Breaking the Code of Interview Implicit Bias to Value Different Gender Competencies
Bonita Banducci, Banducci Consulting
Live at Santa Clara University - Room #330C located on the 3rd floor of the Learning Commons
Session Length: 1 hour
Implicit Bias Workshops and exercises are being shared widely on the internet. Some of the solutions are:
"Determine precisely what skills and attributes you are hiring for."
"Ask exactly the same questions to each candidate."
But what about the implicit bias in determining what skills you are valuing--beyond traditional management and leadership competencies?
How can interviewers recognize the often invisible, unarticulated, undervalued and often misinterpreted competencies of more "relational and collectivist" people--often women and men and women from different cultures?
Bonita Banducci teaches Gender and Engineering class in Santa Clara University's School of Engineering Graduate Program. In video and cartoon representation as well as in person, her students apply Gender Competence®--understanding and skills to work with gender (and cultural) differences as competencies--to job interviews both as the interviewer and the interviewee, as men and women. They show how to "mine the gold" of difference for the best candidate AND to get the job as the best candidate while establishing the value of relational competencies in the workplace and marketplace.
Networking Presentation at VACRAO Conference Dec 2016Michael Camden
This is a presentation that I gave last week at the Virginia Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (VACRAO) Conference. If it were a college course, it could be called Networking 101 (NET101). It is basic in some cases, but still provides great tips and solid reminders when conducting business networking and outreach.
What is #ThoughtLeadership? Is it mindless self-promotion, or is it more like some fancy management fad? Is it more like your social media presence, or sharing stories? What is the real deal here? In this talk, I have shared some ideas from others, and also some of my own learning over the years. Hope you find the answers you were looking for...
Total time: 60 minutes.
Part 1: Familiarising the concept of brand and drawing a relation to self.
Part 2: Bird's eye view of the Personal Branding tools, tips, and tricks.
Organizer: Pakistani Women in Computing.
Venue: Otto-von Guericke University, Magdeburg.
Date: 27.07.2019
Personal Branding is
… the powerful, clear, positive idea that comes to mind whenever other people think of you.
… what you stand for – the values, abilities and actions that others associate with you.
… a professional alter ego designed for purpose of influencing how others perceive you, and turning that into opportunity.
… a promise.
Networking Presentation at VACRAO Conference Dec 2016Michael Camden
This is a presentation that I gave last week at the Virginia Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (VACRAO) Conference. If it were a college course, it could be called Networking 101 (NET101). It is basic in some cases, but still provides great tips and solid reminders when conducting business networking and outreach.
What is #ThoughtLeadership? Is it mindless self-promotion, or is it more like some fancy management fad? Is it more like your social media presence, or sharing stories? What is the real deal here? In this talk, I have shared some ideas from others, and also some of my own learning over the years. Hope you find the answers you were looking for...
Total time: 60 minutes.
Part 1: Familiarising the concept of brand and drawing a relation to self.
Part 2: Bird's eye view of the Personal Branding tools, tips, and tricks.
Organizer: Pakistani Women in Computing.
Venue: Otto-von Guericke University, Magdeburg.
Date: 27.07.2019
Personal Branding is
… the powerful, clear, positive idea that comes to mind whenever other people think of you.
… what you stand for – the values, abilities and actions that others associate with you.
… a professional alter ego designed for purpose of influencing how others perceive you, and turning that into opportunity.
… a promise.
Culture Summit 2015 - How to Understand and Improve Company Culture with Hite...Culture Summit
Your company culture isn't something you can control. Culture already exists in your company and the best you can do is help shape it. In this talk, you'll learn how to understand and improve company culture to help you reach your business goals.
To view this talk and learn more please visit http://www.culturesummit.co
Katina Strauch, College of Charleston
Katina Strauch began the Charleston Conference back in 1980 and The Conference has grown to be an international meeting attended by hundreds of librarians, publishers, vendors, and aggregators. She talked about why and how this happened (she thinks) and how, in 1989 (just prior to Hurricane Hugo) she decided to begin publication of Against the Grain, linking publishers, vendors,and librarians. Katina is Assistant Dean for Technical Services and Collection Development at the College of Charleston Libraries. The Charleston Conference and Against the Grain are private independently-operated entities.
Learning Objective: Enhance professionalism and image
As soon as you step into an office, you have spoken about 1,000 words with your appearance alone. Wouldn’t it be nice if the first 3 words were fresh, clean, and fly? All Professionals should invest time in grooming and developing an effective personal image appropriate for their work environment. This seminar will feature executives that have mastered the art of looking and feeling good on their journey to the top.
At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:
a. List ways to improve image and personal hygiene.
b. Explore ways to build and express self-confidence.
c. Engage in candid conversations with professionals about perceptions and stereotypes.
d. Examine specific corporate dress tips.
e. Explore ways to express professionalism and personal style.
Thought Leadership for Social Change - Raising Your Voice in 140 Characters o...Vanessa Wakeman
Many people try to capture public consciousness for a purpose, but few become true thought leaders. As agents of change, most leaders of small nonprofits or social enterprises understand the importance of building support for those ideas and issues that impact the community-at-large.
Thought leadership represents an opportunity to move the needle on an issue. It allows an individual or an organization to leverage an often-overlooked asset – intellectual capital to build awareness and create important dialogues.
Thanks to social media, today there are ways to connect with stakeholders, allowing for more expedient connections and sharing of ideas. Creating a plan of action around the specific topic that you want to speak on and finding the appropriate channels to share it can help you to create a strong leadership platform.
This workshop will explore ways to harness big ideas, interject your opinion and create dialogues and connection that lead to change.
We will review the basics of creating a thought leadership platform and leveraging your assets on social media to build community and awareness.
Culture Summit 2015 - Culture By Design with Didier Elzinga CEO of Culture Amp.Culture Summit
Every company says that culture is important; some even believe it. An even smaller group actually deliver a culture that truly comes first. Why build a culture-first company and what does the blueprint for one look like? Didier Elzinga shares what role data has in building a strong company culture.
To view this talk and learn more please visit http://www.culturesummit.co
Our star intern Sam H. created this presentation for his junior project at Germantown Friends School after interning with us in January 2012. We miss him!
Build Your Website For Students, bit.ly/17nov-pbs. Use this canvas for self awareness of your talents and skills. Adapted from Business Model of You, CC BY-SA 3.0, http://businessmodelyou.com.
I gave this presentation on 4/15/14 to a group of law students interested in learning more about networking and personal branding basics. Folks are free to use or disregard this presentation as they like. Feedback, criticism, or disagreement is appreciated.
7 Steps to Becoming a Thought Leader | December 2018BeLeaderly.com
Thought leaders are not just executives any more. You can become one too. In this webinar, learn how to identify your niche, express your expertise in ways that fit your personal style, and become a sought-after expert. You’ll walk away with a practical plan to share your passion and build your personal brand at the same time.
Guest Speakers: Christoph Trappe, Chief Content Engagement Director, Stamats Business Media, author of Get Real: Telling Authentic Stories for Long-term Success and Serpil Bayraktar, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco.
The Importance of Personal Branding for Chinese Female Millennials 2015Faith Brewitt
Session with Chinese female recent college graduates who are looking for jobs at multinational corporations in China, and why personal branding themselves online in English can help bridge them to the right hiring managers.
Culture Summit 2015 - How to Understand and Improve Company Culture with Hite...Culture Summit
Your company culture isn't something you can control. Culture already exists in your company and the best you can do is help shape it. In this talk, you'll learn how to understand and improve company culture to help you reach your business goals.
To view this talk and learn more please visit http://www.culturesummit.co
Katina Strauch, College of Charleston
Katina Strauch began the Charleston Conference back in 1980 and The Conference has grown to be an international meeting attended by hundreds of librarians, publishers, vendors, and aggregators. She talked about why and how this happened (she thinks) and how, in 1989 (just prior to Hurricane Hugo) she decided to begin publication of Against the Grain, linking publishers, vendors,and librarians. Katina is Assistant Dean for Technical Services and Collection Development at the College of Charleston Libraries. The Charleston Conference and Against the Grain are private independently-operated entities.
Learning Objective: Enhance professionalism and image
As soon as you step into an office, you have spoken about 1,000 words with your appearance alone. Wouldn’t it be nice if the first 3 words were fresh, clean, and fly? All Professionals should invest time in grooming and developing an effective personal image appropriate for their work environment. This seminar will feature executives that have mastered the art of looking and feeling good on their journey to the top.
At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:
a. List ways to improve image and personal hygiene.
b. Explore ways to build and express self-confidence.
c. Engage in candid conversations with professionals about perceptions and stereotypes.
d. Examine specific corporate dress tips.
e. Explore ways to express professionalism and personal style.
Thought Leadership for Social Change - Raising Your Voice in 140 Characters o...Vanessa Wakeman
Many people try to capture public consciousness for a purpose, but few become true thought leaders. As agents of change, most leaders of small nonprofits or social enterprises understand the importance of building support for those ideas and issues that impact the community-at-large.
Thought leadership represents an opportunity to move the needle on an issue. It allows an individual or an organization to leverage an often-overlooked asset – intellectual capital to build awareness and create important dialogues.
Thanks to social media, today there are ways to connect with stakeholders, allowing for more expedient connections and sharing of ideas. Creating a plan of action around the specific topic that you want to speak on and finding the appropriate channels to share it can help you to create a strong leadership platform.
This workshop will explore ways to harness big ideas, interject your opinion and create dialogues and connection that lead to change.
We will review the basics of creating a thought leadership platform and leveraging your assets on social media to build community and awareness.
Culture Summit 2015 - Culture By Design with Didier Elzinga CEO of Culture Amp.Culture Summit
Every company says that culture is important; some even believe it. An even smaller group actually deliver a culture that truly comes first. Why build a culture-first company and what does the blueprint for one look like? Didier Elzinga shares what role data has in building a strong company culture.
To view this talk and learn more please visit http://www.culturesummit.co
Our star intern Sam H. created this presentation for his junior project at Germantown Friends School after interning with us in January 2012. We miss him!
Build Your Website For Students, bit.ly/17nov-pbs. Use this canvas for self awareness of your talents and skills. Adapted from Business Model of You, CC BY-SA 3.0, http://businessmodelyou.com.
I gave this presentation on 4/15/14 to a group of law students interested in learning more about networking and personal branding basics. Folks are free to use or disregard this presentation as they like. Feedback, criticism, or disagreement is appreciated.
7 Steps to Becoming a Thought Leader | December 2018BeLeaderly.com
Thought leaders are not just executives any more. You can become one too. In this webinar, learn how to identify your niche, express your expertise in ways that fit your personal style, and become a sought-after expert. You’ll walk away with a practical plan to share your passion and build your personal brand at the same time.
Guest Speakers: Christoph Trappe, Chief Content Engagement Director, Stamats Business Media, author of Get Real: Telling Authentic Stories for Long-term Success and Serpil Bayraktar, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco.
The Importance of Personal Branding for Chinese Female Millennials 2015Faith Brewitt
Session with Chinese female recent college graduates who are looking for jobs at multinational corporations in China, and why personal branding themselves online in English can help bridge them to the right hiring managers.
South South Social Media Southern Hospitality StyleSocial South
This presentation, given at 2009 Social South, uses the lessons from the culture of "Southern Hospitality" as a foundation to discuss a critical aspect of a social media strategy - Can you be your authentic "self" while staying true to your company's value and culture?
This presentation, given at 2009 Social South, uses the lessons from the culture of "Southern Hospitality" as a foundation to discuss a critical aspect of a social media strategy - Can you be your authentic "self" while staying true to your company's value and culture?
On May 14, 2018, women from ad agencies across the Twin Cities gathered at Colle McVoy to show their support for the TIME’S UP/ADVERTISING movement. The event was part of the movement’s launch when community meetings took place in 15 cities across North America to begin drawing a roadmap for real change. Here is a recap of highlights and learnings from the TIME’S UP/ADVERTISING Minneapolis event.
Comunication & Storytelling for Product Managers (and anyone else)Christina Wodtke
Half-Day Interactive Workshop
“Get ready to actively participate in your transformation from product manager to product leader”
A product manager rarely has any authority beyond what they can talk people into, thus we need to become really strong communicators. In this half-day interactive workshop, we’ll look at the three kinds of communication: managing up, team communications, and the very important roadshow for getting other groups onboard with your vision. We will use the power of story for formal communication and a combination of techniques from NVC (Harvard’s negotiation project) and the GSB’s “touchy feely” class to make sure your message gets through, and that we are listening effectively.
This special half-day training workshop, with product author and lecturer, Christina Wodtke, is specifically designed for product managers who are looking to really level up their communications skills and who want to use story-telling to effectively communicate with others.
You don’t have to be an executive to be a sponsor! In this webinar, hear from sponsors and their protégés about the power of sponsorship, how it works, and what it takes to be an effective sponsor. We’ll also talk about how to foster a corporate culture that uses sponsorship to expand opportunities for women to move into leadership roles.
Guest Speakers: Namrata Yadav, Head of Inclusion Strategy and Diversity and Inclusion Learning, Anna Ettin, Vice President, Diversity and Inclusion Consultant, and Monica Brunache, AVP, Project Manager at Bank of America.
Launching a new scholarly press involves a number of considerations; many of the decisions to be made involve tradeoffs and ethical considerations. Framing the discussion is the balance between “profitability” and scholarly contribution. Questions of funding sources, recruiting staff, developing editorial and business strategy, creating an advisory board, and evaluating new projects and authors contain ethical choices. Ethical climates vary; the right climate in the organization and fit between alliance partners are key. Deviance in its positive sense can be a source of innovation and creativity. Stories can be used to connect with our readers; stories are also useful in organizations to impart ethics and purposeful direction to organizations. The quest is to change the way we publish—thinking digitally from the beginning of the process, pursuing diverse funding sources, innovating in dissemination and marketing.
POP Your Profile!: How to Activate Your LinkedIn PotentialAlvaro J. Muñiz
We've adapted LinkedIn's Profile Optimization Protocol (POP) into a tutorial that transforms your LinkedIn profile into a canvas where your changemaker story and our new mission of framework change can shine. Where we can go beyond bullet points towards genuine narratives and compelling teasers -- in other words, an invitation for deeper engagement.
We've adapted LinkedIn's Profile Optimization Protocol (POP) into a tutorial that transforms your LinkedIn profile into a canvas where your changemaker story and our new mission of framework change can shine. Where we can go beyond bullet points towards genuine narratives and compelling teasers -- in other words, an invitation for deeper engagement.
Breaking the Code of Interview Implicit Bias to Value Different Gender Compet...Deanna Kosaraju
Breaking the Code of Interview Implicit Bias to Value Different Gender Competencies
Bonita Banducci, Banducci Consulting
Live at Santa Clara University - Room #330C located on the 3rd floor of the Learning Commons
Voices 2015 - www.globaltechwomen.com
Session Length: 1 hour
Implicit Bias Workshops and exercises are being shared widely on the internet. Some of the solutions are:
"Determine precisely what skills and attributes you are hiring for."
"Ask exactly the same questions to each candidate."
But what about the implicit bias in determining what skills you are valuing--beyond traditional management and leadership competencies?
How can interviewers recognize the often invisible, unarticulated, undervalued and often misinterpreted competencies of more "relational and collectivist" people--often women and men and women from different cultures?
Bonita Banducci teaches Gender and Engineering class in Santa Clara University's School of Engineering Graduate Program. In video and cartoon representation as well as in person, her students apply Gender Competence®--understanding and skills to work with gender (and cultural) differences as competencies--to job interviews both as the interviewer and the interviewee, as men and women. They show how to "mine the gold" of difference for the best candidate AND to get the job as the best candidate while establishing the value of relational competencies in the workplace and marketplace.
Change IT!
S. Revi Sterling, University of Colorado Boulder
Voices 2015 - www.globaltechwomen.com
Session Length: 1 Hour
Dr. Revi Sterling founded and directs the only Information and Communication Technology for Development graduate program in the United States. This talk would demonstrate how IT (ICT as the rest of the world calls it) has given a quantum boost to international development efforts, and will give examples of what works and what doesn’t when technologists turn humanitarians. This talk will open avenues for technologists of all types and levels to truly make impact with their ideas, while promoting collaboration rather than competition. Sterling will point audiences to helpful resources while catalyzing their creativity.
How Can We Make Interacting With Technology and Science Exciting and Fun Expe...Deanna Kosaraju
How Can We Make Interacting With Technology and Science Exciting and Fun Experiences?
Marjan BoorBoor, Master of Technological Socio-Economical Planning (Major in Intelligent Renewable Energy System Planning)
Voices 2015 - www.globaltechwomen.com
Thu March 12 7:00 PST
Thu March 12 10:00 EST
Thu March 12 14:00 UTC
Thu March 12 19:30 IST
Fri March 13 1:00 Sydney
Session Length: 30 minutes + 30 minutes networking time
How my curiosity took me to science and engineering. How finding my own way of learning made me fall in love with science and technology and how sharing this with others has given them a memorable experience making them curious and innovative in the field. My mission to reach as many people as possible.
About Marjan:
I have loved math since I was in elementary school, I did a lot of self-educating in math where I find joy and excitement in math. In middle school because of my math grades I was invited to participate in a preparation math course for International Math and computer Olympiad.
I have a master degree in Technological Socio Economical planning, majoring in renewable energy system planning and development. My background education is in Mathematic, Physics, Computer science, Artificial intelligence and Robotics, Marketing, Leadership, Project management and innovation and monitoring, Innovative Psychology of learning.
I made several intelligent Robots and participated in several artificial intelligent Robocup competitions and participated in Iran, Germany, Netherland and Atlanta international Robocup competition and won several awards.
I am the developer of energyplanner.dk which is an intelligence tool for tracing changes in an energy system due to gradual energy transition from fossil fuel to renewable energies that is going to be used by energy planner in Denmark.
I have innovative way of learning for science and technology that help you not only become good at it but also enjoy it. I have teach math for years, and my experience have been that factors such as gender, age, and race, background are not determining factors for being good at math and enjoy learning that.
Measure Impact, Not Activity
Karen Catlin, Karen Catlin Consulting
Voices 2015 - www.globlatechwomen.com
LIVE - At Santa Clara University, Room #330C located on the 3rd floor of the Learning Commons
Session Length: 45 minutes
Most women’s affinity groups measure their activity. How many events they’ve run, how many people attended each event, and the like. What’s often missing is a vision of what will be different because of the group’s impact and how to measure it. Frankly, I'm not surprised. That's exactly what I did when I ran the women's group at Adobe Systems. I founded that group in 2008, and while I'm proud of our accomplishments, I didn't measure our impact. I honestly don't think I knew how to. At the time, calculating the return on investment seemed like a holy grail.
I've since realized how important it is to measure the impact of an affinity group and how to go about doing so. In this talk, I will provide practical tips for identifying the vision, gaining support, defining the strategy for achieving it, and measuring the impact.
Women’s INpowerment: The First-ever Global Survey to Hear Voice, Value and Vi...Deanna Kosaraju
Women’s INpowerment: The First-ever Global Survey to Hear Voice, Value and Vision of Today’s Young Women
Jin In, 4Girls GLocal Leadership (4GGL)
Voices 2015 - www.globaltechwomen.com
Wed March 11 11:00 PST
Wed March 11 14:00 EST
Wed March 11 18:00 UTC
Wed March 11 23:30 IST
Thu March 12 5:00 Sydney
Session Length: 1 Hour
Today, it is almost indisputable that EMPOWERMENT of girls and women is required for sustainable development. Whether poverty, violence and terrorism, or population explosion, as stated by Kofi Annan, 7th Secretary General of the United Nations, “There is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.”
And yet, what do we really know about empowerment of women, particularly at the global level?
One global monitor is the Millennium Development Goals. Specifically, Goal 3 is to promote gender equality and empower women. However, when examined in details, its one target is to eliminate gender disparity in education, and its four indicators are:
1. Ratio of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education;
2. Ratio of literate women to men, 15-24 years old;
3. Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector; and
4. Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament
Another is the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report. Here it specifically states that it ranks countries according to gender equality, NOT women’s empowerment.
Therefore, what may be THE GAP in gender gap is empowerment. And to begin our understanding and knowledge, 4GIRLS GLOCAL LEADERSHIP (4GGL) created and launched the first-ever global survey to hear voices, values, and vision of today’s young women around the world.
Our goal for this Conference is to share our initial findings, as well as begin a critical conversation about empowerment – the most powerful tool for change.
What to read more about Jin In? Check out her website. You can also read her story, a fascinating read!
The Language of Leadership
Caroline Simard, Research Director at Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University
Voices 2015 www.globaltechwomen.com
Session Length: 1 Hour
Language can influence our perceptions of men and women, and the potential each has to lead. In this session, we discuss the language of leadership and the role bias can play in shaping different leadership outcomes for men and women. The session will offer strategies for individuals and managers to examine and sharpen their own voices and their advocacy of others, with an aim to advance women’s leadership and create effective organizations where all employees thrive.
Mentors and Role Models - Best Practices in Many Cultures - Voices 2015Deanna Kosaraju
Mentors and Role Models - Best Practices in Many Cultures
Katy Dickinson, Founder, Mentoring Standard
Voices 2015 www.globaltechwomen.com
Wed March 11 8:30 PST
Wed March 11 11:30 EST
Wed March 11 15:30 UTC
Wed March 11 21:00 IST
Thu March 12 2:30 Sydney
Session Length: 1 Hour
Mentoring is a professional methodology with remarkably good payback. This talk will present how mentors, mentees, and their home organizations can make the most of this best practice, including how to start up and measure a mentoring program. Examples will come from successful corporate, governmental, and school-based mentoring programs in Brazil, China, India, the USA, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Program success in one Engineering company was measured at over 1,000% return on investment (ROI) with more than twice the normal promotions, 93% satisfaction, 88% mentors working remotely from mentees in 30 global sites, and 70% executive mentors. Many of the stories will come from the U.S. State Department's TechWomen mentoring program for STEM professional women. Since 2011, 250 mentors from 89 Silicon Valley companies have hosted TechWomen Emerging Leaders from the Middle East and Africa who then return to their home countries to be mentors and role models for girls and young women. Illustrations for the talk will come from sources including the "Notable Women in Computing Card Deck" Kickstarter project and the "TechWomen Emerging Leaders from the Middle East and Africa" project.
About Katy: Katy Dickinson designs and manages successful mentoring programs in the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. She has held senior executive roles at Everwise, People to People, MentorCloud, Huawei, and Sun Microsystems. At Sun, she created and managed the global Engineering mentoring programs for ten years, after creating and managing the Sun Labs archiving system, the Software development life cycle process, and other large corporate infrastructure.
Katy Dickinson was the Process Architect for the first class of the U.S. State Department’s TechWomen mentoring program for the Middle East and Africa. She is an Accredited Mentor, University of the South - School of Theology, Education for Ministry program. Member of the Anita Borg Institute Advisory Board. Lecturer for the University of California at Berkeley Engineering class on entrepreneurship. Katy Dickinson was graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with high honors and distinction. She is an author, speaker, and popular blogger.
Optimal Execution Of MapReduce Jobs In Cloud - Voices 2015Deanna Kosaraju
Optimal Execution Of MapReduce Jobs In Cloud
Anshul Aggarwal, Software Engineer, Cisco Systems
Session Length: 1 Hour
Tue March 10 21:30 PST
Wed March 11 0:30 EST
Wed March 11 4:30:00 UTC
Wed March 11 10:00 IST
Wed March 11 15:30 Sydney
Voices 2015 www.globaltechwomen.com
We use MapReduce programming paradigm because it lends itself well to most data-intensive analytics jobs run on cloud these days, given its ability to scale-out and leverage several machines to parallel process data. Research has demonstrates that existing approaches to provisioning other applications in the cloud are not immediately relevant to MapReduce -based applications. Provisioning a MapReduce job entails requesting optimum number of resource sets (RS) and configuring MapReduce parameters such that each resource set is maximally utilized.
Each application has a different bottleneck resource (CPU :Disk :Network), and different bottleneck resource utilization, and thus needs to pick a different combination of these parameters based on the job profile such that the bottleneck resource is maximally utilized.
The problem at hand is thus defining a resource provisioning framework for MapReduce jobs running in a cloud keeping in mind performance goals such as Optimal resource utilization with Minimum incurred cost, Lower execution time, Energy Awareness, Automatic handling of node failure and Highly scalable solution.
Featured Session: Voices Live Chicago Conference
Location: Aon
200 East Randolph
Chicago, IL USA
12-2pm CST
Panel: Cracking the Glass Ceiling: Growing Female Technology Professionals
Will be streamed on Spreecast and WebEx from 12-2pm CST on Friday, March 13th
Moderators:
Margaret Resce Milkint, Managing Partner, The Jacobson Group; WING Co-Founder; ITF Board Member
David Mendelsohn, Managing Partner, DLA Piper; WING Co-Founder
Panelists:
Danelle Kent, Consultant¸ SWC Technology Partners
Danelle is a Certified Project Management Professional (NU) with 4+ years of combined experience in detail oriented technical writing and quality assurance analysis. She currently supports full software lifecycle by facilitating different functional roles including quality assurance analyst, business analyst, and technical writer.
Arti Arora, Aon
Deanne Hettich, Vice President Practice Leadership, Aon Hewitt
Cynthia Clarke, CIO, Mesirow Financial
Jeff Hughes, Vice President Information Technology, CNA
Marisa Cabrera, IT Rotational Program Participant, CNA
Abstract: Despite the strides made recently for women in business, female tech professionals continue to be outpaced by their male counterparts. According to Silicon Valley Bank’s Innovation Economy Outlook survey, less than 50 percent of technology companies have women in the C-suite or serving on the board of directors. Only 19 percent of CIO positions for Fortune 250 companies are held by women.
In fact, the gender disparity among technology professionals seems to be increasing in spite of recent gains throughout the workplace. Fewer women are joining the tech workforce and the numbers of female students studying technology is in decline—today only 18 percent of computer science majors are women, compared to 37 percent in the mid-1980s. Add in a continued wage imbalance and a high turnover rate for female tech professionals mid-career and it is clear that there is work to be done. How can we encourage more women to join the technology field and insurance technology in particular? What can be done to break down the barriers to success as a female technology professional?
Heart Rate Variability and the Digital Health Revolution - Voices 2015Deanna Kosaraju
Heart Rate Variability and the Digital Health Revolution
Ronda Collier, SweetWater Health
Voices 2015 www.globaltechwomen.com
Thu March 12 13:00 PST
Thu March 12 16:00 EST
Thu March 12 20:00 UTC
Fri March 13 1:30 IST
Fri March 13 7:00 Sydney
Session Length: 1 Hour
According to leading medical institutions such as Stanford, Harvard and the Mayo Clinic, stress is responsible for more than 90% all disease. Most people are stressed to some degree and many are not aware of it. This may be due to the fact that the brain is a giant filter and pattern matcher. When a condition becomes familiar the brain filters it out, even if it is not good for you.
HRV is the latest buzz word in the digital health revolution. It provides an objective measure of the stress or “fight or flight” response in your nervous system, and insight into situations, thoughts and behaviors that cause stress. In addition, it is a measure of systemic health and is an early indicator for heart disease and hypertension.
Legacy HRV measurement systems were expensive, bulky and did not provide meaningful feedback for the general population. Thanks to mobile platforms such as smart phones and tablets, HRV is available to the consumer, providing an accurate and easy way to measure and manage the weak link in the chain, also known as stress.
Women and CS, Lessons Learned From Turkey - Voices 2015Deanna Kosaraju
Women and CS, Lessons Learned From Turkey
Voices 2015 www.globaltechwomen.com
Mon March 9 23:00 PST
Tue March 10 2:00 EST
Tue March 10 6:00 UTC
Tue March 10 11:30 IST
Tue March 10 16:00 Sydney
Dr. Umit Yalcinalp, Architect
Dr. Gokcen Cilingir, Senior Software Engineer
Dr. Gulustan Dogan, Associate Professor
Session Length: 1 Hour
While interest in computing is steadily declining in US among women, more women are attracted to computing and seeking technical CS degrees in Turkey. In this talk, members of Turkish Women in Computing will discuss the results of ongoing research based on survey conducted on this discrepancy among its members and their connections who are women with computing degrees. We will briefly present the hypotheses previously presented at Global Voices conference in 2014 and how our findings compare with these hypotheses previously presented. We will also talk about our data collection methodology and some interesting surprises we encountered about demographics that affected the results.
Communications Platform Provides "Your School at your Fingertips" for Busy Pa...Deanna Kosaraju
Communications Platform Provides "Your School at your Fingertips" for Busy Parents
Nirupama Mallavarupu, MobileArq
Voices 2015 www.globaltechwomen.com
Mon March 9 13:00 PST
Mon March 9 16:00 EST
Mon March 9 20:00 UTC
Tue March 10 1:30 IST
Tue March 10 7:00 Sydney
Session Length: 1 Hour
MobileArq is a mobile school directory for parents created by a Mother with expertise in Information Technology and a first-hand knowledge of the needs of busy parents with school age children. The mobile directory is the cloud version of the standard print directory, which contains the contact information of all parents and families in the school. The MobileArq app has a logical, easy to use interface through which parents can access school directory information on their mobile devices as well as desktop computers, whenever and wherever they need it. Unlike printed directories, new data can be added and corrections made in real-time so information is always up-to-date, and families can chose to opt out or edit personal contact information easily throughout the school year. MobileArq provides the user the added convenience of calling/emailing/texting and message groups directly from the App.
MobileArq's provides PTAs all-in-one portal to manage their communication, fundraising and memberships. MobileArq is the first to also provide APIs for third parties to write applications for parents, teachers and students.
ASEAN Women in Tech
Voices 2015 www.globaltechwomen.com
Tue March 10 20:00 PST
Tue March 10 23:00 EST
Wed March 11 3:00 UTC
Wed March 11 8:30 IST
Wed March 11 14:00 Sydney
Lucie Newcomb CEO The NewComm Global Group Inc. (USA), Moderator
Nuraizah Shamsul Baharin, Managing Director of Madcat World Sdn. Bhd. (Malaysia),
Jennifer Kenny, CEO BizTh!nk (Indonesia)
Au Soriano, CEO Pinoy Travel (Philippines)
Haslina Taib, CEO BAG Networks Sdn Bhd (Brunei)
Session length: 1 Hour
In celebration of International Women's Day, from Brunei to Malaysia, Indonesia to the Philippines, ASEAN to California and around the world, we will share our experiences and recommendations; celebrate our unique contexts as well as common ground.
Empowering Women Technology Startup Founders to Succeed - Voices 2015Deanna Kosaraju
Empowering Women Technology Startup Founders to Succeed
Ari Horie, CEO & Founder, Women's Startup Lab
Voices 2015 - www.globaltechwomen.com
Mon March 9 10:00 PST
Mon March 9 13:00 EST
Mon March 9 17:00 UTC
Tue March 10 22:30 IST
Tue March 10 4:00 Sydney
Session Length: 1 Hour
As Founder and CEO of Women's Startup lab, Ari Horie will share her knowledge on the entrepreneurial journey, obstacles facing female technology founders, and her tips and tricks for women looking to overcome these barriers. In addition, Ari will be able to discuss her philosophy, “The Hito Rule,” which calls on women to not only lean in, but on and up their communities to gather the skills, network, and support needed to advance their companies and how she has successfully implemented this philosophy during her own entrepreneurial journey.
Innovation a Destination and a Journey - Voices 2015Deanna Kosaraju
Innovation – A Destination and a Journey
Valeria Mihalache, Xilinx
Voices 2015 - www.globaltechwomen.com
Mon March 9 9:00 PST
Mon March 9 12:00 EST
Mon March 9 16:00 UTC
Tue March 10 21:30 IST
Tue March 10 3:00 Sydney
Session Length: 1 Hour
We live in a time when change happens at lightning speed, all around us. The only way for companies to be competitive is to innovate, not only with respect to their product offering, but also with respect to their marketing and to their work processes. Moreover, all organizations need innovation in order to stay ahead in the game. Non-profit organizations need to bring innovation in their processes to attract more donors; schools need to innovate with respect to the teaching methods, as well as with respect to the programs they offer, for instance to take advantage of the latest technologies available, or to engage the students more in the learning process.
In this presentation we will focus on innovation and on its two good companions, creativity and invention. We will talk about the differences between the three, while also showing the intrinsic connection between them. Giving real-life examples, we will talk about different types on innovation. We recognize that innovativeness is an elusive trait, that one cannot predict how innovative somebody will be in his or her position. Nevertheless, there are certain things that organizations can do to allow for and to stimulate the innovativeness of their employees/members. We will talk about processes that organizations can use in order to inspire and foster innovation.
Agility and Cloud Computing
Ambs Kesavan, Xilinx
Voices 2015 www.globaltechwomen.com
Session Length: 45 minutes
The objective of this talk is to share technology trends in cloud computing industry and the opportunities they provide to innovate at scale. The presentation highlights the productivity and economic benefits from adopting this disruptive technology to create a sustained competitive advantage for businesses of all sizes ranging from SMB segment to high end enterprises.
The Confidence Gap: Igniting Brilliance through Feminine Leadership - Voices...Deanna Kosaraju
The Confidence Gap: Igniting Brilliance through Feminine Leadership
Lisa Marie Jenkins, Cisco Systems, Lisa Marie Jenkins Consulting
Voices Conference www.globaltechwomen.com
Mon March 9 15:00 PST
Mon March 9 18:00 EST
Mon March 9 22:00 UTC
Tue March 10 3:30 IST
Tue March 10 9:00 Sydney
Session Length: 1 Hour
Evidence shows that women are less self-assured than men, however studies prove confidence is just as important as competence when it comes to advancing a successful career. The confidence gap between men and women is caused by factors that range from upbringing, social conditioning, and biology. Today the 8 most desired characteristics for the modern leader are considered to be feminine, so when women become more courageous, they will naturally become more effective leaders and everyone benefits.
In this session, you will:
• Begin to learn what it takes to overcome self-doubt and become unstoppable in the face of fear
• Develop the courage and clarity to take action and take risks
• Understand how confidence combined with core strengths creates powerful and authentic women
Business Intelligence Engineering - Voices 2015Deanna Kosaraju
Business Intelligence Engineering for Big Data
Ramya Bommareddy
Voices 2015 - www.globaltechwomen.com
March 9th 2015
Session Length: 1 hour
Beyond building and developing information technology applications and teams, we will share our experiences of thriving in a globally distributed organization. As a dynamic duo of Engineering Manager and Engineering lead, we will showcase how we are delivering innovation in Business Intelligence and Data Engineering in an Enterprise Data warehouse setting. We cater to the data and information needs of the business community whose priorities are moving targets. The myth that Agile methodology only works for co-located teams has been busted. Promoting a culture of outside-in-thinking through customer centricity, with focus on quality is the key to success.
This comprehensive program covers essential aspects of performance marketing, growth strategies, and tactics, such as search engine optimization (SEO), pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, content marketing, social media marketing, and more
Exploring Career Paths in Cybersecurity for Technical CommunicatorsBen Woelk, CISSP, CPTC
Brief overview of career options in cybersecurity for technical communicators. Includes discussion of my career path, certification options, NICE and NIST resources.
Want to move your career forward? Looking to build your leadership skills while helping others learn, grow, and improve their skills? Seeking someone who can guide you in achieving these goals?
You can accomplish this through a mentoring partnership. Learn more about the PMISSC Mentoring Program, where you’ll discover the incredible benefits of becoming a mentor or mentee. This program is designed to foster professional growth, enhance skills, and build a strong network within the project management community. Whether you're looking to share your expertise or seeking guidance to advance your career, the PMI Mentoring Program offers valuable opportunities for personal and professional development.
Watch this to learn:
* Overview of the PMISSC Mentoring Program: Mission, vision, and objectives.
* Benefits for Volunteer Mentors: Professional development, networking, personal satisfaction, and recognition.
* Advantages for Mentees: Career advancement, skill development, networking, and confidence building.
* Program Structure and Expectations: Mentor-mentee matching process, program phases, and time commitment.
* Success Stories and Testimonials: Inspiring examples from past participants.
* How to Get Involved: Steps to participate and resources available for support throughout the program.
Learn how you can make a difference in the project management community and take the next step in your professional journey.
About Hector Del Castillo
Hector is VP of Professional Development at the PMI Silver Spring Chapter, and CEO of Bold PM. He's a mid-market growth product executive and changemaker. He works with mid-market product-driven software executives to solve their biggest growth problems. He scales product growth, optimizes ops and builds loyal customers. He has reduced customer churn 33%, and boosted sales 47% for clients. He makes a significant impact by building and launching world-changing AI-powered products. If you're looking for an engaging and inspiring speaker to spark creativity and innovation within your organization, set up an appointment to discuss your specific needs and identify a suitable topic to inspire your audience at your next corporate conference, symposium, executive summit, or planning retreat.
About PMI Silver Spring Chapter
We are a branch of the Project Management Institute. We offer a platform for project management professionals in Silver Spring, MD, and the DC/Baltimore metro area. Monthly meetings facilitate networking, knowledge sharing, and professional development. For event details, visit pmissc.org.
Resumes, Cover Letters, and Applying OnlineBruce Bennett
This webinar showcases resume styles and the elements that go into building your resume. Every job application requires unique skills, and this session will show you how to improve your resume to match the jobs to which you are applying. Additionally, we will discuss cover letters and learn about ideas to include. Every job application requires unique skills so learn ways to give you the best chance of success when applying for a new position. Learn how to take advantage of all the features when uploading a job application to a company’s applicant tracking system.
1. Global Tech Women Webinar, March 12, 2015
Speak out and change the world!
2. About me
•Nuts about gender equality
•Equally nuts about gender
equality in tech
•Passionate volunteer advocate
for women’s issues in San Francisco
•STEM and the nontechnical me
•Marketing/branding adviser
•My story starts with failures
3. A call for women’s voices
We’re long overdue for a world in which talented, deeply
knowledgeable women break through the noise and rise to
be known as the leading voices in their fields, as thought
leaders.
— from Guise’s Thought-Leading Women Manifesto
4. Today’s agenda
•Unpacking trending words and ideas
•Passion to make a difference: the
underpinning
•About influencers/thought leaders
•Why we need more women influencers
•7 steps to thought leadership
•Overcoming obstacles
•What success looks like for you
5. Unpacking trending words and ideas
•Change the world/find meaning in my career
•Authenticity
•Thought leadership
•Personal branding
6. Passion to make a difference
Thought leaders...
•Are distinctive experts
•Are deeply knowledgeable
•Change the way we think
•Influence us
•Are passionate to make a difference
•Create a legacy of ideas
7. •Sought-after
•Known for what you think
•You may think differently about things
•Visible and known: in company, in industry
•You’re “packaged” — identifiable,
distinguishable
As a thought leader, you’re...
8. Advantages of a thought leader
Thought
Leader
Leave a
legacy of
your ideas
Recognizable
brand
Influencer
Prestige
and
Income
9. Top 3 Common Threads of a Thought Leader
Passion Expertise
Experience
Your Thought Leadership
10. Where are you on the continuum?
Thought
Leadership
Distinctive Ideas
Expertise/Competitive
11. Being a thought leader is…
•Effective to advance your career
•What you want to be known for…today,
tomorrow
•How you make a difference
•About core ideas, expressing them, getting
them known
•Being an influencer
13. What gets influenced
•Workplace processes, behavior, policy
•Products, product safety
•School curriculum and education system
•Healthcare
•Immigration
•Human rights
•Policy: environment, science, economy
14. As an influencer, you…
•Are a go-to authority
•Are chronically curious
•Mentor others
•Help others succeed
•Shape opinions
•Move the needle towards gender equality
•See your passion in action
15. Where are the women? My soapbox
•Women’s voices are missing
around the globe…
•17% at Davos 2015 World
Economic Forum
•22% heads of state globally
•3.2% CEOs of Asia Pacific Top 250 firms
•8% CEOs of India Top 50 firms
•4.8% CEOs of U.S. Fortune 500 firms
19. Where are the women? My soapbox
Phil Cohen, “The most comprehensive analysis ever of the gender of New York Times writers.”
Family Inequality blog, April 29, 2014
20. 7 Steps to Thought Leadership
1. Build your support scaffold
2. ID your passion to make a difference
3. Develop your personal brand
4. Write about your core idea
5. Distribute your writing
6. Present/speak on your core idea
7. Keep it new and fresh
21. 1. Build your support scaffold
•Follow your passion
•Develop relationships with uplifting women
•Add support network: Global Tech Women
•Find a mentor + role model
•Enlist stakeholders
•Look in/outside your company for feedback
•Protect yourself from negative people
23. Exercise: draft a sentence…
What are you passionate about?
What could you become passionate about?
24. 3. Develop your personal brand
•Core idea/message…your passion
•How you want others to see you
•How others see you/your reputation
•Executive presence
•“Package” yourself
•How you show up online/social media
•Personal branding: a forever activity!
25. Personal vision statement
I will________________________________________________________________
because_____________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
I will achieve this goal by __________________________
___________________________________
I will provide tech women with the vital resources, tools and support they need
to have successful careers, because of the challenges women in technology are up
against and my passion to topple the status quo. I’ll achieve this by being a hub
for programs and opportunities through my new nonprofit, FemResources.
26. 4. Write about your core idea
•3-5 starter topics
•Develop “library” of intellectual property (IP)
•Tie into what’s trending
•Present “same ol” differently
•Conduct a survey, write the report
•Opinion piece or letter to editor for local print
media, your blog, or company blog
27. 5. Distribute your writing
•List ideal online/offline venues
•Identify publications for opinion piece
•Start a blog or contribute to company blog
•Make influencer list/introduce yourself
•Pitch story idea to media/press release
•Create short videos
•Create podcasts – just audio
28. 6. Present/speak on your core idea
•Toastmasters
•Internal
•Industry/professional meetings as panelist
or solo presenter
•Chambers, Rotaries if non-technical
•Speak at every opportunity
•Find/create speaking opportunities
29. 7. Keep it new and fresh
•Update as needed
•Add new idea into your concept bag
•Solicit feedback from mentor, peers, support
group
•Stay current with industry trends
•Keep your passion alive!
30. Personal Action Plan
GOAL &
VISION
ACTIONS TO
ACHIEVE
GOAL
MEASURES OF
SUCCESS
TIMING POSSIBLE
OBSTACLES
HOW TO
HANDLE
OBSTACLES
My vision:
To help get
more women
into tech jobs
and staying in
tech, to
achieve
gender
equality in
technology
Form nonprofit
to provide
resources and
tools for tech
women at all
career stages
Build website,
launch “club,”
resource
directories and
access to
education,
skills training,
scholarships
Conduct
research to
understand
specific issues
Key measure: tech
women secure jobs
Research is funded
and implemented
Partners sign on
Funding and other
grants secured
Garner media
attention and
regular media
inquiries
Tech women sign
up to belong
Dec 15
April 15,
ongoing
May 15,
ongoing
May 15
May 15,
ongoing
No funding
No partners
Women don’t
show up for
membership
Technical
issues
Get seed
funds, run out
Bad media
reviews
Hostile social
media
Seek
alternatives,
e.g. crowd
funding
Tweak
messaging
Tweak
offerings
Op-eds, letters
to editors
Ignore hostility
where
possible;
address where
needed
31. Barriers, obstacles and brick walls
•Outside your control:
biases, hostility,
•Within your control:
Top 5 Barrier-busting Actions
a. Reaffirm your passion
b. Assess situation
c. Assess costs to stay the course
d. Assess costs to retreat
e. Reaffirm your passion
33. Overcoming…
Confidence obstacles and barriers
Global Tech Women Voices webinar:
The Confidence Gap:
Igniting Brilliance through Feminine Leadership
Lisa Marie Jenkins, Cisco Systems/Lisa Marie Jenkins Consulting
34. What does success look like for you?
To be successful, be…
1. Curious
2. Bold
3. Patient
4. Impatient
5. Compassionate
Above all, find your passion and live it!
35. Speak out and change the world!
Roberta Guise
roberta@guisemarketing.com
GuiseMarketing.com FemResources.org
415-420-6276
FREE 1-HR
PHONE/SKYPE
CONSULTING
SESSION
to first 5 people
who sign up!
Editor's Notes
Welcome to all of you, wherever you’re located around the world. This is an exciting time…I’m at the UN CSW 59, Beijing+20, Platform for Action review etc etc.
In next hr we’ll look at how you can accelerate your career by beefing up your personal brand and becoming known as a thought leader. Whether you’re an individual contributor, you’re in leadership, you’re a consultant or own a small business, the principles and steps are for the most part the same.
Before we get going…My work/clients all US based, so PLEASE share any comments abt your country if what I say doesn’t apply. Also know that I’ve angled the content towards women, so male viewers please adapt the content to your situation.
So what I do…I guide passionate individuals especially women to become known as leading authorities in their field. And I advise experts and small business owners on how to be extraordinarily visible.
My story… been working for self most of my adult life. Ironically, felt safer…negative messages growing up, took into adulthood…flunked high school 3X…friend said get edu…video…looked for meaning…knew it needed to be around women, girls…Mentor Magic before Google…told no-one would fund it…gave up…loped along until 4 yrs ago…got involved in volunteer advocacy, and returned my passion for women in STEM. Just founded FR, to accelerate gender EQ in tech and STEM!
I want you to know that I’m deeply committed to helping you find your voice and being able to use it.
And in the next hour I’m going to show you how your voice will be most powerful and effective when it comes from your passion to make a difference.
Unpacking trending words and ideas...there a few terms we here over and over, like “unpacking”
Passion to make a difference: the underpinning
Deep dive into the world of influencers/thought leaders
Look at why we need more women influencers
7 steps to thought leadership
Overcoming obstacles
What success looks like for you…Success is personal. You determine what success is for you. It can be big, or small and incremental.
Change world/find meaning…you know you want to make a difference. About finding your PASSION! You could bend metal with it. Nothing’s going to stop you!
Authenticity…this is about being true to yourself, finding that place of meaning and passion, and sticking with it. Your passion can change…most important is to have it. It’s like a beacon that shines a light on your life’s path.
Thought leadership…it’s being the person others want to hear from and be around, because you’re leading the way with your way of looking at things…more coming shortly.
Personal branding…is how you show up, what we think of you and does that match what you want us to think of you. We’ll talk about this in more detail.
Imagine giving a TED talk. For those not familiar…TED is 18 min videos on new and novel topics, unique. What would your topic be? What’s big theme you’d want to convey? What you suggest we change our thinking about?
Let’s look at what influencer is, as someone who shapes opinions. I persuade you to think abt something in a different way.
A recent famous influencer: she reignited public discussion about gender equality, in particular in workplace. Sheryl Sandberg did TED Talk, speaking circuit, then published now famous book, Lean In. She’s continuing push for gender EQ through writing, partnerships and coalitions.
This is an extreme example. LORAINE STORY: Client chem. Engineer, expert in water mgt. Will be leading contrarian voice on legionella bacteria…can kill
If NOT medical facility big bldg mgrs should NOT test for legionella. Influence big building owners not to test…results not valid b/c 2 wk time lag, unneccesary legal.
Who else becomes influencer/opinion leader?
experts in any field; technical workers, business leaders; Economists; historians; scientists; academics; AND YOU!
Peoplewill look to youbecause you’ve been bold enough to step up and let them know about your ideas. If you’ve got an idea let’s say about process change, bringing different groups of people together who need one another, or a way to do things differently, even a new product, post your comment and we’ll try to call them out as examples.
Influencer: your opp to make a difference, where you put your passion into action
Recognizable brand: you’re known for your ideas and thinking
Prestige/income: it feels good to acknowledged. At work, you’re more likely to be promoted; self-employed, clients seek you out.
Legacy: People have access to your writing and ideas, enriching their lives in some way.
Let’s study this diagram. Got to have experience…done it.
Expertise…know what you’re doing. You have ability to communicate it.
Passion: to make a difference…it’s not about ourselves…it’s BIGGER than us.
Let’s talk for moment about PASSION.
Client leads nonprofit whose mission: give young women/girls tools to resist distorted media images that negatively affect their sense of self. Op-ed on swimsuit issue SI…published a few weeks ago in SF Chronicle, tying perfection to distorted images of perfect bodies. She’s constantly devel her own original ideas. She’s passionate to help girls & young women. Loraine the chemical engineer is bold. To her, being contrarian is the ethical position. “I have a responsibility to my clients” she told me.
Term thought leader used to describe expert. I disagree. Here’s why.
At tail: experts, in category of many.
As you develop your ideas, write and speak, you stand out as distinctive
Thought leadership: category of one. Breakthrough: think Sheryl Sandberg and Lean In. Lean In ignited conversations still going on. She’s continuing to author op-eds, in NY Times, mostly on gender biases and stereotypes.
In technology: PadMASree Warrior, Chief Technology & Strategy Officer of Cisco Systems. In 2014, Forbes listed her as the 71st most powerful woman in the world. Her ideas are about enabling the future through technology. She’s considered to be the likely successor to CISCO CEO John Chambers. Notably, she has more than 1½ million followers on Twitter! That’s Thought leadership!
No question that if you put effort into becoming a thought leader your career will take flight. Or you may already be on career trajectory, and you add TL overlay…you’ll fly really high.
But what if your area of thought leadership is outside of work? You may have an idea for the community, something novel for example to help the homeless. NEXT SLIDE: INFLUENCER…Lava Mae/Doniece Sandoval
Some people influence by having a novel idea and acting on it.
LAVA MAE/Doniece Sandoval is another great example…marketer for tech companies, came back to SF after NY, saw all the homeless and their lack of access to hygiene. She told me: convert buses; went to former city supe, now homeless advocate; “he rolled his eyes, gave me homework!” She did it, and thus was born Lava Mae, originally Spanish for “wash me” Mission: delivering dignity one shower at a time. Doniece is making the change she wants to see, one shower at a time. Her IDEA turned into ACTION that is thought-leading.
These are some of the areas of our lives that you can help influence–
Workplace processes, behavior, policy
Products, product safety
School curriculum and education system
Healthcare
Immigration
Human rights
Policy: environment, science, economy
While you’re looking at this slide, let me mention again…I’ve been at UN CSW all week, listening to mostly women from all over the world. These women are influencing policy in their countries on gender equality, giving girls access to education, getting women safe access to water, fighting violence against women & girls the list goes on.
To sum this all up: As an influencer, as a TL yr someone people seek out because of your opinions, the way you think about things, & this helps accelerate where you want to go with your life and the difference you want to make.
SOAPBOX! How can women shape opinions and influence us, if their voices, our voices, YOUR voices, aren’t being heard? Short answer: they can’t!
Let’s put the numbers in perspective: these are companies we interact with every day, and even in non technical jobs such as HR and marketing, on average women make up only 30% of employees of the company. Women aren’t represented enough in the firms to be influential.
In 2014 Facebook’s user population was 77% women. Could more women in leadership or more than 17% of engineers have ideas that would make the site more meaningful for women users? I think so!
I live in SF, and many days leave house around 7am to go swim in the bay. I drive through areas where the famous “Google buses” and buses for eBay, LI, Yahoo, Facebook, etc. pick up employees… Employees line up on the sidewalk as they wait for the bus to arrive. I’ve conducted a visual experiment: For every 10 men in line, there’s one perhaps two women. That’s it. So the numbers in the slide here are born out by the evidence on the sidewalks at 7am weekdays. Technical teams are missing women, and most importantly missing their ideas.
In consumer media, we’re not seeing many women influencing conversations – how can they when Sunday talk shows are more than 85% male?
The most influential topics – sports, science, opinion, technology, world, business, are dominated by male writers. This means that women aren’t shaping public opinion with their ideas on most of the important issues that impact people’s lives.
They’re not submitting opinion pieces to publications. Only around 20% of submissions are from women.
I want YOU to help change this status quo, that you’ll take every opportunity to get your ideas heard!
Realize we’re covering a lot…feel free to contact me offline if you have questions.
The conference description says 6 steps. I modified for our session today.
***ANNOUNCEMENT*** I’m offering 1 hr free phone/skype consult to first 5 people to sign up. So wherever you are I hope you’ll take me up on the offer!
You build a support scaffold b/c you can’t do this alone. Don’t try it…it doesn’t work.
Building blocks to the scaffold…
1. Let your passion drive and inspireThink about where you want to make a difference. Ghandi famously said, “Be the change you want to see.” as mentioned earlier, if you have the deep passion to make change, have that fire in the belly, nothing will stop you.
2. Find a mentorHave an inspiring female to look up to and help you and be a positive influence in your life. You can have a male mentor too, but having a female mentor is key.
3. Strengthen bonds with other womenSurround yourself with other strong women to learn from and give back. These relationships can help us build on our achievements and foster positive female connections. And here’s where we need male allies: Bond with supportive men. Plus we need men for balance and perspective. I can feel heads nodding!
4. Take actionOld saying, “good things come to those who wait.” You could wait a long time for it to happen. Instead, I suggest you adopt the mindset of “good things will come if I go out and get them.”
ASK: What’s my passion? Where are you passionate to make a difference? Not sure what your passion is? Try this: Take a look at what area of your life or work – pay or volunteer – do you LOVE, that you love telling people about?
Identify who needs it/whom it serve… Ask Why is it needed/its value? What will change as a result of your idea?
DEFINE: This is where you write sentence or two about your idea. By writing it down you start to give your idea some shape.
DEVELOP, TEST, APPLY: You may have a process for doing something…or a model for how to make something work better, or a new way to explain something. Post if you like for all to see.
After the webinar, write everything you can think about the idea. To test, run it by a colleague or friend. What do they think? If you get nods of approval, you’re ready to develop it further.
We could talk for days about developing an idea, but I wanted to give you a basic foundation for coming up with one for yourself.
Think for a few moments and jot down what you’re passionate about. This will form the basis for your core idea. OK if you change it later…right now important to tune your mind to THINK IN NEW WAY about what you do, or want to do. As if we’re FILTERING for gem. Post in chat if you’d like to share it with everyone.
As we said earlier, personal branding is about how you show up, what you want people to think about you, and what in reality they think about you and are those two aligned.
In PB think about Packaging yourself
-- your passion...you want peeps to think about your passion when they think of you
– come across…how you dress and hold or comport yourself
-- what you say and how you say it
-- your online presence/social media…FB LI Twitter…peeps get an impression of you
-- your experience/expertise
-- you relationships/whom you know, who knows you
-- if you don’t purposefully brand yourself, others will do the job for you and you might not like what they do!!
vision statement next slide
Vision statement: What to you want to become? Or do? Tie it in to your passion. Use this as a template or guide to write your vision statement.
My vision statement: I will provide tech women with the vital resources, tools and support they need to have successful careers, because of the challenges women in technology are up against and my passion to topple the status quo. I’ll achieve this by being a hub for programs and opportunities through my new nonprofit, FemResources.
And if you don’t know, write “I don’t know yet” – make a commitment to discover your passion.
The best way to get going is write 3-5 topic idea…idea paragraphs.
Easiest may be what’s in the news: Jennifer B on PERFECTION re SI Swimsuit issue…big discussion in news was big size model in swimsuit lineup and even bigger size model in an ad. In her op-ed Jennifer tied perfection to the less than perfect big size women and how models are photoshopped to perfection.
Multiple platforms: Blog you write or company blog, company newsletter, your own newsletter, industry publications print & online, online only publications, mainstream news in print and online; blogs edited or curated by influencers. For blogs by influencers, find who is heavily read in your industry…these will be the influencers that you want to be friends with, and ask to guest blog.
Reach out to a few select reporters who cover your topic. Offer yourself as a subject matter expert. Or suggest a story based on your idea.
Speaking personalizes your message. The live effect is powerful. Amplifies your writing, if you’re writing as well.
If you work for a firm, offer to speak at internal meetings in your area. You can also research conferences and meetings in your industry, and offer yourself as a panelist. Or, propose to put together a panel with you as moderator.
I LOVE Toastmasters. My club has members from Adobe, Advent Software, Zynga, Dolby. Toastmasters lets you try out ideas with a real audience, but without consequences. And you get honest feedback on your speeches!
My message here is that you seek to speak at every opportunity possible. You can’t speak often enough! It’ll balance with the writing that you’re doing. You’ll get practice talking about your idea or concept.
How do you keep your idea fresh? First, Ensure that it’s is current…update as needed
If it becomes out of date or irrelevant and you’re stumped for what to do next: go back to your passion!
If you have a new idea, Start the process with drafting a new idea statement…follow the previous 6 steps. And make sure that your passion drives whatever you decide to do.
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Update as needed
Add new idea into your concept bag
Solicit feedback from mentor, peers, support group
Stay current with industry trends
Keep your passion alive!
So we can’t do a personal action plan right now, but we can review the essentials of a personal action plan. This is a template I’ve created for you…put in my own draft action plan.
Goal
Actions to achieve goal
Measures of success
Timing
What could hold me back
How I’ll handle obstacles
Feel free to take it and make it your own
Things outside your control…you feel unwelcome, put down, ignored, b/c you’re a woman
Do something about: no self-blame here! Do my top 5 barrier-busting action items to keep sane and on track:
Reaffirm your passion...remind why…so strong bend metal
Assess situation…how bad is it
Assess costs to keep going
Assess costs to leave
Reaffirm your passion
While this doesn’t give a prescription for dealing with obstacles, it does give you a way to look pragmatically at your challenging situation.
Whether you work for a firm or yourself, always return to your passion and let it be your guide.
Been socialized to believe we’re not good enough…that it’s too risky to take risks.
My message to you is: Don’t doubt what you know. Go back to your passion and what you know is true. That’ll put you back on solid ground.
Imposter syndrome…
Repeat, “I am not a fraud!”
Focus on your value
Compare yourself only to yourself
Let your passion drive your beliefs
Perhaps the stickiest wicket of all…Confidence, or lack of it, is a HUGE obstacle for many women.
Because there’s a great presenter in the Voices conference on this topic, I’m referring you to Lisa Marie Jenkins’s session. And I highly recommend The Confidence Code book by Katty Kay & Claire Shipman.
I don’t want confidence issues to get in the way of your becoming the renowned authority you deserve to be.
Whenever you have any doubt, this is what I do…think back to your passion. Yes, speaking out and expressing your ideas requires a thick skin, confidence and resilience. And…you can grow a thick skin, you can increase confidence, and you can become resilient. It’s never too late!
I have a few last words of advice as you embark on your journey to Speak Out! and change the world. As I suggested earlier, success is personal. You decide what success means to you. The 5 concepts I’ve put up here will help accelerate your success, whatever that ends up being for you.
Curious: be a nosy news hound…know what’s going on in the world, in your industry, areas that affect your industry, and of course in your particular field. Try never to say, “I don’t need to know that.” By knowing what’s happening, you’ll be someone who connects the dots, see connections and make sense of things others haven’t yet seen
Bold: When you’re deeply passionate about something, you’ll be bold without barely realizing it. Passion to make a difference is a whopping motivator! I’m speaking from experience!
Patient: Practice patience with others and with yourself. This isn’t an overnight process. Flip side…
4. Impatient: you need to take action now! Old saying, “good things come to those who wait.” You could wait a long time for good things to happen. Instead, adopt the mindset of “good things will come if I go out and get them.”
5. Compassionate: show you care. And have compassion for yourself too
Nothing nothing will stop you if your passion is real, and if you follow it!
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And thank you Deanna for creating this incredibly valuable Voices conference! You’re doing such a valuable service to curious minds around the world…thank you SO much!