Speakers announced

SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED FOR  THE 2006 WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE - SHAPING POSSIBILITIES.
Date:  March 23-24, 2006
Location:  Hyatt Hotel Westlake, California

Patty De Dominic, CEO PDQ Personnel and CEO Executive Search. Patty is also the former President of National NWBO and LA Chamber as well as being a celebrated author. She wrote The New World of Work that tells the inspiring story of her own uphill struggle to rise to the executive ranks. Ms De Dominic believes that “The work world is chaotic, but you can’t let it overwhelm you. Keep your core values intact and you’ll be sure to succeed. Whoever hires you should get more than their money’s worth. You must always challenge yourself to be more today than you were yesterday. That way, you’ll always be in demand.”

Kristina M. Leslie, Chief Financial Officer, DreamWorks Animation SKG. Prior to becoming CFO, Kristina oversaw the corporate finance and strategic planning functions for the company, including all banking and investor relations. Since joining the company in 1996, she has been a key participant in all significant financing and investing activities, including the 2002 $1 billion asset-backed film securitization and refinanced $500 million revolving credit facility.

Judith Rosener, Professor of Business, UC Irvine and author of the book America’s Competitive Secret: Women Managers. Dr. Rosener is a well-known research analyst whose work focuses on the ways in which the differences exhibited by men versus women plays a vital role in leadership styles in management and business. Her ground-breaking article “Ways Women Lead,” published in the Harvard Business Review in 1990, introduced an idea that a “woman’s way of leading”—interactive, cooperative, inclusive, and personal—was profoundly different from the traditional male way of leading which she called “command and control.”  The article created a tidal wave of controversy among her colleagues as well as in the rank and file of business professionals.

Three focus groups have already been held to promote interest in this conference. One was held at Inamed, Inc. in Goleta and another one at DreamWorks Animation SKG in Glendale. A third focus group was held in Ventura at the Institute for Community and Professional Development, Ventura College. These focus groups have been designed to provide conference planners, Fran Lotery, Ph.D and Lois Phillips, Ph.D., with great ideas for program content that will assist regional businesses in attracting and developing women business executives.

Plan now to attend the first annual regional Women’s Leadership Conference at the Hyatt Hotel in Westlake, California March 23-24, 2006. For more information and to register, go to www.womensleadershipconference-shapingpossibilities.com Find out how your company can become a sponsor or a vendor.