Track I - Career Advancement/Leadership

Kick Your Career Into High Gear

*Caitlin Friedman & Kimberly Yorio, Co-Owners, YC Media; Co-Authors, The Girl's Guide to Kicking Your Career Into Gear

Moderator: Dayle Smith, Ph.D., Professor, Management & Organizational Behavior; Director, Honors Cohort Program in  Business, School of Business Administration, University of San Francisco

Are you ready for a better career? Ready for more money, a better title, or your own business in 2008? Caitlin Friedman and Kimberly Yorio, the best-selling authors of the Girls Guide series are back to help women take charge of their careers. This session offers advice on how to successfully navigate your career including asking for what you deserve, managing workplace politics, overcoming the common fears that may be holding you back, and defining your own success. It will show you how to speak up, highlight your accomplishments, negotiate a raise or promotion, and take charge of your career once and for all.

Track II - Interpersonal Communications

The Hard Truth About Soft Skills

*Peggy Klaus, President, Klaus & Associates; Author, The Hard Truth About Soft Skills: Workplace Lessons Smart People Wish They'd Learned Sooner

Deborah Collins Stephens, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Center for Executive Leadership

What's the hard truth? It's that soft skills can make or break your career!

This high-energy, experiential workshop by Fortune 500 communication and leadership expert Peggy Klaus provides insights, strategies, tools, and techniques for increasing your soft skills savvy. Find out how to deal with office politics, self-promotion, and the "impostor syndrome" (something women in particular suffer from, no matter how successful they become). You'll even learn to conquer the little voice inside your head that whispers, "Boy, have you pulled a fast one on everybody -

Track III - Work/Life Strategies

Getting (More of) What You Want in Negotiations: Successful Strategies and Pitfalls to Avoid

Margaret Neale, John G. McCoy-Banc One Corporation Professor of Organizations and Dispute Resolution, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

Moderator: Mary Ann Bianco, Vice President, Service Delivery Management, Oracle Corporation; Director, PBWC

Women don’t ask! It’s very hard to negotiate successfully if you don’t get into the game. Most people will go to great lengths to avoid the discomfort of negotiating, especially when it comes to salary. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Come hear from an expert on negotiation so you can learn how to turn disputes into value creating opportunities and get more of what you want.

Track IV - Healthy Living

Culinary Medicine: How Great Food Leads to Great Health

*John La Puma, M.D.; Physician, Internal Medicine; Co-Author, Cooking the RealAge Way and The RealAge Diet; Author, ChefMD's: Big Book of Culinary Medicine: A Food Lover's Road Map to Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, and Getting Really Healthy

*Nina Planck, President, Real Food; Author, Real Food: What to Eat and Why

Moderator: Marilyn Nagel, Director, Inclusion & Diversity, Cisco Systems

In this session, the physician-chef host of “ChefMD” will share how “culinary medicine” – the unique combination of the science of nutrition and the art of cooking – can prevent disease, shed pounds, and promote great health. Then the “patron saint of farmer’s markets” will explain why traditional foods are more nutritious and how diet and health have been affected by trends and fads in the last 100 years. Learn how ancient foods like beef and butter have been falsely accused, while industrial foods like corn syrup and soybean oil have created a triple epidemic of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Make your life easier and healthier with what you eat.

Track V - Financial Empowerment

Power and Money: Bridging Cultures and Generations

*Lynn Jimenez, Business Reporter, KGO Newstalk AM810; Author, ?Se Habla Dinero? The Everyday Guide to Financial Success

*Erica Sandberg, Personal Finance Expert; Author, Expecting Money: The Essential Financial Plan for New and Growing Families

Moderator: Patti Brukoff, Financial Advisor, Merrill Lynch

How do you bridge the gap in financial knowledge that exists between generations, genders, and cultures? The answer to that question affects your family, your customers, your co-workers, and your employees. Lynn Jimenez and Erica Sandberg examine the critical need to arm growing segments of society with financial knowledge they must have to survive. The session addresses the increasing power of women consumers and Hispanics in the economy, how they can achieve financial success, and how they can increase the odds that that success will be handed on to the next generation.

Track VI - The Entrepreneurial Woman

Social Entrepreneurs: Multiple Paths to Success

Heather Hopkins, Founder and Co-Executive Director, My New Red Shoes

Magatte Wade, President, Adina Worldbeat Beverages

Speaker/Moderator: Charlene Yu Vaughn, CEO, The Algonquin Group

In the United States, an estimated 500,000 women - two out of every three entrepreneurs - attempt to start businesses each year.  This session will focus on women business owners who have recognized a social problem and are using entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change. Whether you are already an entrepreneur or thinking of becoming one soon, come learn the keys to success for small business owners and managers. Three successful entrepreneurs will share their stories and discuss starting their businesses, marketing and growth strategies, overcoming obstacles, and lessons learned along the way.

Track VII - On the Pulse

Going Green: How Women's Economic Power and Counterintuitive Business Practices Can Make a Difference

*Diane MacEachern, Founder & CEO, What Women Want, LLC; Environmental Writer; Author, Big Green Purse

*Gary Hirshberg, President & CE-Yo, Stonyfield Farm; Author, Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World

Moderator: Ann Barlow, President, West Coast Operations, Peppercom Strategic Communications; Board President-Elect, PBWC

What can one person do to save the planet? If women change the way they spend their money, they can help solve the environmental crisis – and protect themselves and their families, too. Why women? Because women spend $.85 of every dollar in the marketplace. Come learn from a veteran environmentalist how women who spend their money on green products and services can become the most powerful economic force in the world. But what about companies? Is it possible for them to be environmentally conscious while achieving greater profits? Stonyfield Farm is living proof and the CE-Yo will tell you how they do it.

Track VIII - Young Women's Program

Careers of the Future: Which One is Right For You?

Come meet a panel of inspiring young women representing a variety of careers and industries. Hear how they got the jobs they have today, the education they needed, the choices they made, and the lessons they learned. They will share their wisdom and experience so you can learn what path is best for you.

Sumaya Kazi, Executive Director & Founder, TheCulturalConnect.com; Social Media Manager, Global Communications Group, Sun Microsystems

Siobhan Kelley, Attorney, Seagate Technology

Noel McArdell, Vice President, Client Manager, Bank of America

Patty Striniste, Human Resources Representative, State Farm Insurance

LaTanya Timmons, Senior Program Manager, Global Sales Operations, Oracle

Lisa Vittoria, Marketing Specialist, WW Service Product Management, Sybase, Inc.

Moderator: Rosie Allen, Anchor, KGO NewsTalk AM 810

Note: Program is subject to change.