’S #1 WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE

Calgary | October 24, 2017

VALERIE JARRETT AMANDA LANG JESSICA HERRIN BRIGID SCHULTE DR. SEONAID CHARLESWORTH We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change. Sheryl Sandberg COO of Facebook ABOUT THE ART OF LEADERSHIP FOR WOMEN 8:00 AM Doors Open

8:30 AM Opening Remarks OCTOBER 24, 2017 | 8:30AM - 4:30PM 8:45 AM Dr. Seonaid Charlesworth CALGARY TELUS CONVENTION CENTRE Organizational Psychology & Decision-Making North Building 120 9th Avenue SE, Calgary, AB 9:30 AM Jessica Herrin www.calgary-convention.com Success & Happiness

10:30 AM Networking Break

Organizations that employ more women in leadership roles are significantly more successful financially, according to global 11:00 AM Brigid Schulte Time Management & Effectiveness surveys.

12:00 PM Lunch Break It means that organizations looking for a sustainable competitive edge need to encourage, nurture and support women to explore and capitalize on leadership opportunities. 1:15 PM Executive Panel

The Art of Leadership for Women features a unique combination of extraordinary women who have established themselves as 2:00 PM Amanda Lang dynamic and successful leaders, and attendees who bring diverse Creativity & Innovation perspectives to the table. 3:00 PM Networking Break It is an event about shared vision and connecting with like-minded people who know where you are coming from and where you want to go. 3:30 PM Valerie Jarrett Leadership

4:30 PM Closing Remarks

Brigid Schulte Time Management & Work-Life Balance WHAT YOU WILL LEARN and opportunity for all Americans, and Americans, all for opportunity and equality of creation the championed She economy. their and businesses to themiddleclass,andboostAmerican access strengthen and expand to efforts She ledtheObamaAdministration’s leaders, and diverse groups of advocates. elected officials, business and community mobilize to House White the at tenure her throughout worked has Jarrett Ms. Council onWomen andGirls. House White the Chaired and Affairs Intergovernmental and Engagement Obama. She oversaw the Offices of Public Barack President to Advisor Senior Valerie B. Jarrett was the longest serving • • • • LEADERSHIP and Chair of the White HouseCouncil onWomenthe &Girls of Chair and Former SeniorAdvisor to President BarackObama VALERIE JARRETT Barack Obama andchairing theWhiteHouse CouncilonWomen and Girls. Lessons learned fromJarrett’s timeworking asSeniorAdvisor toPresident take more chances. The importanceof risk-taking and why womenneedtofacetheirfears and Why findingyourpassioniscriticaltosuccess asaleader. in theprivateandpublicsectoris goodforusall. Why removingthebarriersthatkeep womenfrom thrivinginleadershiproles Chicago Transit Board, Commissioner of Commissioner Board, Transit Chicago the of Chairman Chicago, in Company the Chief Executive Officer of The Habitat as served She sectors. private and public the backgroundboth a in has Jarrett Ms. and reducegunviolence. criminal justice system, end sexual assault, led the campaigns to reform the American and childcare, affordable and flexibility, wage, paid leave, paid sick days, workplace including equal pay, raising the minimum families, working empower that policies workplace for advocacy Administration’s the oversaw She world. the around and States United the in women economically andpolitically empowering in 1981. School Law Michigan of University the fromJ.D. her and 1978 in University from Stanford Jarrett received her B.A. “100 MostInfluential People.” TIME’s including degrees, honorary and Jarrett has also received numerous awards Ms. Chicago. of Bank Reserve Federal the of Director and Trustees, of Board the University of Chicago Medical Center the Chicago Stock Exchange, Chairman of boards including Chairman of the Board of of numerous corporate and not-for- profit director the as served also She Daley. M. Richard Mayor Chicago for Staff of Chief Deputy and Development, and Planning who helpedBarack and If someoneweretorank the long listofpeople where theyaretoday, Ms. Jarrettwould be - TheNew York Times Michelle Obamaget close tothetop. AMANDA LANG Anchor, Bloomberg TV Canada and Bestselling Author

Amanda Lang has a front-row seat to National, and host of The Exchange with BNN, joining CBC in 2009, where she the world’s daily top stories in business, Amanda Lang, a daily business program remained until 2015. politics, and economics as an anchor that aired on CBC News Network. and producer for two weekly shows at Prior to that, she co-hosted The Lang She is the author of the bestselling book, Canada, called and O’Leary Exchange with television The Power of Why: Simple Questions That Bloomberg North with Amanda Lang. personality Kevin O’Leary. Lead to Success, which shows readers how to reignite curiosity at any age to She has been covering business in North Lang’s first job in journalism was for the become more innovative and productive, America for 20 years. An award-winning Globe and Mail, subsequently joining the as well as her new book, The Beauty of journalist known for her no-holds-barred Financial Post where she became the Discomfort, which helps people become approach to the people, companies, and paper’s New York correspondent. In New more creative, more innovative, and stories making the news. York, she made the leap to television, more effective in work and life. where she first was part of the team that Previously, Lang was CBC’s senior launched BNN, and before long wound Before becoming a journalist, Lang business correspondent, reporting for up at CNN as a reporter and anchor. She studied architecture at the University its flagship nightly news program, The returned to Canada in 2002 to re-join of .

CREATIVITY & INNOVATION Amanda was fantastic - cool, collected and • Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience Lang will provide examples and strategies from all over the world to help you become more creative, more innovative and more she really resonated effective as a leader. with the audience.

• Why learning to tolerate, and then embrace discomfort is the foundation for change, - Middlefield for individuals and businesses alike.

• How great leaders bake in a culture of innovation, while others fail at it.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN YOU WHAT • Why innovation is the solution to Canada's enormous challenge in its productivity gap. JESSICA HERRIN CEO & Founder of Stella & Dot and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author

Jessica Herrin, CEO and Founder of Stella & and personal success was born. In 2007, Times, Wall Street Journal, InStyle, Glamour Dot, is a serial entrepreneur who previously Jessica built a world class team including magazine and more. She earned a degree co-founded WeddingChannel.com, the esteemed advisor Mike Lohner, sales in Economics from Stanford University and world’s leading wedding site. With a vision guru Danielle Redner and Blythe Harris attended the Stanford Graduate School to create a new kind of company that as partner and Chief Creative Officer. of Business. Winner of the 2011 Ernst and would offer today's busy woman a career Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, alternative, Jessica wanted to use her savvy In May 2016, Jessica released her first Jessica is also an active member of the to help solve the modern woman's dilemma: book: Find Your Extraordinary: How to Young Presidents Organization (YPO). achieving success and balance through a Dream Bigger, Live Happier, and Achieve Additional awards include 2010 Top Ten career you love. Success on Your Own Terms By Embracing Female Entrepreneurs from Inc. Magazine, the Entrepreneur In You. Jessica has 2012 Top Ten Female CEOs from Inc. Jessica's vision called for an entirely been recognized for her entrepreneurial Magazine and 2012’s 40 Under 40 and Most new concept that could guarantee accomplishments and her passion in such Admired CEO lists from the San Francisco women flexibility, reward, style, profit national outlets as Oprah, Inc. Magazine Business Times. and fun. With an irresistible product (Stella & Dot was named one of the fastest and exceedingly personal service, a growing private companies of the year Herrin lives in the San Francisco Bay area proven formula for passionate earning for 2010 and 2011), Fortune, New York with her family.

SUCCESS & HAPPINESS Whether we work a corporate job, run a family, or • Why it isn’t about having it all – it’s about having what matters most to you. run our own business, Herrin • How to find your extraordinary – your extraordinary career, your extraordinary happiness, your extraordinary life. offers realistic, attainable steps each one of us can take • How the classic traits of successful entrepreneurs are ones each one of us can develop – and use not only to create a company, but also to create an to achieve extraordinary extraordinary life. success on our own terms. • How to dial up the sound of your own voice and make your authentic

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN YOU WHAT dreams a reality. - Penguin Random House BRIGID SCHULTE New York Times Bestselling Author, Award-Winning Journalist and Director of the Better Life Lab at New America

Brigid Schulte is the Director of the status in busyness, by recapturing the Show, Good Morning America, the Katie Better Life Lab and The Good Life value of leisure. Couric Show, MSNBC, CNN, Morning Joe, Initiative at New America, a nonpartisan the BBC, CBC, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, think tank, and author of the New York She was an award-winning journalist at NPR’s Morning Edition, Tell Me More, Times bestselling Overwhelmed: Work, the Washington Post and Washington On Point, the Diane Rehm Show, the Love and Play when No One has the Time, Post magazine, where she was part of the Leonard Lopate Show, the Bob Edwards which was named a notable book of the team that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. Show, Efecto Naim with Moises Naim, the year by the Washington Post and NPR. Her work has appeared in a number of Australian Broadcast Company, and other She has spoken all over the world about publications, including Time, the Boston television and radio programs. how to make time for a Better Life by Globe, the Toronto Globe & Mail, the redesigning work cultures to focus on Guardian, and the Sydney Morning She lives in Alexandria, Virginia with her effective work, and by re-imagining Herald. She has been quoted as an expert husband, Tom Bowman, who covers the gender roles for a fairer division of or featured in numerous publications, military for NPR, and their two children. labour and opportunity at work and at including Forbes, Fortune, the Atlantic, She grew up in Portland, Oregon, and home. She also discusses rewiring social The Times of London, Macleans, the spent her summers in Wyoming on her policy to meet the needs of diverse 21st Irish Times, The Financial Times and Fast family’s sheep ranch, where she did not century families, and, instead of seeking Company. She has appeared on the Today feel so overwhelmed.

TIME MANAGEMENT & EFFECTIVENESS Brigid was very

• Gain a better understanding of the myths and unconscious biases that are trapping impressive. It was obvious both men and women in outdated gender roles. that she is influential and impactful. Very • How transforming culture, practice and policy can change the lives of men and women and their experience of time. worthwhile experience.

• Tools ​that make time feel less scattered, and life more authentic, with time for effective, meaningful work, for love, and for play. - Third Path Institute WHAT YOU WILL LEARN YOU WHAT WHAT YOU WILL LEARN DR. SEONAID CHARLESWORTHDR. ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY &DECISION-MAKING • • • • experience deep with Psychology expertise in Industrial and Organizational Seonaid Charlesworthcombinesher America. South and UK US, Canada, in executives their success. She has assessed over 400 derail could what and of capable they’re what understand to successors their and executives C-level with works Seonaid atLee HechtHarrisonKnightsbridge Assessment Successionand Senior VicePresident, trust someone, andwhen it’stimetogive uponsomeone. Strategies formakingmore accuratedecisions aboutwho tohire,whether to people, andstrengthen ourtalentmanagementdecisions. How toavoidthe hiddentrapsthatleadustomake thewrongcallabout talent decisions. Learn whatleadingorganizations aredoingtoimprovetheaccurac they reallyare. Discover thehiddenbiasesweall havethatblindusfromseeingpeopleas global organizations. sought out by Boards and CEOs at leading is she Knightsbridge, LHH at Assessment and Succession of President Vice Senior make smarter decisions about people. As assessing leaders to helporganizations we fall into when making decisions making when into fall we thinking, byshowingthecommontraps conventionalchallenges Seonaid y oftheir with honorsfromQueen’s University. B.A. a and Columbia British of University the from Psychology Organizational / Industrial in Ph.D. a holds Seonaid decisions aboutpeople. makeand traps these avoid can smarter organizations, sheshowshowleaders growing fastest world’s the of some from stories on Drawing people. about stronger, more confident and visibly noticeable -creating something within each of something withineach of Global Director, Mars the delegates that was the delegates thatwas Seonaid’s leadership Seonaid’s leadership intentional leaders. program unlocked - EmerBrady, WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING NOTABLE PAST ATTENDEES

Inspiring – Informative – Impactful – Illuminating – Invaluable. Bravo! - Julie Reid Education Officer MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

Excellent day, the speakers expressed similar, consistent leadership priorities for now & in the future. This one day session is enough to gain significant insights on leadership. - Bernice Parent Director, Leadership & Organizational Effectiveness MTS ALLSTREAM

This is just what I needed to be recommitted to building a strong team. - Mary Butcher Senior Manager ROGERS

All the speakers were extremely innovative and experienced in their fields. They presented new ideas in a way that emotionally and intellectually stimulated the audience... Great choice of speakers!

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