TechLeaders: Past Workshops
TechLeaders: “Realizing Your Vision for Women of Color”
Date: September 10 -11,2008
Location: Google - Mountain View, CA
View: archived workshop page
Hosted by Google
The goal of the workshop are to provide skills to help increase participants’ scope and influence while defining and building their technical vision, as well as the opportunity to network and deepen their relationships with other women of color in the technical community.
Senior TechLeaders: “Leadership, the Final Frontier”
Date: June 30, 2008 - July 1, 2008
Location: Georiga Institute of Technology -Atlanta, GA
View: archived workshop page
Hosted by: Georgia Tech
The goals of this two-day workshop for senior level women were to expand participants network of senior technical women colleagues across industry, academia, and government, and to increase participants collective impact as a group of powerful women better connected with each other. This workshop increased participants awareness and capacity of their leadership strengths, challenges and create a vision for their career.
Techleaders: “Power and Influence”
Date: May 21 - 22, 2008
Location: Amazon - Seattle, WA
View: archived workshop page
Hosted by Amazon
This two-day workshop featuring Jo Miller, CEO of Women’s Leadership Coaching, will focus on extending your power and influence as a technical woman through increased organizational awareness, negotiation techniques, strategies to increase your visibility, and influence techniques to increase buy in for your ideas.
TechLeaders: “Power and Influence”
Date: February 27 - 28, 2008
Location: Google - Mountain View
View: archived workshop page
Hosted by Google
This two-day workshop featuring Jo Miller, CEO of Women’s Leadership Coaching, will focus on extending your power and influence as a technical woman through increased organizational awareness, negotiation techniques, strategies to increase your visibility, and influence techniques to increase buy in for your ideas.
Senior TechLeaders: “Leading Across Cultures”
Date: December 11 - 12, 2007
Location: Cisco - San Jose, CA
View: archived workshop page, workshop notes
Hosted by Cisco
The goals of this two-day workshop for senior level women were to expand:
- Network of senior women colleagues.
- Effectiveness at working across cultures whether those boundaries are across geographies, hierarchies, or organizations.
- Awareness and capacity of leadership strengths, challenges, and career.
- Collective impact as a group of powerful women better connected with each other.
TechLeaders: “Realizing Your Vision”
Date: December 4 - 5, 2007
Location: Google - New York, New York
View: archived workshop page, workshop notes
Hosted by Google, Manhattan
This two-day workshop provided skills to help increase your scope and influence while defining and building your technical vision, as well as the opportunity to network and deepen your relationships with other women in the technical community.
TechLeaders For Social Innovators
Date: October 17, 2007
Location: Hilton - Walt Disney World Resort -Lake Buena Vista, FL
View: archived workshop page
Open to women technologists at all levels, this one day workshop was be held in conjunction with the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference. It showcased, discussed, and inspired participants on the potential for the positive influence of technology around the world. 80 technologists attended the workshop and the response was overwhelmingly positive.
TechLeaders: “Strategic Persuasion and Change Leadership”
Date: June 13-14 , 2007
Location: Microsoft - Mountain View, CA
View: archived workshop page, workshop notes
This workshop is designed to provide technical women with skills to succeed in accomplishing their goals in negotiations and meetings as well with the capacity to use these skills to effect organizational change.
Senior TechLeaders: “Expanding Your Horizons - Government”
Date: March 19 - 20, 2007
Location: Arlie House - Warrenton, Virginia
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An interactive workshop that established connections with a large number of powerful women across all sectors of government.
TechLeaders: “Realizing Your Vision”
Date: February 6-7, 2007
Location: Intel - Hillsboro, Oregon
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This workshop offered a unique set of speakers, opportunities to deepen relationships with other technical women in the Pacific Northwest and new skills to help increase the attendee’s scope and influence while defining and building their technical vision. Women who attended this workshop were technical contributors and managers with 10+ years of experience or equivalent in the industry.
Senior TechLeaders: “Building and Sustaining Change in Technology Cultures”
Date: October 4, 2006
Location: San Diego, California in conjunction with the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
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This one-day workshop focused on building and sustaining change. It showcased the work of four women in organizations in making positive impact for technical women and provided an opportunity for participants to explore and share insights and opportunities for impacting their own organizations.
Senior TechLeaders: “Managing Change”
Date: May 15-16, 2006
Location: IBM, Yorktown Heights, New York
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This workshop focused on building critical skills for success in leadership roles and provides a venue where women leaders can meet to share ideas, tactics, and strategies while learning together. Participants were given an opportunity to expand and deepen relationships with other senior women in the technical community and work on elements of innovation enablers and organizational change.
TechLeaders: “Realizing Your Vision”
Date: March 22 - 23, 2006
Location: Google - Mountain View, CA
View: archived web page, workshop notes
This sold out inaugural workshop offered a unique set of speakers, opportunities to deepen relationships with other women in the Bay Area’s technical community and skills to help increase the attendee’s scope and influence while defining and building their technical vision to w omen who are technical contributors, and managers, with 10+ years of experience or equivalent in the industry.
Senior TechLeaders: “Women’s Leadership”
Date: November 3-4, 2005
Location: Microsoft - Redmond, Washington
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This workshop brought together powerful women exercising major influence on the technology community from industry, government and academia. The focus of this workshop was on understanding women and leadership. Each participant looked at her own personal leadership and to determine how to make it even more effective. Participants left with greater self-awareness, new ideas, and information on steps they could take to advance their leadership performance to the next level.
Senior TechLeaders: “Women’s Leadership”
Date: May 9-10, 2005
Location: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study - Cambridge, Massachuttes
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In partnership with the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics the 2005 East Coast Senior Women Leadership Workshop brought together powerful women exercising major influence on the technology community in areas such as computer and computational science and applied mathematics from industry, government and academia. The workshop focused on building critical skills for success in leadership roles and provided a venue where women leaders could meet to share ideas, tactics, strategies and learn together. Moreover, it provided an opportunity to expand and deepen relationships with other senior women in the technical community.
Senior TechLeaders: “Grace Hopper Leadership Summit”
Date: October, 2004
Location: Chicago, Illinois
View: archived web page, workshop notes
A Senior Women Leadership Summit was held the day before the Grace Hopper Celebration. Facilitated by Linda Alepin, CEO of the leadership consulting firm Center for New Futures, women created individual visions, worked on steps to fulfill their visions, and networked with each other. There were 83 attendees, 46% from industry and 36% from academia.
TechLeaders: “Leadership Initiative Pilot Program”
Date: January 2004
Location: Los Angeles, California
Level: Senior
View: Notes
In January of 2004 The Anita Borg Institute and IPAM (Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA) collaborated on a pilot leadership workshop for women holding senior positions in academia, industry, and government. Participants received validation, ideas, experiences and strategies, perspective, suggestions, inspiration, and reassurance. In addition, experts in areas important to attendees provided guidance about important leadership skills.
There were 48 attendees, 67% from academia and 21% from industry. Results from the breakout sessions which include challenges and best practices are posted and an article was written by the facilitator, Susan Owicki, in the Spiral Online Newsletter. The overwhelming response was extraordinarily positive.