GW Hosts 2004 Women’s Leadership Conference March 26

March 16, 2004

Eleanor Clift, Newsweek contributing editor, political commentator and author of “Founding Sisters and the Nineteenth Amendment” will present the keynote address for GW’s 2004 Women’s Leadership Conference, “A Lifetime of Learning,” March 26 at GW’s Mount Vernon Campus.

The 2004 conference will address women’s issues, such as effective communication and listening skills, negotiating your worth, living the life you want, and gaining personal and career opportunities from professional, nonprofit, and social organizations.

Featured workshops:
• “It’s All About Me,” focuses on the professional development of single women without children.

• “Learning Ourselves,” physical and mental healthcare professionals
will discuss ways the body communicates its wants and needs.

• “Effective Communication & Listening for Successful Leaders,” examines various communication techniques and key listening techniques. Through individual assessment and group exercises, participants will learn how to communicate and listen more effectively, thus expanding new opportunities for self-development and professional success.

• “Doing It Now or Doing It Later,” presents the pros and cons of remaining in school and obtaining a graduate degree versus starting a career versus starting a family.

• “Talent Alone Won’t Get You There, Opportunity Will,” looks at how professional associations, nonprofit organizations, sororities and others can help gain personal and career opportunities.

• “You Have Not Because You Ask Not,” discusses how to negotiate ones worth and how to be the negotiator.

• “Just Doing It,” features a professional life coach offering strategies to being the very best you.

• “Being In Total Control of Herself Panel,” panelists Susan Phillips, dean, GW School of Business; Cynthia “Cissy” Baker (MVC ’78) honorary co-chair of the conference; Facilitator Victoria Sardi-Brown, and others will lead a frank discussion about their experiences of navigating the political waters of the corporate world, political arena, and academia, while breaking into the “old boy network.”

For more information, contact Shannon R. Mouton, director of alumni education programs, at 994-3990 or via E-mail at smouton@gwu.edu.

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