The Women's Leadership & Innovation Conference is designed to inspire, empower, and connect women leaders, managers, professionals, and future leaders towards more effective leadership, professional success, and personal fulfillment in 2008.
This Conference will focus on inspiring, empowering, and energizing women leaders across different fields, and will prepare participants for leadership, winning new business, attaining new goals, and driving innovation in 2008.
Morning Keynote Speakers
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Monica Mandelli
Managing Director, INVESTMENT BANKING DIVISION
Technology, Media & Telecommunications Group
GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO. |
Luncheon Keynote Speakers
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Carla Harris
Managing Director, MORGAN STANLEY
Head, GLOBAL CAPITAL MARKETS & EQUITY PRIVATE PLACEMENTS |
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Freada Kapor Klein
Founder & CEO, LEVEL PLAYING FIELD INSTITUTE
Author, GIVING NOTICE: Why the Best and Brightest are Leaving the Workplace and HOW YOU CAN HELP THEM STAY
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Joanne Creighton
President, MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE
Founder & Chair, WOMEN’S EDUCATION WORLDWIDE Coalition |
Afternoon Keynote Speakers
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Aurora Rubin
Global Chief Ethics Officer,
Managing Partner – Global Risk,
DELOITTE TOUCHE TOHMATSU |
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Rachel Mayanja
Assistant Secretary General, UNITED NATIONS
Special Adviser to UN Secretary General, on Gender & the Advancement of Women |
Program
The conference will be an immersion in leadership, management, innovation, and success strategies for women in 2008. The program will offer keynotes, panels, forums, conversations, networking opportunities, and workshops focused on the following themes:
• Organizational Leadership
• Personal Leadership & Career Management
• Entrepreneurial Leadership: Winning Strategies for 2008
• Technology & Media: Thought Leadership, Outlook & Strategies for 2008
• Financial Services: Thought Leadership, Outlook & Strategies for 2008
• “Green” Innovations: Thought Leadership, Outlook & Strategies for 2008
• Social Sector: Thought Leadership, Outlook & Strategies for 2008
• Web Innovations
Participants
The conference will bring together influential women leaders and rising leaders from different industries and sectors, primarily from the Northeast.
Conference participants will be:
• CEOs and C-level women executives from large, mid-size, and small enterprises
and organizations.
• Women leaders, managers, professionals, and rising leaders across different
industries and organizations in the corporate sector. Industries represented will
include finance, law, media, consumer products, consulting, health care, and
technology.
• Women entrepreneurs, business owners, and organization leaders.
• Women from the leading graduate schools for MBA, Law, Public Policy, and
engineering women leaders from social enterprises, non-profits, NGOs, and
education. |
