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2017-2018 Past Events
LinkedIn & Networking: Your Reputation Precedes You With increasing recruitment and professional networking activity online, we are often not aware when we make our first impression on someone new. For this reason, it is critical to be engaged and well-connected - to optimize our online presence and to make the most of the tools available. In this workshop led by Ryan Higginson-Scott, we will focus on effective utilization of LinkedIn, as well as review how marketing principles like search engine optimization (SEO) and brand differentiation apply to job seekers, influencers, and even passive industry professionals. Discussion topics will include tips for creating a strong online presence & LinkedIn profile, as well as your Google results, and the strategy around consistency in networking - both online and in-person. More Information: https://www.westorg.org/2018-06-27-linkedin-networking-boston-workshop Career Coaching Circles Coaching circles adapt the principles and methods of individual coaching and apply them to small, intentional groups. They set the stage for peer to peer coaching facilitated by trained and qualified professional coaches offering women a supportive and motivating environment to connect through meaningful conversations. Participants develop a set of peer coaching skills in addition to benefiting from professional coaching, and are often preferred by people who learn well in small groups. Join us to establish new relationships, enhance leadership skills and talents, and develop in an area that is a current challenge. We will do three 30 minute sessions. Some of the table topics will be preset and some will be based on ideas submitted when people register to attend. More Information: https://www.westorg.org/2018-06-20-peer-coaching-groups Career Management for Today's Work Environment The world of work is dramatically changing; the impacts of globalization and technology, for example, have led to a shift in the paradigm defining our careers. Effective career management accounts for this reality and requires an understanding of your own interests, values, skills as well as your options. While organizations can lend support and resources, it is largely up to each of us to own and be intentional about the development of our careers. This workshop will give you the opportunity to take stock of your career preferences, motives, drivers and interests through an online assessment you will take prior to the workshop. During our time together you will receive your individual assessment results and explore the implications for your career with a supportive group of peers. You will leave with energy, ideas to implement and a roadmap for next steps in managing your career. More Information: http://www.westorg.org/2018-06-13-Career-Workshop-Women-Cambridge Leadership and Women of the Future Awards and Panel Discussion Jun 12, 2018, 6:00 - 8:30 PM Our exposure to great role models and sponsors can substantially influence how our careers grow and develop. Please join us for an evening to honor inspirational established women leaders who have made their mark. Hear these established leaders describe the secrets to their own success, and learn more about the attributes that they are seeing exemplified in outstanding women from the next generation. Be inspired, network, get good tips, and celebrate the career advancement of all levels women in STEM! More Information: http://www.westorg.org/2018-06-12-leadership-women-awards Career Possibilities and Speed Networking Night Do you want to define your value proposition, explore career possibilities, and be inspired by people who have used their science and technical training to advance their careers in different directions? Join us for WEST’s Annual Career Possibilities Event. The evening will start with facilitated networking, so you can meet the other attendees and panelists. This will be followed by a panel discussion to learn more about each panelist and their key lessons learned. Then you will have the opportunity to break into small groups and talk with the different panelists. More Information: http://www.westorg.org/2018-06-06-stem-career-possibilities-networking Providing Impactful Feedback Up, Down, and Across Join Executive Communication Coach and Trainer, Tori Hollingworth, for a highly interactive session designed to provide participants with tools and techniques to increase credibility, improve interpersonal effectiveness and strengthen messaging when interacting in a performance review, delivering feedback to senior management, initiating behavior change and providing updates to direct reports, colleagues and/or organizational leaders. The goal of this session is to increase each participant’s comfort and effectiveness when delivering feedback within all levels of their organization. The skills learned will be relevant in a variety of settings whether face-to- face, virtually or in small groups. This coaching experience will help speakers identify their areas of communication need, strengthen their feedback communication through practice, establish building trust and maintaining relationships, and refine their interpersonal style. There will be multiple opportunities for practice with feedback from both the participants and the coach. More Information: http://www.westorg.org/2018-05-23-impactful-feedback-workshop Book Club WEST is offering a book club for WEST members focusing on women's career advancement. We will have a meeting with a new book every other month. We would like participants to commit to four sessions to create a supportive community. We will have a facilitator for each discussion group who will have read the book, so those who do not finish the whole book should still feel comfortable attending and joining in the conversation. We understand people get busy at certain times of the year and may not get to finish every book. We have selected the books based on member suggestions. More Information: https://www.westorg.org/2018-west-career-book-club Patent and Trademark Considerations for Start-Ups May 14, 2018, 6:00 - 8:30 PM This workshop will include presentations by Elizabeth Spar and Lisa Tittemore, partners at the Intellectual Property firm of Sunstein, Kann, Murphy and Timbers, LLP. The workshop will address strategies for using patents and trademarks for competitive advantage, including building and managing a valuable patent portfolio, aligning patent strategy to deal with competitors, and the importance of searching and protecting trademarks, with attention on specific considerations for start-up companies. More Information: http://www.westorg.org/2018-05-14-Patent-Trademark-Start-Up-Workshop Rockstar Breakfast May 8, 2018, 8:00 - 9:00 AM Are you looking for an opportunity to network with local senior tech leaders? If so, this is THE event for you. Enjoy a light breakfast accompanied by lots of conversation with Larry Friedman, Tim Mugherini, and Sabine Schilg. Registration is for WEST MEMBERS ONLY and will be limited to a maximum of 20 participants to ensure an intimate experience. More Information: http://www.westorg.org/2018-05-08-networking-breakfast How to Present Technical Information so People Will Understand, Care, and Remember How well can you explain complex science and technology concepts to people outside your field of expertise? If you work in biotech, pharma, or engineering, you’ve learned your presentations need more than snazzy slides and polished prose to keep your audience engaged. If you want to capture and keep an audience’s attention, you need to explain your technical topic in an uncomplicated way. In this session, you’ll learn a proven process to structure your technical talk so your audience understands, cares, and remembers. You'll also get access to a planning worksheet you can use to make your presentations memorable and understandable. More Information: http://www.westorg.org/2018-04-26-Communicating-Technical-Information How Does a Start-Up Embrace Open Innovation with a Large Corporation Senior STEM leaders from organizations ranging from incubator to startup to large corporations will share their perspectives on the topic of open innovation and how they help their company embrace it. Key discussion points will include methods for encouraging entrepreneurial concepts, approaches for launching new companies, and how a start-up can adopt open innovation including when/how they start working with larger corporations. Learn what works well and what pitfalls to avoid. Take advantage of this event to meet and network with the movers and shakers in the local STEM ecosystem. Panelists - Ena Cratsenburg, Chief Business Officer at Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. More Information: http://www.westorg.org/2018-04-23-Startup-Open-Innovation Innovation and Entrepreneurship Senior Panel Discussion - SOLD OUT Join us for this flagship event to learn from seasoned senior leaders as they tell us about their inspiring journeys to success in the fast-paced world of science and technology. Hear what it takes to be truly innovative and entrepreneurial in a variety of highly competitive environments where collaboration and teamwork is essential. Network with movers and shakers in the science and technology community and support career advancement of the next generation of women leaders in STEM! The discussion will be moderated by Jo Viney, Co-Founder and CSO of Pandion Therapeutics. Panelists include: Adelene Perkins, Chair, President, and CEO, Infinity Pharmaceuticals; Ros Deegan, President and CBO, Bicycle Therapeutics, Inc.; Alan Crane, Entrepreneur Partner, Polaris Partners; Meredith Fisher, Partner, Partners Innovation Fund; Danielle Lauzon, Partner, Goodwin Law LLP; and Kristina Allikmets, VP, Head of R&D Patient Outreach & PD, Takeda More Information: http://www.westorg.org/2018-04-11-Innovation-Entrepreneurship-Panel Rockstar Breakfast Are you looking for an opportunity to network with senior women leaders? If so, this is THE event for you. Enjoy a light breakfast accompanied by lots of conversation with Sheila Rowan, Katie, and Mariana Nacht. Registration is for WEST MEMBERS ONLY and will be limited to a maximum of 25 participants to ensure an intimate experience. More Information: http://www.westorg.org/2018-04-05-Networking-Breakfast One or the Other: How Balancing Polarities Improves Work for Individuals, Teams, and Organizations Every day, all of us as individuals, teams, and organizations are faced with managing and reconciling between a series of polarities—two seemingly opposing values. Examples include work/life, activity/rest, intuition/facts, stability/change, mission/profit, team needs/individual needs, centralized/decentralized. Polarities can complement each other when approached in a balanced way, but too often we fall into the trap of thinking about them as either/or instead of both/and. We go to extremes like working 20 hours a day for weeks on end, or looking only to data to determine a decision while ignoring intuition or other less concrete factors. In this workshop with Etta Jacobs and Beth Shapiro, we’ll explore a model for balancing polarities. Using real examples from your own work, you’ll learn how to identify the “early warning signs” that you are leaning too far to one side, as well as action steps that can enable you and your team to optimize and balance your thinking and your work. More Information: http://www.westorg.org/2018-03-29-work-life-balance-workshop-for-women-in-stem Intersection of Computing and Biotech Panel Discussion - SOLD OUT Listen to the inspiring journeys of successful women and men leaders in science as they talk about their pathways to success. Highlights will include details on their career paths, obstacles they overcame, things that helped them along the way, and tips and strategies that can also work for you. This is a great opportunity for you to meet and network with the movers and shakers in the local science ecosystem. More Information: http://www.westorg.org/2018-03-22-computing-biotech-panel Coaching Circles Coaching circles adapt the principles and methods of individual coaching and apply them to small, intentional groups. They set the stage for peer to peer coaching facilitated by trained and qualified professional coaches offering women a supportive and motivating environment to connect through meaningful conversations. Participants develop a set of peer coaching skills in addition to benefiting from professional coaching, and are often preferred by people who learn well in small groups. Join us to establish new relationships, enhance leadership skills and talents, and develop in an area that is a current challenge. We will do three 30 minute sessions. Some of the table topics will be preset and some will be based on ideas submitted when people register to attend. The preset topics will include Advancing in Your Career, Influence Without Authority/ Conflict Resolution, Communication/ Building Better Relationships, Personal Branding, Confidence, and Work/Life Balance. More Information: http://www.westorg.org/2018-03-06-peer-coaching-groups Zoom Leadership: Change Your Focus. Change Your Insights Your boss rushes in and says, “I need this issue solved by tomorrow.” What happens? Often we freeze, trying to decide what to do with all the other requests that are due. Stress reduces creative problem solving. Or, if you can relax enough to plan next steps, you might even have too many possible ways you address the issue. Decisions decisions. They are a part of every day. Wouldn’t it be great to have a tool that could open up new ideas and also narrow them down? Janet Britcher, author of Zoom Leadership: Change Your Focus, Change Your Insights, will be presenting techniques that can help when evaluating decisions, such as promotion opportunities. More Information: http://www.westorg.org/2018-02-15-tools-for-decision-making-workshop Negotiating Your Compensation Package: Financial Strategies for Professional Transitions Are you planning a career change? Thinking of jumping to a competitor? Has a recruiter contacted you about a new job opportunity? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you will need to have a strategy in place to negotiate the best possible compensation package for yourself. Unfortunately, research has shown that women are far less likely to negotiate for higher pay, which may be contributing to the gender pay gap. In this program, financial advisor Beata Dragovics provides an overview of the current compensation landscape within the life sciences industry, along with key considerations before changing jobs. Among the topics to be discussed:
More Information: http://www.westorg.org/2018-02-07-wealth-management-negotiation-workshop 10th Annual Giving Back Awards - SOLD OUT Meet the extraordinary and inspiring women being honored and hear the stories of how they have made a profound impact on society. The honorees are role models who balance job and personal responsibilities while making a difference in their community. Join us to congratulate them, be inspired, network, and support the career advancement of women in the enterprise of science and technology! More Information: http://www.westorg.org/2018-01-25-10th-annual-giving-back-awards Rockstar Breakfast with Cissy Young - SOLD OUT Headed toward senior leadership in your career trajectory? Thinking about joining a Board? This is a great breakfast for you. Cissy Young of Russell Reynolds will share her leadership learnings and experience. She will speak about talent selection for executive positions and for Board positions. Registration is for WEST MEMBERS ONLY and will be limited to a maximum of 30 participants to ensure an intimate experience. More Information: http://www.westorg.org/2018-01-24-networking-breakfast Tools for Leading Ourselves -- In Life & In Our Career There are many principles and tools to help us lead ourselves better. Scott Stolze will cover his 12 principles we can use to become better leaders of ourselves. Those principles involve learning, emotional Intelligence, authenticity, not living up or down to others, persistence, thinking for yourself, choosing courage over confidence, life ‘systems’ over goals, being accountable, mental strength, gratitude over expectations, and living in a growth mindset vs. fixed mindset. The workshop will cover all of these topics and really dive into emotional intelligence and developing your skills in self awareness, self regulation, empathy, and social skills along with not living up, not living down, not comparing, not envy, and not put yourself down. More Information: http://www.westorg.org/2018-01-16-leading-yourself-workshop Leading Highly Productive, Engaged Remote Teams Leading people has its challenges under the best of circumstances. When you lead dispersed teams, the challenges are magnified ten-fold. Geographic distance is just one of the many hurdles to overcome. Traditional leadership methods don’t work in this new workplace. Building trust among team members, creating respectful relationships that transcend distance and allowing for higher levels of personal autonomy are critical. Leaders must change their approach and developing innovative skills to successfully lead. In this session, participants will learn practical techniques for building effective team cohesion, engagement, cooperation and resilience from Mari Anne Snow. Participants will practice remote work techniques for establishing trusted relationships; creating and communicating a shared team vision; developing clear communication protocols and building team autonomy that incorporates individual accountability. More Information: http://www.westorg.org/2018-01-10-leading-remote-teams-workshop 2017
Strategies for Juggling the Complex Role of Manager Consider this; managing the work, managing and developing your people, firefighting, subject matter expert, key communicator, and improving process are just some of the roles that you play in your job as a manager. Does it sometimes feel overwhelming? In this workshop with Sue Williamson, we will explore the complexities of these demands and strategies for more effectively flexing from one arena to the next. Using an experiential exercise as a platform, we will cover managing up, down and across, effective delegation, streamlining communications, and time and energy management structures and tips - all in the interest of giving you more core hour work time to do your most value add work! More Info: http://www.westorg.org/2017-12-12-management-skills-workshop Career Advice You Won't Get From Your Boss
In today’s working world, where job ladders are a thing of the past, people need to take charge and strategically manage their career path. But self-directing your own career development can feel overwhelming. Do you want to deploy more of your professional passion in your current organization but can’t quite overcome barriers? Are you feeling stuck in your life or job? How can you take advantage of today’s uncertainty and ambiguity to jumpstart your own career changes? In this interactive and inspiring session with author Lisa Prior, founder of Prior Consulting and author of Take Charge of Your VIEW: Career Advice You Won’t Get From Your Boss, you’ll learn the secrets to creating win-win growth opportunities for yourself and your organization. Through a fireside chat and guided experiences you will leave with one idea and one concrete practice, something you can do often, to take charge of your career and create work that you love. More Info: http://www.westorg.org/2017-12-04-take-charge-of-your-view Operational Excellence and digital collaboration: How digital business collaboration supports individual, team and organizational excellence In this workshop with Iris Stammberger, you will explore how an operational excellence framework is easier to implement when you have the ability to use digital business collaboration tools. They help monitor, report and control the information needed for improved collaboration and communication at work making visible what needs to be done to align all involved in the pursuit of operational excellence. We will explore the pros and cons of 7 digital collaboration IT tools that can contribute to help your team in the pursuit of operational excellence. More Info: http://www.westorg.org/2017-11-16-operational-excellence-3 Facilitated Networking Night November 14, 2017, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
WEST and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals are partnering to offer a great opportunity to meet and mingle with like-minded STEM professionals. Participate in facilitated networking activities designed to engage you with the local science and technology community. More Info: http://www.westorg.org/2017-11-14-networking Developing Presence November 8, 2017, 6:00 - 8:30 PM Today's leaders need more than a great resume, they need Presence - the ability to connect, inspire and influence others at all levels. In this 90-minute workshop, Angie O'Donnell will describe three elements of Presence that apply to everyone, regardless of your role, that can easily be learned and refined. You'll leave with some tips and techniques for creating a positive first impression, enhancing your verbal presence, and being intentional about connecting with others. Learn to make a memorable connection without self-promoting. More Info: http://www.westorg.org/2017-11-08-developing-presence Breakfast with Rockstars Are you looking for an opportunity to network and hobnob with local senior women leaders? If so, this is THE event for you. Enjoy a light breakfast accompanied by lots of conversation with Yvonne Greenstreet and Laurie Keating. They will share learnings from women in the C-suite and serving on Boards. More Info: http://www.westorg.org/2017-10-26-breakfast Leading with Mindfulness: Strategies for Stress Resilience in Business Environment This hands on, interactive session led by Sarah Stuart, CEO and top mindfulness instructor at Really Mindful Group, is equally appropriate for beginners to mindfulness-based resilience strategies and for experienced practitioners. Participants will come away with a clear understanding of what mindfulness is, the breadth of scientific research supporting it and how various techniques can be used to help navigate and lead through change and stress. The workshop will include several short, guided mindfulness practices and interactive exercises that can be used at work and in everyday life. Participants will leave the session with simple, clear take aways that they can start to experiment with in the laboratory of their lives the moment they leave the session. The workshop will be followed by a panel discussion with senior leaders sharing how they put mindfulness skills into practice. More Info: http://www.westorg.org/2017-10-25-mindfulness Towards Operational Excellence: Selecting the areas that will deliver the biggest payouts and motivate your team.
Is your team operating at its best? Do you have a systematic way of evaluating progress towards goals and removing the various impediments your team faces? Is your team delivering the best service or product quality at the right cost? The concept of operational excellence is a guiding philosophy which requires teams and organizations strive to achieve excellence in all aspects of its operations, adding value at every step. It offers a series of tools and methods that can help efficiency, effectiveness, and adaptability. It makes visible key performance indicators and what needs to be done to support performance. Sometimes implementing an operational excellence framework clash with people's resistance to change behaviors. A good strategy to support behavioral changes in your team is to start small, i.e. choosing a visible but smaller challenge where positive results will serve to showcase the benefits of implementing an operational excellence framework. In this workshop, you will learn a step by step methodology to carve out of a complex situation the real project that will deliver visible results and help your team embrace an operational excellence framework. More Info: http://www.westorg.org/2017-10-19-operational-excellence-2 Career Paths and Working in Industry This event has reached capacity and we will no longer be taking registrations. Biogen's WIN group is offering roundtable discussions with women from various areas of Biogen. They will be talking to female grad students and post-docs about their career paths and decision to work in industry. This event will be limited to the first 30 to register. More Info: http://www.westorg.org/2017-10-18-career-paths The Financial Highs and Lows of Entrepreneurship for Women Panel Discussion
In May, WEST & Ellevate joined together with a handful of female entrepreneurs to share perspectives and experiences starting a new company and leveraging skills (i.e. finance, technology & marketing) to assist others with an entrepreneurial endeavor. Now, the two networking organizations are partnering for a follow-up conversation in which entrepreneurs will share insights into the financial successes and challenges of starting and scaling a business.
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More Info: http://www.westorg.org/2017-10-17-entrepreneurship-panel Navigating Your Career Goals when Your Boss Works Elsewhere
Technology and globalization have changed how teams work together. Gone are the days when everyone sits in the same location within sight of each other. Remote work, virtual teams and flexible work arrangements have enable teams from different geographies to come together in new and innovative ways. As an ambitious professional, this provides challenges when your boss and/or colleagues are situated elsewhere. How do you advance your career path? How do you make decision-makers aware of your professional value so you can advance in your organization? How do you navigate difficult conversations when misunderstandings occur? How do you create a visible, influential presence when you aren’t in the room? This session is designed to provide the participants with practical proven skills for positively elevating their professional visibility for career advancement. During the session participants will practice remote work techniques for effectively communicating their professional value; establishing a strong professional reputation and developing/maintaining critical stakeholder relationships over distance. In addition, participants will learn techniques for setting appropriate boundaries with key stakeholders for greater personal/professional health and satisfaction. Operational Excellence for Team Performance: The tools and methods of operational excellence
Is your team operating at its best? Do you have a systematic way of evaluating progress towards goals and removing the various impediments your team faces? Is your team delivering the best service or product quality at the right cost? The concept of operational excellence is a guiding philosophy which requires teams and organizations strive to achieve excellence in all aspects of its operations, adding value at every step. It offers a series of tools and methods that can help efficiency, effectiveness, and adaptability. It makes visible key performance indicators and what needs to be done to support performance. You will learn about various operational excellence frameworks and how you can create and implement your own using proven techniques and methods. Specifically, you will leave with 10 tools to make your team more effective that you can start using immediately after this workshop led by Iris Stammberger. More Info: http://www.westorg.org/2017-09-14-operational-excellence-1 Breakfast with Rockstars Are you looking for an opportunity to network and hobnob with local senior women leaders? If so, this is THE event for you. Enjoy a light breakfast accompanied by lots of conversation with Deb Vernon and Sandra Glucksmann. Registration is for WEST MEMBERS ONLY and will be limited to a maximum of 20 participants to ensure an intimate experience. More Info: http://www.westorg.org/2017-09-13-breakfast Expand the Lean-In Conversation with Jill Ebstein Have you ever sat around with your friends and colleagues and discussed "Lean in"? Do you feel the conversation needs to be expanded to include those who aren't going on the autobahn full speed ahead? If so, then you will enjoy an evening with Jill Ebstein, author of At My Pace: Ordinary Women Tell Their Extraordinary Stories. Jill spoke with 36 women, ranging from their 30s to their 80s, who were going at a different pace. The stories these women share are short and packed with punch. Just like cover indicates, the goal is blue sky and open roads. This book helps us understand how women went from discovering their way to celebrating their choices, what they learned along the way and the new 3 Rs that can help guide us. More Info: http://www.westorg.org/2017-08-09-at-my-pace Breakfast with Rockstars Are you looking for an opportunity to network and hobnob with local senior leaders? If so, this is THE event for you. Enjoy a light breakfast accompanied by lots of conversation with Emily Reichert, CEO of Greentown Labs and Chesley Chen, CEO of Safety Partners, Inc. Registration is for WEST MEMBERS ONLY and will be limited to a maximum of 20 participants to ensure an intimate experience. More Info: http://www.westorg.org/2017-07-27-breakfast Annual Networking Night WEST’s Annual Networking Night is great opportunity to meet and mingle with like-minded STEM professionals. Participate in facilitated networking activities designed to engage you with the wonderful women in the WEST community. More Info: http://www.westorg.org/2017-07-12-networking-night
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