Women’s Leadership & Empowerment Summit: Rise to the Challenge
Wednesday, June 3, 2015 8:30 AM - 6:30 PM
Manhattanville College - Reid Castle
2900 Purchase Street, Purchase, NY 10577 USA
The Women’s Leadership Institute at The Manhattanville School of Business will host its first annual Women’s Conference on Wednesday, June 3 from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Reid Castle, featuring emcee Juana Hart and keynote speakers Dr. Patricia Galloway, Vicki Escarra, and Evelyne R. Matthews. The full-day summit will include four interactive workshops (attendees choose two), a continental breakfast and lunch, and a networking session from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Cost: Early Bird - $295/person (through May 22); Regular - $395/person; Corporate - $885 (register 3 attendees with the 4th free); Special - $150/person (Manhattanville faculty, staff and alumni; or nonprofit organizations). Space is limited and advance registration is required: https://community.mville.edu/msb. For more information, contact Kathy Meany at Kathryn.meany@Mville.edu or call 914-323-5150.
Keynote Speakers: Conference Topic: Unlocking Your Leadership Potential: 4C’s to Success
Leaders are not born, but rather become leaders through identifying, developing and employing leadership skills. Dr. Galloway will discuss how individuals can empower themselves to either become leaders or better leaders by using her 4 C's to success. She will discuss the attributes of great leaders and what skill sets, as part of her 4 C's are necessary to be a great leader.
Dr. Galloway is an internationally recognized leader in the engineering and construction arena. She is regularly consulted by private and public organizations and government entities on trends in the industry, the media regarding current topics and events, universities seeking input on university curricula, engineering education, research and diversity issues, and professional societies. Her achievements have been highlighted on Sky News Australia TV, Time magazine, CNN Lou Dobbs, Discovery Channel, and Engineering News Record. She is continually sought as a keynote speaker for conventions, corporate executive leadership training, and university lecture series on leadership, women in engineering, risk management, and dispute resolution. Dr. Galloway is passionate about diversity and women in engineering and construction, volunteering her time to serve as a role model, mentor, and
speaker to encourage middle and high school kids, especially girls, to seek STEM related careers. Because of her passion to improve the image of engineering and her respect in the engineering community, she was asked in November 2014 to deliver a Ted Talk on “Are Engineers Human”.
Vicki Escarra
Conference Topic: Stories from the Road to Success
In her keynote presentation, Vicki will share her journey from growing up in rural Georgia to the corporate boardrooms of New York City to running a leg of the torch relay in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and now, to the farm fields of Rwanda and streets of Mumbai. She will highlight leadership lessons she's learned along the way to help professionals at all levels of their career navigate not only the business world, but the world in general.
As Global CEO of Opportunity International, Vicki Escarra sets strategic priorities and facilitates relationships with individual, corporate, and foundation partners around the world. She also leads a network of 17,500 employees and 30,000 donors that are helping 5 million clients in 22 countries work their way out of poverty, transform their lives, and strengthen their families and communities.
In a highly successful career spanning more than three decades, Vicki Escarra has been an advocate and trailblazer for women in business. She began her career as a flight attendant at Delta Air Lines and rose to become Chief Marketing Officer. As one of the highest ranking women in the aviation
industry, she oversaw $15 billion in revenue and led a workforce of 52,000. Vicki then spent six years as CEO of Feeding America, America's largest domestic hunger relief organization, where she quadrupled revenue and doubled the number of people helped. Today, Vicki is Global CEO of Opportunity International, the international, nonprofit, financial services organization that is helping 12 million people in 22 countries work their way out of poverty, transform their lives and strengthen their families and communities.
Evelyne R. Matthews
Conference Topic: Leadership Uncorked: Sheroes Unpacking Their Luggage and Baggage
Cutting edge strategic leadership requires a consistent sojourn of self-reflection. Embracing emotional intelligence, engaging in an individual SWOT analysis and immersing oneself in a mapping exercise are all example of such a journey. This specific presentation will discuss how leaders must unpack excessive baggage and luggage that come to us in the form of items and people. The result is a competitive disadvantage in terms of being “over the limit” when we seek passage from one interaction or assignment to the next. Avoiding becoming emotional hijacked and developing a playbook for managing stress are a few examples of strategies that will be presented.
Evelyne R. Matthews is the CEO of Matthews and Matthews Consulting, dba diversityofficers.com, a human resources and labor workforce company. Her instruction and consulting expertise is distinctive, and includes the topics of Diversity and Inclusion, Human Capital Management, Conflict Resolution, Harassment, Work/Life Balance, Team Building, Leadership, Executive and Life Coaching, and more. Evelyne offers extensive experience in both private and public sectors, and is a motivational speaker to various organizations throughout the U.S. She is a Certified Master Hypnotist, Quantum Touch Certified, a Reiki Master, a Spiritualist and a Priestess. She has served as a mediator or arbitrator for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the U.S. Postal Service
Redress Program, and the New York Stock Exchange. She currently lectures at Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and NYU. Evelyne , a part time actress, enjoys utilizing dramatic and theatrical expression as part of her training and teaching. Previously, she was a featured actor in an independent film that won Best Drama at the N.Y./L.A. Film Festival.
Emcee: Juana Hart
Juana Hart is a former television news anchor, reporter, and business communication consultant. As owner of J-Hart Communications, she specializes in helping small businesses and nonprofit organizations get the visibility, credibility, and buy-in they need to increase revenues. Juana provides consulting, coaching, and workshops in marketing, media relations, presentation skills, and communicating change. Her public speaking engagements take her throughout the U.S. and Canada.