The Women In Business Community will host its eighth-annual Leadership Forum September 23, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Cocoanut Grove.

This year features:

Nancy Austin:Leadership Untamed
A leader's work used to be a buttoned-down, stoic, neatly enclosed discipline. But these weird times demand much, much more: boldness, action, inventiveness, passion--and above all, true distinction, quality, and elegance. Leadership untamed is different, dramatic, and doable. It is nothing less than the revival of excellence. 

Portfolio Careers Panel
The new workplace is no longer a place. Workers are their own enterprise, creating or joining project-specific work groups that collaborate on contracts, the delivery of services, or, even, the development of new products. Often these “portfolioists” are engaged with several work groups simultaneously. Sometimes they play significantly different roles from one working group to the next, using several different areas of personal expertise. 

Working Session: Collaboration
A hallmark of the Leadership Forum is the interconnection of business women in the Santa Cruz Community. The Forum will again provide a working session that structures a networking conversation for participants – this year around the issues of collaboration. 

Joie Seldon: Creating Connection in Disconnected Times: How to Use Emotions as a Tool for Success
The uncertain times we live in are a result of a paradigm shift. Women in business have the opportunity to create a future where success is more than “getting ahead” and how much money we make. The world is hungry for what women have to offer, and it is time for women to rediscover the worth of their innate ability to connect and bring that into the world of business. 

Mei Lin Fung: Social Entrepreneurship: Business for the Public Good
Social Entrepreneurship focuses the skills and dedication of entrepreneurs on the tasks of improving the public good. Social entrepreneurs are found both within existing businesses and as the organizers and developers of enterprises dedicated to improving education, the environment, social conditions, culture, and a broad range of other community, national and international opportunities

Registration is $89 for Chamber members and $99 for non-members. Lunch is included.

Speakers Bios:

Nancy Austin, co-author with Tom Peters of A Passion for Excellence, The Leadership Difference and her pioneering work, The Assertive Woman, authored with Stanlee Phelps, currently in its fourth printing and translated into twelve different languages.

Her work and writing has changed the way business does business. A leading authority and well-known speaker on excellence, leadership, and business, Nancy has addressed business, education, health care, and military leaders in countries on six continents.

Nancy co-wrote, with Tom (In Search of Excellence) Peters, A Passion for Excellence: The Leadership Difference (Random House, hard cover; Warner Books, soft cover). An instant classic, the book rocketed to No. 1 (selling 500,000 copies in its first six months), and remains a favorite among businesspeople
 

Joie Seldon breaks new ground with her innovative approach to teaching Emotional Intelligence. She delivers lively, compelling, information-packed presentations, imparting practical, real-world knowledge about emotions. Thirty years of experience as a professional actor and acting teacher allows her to be truly present and spontaneous with her audience. She strikes the perfect balance between the seriousness of the subject and a light-hearted approach. Joie also holds a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology and has a private practice in the Bay Area, in addition to teaching and lecturing on Emotional Intelligence, Emotion Education™.

Mei Lin Fung, chair of the Institute for Service Organization Excellence, a growing network of communities dedicated to health and healing. A Silicon Valley prodigy with roles at Intel and Oracle, Mei Lin has work with some of technologies' luminaries including Douglas Engelbart (a visionary of collaborative computing, collective IQ and the inventor of the computer mouse) and Thomas Seibel (Seibel Systems).



 

See more details in the Good Times out September 16.

 
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Santa Cruz Core + Fitness       Beach Boardwalk        Boardwalk Bowl  

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