The Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley has planned an array of events in March and April designed to showcase women in business, including a conference, alumnae dinners and a retreat.
The first, on March 13th, is the school’s annual Women in Leadership Conference, now in its 14th year. Headliners for the conference include Kamala Harris, the district attorney of San Francisco; Cathie Lesjak, the CFO of Hewlett-Packard; and Leslie Blodgett, the CEO of Bare Escentuals. More than 400 women are expected to attend the day-long event, which will also include morning panels on a range of industries and afternoon panels and workshops on practical tactics, such as finding real estate opportunities and wading through organizational politics.
“The conference is a great networking opportunity,” conference co-chair Aliza Gutman, MBA 10, said in a statement. “Many interesting people come, and everyone is really enthusiastic and wants to meet other women and learn how they can work together.”
Later this spring, on April 1st, Haas alumnae will participate in the second annual Women in Leadership Dinner series. The dinners will take place in cities around the world, though this year’s locations have yet to be confirmed. The inaugural dinners took place last year in Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Mountain View, Shanghai, Chicago, Seattle and Tokyo.
Finally, from April 19th through 21st, the UC Berkeley Center for Executive Education will host its third annual Women in Leadership Retreat. “The purpose is to help rising stars within organizations understand the primary obstacles that women meet in their career progressions, to acquire tools and skills to deal with them and to navigate influence and change in organizations,” Haas Associate Professor Laura Kray, a retreat organizer, said about the event. The retreat is designed to be highly interactive and will include presentations and workshops by a range of UC Berkeley faculty.
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