Women Amplified

Time management expert Laura Vanderkam shares strategies for finding more time in your busy life! Advancing in your career has tradeoffs: more work and responsibility mean less time and energy for you and your family. But are all your personal sacrifices truly necessary? Probably not, says Vanderkam, author of "I Know How She Does It" and "168 Hours." In this 30-minute podclass, Vanderkam will share: how successful women make the most of their time; the underlying strategies that can help you to be more productive; and an overall game plan for giving yourself more time in the day so you can love your career—and personal life, too.

Leadership expert Courtney Lynch talks about the qualities that make real leaders stand out. Leadership isn’t about a job title—it’s about action, commitment and will. In this 30-minute talk, Lynch, a founding partner of Lead Star and co-author of "Leading from the Front," discusses the seven key behaviors that effective managers embrace. Listen for the encouragement and motivation you need to step up and stand out—and be tapped for bigger roles with the responsibility you crave.

To be effective today, you need something that leadership strategist Erica Dhawan calls “connectional intelligence.” In 30 minutes, Dhawan, co-author of Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence, will explain how to connect better and faster and use the skill to innovate growth • solve highly complex challenges • marshal resources and tap informal knowledge networks • and maximize your potential.

ERICA DHAWAN is the co-author of the new book, “Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence.”  She is a globally recognized leadership expert and keynote speaker who is driving innovation across cultures and generations. Considered to be one of the today’s most provocative business thinkers on Millennials and the future of work, she is the founder and CEO of Cotential – a company that has helped enterprises prepare for the global workplace of tomorrow. An in-demand speaker, Dhawan has spoken worldwide to organizations and enterprises that range from the World Economic Forum to U.S. and global Fortune 500 companies. Her writings have appeared in dozens of publications, including Fast Company, Forbes and Harvard Business Review. Dhawan also serves as a member of the Aspen Institute Socrates Society, World Economic Forum Global Shapers and the Young Entrepreneur Council. She has degrees from Harvard Kennedy School, MIT Sloan and Wharton School.

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With ever-changing policies on retirement planning, it’s tempting to put off saving for retirement until there is a clear path to follow. Do you invest safely knowing that the money will be there, but might not be quite enough? Or do you invest more aggressively in the hopes that you have more money to spend later in life? Labor economist and a nationally recognized expert in retirement security, Dr. Teresa Ghilarducci will help you cut through the confusion and misinformation with a strategy to help you achieve what you are planning for in your retirement savings.

Her program will explain:

• What a person or household needs to have saved;

• How much to expect from Social Security; and

• How to make your money grown between now and then.

There are no gimmicks or magical thinking—just valuable recommendations that will make attending this teleclass a wise investment!

TERESA GHILARDUCCI is an expert on retirement, pensions, and personal savings and the Bernard L. and Irene Schwartz Chair in Economic Policy Analysis at The New School for Social Research. She has a PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and taught previously at the University of Notre Dame. Her 2008 book, When I’m Sixty-Four: The Plot Against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them, was recognized for containing the best economic idea of 2008 by The New York Times. Her book Labor’s Capital: The Politics and Economics of Private Pensions won The Association of American Publishers award for the best business book of 1992. She has written for and been featured in The New York Times, Money, Kiplinger’s, Businessweek, U.S. News & World Report, Parade, and more.

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Effective, positive communication is the single biggest driver of success at work. In this 30-minute teleclass, Michelle Gielan, author of Broadcasting Happiness and a former CBS Morning News anchor, will share her simple, yet scientifically based strategies to: inoculate your brain against stress and negativity • make impactful verbal and non-verbal changes to your leadership style • fuel performance in others through high-impact praise • and boost employee engagement, productivity and work satisfaction.

MICHELLE GIELAN, national CBS News anchor turned positive psychology researcher, is the best-selling author of Broadcasting Happiness. Michelle is the founder of the Institute for Applied Positive Research and is partnered with Arianna Huffington to study how transformative stories fuel success. She is an Executive Producer of “The Happiness Advantage” Special on PBS and a featured professor in Oprah’s Happiness course. Michelle holds a Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, and her research and advice have received attention from The New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes, CNN, FOX, and Harvard Business Review.

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Learn how to pivot strategically, and you’ll see change as an opportunity rather than as a crisis. In 30 minutes, Jenny Blake, author of Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One, will share her four-stage method for moving forward, which you can cycle through every time you hit a plateau or want to shift direction. You’ll come away knowing how to • identify new opportunities without falling prey to analysis-paralysis or compare-and-despair • reduce risk by running small experiments • and launch with confidence.

JENNY BLAKE is an author, career and business strategist and international speaker who helps people organize their brain, move beyond burnout, and build sustainable, dynamic careers they love. Blake is the author of “Pivot: The Only Move that Matters is Your Next One” (Portfolio/Penguin Random House, September 6, 2016), and “Life After College” (Running Press, 2011), which is based on her blog of the same name. With two years at a technology start-up as the first employee, five years at Google on the training and career development teams, and over five years of running her own business, Blake combines her love of technology with her superpower of simplifying complexity to help clients through big transitions — often to pivot their career or business. Today you can find her at JennyBlake.me and on her Pivot Podcast, where she explores systems at the intersection of mind, body and business.

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Reaching your career goals is tough enough, but ascending in an industry in which there are not many women in executive level positions can seem unattainable.  In non-traditional work environments for women, how do you network to find a mentor and build an internal alliance?  This session will help you diversify your networking mindset and introduce you to opportunities for networking that may not have been previously on your radar.  The panelists will share their tips for building allies within an organization and their strategies for networking internally so you are noticed by your employers when a promotion is on the line.

Thought Leader: Kelly Meerbott, leadership coach and speaker

Speakers:

Sabrina Brooks, senior marketing manager, PECO

Kim Fraites-Dow, CEO, Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania

Charisse Lillie, fellow & VP, community investment, Comcast Corporation & EVP, Comcast Foundation

In today’s competitive environment, it is important to stand out, step up and get noticed – not only to climb the ladder, but to take control of your own career. So how can you ensure that the choices you make each day result in the career growth you deserve while preventing the negative perceptions you DON’T deserve? This panel of honest and accomplished women will offer specific insights from their current experiences in the workplace, will share their tactics for survival and growth and identify the pitfalls to avoid so that you can succeed.

Thought Leader: Dr. Therese Huston, author, How Women Decide: What’s True, What’s Not, and What Strategies Spark the Best Choices

Panelists:

Caroline Loew, vice president, R&D, planning & strategy, Bristol-Myers Squibb

Marisa Co, VP, R&D business insights & analytics, Bristol Myers-Squibb

By engaging men in advocating for more equal workplaces, we’re creating better leaders, stronger businesses, more fulfilling lives for both women and men as well as establishing a business imperative required at all levels from all managers. The stats are staggering, in terms of where women stand in the workplace even after all this time, and will need an all hands on deck approach to make the changes necessary for equality. Yet, while progress is … [ more ]