Seminar Title: Why Women Succeed

Speaker Name(s): Lucille Jordan, Amanda Grappone, Paula Long

Summary: The highly successful New Hampshire women on this panel will share their remarkable stories on how they have succeeded in very challenging, male-dominated sectors.

Three Takeaways:

1.) The importance of "knowing your stuff".

2.) The critical attribute of perseverence.

3.) How to recognize and take good risks.

Seminar Title: Negotiation Skills

Speaker Name(s): Catherine Blake

Summary: Negotiating is a careful dance that can land the deal. Walk away with bullet-proof skills, a proven process, and a method for testing the waters before you close. Then win!

Three Takeaways:

1.) Negotiating is a dance...Learn the choreography!

2.) Everyone has to give a little.

3.) Close to win!

Seminar Title: Speaking the Language of Money

Speaker Name(s): Mary McLaughlin, Carrie Poole

Summary: In order to navigate our way competently and confidently both personally and professionally we need to have a good grasp of the basic language of money and monetary jargon. This dynamic session will debunk complex terms and explain the economic and monetary terms that influence every part of daily life.

Three Takeaways:

1.) Identify the essential monetary terms that play a part in how the economy works.

2.) Understand the language of money, and how to read and interpret personal and business financial statements.

3.) Learn how knowing the language of money can be used to your advantage.

Seminar Title: That's What She Said: An Insider's Look Into the Status of New Hampshire's Women & Girls

Speaker Name(s): Jennifer Frizzell, Lindsay Hanson, Daphne Kenyon

Summary: Women have an opportunity to ensure that the work we are doing addresses root causes of inequity in our communities. This workshop will use data to uncover, not only the problems facing women and girls, but also to explore strategies we can use moving forward to ensure lasting social change.

Three Takeaways:

1.) Initial findings on the root issues facing women and girls across New Hampshire.

2.) Analysis on how best to address each community's unique needs.

3.) Knowledge about how you, as individual women, can bring about positive social change.

Seminar Title: Job Sustainability - Becoming the Indispensable You

Speaker Name(s): Laurie Glaude

Summary: Attendees will leave this session with techniques to increase their value within their organizations, and more importantly, techniques to prepare their career roadmap for future opportunitites.

Four Takeaways:

1.) How to position yourself to gain a seat at the table.

2.) How to leap from middle management to senior management.

3.) Understand the benefits and necessity of networking.

4.) Tips on directing your own professional development.

Seminar Title: Budgeting For Dummies

Speaker Name(s): Peggy O'Keefe

Summary: Budgets - Budgets - Budgets!!! Why are they so important? How reliable is your budget, and how will that benefit you or your business? Where do you begin? What tools are available to make budgeting easier?

Three Takeaways:

1.) Budgeting Basics to assist you in managing your income and expenses, whether for personal wealth or business growth.

2.) The KIS (Keep It Simple) principle approach to building a template that will aid in decsion-making for any project, event or business plan.

3.) Better money management as the key to keeping more of it in your pocket.

Seminar Title: Turning Problems into Opportunities

Speaker Name(s): Linda Landry, Linda Lovering, Lisa Guertin

Summary: No-one will contest that this is a very challenging economic time for most businesses. The three dynamic women in this session describe how they used the downturn to reposition and reorganize their businesses with remarkable success.

Three Takeaways:

1.) How to read new realties effectively.

2.) Adopting an opportunistic mindset.

3.) Building flexibility into your business.

Seminar Title: The Mentor Relationship

Speaker Name(s): Cathy Schmidt

Summary: Mentoring is a critical ingredient in many women's success stories. Mentoring and being mentored require commitment, thoughtfulness, and competence on both sides of the mentoring relationship. Cathy Schmidt, renowned for her expertise in mentoring at both the individual and organizational level, will share her experiences and advice in this interactive session.

Three Takeaways:

1.) The role of mentoring in advancing leadership capacity at the personal and organizational levels.

2.) The role and responsibilities of the mentor.

3.) The role and responsibilities of the mentee.

Seminar Title: Get Your Retirement Off Life Support

Speaker Name(s): Cynthia Bryant-Matley

Summary: Retirement is changing...we are looking for guidance to accumulate assets, preserve wealth, and enhance income for retirement.  This workshop will effectively illustrate current trends in the economy and financial markets that will have an effect today and for many years to come.

Three Takeaways:

1.) Practical suggestions on how to recover your retirement plan.

2.) Methods of protecting investments from market and other risks.

3.) Strategies to help avoid running out of money in retirement.

Seminar Title: Personal Leadership: Inspire, Engage, and Influence

Speaker Name: Deb Titus

Summary: While we live in an ever changing environment (and we always will), the degree to which we engage, inspire and influence will impact our effectiveness in maximizing the outcomes that change presents.

Deb Titus will present a few cases on how these three competencies made a difference for three women in three different scenarios. She will then share with you how they are creating sustainable energy to keep things moving in the right direction.

Four Takeaways:

1.) The importance of defining yourself as inspiring and knowing the indicators that tell you this is true.

2.) Learn points of engagement that connect people to you and your cause, mission, and vision.

3.) Hear how follower-ship can give those ‘followers’ a sense of empowerment.

4.) Identify needs for you to influence and the outcomes that you can bring about

Seminar Title: Skills that Make Women Better Leaders

Speaker Name: Dawn Sime, Ph.D.

Summary: The foundation of leadership is built on strong skills. They are: Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Career Management, Building Leader Competencies, Behaviors and Relationships. You will learn some of the basic fundamentals in developing leadership skills.

Three Takeaways:

1) Primary skills needed for strong leadership and how you can hone yours

2) How to evaluate your own leadership skills and identify those areas that need development

3) The potential for future women leaders and how to be sure you are one of them

Seminar Title: A Wakeup Call: Why the Global Economy Matters to You

Speaker Name(s): Cathy Provencher

Summary: Do you really understand the world economic news and how it affects you? Cathy Provencher will focus your attention on what you should know and understand, and how it critically affects your every day life.

Three Takeaways:

1.) Knowing what to look for in the world economic news.

2.) A grasp of the key indicators and trends that affect you.

3.) A clear understanding of actions you can take in response to economic trends.

Seminar Title: Advancing the World by Advancing Women

Speaker Name(s): Gemma Dreher, Jensine Larsen, Sarah Kaba Jones

Summary: Once you give women across the world health care, education, and access to resources, the whole world changes. The women on this panel discuss their important professional and personal experiences with this dynamic.

Three Takeaways:

1.) The critical needs of women worldwide and why it is important to know about it.

2.) How individual women across the world are helping.

3.) How the advancement of women worldwide affects each and every one of us.

Seminar Title: Brand You

Speaker Name(s): Tammy Hildreth, J.T. O'Donnell

Summary:

Did you ever hear the old saying, ‘Your reputation is your most valuable asset’? Well whether it’s “reputation” or ‘Professional Brand”, the meaning remains true today. Learn how to harness the power of social media, and make it work for you. Take charge of your professional brand today!

Three Takeaways:

1.) Understanding your professional brand and why it’s important

2.) Reviewing the Social Media options

3.) Social Media Do’s and Don’ts

Seminar Title: Retire Before You Die

Speaker Name(s): Amy Lampert

Summary: Participants will gain insight into how they can plan a retirement regardless of where they are in their life-cycles, and regardless of the ravages of the recent market volatility. Through a series of visioning and action planning exercises, the fear and anxiety about planning for retirement will slowly dissipate.

Three Takeaways:

1.) A personalized vision of one's retirement and associated costs.

2.) New considerations for anyone thinking about retirement.

3.) Demystification of one's "bag lady" fears.

Seminar Title: Becoming Indispensable

Speaker Name: Susan Duprey, Dianne Mercier

Summary: In these challenging times, the survivors are those who are able to make themselves indispensable to their organization. Every organization needs such people and you can become one.

Three Takeaways:

1.) Penetrate the organizational mindset to discover its critical needs.

2.) Discover tools at your disposal.

3.) Chart a path to indispensability.

Seminar Title: Engaging Presentations

Speaker Name(s): Ellen Griffin

Summary: Learn tips to help you develop riveting presentations to get your point across! We will emphasize eye-catching visuals and materials, how to anticipate questions, and managing your nerves and their short attention spans.

Three Takeaways:

1.) Better handout and Powerpoint design

2.) Methods for "thinking on your feet" and quickly adapting your presentation

3.) Techniques for focusing and refocusing your audience's attention

Seminar Title: Speaking the Language of Money

Speaker Name: Amy Lampert

Summary: In order to navigate our way competently and confidently both personally and professionally we need to have a good grasp of the basic language of money and monetary jargon. This dynamic session will debunk complex terms and explain the economic and monetary terms that influence every part of daily life.

Three Takeaways:

1.) Identify the essential monetary terms that play a part in how the economy works.

2.) Understand the language of money, and how to read and interpret personal and business financial statements.

3.) Learn how knowing the language of money can be used to your advantage.

Seminar Title: Illuminating Leadership Blind Spots

Speaker Name(s): Anne Fitzgerald

Summary: No matter how well we have prepared ourselves as leaders there are always new challenges that we encounter. This program will address three of those blind spots.

Three Takeaways:

1.) Understand the #1 blind spot that alienates others when working with women leaders. The better we are at developing relationships, the greater the probability we may have this blind spot.

2.) Identifying how we lead needs to change when we need to be spider-woman rather than manager or director including:

-recognizing you are "in a web" rather than on a ladder

- principles of successful web navigation

- accountability and responsibility as spider-woman

3.) Discern what to do when the web disappears. Do we continue to be spider-woman or re-position on the ladder?

Seminar Title: Creating an Unexpected Future in Science and Technology

Speaker Name(s): Rajani Cuddapah, Christine Miska

Summary: "Don't know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future." Personal experiences, influencing strategies, and lessons learned by women in technology leadership positions.

Three Takeaways:

1.) Personal experiences by Women Leaders from BAE Systems that have shaped future technology outcomes.

2.) Proven influencing strategies.

3.) Lessons learned.

Seminar Title: Show Me the Money!

Speaker Name(s): Cathy Provencher

Summary: To get ahead in business one needs to understand how to read and interpret financial reports. This session provides an insight into key elements of the various reports, how to interpret them, and what actions they typically lead to.

Three Takeaways:

1.) Understanding the terminology of financial statements.

2.) What to look for in Financial Statements and how to interpret key data.

3.) Action alternatives given certain key financial scenarios.

Seminar Title: From Employee to Entrepreneur

Speaker Names: Susan Nye, Nancy Briefs, Paige Arnof-Fenn, Lisa Landry

Summary: Three successful entrepreneurs will share their stories with you, taking you through their initial decision-making process, investigation and planning. They will share the challenges they have faced, continue to face, and the victories they have won.

Three Takeaways:

1.) The How's and Why's behind the decision to start your own business.

2.) Learn about key decision-making and business planning processes, required investments, enlisted resources, as well as the type of information required to make critical decisions.

3.) You will be inspired by the courage and commitment of these three women and their success in turning their passions into realities.

Seminar Title: Change Happens: Finding a Light at the End of the Tunnel

Speaker Name(s): Debra LeClair, Heidi Page

Summary: We all want positive change, but what hapens when things move too fast or go sour? Learn how to rally your resources and find peace of mind when the change hits the fan.

Three Takeaways:

1.) A better understanding of your own reactions to change.

2.) An ability to understand what strengthens you and what trips you up in the process of change.

3.) Personalized strategies for coping, and ideas for thriving.

Seminar Title: Making the Financial Case

Speaker Name(s): Kerri Salls

Summary: Even if you are not a numbers person, it is essential to master the financial statements which validate your business plan, and align them with your marketing plan. Here's a step-by-step process to make the financial case for your business and make it stick.

Three Takeaways:

1.) Learn how to derive a core budget for your business that will cover and control expenses - whether you are just starting out or you have been in business for years.

2.) Understand how to build a cash flow statement and a Profit and Loss statement to track against the budget. Learn to develop a Financial Forecast based on 'what if' scenarios to save you time, money, mistakes, and risk in your business.

3.) Learn what financials are essential in an Executive Summary, as well as where, when, and how to provide financial backup.

Seminar Title: Leadership - Be the Change You Want To See

Speaker Name(s): Kathy LeMay

Summary: We frequently fall into the trap that others are leaders and they should be the ones who model the way. Wrong! Effective leadership requires all of us to take a part in the leadership challenge. If we model the leadership we want to see, the leadership effort will have much more impact.

Three Takeaways:

1.) Leadership begins with you, and what that means in terms of our visions and our actions.

2.) How to become better at modeling the change we want to see, and why it is important to do so.

3.) Leading from the inside out, and how that impacts the influence and effectiveness of leadership.

Seminar Title: Winning Conversations

Speaker Name(s): Judy Ringer

Summary: This interactive session introduces strategies for dealing with tough topics, sharing difficult information, and managing interpersonal conflict. You'll practice mental. behavioral and verbal skills to feel more confident expressing yourself and understanding others.

Three Takeaways:

1.) Learn best practices for holding difficult conversations.

2.) Manage emotional energy for maximum effectiveness.

3.) Find your voice and express yourself calmly while honoring other perspectives.

Seminar Title: The Engaged Woman Leader

Speaker Name: Judy Thomson, Gayle Hallgren-Rezac

Summary: Research shows that men make networking a higher priority than women do, and a typical male executive has a network many times the size of a woman at the same level. Join networking experts, Gayle and Judy, co-authors of Work The Pond!, for this workshop on developing a strategy to build your personal brand, and sure-fire tactics to become a connected leader.

Three Takeaways:

1.) Assess your own network, particularly your strategic network. Learn ways to build your network, how often you need to do it, and best places.

2.) Tell us your networking challenges. We'll give you solutions that work.

3.) Networking is an essential skill of all leaders, so how do you make it a priority? Goal setting.

Seminar Title: The Glass Ceiling: A Retrospective from 1970 to 2010

Speaker Name: Louise Rothery

Summary: This presentation reviews the accomplishments of the baby boomer women who cracked the glass ceiling in the '70s and '80s, and then looks at today, where women are losing ground and some of the rights they fought so hard for.

Three Takeaways:

1.) A primer on the women's movement. The women's movement of the '70s and '80s is probably the least acknowledged social movement of all time, although it produced enormous results. Yet young women today are barely aware of this, or the fact that they owe many of their current freedoms and opportunitites to the baby boomer women.

2.) We are not where we should be. Despite the enormous advances women have made in corporate America. progress has stalled. While women make up half the workforce, most are in lesser paying jobs, and women at the very top of the ladder are still a small percentage. We are now graduating in greater numbers from college and graduate school than men, but need to address this "flat" trend.

3.) A call to action. The boomer women are now beginning to retire. The changes in corporate America have only just begun; it's still the single-minded workaholic who reaps the rewards. It is now time for the younger generations to take up the cause and continue to push for creation of new work structures that work with procreation and family responsibilities.