Professional Development Conferences and Educational Series

WLI Events and Programs

Song of the Soul
Stories of Hospice in South Africa
Co-Sponsor
“A movie that inspires hope and love”
November 4, 2009
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Wilder Auditorium
Adamian Academic Center
Bentley University Campus

On behalf of Bentley’s office of Markteting, Communication, and Public Affairs, the Women's Leadership Institute, and the Valente Center for the Arts and Sciences, you are cordially invited to attend.

This film is about end-of-life being integrated into life, about care, about hope.
The director ‘Janet Parrott’ and executive producer ’Catherine Cahpin Kobacker’ will be in attendance to discuss it.

Organized by Sandra King and Marianne DelPo Kulow.
Registration not required--all are welcome!


Research Roundtable
November 18, 2009
Noon to 2:00 p.m.
LaCava 305A/B
Bentley University Campus

Please join us for an engaging discussion with distinguished faculty who will speak about their gender-related research:

Professor Susan Dobscha (Marketing)
Motherhood, Marketization and Consumer Vulnerability

Professor Jim Hunton (Accountancy)
The Impact of Client Gender and Auditor Gender on Auditors’ Judgments

Professor Jane Tchaicha (Modern Languages)
Making Information and Communication Technologies Work for
Women in Morocco

Registration not required — all are welcome!


More Opportunities for Mothers
Helping Women Professionally Refocus, Reinvent, Reconnect
March 3, 17, 31 and April 14, 2010
10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.  
Bentley University Campus

We understand that the decision to return to paid work can feel pretty daunting, but it does not have to be! We can help make this time of transition a rewarding, exciting, and energizing process. If you have been on career break and are weighing your professional options, M.O.M. is the perfect program for you! This unique workshop series is custom designed to assist women making decisions about the next phase of their work and life.

Attendees participate in four workshops:

  • Exercises designed to help you develop the parameters of your
    “ideal job”
  • Access to leaders in the field of career re-entry
  • An intensive brainstorming session with distinguished faculty and members of the business community to target positions and organizations that meet your parameters
  • A support group that will assist you in achieving your short- and long-term goals



    Author Carol Fishman Cohen, iRelaunch,
    to present keynote to MOM participants.

     

 

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Redefining Success: A Workshop for Executive Women
February 25, 2010
Noon to 7:00 p.m.    
Bentley University Campus                   Cost:  $300

Join an exceptional group of senior executive women in a confidential setting to explore ways to ensure that your future reflects your own definition of success. This program has been designed for women who:

  • Have reached senior executive positions
  • Seek to enrich their work and life pursuits
  • Want to make a difference at work and beyond
  • Would like to craft a more intentional approach to their future

    You will share the afternoon in the company of a group of accomplished women and take part in a series of interactive exercises to help you ascertain where you are now and where you would like to be and what action plan is needed to get from here to there.  The day includes input from a panel of women who have confronted these issues and found ways to enhance their professional and personal effectiveness and satisfaction and finishes with a cocktail reception for continuing connection.  

    For more information and to register, contact Dee Speros (dsperos@bentley.edu) or at 781.891.2789