Wednesday, February 6, 2013
12-1PM PT (3-4PM ET)  |  FREE for WITI Members ($50 Nonmembers)

Presenter: JJ DiGeronimo

How are you representing yourself online today? Did you know you can leverage your online activities to get promoted, find new business partners and increase your customer service? This session highlights successful tips, tools and tricks that can positively impact your professional brand to achieve your desired outcome. Join us to gain insight on short and long-term activities that you can implement as part of your career strategy.

JJ DiGeronimo is a technology executive, entrepreneur, author, wife and mother. She has immersed herself in emerging technologies since 1994 and she has a portfolio of customers and relationships across multiple verticals. JJ is currently a strategic initiator in Cloud Computing and as a multifaceted talent, she over-achieves in fast-paced and high-stakes environments. Her passion for technology enables her to quickly align business obstacles to solutions that encompass skilled people, quality technology and redefined processes.

Like many women, JJ has had her share of struggles & juggles that she has embraced & packaged to empower women in S.T.E.M globally. Through her keynotes, workshops, book, The Working Woman's GPS and blog Purposeful Woman: www.purposefulwoman.com, she has become a leadership expert for women in S.T.E.M.

Tuesday, February 26, 2013
12-1PM PT (3-4PM ET)  |  FREE for WITI Members ($50 Nonmembers)

Presenter: Bonnie Marcus, M.Ed., CEC

It's an exciting time for women in business today. We are well positioned for success and as more and more women enter the workforce, there are more opportunities for women to assume leadership positions. However, consider this:

- Most companies recruit men and women into management in equal numbers but almost from the first level up, the gender split drops off steadily.
- Men fill the senior executive ranks almost entirely: 80% of men move up to senior executive positions, while only 20% of women do.
- Many women who want to advance their careers literally get stuck on the way up the corporate ladder.

This is what I call career quicksand. You feel stuck and invisible in the organization no matter how hard you work. You see others getting promoted and you don't understand why you're not getting ahead. Once you are stuck in career quicksand, it is unlikely that you will get out unless you are savvy and can think strategically about the best way out. The harder you work, the more it works against you and this goes against everything we've been taught about how to succeed.

In this webinar, you will get 10 tips so that you will never get stuck in career quicksand again! You will receive an escape kit to catapult your career upward and you will discover:

- The common reasons women get stuck in career quicksand.
- How to avoid the pitfalls that keep you from propelling your career forward.
- The tools to promote and position yourself for career success.

In addition, when you register for this webinar, you will receive a Career Success Scorecard to assess your advancement potential.

Bonnie Marcus, M.Ed., CEC, is a Certified Executive Coach, professional speaker and self promotion expert. As the founder and principal of Women's Success Coaching, she assists women in promoting themselves effectively to create visibility and credibility. Her specialty is helping women understand their unique value proposition and how to best communicate their value to others in order to advance their careers and build their businesses.

Wednesday, March 13, 2013
12-1PM PT (3-4PM ET)  |  FREE for WITI Members ($50 Nonmembers)

Presenter: Barbara Russo, President, Barbara Russo STRATEGICS

Today's business professional must be proficient in a multitude of competencies, which focus on the personal, business, social and cultural components of global leadership. Having both the knowledge and the confidence to communicate across and between these platforms creates value for the organization and the people involved. In this webinar, you will learn how to assess, appreciate and communicate more effectively using a "coach approach." This will benefit business leaders, managers, senior-level executives, Human Resource professionals, small business entrepreneurs, and career-track individuals.

Barbara Russo is an Executive/Organizational/Life Coach, trained and certified through New York University's School of Continuing Professional Studies, and she serves as an adjunct faculty member in the NYU-SCPS Coaching Program and The Berkeley Extension, Business and Management Department. Barbara is certified through the International Coach Federation and holds additional certifications, including SDI - Strength Development Inventory and Power Coaching. She is a facilitator, moderator, workshop and teleconference leader, coach, coach-trainer and presenter, focusing on career transition and leadership development.

As a former Executive Vice-President of a national, New York-based personnel staffing firm and also as an entrepreneur, Barbara combines the synergy of these roles and the breadth of her professional and personal experience to support and facilitate executives, career professionals, entrepreneurs, individuals, teams and organizations across the country through successful strategic transition and growth.

Barbara serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations and enjoys living in both New York City and the San Francisco Bay area.

Tuesday, April 9, 2013
12-1PM PT (3-4PM ET)  |  FREE for WITI Members ($50 Nonmembers)

Presenter: Barbara A. Trautlein, Ph.D.

Do you struggle to balance getting your current work done with excellence against strategizing toward future goals? Are you frustrated that while you coach your team toward great results, you often feel stymied toward attainment of your personal career aspirations? The reality is that as women, we so often put the needs of others (staff, manager, organization) ahead of our own. How can we prioritize the many competing demands on our time and attention, in a way that empowers us to feel whole and fulfilled? How can we best put our positive power to work, at work? Women who develop their Change Intelligence (or CQ) are better able to juggle conflicting priorities intentionally and effectively. In this webinar, you'll learn what CQ is and how building it can simultaneously help those around you be more productive as well as bolster your career success. The CQ System for Developing Change Intelligence is based on decades of change leadership in the workplace, years of conducting global research on managing change, and deep study into the psychology and neuroscience of change. Through real-life examples you'll:

- Understand the vital leadership skills women bring to the table, and also the common tendencies that unintentionally keep us from achieving what we want.
- Diagnose your own Change Intelligence, and appreciate the strengths and blind spots of your Change Leadership Style.
- Develop your CQ to simultaneously make a bottom-line impact on your team and organization while also focusing on your career through positive, proactive self-promotion.
- Emerge as a more competent and confident (and less stressed and frustrated) leader of change

Barbara is principal and founder of Change Catalysts, author of the book Change Intelligence: Use the Power of CQ to Lead Change that Sticks and originator of the CQ/Change Intelligence System. For over 20 years, Barbara has conducted workshops for thousands of participants, coached many dozens of people from CEOs to union workers, and facilitated over a dozen mission-critical multi-year change management initiatives - achieving bottom-line business and powerful personal results for clients. She is gifted at sharing strategies and tactics that are accessible, actionable, and immediately applicable. In addition to her "hands on" work with clients, she is a recognized expert, author and researcher on leadership and change management best practices. This blend of research and real-world expertise makes her an in-demand speaker at conferences in North America, South America, Asia, and Africa. Barbara has a unique ability to connect with her audiences, from C-level executives in Fortune 50 organizations to front line employees, and across industries, from steel mills to sales teams, refineries to retail outlets, and healthcare to high tech. Clients served include Baxter Healthcare, CareerBuilder, Catholic Health System, Ford Motor Company, Hyatt International, Motorola, the NYPD, Sears, Steel Dynamics, US Cellular, and Whole Foods. Barbara holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan