Calendar of Events
TechLeaders: Power and Influence - Seattle, WA
May 21, 2008 to May 22, 2008
This two-day workshop featuring Jo Miller, CEO of Women’s Leadership Coaching, will focus on extending your power and influence as a technical woman through increased organizational awareness, negotiation techniques, strategies to increase your visibility, and influence techniques to increase buy in for your ideas. Learn more
Webinar: Negotiation Skills for Technical Leaders
May 27, 2008
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Whether you are striving for your next promotion, salary increase or buy‐in for a new idea, good negotiation skills are critical to your success. Learn tips on preparing for negotiation, developing the courage to ask for what you want, knowing when to push and when to back off, building your credibility before and during a negotiation and when and how to get support from others in achieving your goals.
Register an individual for $49.00 or up to 100 employees for $1,500
Confirmed Speakers:
Tara Prakriya
Architect, Microsoft’s Unlimited Potential Division
Tara joined Microsoft in 1997 to work on the MSN Platform. She led early adoption of the .NET Framework as the Product Unit Manager of the content management platform. She was also a Program Manager for the ad system and the content and user data warehouse. Joining Windows in 2002, she was the Product Unit Manager for Mobile PCs in Vista and then the Product Unit Manager for Tablet PC in Vista. Most recently she has been incubating projects in emerging markets that leverage pen, touch and ink. Previously, she worked at Merck & Co’s U.S. Human Health Division IT focusing on financial data warehousing.
Gail Coury, CISA, CISSP, CISM
Vice President, Risk Management, Global IT, Oracle
Gail has over 20 years of cross-industry experience in information security infrastructure systems and network management, security technical consulting, information systems auditing, and programming. Gail leads the risk management function for Oracle Global IT and is the former Chief Information Security Officer for PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards.
The Webinar Series is a joint, fee-for-service program of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit organization, and Invent Your Future Enterprises, a woman-owned, for-profit company. All Webinar proceeds are divided equally between the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology and Invent Your Future Enterprises.
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Techleaders: Strategic Persuasion and Change Leadership
June 3, 2008 to June 4, 2008
This two-day workshop is designed to provide technical women with skills to succeed in accomplishing their goals in negotiations and meetings as well with the capacity to use these skills to effect organizational change. Learn more.
Senior TechLeaders: Leadership, the Final Frontier
June 30, 2008 to July 1, 2008
The goals of this two-day workshop for senior level women are to expand your network of senior technical women colleagues across industry, academia, and government, and to increase your collective impact as a group of powerful women better connected with each other. This workshop will increase your awareness and capacity of your leadership strengths, challenges and create a vision for your career. Learn more.
