Women in Business Roundtable Archive
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The Women in Business Roundtable (WIBR) has been a Chamber signature program for dynamic, achievement-oriented businesswomen since 1993. WIBR is the most successful ongoing networking event of its kind in the country, supported by over 40 Bay Area women's organizations. If you are interested in speaking at a Women in Business Roundtable Click Here. Click here for current events. 2008 events Women in Business Roundtable Updated by Admin on September 28, 2011Tuesday, October 25, 2011 San Francisco Chamber Boardroom Keeping Cool Under Fire Join Marianne Fleischer, senior corporate communications consultant, Fleischer Communications and former TV newscaster, for a lively, interactive workshop. In our careers we’re called upon to pitch ideas up the food chain, present to clients, speak formally or jockey with colleagues for budgets or glory. How we think on our feet can propel or derail our careers. Getting others on board takes savvy. Ultimately others judge us when we go off script: by how we think on our feet and read the room in the moment. Come ready to practice WHAT IF scenarios so you:
Cost: $25 for Chamber members and $35 for prospective members if paid by Oct. 21. Additional $5 after Oct. 21 and at the door. Cancellations must occur 48 hours in advance to receive a refund. For more information please contact Nadia Chan at 415-352-8803 or nchan@sfchamber.com. Women in Business Roundtable Updated by Admin on August 25, 2011Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011 SF Chamber Boardroom The Leadership Advantage: What All Women Have
It’s been well documented that emotional intelligence, or EQ, is crucial to leadership success – great news for women who are naturally higher in EQ than men. Yet, when it comes to the workplace and getting ahead, women often fall short of using this innate gift to get promotions, projects and raises. Why? Get an inside look into the pros and cons of the ways women lead, why our brains work differently than our male colleagues, and how to parlay our EQ advantage into work that we love and excel at even in the male identified world of business. In this session you’ll learn:
Esther Orioli will enlighten and entertain you with her take on leveraging women’s emotional intelligence for personal and professional success and how to avoid becoming a “man-made” leadership disaster.
Cost is $25 for Chamber members and $35 for prospective members if paid by Sept. 9. Additional $5 after Sept. 9 and at the door. Cancellations must occur 48 hours in advance to receive a refund. For more information please contact Nadia Chan at 415-352-8803 or nchan@sfchamber.com.
Women in Business Roundtable Updated by Admin on July 8, 2011Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011 SF Chamber Boardroom How to Create Brand Names with Buzz Join us for this entertaining and enlightening presentation on How to Create Brand Names with Buzz, packed with real life examples and war stories from the trenches. Whether you are naming a business or a product now or in the future, you will learn everything you need to know about the new rules of creating brand names, including why old school naming techniques (like Latin-based and invented names) don’t work in today’s Internet-centric world. Discover the secret to powerful brand names that generate buzz and revenue in this “never a dull moment” presentation. Learn how to avoid costly naming mistakes and how the right name can build a brand:
Cost is $25 for Chamber members and $35 for prospective members if paid by Aug. 12. Additional $5 after Aug. 12 and at the door. Cancellations must occur 48 hours in advance to receive a refund. For more information please contact Nadia Chan at 415-352-8803 or nchan@sfchamber.com. Women in Business Roundtable Updated by Admin on March 21, 2011Tuesday, April 12, 2011 SF Chamber Boardroom Communication and Credibility: How to Get Eye-to-Eye when you’re Face–to Face Being a credible and effective public speaker is at the top of everybody’s list of essential business skills. There may be just a few people in your audience or many, but the way you handle this leadership role will be noticed. There is a direct link between your communication skills and your career success. The person on the receiving end of your talking might well be making a career-impacting decision based on your delivery. Credibility is the single most important feature you want to communicate. Today you will get useful information on how to develop mastery in the business world by speaking your best. You are perceived as authentic when your nonverbal signals, your voice qualities, and the language of your thinking carry the same message. Authenticity adds up to credibility. What is the difference between self expression and communication? Learn this distinction and you’ll be seen as a superior communicator. • Discover the most powerful form of sentence
Cost is $25 for Chamber members and $35 for prospective members if paid by April 8. Additional $5 after April 8 and at the door. Cancellations must occur 48 hours in advance to receive a refund. For more information please contact Nadia Chan at 415-352-8803 or nchan@sfchamber.com. Media Sponsor
Women in Business Roundtable Updated by Admin on January 5, 2011Tuesday, February 15, 2011 SF Chamber Boardroom Thrive at Networking – Make Your Connections Count Networking is the vital business skill that builds your sphere of influence. Networking well on and off line will impact your ability to easily attract clients, contacts, referrals and opportunities. In this innovative session, you will learn how to: • Create rapport quickly to begin formulating lasting business relationships This session will strongly impact the bottom line of all who attend and take action.
$25 Chamber members, $35 non-members if paid by Feb. 11; $5 additional after Feb. 11 and at the door. Cancellations must occur 48 hours in advance to receive a refund. For more information please contact Nadia Chan at 415-352-8803. Women in Business Roundtable Updated by Admin on October 27, 2010Carpe the Chaos: How Women Will Thrive in Uncertain Times Thursday, December 2, 2010 SF Chamber Boardroom Sponsored by  Paradigm shifts do not happen in moments of stability. They occur during periods of upheaval. The current economic uncertainty, for example, offers women opportunities that do not exist during times of stasis. New leadership roles are open to women because boundaries are more permeable and the need for innovation is heightened. Join the SF Chamber for a Power Lunch program with best selling author and key note speaker, Gloria Feldt. During this presentation you will explore 9 specific tips and tools on how to redefine power and leadership as she describes in her new book No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power.
In Partnership with Register Online Now $25 Chamber members, $35 non-members if paid by Nov. 30; $5 additional after Nov. 30 and at the door. Cancellations must occur 48 hours in advance to receive a refund. For more information please contact Nadia Chan at 415-352-8803. Women in Business Roundtable Updated by Admin on September 15, 2010From Cold to Hot: Building Business through the Referral Process Tuesday, October 19, 2010 SF Chamber Boardroom Warming up to referrals can eliminate the need for making those fruitless and much-dreaded cold calls ever again. Unfortunately, most people fear they will appear pushy or self-serving if they ask customers to provide an introduction to a friend, colleague, or relative. Yet that’s exactly what they need to do, given that more than 90 percent of buyers say they never respond to unsolicited contact. As with any other marketing tool that’s intended to improve the bottom line, an effective referral process requires creating and executing a specific strategy. Join us for this interactive workshop and learn how to gain the new business you want by leveraging the goodwill of the clients you already have.
Program’s Table Sponsor: Burr, Pilger & Mayer LLP. $25 Chamber members, $35 non-members if paid by Oct. 14; $5 additional after Oct. 14 and at the door. Cancellations must occur 48 hours in advance to receive a refund. For more information please contact Nadia Chan at 415-352-8803. Women in Business Roundtable Updated by Admin on August 18, 2010Social Media for Professional Women Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010 SF Chamber of Commerce Boardroom Sponsored by
Social media has leveled the playing field. As women professionals, we can now grow our professional brands and connections a lot more quickly than ever before. Wondering how these tools can help establish your professional brand? Wonder why Barack Obama does it and Britney Spears does it too? Meet Edith Yeung, Founder of BizTechDay – the largest entrepreneur conference on the West Coast. During this interactive workshop, Yeung will share practical tools that will help you utilize social media effectively. You will learn strategies on: • How to create a brand via social media with no budget Yeung is the founder of BizTechDay – the most impactful annual San Francisco technology conference serving the entrepreneur community, and leads San Francisco Entrepreneur Meetup Group with almost 3000 members. She is the go-to consultant in building communities, guest host of CBS 5 Startup Profile, lecturer at UC Berkeley, board member of San Francisco Small Business Week, and a sought-after speaker. She has delivered talks in the US, Asia and Europe and is passionate about connecting, educating and inspiring entrepreneurs. She has won multiple awards working with Fortune 500 companies including AT&T Wireless, Oracle, Siebel, Autodesk, and Cisco Systems. Yeung has been featured on CBS, CNN, Comcast, World Journal News, Marketing Sherpa and Sales & Marketing Management Magazine, Hong Kong Economics Times and Sing Tao News. Cost is $25 for Chamber members and $35 for prospective members if paid by Sept. 10. Additional $5 after Sept. 10 and at the door. Cancellations must occur 48 hours in advance to receive a refund. For more information please contact Nadia Chan at 415-352-8803. Please check back for upcoming events in 2010! Updated by Admin on December 16, 2009Women in Business Mixer Updated by Admin on September 24, 2009Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010 View Lounge Sponsored by
Take this opportunity to network and make new contacts with achievement-oriented professional women and women business-owners at the Women in Business Networking Mixer. Save the date to sip wine and mingle while enjoying a magnificent view of San Francisco and the Bay Area 39 stories atop San Francisco Marriott. Cost is $20 for Chamber members and $30 for prospective members if paid by Aug. 11. Additional $5 after Aug. 11 and at the door. Cancellations must occur 48 hours in advance to receive a refund. For more information please contact Nadia Chan at 415-352-8803. This event has been postponed! Updated by Admin on September 10, 2009
Find Your Work/Life Balance A panel discussion moderated by Leslie Milloy, Sr. Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009 5-5:30 Registration/Networking 5:30-7 pm Program
SF Chamber Boardroom 235 Montgomery Str., 12th Floor
Sponsored by
More and more women are struggling with the competing demands of meeting work obligations and caring for loved ones. America exceeds all other industrialized countries in average hours at work. And in an economic downturn there is competition at work and often more and more pressure at home. The time crunch we experience every day can leave us with a feeling of being off center or unbalanced and may be affecting our ability to feel successful. Understanding that Work-Life Balance does not mean an equal balance is an important criterion for finding our center. Trying to schedule an equal number of hours for each of your various work and personal activities is usually unrewarding and unrealistic.
Knowing that your individual work-life balance will vary over time is critical to success. The right balance for you today may be different for you tomorrow. Your center when you are single will be different when you marry, or if you have children or aging parents; when you start a new career versus when you are nearing retirement. There is no perfect, one-size fits all, balance you should be striving for and it is important to remember that the center is different for each of us.
But it is not all bad news, and we have plenty of successful women in the workplace to show us the way. In this panel discussion you will meet 3 successful women, all from Wells Fargo, who are at different stages of their private and professional careers and who have achieved their own individual center.
Panelists: Gabe Lucey, Vice President Business Direct Lucey assumed her current position supporting the small business segment, focusing on growth strategies, in 2006. She began her career with Wells Fargo as a private Banker in 1998 and has worked in small business marketing. She supports over 150 stores in the San Francisco Bay Area. Lucey graduated in 1995 from Santa Clara University and is the mother of 3 children under 6 years of age.
Jennifer MacCloskey, Sr. Vice President, Marketing Director for the San Francisco Bay Region MacCloskey has responsibilities for 150 stores in San Francisco, Marin, San Mateo, Santa Clara and parts of Santa Cruz Counties. In her role, she is responsible for the creation, development and collaborative execution of Marketing and Sales Programs. She manages sponsorships, events, targeted customer communications, leads programs and media. MacCloskey assumed her current role in July 2004. She began her career with Wells Fargo/First Interstate in 1992 as a teller in Portland. She is actively involved in the community and serves on several non-profit boards. Jennifer earned a bachelor’s degree in Communications from University of Oregon and is the mother of 2 teenagers.
Wendy Haller, Vice President Mission-Coastal Market President, San Francisco Bay Area Region In her role, she is responsible for 14 stores in North Peninsula and outer San Francisco and more than 300 team members. Haller began her career at Wells Fargo as a teller. Throughout her career at the bank, she has held a number of positions including district manager, store manager, assistant manager, service manager and personal banker. Wendy earned her B.A. in social sciences from UC Berkeley.
Moderator: Leslie Milloy, Sr. Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Milloy is responsible for the strategic marketing, membership, events, programs and small business initiatives for the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. Milloy began her tenure as a Chamber executive in 2001, after having held headquarter marketing management positions at AT&T and American Express. A San Francisco resident for more than a decade, she also serves as the Vice President of the San Francisco Small Business Network, Chair of the Presidio Middle School School Site Council, is an active member of the National Charity League and the mother of two daughters, a teen and a tween.
Cost is $25 for Chamber members and $35 for non-members if paid by Sept. 28; $5 additional after Sept. 28 and at the door.
Cancellations must occur 48 hours in advance to receive a refund. For more information, contact Nadia Chan at 415-352-8803.
Speak Up and Be Heard Updated by Nadia on June 15, 2009with Victoria Squier, communication consultant and executive speaking coach, Speakeasy, Inc. Tuesday, July 21, 5:30-7 pm San Francisco Chamber of Commerce How you say something is just as important as what you say. We tend to forget that. Few of us have had instruction in speaking; we’re self taught. We develop ways of speaking by imitating our parents, siblings, friends, and teachers. We form habits, many of which do not work for us as women in the business world. Most of us are unaware of how we can use our body language, our voices, and our manner of speaking to communicate our message. Women often find they are communicating in stereotypic patterns that do not help them look or feel as if they have the right, the ability, and the option to be powerful or to be strong leaders. Some of the most common communication mistakes women make are being too soft spoken, speaking hesitantly, not being clear and concise (rambling), holding back physically as they speak, racing through what they need to say, and looking timid or apologetic. In this interactive workshop, Victoria will demonstrate some simple options that you can practice with other attendees to become a more effective and compelling communicator. By practicing these simple things, you will begin to look and feel more powerful. You’ll learn what it takes to SPEAK UP AND BE HEARD.
Victoria Squier, communication consultant and executive speaking coach, addresses all of these issues with her clients. Victoria works with business executives from Fortune 500 companies from all over the world. For the past 25 years, she has been helping people become more powerful, engaging, and effective communicators by focusing on their speech, their voices and the way they hold and use their bodies as they speak.
Cost is $25 for Chamber members and $35 for prospective members if paid by July 16. Additional $5 after July 16 and at the door. Cancellations must occur 48 hours in advance to receive a refund. For more information please contact Nadia Chan at 415-352-8803. |
