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March 16, 2011

Time:

9:00am - 5:00pm

Location:

PFIZER Corporate Conference Center

235 East 42nd Street - 219 Conference Room

NY

Managing Your Career: Skill Sets and Strategies to Make Your Career MOVE

Relationship and perception management take on critical importance for women who operate in the extreme, fast-moving, male-dominated world that characterizes STEM careers. Join us on March 16th when we return to Pfizer’s headquarters in New York City for our second annual Advancement of Women in STEM Leadership Summit to continue the conversation, share insights, and build skills that will increase visibility and opportunities for advancement. Our focus for the day will be Managing Your Career: Skill Sets and Strategies to Make Your Career MOVE. Keynotes, panel discussions, and skill-building workshops will empower women in STEM fields to better navigate gender bias, build influential relationships with mentors and sponsors, manage work life balance needs in demanding careers, and improve self-promotion techniques.

Attendees will learn strategies to overcome misperceptions, secure a solid support network, and to help position themselves as players in motion within their respective organizations. As always, this empowering day provides several opportunities to network, hear from women in STEM who have successfully forged careers and are willing to share their perspectives on the journey, and to develop and practice next level skills for advancement.

Also, learn a little more about our events by checking out the 2010 STEM Leadership Summit.

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/General Presentation - STEM 2011

Agenda

For the presentations from STEM, please click below. Please note that we do not have permission to post all slides.

STEM PowerPoint Part 1
STEM PowerPoint Part 2

8:00 – 9:00        Breakfast/Registration

9:00 – 9:15        Welcome Remarks
Carol Evans / President / Working Mother Media  Edward Gadsden / Chief Diversity Officer / Pfizer, Inc.  9:15 – 9:45        Opening Keynote: Navigate Bias and Emerge as a Force to be Reckoned With  Hear one woman’s journey of successful navigation through the challenges, misperceptions, and biases that characterize the world of STEM.   Janine A. Clayton, MD / Deputy Director, Office of Research on Women's Health / National Institutes of Health  9:45 – 11:00      Senior Executive Panel: Strategies to Set Your Career in Motion: Leverage Key Relationships and Opportunities for Growth  Top executives in STEM fields share insights and advice about what it takes for women to develop and leverage networks, relationships and opportunities that will set their career in motion. Find out what these women suggest to help build relationships with senior leaders, secure honest feedback and clear criteria for success, network in and outside your discipline, and make the most of lateral career moves and growth opportunities.

Moderator:
Carol Evans / President / Working Mother Media

Panel:
Valerie S. Kitchen, MD, FRCP / Vice President, Clinical Biomarkers / Bristol-Myers Squibb
Diane Miller / Director, Operations / Northrop Grumman Cybersecurity Group
Katherine Terlesky, Ph.D. / Vice President, Division Manager / SAIC
Nancy Williams / Vice President, Research and Innovation / L'Oreal USA Products, Inc.

11:00 – 11:15    Refreshment Break
11:15 – 12:30    Workshop 1: Build Influential, Value-Based Relationships with Mentors & Sponsors
Our morning workshop offers practical strategies and solutions for securing Mentors and Sponsors. These advocates play a critical role in helping women in STEM identify the roadmap for success within their organization, but limited role models and huge demands on time can make it difficult to identify and engage the right people. What does it take to build and nurture value-based relationships that can influence your visibility, provide necessary support when battling isolation or when struggling to clarify next steps, and help position you for growth opportunities within your organization.

Facilitator:
Dr. Daphne Mobley / DVM, CEO / Daphne Mobley, LLC

Thought Leader:
Joanne Kugler / Chief Information Officer / Power & Water GE Energy

12:30 – 1:30      Networking Luncheon
1:30 – 3:15        Workshop 2: Work Life Satisfaction for Women in STEM
The demanding, 24/7 nature of the STEM world is a unique culture for single women and women with families. The Association for Women in Science (AWIS) along with Executive Thought Leaders will examine how choices impact work-life balance and will identify changes that have the biggest impact on personal/professional satisfaction. AWIS will discuss research on work/life satisfaction and will help participants identify seven keys to achieving and maintaining work/life satisfaction. Attendees will have the opportunity to develop an action plan they can immediately put into practice.

Facilitator:
Cynthia Simpson, M. Ed, CAE / Director, Programs and External Relations / Association for Women in Science (AWIS)

Thought Leader:
Alice Marcy / Scientific Operations Officer / Dynamis Therapeutics
Ami Spivey / Vice President, Operations Innovations / Sam's Club

3:15 – 3:45        Call-To Action Keynote: Command the Attention You Deserve
How can women in STEM fields most effectively prepare for the appropriate messaging that a person seeking advancement does? Learn to exercise self-promotion skills and achieve new levels of comfort with helping your own light to shine. Identify strategies and insights to quietly and effectively ensure that the people who need to know about you, do know who you are and what you can do.  Ana Pinczuk / Vice President, Technical Support / Cisco

3:45 – 4:15        Open Forum

4:15 - 4:30         Closing Remarks