Thank you for being a valuable member of PBWC. We appreciate your patronage and look forward to sharing the new year with you.
Thank you for being a valuable member of PBWC. We appreciate your patronage and look forward to sharing the new year with you.
In 2002, we hope to remember the past and move forward together. We are eagerly anticipating our 13th Annual Conference in May, "Change: Embrace the Challenge".
From all of us here at PBWC, Happy New Year.
Janet Lamkin
PBWC President
In this issue of the PBWC Communiqu
- Save Money and Register Now for the 13th Annual PBWC Conference
- Announcing our Co-Chair and Sponsors for the 2002 PBWC Conference
- PBWC partners with SF Chamber in January event
- Tempered Radicals: How People Use Difference to Inspire Change at Work
Save Money and Register Now for the 13th Annual PBWC Conference
Save money and Register now for the 13th Annual Professional Business Women of California Conference, May 29, 2002 in San Francisco at the Moscone Center.
This year we celebrate "Change: Embrace the Challenge" and promise one of the best one-day experiences you may ever attend. Expect world-class speakers, life-changing workshops, career enhancing networking and, as always, about 5,000 women sharing one grand time.
Early bird registration closes January 31, 2002.
To register, go to
Announcing our Co-Chair and Sponsors for the 2002 PBWC Conference
We are honored to announce our 2002 PBWC Conference Co-Chair:
We would also like to welcome our:
| Strategic Sponsors:
| Patron Sponsors:
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Young Women's Champion Sponsor
- Seagate
PBWC Partners with SF Chamber in January Event
Everyday Leadership: Living Your Values and Inspiring Change as Tempered Radicals
Presented by Professional BusinessWomen of California and The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
When: | Tuesday, January 15, 2002, 7 - 9 a.m. |
Where: | Palace Hotel, 2 New Montgomery St., San Francisco, CA USA |
Program Description: | Nearly all of us feel at odds with the organization we work for at one time or another. Managers who are also parents struggle to succeed - and be there for their families - in organizations that demand all-or-nothing commitment. Female executives ally themselves with their firm's top brass while working to advance gender equity in the mostly male executive suite. Environmentally conscious managers seek to act their values and climb the corporate ladder in firms more concerned with profits than pollution. Based on her new book, Tempered Radicals: How People Use
Difference to Inspire Change at Work, Debra Meyerson will show how
people who act on personal values that differ from the dominant
culture can become crucial sources of learning, leadership, and
change in organizations. In this talk, she describes a spectrum of
strategies - from very quiet and personal to more strident and
public - that individuals use to act on their values and views
without jeopardizing their hard won careers. |
Speaker Bio: | Debra Meyerson is Visiting Professor at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and School of Engineering and Professor of Management at the Simmons Graduate School of Management in Boston. She is author of Tempered Radicals: How People Use Difference to Inspire Change at Work (Harvard Business School Press, 2001). She is also co-author of the widely read Harvard Business
Review articles, "A Modest Manifesto for Shattering the
Glass Ceiling"(2000) and author of "Radical Change, the
Quiet Way"(2001) as well as more than 30 scholarly articles and
book chapters. She was recently nominated as one of the 75 most
influential women in business by the San Francisco Business Times
and has been recently featured in a number of publications for her
research (e.g. San Francisco Chronicle, Fast Company, New
York Times, Business Week, San Jose Mercury News).
Meyerson lives in Northern California with her husband and three
children. |
Registration Information: | The cost to attend is $25 for Chamber & PBWC members and $30
for prospective members, if paid by Jan. 7.
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Excerpts from Tempered Radicals: How People Use Difference to Inspire Change at Work
Debra MeyersonCopyright:
Pamela J, 2001When you arrive at work do you check your personal values at the door? Do you pretend to be like everyone else just to "fit in"? Or do you wield your difference like a weapon and find you never get the promotion or the respect you deserve? Does the thought of coming to work make your stomach hurt and your boss' head ache?
There is a perpetual tug-of-war that employees feel when it comes to fitting in to the corporate culture versus expressing personal needs and preferences. At first pass, it may be simpler to assimilate, aggressively act out, or leave. However, there is a viable-and ultimately satisfying-alternative. Leveraging tension between expressing our "whole selves" and building careers in companies that leave little room for differences can pave the way for learning, leadership, and positive change in organizations.
To download more excerpts and an interview with Debra Meyerson click here.
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