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Women Leaders:
Unleashing the Power from Within
Friday, October 6, 2017
9:00am – 10:15am
COBO Room 250 A
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Women Leaders: Unleashing the Power
from Within
To inspire and empower women across the world to
take on leadership roles, to lead change with more
conviction and confidence, and to improve our
workplaces and communities for all.
By offering more complex understandings of issues
related to professional women and work, we will
help you increase self-knowledge about your own
values and vision as well as enhance your
capabilities as a leader.
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Moderator
Denise Evans
Vice President, Diversity Marketing
IBM Corporation
Presenting Panelist
Nicole Patton, Manager
Desktop Engineering
Proskauer Rose, LLP
Panelist
Dr. Akilah Cadet
Founder
Change Cadet
Panelist
Adrienne (AD) Williams
Systems Engineer Manager
Northrop Grumman Corporation
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Career
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Career Success
Write down
 3 positive feelings about your job
 3 negative feelings about your job
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Career Success
Write down
 3 positive feelings you must have in a job
Now, compare all of your notes…
Are these reflected in your positive feelings
about your current job?
Try the LOVE/HATE List available www.changecadet.com
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Putting it all together: As Easy as “P.I.E.”
Source: Double Outsiders, How Women of Color Can Succeed in Corporate America
by Jessica Faye Carter, J.D., MBA
PERFORMANCE
IMAGE
EXPOSURE
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Performance Image Exposure
Women
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Performance Image Exposure
Women of Color
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Advancing Women at IBM
Research Study
Insights from IBM Women Executives
Be Visible, Plan Your Career, Integrate Work and Life

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Be visible
 Seek out highly visible stretch and growth roles
 Network
 Create a “career advisory team”
 Build your eminence
 Help other women with advancement

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Plan your career
 Create a career plan
 Stretch your skills
 Expand your cultural reach
 Engage regularly with your “career advisory
team”

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Integrate Work and Life
 Don’t feel guilt about decisions
 Delegate
 Create a support network
 Understand the resources & programs available to you
 Seek out role models

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Leadership
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How to Identify Leadership Goals
Leadership Lessons…
from a Dancing Guy!
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Effective Leadership
The ability to successfully integrate and
maximize available resources within
the internal and external
environments for the attainment of
organizational, societal, and personal goals.
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Know the difference between a Leader
and a Manager
Management is doing things right,
Leadership is doing the right things
Peter Drucker
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Leaders
 Opportunities vs. problems, issues, …
 The manager asks ‘how and when’, the leader asks
‘what and why’
 Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive,
forward-looking optimistic looking pictures in
their own minds and in the minds of others
(Scwartz)
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Leaders, continued
 Consistent high performance is a given
 Can’t delegate failure and/or blame
 The ability to summon positive emotions during periods
of intense stress lies at the heart of effective
leadership
 Willing to be on an island by oneself
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Power Within
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Challenging Situations
 Physical
 It’s always about “the business”
 “Never let them see you sweat”
 Three breaths rule
 Resources
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Inspire and Empower Women
 Opportunities within
and/or outside
 Network
 LinkedIn
 Informational Interviews
 Volunteer/Internships
 Start a passion project
 Lifelong learner
 Mental Health
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Resources
 Good is not Enough and Other Unwritten Rules for Minority Professionals,
Keith R. Wyche
 Double Outsiders: How Women of Color Can Succeed in Corporate America,
Jessica Faye Carter, J.D., MBA
 5 Steps to Professional Presence: How to Project Confidence,
Competence, and Credibility at Work, Susan Bixler and Lisa Scherrer Dugan
 Seeing the Big Picture: Business Acumen to Build Your Credibility, Career,
and Company, Kevin Cope
 How Great Leaders Inspire Action, Simon Sinek @ TedTalks
https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action
https://startwithwhy.com/
 Networking for People who Hate Networking, a field guide for introverts,
the overwhelmed, and the underconnected, Devora Zack
 Corner Office Rules: The 10 Realities of Executive Life, Keith R Wyche
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Resources, continued
Catalyst Report
Emotional Tax: How Black Women and Men Pay More at Work and How
Leaders Can Take Action
In this study of Black women and men employees, we found evidence of an “Emotional
Tax” that is levied on Black women and men as they try to successfully navigate
through their careers.
Take the Lead, Women: https://www.taketheleadwomen.com/
Jar Of Life - Put IMPORTANT Things FIRST!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_N_uvq41Pg
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Women of Color Foundation: www.cl-magazine.com

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Advancing Executive Women at IBM
study paper
 Download the paper
w3.tap.ibm.com/medialibrary
/media_view?id=207106

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Power
https://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/courses/professional-and-personal-
development/women-leaders-mastering-influence-authenticity-and-power/20171_WSP-236
WSP 236 — Women Leaders: Mastering Influence, Authenticity, and Power
Stanford University
Day(s): Sundays
Course Format: On-campus course
Duration: 2 days
Tuition: $515
Addtl. Materials Fee: $5 (non-refundable)
Women leaders face unique challenges. Although women hold more than 50 percent of middle
management positions, only 4.6 percent of CEOs in Fortune 500 companies are women.
Developing strong leadership skills, especially in the areas of resilience, influence, networking,
self-promotion, and risk-taking, will better equip women to address these challenges and thrive
as leaders in the workplace. This highly interactive workshop is designed to enable women to step
into leadership roles and lead effectively. We will focus on finding the meaning that will inspire
you in your career, and learning to use tools that will enable you to reframe obstacles and work
toward solutions. You will enlist sponsorship and followership by building meaningful networks.
And, you will develop a communication style to take ownership of your accomplishments.
Utilizing a robust structure of lectures, role-plays, experiential exercises, and coaching
techniques, this course draws upon content from cutting-edge female leadership models.
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Moderator Denise Evans
Vice President, Diversity Marketing
IBM Corporation
devans@us.ibm.com
Presenting Panelist
Nicole Patton, Manager
Desktop Engineering
Proskauer Rose, LLP
info@nicolepatton.com
Panelist
Dr. Akilah Cadet
Founder, Change Cadet
akilah@changecadet.com
Panelist
Adrienne (AD) Williams
Systems Engineer Manager
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Adrienne.Williams@ngc.com
Your Questions?
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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our
deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
…We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? …
…as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other
people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from
our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
Marianne Williamson
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