Focusing on Leadership: Personality, Styles, Vision, and Conundrums, this year’s Women’s conference will include six conference sessions, a continental breakfast, lunch, and a reception beginning poolside at 4:15 featuring the hospitality tables of our lead sponsors. |
175 West Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz
Cost is $89 per person
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Billie Shepard, Silicon Valley presentation and media coach, professional actor and acting coach. Billie has coached all types of public speakers from all over the world… corporate executives, HR professionals, doctors, financial analysts, managers, engineers… from clients including Cisco Systems, Lockheed Martin, Wells Fargo, Northrop Grumman, Intuit, Novellus, Redback Networks, Cypress Semiconductor. She produces and hosts workshops including such notable guest instructors as Alan Arkin. As an actor Billie has appeared in lead roles in Equity productions nationwide and has been featured in numerous TV productions such as Nash Bridges, Disney’s Not Quite Human. |
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Francine Gordon, executive coach and organization consultant. A former assistant professor of Organization Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Dr. Gordon starting her own business after more than five years as the global knowledge expert on Human Resources issues with Boston Consulting Group (BCG). She holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Organizational Behavior from Yale University and is the co-editor of a book, Bringing Women Into Management (McGraw-Hill) on integrating women into executive management. Her clients have included Global 500 companies in high technology, finance, biotechnology, industrial goods, and pharmaceuticals in North America, Europe and Asia. |
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Kimberly Weifling, international educator and management consultant. She prepares teams to achieve “impossible” results in companies of all sizes. Educated as a physicist, Kimberly was VP of Program Management at Outride, Inc., a Xerox Parc spin-off purchased by Google. She spends four months each year teaching Japanese businesses to be “scrappy”. Kimberly has led program and project teams at ReplayTV, Candescent Technologies and Hewlett-Packard. Her consulting emphasizes practical, common-sense business leadership and program management solutions to deliver predictable, reproducible results. She works with companies to implement leadership and program management strategies that both increased profitability and dramatic improvements in the quality of life for leaders and workers. Kimberly’s first book Scrappy Project Management: The 12 Predictable and Avoidable Pitfalls Every Project Faces will be released in September, 2008. |
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Ariadne Symons, Assistant District Attorney and educator. Head of trial operations for the Santa Cruz County District Attorney’s office, Ari manages the trial case load and supervises trial attorneys in the DA’s office as well as prosecuting many of the County’s highest profile cases. She has also taught law as an Adjunct Professor at Wake Forest University School of Law, has been an instructor at the National Institution for Trial Advocacy, and is a frequent guest lecturer at attorney training seminars. Prior to coming to Santa Cruz Ari served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Washington D.C., a Special Trial Attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Organized Crime and Racketeering Strike Force, and with District Attorney’s offices in North Carolina and Orange County. |
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Lynda Rogers, UCSC Assistant Vice Provost for Silicon Valley Initiatives. Lynda oversees the academic and administrative affairs of the Provost’s office including furthering the instructional, research and administrative goals at the Silicon Valley Center and providing policy direction in areas of program growth and development, public information, internal and external relations. Lynda was formerly the Executive Director of the UC Online Academy. She is a graduate of Santa Cruz High School and UC Santa Cruz with a Masters in Educational Administration from SJSU. She has completed her doctoral studies at the University of La Verne in Organizational Leadership and is currently completing her dissertation: A Historical Study of the University of California, Santa Cruz 1965-2005. |
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Leadership Conundrums Barbara Scherer, Pamela Davis, Ann Morhauser, Donna Murphy |
8:00 a.m. |
EVENT REGISTRATION Networking Opportunity & Continental Breakfast |
Session 1 8:30 a.m. |
Persuasion: Ari Symons - Advocacy with an emphasis on preparation… |
Session 2 9:45 a.m. |
Skills & Techniques: Kimberly Wieflin - Tools: project management / lean management |
Session 3 11:00 a.m. |
Leadership Behavior: Francine Gordon - Leadership risk taking and creativity |
Lunch 12:00 p.m. |
Box Lunch and Networking Opportunity
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Session 4 12:45 p.m. |
Vision: Lynda Rogers – Visioning and Realizing a vision / UCSC Silicon Valley initiative |
Session 5 2:00 p.m. |
Leadership Conundrums: Barbara Scherer, Pamela Davis, Ann Morhauser, Donna Murphy - The mindset of leaders |
Session 6 3:15 p.m. |
Personality: Billie Shepard - Presence and Communication |
4:15 p.m. |
Speakers and Sponsors Reception Pool Area |
