In this session you will hear from three women leaders within the University of California who will share with you their “pearls of wisdom” on what it takes to survive and thrive while making a difference and making a way. Each of the panelists' comes with a wealth of background and experiences both from within UC and outside of UC. Their candid discussion will help you to:

• Learn that your career is like a candy store
• Manage a life and career full of challenges, choices, and changes
• Learn how to take risks…and win
• Learn not to give up your power

• Power - what it is and what it isn't.
• Six sources of power – when and how to use each wisely.
• Women and power – why we don't use what we have and how to change that.
  

Public Speaking with Ease
Caterina Rando

How to Be a Compelling Speaker Every Time Do you know that most people are more frightened of standing up at a podium to give a speech than they are of standing in front of a firing squad? As a result, many people make it to the end of their careers having avoided numerous opportunities to speak in public. This interactive and fun speaking program creates a safe and supportive environment to allow everyone an opportunity to experience being successful in front of an audience.

You will learn:

• The importance of speaking up
• How to successfully think and speak extemporaneously
• The logistics of speaking
• How to overcome nervousness

Negotiating Leadership Through Consensus
Janet Martinez

Negotiation is a fact of life in work as well as personal life. Most women are not comfortable negotiating for themselves. This high impact session will give you the tools you need for deal making with the aim of achieving high-value, sustainable agreements. Through interactive exercises and examples we will focus on negotiation fundamentals -- how to map a negotiation to create and claim sustainable value.

True Colors: What Are Your True Colors? Are You Sure?!
Joyce Hammel

In this fun, interactive session you will discover your true greatest strengths and understand the strengths of others. You will learn quick, proven skills to assess those strengths and how best to use them to improve professional performance and personal satisfaction. Join us to experience:

• How to improve, strengthen, and understand more about all modes of communication
• How to influence and engage others for greater individual performance and gain more successful leadership skills
• How to gain more insight and tools into your professional and personal life
• How others have found life changing experiences with True Colors

Make the Right Career Move Looking to find and do work you love?
Rachelle (Shelley) J. Canter

This session will share crucial secrets of successful job searches to help you identify and land a personally fulfilling top job, as hundreds of executives and professionals using these methods already have. This session will introduce important tools, tips, and strategies to put you on the fast track to your dream job, including:

• The three mistakes that prevent women from getting their dream jobs
• A career planning strategy to build your career a few minutes at a time
• The three promotional tools that help you stand out from the crowd
• Essentials of a resume that dazzles instead of fizzles
• How to build your brand – and your confidence

• Identify the hallmarks of emotional intelligence
• Develop an understanding of how emotional intelligence relates to improved communication and leadership
• Develop strategies for improving skills for self-awareness, self-regulation, and influence
• Create a plan for using your emotional intelligence skills
  
  
  

Using Technology to Your Advantage in the 21 st Century
Syndi Seid

Did you know there are definite U.S. Postal Service guidelines to best address envelopes for fastest processing and delivery? What should you do when your cell phone rings in a public place or in the middle of a meeting…and you've got to take the call? Or, what's the best way to record a voicemail greeting, answer and place calls and take messages…so it won't appear you are screening the call? Attend this interactive session to learn the strategic do's and don'ts to email etiquette, cell phone and telephone courtesies, and how to properly send business and social correspondence by regular mail, either handwritten or via computer to give the best professional impression.

Coaching Skills: Transforming Yourself and Others to Be Their Personal Best
Tamara Wiggins Steele

Whether you want to achieve what appears to be the impossible or simply shorten the distance between your goals and success, coaching can help you plan and execute a strategy that gets you to where you want to be, today, tomorrow and for a lifetime. By going through the coaching process, managers are able to identify and modify behavior that blocks them from performing at their highest level. In this workshop, you will:

• Develop an understanding of coaching as a profession
• Learn fundamental coaching skills
• Identify internal and external challenges to the transformation process
• Learn how to clarify your values and set goals in alignment with your values.

Stepping Up and Moving Mountains with Spirited Contribution
Christie Hardwick

Join author of “The ABC's Of An Extraordinary Life” and executive coach, Christie Hardwick for an interactive workshop to inspire you to show up more complete in your work and in your life. How authentic are you allowing yourself to be? What way are you showing- in the way that you show up? Which of your gifts and talents are in the full light and which are hidden in shadow? Looking at your level of contribution is more than evaluating how hard you work or what progress you have made in your career – it includes the truth of how much of your individual spirit is present in your work and life everyday. Showing up fully, authentically – with a willingness to share the truth – can move you and your organization to greater levels of creativity, innovation and success. There is only one YOU and the world needs you to ‘be present' to succeed! Join us for this transformational workshop.

Equilibrium Dynamics: Balanced Emotions, Clear Focus and Good Judgment for Best Performance
Loma K. Flowers

In this session you will be introduced to Equilibrium Dynamics, a practical approach to emotional competence, the master key to leadership skills, from parenting to presidency. You will learn about managing your emotions, thinking and judgement both within yourself and to direct your actions in your personal and professional relationships. Join us to learn the fundamental principles and some basic strategies of how to manage your emotions, both positive and negative, to build a life in which feelings empower – not sabotage relationships, activities and careers

• Recognize the tip-offs that organizational politics may be negatively impacting your ability to have influence, impact and grow your career
• Begin to defuse some of the negative emotional charge that accompanies facing political realities
• Learn a Political Styles model so you can leverage your own strengths and guard against the weaknesses of political extremes
• Be introduced to the 12 Savvy Strategies that will support increased strategic influence and career satisfaction.

You will also have an opportunity to take an on-line Political Savvy self-assessment as follow-up to the session.

• Increase awareness around managing workforce diversity;
• Examine cultural assumptions, biases and limitations;
• Explore the impacts of our communication style on others in areas that are difficult or taboo to talk about at work such as race/ethnicity, class, disability, sexual orientation, gender, etc;
• Learn to listen without judgment, allow for difference, and explore both thoughts and feelings;
• Consider a multicultural competency model as a communication framework.

Financial Planning for Women: Improve Your Financial I.Q.
Leona Lau

Take stock of your money wisdom and “Get Financially Smart!” This interactive workshop will help you improve yourself financially. Expect to succeed and learn the steps you need to stay on track. The information and handouts in this workshop will lead you through a self assessment process:

• How to assess your financial position
• How to determine your financial goals
• How to ensure a sound retirement
• How to handle your money in each stage of your life

The Importance of Forgiveness for Health and Healing
JoAnne M. Saxe

Join us to explore the profound connection between forgiveness and health. What exactly is forgiveness? What are the benefits of forgiving and is there evidence to support forgiveness interventions? What are the concrete steps to forgiveness? If you believe that you or a significant other may need to do some forgiveness work, this is your opportunity to gain some resources to use to begin your journey.

Specific objectives of this profound and engaging workshop are:

• To discuss the importance of forgiveness
• To identify the benefits of forgiveness
• To explore the meaning of forgiveness
• To note the evidence that supports the impact of forgiveness interventions
• To practice some forgiveness strategies

Leadership From the Inside Out: New Ways of Women Leading
Akaya Windwood

In this interactive and experiential session, participants will get an opportunity to discover ways of leading that move from a place of purpose, authenticity, self-awareness and partnership.  Gone are the days of the single mountain-top based leaders – together, let’s map out new models of leadership that reflect the wisdom of women.  Come prepared to laugh, think, and be supportive of other women while getting support for your own leadership.

Turning Adversity Into Advantage
Jarralynne Agee

Wildly successful women have had to learn hard lessons through challenges, crises, and even their own mistakes. This workshop shares a new framework that moves beyond surviving but suggests that women can use adversity as a blueprint for future success. Every bad boss, poor relationship and personal struggle creates in each woman a competitive edge for excelling in situations where flexibility, nerve and resourcefulness are needed. In fact, in today's world, adversity is not a stumbling block but can be your best advantage. Your transformation begins in this workshop where we will:

• Learn how to make the most of a bad situation.
• Learn how to identify the lesson in the moment.
• Learn how to let go and move on.
• Learn how to identify your success pattern based on your unique experience.
• Learn how to put the three advantages of adversity to work for you.

How To Work Effectively With Faculty
Susan Christy

“Faculty are a different species with a different culture.” Do you agree with this quote from a Stanford administrator? This interactive workshop offers insights into faculty communication and work styles. You will learn many practical, positive strategies for working with faculty in a variety of University of California settings. Join us to discover:

• How working with faculty is different from boss-subordinate relationships in other organizations
• Opportunities and challenges of working with faculty
• Faculty communication and work styles, priorities, roles, needs and pressures
• Strategies to orient and communicate with faculty, manage their expectations, help them follow administrative procedures and partner for their success – and yours
• How to build your resources and relationships

Gender Differences in Communication: A Cross-Cultural Experience
Mercedes Martin

What are the social, political and cultural impact of women’s communication styles and patterns? After three years working with groups in South and Central America, Mercedes discovered that the majority of global research that had been done around communication styles did not fit those populations. Join her for an engaging and experiential workshop designed to help you navigate the complex intersection where power, culture and communication meet. Have fun while learning new interaction techniques designed to assist you when speaking with people from different cultures.

Why Mothers Don't Get Ahead, and What to Do About It
Joan Williams

This session will explore the maternal wall stereotyping that makes mothers seem less competent and committed, and will discuss the forces that make the workplace difficult for anyone without a wife - including single women!  A full array of best-practice policies to make academia better able to attract and retain women will be discussed. Join us to learn:

• The latest research documenting that motherhood is a key trigger for gender discrimination
• The ways bias against mothers disadvantages even women without children
• Best-practice policies to adapt the academic workplace to the needs of mothers and others with care giving responsibilities
• Best-practice policies to help avoid backlash and resentment
  

Become Wired for Joy: The Solution Method
Laurel Mellin

In this session, you will learn simple tools to pop your brain from stress to joy, even when you are in a meeting, caring for kids or waiting in traffic. The Solution Method includes four-week introductory group programs and, if desired long-term training but this session will give you a taste of the power of the method to transform your life. New brain research has shown that the brain is highly plastic. Use these skills to rewire your brain with one goal: JOY. Join us and experience:

• How to Check In with yourself and create a joyful moment
• How to approach yourself to rewire your brain for loving, secure attachment
• How to disrupt “business as usual” in the brain to change your wiring.
• How to use “Emotional Housecleaning” to feel more passionate and alive.
• How to do a “Cycle” - the most powerful tool of the method that rewires the build-up of stress from the past and pops your brain from stress to joy.

How to Do Space Age Work with a Stone Age Brain ™
Eve Abbott

Technology alone doesn't increase productivity – people do. Let Eve Abbott show you new discoveries about the human brain, so you can take advantage of your unique hardwiring at work . Use proven e-mail tips to get better results with less stress for everyone. Leave with enough brain-based tips to save an hour a day. Join us for a personal performance tune-up:

• Discover your personal best brain style (Visual, Auditory or Kinetic).
• Master email tips that will save you lots of time !
• Invest more time keeping your clientele (and boss!) happy.

Putting Your Best Foot Forward, Instead of In Your Mouth:
Jeanne-Marie Grumet

10 Keys to Successful Communication with Difficult People We all have to deal with them at one time or another: difficult people . In this lively session, you will learn tools to handle people and situations in a way that feels better, reduces conflict and produces the outcome you want. You will discover more about:

• What makes someone difficult
• Handling emotional buttons that get pushed and reducing defensiveness
• Understanding and dealing with different personality styles
• How body language can speak louder than words
• Ways to effectively deliver any difficult communication

• Which events shape the behaviors and communication patterns of our 4 generational workforce.
• The motivational differences of these generations, and the importance of understanding and being able to bridge the gaps.
• What each generation “wants” and “why” and how to go about closing the gaps and creating successful interaction by building harmonious bridges.

Women Chained Together Are Sisters: Fearless Collective Empowerment
Nandi Crosby

Do Mean Girls grow up to be mean women? What keeps us from truly supporting one another in the workplace? The purpose of this presentation is to examine the degree of dehumanization that is embedded within our relationships with other women. The core idea is that women's collectives, woman-centered healing groups, and the politics of sisterhood are germane to the upliftment of women. In this engaging, provocative workshop, participants will be given strategies toward personal empowerment by generating and garnering strength through alliances with other women.

Traveling Sola: Tips for Wandering Women Got Wanderlust?
Stephanie Elizondo Griest

This workshop covers everything a woman needs to know before hitting the road sola, including how to: conquer your fear, pack, haggle, fend off parasites (and sketchy men), handle culture shock, and avoid getting tossed off Trans-Siberian trains for not having your papers in order. You'll also learn about work and volunteer opportunities around the globe, from being a WWOOFER to a grammar gypsy, and how to maximize your time while minimizing your overhead. We'll conclude with a discussion of the world's most women-friendly destinations. Get ready to request a vacation!