Women's Leadership Conference
Held each spring, the Elizabeth Somers Leadership Center brings together an intergenerational audience of professional women – many of whom are alumnae – and students to discuss the personal and professional challenges facing women in the 21st century.
The 2008 conference, Challenging Limits, Reaching New Frontiers, was held April 4. For more information about the Women's Leadership Conference, visit our website.
Over the past three years, the conference has addressed such important issues as:
- effective communication and listening skills;
- negotiating your worth;
- breaking the glass ceiling;
- career building and development;
- living the life you want;
- gaining personal and career opportunities from professional, nonprofit, and social organizations; and
- developing leadership skills.
The conference brings together speakers and presenters from various professions, disciplines, and backgrounds. Below are some examples of past speakers and presenters:
- Natalie Ludaway, parter, Leftwich & Ludaway and chair, DC Chamber of Commerce
- Cokie Roberts, newswoman and author
- Eleanor Clift, Newsweek contributing editor and author
- Cissy Baker, Washington bureau chief, Tribune Broadcasting
- Michelle Balamani, D.Min., director, Baraka Counseling Center
- Kristen S. Betts, EdD, president, Research Strategies
- Mary Ellen Bittner, president, Zonta International
- Linda David, CPPC, founder, Future Forward
- Rosalyn V. Green, PhD, counselor, Baraka Counseling Center and professor, Bowie State University
- Corriece Perkins Gwynn, publisher and editor-in-chief, Homes of Color magazine
- Rachelle Heller, PhD, associate dean for academics affairs, GW's Mount Vernon Campus
- Robyn A. Marquart, training supervisor, Enterprise Rent-A-Car
- Susan Phillips, PhD, dean, GW School of Business
- Patricia D. Gurne, managing partner, Gurne, Porter and Baulig, PLLC
- Marilyn Gowing, PhD, vice president for public sector consulting and services, AON Consulting
- Michele V. Hagans, president, Fort Lincoln Realty Company
- Nikki Heidepriem, president, Heidepriem & Mager
- Christine M. Puchalski, MD, FACP, director, GW Institute For Spirituality and Health
"I can interact with people in the boardroom and then I can go sit with musicians and speak that language. I attribute a lot of that to the broad-based education I got at GW."
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