2nd Annual Women Leadership Summit

at the 

4th Annual NAAMBA Leadership Luncheon

Sponsored by Home Depot

Presented by the NAAMBA Women Leadership Council 

Santa Clara Hyatt Regency

Grand Ballroom BCDEFG, Level 1

Friday, September 14, 2012 

The NAAMBA Women Leadership Council is thrilled to announce the 2nd Annual Women Leadership Summit at the 4th Annual NAAMBA Leadership Conference’s Leadership Luncheon on Friday, September 14, 2012 in Santa Clara, CA. 

Geared towards furthering the mission of the Council to cultivate, promote and develop multicultural women, the prestigious Leadership Luncheon provides an unparalleled platform for this important Summit.

Women Leadership Summit Background

Recognizing the unprecedented heights multicultural women across the world are reaching today and expressing the need to shed light on the obstacles faced by multicultural women as they rise to new professional heights, the Council organized the inaugural Women Leadership Summit at the 3rd Annual NAAMBA Leadership Conference last year in New York City. 

2nd Annual Women Leadership Summit

Building on the conference theme of Tomorrow’s Leaders Today, the 2nd Annual Women Leadership Summit is poised to provide a platform to connect, engage and inspire women leaders today to become the leaders of tomorrow! 

Summit Agenda

Friday, September 14, 2012

Part I: 12:10 pm – 1:15 pm

-> Leadership Luncheon

-> Summit Kick-Off Remarks by NAAMBA Women Leadership Council Co-Chairs

-> Leadership Luncheon Roundtable Discussion - Developing Tomorrow’s Multicultural Women Leaders Today:

     Opportunities & Challenges

Multicultural women leaders bring unique value to the organizations they work for. Developing a sustainable pipeline of talented multicultural women leaders to advance into senior leadership roles is imperative to an organization’s growth strategy as much as it is imperative to women’s aspirations of rising to new professional heights. 

Expected Learning Outcomes:

In this Women Leadership Summit Roundtable Discussion, you are invited to learn about the importance of providing professional development opportunities for multicultural women today so that they can become effective leaders tomorrow. You will hear personal stories from Roundtable participants on the role such opportunities played in advancing their careers and in career planning. Find answers to questions such as , why should companies  invest in programs geared towards advancing multicultural women in the workplace, what are  the challenges faced by companies in implementing such programs, how can women become the catalyst for inspiring change at companies which do not have such programs, and how can their counterparts, both females and males can play a role. 

Speakers:

• Moderator: Linda Akutagawa, President & CEO, Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc. (LEAP)
• Isis Wu, Director of Strategy & Operations - Global HR, Kimberly-Clark Corporation 
• Panney Wei, C.Ht., CEO, Positive Changes Consulting; On-air Host, NBC News Radio
• Cathy Peng, Chief Business Development Officer, Ethertronics, Inc. 
  

Format & Length

This will be a Roundtable panel which includes Q&A session and consists of 1 moderator and 3 speakers. 

Speaker Criteria

We are calling for accomplished women leaders who hold a mid-senior level management position with significant work experience in the subject-matter and are interested in sharing their perspectives with the audience by supplementing their expertise with personal stories of opportunities and challenges they faced as they climbed to new professional heights. 

-> NAAMBA Women’s Initiative Excellence Award Presentation: Women Interactive Network (WIN), Kimberly-Clark Corporation 

-> Closing Remarks 

Part II - Concurrent Professional Development Session: 3:50 pm - 5:00 pm

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Women Leadership Summit is open to all Full Conference & Exposition registrants. 

*Additional speakers will be announced soon!

For a list of confirmed speakers, please click here.