Women's Leadership Institute

Past Events

Gearing Up
Fourth Annual Career Advancement Conference for Professional Women
Gearing Up: Strategic Tools for Career Advancement
May 8, 2009
Bentley University’s fourth annual one-day professional development conference addressed the needs of professional women in the early stages of their career.  Keynote Speaker: Suzanne Bates, executive coach; author; speaker; entrepreneur; former award-winning television news anchor; and president and CEO of Bates Communications.

Tufts Health Plan Speaker Series
Featuring Cathy Minehan
March 30, 2009
Ms. Minehan addressed a group of 250 students, faculty, administration and corporate executives. Drawing on insights from her career with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, she discussed the challenges of the current economic and fiscal crisis and ways in which business and government might respond in the weeks and months ahead.

View from the Top
March 26, 2009
Sponsored by the Graduate Women's Leadership Organization, alumnae gathered to hear the insights and wisdom of four high-level female professionals. 

Detours and OnRamps
March 25, 2009
WLI Co-Sponsor

Guest Scholar Claudia Peus  
March 4, 2009
Bentley University
Peus, Assistant Professor of Psychology/Executive Director of the LMU Center for Leadership and People Management, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.

Redefining Success:
Executive Women Exploring New Directions

  

February 26, 2009
Group of accomplished women exploring ways to insure that their future, both professional and personal, reflects their own definition of success. Facilitated by career coach Ginny O’Brien, author of Success on Our Own Terms, this workshop offerred interactive exercises and steps to fit their vision and needs. 

 MOM: More Opportunities for Mothers 2008/2009
Seminar Series Featuring:

  • Comprehensive exercises designed to help women develop the parameters of their “ideal” job
  • Access to leaders in the field of career re-entry
  • An intensive brainstorming session with distinguished faculty and members.