WLiT Q2 2021
Women Leading in Technology (WLiT):A Conversation with Julie Sweet, CEO, Accenture
Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Time: 4:45 to 5:45 p.m. CDT
Location: Virtual
Cost: Free (Please register below)
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Speaker: Julie Sweet, CEO of Accenture
Event Summary
Join us for a conversation with Julie Sweet, CEO of Accenture and No. 1 on FORTUNE’s 2020 list of “Most Powerful Women in Business” as she talks about leadership, her career journey, technology trends and why inclusion, diversity and equality for all is essential for innovation. WLiT Board Chair & VP Digital with UnitedHealth Group, Jean Machart, will guide the conversation. We hope you’ll join us!
Julie Sweet is Chief Executive Officer of Accenture. Prior to becoming CEO in September 2019, Julie served as chief executive officer of Accenture’s business in North America. Before that, she was Accenture’s general counsel, secretary and chief compliance officer.
Julie serves on the World Economic Forum Board of Trustees and the board of the Business Roundtable for which she chairs the Technology Committee. Additionally, Julie is board chair of Catalyst and serves on the boards for the Center for Strategic & International Studies and the Marriott Foundation for People with Disabilities – Bridges from School to Work. Julie joined Accenture in 2010. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Claremont McKenna College and a Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School.
SUPPORT THE MISSION OF WLiT: Donate to the WLiT Scholarship Fund
WLiT seeks to promote, educate, and empower women in technology across Minnesota. We believe in “reaching back” to support our future technology leaders and practitioners. With the help of the Minnesota Technology Foundation, WLiT awards scholarships to underrepresented individuals who aspire to a career in STEM. Funds raised in 2021 will create scholarship awards to off-set the cost of tuition for deserving individuals at The Software Guild, a local technology bootcamp.
In lieu of a registration fee for this event, WLiT gratefully accepts your donations. While we ask that you consider a donation of $20, donations in any amount are much appreciated. Donate thru the Minnesota Technology Foundation’s GiveMN site here. The donation process is separate from event registration. If your company has a matching program, please send the match to the Minnesota Technology Foundation so it can be added to the scholarship fund.
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WLiT Q1 2021
Women Leading in Technology (WLiT): Find Your Fierce and AIM for Success
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Time: 4:45 to 5:50 p.m.
Location: Virtual
Cost: Free (Please register below. )
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Speaker: Teresa Sande, CEO, Mirror Mirror Strategies
Event Summary
Please join us Tuesday, February 16th, for our first Women Leading in Technology event of the New Year. We are thrilled and honored to kick off our 2021 season with a special welcome from Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook and founder of LeanIn.Org! Ms. Sandberg is passionate about helping women achieve their ambitions and creating a more equal world. She has frequently spoken about imposter syndrome and its impact on women and their careers. As such, we are pleased to announce our formal program that will follow Ms. Sandberg’s welcome, featuring Teresa Sande, CEO of Mirror Mirror Strategies, who will join us for a facilitated conversation about imposter syndrome in the session titled,
Find Your Fierce and AIM for Success
Have you ever felt like it was just a matter of time before someone figured out you weren’t as amazing as they thought? From the outside no one would know it, but inside you’re secretly wondering if you belong or if there’s a shoe about to drop and you will fail. If this sounds at all familiar, you’ve experienced imposter syndrome.
While the term “imposter syndrome” might evoke images of someone with low self-confidence or someone who’s a fake, the reality is imposter syndrome strikes some of the most confident and competent people, often at a point of high achievement. In fact, over 70% of people have acknowledged experiencing imposter syndrome, though the price being paid is much steeper for women and people of color. Sneaky and subtle, you might not even know it’s happening until you’re so far down the rabbit hole, it’s hard to claw your way back up – but don’t let it rob you of your success. Overcoming imposter syndrome is about more than just self-confidence; it requires understanding and changing the fundamental flaws built into the systems of which we are all a part. In this illuminating session, you’ll learn:
- What imposter syndrome is, where it comes from, and how it shows up;
- Tools and techniques to recognize and combat imposter syndrome to ensure your success as you continue to grow your career;
- The role unconscious bias plays throughout organizations that feeds imposter syndrome, particularly for women and people of color;
- Ways to influence the systems of which we are all a part, to shift the culture and minimize the impacts of imposter syndrome on leaders in the pipeline.
If you’d like to familiarize yourself with the topic in advance of our 2/16 event, go to www.teresasande.com/find-your-fierce to purchase a copy of Find Your Fierce. Currently available at a discounted pre-sale price, WLiT attendees will receive an additional discount using the following discount code: WLIT.
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Teresa Sande is passionate about equity in the workplace, healthy corporate cultures, and ensuring people are valued and rewarded for their contributions. Teresa holds her master’s degree in Organizational Effectiveness & Communication and has 20+ years’ corporate experience as an executive with Intel, Capital One, Cargill, and UnitedHealth Group. She has dedicated her career to creating effective Talent Strategies that enable business results including leadership development, executive coaching, succession planning, and inclusion and diversity.
In addition to being an accomplished HR executive, she is a consultant, coach, author, speaker, and imposter syndrome expert. Having battled imposter syndrome herself, Teresa knows firsthand how these feelings—particularly for women and people of color—are rooted in and fed by flaws that exist in organizational systems. If they go unchecked, there is a hefty price to pay for all involved.
Decades of corporate experience, countless hours of coaching top talent, and nearly 100 interviews with high achieving executives have culminated in the creation of her debut book, Find Your Fierce: Interrupt Imposter Syndrome and Own Your Success. Leveraging her proprietary frAIMworkTM readers gain fresh perspectives and easy to apply techniques to conquer imposter syndrome.
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SUPPORT THE MISSION OF WLiT: Donate to the WLiT Scholarship Fund
WLiT seeks to promote, educate, and empower women in technology across Minnesota. We believe in “reaching back” to support our future technology leaders and practitioners. With the help of the Minnesota Technology Foundation, WLiT awards scholarships to underrepresented individuals who aspire to a career in STEM. Funds raised in 2021 will create scholarship awards to off-set the cost of tuition for deserving individuals at The Software Guild, a local technology bootcamp.
In lieu of a registration fee for this event, WLiT gratefully accepts your donations. While we ask that you consider a donation of $20, donations in any amount are much appreciated. Donate thru the Minnesota Technology Foundation’s GiveMN site here. The donation process is separate from event registration.
If your company has a matching program, please send the match to the Minnesota Technology Foundation so it can be added to the scholarship fund.
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WLiT: Utilizing Storytelling
Patrick Finnegan
Certified Dale Carnegie Trainer and Senior Market Director for Dale Carnegie’s Healthcare & IT Sectors
WLiT: Utilizing Storytelling to Engage, Motivate & Influence
Join us Tuesday, October 20th, for our final WLiT event of 2020, Utilizing Storytelling to Engage, Motivate and Influence, adapted to our current, virtual world!
Dale Carnegie wrote the book on public speaking, with techniques that turned nervous beginners into confident professionals who communicate with assuredness. Whether you’re persuading colleagues, influencing a client, energizing a team, or recommending an idea to senior leaders, an effective presentation can be the difference between your success and failure. This session will focus on the basic components of creating the story, so our message has the intended impact on the audience. By putting ourselves in the listener’s situation and providing relevant evidence, we can appeal to the interests of the audience and ultimately deliver a compelling and persuasive presentation. In this session, you’ll learn the following:
- Understand elements of storytelling in a virtual environment to inspire, motivate and influence an audience
- Consider motivations of an audience and examine a variety of methods and tools to strengthen your message
- Increase trust and credibility while presenting in a virtual environment
WLiT and Dale Carnegie will team up to give away one scholarship for a four-session virtual training, Dale Carnegie High Impact Presentations Program, which will be delivered in November 2020 and February 2021. You must be present during the program to win.
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Patrick Finnegan is a Certified Dale Carnegie Trainer and Senior Market Director for Dale Carnegie’s healthcare and IT sectors. In his role, Patrick provides training, consulting, executive coaching, in presentations, sales, leadership, business partnering and customer service. Some of the clients Patrick and his team support include Boston Scientific, Stratasys, General Mills, United Lex, Thomson Reuters and Optum.
One of Patrick’s recent career highlights was interviewing 3X Olympic Gold Medalist Shaun White this past February. Patrick has 20 years of experience in the healthcare and IT industries; prior to joining Dale Carnegie, he worked for Wyeth Laboratories and GE Healthcare.
In his free time, Patrick enjoys spending time with his wife, Cathy, and his daughter and son. They live in Bloomington, MN.
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About Dale Carnegie
Dale Carnegie Minnesota
Video: Take Command
Founded in 1912, Dale Carnegie was inspired by one person’s belief in the power of self-improvement. Since then, it’s evolved into a movement that’s crossed borders and generations, showing people how to tap into the best parts of themselves to create positive change. Dale Carnegie’s original body of knowledge has been constantly updated, expanded and refined through nearly a century’s worth of real-life business experiences. Their programs, available in over 30 languages, show people all over the world how to communicate in a way that draws others in, so they can form closer, more rewarding relationships.
Whether you’re starting out or stepping up, learning to lead or heading up a team, Dale Carnegie sharpens your inner voice so you can use it with confidence to get the most out of your life and your work. Dale Carnegie helps people gain greater influence and make meaningful contributions in the places that matter most.
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- Date: October 20, 2020
- Time: 4:45 pm – 5:45 pm
- Cost: Free (Please register below)
- Event Category: WLiT
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WLiT: Let’s Redefine a Victory
Sonya Roberts
President, Cargill Salt
WLiT: Let’s Redefine a Victory
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Please join us at 4:45pm Tuesday, 9/29, for an important and timely conversation with Sonya Roberts, President of Cargill Salt
Facilitated by WLiT’s own Robin Brown, Sonya will guide us through her personal and 30+ year career journey. She will talk about leadership awareness and what that means to employees during unprecedented times like these. She will talk about the change she’s seeing in corporate dynamics focused on diversity & inclusion and social justice. Lastly, she will talk about the lessons we are learning during this pandemic as we redefine what a victory can look like. This moderated exchange will also include time for Q&A from our WLiT community.
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- Date: September 29
- Time: 4:45 pm – 5:45 pm
- Cost: Free (Please register below)
- Event Category: WLiT
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