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From the Barn to the Boardroom – SOLD OUT

May 2013 Morning Leadership Breakfast

Speaker(s): Sue Parham
May 23, 2013 from 7:15am – 9:00am
Location: Standard Insurance
1100 SW Sixth Ave.
Parkview Conference Room – 15th Floor
Portland, OR 97205

This event is Sold Out. Please send an email to membership@wcleadership.com if you would like to be waitlisted.

Please join us as Sue Parham, Founder and President of Lessons Learned and former Vice President and Product Leader at several major consumer product companies, shares her insights into women in leadership. Drawing on a mix of corporate storytelling, barnyard tales and empirical research on women in management, Sue will inspire you to explore your unique management roots, as she shares her journey of rising through the corporate ranks while remaining true to her own principles. Take-aways you can expect from Sue’s presentation:

•    Making the most of your strengths, unique skills and talents
•    Using your roots and values to understand your management style
•    Inspiring leadership by sharing a piece of the vision

With extensive experience in product creation, presentation and storytelling, Sue specializes in bringing product stories to market and coaching executives to create compelling speeches that resonate, motivate and persuade. She has worked for or with many global consumer brands across multiple industries: Nike, Columbia Sportswear, Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Juicy Couture, West Elm, Under Armour, Jamba Juice, and Arc’teryx, to name just a few. She is also an author and visiting lecturer.

 

Price:$26

You may register by using the Add to Cart button. Tickets are $26 and includes continental breakfast.

Date: May 23, 2013. Breakfast starts at 7:15a.m., Speaker 7:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Location: Standard Insurance, 1100 SW Sixth Avenue
Parkview Conference Room – 15th Floor, Portland OR 97204.

Instructions will be emailed the week of the event for those who register.

Tickets are non-refundable. Please review our cancellation policy for more information.

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The Ability to Connect

Amy Weeden
Propeller Resources

As a follow-up to July Leadership Breakfast topic, “Building an Executive Presence: How to work effectively at every organizational level,”  I gave myself homework to truly focus on one of the areas that Kim and I presented – the ability to connect.

I recently made the transition to an entrepreneur, so connecting with people has become my full-time job.  Whether I am talking to potential clients about our business model, interviewing potential consultants or simply expanding my network, my days are filled with connecting with people, many of them new to me.  During the presentation, we talked about the following practical steps to increasing your ability to connect:

  • Recognize that to be an effective leader, you need others to follow
  • Pursue real connection, not simply transactions
  • Be genuinely interested: eye contact, facial expression
  • Project sincerity and warmth

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Building your Ability to Bounce Back

Kelli Gizzi
WCL Social Media Director

I was impressed by the determination and focus of the US and Canadian women’s teams in the Olympic Women Soccer Semi-finals earlier this week.

What made the biggest impression on me when I watched the game was the display of resiliency on both teams throughout the entire game – after every set-back, injury, questionable call, and penalty kicks. The teams rallied on. These female athletes exemplify resiliency – and it has stuck with me over the past two days.

We have all had career setbacks: projects canceled, employees leave, funding dries up, and on and on. We all have had to adapt and rally.

In her blog, “The Secret for Today’s Leadership – Being Resilient,” Rebecca Shambaugh writes that resiliency is “the capacity to bounce back from misfortune, disruptive change, and failures. [click to continue…]

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What does courage mean to you?

Michelle Sosinski
WCL President

The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines it as:

cour•age noun \ˈkər-ij, ˈkə-rij\: mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty

I was struck by a recent blog “Women Are Braver than Men” in Psychology Today, by Robert Biswas-Diener, a Positive Psychologist.  He talks about when he was writing his book The Courage Quotient, that he decided to offer a cash prize for courage, in order to “hear all the stories of courage and wanting to make some modest contribution to this worthwhile way of being in the world.”  What Robert found, was that “all the people nominated by others were women.”  [click to continue…]

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The Gift of Advice

June 5, 2012

Kelli Gizzi
WCL Social Media Director
Recently, the 2012 Fortune 500 list was released.  When I first saw the list I had no idea that there were a record number of female executives, until I saw in a blog that detailed, “The 2012 ranking of the 500 largest corporations in the United States includes a record [...]

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Leadership Lessons from the Hunger Games

May 29, 2012

Claire Celeste Carnes
WCL Strategic Marketing Director
My friend loaned me a copy of the Hunger Games earlier this year and, after reading the series, I went to see the movie as well.  While much has been made of the heroine Katniss, a young woman who can take care of herself (especially as compared with the [...]

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Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, leaves work at 5:30 pm. What time do you leave work?

April 18, 2012

Rachel Shafran
WCL Secretary
The upsurge in mobile devices – Blackberries, iPhones, iPads – has transformed the typical workday. The line between work and life has blurred.  According to Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, “There’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance”.
Sheryl Sandberg, mother of two, and [...]

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Amelia Earhart: Inspirer of Dreams

April 3, 2012

Michelle Sosinski
WCL President
“Everyone has oceans to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?” ― Amelia Earhart

Source: Wikipedia

This year marks the 75th anniversary of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance. To this day, it is still a mystery as to what happened to her and her [...]

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Celebrating Women’s History Month

March 28, 2012

 “When I started working on women’s history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn’t think that women had a history worth knowing.” —Gerda Lerner, Historian, Author and Teacher

Source: National Women's History Museum

Women’s History Month celebrates the achievements of and challenges faced by women in diverse fields such as education, education, science, [...]

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Where Girls Grow Strong

March 6, 2012

Michelle Sosinski
WCL President
Not surprising … it was a cold, stormy morning in Portland, as I swiftly walked from the car to the front door of my favorite grocery store.  Keeping my head down, as I was trying to keep the rain from slapping me in the face, I noticed a pair of little shoes as [...]

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