Program Schedule: Recession-proof your career by enhancing your networking savvy
Join Jo Miller, CEO of Women’s Leadership Coaching Inc, to learn how high-performing women enhance their careers by cultivating robust networks in their workplace, and across their industry and profession as a whole. This session includes networking principles, case studies, actionable tips, and opportunities to practice.
- Introduce yourself with a memorable personal brand
Discover the elements of a great personal brand, identify what you want your name to be synonymous with, and carve out a new reputation for yourself. - Build your networking savvy
Learn to navigate your profession or industry with savvy, by understanding the dynamics of the network that surrounds you. - Create your strategic networking plan
Learn how to build a strategic network of authentic relationships and coalitions. Leverage these to gain access to hidden knowledge, resources, information and opportunities. - Make a difference with lifelong relationships
If we want to build a better world, how can we work together, to accomplish that? Identify ways to build a lifelong, thriving network for a lifetime, and make a difference together. - Structured networking activities
Practice, practice, practice! Make an instant impact on your network by leveraging your Grace Hopper attendance.
About Jo
Jo has a passion for helping women develop their leadership skills, confidence and presence, and specializes in helping women break into leadership in industries that have been traditionally considered ‘a man’s world’, such as technology, finance and energy.
Since 1998 Jo has developed and implemented coaching programs that have benefited women worldwide. Jo created the Women’s Leadership Coaching Inc leadership coaching system, and has logged many thousands of hours coaching women who are in executive and management positions, or aspire to be.
She has traveled widely in Europe and the US to facilitate leadership development programs for women’s initiatives in Fortune 1,000 companies, including Oracle Women in Leadership, Nortel Women’s Business Council, National Semiconductor’s Women @ National, UBS Women’s Leadership Conference, and many more.
She was named one of Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal’s 40 people to watch under the age of 40 in 2006, and one of Silicon Valley’s Women of Influence in 2008.