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Thursday and Friday 7:15 – 8:15 am
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Speaker Appreciation Breakfasts
Round-Table Discussion: Senior Technical Women,
Your Profile of Success
(Prior RSVP Required)
What factors are critical to advancing or sustaining your career in academia or in industry? Is it your ability to identify the
appropriate next risks to take? Creating collaborative networks that go beyond your formal span of control?
The latest research report from the Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology, titled Senior Technical Women: A Profile
of Success, revealed the top attributes of successful technical women who have broken down the barriers to reach senior level
positions.
In this breakfast round-table discussion, facilitated by Jo Miller, CEO of Women’s Leadership Coaching Inc, we will examine
four of the top attributes:
1) Unafraid to Question/Desire to Learn
2) Risk-Takers
3) Collaborative
4) Assertive
Join a conversation with your senior-level peers and unearth new tips and tricks within these critical characteristics for your success.
FACILITATOR
Jo Miller is CEO of Women’s Leadership Coaching Inc.
Jo has a passion for helping women develop their leadership skills, confidence and presence. She specializes in helping women break into
leadership in industries that have been traditionally considered ‘a man’s world’, such as technology, finance and energy.
Since 1998 Jo has developed and implemented coaching programs that have benefited women worldwide. Jo created the Women’s Leadership
Coaching Inc leadership coaching system and has logged many thousands of hours coaching women who are in executive and management
positions, or aspire to be.
She has traveled widely in Europe and North America to facilitate leadership development programs for women’s initiatives in Fortune 1,000
companies, including KPMG’s Network of Women, Oracle Women in Leadership, Nortel Women’s Business Council, National Semiconductor’s
Women @ National, UBS Women’s Leadership Conference, and many more. Jo was named one of Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal’s 40 people to
watch under the age of 40 in 2006 and one of Silicon Valley’s Women of Influence in 2008.
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