The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI) today announced
three upcoming two-day TechLeaders workshops to be held in May and June
2008. TechLeaders brings together elite networks of women from industry,
academia, and government. Workshops explore the future of technology and
develop technical women’s leadership skills
and networks, while providing resources to help them navigate all stages
of their career.
The first workshop, entitled “Power and
Influence,” is hosted by Amazon.com and will
be held May 21–22, 2008, in Seattle,
Washington. Featuring Jo Miller, CEO of Women’s
Leadership Coaching, this workshop focuses on extending power and
influence as a technical woman through increased organizational
awareness, negotiation techniques, strategies to increase visibility,
and influence techniques to increase buy-in for ideas. The workshop will
feature a panel of senior-level technical women including Nadia
Shouraboura, vice president, FC Systems/Ops Tech Coordination at
Amazon.com and Rebecca Norlander, technical assistant to the chief
software architect of Microsoft, Ray Ozzie. After the workshop,
participants will have the opportunity to participate in additional
group coaching calls with Jo Miller.
“The group coaching calls are a unique new
feature that we have added to TechLeaders program,”
said Kim McLeod, program associate at ABI. “The
coaching sessions not only allow the participants to receive additional
training following the workshop, it also allows them to share in each
others’ immediate wins and successes that are
direct results from the techniques and teachings they acquired at the
workshop."
The second workshop, entitled “Strategic
Persuasion and Change Leadership,” is hosted
by IBM and will be held in Yorktown Heights, New York, at the T.J.
Watson Research Center June 3–4, 2008.
Facilitated by Nancy Houfek, head of voice and speech for the American
Repertory Theatre at Harvard University, and Dr. Lee Warren, associate
director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard
University, this workshop is designed to provide technical women with
skills to succeed in accomplishing their goals in negotiations and
meetings as well as with the capacity to use these skills to effect
organizational change.
In the first half, participants will be introduced to techniques that
people in the theater and in leadership training utilize to effectively
communicate. The second half will increase the capabilities of technical
women to effect organizational change. The workshop will feature a
keynote given by Cathy Lasser, vice president of Industry Solutions and
Emerging Business at IBM Research. This workshop is aimed at entry- to
mid-level technical women who are individual contributors and/or
managers in industry who seek to expand their scope of influence.
The third workshop, entitled “Senior
TechLeaders: Leadership, the Final Frontier,”
is ABI’s annual by invitation-only gathering
of senior-level technical women across industry, academia, and
government. It will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, June 30–July
1, 2008 at the Georgia Institute of Technology. ABI’s
2007 Women of Vision award winner Dr. Leah Jamison, John A. Edwardson
dean of engineering & Ransburg distinguished professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at Purdue University, will be one of the featured
keynote speakers. This two-day workshop helps senior-level women expand
their network of senior colleagues and increase their collective impact
as a group. Additionally, this workshop increases awareness and capacity
of leadership challenges and strengths and helps women create a vision
for their career. The workshop will be facilitated by Denise Brosseau,
cofounder and president of Invent Your Future Enterprises, and Dr. Frank
Greene, general partner at NewVista Capital and president of GO-Positive
Education Foundation.
“TechLeaders workshops are grounded in
research on the barriers technical women face and are led by world-class
facilitators,” said Telle Whitney, president
and CEO of ABI. “Working with organizational
stakeholders, we find an increase in technologists’
potential to create a positive impact on the world’s
women as we help the industry retain vital talent.”
For more information on TechLeaders, visit http://anitaborg.org/initiatives/techleaders.
About the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI)
The Anita Borg Institute provides resources and programs for industry,
academia, and government to help them recruit, retain, and develop women
leaders in high-tech fields resulting in higher levels of technology
innovation. ABI programs serve high-tech women by creating a community
and providing tools to develop their careers. ABI is a not-for-profit
501(c) 3 charitable organization. ABI partners include Hewlett-Packard,
Microsoft Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Google, IBM, Intel, Cisco,
Juniper Networks, National Science Foundation, Symantec, NetApp, and
Capgemini. For more information, visit www.anitaborg.org.
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