Women’s Power Networking is dedicated to enabling professional women to achieve their highest potential by fostering a stimulating environment where they can form relationships, build alliances, share knowledge and provide support to one another. WPN celebrates the concept of womanhood and its outpouring of compassion, goodwill and encouragement.
February 10, Raleigh/Durham, NC
Power Lunch
"Conflict: The House Guest That Won't Leave"
Speaker: Kate Neale, M.E.d., J.D.
Kate is currently a Consultant for Dispute Resolution at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, Exceptional Children Division. She developed and coordinates the state-wide special education mediation program. She also developed the facilitated IEP meeting program.
Prior to coming to NC, Kate served as a special education due process hearing officer, complaint investigator, and mediator for eleven years, and taught a special education law class at the graduate level. Additionally, she conducted negotiation and peer mediation trainings with students and consulted with school personnel to institute anti-bullying programs.
Kate currently conducts ADA mediations for the U.S. Department of Justice.
February 16, Greenville, NC
Power Lunch
"Capturing a New Vision: 3 Secrets for Making 2012 Your Best Year Ever!”
Speaker: Diana Needham, President Needham Business Consulting
Did you find yourself excited to say "goodbye" to 2011... because the things you wanted for your business and life last year just didn't happen? Are you wondering what 2012 will hold for you? Come join us to learn the 3 secrets for making 2012 your best year ever. You'll leave inspired, excited, and on a mission to make 2012 an amazing year.
Diana Needham is the president of Needham Business Consulting, a consulting firm dedicated to helping clients grows their businesses, explore and manage marketing opportunities, and increase profits. She earned her Business Administration degree from Franklin University and received project management certification from the University of Colorado. She served for over 25 years at one of the nation’s largest financial institutions, where she was a key strategic leader charged with achieving the company vision and overcoming challenges during market shifts. She speaks frequently about smart business strategies at seminars and conferences and is a certified business and marketing coach. Diana is energized by helping her clients learn how to defy the current market conditions through innovative strategies. Her mission is to educate and empower clients to leverage business opportunities, overcome obstacles, and achieve healthy organizational growth and profits.
February 17, Raleigh/Durham, NC
Women Executives Roundtable
"Achieving Goals: Not Just Setting Them"
Speaker: Leslie Flowers, Personal Growth Facilitator
Are you fed up with setting annual goals, only to watch them fall by the wayside every year pretty much within the first quarter? Do you feel frustrated that you don’t ‘reach’ or achieve the things you want, even when you think about them a lot? Would it be helpful if you had ‘new’ information that revealed WHY we don’t follow through with goals in general? Are you committed that 2012 will be THE BEST YEAR of your LIFE? YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
We hear throughout our lives a lot about goal setting, as we round the bend into each new year. We hear nothing about ‘achieving’ those goals, however. And soon after the first of the year is gone, we hear nothing about goals again until we ready to move into the next year. Have you ever wondered WHY? We are not taught goal setting or achievement in school! So of course we proceed with what little we know. Because we cannot achieve a goal using the same thinking that created it, we simply need the ‘missing’ information.
February’s Womens Power Networking Executive Round Table will provide the information about goal setting and achievement you simply never learned, and a fun facilitated conversation and a collaborative exercise that will absolutely have you begin to use the new information -- to not only set goals, but then to watch as they show up in your life – and ACHIEVE them. Finally!
May 19, Raleigh/Durham, NC
2 Vendor Rooms
9 Break Out Sessions
Lunch Panel of Experts
Dinner Panel of Experts
Health Fair