[ACM-W] 1st Annual Women in Project Management Conference
Bettina Bair
bair.41 at osu.edu
Mon Jan 28 15:51:46 EST 2008
FYI...
*1st Annual Women In Project Management Conference
<https://www.projectmanagementresourcegroup.com/1st_Annual_WIPM_Conference.php>
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Date: *Thursday, June
12, 2008 *& *Friday, June 13, 2008 *
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Location: *The Columbus Athenaeum*
32 North 4th Street, Columbus, OH)
(4th Street between Broad & Gay)
Time: *8:30-5:00* (8-8:30 registration/breakfast)
(Lunch and all materials included)
Price: See *registration form
*<https://www.projectmanagementresourcegroup.com/1st_Annual_WIPMRegistration.php>for
eligible member organizations
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*Registration received before April 1
*Member: $425 per day (Thurs or Fri)Member: $750 both days
(Thurs & Fri)
Non-member: $475 per day (Thurs or Fri)Non-member: $850 both days (Thurs &
Fri)
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*Registration received before May 1
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Member: $475 per day (Thurs or
Fri)Member: $850 both days (Thurs & Fri)
Non-member: $525 per day (Thurs or Fri)Non-member: $950 both days (Thurs &
Fri)
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*Registration received After May 1
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Member: $525 per day (Thurs or Fri)Member: $950
both days (Thurs & Fri)
Non-member: $575 per day (Thurs or Fri)Non-member: $1050
both days (Thurs & Fri)
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REGISTER HERE <https://www.projectmanagementresourcegroup.com/1st_Annual_WIPMRegistration.php>
Seats are limited 7.5 PDU's Per Day
<https://www.projectmanagementresourcegroup.com/PDUs_CEUs.php>
Register Early!!!
Thursday, June 12th - Speakers Bios and Topics
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Carol Evans - Keynote Speaker
President and CEO, Working Mother Media and Working Mother Magazine
*
Carol Evans is the founder and CEO of Working Mother Media
(WMM). Ms. Evans' history with Working Mother Media has been a long and
illustrious one. From 1979 through 1989, Carol took the advertising revenue
of Working Mother Magazine from $100,000 to more than $14 Million, expanded
circulation from 100,000 Quarterly to 700,000 Monthly, and launched such
initiatives as: *Working Mother **100 Best Companies, *now in its 22 year.
In 2001, Carol bought Working Mother Magazine, Work Life Congress, and the
National Association of Female Executives, creating what is now Working
Mother Media. In January of 2007, after purchasing Diversity Best Practices,
Working Mother Media became the largest US media company focusing on
diversity, work life balance, and culture change. WMM also publishes
several well known and respected lists, such as: *Best Companies for
Multicultural Women*, *Best Companies for Women of Color*, *NAFE top 30
companies for Executive Women*, and *Best Law Firms for Women*. Carol's
first award winning book, *This Is How We Do It: The Working Mothers'
Manifesto*, was published and released in April 2006. She is a highly
acclaimed keynote speaker on the subject of work-life balance, the
advancement of women, barriers facing women of color, and leadership, and
has appeared on every major talk show including *The Early Show, The Today
Show, Oprah, Good Morning America, Montel Williams*, PBS' *To the Contrary *and
on hundreds of radio shows and in newspapers nationwide.
*KEYNOTE TOPIC: This is How We Do It: The Working Mothers' Manifesto *
In this talk Carol Evans shares from her
research of the experiences of 500 working mothers, the wisdom of nearly 3
Million Working Mother Magazine readers, the practices of the highly
competitive 100 Best Companies list, and her own personal strategies.
As a result of this research, you will
learn specific, innovative, tried and true solutions of how working mothers
across the country successfully balance family and career. By creating a
network of working women within your community, you will learn how to ask
for and get what you need and companies will better learn how to provide it.
This session will help you to transition
from a* work life *to a* life that works.
*
*Laurie Ford, Ph.D.
*President, Critical Path Consultants
Dr. Laurie Ford is a recognized expert in
leadership, management communication, and coordination between departments
and teams to achieve bottom-line performance objectives and make management
easy and effective.
Dr. Ford has written dozens of published articles, and her textbook on *How
to Hotwire Your Organization* has helped train more than a thousand MBA
students. Her best-selling book, written with her husband Professor Jeffrey
Ford, is *Deadline Busting: How to be a Star Performer in Your Organization*,
and is used by executives, managers, and management students in the US,
Europe, Asia and Africa.
*SESSION TOPIC: Collaboration For Accomplishment*
Project Managers are experts in using tools to track activities, deadlines,
and results for complex projects. But, the people-challenge is often the
most daunting part of project management. How can you engage people and have
them be highly effective, even those who do not directly report to you, but
are critical to your success? The author of the MBA text, "Hotwire Your
Organization" shows you the 4-step method for translating your project
requirements into agreements that will get everybody engaged in effective
action. In this session, you will gain new insights to re-frame the "people
problem" of project management, eliminate communication surprises, and
guarantee successful project completion.
*Patricia Shafer
*President, Compel Organizational Excellence Alliance, Ltd
Patricia Shafer is president of Compel Organizational
Excellence Alliance, Ltd., dedicated to Evoking Courageous Leadership. Shafer
specializes in four practice areas: inspiring leaders, mentoring
multinationals, empowering women, and transforming technology. In 2005,
Patricia was a contributing author to the best selling business book
*Enlightened
Power: How Women are Transforming the Practice of Leadership*. In 2006,
Patricia led the global research initiative - The World at Work: Men and
Women Managers Tell Us What's Changed and What Still Needs to Change in
Organizations, and in 2007 she co-authored The Women in Technology 2007
Report.
*SESSION TOPIC: POWERFUL and CONNECTED:
An Interactive Workshop on Women Transforming the Future Through Project
Management *
Project management is central to the success of
21stcentury organizations.
Women have become essential to project management, leadership, and teamwork.
Never before have women influenced so many complex organizational networks
of information, relationships, and tasks. *But what does the future
hold?*This three-part, interactive workshop and dialogue will answer
this question
and empower you to demonstrate a new level of courageous leadership in
project management.
Based on Patricia Shafer's research and work, she has
conducted this workshop for thousands of women in mid-level and senior
project roles. You will learn how the increasing importance of
communication, connection, collaboration, participation, relationships and
"meaning creation" are essential to achieving project success. The "Powerful
and Connected" workshop goes right to the heart of this matter.
Part One, "A Call to Women for Transformation" begins with
an overview of global forces that are pressing for a new style of project
management particularly suited to women's ways of managing and leading. But
*seeing possibility* is just one step; getting *in action and overcoming
personal and organizational blocks* is another.
Part Two, "Tapping My Own Deeper Power" acknowledges
messages women receive every day about how much "power" they do or don't
have. It will give you tools you can use to more confidently influence your
surroundings.
In Part Three, "Getting Connected: Becoming a Collective
Force" you will participate in an exercise to help you more effectively
align with other women (and men) to become a leader of positive change. You
will leave the workshop with renewed energy and specific steps to take back
to your job, which will empower and assist you to make a difference in the
"real world".
*Friday, June 13th - **Speakers Bios and Topics**
*
*Donna James
*Managing Director, Lardon & Associates LLC
Plenty of hard work, combined with her superior business
and entrepreneurial skills, enabled Donna James, once a single, teenage
mother, to climb the corporate ladder to become the first African American
women executive at Nationwide, one of the country's largest insurance and
financial services companies. During her tenure at Nationwide, Donna was VP
of Human Resources, Executive Vice President of Nationwide Insurance and
Financial Services, as well as President of Nationwide Strategic
Investments. Holding those positions enabled Donna to advocate and initiate
programs for diversity throughout the corporate world. Currently Donna
James is the managing director of Lardon & Associates LLC and corporate
director for three Fortune 500 Public companies including Coca Cola
Enterprises, Limited Brands, and Conseco Inc. In 2005, Donna James was
named by Black Enterprise Magazine as one of the top 75 African Americans in
Corporate America. Donna is an excellent motivational speaker for business
and non-business related groups.
*KEYNOTE TOPIC:* *Turning Points*
Donna James talk, Turning Points, is drawn from the personal experiences,
triumphs, set-backs, and lessons learned from her life. In spite of, or
because of pressures coming from all sides, she strove for and accomplished
a balance between motherhood and personal life, and being a highly effective
and respected corporate executive. She overcame the odds! In the male
dominated insurance industry she rose to prominence as a woman, and an
African American woman at that.
Donna will share many of her practical life lessons shaped by her corporate
experiences: how she overcame what for many were showstoppers, to rise to
the top in her career and mentor others to far succeed their own career
expectations.
Today Ms. James is living a life of purpose. You will be inspired as Donna
shares her power and her passion for making a difference for others through
philanthropy and the vision she continually brings into reality as founder
of the Center for Healthy Families.
*Susan Hall
*Vice President, Transformation Consultants International Inc.
Susan Hall is Vice President of Consulting at
Transformational Consultants International Inc. With over 20 years of
experience, Mrs. Hall's expertise lies in strategic planning, global and
domestic diversity, high performance team building, and communications. Susan
is a highly sought after consultant and coach for executives and high-level
managers for the development and expansion of their managerial and
leadership skills. In addition, Susan is a highly skilled Birkman
consultant and is one of a few individuals certified at Level II by Birkman
International Inc.
*
SESSION TOPIC: Creating Powerful, High Performance Teams *
As project managers, we are all used to working in and
usually leading a team, or are we? In this presentation, we will
differentiate between groups of people working toward a common purpose and
those that function as a TEAM. You will learn the characteristics that
differentiate groups from TEAMS, and the benefits possible for TEAMS that
are not available for groups. Using a four step developmental process, you
will follow the creation of a highly effective TEAM, from Forming, through
Storming and Norming, to Performing.
Throughout this four step process, and in virtually everything that we
do with others, you will see that one critical factor is communication. By
examining a general communication model, you will learn how to have your
communications work for you.
Finally, we'll look at team members themselves and how our
behavioral styles dictate our strengths and orientations. Through an
interesting exercise, you will see your own behavioral style and how you
naturally act and react.
BOTTOM LINE …you will leave this presentation with the insight
and tools you can use to transform your project team into a highly effective
and performing TEAM.
*Rose Mary Tyler / Lisa Foster
*President, Women In Project Management SIG, Project Management Institute
Rose Mary Tyler, PMP has over 20 years experience in IT and
project management, and is employed at Electronic Data Systems as a Senior
Project Manager. Her passion is project management which she promotes both
within EDS in her project manager role, as well as in the Project Management
Institute(PMI) as a volunteer leader. Currently Rose is Chair of the PMI
Women in Project Management Specific Interest Group which has 3000+ members
across the globe. She is also a member of PMI's advisory group for virtual
community transformation. Rose is also active in the PMI Great Lakes
Chapter.
Lisa Foster, PMP has over 20 years experience in IT and project/program
management and is employed at Electronic Data Systems as a Senior Program
Manager. Lisa is a member of the Women in Technology Mentoring Program at
Walsh College where she also teaches project management courses as an
Adjunct Instructor. As a member of the American Association of University
Women, Lisa conducts the annual Explorathon workshop for the AAUW-Birmingham
Michigan chapter; which encourages girls in middle school to stay in the
math and sciences. Lisa is also active in both the PMI Great Lakes Chapter
and the PMI Women in Project Management SIG.
*SESSION
TOPIC: We've Come a Long Way, Baby: Women Make Great Business Leaders! *
As the old VirginiaSlims Cigarette ad campaign used to
say, "You've Come a Long Way, Baby!" Women have, in fact, come a long way
in being accepted as great leaders and a significant force in today's world
economy. Who ever thought Fortune Magazine would have an annual issue
devoted to the top female leaders in business? Ditto to the realm of world
politics-who ever thought the U.S. would have a woman running for president
in 2008? There are even cable TV stations dedicated to the women's market.
But in spite of validation that the female gender is powerful, a lot of old
attitudes and questions still haunt women in many industries and
occupations, including our beloved project management profession. Is
leadership really impacted by gender differences? Does displaying emotions
undermine you as a leader? Can women be wives, mothers, and leaders at the
same time and be successful in all of those roles? Is the proverbial "glass
ceiling" finally developing cracks?
This presentation will provide you with some insight into
several key points about gender stereotypes, leadership traits, challenges
in our project management profession, and what we can do to transform
ourselves into great leaders in all of the roles we perform.
>From this presentation you will:
* Learn why and how networking and mentoring can be your greatest
asset
* Be able to identify key characteristics of a good leader
* Identify the resources you have that can make a difference in your
personal and professional life
* Gain increased awareness of gender differences in the field
of project management and how to
make best use of those differences
*Anne Donnellon*
Associate Professor of Management at Babson College
Dr. Donnellon is an Associate Professor of
Management at Babson College and a faculty associate of Babson's Center for
Women's Leadership. She teaches leadership, negotiation, teamwork, and
organizational design in the MBA and executive education programs. Anne
authored *Team Talk: The Power of Language in Team Dynamics*, published by
Harvard Business School Press and also developed with them an interactive
corporate training product entitled *Teams That Work*. Dr. Donnellon has
also taught at Harvard Business School and the University of Colorado. Her
areas of expertise include leadership and influence, negotiation and
conflict management, teamwork, and organizational change.
*SESION TOPIC: Negotiation *
Project management is perhaps one of the most
underappreciated roles in today's companies. The organizational ability,
discipline, and operational intensity that undergird this work are critical
to organizational effectiveness, but too often project managers are not
recognized for the value they are creating at their firms. Sometimes this
is because a PM may prefer to stay under the radar and let others take the
glory, sometimes the PM does not get recognition because she takes on too
much of the work herself, sometimes it is because a PM doesn't know or take
advantage of the power she can have in influencing people over whom she has
no authority. All of these limit the responsibility, recognition, and
resources potentially available to the PM.
In this session, we will focus on key negotiation concepts that will help
you improve your project management practices and enable you to negotiate
more effectively for yourself. Through this presentation, case discussions,
and roleplays, you will learn and practice techniques for creating value
through negotiation and allow you to claim your fair share - in both
professional and personal settings.
Presented by Project Management Resource Group, Inc.
Phone: 614-309-6565 *ProjectManagementResourceGroup.com
<https://www.projectmanagementresourcegroup.com/Home_Page.php>
*
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