BalanceSeekersTown Hall

Parents as Leaders: Yes We Can!

December 11, 2008 – New York, NY

DRAFT AGENDA**

8:00– 9:00Breakfast/ General Registration

9:00 – 9:15Welcome Remarks

Emcee:

Carol Evans, President

Bonnier/Working Mother Media Group

Host Sponsor:

Name, title (TBD)

American Express

9:15 – 9:30Opening Keynote: Defining Success for Yourself

Lisa Earle McLeod, Author

Forget Perfect and Finding GraceWhen You Can’t Even Find Clean Underwear.

9:30 – 9:45Networking Break

9:45 – 11:45Workshop 1: Leadership Strategies to Confront Critical Challenges at

Work and at Home

A crisis is a turning point: either we are left helpless and overwhelmed, or we find hope and, in many cases, grow stronger as a result. Why do some people thrive in crisis while others wallow in gloom? Why do some companies grow despite the fiercest competition while others crash and fold? In the heat of a crisis, good leaders embrace specific attitudes and behaviors that make all the difference. They employ leadership strategies that you can use at home and at work to build up your hardiness, enabling you to confront crisis with agility and to help others pull through with self-confidence.

In this interactive workshop, participants will:

§Practice strategies to strengthen hardiness and display hardy leadership when crisis hits

§Learn how to boost the resilience in others—their children and coworkers—by demonstrating five key leadership traits

§Discover ways to gain control over difficult situations

§Identify how their unique leadership style influences their approach to dealing with crises

§Examine what information to share with others and how to convey optimism and confidence, yet still tell the truth

§Learn approaches to talk to children and employees about money problems

Jamie Woolf

Mom-in-Chief

12:00– 1:00Networking Luncheon

1:00 – 2:00Parenting Panel: Realities of Making it Work

Challenges of new economic realities…cutting back on expenses…changing lifestyle…how to talk to kids…opportunities in parenting...all these topics and many more are explored by working moms and dads who’ve “been-there-done-that” when it comes to leveraging their leadership strategies from work --- at home.

Moderator:

Carol Evans, President

Bonnier/Working Mother Media

Panel:

Brigida Munoz, Senior Marketing Manager
Consumer Card Services Group
Membership Rewards Retail Partnerships

American Express

WendyL. Hufford

Executive Vice President

& Chief Litigation Counsel

Cardinal Health

Col. Jack Jacobs (US Army – retired)

Speaker, author, on-air political & military analyst

MSNBC-TV

Sarah Pasche

Total Rewards Communications, Corporate Human Resources
MassMutual Financial Group

2:00 – 2:15Networking Break

2:15–4:15Workshop 2: Blast Away Procrastination: Let’s Not Put Off What We Learned Today

At this conference, you've learned a ton of new information and new ideas that you would like to implement as soon as you return home. But we all know that after a conference, "Life Happens" “Holidays Happen” and so many of your great resolutions and ideas get put aside .... forever. Come and learn how to NOT put aside those new strategies that could to kick your business up a notch or maybe make family life a bit smoother. You will leave this presentation with a Personalized Action Plan that can change the course of your profitability, productivity … and parenting.

Rita Emmett

President

Emmett Enterprises, Inc.

4:15-4:30Closing Remarks

**Agenda subject to change

10.17.08