Saturday

October 10

9:00 am

“Leading To Make A Difference”

Leadership with passion and meaning make a difference! Kym will inspire, motivate and educate about leading to make a difference and the importance of building a personal network.

Kym Sosolik, S.M.U.

Director of Leadership and Organizational Development with Cox, Executive Education at Southern Methodist University, Kym Sosolik’s responsibilities include the development and delivery of high quality, contemporary, customer-focused leadership development programs focused on leadership, human capital, and organizational development within the business community.

Sosolik is the founder and developer of the first women’s leadership program at SMU Cox Executive Education to be launched soon.  “Women in Motion” will be a unique program aimed at women executives. 

She is also the program director for the SMU Cox Executive Education Leadership Series, which provides skills and tools needed at critical junctures in corporate careers for rising and highly talented leaders to have an immediate, and lasting impact on their companies and careers. She received a Master of Arts degree in Professional Development from Dallas Baptist University.

Saturday

October 10

11:00 am

The Four Generations in Your Client Base: What Do They Really Want From You?

Have you ever left a client meeting or program wondering if you made a meaningful connection? Have you ever felt out of touch in the presence of certain people? Perhaps your approach works well only with individuals of your own generation. It may be time to expand your message so it reaches Traditionalists and Baby Boomers, as well as members of Generations X and Y. Whether you work with clients one-on-one or in group settings, this session will help you tailor your services to the age and experience of your target audience so you are up-to-date and relatable to all.

Baby Boomer, Linda Thomas AICI CIP, dynamic corporate image trainer since 1999, travels across the US providing seminars and keynotes for such companies as PricewaterhouseCoopers, Toshiba Medical Systems, Texas Instruments and various professional associations. She also trains image consultants who want to enter the corporate image training field and/or present energizing informative programs to live audiences.

Saturday

October 10

9:45 am

Successful Women Credit Their Mentors

Mentors make a huge difference in people’s lives and careers. WOVI is proud to present a panel consisting of four highly successful women with a wide range of experiences and backgrounds who will inspire and influence us with their stories about how having mentors influenced their success and their lives.

Participating on the panel are:

Entrepreneur and small business owner
Charlene Sims, Owner, The Masters Press

Charlene Sims, The Masters Press

Patricia Mejia

Corporate executive, Marilyn Kibler
Regional Technology Partner, Tatum, LLC

Facilitated by Frances Pelley
Oklahoma State Director at
Strategic Government Resources, founding president of WOVI Red River Chapter and a past recipient of WOVI’s prestigious Mentor of the Year Award.

Frances Pelley

Saturday

October 10

1:45 pm

Brand YOU in a Social World
Kim Young, The Forest and the Trees

What is your Google cred? Type your name into a search engine and what results do you get? Are your visible? What do the results “say” about you?

Having a positive presence on the Web is essential to building a successful personal brand today. Blogs, facebook, Linkedin, twitter, etc., are some of the key tools one can use to craft a dynamic and unique digital profile. This presentation will be an overview of these ever-changing tools and how-to tips.

Kim Young

Kim Young has been connecting people, communities, organizations and businesses on a local, statewide, national and international basis for more than 25 years.

In 2004, she started the forest & the trees to help organizations better understand their communities and to move from connections to partnerships. Her client list includes Blue Mesa Grill, PBS/BBC, Texas Commission for the Arts, Texas Association of Convention & Visitors Bureaus, Center for Nonprofit Success and the Center for Nonprofit Management, among others.

Saturday

October 10

1:45 pm

Rewrite Your Future

Rewrite Your Future  is part of Heather Carlile’s compre-hensive program for lifetime redesign through interaction, goal-setting, script-writing, mentoring and visualization. Heather guides you in writing and using a script that describes your new LifeStyle. Studies have shown that a powerful way to accomplish change is through visualization.  It allows you to reprogram  your conscious and unconscious mind through four steps: 1. Picturing or Visualizing, 2. Feeling and Sensing, 3. Deeds, Actions, Behaving and 4. Thanking.  Heather mentors you in describing your vision and planning the practical action steps to achieve your goals.

Heather Carlile is an expert with people… with their personality styles, relationlships and adjustment to change. She has a 16-year-old private counseling practice in Dallas, Texas and has been a corporate trainer there since 1993. She is the author of Designer Marriage, a course for couples and ReWriting Your Future, a comprehensive mentoring course.

Heather Carlile

Saturday

October 10

1:45 pm

Re-Zoom Your Resume

Susan Jones, Neiman Marcus

Saturday

October 10

3:00 pm

The Fusion of Online and Offline Marketing
Increase Your Performance

The Fusion of Online and Offline Marketing presents businesses with a FUSION of old school marketing methodologies and new age technology… Crushing traditional advertising! With powerful grass-roots marketing systems, and a strong emphasis on technology and business systems, Jennifer will present multiple solutions that can help any business improve and increase their bottom line net profits including:  Website Performance,   Social Media Marketing, Networking Strategies that Produce Sales & Profits, Increasing Your Return on Your Time—Online & Offline, Forming Strategic Alliances.  These solutions combined produce Integrating Your Online Network with Your Offline Network

Jennifer Bagley

As a Purveyor of Next Generation Marketing, innovation is at the core of Jennifer Bagley’s DNA. From her executive management expertise orchestrating and managing the first global supply chain compliance system for four major U.S. companies, to launching her own successful small corporation, Jennifer’s zeal for creating smart marketing tools for small- to mid-size companies never wanes.  The future success of your business will depend on how innovative you can be over the next 5 to 10 years. Jennifer’s trademark, Fusion Marketing System, is designed to train and support business professionals on all levels how to eliminate barriers and expand their market utilizing existing resources. Possessing the unique combination of experience with technology and large scale organizational design, along with a keen intuition of market forces, Bagley revels in challenging the conventional rules of business to effect profitable change for her clients.

Saturday

October 10

3:00 pm

What songs are you singing in these challenging days? Women in leadership at work and in the community are challenged every day and, especially, when life around us is extra-stressed.  Being in tune personally, as well as professionally, helps us cope with the trials of the times. This interactive session will guide the group in discovering ways to tune up leadership skills and sing on key in order to orchestrate harmony in difficult times.

Lydia Gober

Lydia Gober, President of Your Best Performances, presents  keynote and tune-up sessions from her briefcase of lively programs designed to build up and lift up audiences.  Using her passion for music she provides a unique perspective to help listeners identify strategies to meet their needs with enthusiasm and positive anticipation.  She brings over 30 years of life and work experience, including teaching, educational administration, non-profit organization leadership, career and job search training, plus her life as a musician.  Her varied leadership experiences have allowed her to adventure into the lives of individuals and organizations and to be part of their best performances. 

Saturday

October 10

3:00 pm

Tell Me About Yourself: Preparing for and Responding to the Top 5 Most Asked Interview Questions

Tell Me About Yourself: Preparing for and Responding to the Top 5 Most Asked Interview Questions.

Congratulations!  You made it past the resume screening and to the first interview!  Now is your chance to shine!  Being prepared is the only way to really show the interviewer how perfect you are for the job.  Learn how to effectively prepare for your interview and create targeted responses to the top five most commonly asked interview questions.

Alyson Federico, founder of EvolutionYou Coaching, has over 15 years experience in career consulting and coaching, recruiting, and placement in the DFW area. She has coached hundreds of managers and individual contributors from diverse backgrounds to develop successful interviewing and marketing strategies using her supportive and perceptive coaching style.