7:30-8:30 Registration
8:30-9:45 Opening Keynote
10:00-11:00 a.m.—Seminar Session I
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.—Seminar Session II
1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.—Keynote Luncheon
2:45 p.m.-3:45 p.m.—Seminar Session III

SESSION I (10:00 am – 11:00am)

The Resilient Leader (panel)
The challenges of recent turbulent economic times have taken a toll on everyone in some capacity, both professionally and personally. Resiliency is a critical skill for survival – both in life and in business. Women leaders from diverse backgrounds and perspectives are brought together for an interactive discussion to share their personal journeys around overcoming obstacles at various times in their lives. Using their best practices and lessons learned, we will explore the qualities of a resilient leader and how you can develop and refine resiliency skills to conquer any challenges that cross your path.

Panelists:
Irene Chang Britt, president, NA Foodservice of Campbell’s Soup
Sharon Simpson, PECO
Deborah L. Acklin, president-elect and chief executive officer, WQED Multimedia Pittsburgh
Autumn Adkins Graves, president, Girard College; recognized as one of Oprah’s “10 Women on The Rise” 2010

Moderator:
Judy Belmont, health expert, psychotherapist and co-author, “The Swiss Cheese Theory of Life”

Host:
Mary Anne Papale, director of Community Affairs, Highmark

Using Social Media to Build Your Brand (workshop)
In this tough economy, it’s more important than ever to develop a brand and set yourself apart from the rest of the masses. Whether you have a job and are looking to advance, in the midst of a job search or working to build a business, social media provides the skills, network and energy to create a serious career advantage. This interactive workshop will explore ways to master social media to help create and reinvent your brand, reputation and thought leadership. Attendees will learn how to utilize social media to:

• Establish access to new networks
• Leverage Facebook and Twitter as a practical professional tool
• Create a blog to align with and help you achieve your short-and-long-term professional goals
• Break into new industries, professions and business opportunities

Speaker: Susan Getgood, founder, GetGood Strategic Marketing Inc. and author, Professional Blogging for Dummies

Practical Tools to Live an Organized Life and Control Your Chaos (workshop)
Organization is critical for maximum productivity and success at home and in the office. Don’t let the chaos of your everyday life impact your ability to stay organized. Attend this practical and fun session and learn how to prepare yourself to tackle the expected and the unexpected. Organization experts will provide strategies, easy solutions and products to help you better organize:

• Everyday life including your home, kids and work
• Major events including moves, weddings and births
• Life essentials including finances, emergency plans and your health and wellness

Moderator: Sarah Welch, co-founder, Buttoned Up

Effective Strategies for Protecting Your Financial Future (panel)
This session will provide you with practical tips and effective strategies for protecting and safeguarding your financial future. Featuring experts and real-life perspectives, we will explore:
• How to avoid and/or recover from debt
• Strategies for saving and doing more with less
• Tools for effective investment management and minimizing risk

Panelists:
Laura Vassamillet, vice president, Wealth Management, BNY Mellon
Kathleen Stewart, vice president of Trust and fiduciary specialist, Wells Fargo Private Bank

Host: Tricia Cattrell, BNY Mellon

Raising Happiness: 10 Simples Steps to More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents (workshop)
Parenthood can be one of the most fulfilling and joyful things that we do. Life is short, and thankfully the new science of happiness is showing us ways to enjoy our children and our lives more. Drawing on what science tells us about the factors that breed happiness in childhood and beyond, Dr. Carter will teach us simple skills that set the stage for optimism, emotional health and confidence in our children—while helping us become happier parents at the same time! This interactive workshop will help you learn:

• Why YOUR happiness is critical for the success and happiness of your CHILDREN
• How to find more joy in your parenting and home life, even if you are super-busy
• How to praise your kids—and others!—so that they are confident and resilient
• How to eliminate happiness killers from your daily life

Speaker: Christine Carter, author, “Raising Happiness”

Effective Skills and Tools for Accessing Capital (workshop)
This interactive workshop will share tools to help you access funding to grow your business or to start a business. By taking the Springboard eCAT capital access test, you will determine what type of capital is right for you. We will also feature a live panel for you to meet women who have raised money, as well as present a “mock pitch” for funding with live feedback and coaching so you can see best practices in action. Lastly, we will provide you with a tangible tool about community resources available to help you with your funding plan and access funding in Pennsylvania.

Turning Hardship into Success
Speaker: Nikki Johnson-Huston, Assistant City Solicitor, City of Philadelphia Law Department, Major Tax Unit
Description coming soon

Strategies for Owning Your Financial Present and Future
While the thought of retirement seems like a world away, it is important to take control of your finances from the start. Learning the fundamentals and understanding the basics of saving, coupled with making smart choices early on, can be the difference between financial success and a world of stress. This session will provide a real life perspective of a young adult who lived through poor financial choices. Together we will explore the impacts involved as well as provide you with practical strategies and tools for:
• Making smart choices around spending your money now
• How to enjoy life and save early on
• Understanding the right time to start using credit cards and the best ways to stay out of trouble
• Understanding student loans what that means for your finances short-and-long-term.

SESSION 2 (11:30 am – 12:30 pm)

Enhancing Your Executive Presence (workshop)
In a corporate world, women leaders are constantly challenged to communicate strength, power and gravitas without being dismissed as difficult or “too aggressive.” This course will provide the latest tips and tools that will allow you to increase your ability, as a woman, to hone your own, authentic, personal presence and impact. In this session you will:

• Identify the 3 critical factors for executive presence, and how to make them yours
• Learn 5 habits to increase your communication impact now and in the future
• Get the CEO’s perspective from Allen on why some women get promoted and others don’t
• Gain actionable insights from Bonnie’s recent interviews with Condoleezza Rice, Hillary Clinton, Eileen Fisher, Deloitte chairman Sharon Allen, and many more

Speakers:
Bonnie St. John, Olympic ski medalist, amputee, motivational speaker and author of “Live Your Joy”
Allen P. Haines, director, producer, writer and marketing executive

Host: Cheryl Parzych, executive vice president, Wealth Services, First Commonwealth Bank

Negotiating Your Way to the Top (workshop)
Author Selena Rezvani shares the hardest won lessons of the 30+ c-level women she interviewed in her book, “The Next Generation of Women Leaders,” specifically around making requests. Attendees will learn how to leverage their strengths in workplace negotiations--including preparing for them, maneuvering through them and maintaining relationships after negotiations. Together we will learn how to:

• Portray and embody behaviors that build, rather than reduce, their credibility
• Use new and creative negotiation techniques for use in any kind of bargaining situation
• Express themselves in ways that convey influence and experience

Speaker: Selena Rezvani, founder and president, NextGenWomen and author, “What You Need to Lead But Won't Learn in Business School”

Your Time is Now! Turnaround Techniques for Reinventing Your Life (panel)
Regardless of age or circumstance, it is never too late to make a change. While the routine of your daily rituals at work or home may feel comfortable, you don’t want to allow yourself to be stagnant or get caught in a rut. This engaging session will bring together women who have faced pivotal moments that have altered their lives. Together we will learn how they used these experiences to seize an opportunity and reinvent themselves to follow their dreams and passions. Attendees will walk away with tools for reevaluation and inspiration to make a positive change.

Panelists:
Leigh Hurst, founder, Feel Your Boobies
Nikki Johnson-Huston, assistant city solicitor, City of Philadelphia Law Department, Major Tax Unit

Moderator: Lu Ann Cahn, 8-time Emmy award-winning journalist and TV reporter

Make Your Golden Years...Truly Golden: Strategies for Managing Your Retirement and Money (workshop)
With the increasing concerns about the future of social security, retirement planning is more critical than ever. Unfortunately, it is also an area that does not receive enough attention. Regardless of career, age or marital status, now is the time to prepare for your retirement and start talking money with your honey (or with yourself). This interactive workshop will explore the five pillars to retirement planning and provide you with practical tools and strategies to help you:

• Determine how much money you need save for retirement
• How to invest that retirement savings - and how it should shift over time
• Identify if and when you need a financial advisor (and how to find one)
• Plan how much money you can actually spend a year when you get to retirement
• Prepare for retirement even if you are starting late in the process

Speaker: Manisha Thakor, author, “Get Financially Naked: How to Talk Money with Your Honey”

Family Healthcare CEO: Are You Ready to Lead the Charge (panel)
For a majority of American families, women are the key decision makers when it comes to family health care. According to the US Department of Labor, women are responsible for approximately 80% of all decisions on family health care and are likely to be the caregivers when someone in the family becomes ill. It is critical to stay current on ways to care for yourselves and your families. This interactive panel will feature medical and wellness experts to explore:
• How to have more informative conversations with your healthcare providers — doctors, pharmacists and insurers
• Fun, practical and easy tips for cooking healthy meals and having a fit family
• The dangers and risks within our personal care, cosmetics and household products — what to avoid and how to make safer selections
• Important resources around prescriptions and tips for health savings

Panelist:
Roba Whiteley, Executive Director, Together RX Access
Host: Shannon Bristow RN, MA, HRM, Cancer Treatment Centers of America

Transitioning from a Home Based or Small Business to a Scalable Enterprise (panel)
Are you considering starting a business? Do you already have a business that you would like to grow? Do you want to think big, launch to grow and find the support you will need? Attend this engaging panel and hear inspiring stories about women who launched successful businesses and entered the scaling process. Using real-life examples, attendees will walk away with statistics and research, best practices and resources for scaling and growing a business. Whether you currently have a home-based or small business and want to scale, or want to launch big from the start this session will help you achieve your goals.
Moderator: Terry Hazell, Entrepreneur in Residence, Texas State University and Springboard Enterprises

Young Women's Program

*The following session is designed specifically for junior and senior high school girls participating in our Young Women's Program

I’ll Take Sexting for 100
Facebook, texting, IM and email have become a way of life; make sure you have the information you need to help yourself and your friends stay safe! Come play jeopardy, win prizes and go home with a “change” purse as we discuss common situations encountered online and explore how to respond.
Speaker: Julie Evans, MSW, program director of education and training services, Pittsburgh Action Against Rape

SESSION 3 (2:45 pm – 3:45 pm)

Courting Boards: Strategies for Getting a Seat at the Table (panel)
New research has proven that women’s participation on boards has a direct impact on the success of a company’s bottom line. Over the last several years there has been increased presence of women on corporate and public boards. In December 2009 alone, 30 women were appointed seats across the country. In this engaging discussion, we will learn how these dynamic women obtained their board seats and also explore:

• Practical tips for how you can get a seat at the table and identify
what type of board seat is right for you
• How board participation can positively impact and propel your career
• Differences between public and private boards
• How to use board experience to run for public office

Panelist:
Mindy Posoff, founding partner, Traversent Capital Partners and vice president, Executive Committee of 100 Women in Hedge Funds

Strategies to Utilize Technology for Maximum Performance (workshop)
It is becoming increasingly more challenging to stay focused on work with the constant distraction of a ringing phone or an overflowing email box. In a world of wireless, Blackberries, laptops, cell phones and working remotely, technology can be both a blessing and a curse. This session will explore strategies and tips for using technology to increase rather than hinder performance. Attendees will learn practical tips and strategies to:

• Effectively manage the time spent on sending and responding to emails
• Identify a plan for using technology that works best with your way of life
• Set boundaries to focus better on the task at hand
• Manage your technology better so it doesn’t consume you in the office or at home

Speaker:
Emily Bennington, founding partner, Professional Studio 365 and author, "Effective Immediately: How to Fit In, Stand Out, and Move Up at Your First Real Job"

How to Take Care of Yourself While You’re Taking Care of Others (panel)
We are busier than ever taking care of our responsibilities (be it work, family, friends, home). All too often we let our own needs take the back seat. This discussion will explore:
• The impacts of not taking care of ourselves including Increased risks of heart disease, depression, certain cancer and other serious illnesses
• Resources available to help you find and provide care for others
• Strategies to find time for you and help you sleep better, eat healthier, exercise more and achieve a better balance

Panelists:
Sheila Lirio Marcelo, founder and CEO, Care.com
Vera Cornish, president, Cornish & Associates

Moderator: Jennifer Antkowiak, author, “Take Care Tips,” caregiving coach, entrepreneur and TV news anchor

Host: Karen Marchi, manager, Health and Wellness, Bayer Corporation

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