Tackling Menopause to Boost Your Career Progression
Menopause represents a pivotal phase in a woman’s life that can influence both personal well-being and professional performance. Taking charge of the impacts of menopause can help you navigate at work while experiencing symptoms such as brain fog, hormonal fluctuations and exhaustion, which affect not only how you react and are perceived by others but can directly affect career progression. In this session, renowned expert Dr. Mary Claire Haver, provides valuable tools and resources such as evidence-based lifestyle adjustments, medication options and self-advocacy techniques designed to help women manage symptoms and enhance their career progression. Tailored for women navigating menopause while striving to excel professionally, attendees will leave with actionable insights on how to not only survive but thrive during a crucial period that often coincides with peak career advancement.
Speaker: Dr. Mary Claire Haver, MD, FACOG, CMP & best-selling Author
Host: Valerie Wright, Director, Global DWIB People Talent & Retention, MilliporeSigma
Executive Spotlight: Julie Castro Abrams, Founder & Managing Partner, How Women Invest
Negotiate What You Need For Career Success
Advocating for yourself, whether you’re seeking a promotion, a raise, or new opportunities, is difficult. In this session, Ashleigh Shelby Rosette, PhD, will provide the essential strategies for negotiating career success. She will share insights to help you understand your value, prepare for negotiations, and leverage techniques to achieve your goals. Discover how to overcome common barriers, build confidence, and communicate persuasively to ensure your career growth. With real-world examples and actionable advice, this session will equip you with the tools to successfully navigate professional negotiations.
Speaker: Ashleigh Shelby Rosette, PhD, James L. Vincent Distinguished Professor of Leadership, Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business
Host: Robin Carney-Britt, Senior Consulting Sales Director, Oracle
Executive Spotlight: Anna Papalia, Author, Influencer & Keynote Speaker, Interviewology
Practical Optimism: How to Create a Healthier Relationship with Work
In a world where digital connection is constant, work/life boundaries are blurred and employer expectations are off the charts, Dr. Sue Varma offers tools to reframe your mindset to identify and recalibrate areas of balance and create an ongoing positive outlook. In this session, Dr. Varma will demonstrate how this strategy can be applied to have a healthier relationship with work. She will share her eight pillars to create a work-life balance filled with joy and purpose for a more successful and fulfilling career.
Speaker: Sue Varma, MD, board-certified Psychiatrist & Author, Practical Optimism
Host: Dr. Mecide Gharibo, VP, US Medical Affairs, Hematology & Oncology, Bristol Myers Squibb
CAREER ADVANCEMENT | WORKSHOP
Tapping into Your Inner Genius to Progress Your Career
Many of us feel stuck in our career trajectory after three years of change and uncertainty. But, what if the key to progressing your career is already inside you: Your Inner Genius. In this session, you will learn how to tap into the part of you responsible for breakthrough ideas, innovative problem-solving, and your highest quality work. By identifying your competence areas, your motivators and where you slide into strength overload, you will learn how to produce your best work, where you want to grow and how best to get there.
Speaker: Liz Tran, Founder, Reset & Author, The Karma of Success: Spiritual Strategies to Free Your Inner Genius
Host: Donnetta Hagist, Google
Executive Spotlight: Aleta Howell, Director, Global DEI Talent Strategy, Cisco Systems
CAREER ADVANCEMENT | WORKSHOP
Next Move, Best Move: A Strategic Approach to Lasting Career Decisions
Over the last several years, professionals have reprioritized what’s important to them and taken a different approach to their careers. Whether you are content at your current level, seeking advancement or looking to try something completely new, the process to figure out what’s right for you can be daunting. In this session, career expert Kimberly Brown will offer a framework to help you create a career strategy and determine what’s right for you short-and-long term. Learn how to regain control so you can take a strategic approach for making your next best move – even if that means you stay put.
Speaker: Kimberly Brown, Career and Leadership Expert and Author, Next, Move, Best Move: Transitioning into a Career You’ll Love
Host: Iva Morse, Head, Global Strategic Accounts & Services, US Country Speaker, the US Businesses of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
Executive Spotlight: Melissa Nicholas, Global Diversity Recruiting, Oracle
Fixed Flexibility: How to Negotiate What You Need to Stay
The workplace has evolved over the last several years, and employee priorities have shifted dramatically as well. Beyond compensation, professionals are placing tremendous value on flexibility, quality of life and career growth – and they are willing to walk away if their needs are not met. This session will offer negotiation strategies that leverage your skills and strengths to secure what you need to stay. Learn actionable steps that allow you to emerge in the strongest position possible.
Speaker: Meg Myers Morgan, PhD, Author & Executive Coach
Host: Madeyline Brown, VP, North America Channel Inside Sales, Dell Technologies & TX Conference for Women Board Member
CAREER ADVANCEMENT | Mentor Moments
The right mentor or mentors can be key to helping us navigate our careers. But finding that person–and time to connect in the daily hustle-bustle of life–can be a challenge. In this 45-minute session, tap into the expertise of accomplished business leaders during a live Q&A. Ask leaders from Dell Technologies, Indeed, and Juniper Networks about advancing your career, communicating as a leader, and exploring career choices or transitions.
Speakers:
Mary Bui-Pham, VP, Strategy & Operations, Indeed, and CA Conference for Women Board member
Helen Miller-Montana, Consultant, HR Generalist, Dell Technologies
Hillary Weingast, VP, Deputy General Counsel and Head Corporate Social Responsibility, Juniper Networks, and CA Conference for Women Board President
Moderator:
Rachael Myrow, senior editor, Silicon Valley News Desk, KQED
CAREER ADVANCEMENT | Listening Is a Skill
At work, we are taught to speak up, lead the meeting, and control the conversation. As organizations place greater importance on employee experience, team performance, and client satisfaction, listening is becoming a core leadership skill and one critical for career advancement. Journalist Kate Murphy shares why it is time to stop talking and start listening. She provides a roadmap on how to listen and why it is so important to how we connect, work, live, and lead.
Speaker: Kate Murphy, Journalist & Author, You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters
Moderator: Lauren McGoodwin, Founder & CEO, Career Contessa
Host: Yael Evron Sabag, Director, Engineering, Google
Executive Spotlight: Amy Sehnert, Vice President, CV Clinical Development, Bristol Myers Squibb
CAREER ADVANCEMENT | Better Together: Shared Sisterhood for Collective Action
As the saying goes, if you want to go far, go together. But how can we forge professional relationships to go the distance? In this session, Dr. Tina Opie shares a framework that embraces connection and coalition-building to counter the traditional transactional, every-person-for-themselves approach to career advancement. Learn how to form deep and lasting connections with colleagues that are more authentically reciprocal to help advance both our individual and shared interests as women.
Speaker: Dr. Tina Opie, Co-Author, Shared Sisterhood
Host: Perika Sampson, Global Head, Inclusion & Diversity, Gilead Sciences
Executive Spotlight: Mary Bui-Pham, Vice President, Strategy & Operations, Indeed
CAREER ADVANCEMENT | Own Your Power at Work
Being “the other” at work can fuel an unyielding need to prove one’s worth. So, like many other women of color, immigrants, and children of immigrants, MSNBC reporter Daniela Pierre-Bravo became an expert shapeshifter to chameleon her way around professional environments. She shares what she has learned about recognizing your power and how to effectively advocate for yourself, become your biggest believer, claim the spaces in your career that are rightfully yours, and create your vision of success.
Speaker: Daniela Pierre-Bravo, MSNBC Reporter & Author, Earn It! and The Other
Host: Beth Basham, Sr Director, IT for R&D, Bristol Myers Squibb
Executive Spotlight: Laura Guio, GM, Strategic Partnership Kyndryl & California Sr. Executive, IBM Consulting