The 13th Annual WomenVenture Professional Development Conference will provide you with the tools you need to enhance your career, build your business, and take your success to the next level.
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| Entrepreneurial Spirit Presented by Ameriprise Financial |
Unleashing the
Entrepreneur Within
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Manage Your Business,
Don't Let Your Business Manage You
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| Leading from the Middle |
Leading from Any Title:
The Art of Middle Management |
Intelligent Coaching
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| Charting Your Career Course Presented by Lee Hecht Harrison |
Staying Marketable:
A Career Survival Skill
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Negotiation=Collaboration:
A Practical Leadership Skill
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| Executive Essence |
Language in Action: Five Skills You Need for Precision Results
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Leaving Your Creative Footprint,
Heels and All
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| Afternoon Session Presented by Wells Fargo |
How I Did It:
A Panel Discussion |
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Entrepreneurial Spirit
Unleashing the Entrepreneur Within
 
Lori Martinek and Mary Trost
In this interactive workshop, you'll learn how to think, plan and act like the successful entrepreneur you always knew you could be. You will focus on strength-based business modeling and leave with a process that will enable you to identify and reach out to your ideal customer. Find out what successful serial entrepreneurs know (and it's no secret!): If you make your living doing what you love, you'll never work a day in your life!
Lori Martinek's 28 years in the high-powered marketing and economic development industry has made her a sought-after branding strategist in the economic development, community marketing and corporate identity arenas. Mary Trost has been in Senior Executive positions for over fifteen years, ten of those as CEO. She is an Accredited Associate of the International Institute for Independent Business and provides practical advice that works for businesses in Arizona and across the nation. |
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| Leading from the Middle Leading from Any Title: The Art of Middle Management
 Martha Carlson
Effective middle management is both science and art. Learn 3 key skills that will enable you to lead up, down, and across within your organization:
Convey strategies, goals, and objectives for your team, leverage your team’s capacity to achieve outcomes and enable your superiors to understand at a deeper level within the organization. This workshop includes lecture, interactive exercises, and individual action planning to enable participants to consider how they can develop and use these 3 skills in their leading roles.
Martha Carlson, MBA, CPCC, is an Executive Coach and consultant with The Bailey Consulting Group, Inc. She is a member of the International Coach Federation and the Minnesota Coaches Association. Martha serves as a mentor for other business leaders as a part of the Menttium 100 program, and as a volunteer career and life coach with WomenVenture. |
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| Leading from the Middle Intelligent Coaching
 Janice Downing Whether you are an individual contributor, supervisor, manager or seasoned executive, this session is designed to give you the information and techniques every coach needs. Attendees will have the chance to participate in discussions and interactive exercises as they:
Janice Downing was the recipient of the 2007 Minority Business Award from The Business Journal. She is the Chief Executive Officer of Fredrikson Human Resources Consultant, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fredrikson & Byron law firm. Janice has over 20 years of Human Resources experience and uses Coachin as a developmental tool when she works with individuals, teams and organizations to improve performance. |
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| Charting Your Career Course Staying Marketable: A Career Survival Skill
 Nancy Burke
In a world of constant change, job security lies in people keeping themselves marketable and employable – this holds true whether you will be staying with the same organization or not. This one hour session attends to the management of four major career areas: Reputation, Relationships, Resume of Results, and Reinvention to stay Relevant.
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| Charting Your Career Course Negotiation=Collaboration: A Practical Leadership Skill
  Jodi Mayers and Kathee Regan
Each of us negotiates every day with co-workers, clients, friends and family. How do you keep the relationship intact when both parties perceive that they want completely different things? Negotiation is a skill for anyone who must balance opposing interests while maintaining an ongoing relationship. In this workshop, you’ll learn a negotiation process from a relationship-driven perspective (not a sales perspective) and outline the specific steps to follow to collaborate successfully. The goal of negotiation is to establish outcomes that result in a win for both parties.
Jodi Mayers is a change management consultant responsible for supporting both individuals and organizations with a variety of change management process initiatives. Jodi's most recent engagements in Financial Services, Retail and Government including change implementation, organization alignment, facilitation, sales effectiveness, process analysis, corporate communication, and project management. Kathee Regan works with clients to retain top talent and improve selection process. Kathee also contributes to projects involving executive search and selection projects around employment brand, retention, and high volume recruiting initiatives. |
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| Executive Essence Language in Action: Five Skills You Need for Precision Results
 Sue Lindgren Your training budget and resources are limited. Money is wasted every time you miss your mark. Your clients want accountability and you don't know how to improve it. How can you increase ROI, maximize results and still stay within your budget? Your ability to both engage others with compelling language and listen beyond the surface dramatically impact results. And once you reach a strategic level in your organization, success is even more dependent on how effectively you influence others so they generate precisely what you want. A leader's ability to communicate powerfully and successfully is key to what is possible for teams and the larger organization. To ensure sustainable achievement, leaders need to master the essential components of making promises, requests, declarations, offers and assertions to be able to transfer these skills effectively. Sue Lindgren is the founder and CEO of YESS! - Your Extraordinary Success Strategies (www.sayyess.com), and co-founder and Principal of Ideal Coaching (www.idealcoaching.com), a world-class coaching organization offering customized programs and coaching certification. A Certified Management Effectiveness Coach, Lindgren is a best selling author and internationally-recognized speaker and entrepreneur who specializes in communication, leadership and organizational effectiveness. She has received numerous honors for business and charitable activities, and was selected as the Small Business Administration's 2007 Midwest Regional Women in Business Champion of the Year. She was also named one of The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal's 2007 Women to Watch.
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| Executive Essence Leaving Your Creative Footprint, Heels and All
 Katy McEwen
Katy McEwen’s workshop draws on her extensive experience in comedic theater and improvisation. Katy will teach you to understand the importance of saying “Yes, and!” to yourself and putting your ideas forward. You’ll leave knowing that declaring your point of view regardless of the hostility of the environment is the first step towards success. Learn to make strong choices and commit to ideas with passion. The key to fostering a real connection with the people who surround you and winning their support is being authentic and true to your style and personality.
Since joining the Brave New Workshop theater in 1997, Katy McEwen has become one of the most prominent female comedians in the Twin Cities. Katy's engaging and quick wit is an integral part of BNW's corporate training and entertainment services success. She has captured the hears of many business audiences including Best Buy, Cargill, Disney Cruise Lines, General Mills, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Target, Thomson, US Bancorp and Yahoo! |
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| Afternoon Session How I Did It: A Panel Discussion
Featuring our three Award Winners and Deb Paterson, Executive Vice President and Community Banking Regional President of Wells Fargo.
These four phenomenal women will open up about their experiences in business and their careers, giving attendees the opportunity to learn from their triumphs and mistakes and acquire sage advice from four successful women in business. Seating is limited - register now! |
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