist
Kristine Gallegos-Haehl, Trade Professional Manager, PG&E
Panelist
Linda Holroyd, CEO, FountainBlue
Panelist
Gwen McDonald, SVP, Human Resources, NetApp
Panelist
Titina Ott, Vice President, Organizational Effectiveness, Oracle
Women
who make an impact in business know that you do not need to hold an
impressive job title to be a leader who makes a difference. Being an
influencer requires
- Knowledge of effective influencing techniques
- Finding ones own unique influencing style
- The determination to make great things happen.
Hear first-hand how our panelists establish credibility, gain buy-in for
ideas, engage co-workers and lead business results with or without direct
authority.
Feb 12
@ Adobe, 345 Park Avenue,
San Jose
How to Throw More Balls Up Higher: Juggling Work-Life
Balance in Demanding Times
Facilitator
Deborah Campbell
Director,
Western Region, Catalyst
Panelist
Karen Catlin, Vice President, Core Services, Adobe Systems Inc.
Panelist
Pat Cross, VP Career Management, Right Management
Panelist
Lisa Dearborn, Vice President, Leadership Development, Hitachi Data Systems
Panelist Natascha
Thomson, Director, Global Ecosystem and Partner Marketing, SAP
Silicon
Valley women leaders are challenged by the corporate and business pressures
of high-stress, high-impact positions, while still juggling the personal
demands of life and family, and squeezing in time for yourself. Each ball
from the heavy, urgent demands in a corporate environment to the
home-and-personal demands of children, spouses, friends and others, to your
own always-addressed-last personal needs for balance, health and growth - is
important.
Yet
each balls keeps coming at you from more angles, and each ball is coming at
you faster! So how do you juggle these often-competing balls and what we can
do to adjust our own expectations and that of others on us, in order to ease
the load and the stress? Our speakers will share their stories, commiserate
with us, and challenge us to re-evaluate how roles, our priorities, and our
own expectations for ourselves.
March
12 @ Hitachi, 750 Central Expwy, Bldg 700, Santa Clara
Agility - The Key to Building a Successful Career
Facilitator
Linda Popky, L2M Associates
Panelist
Amanda Dutra, Senior Vice President of Career Management, Practice Leader for
the Global Transition Center of Excellence in the Pacific Region NA, Right
Management
Panelist
Linda Holroyd, CEO, FountainBlue
Panelist
Lisa Jing, Program Manager, Cisco
Panelist
Shari H. Moore, GPHR, SPHR, Vice President, Human Resources-Global and
Americas Sales and Services, Hitachi Data Systems
Panelist
Phyllis Stewart Pires, Director Community Experience and Learning and Talent
Management lead, SAP Labs North America
Global
megatrends are making it much more difficult to plan your career path, as
there is more fluidity within and across corporations, across global markets,
plus greater acceptance of people moving from one role or industry to
another. Our panelists will focus on agility as the key to building a
successful career, regardless of gender, featuring women who have changed
roles and industries, positions and companies. They will share their stories
of successes and challenges, and also share how they are supporting others to
do the same.
April 9
@ Applied Materials, 3050 Bowers,
Santa Clara
Building and Reinforcing Your Executive Brand
Facilitator
Lisa Orrell, CPC, The Promote U Guru
Panelist
Erna Arnesen, Vice President, Worldwide Services Partners and Alliances, Cisco
Systems
Panelist
Christine Crandell, Senior VP of Marketing, Accept Software
Panelist
Cissy Leung, Chief of Staff, Applied Solar
Panelist
Luciana Vecchi, Globalization Business Manager, Core Services, Adobe Systems
Incorporated
Your
brand tells people who you, and what to expect from you whether at work or at
home. It helps people decide whether to trust you, and what to trust you about.
Effective executives, both women and men, proactively build their brand, to
ensure that others think highly of them, and have the confidence that they
can execute under specific circumstances, and even in situations where they
have little connections and expertise. Indeed, your executive brand can limit
or launch your success. This month, our panel of women leaders will talk
about what they have done to build and reinforce their executive brand, and
how they leverage that brand to build credibility, position themselves and
their teams and organizations for success, and strategically manage their
career development.
May 14
@ Cisco in their New Frontier Conf Room, 225 East Tasman Dr, Bldg 3, 2nd
floor, San Jose
The Mentors in Our Lives
Facilitator
Kim Wise, Mentor Resources
Panelist
Erna Arnesen, Vice President, Worldwide Services Partners and Alliances,
Cisco Systems
Panelist
Claudia Galvan, Principal Lead Program Manager, Windows Live, Microsoft
Panelist
Vidya Venkatesh, Senior Specialist, Global Product Support, Life Technologies
As
leaders, we appreciate the mentors, leaders and role models upon whose
shoulders we stood. We carefully consider the support and guidance we are
consciously and unconsciously providing for those who come after us. Our
panelists this month will focus on our mentoring relationships, how we can
share more of what we know with others and how we can identify the potential
mentors available to us. Our panelists will share the ways that their mentors
have impacted their thinking and development, and how this has, in turn,
stimulated thoughts and actions in support of others. In addition, we will
discuss how you can promote mentoring in your organization.
June 11
@ LifeScan, 1051 S Milpitas Blvd. Bldg 2
Cafeteria
Annex Room
Milpitas
Millennials in Our Midst!
Facilitator
Camille Smith, Work In Progress Coaching
The
Millennial Generation otherwise known as Generation Y is no longer made-up of
just kids and teens. The eldest are now graduating college and entering the
professional workforce. They are in our workplace, impacting what we do, how
we do it! They bring their share of perspectives and challenges, but they
also bring new ideas and innovations and approaches, a mix of pluses and
minuses.
A
successful corporation will embrace the diversity offered by this influential
generation. Our panel will speak on the general profile of millennials,
recruiting and engagement strategies for millennials, and how to embrace all
the millennials in our midst!
July 9
at Pillsbury in Palo Alto
Women's Leadership Styles: What's Right for You?
Facilitator
Kristi Royse, KLR Consulting
Panelist
Shalini Govil-Pai, Group Manager, YouTube and TV, Google
Panelist
Ruchi Goyal, Product Manager, NetApp
Panelist
Robin Kwok, Technical Program Manager, Energy and Display Systems, Applied
Materials Inc.
Panelist
Shobhana Viswanathan, Senior Marketing Manager, Global Alliances, VMware
This
month, women technology executives will share how they have adapted their
leadership styles to succeed to a male-dominated technology world. Come hear
their thoughts on gender-specific leadership traits, woman-to-women and
woman-to-men interactions, and overcoming adversarial conversations with both
men and women. Also hear their stories of successes and challenges under
different circumstances and most importantly, their learnings from these
encounters. You are sure to leave with new ideas, and be inspired by our
accomplished panel of speakers.
August
13 @ Synopsys, 700 East Middlefield Rd.
Mountain View
Politics in the Workplace: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Facilitators
Krista Henley and Rossella Derickson, Corporate Wisdom and SBODN
Panelist
Kim Elisha Proctor, Senior Manager Holistic Quality, PayPal and BAODN
Panelist
Eileen Sullivan, Group Director, Cadence
Lets
face it office politics is a reality for everyone, regardless of the size
of your organization or your position. As professionals we have all dealt
with the challenges of doing our job while watching our backs, managing up,
and dealing with difficult co-workers who treat others around them badly.
With all the advances women have made in the workplace, why is this issue
still holding us back? Our panel of high tech leaders will share how they
have achieved their leadership positions by successfully navigating office
politics, amplifying others contributions (men and women), and generously supporting high
potentials on the leadership track.
These and other questions on navigating politics in the workplace will be
explored by our panel this month.
Sept 10
@ LifeScan, 1051 S Milpitas Blvd. Bldg 2
Cafeteria
Annex Room
Milpitas
Women Making Their Own Rules
Facilitator
Pat Obuchowski, inVisionaria
Panelist Daniela Bayer, Business Intelligence Manager for Central &
Eastern Europe, Cisco
Panelist Sheryl Chamberlain, Director VMware Technology Alliance, EMC
Panelist
Sudha Jamthe, eBay
Panelist from LifeScan to be confirmed
Successful
women create their own brand - their own personal way of making things
happen. Sometimes they play within the rules, sometimes they make up their
own rules, but the results speak for themselves. Join us and hear the stories
from dynamic women who are making up the rules, as they go, while succeeding
and advancing within the traditional system. Learn from them, and start
thinking about how you can change the rules that are hindering your own success.
Oct 8 @
EMC, 2831 Mission College Boulevard
Santa Clara
Women Leading Innovation
Facilitator
Francine Gordon, FGordon Group and SDForum Tech Women's Program
Panelist Daniela Busse, Director of User Experience, SAP Labs
Panelist Shalini Govil-Pai, Lead PM, Google
Panelist Mirjana Spasojevic, Research Leader, Nokia Research Center
Panelist from EMC to be confirmed
Innovation
is todays buzzword - considered integral to an organizations culture, its
competitive advantage. As women rise in leadership positions in the tech
companies in Silicon Valley, how are they approaching the question of culture
and innovation? How have they successfully navigated the challenges of
advancement in todays high tech companies? What is their advice to the rest
of us?
Nov 12 @
eBay
Tips for Enlarging Your Sandbox: Learn to play with people
who don't act right (like you)
Facilitator
Kare Anderson, Say It Better
Panelist Christine Duran
Translation Technology & Quality Manager, Adobe Systems, Inc.
Panelist Preethy Padmanabhan, Team Lead in Ciscos voice solution engineering
team, Director of Professional Development in iCON Inclusion & Diversity
Group
Panelist from eBay to be Confirmed
Panelist from Life Technologies to be confirmed
In our
fast-paced, global world, both men and women leaders are faced with the need
to communicate clearly and rapidly to teams in all corners of the globe and
drive results. Gender and culture and other factors affect how well any exec
can perform. For this special When She Speaks session, we will first feature
a panel discussing best practices on cross-cultural communication, followed
by a special mini-workshop on Tips for Enlarging Your Sandbox: Learn to play
with people who do not act right (like you), led by our facilitator Kare
Anderson.
Beyond honing your main talent, your surest way to stay sought-after is to
strengthen your capacity to collaborate with people extremely unlike you. The
biggest stumbling block in work performance is not the talent of a team but
the ability for diverse individuals to understand each other and get along.
From the Obama campaign team collaboration director discover three ways to
bring out the best side amongst those of different cultures, ages, beliefs
and expertise. That way, they will become higher-performing and happier
together and for you.
Dec 10
@ Oracle in Redwood Shores
Leading Through a Changing of the Guard
Facilitator
Marcia Ruben, Ruben Consulting Group Ltd.
Panelist from Oracle to be confirmed
Other Panelists to be confirmed
In
business, you have to keep moving quickly, in response to market and customer
demands. Standing still can mean a death sentence, even if the short-term
numbers look good!
So corporate strategies are proactively changed, and new corporate executive
teams assume the reigns in the quest of proactive change.
Our panel this month has participated in many of these changing of the guard' as an executive from the incumbent and
from the newly-hired perspective. They will share their insights on how new
corporate management teams really hit the ground running:
- by leading a smooth changing of executive suite members,
- by minimizing cultural impact, while ushering in necessary near processes,
people and procedures, and
- by maximizing efficient bottom-line progress through a transition?
Please join us in thanking our speakers and facilitators and sponsors for FountainBlue's 2009 When She Speaks events.
Facilitator
Jo Miller, CEO, Women's Leadership Coaching Inc.
Panelist Sheri Atwood, VP of Global Solutions and Programs, Enterprise
Marketing, Symantec
Panelist Nina Bhatti, Principal Scientist, HP Labs
Panelist Jennifer Bleakney, VP, Worldwide Distribution and Customer Support,
National Semiconductor
Panelist Jan Schlossberg, Senior Mgr, Intellectual Property & Compliance,
Cisco
It has
been 22 years since the term glass ceiling was coined by the Wall Street
Journal to describe the apparent barriers that prevent women from reaching
the top of the corporate hierarchy; and it has been twelve years since the
American government's specially appointed Glass Ceiling Commission published
its recommendations. In 1995 the commission found that women had 45.7% of
America's jobs and more than half of master's degrees being awarded. Yet 95%
of senior managers were men, and female managers' earnings were on average a
mere 68% of their male counterparts'.
Twelve years later women account for 46.5% of America's workforce and for
less than 8% of its top managers.
Join us for a stimulating panel and discussion about why progress is so slow
and what we must do to effect real, and rapid, change.
Facilitator
Francine Gordon, FGordon Group and SDForum Tech Women's Program
Panelist Jennifer Hall, VP of HR, Intuit
Panelist Kristi McGee, Senior Director, Open Work Services Group, Sun
Microsystems
Panelist Linda Holroyd, CEO, FountainBlue
Panelist Phyllis Stewart Pires, Director of Community Experience, SAP Labs
Silicon
Valley women leaders are challenged by the corporate and business pressures
of high-stress, high-impact positions, while still juggling the personal
demands of life and family. In todays streamlined, fast-moving workplace,
its more important than ever to make the most of every day and every moment.
This month's When She Speaks event focuses on how successful women are
juggling these often-competing goals and what we can do to adjust our own and
others' expectations on us, in order to ease the load and the stress. Our
speakers will share their stories, commiserate with us, and challenge us to
re-evaluate our roles, our priorities, and our own expectations for
ourselves.
Facilitator
Sandra Wales, President, Wales Investments, Inc.
Panelist
Pat Cross, Vice President, Career Management, Right Management
Panelist
Lisa Dearborn, Vice President, Leadership Development, Hitachi Data Systems
Panelist
Lisa Jing, Program Manager, Integrative Health, Cisco
Panelist
Patricia Wimberly, Sr. Manager, Solutions Practice, Global Services - Western
Division, EMC Corporation
In this
century, it is much more difficult to plan your career path, as there is more
fluidity within and across corporations, across global markets, plus more
acceptance of people moving from one role or industry to another. This
month's panel will focus on agility as the key to building a successful
career, featuring women who have changed roles and industries, positions and
companies. They will share their stories of successes and challenges, and
also share how they are supporting others to do the same.
Facilitator
Camille Smith, Work In Progress Coaching
Panelist
Erna Arnesen, VP of Global Services, Channels and Alliances, Cisco
Panelist
Nina Bhatti, Principal Scientist, HP Labs
Panelist
Nancy Long, Sr Vice President of Human Resources, Hitachi Data Systems
Panelist
Alexandra Woody, Sr. Dir. Program Management & FPLC, Flextronics
We
admire and applaud the heroes and mentors in our lives who are leading with
power, influence and integrity. For this event, we will meet a panel of women
who are successfully leading with power, influence and integrity, who will
candidly share their barriers to and best practices for more effectively
leading others and producing results that create successful businesses and
fulfilling lives.
Panelist
Martha Galley, Senior Director, Windows Live Business Development, Microsoft
Panelist
Ruth Gaube, VP and Deputy Executive Council, Symantec
Panelist
Amy Gonzales, Regional West Coast Director, Women Unlimited
Panelist
Shivani Govil, Corporate Strategy Group, Office of the CEO, SAP
Panelist
Darcy Kiefaber, HR, LifeScan
As
leaders, we appreciate the mentors, leaders and role models upon whose
shoulders we stood. We carefully consider the support and guidance we are consciously
and unconsciously providing for those who come after us. This month's event
will focus on our mentoring relationships, how we can share more of what we
know with others and how we can identify the potential mentors available to
us. Our panelists will share the ways that their mentors have impacted their
thinking and development, and how this has, in turn, stimulated thoughts and
actions in support of others. In addition, well discuss how you can promote
mentoring in your organization.
Facilitator
Lisa Orrell, The Generation Relations Expert, The Orrell Group, author of
Millennials Incorporated
Panelist
Urvi Bhandari, AT&T
Panelist
Megan Campi, Customer Service Relationship Manager, Cisco
Panelist
Kristen Dearing, Sun Microsystems
Panelist
Claudia Galvan, Lead, International Program Management Group, Microsoft
Panelist
Shalini Govil-Pai, Lead PM, Google
Panelist
Lori Smith, Director of HR, Cisco
The
Millennial Generation otherwise known as Generation Y is no longer made-up of
just kids and teens. The eldest are now graduating college and entering the
professional workforce.
How will this affect corporations looking to recruit and retain them?
What is unique about this generation, and how and why should corporations
recruit and retain them?
Our panel of esteemed hiring managers and HR professionals work closely with
Millennials and proactively plan recruitment and management strategies for
these uniquely prized workers.
Panelist
Nancy Long, Senior Vice President, Global Human Resources, Hitachi Data
Systems
Panelist
Marleen McDaniel, Serial Entrepreneur and Business Adviser
In
other months of our When She Speaks Series, we touch upon the gender issue
tangentially, but this month, the gender issue will be the theme. Questions
may include:
What makes an effective woman leader, particularly one in a high tech world?
What are some typically feminine leadership traits, and how can they be
leveraged in a male-dominated world?
How does one interact with other women, and their unique leadership styles?
How can one better understand her one style, and proactively expand it?
These and other questions on gender and leadership in high tech will be
explored by our panel this month.
Panelist
Mercedes De Luca, Global Customer Experience and Chief Information Officer at
myShape.com, previously VP of Global IT at Yahoo!
Panelist
Lise E Edwards, Oracle Women's Leadership (OWL), Program Manager, Oracle
Human Resources
Panelist
Susan Lai, Senior Director, Finance, Symantec Corporation
Panelist
Eileen Sullivan, Group Director, Cadence
Lets
face it office politics is a reality for everyone, regardless of the size
of your organization or your position. As professionals we have all dealt
with the challenges of doing our job while watching our backs, managing up,
and dealing with difficult co-workers who treat others around them badly.
With all the advances women have made in the workplace, why is this issue
still holding us back? Our panel of high tech leaders will share how they
have achieved their leadership positions by successfully navigating office
politics, amplifying others contributions (menand women), and generously supporting high
potentials on the leadership track.
These and other questions on navigating politics in the workplace will be
explored by our panel this month.
Panelist
Peggy Wolf, Manager, Cisco Services Global I&D
In our
fast-paced, global world, both men and women leaders are faced with the need
to communicate clearly and rapidly to teams in all corners of the globe and
drive results. Gender and culture and other factors affect how well any exec
can perform. This month's panel of women executives will share their secrets
on how to effectively communicate across cultures to drive results.
Innovation'
is today's buzzword - considered integral to an organization's culture, its
competitive advantage. As women rise in leadership positions in the tech
companies in Silicon Valley, how are they approaching the question of culture
and innovation? How have they successfully navigated the challenges of
advancement in today's high tech companies? What is their advice to the rest
of us?
Panelist
Pamela E. Evans, Director, Executive Programs, NetApp
Panelist
Cecily Joseph, Director, Corporate Responsibility, Legal and Public Affairs,
Symantec
Panelist
Marilyn Nagel, Director, WW Diversity & Inclusion, Cisco
Panelist
Keren Pavese, Program Manager, Western Division Office of Sustainability,
Community Outreach & Diversity Councils, EMC
Corporate
leaders have the experience, impact, and authority to support their
communities, yet often times, they don't have the time or bandwidth to
actively participate in nonprofit boards. This month, we will feature some
inspirational corporate women who are passionate and dedicated to their
corporate AND their community causes, and they will share how supporting one
cause, benefits the other.
In
business, you have to keep moving quickly, in response to market and customer
demands. Standing still can mean a death sentence, even if the short-term
numbers look good!
So corporate strategies are proactively changed, and new corporate executive
teams assume the reigns in the quest of proactive change.
Our panel this month has participated in many of these 'changing of the
guards' as an executive from the incumbent and from the newly-hired
perspective. They will share their insights on how new corporate management
teams really hit the ground running:
- by leading a smooth changing of executive suite members,
- by minimizing cultural impact, while ushering in necessary near processes,
people and procedures, and
- by maximizing efficient bottom-line progress through a transition?
Below is a list of our past events for 2008, all of which were hosted at EMC. We would like to thank our speakers and our sponsors for their support.
Date
Title
Panelists
Description
1/10/2008
The Glass Ceiling And Other Tragedies
Facilitator Linda Prowse Fosler, Linda Prowse Fosler and Associates
Panelist Sarah Jane Militello, former Manager at HP, former General Manager at Agilent, President Varnare LLC
Panelist Marilyn Nagel, Director, WW Diversity & Inclusion, Cisco
Panelist Conchita Franco Serri, Ed.M., J.D., former Director of Affirmative Action, Santa Clara University; President Serri Compliance Training
It has been 22 years since the term glass ceiling was coined by the Wall Street Journal to describe the apparent barriers that prevent women from reaching the top of the corporate hierarchy; and it has been twelve years since the American government's specially appointed Glass Ceiling Commission published its recommendations. In 1995 the commission found that women had 45.7% of America's jobs and more than half of master's degrees being awarded. Yet 95% of senior managers were men, and female managers' earnings were on average a mere 68% of their male counterparts'. Twelve years later women account for 46.5% of America's workforce and for less than 8% of its top managers. Join us for a stimulating panel and discussion about why progress is so slow and what we must do to effect real, and rapid, change.
2/14/2008
The Up and Comers
Four-Star Panel
Facilitator Nancy Monson, Nancy Monson Coaching
Panelist Katy Levine, Cisco
Panelist Connie Lin, The Zitter Group
Panelist Keren Pavese, EMC Corporation
Five-Star Panel
Facilitator Nancy Monson, Nancy Monson Coaching
Panelist Terri Jordan, VP, Tech Operations, eBay
Panelist Sridevi Koneru, Director, Engineering, Wireless Networking Business Unit, Cisco
Panelist Susan Mernit, Senior Director for the Yahoo! Personals products
Panelist Kathleen Murtha, EMC Corporation
Panelist Eileen Sullivan, Group Director, Cadence
Women are making a difference in at all levels within corporations. In honor of Valentines Day, FountainBlue is pleased to partner with ATW and GWLN and EMC Corporation to produce a half day, interactive program which celebrates women in leadership roles and their contributions.
Join us as we applaud their contributions and investigate questions such as:
What are the secrets to being recognized as an up and comer? How did they get help along the way? How can up and comers make work-life balance choices while climbing the corporate ladder? How can we as women support each other whether were on the leadership tract or not? How are up-and-comers giving back to the community?
The event will provide much food for thought for women at all levels within organizations, whether they are up and comers or not.
3/13/2008
Work-Life Balance
Facilitator Kristi Royse, KLR Consulting
Panelist Raji Arasu, eBay
Panelist Lisa Jing, Program Manager, Integrated Health Team, Cisco
Panelist Allison Leopold Tilley, Partner and Co-Head Corporate Securities & Technology Section, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Panelist Linda Levenson, CEO, Morphosis Rejuvenation Center
Panelist Catherine Moore, Director Business HR, Nokia Research Center
Silicon Valley women leaders are challenged by the corporate and business pressures of high-stress, high-impact positions, while still juggling the personal demands of life and family. In todays streamlined, fast-moving workplace, its more important than ever to make the most of every day and every moment. This month's When She Speaks event focuses on how successful women are juggling these often-competing goals and what we can do to adjust our own and others' expectations on us, in order to ease the load and the stress. Our speakers will share their stories, commiserate with us, and challenge us to re-evaluate how roles, our priorities, and our own expectations for ourselves.
4/10/2008
Leading with Power, Influence and Integrity
Facilitator Linda Holroyd, CEO, FountainBlue
Panelist Bettina Koblick, VP of HR, Global Talent, Symantec
Panelist Su Lim, VP of Business Development, EMC Corporation
Panelist Bev Strand, Diversity and Inclusion, Cisco
Panelist Barbara Williams, Sr. HR Manager, Sun Microsystems and President of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Oakland Bay Area Chapter
We admire and applaud the heroes and mentors in our lives who are leading with power, influence and integrity. For this event, we will meet a panel of women who are successfully leading with power, influence and integrity, who will candidly share their barriers to and best practices for more effectively leading others and producing results that create successful businesses and fulfilling lives.
Panelist Maria Schaffer, Strategic Alliances, Cisco
As leaders, we appreciate the mentors, leaders and role models upon whose shoulders we stood. We carefully consider the support and guidance we are consciously and unconsciously providing for those who come after us. This month's event will focus on our mentoring relationships, how we can share more of what we know with others and how we can identify the potential mentors available to us. Our panelists will share the ways that their mentors have impacted their thinking and development, and how this has, in turn, stimulated thoughts and actions in support of others. In addition, well discuss how you can promote mentoring in your organization.
6/12/2008
Staying On Top In a Changing Global World
Facilitator Amy Gonzales, Women Unlimited
Panelist Judy Armstrong, former CIO, Logitech
Panelist Shirley Olerich, VP of Human Resources, Adaptec
Panelist MeMe Rasmussen, VP and General Counsel, Adobe Systems
Panelist Lisa Simpson, VP, Business Operations, Market Analysis and Messaging, Alcatel-Lucent
The World is changing - getting bigger, but better connected, with more opportunities, and more barriers.
Are there more opportunities for women in lead in a more global world? What are the unique challenges and opportunities for women to take that next leadership step? How will networking, mentoring and education support that growing community of women leaders with global impact?
This month's program will feature some of these women leaders as they share the challenges of leading in a changing, ever more global world.
7/10/2008
Women at the Top of Their Game
Facilitator Linda Holroyd, CEO, FountainBlue
Panelist Sandra Hassett, Director of Customer Service, LifeScan
Panelist Barbara Massa, Senior Director, Recruiting Services, EMC Corporation
Panelist Patricia Perry, Vice President, Digital Health Group, Intel Corporation
Panelist Amy Rubin, Marketing Director, Sandisk
Panelist Jackie Seto, Vice President, Product and Strategic Marketing, Lam Research
For this month's When She Speaks conversation, we will gather women who leverage the disciplines of sports - endurance, strength, flexibility, stamina, and perseverance - to address the daunting work-life demands imposed on women leaders in today's corporations. We will cover the challenges and opportunities that leadership presents and how the important practices of self-leadership and personal accountability help them to more effectively leverage their leadership style and inspire others to also lead with power, influence and integrity.
8/14/2008
The Value of Culture
Facilitator Cathy Light, Business Builders and Assessment Leaders
Panelist Denise Herrick, VP of HR, Panasas
Panelist Dr. Bee Ng, Director Learning and Development, Intuit
Panelist Titina Ott, Vice President, Organizational Effectiveness &Managing Director of Women's Leadership, Oracle
Panelist Mary Stanton-Stern, HR Director, EMC Corporation
Panelist Erica Wright, Director of Human Resources, Life Sciences Solutions Unit, Life Sciences and Chemical Analysis, Agilent
Leaders define the overall direction of an organization, and whether it achieves results for its stakeholders and shareholders. How leaders conduct themselves, and communicate and work with those around them sets the tone for an organizations culture. This months When She Speaks panel will profile examples and counterexamples of company cultures and share advice on how you, as a leader, from any chair, can positively impact the organization for which you work.
9/12/2008
The Feminine Face of Leadership
Facilitator Beata Lewis, Bridging Lives
Panelist Azlina Ahmad, Director of Engineering, Cisco
Panelist Jessica Chan, R&D Group Director, Cadence
Panelist Karen Pieper, Director of Synthesis at Tabula, Inc.
Panelist Samantha Thomas, CSO, Information Security, California State Department of Financial Institutions
The pre-dominant gender of leaders, particularly in the high tech sector, are males. But the questions arise: How are women who gravitate to technology fields different than their peers? What unique challenges do women leaders in science face? What do women need in order to succeed and lead in their chosen technology field? How can women technology leaders shape leadership practices to be more inclusive of others, including women?
10/10/2008
Women Leading Innovation
Facilitator Krista Henley and Rossella Derickson, Corporate Wisdom and SBODN
Panelist Elizabeth Churchill, Principal Research Scientist, Yahoo! Research
Panelist Penny Howie, Director of Training and Technical Support, Varian Medical Systems, Executive on Loan to United Way
Panelist Janice Nickel, Senior Research Scientist, HP Laboratories
Panelist Liz Rajaram, Director of Engineering, Cisco Network Management
Innovation' is today's buzzword - considered integral to an organization's culture, its competitive advantage. As women rise in leadership positions in the tech companies in Silicon Valley, how are they approaching the question of culture and innovation? How have they successfully navigated the challenges of advancement in today's high tech companies? What is their advice to the rest of us?
11/14/2008
Overcoming Adversity
Facilitator Mary Beth Deans, Douglas Partners
Panelist Lilly Chung, Lead Client Service Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP; Regional Managing Principal, Initiative for the Retention and Advancement of Women, Deloitte
Panelist Pat Dando, CEO, San Jose Chamber of Commerce
Panelist Sharon Durey, Training Manager, Field Development, Content Management and Archiving, EMC Corporation
Panelist Natascha Thomson, Director of Global Ecosystem and Partner Marketing, SAP
As we have heard from many past sessions, the leaders and heroes of today had experienced and overcome much adversity before achieving success. This event invites successful women to share their tales of adversity and offer advice and inspiration for the rest of us as we face our own obstacles.
Panelist Catherine Moore, Director of Business HR, Nokia Research Center
Panelist Connie Osborne, Director of Business Development, Singer Lewak
Panelist Preethy Padmanabhan, Director of Professional Development, iCON Inclusion & Diversity Group, Cisco Systems
This month, we will celebrate the successes of women leaders who foster diversity within their organizations and demonstrate how and why diversity stimulates innovation, engages teams, and delivers results. Our esteemed panel will share their success stories, talk about how they rose to positions of authority, despite representing diverging viewpoints, and provide advice on how to embrace diversity within a team and an organization.
See below for a list of program topics and facilitators for 2007. Register for any upcoming program by visiting
Patti Wilson, The Career Company Panliest Linda Prowse Fosler, Prowse-Fosler and Associates Panliest Francine Gordon, ATW and FGordon Group Panliest Mona Hudak, Cisco Panliest Praveena Varadarajan, Sun Microsystems
Friday, February 9
Healthy Lifestyle Choices
Facilitator Geetha Rao Panliest Lisa Jing, Cisco Systems, Integrated Health Initiative Panliest Julie Johnston, El Camino Hospital Panliest Linda Williams, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte
Friday, March 9
Women in Policy
Facilitator Leslee Guardino, Canyon Snow Panelist Cindy Chavez, former Vice-Mayor, City of San Jose Panelist Kathleen King, City of Saratoga City Council Panelist Liz Kniss, Supervisor, County of Santa Clara Panelist Bev Strand, Manager, Strategic Partnerships, Worldwide Diversity & Inclusion, Cisco, Member, California Commission on the Status of Women Panelist Michelle Wright-Conn, Cisco Global Policy and Government Affairs
Thursday, April 12
Leading with Power, Influence and Integrity
Facilitators Camille Smith, Work In Progress Coaching Panelist Michele Forte, Senior Director of Development, CARE Panelist Afsaneh Laidlaw, Senior Director of Engineering, Cisco Panelist Tammi Smorynski, Intel Capital Panelist Natascha Thomson, Senior Manager, Market Intelligence, EMC, Women's Leadership Forum at EMC
Thursday, May 10
The Mentors in Our Lives
Moderator Catherine Ngo, Startup Capital Ventures Panelist Joan Banich, Cisco Panelist Sheryl Chamberlain, Global Alliance Manager, EMC and Chair of Mentorship Program, ATW Panelist Carol Muller, MentorNet Panelist Eileen Sullivan, Cadence
Thursday, June 14
Optimizing Your Team
Moderator Rossella Derickson and Krista Henley, Corporate Wisdom and SBODN Panelist Sheryl Chamberlain, Global Alliance Manager, EMC, Director ATW Mentorship Program Panelist Vickie Grove, Development Director, Child Advocates Panelist Amy Heidersbach, Vice President, Product and Merchant Marketing, VISA Panelist Hali White, Director Process Excellence Office, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
Thursday, July 12
Women at the Top of Their Game
Moderator Roberta LaPorte, RAL & Associates Panelist Lisa Felder, Team in Training, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Panelist Tracy Hughes, Global Lead for Cisco Sport and Entertainment Panelist Barbara Massa, Director of Recruiting Services, EMC Panelist Amy Rubin, Director, Digital Marketing Strategies and Programs, Intel Panelist Jackie Seto, Managing Director of SW, MEMS & 3D IC, Lam Research
Thursday, August 9
Corporate Social Responsibility and the Bottom Line
Moderator Theresa Wilson, Partner, Lighthouse Blue Panelist Brenda Hendricksen, AMD Panelist Tracy Meersman, EMC Panelist Joni Podolsky, Director of Community Programs, The Entrepreneurs' Foundation Panelist Kathy Wheeler, Senior Manager, Global Community Involvement, Cadence
Thursday, September 13
Leadership Styles: What's Gender Got to Do With It?
Moderator Bonita Banducci, Banducci Consulting Panelist Carolyn Crandall, Vice President Marketing and Channels, Seagate Panelist Pat Cross, VP, Career Management Consulting, Right Management Panelist Eileen Fussner, Vice President of Channel Sales for the Content Management & Archiving division, EMC Corporation Panelist Vinie Zhang, Vice President, Hitachi Corporate Ventures
Thursday, October 11
Women Leading Innovation
Moderator Beata Lewis, Bridging Lives Panelist Karri Carlson, Senior Product Manager, AOL, LLC Panelist Jenny Dormoy, Director Customer Deployability, EMC Panelist Joy Mountford, VP User Experience and Design, Yahoo! Inc. Panelist Marie Tahir, Director of Technology Innovation Group, Intuit
Thursday, November 8
Female Intrapreneurs
Facilitator Kimberly Wiefling, Wiefling Consulting Panelist Nina Bhatti, Senior Scientist, HP Labs Panelist Sheryl Chamberlain, Director, Global Alliances, EMC Corporation Panelist Cecily Joseph, Director of Corporate Responsibility, Symantec Corporation Panelist Diane Pennica, Senior Scientist in Molecular Oncology, Genentech
Thursday, December 13
Leveraging Diversity for Business Results
Facilitator Maria Hernandez, MGH Consulting LLC Panelist Sharon Durey, Training Manager, Inside Sales, EMC Corporation Panelist Wilma Flanagan, Partner and Managing Director for Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) Pacific Northwest Consulting Group Panelist Sharon Hughes, Director of HR, LifeScan Panelist Carin Taylor, Senior Manager of Global Diversity, Cisco
We are grateful to each of our 2006 facilitators and panelists for their participation and support and proudly acknowledge them below.
Date
Title
Panelists
Sponsored Nonprofit
Friday, May 12
Overcoming Adversity
Christine Comaford-Lynch, Mighty Ventures Linda Holroyd, FountainBlue
Support Network for Battered Women
Friday, June 9
Leaving a Legacy
Ann Tardy, LifeMoxie Jennifer Rowe, Community Foundation Silicon Valley
Catherine Zinn, DLA Piper Michelle Messina, Explora International Catherine Ngo, Startup Capital Ventures
Global Women's Fund
Friday, September 8
Education is Fundamental: The Need for a Public-Private Partnership
Usha Sekar Geoff Ainscow, Sunnyvale School District Education Foundation Hillary Aitken, BUILD Anna Song, Santa Clara County Board of Education Paula Wasowska, Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group
Santa Clara County Office of Education
Friday, October 13
It Takes a Village: The Case for Collaborative Leadership
Katharine Fong, San Jose Mercury News Patricia Burbank, One World Children's Fund Dyan Chan, Lighthouse Blue Mona Hudak, Cisco
One World Children's Fund
Friday, November 10
Fostering Women Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
Linda Alepin, Global Women Leadership Network Panelist Remi Matsumoto, Founder and President of the Hina Coral Restoration Network Praveena Varadarajan, Sun Microsystems
Global Women Leadership Network
Friday, December 8
Creating a Work-Life Balance
Michele Bolton, ExecutivEdge Jennifer Gill Roberts, Maven Ventures Jan Dukes-Schlossberg, Cisco Nivisha Mehta, El Camino Hospital Foundation Kristi Royse, KLR Consulting
El Camino Hospital Foundation
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