Oct. 23th&25th | ATHENA Leadership Across Generations
Event Date：10/23/2016、10/25/2016 Event Venue：No. 888 Huashan Rd, near Wukang Rd, Shanghai
ATHENA International™, has been supporting, developing and honoring women leaders for 35 years. We are glad to invite you to the discussion of the young professional leadership style with ATHENA Leadership Model® on Sunday, October 23rd, from 10:00 to 12:00 at CREATER SPACE.
Join the discussion on how understanding your values, beliefs and behaviors helps you to be an authentic leader, in all aspects of your life. Given the pressures from traditional leadership models, this requires you to be a fierce advocate for yourself. Join us in exploring what that means to you and your peers.
ATHENA Leadership -
The History and the Model Illustrated Across Generations
( for Young Professionals)
Sunday, October 23, 2016, 10:00 – 12:00
@CREATER SPACE | Hua Shan
Agenda:
10:00 Check-In and Networking
10:15 Introduction
10:40 Leadership Models for Younger Generation
11:00 Panel Discussion & Group Discussion
11:30 Q&A
12:00 Networking till the End
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Also, we are pleased to invite you to the discussion of women's leadership with ATHENA Leadership Model® on Tuesday, October25th, from 19:00 to 21:30 at CREATER SPACE.
We are fortunate to have two dynamic women artists to join our panel, who are from the World Academy for the Future of Women (WAFW)’s Give Voice to Women through the Arts Program with the support of US State Department Cultural Grant.
ATHENA Leadership -
The History and the Model Illustrated Across Generations
( for women leaders)
Tuesday, October 25, 2016, 19:00 – 21:30
CREATER SPACE | Hua Shan
Agenda:
19:00 Check-in and networking
19:30 Introduction of the Delegation
19:50 Insight Sharing
20:20 Introduction of the Panelists
20:30 Panel Discussion
21:00 Q&A
21:30 Networking till the end
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The ATHENA Leadership Model® was formalized over 20 years ago. However, the principles continue to have a dynamic impact across different generations.
Come to learn the history of ATHENA International™, what it stands for, and where it is headed. Hear perspectives and challenges from leaders in different stages of their lives and careers on how the model has empowered them to live ATHENA collaborative leadership.
About the Delegation:
Andrea Stevenson Conner is a change agent and strategic relationship builder. Through her success in global leadership roles spanning four countries, she promotes corporate social responsibility, leadership development, and gender equity.
As President of ATHENA International, Andrea leads the organization in its mission to support, honor, and develop women leaders. An avid speaker, she delivers messages that offer an international approach and global awareness of the challenges facing women’s educational and equal opportunity advancement.
A servant to the global community, Andrea is the Board Vice President of Sias International University Foundation and a Governing Body Board Member for the Raleigh Chapter of the US National Committee for UN Women. She is a consultant for the World Academy for the Future of Women and previously worked for United Nations Women Beijing.
Sarah Jennings serves as a principal in the firm’s business accounting and advisory services department and also leads Maner Costerisan’s fraud and forensics practice. Sarah has experience working on school district, township, nonprofit, for-profit and retirement plan engagements including both attest and advisory services. She has particular specialization performing fraud risk assessments and internal control process improvements for organizations across various industries. Beyond her client responsibilities at Maner Costerisan, Sarah regularly shares her expertise with colleagues and peers by speaking on industry related topics including fraud (risk areas and prevention) and ethics.
Sarah collaborated to form the ATHENA Women’s Interest Network in 2010, which promotes diversity in leadership by providing professional development opportunities, fostering mentorship and community relationships and connecting women to the ATHENA Leadership Model. Sarah developed programs geared toward emerging leaders as well as unique program connecting women leaders in the community in a confidential atmosphere.
Sarah has been instrumental in driving the ATHENA International Ignite8 conference, which hosted over 400 participants andattendees in Lansing, Michigan late September 2016. This coordination of over 30 speakers, hundreds of attendees and multiple venues has brought the conversation of leadership on a global scale to her community.
Martha Mayhood Mertz is the Founder of ATHENA International; a non-profit organizationthat supports, develops and honors women leaders, inspiring women to reach their full potential, creating a balance in leadership worldwide. She has often served as a spokesperson at ATHENA Award events, is a permanent member of the ATHENA International Board of Directors and provides a voice for balanced leadership worldwide.
A few highlights:
◦Leadership expertise. Keynote speaker in cities across the U.S., Canada, China, the United Arab Emirates, Russia and in the UK, Bermuda, India, and Nairobi, Kenya. Striving to encircle the globe.
◦Led research and development of the ATHENA Leadership Model, eight tenets drawn from women’s ways of leading, and other programs that foster 21st century leadership.
◦Author of Becoming ATHENA: Eight Principles for Enlightened Leadership.
◦Represented ATHENA in China at the World Women’s Forum and at the BPW International Forum in Helsinki.
◦Taught the ATHENA Leadership Model in numerous places including the United Arab Emirates and India. Developed ATHENA Leading From Within curriculum. Conducted hundreds of ATHENA World Café sessions.
In addition Martha is president and owner of Mayhood/Mertz Investments, a commercial real estate brokerage and development company she founded in mid-Michigan in 1980. She has served on numerous boards of directors, both for profit and non-profit.
Patricia Ann Pierce retired from Vanderbilt University in 2007 after a career of almost thirty years as the Senior Director of the Opportunity Development Center (ODC). She was responsible for all University and Medical Center matters related to equal opportunity and affirmative action laws, regulations, and guidelines. She achieved outstanding success in the academic world and is recognized internationally as an advocate for diversity and equity.
She has presented numerous programs on disability issues, gender issues, including sexual harassment, and cultural diversity for Nashville community organizations, and at regional, national, and international conferences. She designed and conducted workshops for faculty and staff on avariety of topics related to equity and diversity, and she served as a fact finder and mediator of grievances filed by faculty, staff and students.
Currently she serves as a member of the Economic Council Foundation Board and Chairs the Scholarship Program, is a Board member of the Nashville Sports Council where she served on the Legacy Committee for the 2014 Women’s Final Four basketball tournament, is a member of the Tennessee Woman Suffrage Monument Board and serves as Treasurer, is Board member for ATHENA International, the National Women’s History Project Board, and she is a National Delegate to Vision 2020. She was a founding member of Women in Higher Educationin Tennessee.
About the Panelists:
Ceceilia Tso is Navajo/Diné from Farmington, New Mexico. Her family is from Lukachukai, Arizona. Her company, Tso Consultants, trains and works with American Indian tribes in Indigenous Ontological Leadership, training throughan indigenous lens to create empowered leaders.
She has worked at the University of Utahfor research funding and at the College of Education with American Indians to become teachers as the Director of the American Indian Teacher Education Collaboration. For over 14 years Cecilia has worked with the Strengthening Families Program as the American Indian Trainer of Trainers/Evaluator. She works with tribes in Canada and the USA to assist in obtaining funding to implement the Strengthening Families Program to Indigenous communities.
Dorothy Randall Gray is a teacher, artist, performance poet, global activist, and bestselling author of Soul Between The Lines. Her seven other publications include her latest volume of poetry, Sharing the Same Sky.
Enthralling audiences from Brooklyn to Brazil, Iceland to India Dorothy tells spellbinding stories with captivating humor. She believes words have the ability to empower, heal, and transform. She established Heartland Institute for Transformation to utilizethe arts as a vehicle for manifesting global healing, social change and personal empowerment.
Dorothy has been featured at the Museum of Natural History, Columbia University, the United Nations, and Carnegie Mellon Institute. Her passion for the creative has lead her to offering educational assistance to African school and creative workshops to incarcerated youth, homeless populations, post-graduate students and professional authors. A former New York University faculty member, Poet-In-Residence at Hunter College and National Public Radio columnist, Dorothy is executive director of Women Writers & Artists Matrix in Los Angeles.
About the Moderator:
Carol M. Schoch, choral conductor, clinician and Western music specialist in China, where she has been invited to work with children's, youth & adult choirs, as well as local music educators, here in Shanghai, training them in the areas of healthy vocal production and Western music interpretation and technique. Schoch has been studying, singing professionally, teaching and directing choirs of all ages in the United States and abroad for more than 40 years.
She founded the Detroit Children’s Choir, in 2006, to use the power of music education as a cultural platform to unite children of diverse backgrounds. Before that, she founded the International Choir of São Paulo (Brazil), which brought together English-speaking adults from many countries through the unifying power of choral singing. This fall, Carol has embarked on a new local children's choir project, giving opportunity to children through choral music education for all, continuing her quest to build community through song.
ATHENA International™, supporting, developing and honoring women leaders for 35 years