Program Overview

Accelerate Career Development with Intellectual Property
Pam Nesbitt, Senior Software Engineer, IBM
Michelle Mancino Marsh, Partner, Kenyon & Kenyon LLP
September 27, 3:45 pm - 4:45 pm

This session will cover empowering women to recognize their potential as innovators, creators and even owners of IP (Intellectual Property.) For Pam Nesbitt, a Senior Software Engineer at IBM, it began as an abstract goal: to increase Intellectual Property generation by women within IBM - a vastly underrepresented minority in this area. Out of that goal came a community founded by Pam.

The Women Inventors Community of IBM has been in existence for less than a year, yet has already garnered a membership of over 400 people and has generated over 100 new patent filings. The community is viewed as a leadership model in mentoring and innovation and is emulated in many areas of the company beside those involving IP.

Pam will share the successes and lessons learned, the model for developing similar communities at your own company, and the career benefits derived from communities of this sort. Michelle Marsh, a partner at one of the oldest Intellectual Property law firms in the world, Kenyon & Kenyon LLP, will explain basics in IP law. Michelle will cover many of the tools necessary for empowering women in technology to become more IP savvy, including recognizing the differences between patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets, and a discussion of hot topics in the area of IP.

Bringing Innovation to Market
Yael Zheng, Vice President of Corporate and Field Marketing, VMware, Inc.
Cheemin Bo-Linn, EdD., Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Revenue Officer, NetLine Corporation
Paul Constantino, Partner, Peritus Partners
September 27, 10:30 am - 11:30 am

Technology is about Innovation - and innovation plays a central role in a company's ability to deliver long term growth and new products to the marketplace. Whether you are in engineering, marketing, sales, or operations, you play a key role in enabling the creation of ideas and their ultimate market destiny... from the zenith of market success to the unfortunate, technological trash heap! While the product development process (from idea generation through launch ) is well understood, we will focus on those critical components that differentiate between success and failure.

Eliciting the Creativity in Everyone- A World Café
Wendy Wallbridge, President / Executive Coach, On Your Mark
Nancy Margulies, Co-Developer, The World Café
Anne Adams, Ph.D., President, ACS
September 27, 8:45 am - 10:15 am

Awakening & engaging collective intelligence through conversations about questions that matter.

A World cafe is an innovative yet simple methodology for hosting conversations about questions that matter. In this session participants will take part in three different conversations that link and build on each other as they move between groups, cross-pollinate ideas, and discover new insights into the questions or issues that are most important in their life, work, or community. As a process, the World Café can evoke and make visible the collective intelligence of any group, thus increasing peoples capacity for effective action in pursuit of common aims.

These conversations will provide an opportunity for each participant to explore their own creativity and be present to the creativity of others. Our conversations will be captured and brought to life by a skilled graphic recorder who will visually map our ideas and expressions in words, images and color -as they are being spoken in the moment. This process will help to illuminate how we as people connect, contribute, learn and make meaning together.

Innovative Branding: Thriving on the Edge
Linda Zimmer, CEO, MarCom:Interactive
Nina Burokas, President, Digerati Branding
September 28, 9:30 am - 10:30 am

Innovation is the brand value that counts today. In a flat world, the only constant is fast, fluid and disruptive change. Regardless of industry, innovation and value creation are increasingly driven by the über-connected, collaborative communities on the leading edge of the web. Getting to thrive requires a move to the forefront of change, where mass collaboration is the new operating system. Join us on the brand frontier for an exploration of Second Life as an innovation archetype.

Topics for discussion:

* Who's thriving on the edge?
* Rethink your brand - before it "jumps the shark"
* What's your collaboration strategy?
* Lessons learned: missteps, hijacks and opportunity lost
* Whose brand is it anyway?

Keynote Breakfast; Secrets of a Renegade Innovator
Christine Comaford-Lynch, CEO/Founder, Mighty Ventures
September 27, 7:00 am - 8:30 am

Renegade entrepreneur-and runaway success story-Christine Comaford-Lynch has lived the kind of life most of us only dream about. From model to monk to multi-millionaire, she has always gone after what she wanted-and achieved significant results. She's won, lost, worked, played, and every step of the way, she's written her own rules. Now Christine is ready to reveal her secrets, and she'll show you how to make your dreams come true. Your way. Your rules.

Keynote Lunch; Innovators – Panel Discussion
Padmasree Warrior, Executive Vice President and CTO, Motorola, Inc.
Nilofer Merchant, Entrepreneur, CEO & Chief Strategist, Rubicon Consulting
Helen Greiner, Co-founder and Chairman, iRobot Corp.
September 27, 12:00 pm - 1:45 pm

This panel of Innovators will openly discuss the wins, tradeoffs, the challenges that have occurred in their careers. This will be a highly interactive panel discussion with lots of opportunities for Q&A.

Keynote Lunch; Trade Up
Rayona Sharpnack, Founder, Institute for Women's Leadership
September 28, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

5 Steps for Redesigning Your Leadership and Life from the Inside Out

A leader's most important job is to reveal and shift the boundaries of peoples' thinking... starting with our own. These boundaries, also known as "CONTEXTS" are what determines what actions we take, where we stop in executing our responsibilities and ultimately what impact we can have. Igniting and sustaining context shifts will be the most important leadership competency of the 21st century. Governments, multi-national corporations and not- for profit agencies have all been successful in using Sharpnack's approach to achieve results that seemed impossible before they began.

Using her brilliant integration of disciplines such as education, professional sports, family therapy, linguistics and business, Rayona Sharpnack will share her simple but robust methodology and her 35 years of experience in coaching high performing individuals and teams. In this dynamic keynote presentation you will learn the 5 steps required for sustainable change and engage in revealing and shifting a self-limiting belief that currently exists as an obstacle to your progress.

Making Innovation Work
Beth Zimmerman, Principal, Cerebellas LLC
September 27, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

If you want to be more than a 'one hit wonder' and make innovation part of your organization's DNA, this session is for you. Beth will address a common trend of would-be innovators to associate innovation with radical, revolutionary newness.

Many innovators—even experienced ones—fall into this classic trap: a 'bet the farm' approach to product and service development that does not produce consistent innovation, even if it yields occasionally great innovations. Often, these organizations lack the culture, processes and commitment required to support creativity in a sustainable way. Don't fall into the trap; learn how to innovate today, tomorrow, always!

Mentoring
Sandra E. Burke, Ph.D., FAHA, Director, Cardiovascular Biology Research (Retired), Abbott Vascular
September 28, 9:30 am - 10:30 am

Whether you are looking for a mentor or are willing to be one, managing that relationship from both sides is not without challenges. Each roundtable will be led by an experienced Coach who will guide both sides through how you set boundary lines, and ensure you create a valuable, lifetime relationship.

The Six Essentials: Jump Start Your Creative Flow Now!
Marsh Engle, Founder, Marsh Engle Show
September 27, 3:45 pm - 4:45 pm

THE SIX ESSENTIALS presented by Marsh Engle is the ultimate invitation to connect with the center of your creative flow. In this session participants will join in conversation circles to explore six simply, yet powerful principles that leads to focused direction, optimized actions and innovative results. This process will help to illuminate how we may connect and concentrate our creative power to bring forth fresh ideas and inventive solutions - both individually and as a collaborative community.

Time to Market
Beth Zimmerman, Principal, Cerebellas LLC
September 28, 9:30 am - 10:30 am

Time to market is cited as one of the most essential ways a company can differentiate itself among competitors. You snooze, you lose. In the rush to deliver innovation, many companies overlook the most critical activity of all—strategy—fearing it will drain precious time and resources from delivering fresh products and services to market.

Beth draws upon her architectural background to illustrate strategy as a necessary foundation for strategic advantage and delivering innovation to market. She challenges the belief that innovation is best derived from unbridled creativity, gigantic leaps forward or delivering products and services never before seen in their markets. In this session, Beth will focus on strategy as a flexible framework and essential discipline for sustainable and timely innovation success. Learn how taking the time to craft an innovation blueprint will help you become a more nimble innovator.

Women's Critical Role in the Evolution of Conscious Business
Natalie Zeituny, Founder & Principal, NZ CONSULTING
Susanne Sonderhoff, Marketing Manager, Hewlett Packard
Angelina Howard, Vice President, Office of the President and Execut, Nuclear Energy Institute
September 27, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

As businesses integrate their concerns for people, planet and profit and move away from an ego-centric model toward socio-centric and even world centric orientations, what is the role of women in bringing consciousness to today's business world? What is the new language emerging that incorporates the developing integration of masculine/feminine to genderless leadership responsibility?

There are new principles and new paradigms emerging ...what is the new women's role in this emergence? What approach might befit the further development of a holistic model of sustainable, exciting, world transformation and growth? And how will everyone benefit?

A River Runs Through the Digital Divide
Jensine Larsen, Founder, World Pulse Magazine
September 28, 10:45 am - 11:45 am

Women using global communications technology to shift the balance of power.

Women, powerful agents of change, are rapidly rising to leadership positions worldwide and connecting to interactive communications technology as never before. Even in remote and impoverished villages from Iran to Kenya, women are using cell phones and laptops to rapidly access to health care, market information, micro-loans, document crimes, and to build influential movements. In this talk Ms. Larsen will unveil the startling truth and promise for the global communications revolution. She will also share the challenges and inspirations facing her global media organization, World Pulse, as they roll out PulseWire, a new web 2.0 tool designed to connect women to solve global problems across economic, technological, cultural and language divides.

BlogHer presents: Blogging Workflow Tools and Tricks
Barb Dybwad, Producer, Weblogs, Inc.
September 28, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Are you inundated and overwhelmed? Do the words Information Overload particularly resonate? Or are you scared off the very idea of starting a blog because you fear it will become one huge time suck? If so, there is help for you.

Did you know there are tools to facilitate working with feeds, hyperlinking, adding and re-sizing images, creating captioned cartoons, posting to multiple blogs simultaneously, creating those daily link posts and more? Improve your blogging efficiency processes with a handy look at these tools…most of which are free or open source. BlogHer will lead you through the forest of blogging productivity tools to a clearing of zen-like organization and calm!

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BlogHer presents: Getting Custom: What Web Designers Know
Nelly Yusupova, CTO, Webgrrls International
Tenni Theurer, Product Optimization Manager, Yahoo Inc.
September 28, 10:45 am - 11:45 am

Loyal Readers are Valuable Readers - Reaching Your Audience and Keeping Them.

First impressions are important. "In the blink of an eye" your site (blog or website) is judged. With so many sites and blogs to choose from, a site that loads at a snail's pace or is hard to navigate will send frustrated potential visitors on to their next destination. Good design, effective usability and fast site performance are three very important considerations for building and keeping an audience. They add to your credibility and help build your audience’s trust, which is the only way to achieve user loyalty.

Discover the secrets of planning and good design that help you build and retain your audience with Nelly Yusupova, CTO of Webgrrls International.

Learn technical tips and tricks to improve your site's speed and performance, allowing your reader to connect to you more quickly, with Tenni Theurer from Yahoo!

BlogHer presents: Non-Developers to Open Source Acolytes: Tell Me Why I Care
Annalee Newitz, Writer, Techsploitation
Dawn Foster, Director of Developer Relations, Jive Software
Elisa Camahort, President Events & Marketing, BlogHer
September 28, 9:30 am - 10:30 am

While open source and open standards are like a religion to many in the tech world, many of us who are non-developer technology consumers do not understand all the nuances of open source, let alone how it impacts us. So: tell us why we should care?

Can we really trust open source solutions…who develops them, who supports them?

Why should we care about using open source tools, such as browsers, when free proprietary alternatives also exist?

What does it take for a business to deploy open source solutions throughout its enterprise?

Check out this debate between some open source advocates and some devil's advocates... and figure out if you care.

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Building an Innovative Culture - I Wish I Had a Blueprint!
John McDonald, Technical Executive, IBM
Suchita Dadhich, Strategic Innovation & Organizational Capability, IBM Rational
September 28, 9:30 am - 10:30 am

In the face of stiff competition, internal organizational obstacles and the ever so quickly changing environment, one must be able to withstand the challenges and succeed, nevertheless. Leadership in itself, is not an easy task, but leading a project charged with innovation, requires a different set of skills separate from typical leadership competencies. Learn how to be more agile and creative in problem solving, through exploring how an innovation leader thinks, behaves and maneuvers in areas related to people, politics, challenges and success.

Effective IT Governance and Building Business Cases that Pass the Big Gate
Debra Deganhart, IT Management Consultant - GTS IT Strategy and Arc, IBM
Rosa Caputo, Founder, KeyData Associates Inc.
Colleen Berube, Sr. Director, IT Strategy & Programs, Cisco Systems
September 28, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Each and every IT organization is faced with a myriad of challenges... however, if we were to distill them down, most can probably be grouped as follows:

1. Aligning IT to the business
2. Reducing IT complexity
3. Managing risk
4. Managing cost
5. Improving service to both internal customers as well as external

This session will outline that when strategic technologists look at IT as a business and run it as such, these challenges are easier to solve and the resulting benefits start to multiply. IT not only can start to govern its responses to the issues above but more often than not is taken seriously as a partner in the business and looked at to drive the innovation and competitive advantage that organizations need these days to survive. We will outline a winning process for building a business case around strategic technology investments to help pass the big gate, i.e. convince the business leaders of the validity and requirement of solutions. Hear more about some successful organizations that are doing just this.

Innovation in Accountable Advertising: Making Your Advertising Dollars Count
Michael Rowehl, Director of Technology, AdMob
Michael Bonfils, President, International Media Management Corp
September 28, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Learn innovative ways to monitor one of your largest business investments: your advertising. Learn ways to use technology to monitor and track your TV, Online, and Mobile advertising. Take a short walk through the history of the various past methods of measuring the value of your advertising across mediums in comparison to where technology has enabled us to measure advertising today, via consumer response.

Historical metrics that have been based on CPMs vs. New Metrics that are performance based will be the highlight of the session for traditional advertising means, like Television, and the newer venues, Internet and Mobile. Making your advertising count means knowing what you are paying for. Do consumer metrics enable smaller companies to enjoy larger advertising venues?

With more and more counter advertising technology like digital video recorders, and the niche markets that companies want to reach that will inevitably be maximized with the onset of the Government mandate for digitization of television in 2009; and the consequent promotion of multi-casting that will create even more niche markets, we will face even greater challenges that we are already experiencing today in the Internet and Mobile markets. The advertiser of tomorrow will need to be very innovative in stretching their dollar and maximizing its effect. Will we see cost-per-action metrics across all venues of advertising? What does that mean for you? Come to this session and find out!

Optimize Your Marketing Investment: How Smart Innovation and Strategic Integration Power Sales
Niti Agrawal, Principal & Founder, Stage 4 Solutions, Inc.
Robbie Baxter, Technology Consultant, Peninsula Strategies
Jennifer Vessels, CEO, Next Step
Karen Walker, Vice President of Marketing, Technology Solutions, Hewlett Packard
September 28, 10:45 am - 11:45 am

With technology vendors facing an ever-expanding global marketplace, it is particularly critical for today's executives to ensure that marketing investments are accelerating sales efforts. This panel of tech industry veterans will discuss how companies can deploy innovative practices at every step of the marketing value chain to maximize returns, from identifying the right target markets to crafting the right value propositions to ensuring alignment and integration with the sales force. The discussion will focus on practical advice and actions that will make immediate impacts on your marketing efforts.

Powerful and Connected: Women Transforming Technology Environments
Patricia Shafer, President, Compel Ltd.
September 29, 8:30 am - 1:00 pm

The successful book Enlightened Power: How Women are Transforming the Practice of Leadership proposes that women can be instrumental shapers of satisfying and successful organizational environments when they do three things: tap their own Deeper Power(SM); encourage inclusiveness; and strive for positive personal and organization legacies.

But how do you do this while pursuing your own career aspirations and managing the rest of your life? And knowing that you can’t do it alone, how do you more effectively seek support from mentors and strategic networks?

This breakthrough one-day workshop springs from the “Women in Technology 2007 Report”, a collaboration of WITI and Compel Ltd. involving research with more than 2,000 women technology managers and CIOs. The results point to tried, true and tangible approaches to women achieving career breakthroughs and influence in technology organizations.

In this workshop, you will hear from guest speakers, participate in facilitated dialogues and relationship-building with other participants, and use guided exercises to articulate your leadership development vision.

Highlights include:

• Research on women’s leadership strengths and weaknesses in technology/IT
• Savvy, high-integrity approaches to ensuring your voice is heard
• Career lessons learned from women CIOs
• Case studies of women implementing mentoring and networking initiatives
• Personal leadership development assessment tool
• Career development framework
• Materials to take back and share with your organization

This workshop also includes a free, follow-up 90-minute webinar in which participants can check in, debrief, and receive in-the-moment coaching.

This workshop is led by Patricia Shafer, a sought-after facilitator who has consulted with and coached managers in 15 countries. She is a contributing author to the books Enlightened Power (Wiley/Jossey-Bass, 2005) and Managing Worldwide Operations and Communications with Information Technology (IGI-Global, 2007). She is also a columnist on workplace trends for Global HR News and SAVVY magazines. In late 2007, she will will lead an initiative to produce a five-book series on “Transformative Technologies” – focusing on the integration of technology and people-centered management to improve results.

Note: You can register for this workshop as part of an overall WITI Summit registration, or register for and attend the workshop ONLY. If you have questions, comments or are interested in group pricing, please e-mail: compel@corp.witi.com. Sign up by September 1 and receive a signed, complimentary copy of the book Enlightened Power ($25 value).

Search Engine Marketing for Innovators
Amanda Watlington, Owner, Searching for Profit
Heidi Cohen, Principal, Riverside Marketing Strategies
September 28, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Make Money by Getting People to Find You Online and Converting Them to Customers

Driving traffic and converting prospects to customers is especially critical for new, innovative start ups. Innovators must carefully select how they refer to their businesses online to bring customers to their sites using search engines and convert them into buyers. Innovators may use new or different terms to describe their offerings from the words prospective customers use, making getting found online a challenge. Consider the following when assessing your business’s ability to attract and convert prospects:

* Do target prospects find your business online when they’re looking for the type of services you offer, whether online or offline?
* Does your company appear in search engines under the words prospects and customers use to describe it?
* Do visitors stay on your site more than 15 seconds?
* Do prospects take the desired action you want before they leave your site?
* Do you know how much you’re spending to acquire customers through search?

Not sure of the answers to these questions? This session will help improve your business through the effective use of search engine marketing, both to drive more and better qualified traffic and to convert a greater proportion of prospects to take the desired action. You’ll leave this session with useable strategies and tactics to apply to your real life business challenges.

Smart Thinking Smart Talking Women
Ardice Farrow, Founder, Co-Creator, Wake Up Women
September 28, 10:45 am - 11:45 am

Creating Structures for Success and Satisfaction

As leaders and managers we know that real success is a lot more than just getting the job done. It's not just about bringing in a project on time and on budget or meeting our annual quotas or goals it's about what we leave in the wake and what we create for the future.

Real success calls upon our ability to answer the following: What was our own and others experience? How did we innovate or generate new models of creativity, management and marketing? How did we contribute to the company culture? Did we forge lasting relationships of trust and respect and provide a place of accelerated results for the future? How did other team members fare? Were they inspired and uplifted? Did their skill level increase? Were they able to take on more responsibilities? Are you and every member of your team seen with new eyes as inspired leaders who can make it happen? Is everyone enthused and excited about working together and doing it even better the next time?

In this highly interactive workshop you will learn the key components to generating a collaborative atmosphere and creating and maintaining an energized structure for real success.

Designed for mangers and executives as well as entrepreneurs and women aspiring to move up the ladder of success, participants will:

* Discover, how as women, we often deny our own intelligence, refuse to sound and act as smart as we are and hold ourselves back from the success and satisfaction we dream of.
* Get introduced to a customizable blueprint that provides an inventive structure for accelerated results and greater satisfaction.
* Learn a step by step process for putting theory into practice.
* Uncover their own unique strengths and how to create a signature management style around what they already do best
* Define their own commitment to creating results beyond the ordinary and the expected.
* Learn the secrets of how to distinguish themselves from the cookie cutter definitions and expectations and stand out as a leader.
* Discover how to have more fun and create more meaningful collaborations and powerful working partnerships that impact the bottom line.

Smart Thinking Smart Talking Women
Ardice Farrow, Founder, Co-Creator, Wake Up Women
September 28, 8:00 am - 9:00 am

Creating Structures for Success and Satisfaction

As leaders and managers we know that real success is a lot more than just getting the job done. It's not just about bringing in a project on time and on budget or meeting our annual quotas or goals it's about what we leave in the wake and what we create for the future.

Real success calls upon our ability to answer the following: What was our own and others experience? How did we innovate or generate new models of creativity, management and marketing? How did we contribute to the company culture? Did we forge lasting relationships of trust and respect and provide a place of accelerated results for the future? How did other team members fare? Were they inspired and uplifted? Did their skill level increase? Were they able to take on more responsibilities? Are you and every member of your team seen with new eyes as inspired leaders who can make it happen? Is everyone enthused and excited about working together and doing it even better the next time?

In this highly interactive workshop you will learn the key components to generating a collaborative atmosphere and creating and maintaining an energized structure for real success.

Designed for mangers and executives as well as entrepreneurs and women aspiring to move up the ladder of success, participants will:

* Discover, how as women, we often deny our own intelligence, refuse to sound and act as smart as we are and hold ourselves back from the success and satisfaction we dream of.
* Get introduced to a customizable blueprint that provides an inventive structure for accelerated results and greater satisfaction.
* Learn a step by step process for putting theory into practice.
* Uncover their own unique strengths and how to create a signature management style around what they already do best
* Define their own commitment to creating results beyond the ordinary and the expected.
* Learn the secrets of how to distinguish themselves from the cookie cutter definitions and expectations and stand out as a leader.
* Discover how to have more fun and create more meaningful collaborations and powerful working partnerships that impact the bottom line.

Taking Innovation to a Global Marketplace
Mary Reilly, Applications on Demand, Global Enablement Executiv, IBM
September 28, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Going global with innovative services is critical to IBM's success. With the rise of Internet-based self service models, IBM has applied these concepts to reinvent its application management and hosting services. IBM has developed unique solution for managing enterprise applications, leveraging a "configure-to-order" set of products. This approach provides an effective solution for managing the complexity of ERP and enterprise applications by automating the ongoing operational processes required to support these environments.

Taking this model to a global marketplace presents unique opportunities and challenges. This presentation addresses global market readiness for innovation along with factors essential for success and benefits that can be realized from global innovation.

Web 2.0 and Social Computing: Click. Connect. Collaborate
Joe Hertzbach, Principal, A Virtual Match
Anna Dreyzin, Education Program Manager, IBM SWG Digital Thought Leadership Program, IBM
September 28, 10:45 am - 11:45 am

The voice -- spoken conversation -- is still one of the most natural and effective ways for people to communicate. But what is the best way to connect when business crosses time zones, friends live in different towns, and there is barely time to find out what is going on in your family's lives?

In this session; we will discuss the three aspects of Web 2.0: Technology, Business and People. Participants will learn why social software is important to business and your life; from Wikis, Blogs, and Social Bookmarks to websites such as MySpace, FaceBook, LinkedIn, and Diet.com. We will illustrate key ways in which these tools affect women in technology.

We will present:
Examples, benefits, and challenges of Web 2.0 in different industries
How to build communities and connect people to make decisions
How to harness the wisdom of crowds
Types of communities
Available tools

We will also identify how social software is used at home; kids using Web 2.0 for social activity as well as education, and how parents use these tools to protect their children, maintain connections, and find a way to be heard.

Capital Strategies for Entrepreneurs
Joey Tamer, Consultant, Expert, JoeyTamer.com
September 26, 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm

For entrepreneurs, especially those with innovative products and services, controlling their capital, their investments from outside money, and their Board, are mission-critical issues in creating a successful company which they can grow and exit (or keep), and from which they can create wealth and independence. Mistaken capital strategies often lead to loss of control of the business to outside investors, or to many years of growing a business from which the founders and early seed investors can generate no wealth, even if the company is successful.

This presentation will outline the kinds of capital available to early-stage businesses, and when to approach which kind. We will define what equity is expected in exchange for what capital at what stage of development. We will review the current attitudes of the private investment and venture capital communities. We will explore what capital it really takes to build a small business, or an empire, and how to keep control of such a business. We will discuss capital strategies and resources for product, service and consulting businesses.

We will have plenty of time for interactions and your personal questions.

Gaining a Seat at the Table
Nilofer Merchant, Entrepreneur, CEO & Chief Strategist, Rubicon Consulting
September 26, 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Nilofer Merchant, CEO, Rubicon Consulting, provides both a framework and a methodology to use in the move from tactical to strategic. During this interactive conversation, attendees will be provided with a rich set of questions and answers - and they'll be asked to engage with one another as Nilofer guides them through the actions they need to take to move forward.

Using cases, Nilofer will reveal the three decision traps, how the game changes as you rise in the organization, tactics that take you up the ladder, strategic decision-making to move ahead, the right time to use each toolkit and the four things you must do differently to continue your momentum.

Finally, Nilofer will tell attendees why, contrary to popular belief, their promotion is far more about peer-to-peer relationships than superior-subordinate relationships.

Session program subject to change