PANEL A | Business Without Borders: Succeeding in a Global Business Environment
Moderator: Kara Blackburn

To succeed abroad, we must abide by both the written and unwritten rules of other cultures, many of which are patriarchal and very different from our own. How can we maintain authenticity while conducting business and simultaneously assimilate into a foreign country? Five women who have traveled extensively for work share their experiences and advice.

Panelists include:

Kristen Chriacao, Senior Vice President, International Equities Division, Lehman Brothers

Heather M. Goodchild, Managing Director, Corporate and Government Services, Standard & Poor's,
    Stern MBA

Stephanie Ruhle, Director, Global Markets, Deutsche Bank

Gonca Latif-Schmitt, Director, Global Transaction Services, Citigroup

Kathryn Swintek, Managing Director, Head of Leveraged Finance North America, U.S. Representative,
    Global Structured Finance Division, BNP Paribas Group, Stern MBA

PANEL B | Taking Initiative: Growing a Business as an Executive or Entrepreneur
Moderator: Amy Schmidt

Entrepreneurial ventures can be empowering and enriching for one’s career. However, they are not confined to only entrepreneurs. Many women have built and grown a business within an organization with the same entrepreneurial spirit as business-owners. Learn how women from various industries have harnessed their authenticity to take initiative both inside and outside the office walls.

Panelists include:

Elissa Bloom, Founder, Elissa Bloom

Beverly Daniel, Founder, CareerGrowth Group, Stern MBA '81

Suzanne B. Schiavelli, Morgan Stanley, Lead Analyst, Emerging Specialty Finance, Stern MBA '00

Robin A. Schwartz, Founder, Math Confidence, Stern MBA '93

Beth Storz, Senior Brand Development Manager, Slim-Fast, Unilever Foods, Stern MBA '98

Katherine M. Walsh, Associate Director - Sales, Institutional Direct Inc., Bear Stearns, Stern MBA '95

PANEL C | Building Your Own Board of Directors
Moderator: Katie Volz

One of the keys to professional success is to surround yourself with your own “board of directors” to provide guidance and support throughout your career. Listen to women who have benefited from mentor/mentee relationships at work and learn how you can start putting together a group of people that you trust to be your board of directors. How do you know who to approach? Should the person you trust be female, older, younger, and/or at the company longer? Discover the answers to these questions as you listen to the experiences of these women executives.

Panelists include:

Analisa Balares, COO, 85 Broads, COO, 85 Broads Holdings Inc.

Audrey McNiff, Managing Director, Equities Division, GoldmanSachs, Stern MBA '89

Shira Ronen, Executive Coach, Facilitator, and Corporate Trainer, Spectrum Consulting, Stern MBA '98

Diya Sawhny, Principal, Investment Banking, Consumer Group, Banc of America Securities, LLC,
    Stern MBA

Anne M. Swope, Managing Director, Foreign Exchange & Commodities Derivatives Group and Capital
    Structure Advisory & Solutions Group, JPMorgan, Stern MBA

AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS

WORKSHOP A | Financial Security in 2007 & Beyond
Workshop Leader: Stacy Francis | Moderator: Joanne Hvala

This powerful workshop shows you the secrets to building wealth, achieving abundance, and living the life you deserve.

Get clear about what you want

Make the most of the money you bring home

Turn your debts into golden investments

Avoid big money mistakes

Wherever you work, be in business for yourself

Map out your own financial future

Follow your vision and make it happen

Stacy Francis is the founder of Savvy Ladies, a non-profit organization that empowers women to take control of their finances and achieve a more rich and rewarding life. She frequently lectures and speaks about financial planning, with particular emphasis on investments, money smarts for women and couples as well as money wellness.

Ms. Francis is the president of Francis Financial, Inc., a New York-based firm that specializes in helping individuals create more fulfilling lives through financial freedom. Ms. Francis is a pioneering financial advisor and has developed an integrated, holistic method for accelerating financial and personal growth that she shares with a national clientele. Her innovative approach to financial planning empowers clients to prosper financially and activate their life dreams.

Ms. Francis attended the NYU Center for Finance, Law and Taxation where she successfully completed CFP® education requirements and CFP® certification exam. Ms. Francis is a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst (CDFA) and has completed specialized training in the financial issues of divorce through the College for Divorce Specialists. Ms. Francis has a B.A. in International Economics and in French from Middlebury College where she graduated cum laude.

WORKSHOP B | Develop Yourself as a Leader: Take Executive Development Techniques and Apply Them to Your Own Development
Workshop Leader: Karen Donaldson | Moderator: Patricia Bower | Sponsored By: Johnson & Johnson

Learn the strategies that Fortune 100 companies use to develop their top executives. You will put together an individual development plan to advance your career, based on long term and short term goals, networking strategies, and work/life balance.

Karen Donaldson is a Managing Director and Founder of Leadership Development Resources, LLC.

Karen has over 12 years of executive development experience. She has coached business leaders in companies such as: IBM, GE, Johnson & Johnson, KPMG, Smith Barney, Marsh McLennan, and Spiegel Brands. She started Leadership Development Resources, LLC, to provide one-to-one leadership and work/life balance coaching and workshops on Achieving Balance, Setting and Achieving Goals, and Executive Teamwork. She partners with Ivy Exec, to provide work/life balance coaching for top professionals and companies seeking flexible employment solutions.

Prior to starting Leadership Development Resources, Karen held global responsibility for succession planning for several of IBM’s largest groups. In addition to planning executive succession, she created strategic development plans, facilitated executive group sessions, developed executives’ leadership competencies, identified career derailment factors, coached high potentials, and provided executive feedback on 360 degree survey results, management styles, and organizational climate. She has human resources consulting experience with Arthur Andersen; executive development, succession planning and corporate training experience with New York Life Insurance Company.

Karen holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, and a BS from Syracuse University.

WORKSHOP C | It's All About Relationships: A Lifelong Skill
Workshop Leader: Paula Jaye | Moderator: Pam Mittman

The relationships that we form and nurture in our careers and personal lives sustain us, guide us to accomplish our goals, provide us with the valued feedback that we need to assure we are on track and provide us with continuous learning. Strong relationships are critical to achieving high levels of career success and personal fulfillment. In this workshop we will explore and learn ways to connect with others for information, support, feedback, buy-in, knowledge and advice.

We will:

Align our key relationships with our most important career, business, or personal goals and objectives.

Understand the key characteristics of building strong relationships

Assess our web of relationships and partnerships

Develop an action plan to enhance and develop our key relationships

"Connecting should advance rather than compromise, your principles."
                                                                   -Eleanor Roosevelt

Paula Jaye is a Managing Director of Organization Effectiveness for Practice Consulting Institute (PCi), a global consulting firm where she specializes in developing leadership and executive talent and providing executive coaching and organization effectiveness services to individuals, teams and organizations.

Paula has worked within and consulted to organizations on the design, delivery and evaluation of development programs that link employee and executive initiatives to the goals and mission of an organization. Paula has extensive experience in the areas of leadership/management development and assessment, executive coaching, new leader assimilation, diversity development, 360 degree feedback processes, performance and career management and teambuilding. She has coached executives and professionals on enhancing their strategic leadership and management competencies, improving their communication and influencing skills, strengthening relationship building skills and developing their entrepreneurial abilities. Her professional expertise spans many job functions and industries including major financial service organizations, professional service firms, consumer products, telecommunications, health care organizations, and prominent universities and nor-for-profit organizations.

Paula received her BA and MS degrees from The City University of NY, and post-masters training at NYU.