For SWE Web Seminars, the dates and times listed are when the seminars are held live. If you are unable to view a seminar at its specified time, registration allows you access to the replay whenever your schedule permits. You may also register after the seminar date and still have access to the replay. |
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January 2008 01/15/2008 - SWE Web Seminar: Executive Coaching: How It Can Boost Your Career Summary/description: The skills and expertise that enable a technical contributor to move ahead in her career are most often different from the skills that enable her to succeed as a leader. This critical shift involves moving from technical know-how and superior problem solving skills to using emotional intelligence competencies to work through others. These are competencies that are best developed in an intentional way, practicing behavioral changes over time. An executive coach can provide targeted support and resources to help you develop the learning experiences you need to develop leadership proficiency. | |
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Speaker: Michele Vitti, Founder and Principal of Sunata Consulting About the Speaker: Michele Vitti, founder and principal of Sunata Consulting, has been a consultant to businesses around leadership and team development for 15 years and has many more years of experience as a coach. Michele's expertise is in helping leaders sharpen their inner edge; that is, building their capacity to know and use their unique talents; to understand, motivate and influence others; and to navigate through organizational culture and political dynamics. Michele is an adjunct faculty member at Smith College Executive Education for Women, was a founding board member of the Executive Coaching Forum, and is a frequent speaker to professional groups. Michele holds an M.A. degree from Lesley University. |
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February 2008 02/05/2008 - SWE Web Seminar: What You Should Know About Interacting With Executives Summary/description: Have you made a New Year's Resolution to advance in your career? This Web seminar offers insights on how to be effective in both formal and informal interactions with key leaders in your company. What you don't know can, and probably is hurting you from receiving the projects and visibility which can showcase your leadership abilities. Get an executive's perspective on the criticality of content, phrasing, pacing and timing of conversations. This is information you need to know, no matter where you are in your present career. | |
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Speaker: Rachel S. Hutter, Director of Facilities Systems & Processes for Walt Disney Parks & Resorts About the Speaker: Rachel S. Hutter is the Director of Facilities Systems & Processes for Walt Disney Parks & Resorts. In this position, Rachel is responsible for creating and maintaining the systems and processes that support maintenance and engineering at Disney Parks across the world. Among her notable responsibilities are supporting the Computerized Maintenance Management System, knowledge management, training, contract strategies, process analysis, and professional development for the Facilities Operations Services Division. Rachel was the recipient of SWE's 2005 Emerging Leaders Award in quality assurance. |
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02/12/2008 - SWE Web Seminar: Emerging Strategies for Leveraging a Global Workforce Summary/description: The questions facing global business today are numerous. How do companies recruit people who understand and respond to challenges across borders and cultures - not to mention developing, motivating and retaining employees located in different regions of the world? Perhaps most important, how does a global company bring its far-flung employee base together, working as one team, sharing common values and driving toward the same strategic goals? Drawing on her 20+ years of experience leading diverse teams and organizations across Caterpillar, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Tana Utley will describe the strategies she has employed to leverage the skills and perspectives of a global workforce to deliver product development excellence. |
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About the Speaker: Tana Utley is Chief Technology Officer and Vice President with responsibility for the Technology and Solutions Division (T&SD) at Caterpillar Inc. T&SD is the research and development arm of Caterpillar. Caterpillar spends more than $1 billion dollars on R&D each year, and T&SD's nearly 3000 employees worldwide are responsible for a third of this investment. With facilities in the US, UK, India and China, T&SD controls engine, machine, and systems and components research, design and testing, product development and new technology introduction. |
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02/20/2008 - SWE Web Seminar: From Campus to Cubicle: What to Expect During Your First Year on the Job Summary/description: You've landed your dream job. You can't wait to start working 'in the real world'. But how is that world defined? What is the global marketplace, and how do you ensure that you are ready for it? As you transition to the workplace you will be expected to collaborate with individuals from different cultures and backgrounds, to cooperate with diverse personalities, to be a team player, and to work on projects with strict deadlines. The social norms, dress, and etiquette you used in college will be different in the workplace, as will the time constraints placed upon you. You were hired for your talents and skills; you now need to utilize those skills to demonstrate your value to your coworkers, your management, and your company. Join Connie Shoemake, Vice President of Sales at IBM, to learn how to make your transition from college to the workplace a smooth, successful one. | |
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About the Speaker: Connie Shoemake is Vice President of Sales for IBM's 14-state Central Region. Connie is responsible for sales within the public sector, specifically local/state government, K-12/Higher Education, Healthcare Payor/Providers, and Pharmaceutical clients. |
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02/29/2008 - 03/02/2008 - Region D Conference 2008 Summary/description: Illuminations: "Women Collaborating to Enlighten the World" Coordinator: SWE-University of Miami | |
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March 2008 03/12/2008 - SWE Web Seminar: The Secret to Career Acceleration - Enjoy the Stretch Zone Summary/description: How comfortable are you with taking career risks? As engineers, you are focused on helping companies minimize risk. In contrast, women who advance to senior leadership roles have learned to get comfortable taking smart career risks. Smart career risk taking comes from understanding the four zones of performance: blah, comfort, stretch, and yikes. The stretch zone is characterized by trying out new behaviors that energize and allow growth without causing a "breakdown" response or significantly diminishing your effectiveness. The goal of this web seminar is to increase self-awareness of your stretch zone and what interpersonal and environmental elements you need to grow professionally. |
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Speaker: | About the Speaker: Ms. Mayer founded KC Mayer Consulting, Inc. in 2003 to provide sophisticated and customized leadership development solutions for Fortune 100 to 1000 companies to drive their efforts to attract, develop and retain emerging and high potential business leaders. Ms. Mayer has a proven 20-year track record of coaching business professionals, guiding companies through transformative change, and designing learning systems to transition professionals into new roles, develop leaders, enhance team dynamics, strengthen core competencies, and change behavior. She began her business career in the highly demanding and competitive investment banking (Goldman Sachs and Citigroup) and business consulting industries (Deloitte and Touche) where she honed her unique approach to leadership and developed a proprietary strategic leadership model called Collaborative Competition.TM She has recently completed a book on how women can succeed in the most competitive industries and enjoy it, Collaborative CompetitionTM: The New Strategic Mindset for Women in Business. A Women's Guide to Succeeding by Competing. Kathryn has interviewed successful and powerful women around the country. |
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April 2008 04/03/2008 - Special Collegiate SWE Web Seminar: Four Secrets to Finding the Perfect Job Summary/description: How do you find your ideal job when you are ready to finish college? To answer these questions, you need a system for understanding and optimizing the match between yourself and your prospective job. Dr. Deborah Fisher, engineering professor from the School of Engineering at the University of New Mexico, shares four basic laws of what she calls "people physics," from her recently released national award-winning book (Financial Times Press, February 2008), Four Secrets to Liking Your Work. These laws teach us how to understand our own actions, how to work better with others and, most importantly, how to find the right position and then to be more successful once we're there. Much of what you were told about the "right" job for you...is wrong! This session will teach you how to "interview the interviewer," find the ideal job where you can be "in the zone," and become happy, productive, and successful when you get there. |
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Speaker: Dr. Deborah Fisher | About the Speaker: Dr. Fisher has both a masters and PhD degree in civil engineering from Texas A&M University and the University of Texas at Austin, respectively. She has over 30 years of engineering experience, half which was spent in the engineering and construction petrochemical industry overseeing multi-million dollar projects. The other half was spent in academia where she conducted productivity improvement research, utilizing computer modeling and knowledge based systems and artificial intelligence. She has served as director of the engineering management program at the University of Houston and the AGC Chaired professor at the University of New Mexico. She received the Society of Women Engineers Distinguished Engineering Educator award in 2005 and was named in the "Top 50 Trendsetters" in Public Works magazine in 2006. |
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04/29/2008 - SWE Web Seminar: The Glass Ceiling for Asian Women in Engineering & Technology Summary/description: Although technology and scientific industries in the private sector are among the top 10 industries employing Asian women, these are also the industries where Asian women have the lowest probability of moving from professional and technical positions into management roles. What are additive challenges for women who are Asian? What culturally based behaviors and attitudes might hold implications for personal career strategies? This webinar will highlight research on women in high tech and scientific positions and provide tips on creating a personal roadmap into the leadership pipeline. As you peer through the glass ceiling, learn what you can do to position yourself for advancement opportunities and engage others in accessing, recognizing and rewarding Asian talent. |
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Speaker: Lily Tang, Ed.D, MS, MBA | About the Speaker: Dr. Lily Tang is a consultant, educator, and coach helping organizations more deeply access diverse talent and more effectively create inclusive work environments. She is experienced in global organizational assessments and has led organizational development projects for Fortune 500 companies across four continents. She is trained in participant-centered facilitation and relationship-systems coaching. She is also engaged in the development of Web 2.0 educational platforms. Formerly an assistant professor of psychology and instructor in intercultural communications, Dr. Tang is a co-active partner in the Integrative Strategies Group and an affiliate of The FutureWork Institute. She actively contributes to the work of non-profits groups including Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, and the Anti-Defamation League. She serves on the board of directors of the Asian Women Leadership Network and the Charles B. Wang Community Health Centers of New York City. |
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May 2008 05/01/2008 - Professional Development Seminar Summary/description: The Society of Women Engineers and Women in Nuclear have joined together to offer a series of Professional Development workshops presented by Jill S. Tietjen, P.E. |
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Speaker: | About the Speaker: Jill S. Tietjen is an engineer, speaker, and author. She is a consulting engineer in the electric utility industry performing generation and transmission planning work and frequently serves as an expert witness. She gives motivational speeches to large and small audiences around the country. Her books and articles cover technical topics, non-traditional careers for women, and historical women. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte as well as a licensed professional engineer in Colorado. Ms. Tietjen regularly speaks on women in engineering, historical women in engineering and science, and leadership topics. Her introduction to engineering textbook, Keys to Engineering Success, was published by Prentice Hall in 2001. She is the co-author with Betty Reynolds of the Setting the Record Straight series of which three volumes have been published. She has written articles for and been profiled in SWE: Magazine of the Society of Women Engineers, Graduating Engineer, U.S. Woman Engineer, Woman Engineer, and Engineering Horizons. She served as the 1991-1992 National President of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). As Jill S. Baylor, she is a contributing author to the 1995 book She Does Math! Ms. Tietjen has received numerous awards and honors including the 2001 Woman in Technology Award from the Women's Foundation of Colorado, Subaru, and News4; Tau Beta Pi's Distinguished Alumna Award, and she was named a Woman of Distinction by Girl Scouts Mile Hi Council. Ms. Tietjen serves on a number of non-profit boards and is currently Chair of the Board for Girl Scouts Mile Hi Council. She is a member of the Board of Directors for the Georgia Transmission Corporation of Tucker, Georgia. Ms. Tietjen is a Commissioner on the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, Inc., and serves as the Western Zone Vice President for the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying. She is a Fellow Life Member of SWE and a Senior Member of the IEEE Power Engineering Society. Ms. Tietjen is listed in Who's Who in Engineering, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, and Who's Who in Technology. |
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National/Regional Events
05/13/2008 - Analytical Tools for Engineers - Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Summary/description: Did you know that the structure of your organization and its tools and processes effect real time collaborative information sharing and reuse? This web seminar will provide a discussion on the Elements and Characteristics of Product Lifecycle Management and the reasons why a business should implement PLM. Increasingly, in the competitive business environment, Knowledge Management plays an integral role in PLM. Knowledge Management is a strategic enabler to a business's success, and one which is mainly driven by its employees. Learn how the application of Engineering Analytical tools, effects of collaborative teams, and the impact of knowledge based decisions can make the difference for your company - no matter what type of industry. |
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Speaker: | About the Speaker: Michelle D. Teixeira is an employee at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems. In her current role, she supports proposals and strategic initiatives for Operations Development and Manufacturing. Michelle held various positions with increasing responsibilities supporting proposals for New Captures and Follow on Productions, Material Pricing, Budgets/Earned Value, Cost As an Independent Variable, Parametric Analysis, and IMP/IMS/MPS development. She has received several individual and team recognition awards for her efforts over her 24 tenure with Raytheon. Michelle has built many collaborative relationships within the business. She is an instructor for two business training modules at Raytheon. She is a cultural change agent and supporter of a diversified workforce. Michelle has a bachelor degree in Business Administration with a minor in Accounting from Salem State College and is a qualified Raytheon Six Sigma specialist. |
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05/28/2008 - Excelling as the Technical Guru Summary/description: How does one become one of those Subject Matter Experts that populate most engineering companies? How do you transition (or even envision) a career that takes you from working on one task or project to multiple projects? How does one advance in a technical path without becoming a Manager? This webinar will address those questions and the role of a senior scientist or engineer in an Engineering organization. |
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Speaker: | About the Speaker: Dr. Carrie Leonard has over 15 years experience in ocean optics, including ocean color analysis, physical/biological interactions, and spectral target detection.She received a B.S. in Oceanography from Humboldt State University and a PhD in Physical Oceanography from University of Maryland. Dr. Leonard currently is the BAE Systems Honolulu manager of scientists and software engineers responsible for the development, application, and integration of target detection methods for hyper- and multi-spectral imagery. |
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November 11/20/2008 - Webinar: Gaining the Competitive Advantage through Building a Strategic Network Summary/description: In this Web seminar, Kathryn Mayer discusses key strategies in developing a peer network that facilitates career acceleration. The research on successful leaders demonstrates that your network needs to be comprised of Pacing PartnersTM or many types of mentors. Pacing PartnersTM are defined as colleagues whom you collaborate with to stimulate each of you to your best performance. The relationship can function on four levels based on varied degrees of trust and expertise: friendly competitor, challenger, mentor, and role model. While most programs focus on finding and developing mentors, this seminar provides practical tips and techniques for cultivating strategic peer relationships in order to broaden your network and accelerate your career. Dinner is Herb Roasted Chicken, roasted potatoes, green beans, and salad. Free Parking is available next to Ruth's Chris Steakhouse and in the parking garage on the south side of the building. Coordinator: Sandra Kolvick (Sandra.Kolvick @ fluor.com) or contact our webmaster | |
Society of Women Engineers : Charlotte-Metrolina Section, D-002 | Charlotte.Metrolina @ swe.org |
