- Agenda
Career, confidence, connection. We've packed the agenda with the topics women tell us they need most. Get the practical insight you need to make the most of your career, whether you're just starting out or whether you've been 'at the table' for years.
You can find our 2020 agenda below. We're hard at work on the agenda for 2021 (we'll be digital and in-person at Scottsdale, AZ), but in the meantime, if you want to access our sessions from 2020...
Join us December 8-10, 2020
At your desk, or wherever you'd like to be (the conference is virtual)
Schedule below and watch here for more information on the creative ways we'll be helping you network and connect with your career champions!
Keynote address: New Career Rules, New Potential
Featuring Joanna Bloor
Here's the thing. The rule book has been thrown out the window. What and how to think about navigating your career in this ambiguous future needs a new set of tools and ideas. Joanna Bloor will kick off our great work together by sharing why she now calls herself a Potentialist and why she thinks you should too.
All times EST
- General Session (join together to hear inspirational stories, wisdom, and advice)
- Workshop (an interactive session with breakout discussions)
- Building Connections (this is part of our secret sauce)
- Choose Your Own Adventure (active movement, coaching, networking)
December 8th - Day 1
11:45 am Welcome and Introduction
12:00 - 1:00 pm Keynote address: New Career Rules, New Potential, featuring Joanna Bloor
Sponsored by NeuAnalytics
1:05 - 2:00 pm Panel - Yes. Yes You Can
Sponsored by Katabat
So many women cite confidence as their strongest area of growth throughout their careers. We’ll have women from around the industry sharing their confidence moments and how they’ve benefited from pushing through their fear.
2:05 - 2:15 pm Break
2:20 - 3:00 pm Building Connections
Sponsored by DCM Services
Get to know your designated team. They may just become your new best friends!
3:05 - 4:30 pm Workshop (choose one)
Advocating for Yourself
It's often easier to advocate for others than for ourselves. This workshop will give you guidance on how to successfully and confidently advocate for yourself.
Career Management
Sponsored by Ontario Systems
Navigating the professional world is more complex now than ever. This session will help you think near and long term about how to align your career with your skills, capabilities, and goals.
4:35 - 4:45 pm Break
4:45 - 5:15 pm Building Connections
Sponsored by DCM Services
End of day debrief and small group activity (regroup with your designated team)
5:35 - 6:15 pm Choose Your Own Adventure
Option #1 - Zumba!
Option #2 - Coaching Corner (pre-registration required; now closed)
Option #3 - Private Island Networking - bring a drink and join your friends on our own virtual private island. Sit by the beach, listen to the waves, catch up with old friends, and meet new ones. It’s a whole new way to network digitally!
6:15 - 7:00 pm Break
Private Island remains open for networking
7:00 - 7:45 pm Fireside Chat - The Global Impact of Women at the Table
Sponsored by ERC and NCB Management Services
Women sitting at decision making tables are key to the solution to many of the world's greatest challenges, from poverty to climate change. Join the female leaders of our Community Impact Partners for an inspiring discussion about how their organizations engage local communities to create opportunities for women and girls, both here in the United States and abroad in Kenya.
December 9th - Day 2
11:30 - 12:30 pm Panel - Empowerment - We Have a Voice, Now Let's Use It
Sponsored by FocusOne
It's one thing to have a voice, it’s another to choose to use it. The women on this panel will share what empowered them and how you can learn to use your voice, too.
12:35 - 2:00 pm Workshop (choose one)
Creating and Enforcing Professional Boundaries
Sponsored by SAM, Inc.
As the lines between personal professional life continue to blur, it’s especially important to recognize the need for boundaries. This session will help you identify where you need boundaries and how to professionally enforce them.
Enhancing Emotional Intelligence
Sponsored by Moss & Barnett
The ability to be self-aware and moderate our own emotions while being empathetic and understanding to others can be a tall order in any aspect of life, but it can be especially challenging in the professional setting. We’ll help get your EI in check at this session.
2:00 - 2:25 pm Break
2:30 - 3:55 pm Workshop
Managing Up & Across to Influence Outcomes
Sponsored by RedKnot Third-Party Risk Solutions
Being organizationally savvy is a must-have skill for all professionals. This session will help you improve so you can get the outcome you’re aiming for more often than not.
4:00 - 4:45 pm Building Connections
Sponsored by DCM Services
End of day debrief and small group activity (regroup with your designated team)
5:00 - 5:40 pm Choose Your Own AdventureOption 1 - Coaching Corner (pre-registration required; now closed)
Option 2 - Yoga (50 minutes)
Option 3 - Private Island Networking - bring a drink and join your friends on our own virtual private island. Sit by the beach, listen to the waves, catch up with friends old and new! (Island open from 4:45-7:00)
7:00 - 8:00 pm - Virtual Escape Room
Join us for an optional activity - "Cabin Fever". You wake up on a cruise ship as the only passengers. We will break you out into small teams to solve the puzzles to make your way through the ship and get yourselves back on dry land!
This is yet another opportunity to make a few friends through a fun shared experience so if your schedule allows, please join us!
December 10th - Day 3
11:30 am - 12:25 pm Panel - Unconscious Bias
We all have biases. Some we’re aware of, some we’re not. This session will help open our eyes to our biases so that we can start working to improve how those biases affect our decisions and the people around us.
12:30 - 1:55 pm Workshop (choose one)
LGBTQ and Non-Binary
Education is one of the primary ways that we can start to drive true diversity and inclusion in the workplace or in our personal lives. We’ll take time to educate ourselves on how to successfully advocate for and support the LGBTQ and Non-Binary community.
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Sponsored by Connect1
Learn how to take action to make an impact on increased diversity in the workplace.
2:00 - 2:15 pm Break/Lunch
2:20 - 2:55 pm Building Connections
Sponsored by DCM Services
Last chance to bond with your team
3:00 - 4:25 pm Workshop (choose one)
How to Mentor/Mentee
One of the most common ways we hear that women can help women is through mentorship. But what does that really mean and how can you maximize these partnerships from both sides? This workshop will help you learn.
My Next Chapter
Most topics at WCCF apply to women at all stages of their careers. But for those of us who've been at it for quite a while, the topics take on a different meaning. This session is designed for women who are closer to the end of their career than the beginning and will provide a space to contemplate the big questions, "Have I made my mark?" and “Where do I see myself in 10 years?”
4:30 - 4:55 pm Powerful Closing Activity
Our Speakers
We've got a top-notch group lined up for you this December.
Rozanne Andersen
VP, Chief Compliance Offier
Ontario Systems
Kayce Anderson
Executive Director,
For the Good
Roxanne Bartley
EVP, Strategic Partnerships, Remitter
Leslie Bender
Senior Counsel
ClarkHill
Heather Bentley
Head of Consumer Specialty Ops, Citizens Bank
Joanna Bloor
Owner & CEO,
The Amplify Lab
Betsabe Botaitis
CFO,
Uplift
Misty Carson
EVP, Sales & Marketing,
MRS BPO
Karen Chow
Dir. of Treasury & Finance Ops Technology,
Salesforce
Stephanie Eidelman
Owner & CEO,
insideARM &
The iA Institute
Amanda Ellenbecker
VP, Funding,
Aqua Finance
Tanika Fagan-Green
Agency Recovery Management Auditor,
Cox Communications
Jessica Frahm
Vice President,
Forward Bank
Katie Harrington
Director,
Captech
Amber Higgins
CEO,
Enformion
Aylix Jensen
Attorney,
Moss & Barnett
Laura Jensen
Chief Acquisitions Officer,
Absolute Resolutions
Lina Laird
Transactional Operations Vendor Manager
Dell Technologies
Tanya Law
Financial Services & Banking Operations Leader
Jennifer Lockwood-Shabat
Executive Director,
Washington Area Women's Foundation
Michelle Macartney
Managing Partner,
Bridgeforce
Sonia Macias
SVP in Recruitment,
SC Riverside
Laura Marino
Chief Product Officer,
TrueAccord
Tracy Montour
Dir. of Marketing Analytics,
Arbeit
Joann Needleman
Practice Leader & Member
ClarkHill
Mary Shores
Owner,
Mary Shores Communications
Brit Suttell
Attorney,
Barron and Newburger
Jennifer Thompson
Sr. Manager, Recovery Collections,
Discover Financial Services
Lauren Valenzuela
Corporate Counsel,
Performant Corp
Donna Weaver
President,
RNN Group
Rachel White
SVP, CSC Strategy and Execution Mgr. - Service
Huntington National Bank
Sara Woggerman
CEO,
ARM Compliance Business Solutions
Katie Zugsay
CEO,
Finexus
