March 16, 2004
GW Hosts 2004 Womens Leadership Conference March
26
Eleanor Clift, Newsweek contributing editor, political commentator
and author of Founding Sisters and the Nineteenth Amendment
will present the keynote address for GWs 2004 Womens Leadership
Conference, A Lifetime of Learning, March 26 at GWs
Mount Vernon Campus.
The 2004 conference will address womens issues, such as effective
communication and listening skills, negotiating your worth, living the
life you want, and gaining personal and career opportunities from professional,
nonprofit, and social organizations.
Featured workshops:
Its All About Me, focuses on the professional
development of single women without children.
Learning Ourselves, physical and mental healthcare
professionals
will discuss ways the body communicates its wants and needs.
Effective Communication & Listening for Successful Leaders,
examines various communication techniques and key listening techniques.
Through individual assessment and group exercises, participants will learn
how to communicate and listen more effectively, thus expanding new opportunities
for self-development and professional success.
Doing It Now or Doing It Later, presents the pros and
cons of remaining in school and obtaining a graduate degree versus starting
a career versus starting a family.
Talent Alone Wont Get You There, Opportunity Will,
looks at how professional associations, nonprofit organizations, sororities
and others can help gain personal and career opportunities.
You Have Not Because You Ask Not, discusses how to
negotiate ones worth and how to be the negotiator.
Just Doing It, features a professional life coach offering
strategies to being the very best you.
Being In Total Control of Herself Panel, panelists
Susan Phillips, dean, GW School of Business; Cynthia Cissy
Baker (MVC 78) honorary co-chair of the conference; Facilitator
Victoria Sardi-Brown, and others will lead a frank discussion about their
experiences of navigating the political waters of the corporate world,
political arena, and academia, while breaking into the old boy network.
For more information, contact Shannon R. Mouton, director of alumni education
programs, at 994-3990 or via E-mail at smouton@gwu.edu.
Send feedback to: bygeorge@gwu.edu
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