The Women’s Leadership Symposium and Celebration

includes free luncheon, keynote speaker Mary Pierce Brosmer,

Women’s Leadership and Male Ally Awards Ceremony, and Breakout Workshops (schedule below).

Luncheon begins at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, March 28, 2008 in the Shriver Multipurpose Room.

Registration in advance is required.  Attend all or as much of the day as you can!

The mission of the Women’s Leadership Symposium and Celebration is to celebrate both the relational and individual strength of women.  This event invites all members of the Miami community, including students, staff, and faculty, to celebrate female empowerment.  Through finding connection with others, this endeavor facilitates appreciation for the historical and contemporary struggle of women.  The Women’s Leadership Celebration gathers to remember the journey of women, commemorate notable women from our past, honor today’s heroines, and inspire hope for tomorrow’s leaders. 

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Breakout Session I > 9:45 am - 10:45 am

Meditation and Guided Visualization with Dr. Pam Wilkins: This session will offer an opportunity to step back from the pressures of leadership roles to enrich your sense of personal balance, harmony and wellness. Participants will learn and experience a range of visualization/relaxation techniques to decrease stress, increase self-empowerment, and balance energy while improving focus. Energizing, refreshing, and relaxing peace-enhancing journeys will all be included!

Money Management Principles for Women Leaders (Fac/Staff) with Glynnis Reinhart, AXA Advisors, LLC: Do you believe that the quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket? This finance session will help to provide a foundation for understanding important money management principles. This dry subject will be anything but as we explore in an easy to understand, humorous way the basic investing principles that could help you double your money! (This session will be specifically geared toward faculty and staff. A similar session will be offered later in the afternoon geared toward students. HOWEVER, students and faculty/staff are welcome to attend either session, as your schedule permits.)

Celebration Luncheon, including keynote and Women's Leadership & Male Ally Awards Ceremony > 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Breakout Session II > 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm

We're Running Out of Time: An Urgent Call for Conscious Feminine Leadership in a Time of Planetary Crisis, with keynote speaker Mary Pierce Brosmer, Women Writing for (a) Change: In her keynote address, and this workshop session to follow, Mary Pierce Brosmer will create a container for attendees to experience Conscious Feminine Leadership. Participants will explore how its practices and values can transform re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic leadership, to life-giving and life-sustaining leadership. **PLEASE NOTE: This workshop will run from 1:15-2:45 pm.**

Leading in Your Community, a panel discussion: Are you looking for ways to get more involved in your community, but not quite sure how? Do you think you have something to offer a local group or organization, but feel uncomfortable stepping forward? Women lead in our communities each and every day, sometime through positional leadership and sometimes through seemingly everyday activities and contributions. Join this panel discussion to hear from a few local women leaders who are making an impact in their communities; find out how they got their start doing what they do, what tips and suggestions they have for getting engaged in your community, and how they feel their lives are enriched through their involvement.

Money Management Principles for Women Leaders (Student), with Glynnis Reinhart, AXA Advisors, LLC: Do you believe that the quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket? This finance session will help to provide a foundation for understanding important money management principles. This dry subject will be anything but as we explore in an easy to understand, humorous way the basic investing principles that could help you double your money! (This session will be specifically geared toward students. A similar session will be offered in the morning geared toward faculty and staff. HOWEVER, students and faculty/staff are welcome to attend either session, as your schedule permits.)

Breakout Session III > 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

How You Can Improve Miami's Climate for Diversity in 5 Minutes a Day, created and led by Women's Center Ambassadors Casey Cook, Sami Schalk & Jamie Viars: Have you ever wondered what you can do, as just one person in a large university, that might make a difference for others on this campus? If so, you're not the only one! Join your peers for an interactive, fun and engaging session highlighting just some of the ways one person can create change in just five minutes a day. It begins with you! It begins now! Don't miss this new workshop designed by and for Miami community members!

Changing the Way We See, created and led by IDEA members Meghan Ames, Lisa Castellano & Adrienne Nothnagel: This interactive workshop will focus on a self-reflective analysis of how issues such as body image affect us as individuals, leaders, and members of society. In continuing IDEA's mission to promote self-education, workshop attendees will explore their own struggles with body image and self-acceptance, and connect those internal issues with how they affect us as women, friends, and leaders of the 21st century.

WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP & MALE ALLY AWARDS

Within this celebratory event, the Women’s Leadership and Male Ally Awards are given to distinguished individuals who have been identified by members of their communities and organizations as advocates for women, champions of equality, and models of leadership.  The recipients of these honors are characterized by their achievements, perseverance, and courage.  Through their personal and professional commitments, these women and men have challenged societal norms, expectations, and the limitations of gender roles, and have demonstrated commitment to working in the best interests of women. 

Thank you for celebrating the accomplishments of women on Miami’s campus!

Women's Leadership and Male Ally Award Recipients

1998

Emily Murphree (faculty)

Nicole Medich (undergraduate student)

1999

Cheryl Evans (faculty)

Karyn Oetting (undergraduate student)

2000

Sally Lloyd (faculty)

2001

B. Kay Snavely (faculty)

Betty Crutcher (unclassified staff)

Beth Harrick (graduate student)

Anna Patton (undergraduate student)

2003

Dana Johnson (alumna)

Gail Della Piana (faculty)

Shahla Mehdizadeh (unclassified staff)

Nancy Coon (classified staff)

Jade Lambert (graduate student)

Tamara Grimm (undergraduate student)

2004

Cathryn House (alumna)

Madelyn Detloff (faculty)

Susan Kay (faculty)

Leena Batra (unclassified staff)

Teresa Harper (classified staff)

Cheryl Young (classified staff)

Judith Wilson (graduate student)

Brianne Henry (undergraduate student)

Michele Jacobs (undergraduate student)

2005

Sandra Vogel (faculty)

Pamela Wilkens (unclassified staff)

Karen White (unclassified staff)

Rhonda Jackson (classified staff)

Michele Polak (graduate student)

Sarah Buffie (undergraduate student)

2006

Carolyn Jefferson Jenkins (alumna)

Kathy McMahon-Klosterman (faculty)

Juanita Tate (unclassified staff)

Katherine Williams (classified staff)

Kidada Robinson (graduate student)

Lisa Marie York (undergraduate student)

2007

Rose Marie Ward (faculty)

Nancy Arthur (unclassified staff)

Linda Dixon (unclassified staff)

Leslie Morrow (graduate student)

Adrienne Nothnagel (undergraduate student)

Chief John McCandless (male ally)