2015 Spring Conference Agenda
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2015 Spring Conference Agenda Friday, March 6 – Business Attire 4:00 – 5:00pm Registration……………………………………………..…………..Conference Center, Stoney Creek Inn The theme of the conference is entrepreneuHER: a celebration of the 10th anniversary of a pioneering group of women founding our organization and the importance of an entrepreneurial spirit to being a leader in our personal and professional lives. Check-in and gather your materials for the weekend. Network and catch up with fellow Griffith’s members and meet your mentor/mentee to get the weekend started. Members may have headshots taken during this time. 5:00 – 6:00pm Welcome and Opening Session ………………...………….…..…………………..Salon C, Stoney Creek Inn Welcome Margy Eckelkamp, Griffiths Chair Opening Session: What If You Startup You? Matt Murrie, Social Entrepreneur and edupreneur, Executive Director and Chief Curiosity Curator for What If…? 360 Matt will deliver a session on the entrepreneurial perspective, helping set the tone for the conference: “One of the greatest things I’ve learned we can do to live fuller lives is to think and live like entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship isn’t about opening a business; it’s about adopting a perspective. The entrepreneur’s perspective is unique because it’s a process. This process is one that is laser-focused on solving problems. Successful entrepreneurs solve those problems by using skills like empathy, creativity, curiosity, lifelong learning, communication and collaboration. By embracing this entrepreneurial perspective and applying it to your life, it helps you close the gap between who you are and who you want to be. It’s not always easy or pretty, but the entrepreneurial journey is one that blazes paths of opportunity for more doing, less wondering, and a life full of purpose.” 6:00 – 7:00pm 10 for 10 …………………………………………………………………..Salon C, Stoney Creek Inn We’ve invited 10 remarkable women to help us celebrate 10 years. Each will have five minutes to share their best piece of advice with the women of Griffiths, TED-style. DeAngela Burns-Wallace, Amber Cheek, Anne Deaton, Karin Loftin, Cindy Mustard, Sara Parker Pauley, Melodie Powell, Betsy Rodriguez, Deb Snellen, Garnett S. Stokes 7:00 – 9:00pm Spirit of Martha & Emerging Leader Award Banquet ……………………………Stoney Creek Ballroom Dinner Network with your mentor/mentee, other members and special guests as we celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Griffiths and honor our award winners. Presentation of Awards Following dinner, Beth Haden, the Griffiths Awards and Recognition Committee Chair will present the 2015 Spirit of Martha Award and 2015 Emerging Leader Award. Saturday, March 7 – Black & Gold Business Casual 7:30 – 8:00am Executive Committee Meeting……………………………………………………………....................... 8:00 – 8:30am Breakfast……………………………………………………………...........................Columns Ballroom Join your fellow members for breakfast to kick off the day. Make sure and bid on Silent Auction items! 8:30 – 9:45am Welcome and Breakfast Keynote …………...…………………………………………..Columns Ballroom A Path to Leadership Joan T.A. Gabel, Dean for The Trulaske College of Business One of few women business school deans in the country, Dean Joan Gabel will outline a strategy for women to prepare for leadership. Using advice and insights from her career in law and higher education, Dean Joan Gabel will share ideas to help you step up today in preparation for tomorrow’s opportunity. 10am – 12:15pm Breakout Sessions……………………………..……..………………………………...Various Locations Choose two of three breakout sessions to attend: (Sessions go from 10am-11am and 11:15am-12:15pm) Selling Skills for the Non-Salesperson Diane O’Byrne, Partner, Competitive Resources “I am NOT a salesperson!” That statement is often exclaimed yet all of us need to equip ourselves with persuasive skills in order to achieve our goals and be more effective getting what we want. Want a job? Want a raise? Want a promotion? Want to spend the summer in Europe after graduation? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you won’t want to miss this entertaining session with Diane, who has 25 years of experience as a salesperson, sales manager and sales coach with clients across the country. In this session, we’ll discuss: Understanding WIFM, the fundamental of the selling process; reading non-verbal cues as well as managing your own; utilizing the questioning process to better understand the person you’re trying to persuade; shaping basic negotiating skills; learning “If you don’t ask, you don’t get.” Panel Discussion: Action + Passion Rachel Anderson, Entrepreneirual Specialist at The eFactory and Co-Founder at Alumni Spaces; Stephanie Regagnon,Founder and Executive Director of Ava’s Grace Scholarship Foundation; and Lauren Rundquist, Mizzou Senior and Founder of LaQuist For some people, passion pushes them into action, for others action spurs a passion. Do you think you might someday want to start a business, a non-profit or a special interest group? Do you have a hobby and wonder if you could make it a career? Get inspired by hearing these women’s stories of combining action and passion. We’ll have a question- and-answer session and lively discussion. Rachel Anderson is a Griffiths member and is an entrepreneurial specialist at The eFactory, a business incubator and the hub for entrepreneurship in Springfield, MO. She is also the co-founder of Alumni Spaces, a tech startup company, and the executive director of the University of Missouri Flagship Council, an advocacy group and political action committee. Stephanie Regagnon is a Griffiths member and director of Ag Biologicals Engagement for Monsanto Company in St. Louis. She founded Ava’s Grace Scholarship Foundation, a non-profit that awards scholarships to children who have a parent of primary caregiver in the federal prison system. Lauren Rundquist is a Griffiths member and current student. She was named 2013 Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organizations Student Entrepreneur of the Year. She founded and runs LaQuist, an online business providing unique pieces of wearable art to customers across six continents in the form of custom hand-painted shoes. The Competitive Imperative of Continuous Learning Ann E. Schulte, Global Leader of Learning and Development, Procter & Gamble Leaving school and entering the workforce is not the end of your education… in many ways it is just the beginning! Ann will explain why continuous learning is a competitive imperative for individuals and organizations in today’s global marketplace and describe how work-based learning leaders design experiences to help employees extract the most learning from their projects and assignments. She will also share a simple acronym to help you recall five behaviors that promote learning and growth in almost any situation… personal or professional. 12:30 – 1:45pm Keynote Presentation and Lunch……………………………………………………….Columns Ballroom Lunch Take the time to fit in last-minute conversations with fellow members you have been hoping to connect with! Bidding on Silent Auction items will close at 2pm so make sure to place your final bids! Keynote Diana Kander, Entrepreneur, Author and Senior Fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Diana is a successful entrepreneur, having founded and sold a number of ventures, and serves as a senior fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the largest non-profit in the world dedicated to entrepreneurship and education. A refugee of the Soviet Union, Diana entered America as an 8-year-old resident of subsidized housing in Brooklyn, New York. By the time she was an American citizen, she had perfected her skills as a capitalist – selling flea market goods to grade school classmates at a markup. She is a Georgetown-educated attorney who left a successful practice to launch her first company. Diana is the author of “All In Startup,” a New York Times best-selling novel outlining lessons for launching successful products through a story of a struggling entrepreneur making his way through the World Series of Poker. www.dianakander.com 2:00 – 3:00pm Who is the CEO of Your Life?…………………….……………………………………...Columns Ballroom Jennifer Ehlen, Vice President Thompson Street Capital Partners, Founder of Prosper Women Entrepreneurs; Managing Director of Prosper Capital Jennifer was named a “Most Influential Businesswoman” in 2014 by the St. Louis Business Journal. She has worked with entrepreneurs as a mentor, instructor, advisor, investor and owner for over a decade. Focusing almost exclusively on the advancements of women entrepreneurs since 2011, she founded an organization completely dedicated to this endeavor in 2014: Prosper Women Entrepreneurs. During this presentation, Jennifer will provide background on Prosper's formation and offer fascinating statistics on women and entrepreneurship. She will also share entrepreneurial insights and experiences and offer suggestions for applying these best practices to become the CEO of all aspects of our lives – professional and personal. 3:00 – 3:30pm How To Taste Good Chocolate: More Than Meets The Palate .………………………………Columns Ballroom Lawren Askinosie, Director of Sales & Marketing, Askinosie Chocolate Want to learn how to officially taste chocolate? We’ll learn that and more from Lawren Askinosie, who will share how her family’s small craft chocolate company is changing the world through chocolate. Lawren’s father, Shawn, a Mizzou alum and former nationally-recognized criminal defense attorney, switched careers and founded Askinosie Chocolate nearly eight years ago. Lawren will share her family’s