Diana Bilimoria, PhD, will speak on attributes and behaviors of leaders in health care. During her presentation, Dr. Bilimoria will address questions related to the following: What are the differences between management and leadership? How can managerial and professional women in health care successfully enhance their leadership impact and contributions, forge new inroads, and dispel stereotypes? How can women lead with integrity in their health care organizations? This talk will lay the foundation for participants to recognize and enhance the unique leadership skills and competencies they bring to their health care organization.

Tools for the Boardroom - Melinda L. Estes, MD & Rochelle Rosian, MD

In this special Keynote Conversation, Melinda L. Estes, MD, MBA, teams with WPSA Co-President Dr. Rochelle Rosian to discuss the knowledge, skill, and competency tools women need for the boardroom. Dr. Estes will share her knowledge and experience drawn from her leadership successes at Fletcher Allen Health Care, Cleveland Clinic, and MetroHealth to describe essential leadership tools and how to acquire them. Dr. Estes will continue this leadership tools conversation as moderator of a panel discussion with other local health care leaders.

Moderator: Melinda L. Estes
Daphne Ayn Bascom, MD, PhD; A. Marc Harrison, MD; A. Gus Kious, MD; Janice Murphy, RN

Claire Scott Miller will lead an interactive presentation on the importance of developing social capital, which can often make the key difference when working with others. This presentation centers on defining, acquiring, and utilizing social capital. Attendees will discover how successful leaders leverage both their strengths and their relationships in business interactions. During the presentation, attendees will learn to develop their relationship inventory and to apply the four keys to building successful relationships.

Resiliency: How to Lead in Difficult Times - Davia Temin

Davia Temin will speak on the key attributes of a truly resilient leader, individual, and organization. An expert in reputation and crisis management, Ms. Temin is a sought after speaker and serves on many boards including the National Board of the Girl Scouts of America and Swarthmore College. Ms. Temin was recently appointed to the Cleveland Clinic Institutional Relations and Leadership Board.

This highly interactive session will engage participants in exploring how to communicate and interact in ways that engage others, and how to create conditions for individuals to advance themselves under their own motivation and propel the organization in a positive direction with the least amount of energy lost to resistance and power struggles. Participants will learn a process for building mutual understanding and shared commitment instead of perpetuating resistance and misunderstanding. They will also learn the five key behaviors of communication that promote understanding and accountability.

If you want to be more successful, productive, and fulfilled in your professional life, you may need a paradigm shift. Learn how to unlock your potential for success by refining your goals. Successful goal setting will increase your confidence and help you build a client base, receive promotions, or increase productivity, among other benefits. Find out how goal setting increases confidence; what prevents women from achieving goals; how to stay focused in order to reach goals; and how to create an effective action plan. This workshop is designed to show participants how to create achievable goals and obtain meaningful results. By the end of the workshop, participants will also understand how goal setting and confidence are inextricably connected.

This session will focus on participants Executive Presence, a term that describes a highly experiential approach, focusing on learning “from the inside out,” and achieving a true mind-body link in the areas explored. Participants will participate in interactive exercises and activities that enable them to leave their mark on others at every level, in every interaction – through their personal power and physical presence, their ability to focus on their audience/listener, and their words.

Learn to identify the behaviors that convey executive presence; carry yourself in a manner that conveys your leadership vision; focus on the interests, needs, and desires of your listener to achieve a stronger personal connection and greater influencing power; and deliver information spontaneously in a manner that commands audience attention – dynamic, concise, persuasive, and results-oriented.

Coaching and mentoring are two programs consistently found to help women advance within organizations. No matter where you are in your career, you can be a mentor, or use some advice from another professional. Learn how you can acquire the support you need and how you can provide this support to your colleagues. At the end of the session, attendees will be able to recognize the importance of formal mentoring and be able to implement mentoring and mentee techniques.

This highly interactive session will provide participants with the skills they need to communicate with confidence and influence others to action when they are presenting. Participants can count on an approach that connects mind, body and emotion for learning that begins on the inside and is conveyed on the outside.

Participants will learn the power of five important skill sets when it comes to influential communication. Interactive exercises and activities will allow attendees to experience what they are learning for a stronger transfer to the work environment. Participants will learn to gain command over their focus – always keeping their attention where it needs to be, on their audience. They will experience the power of relaxation – how to achieve it and even more important how to keep it when it counts. Attendees will “play” with the power of pictures when it comes to clarity. And, finally they will learn the three most important questions to ask when preparing for any presentation.

In this session, participants will develop a personal plan for how to identify and manage stress in their careers and lives. Learn the basics of managing stress, what happens when we go into the “grip” of stress and identify the specifics of how you personally manage stress based on your Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Participants will develop a personally relevant plan for how they intend to manage stress based on what they have learned.

A completed MBTI is required to attend this break-out session. Information on how to take the MBTI on-line will be given to registrants of this session.

This highly interactive session will engage participants in exploring how to communicate and interact in ways that engage others, and how to create conditions for individuals to advance themselves under their own motivation and propel the organization in a positive direction with the least amount of energy lost to resistance and power struggles. Participants will learn a process for building mutual understanding and shared commitment instead of perpetuating resistance and misunderstanding. They will also learn the five key behaviors of communication that promote understanding and accountability.

If you want to be more successful, productive, and fulfilled in your professional life, you may need a paradigm shift. Learn how to unlock your potential for success by refining your goals. Successful goal setting will increase your confidence and help you build a client base, receive promotions, or increase productivity, among other benefits.

Find out how goal setting increases confidence; what prevents women from achieving goals; how to stay focused in order to reach goals; and how to create an effective action plan. This workshop is designed to show participants how to create achievable goals and obtain meaningful results. By the end of the workshop, participants will also understand how goal setting and confidence are inextricably connected.

This session will focus on participants’ Executive Presence, a term that describes a highly experiential approach, focusing on learning “from the inside out,” and achieving a true mind-body link in the areas explored. Participants will participate in interactive exercises and activities that enable them to leave their mark on others at every level, in every interaction – through their personal power and physical presence, their ability to focus on their audience/listener, and their words.

Learn to identify the behaviors that convey executive presence; carry yourself in a manner that conveys your leadership vision; focus on the interests, needs, and desires of your listener to achieve a stronger personal connection and greater influencing power; and deliver information spontaneously in a manner that commands audience attention – dynamic, concise, persuasive, and results-oriented.

Coaching and mentoring are two programs consistently found to help women advance within organizations. No matter where you are in your career, you can be a mentor, or use some advice from another professional. Learn how you can acquire the support you need and how you can provide this support to your colleagues. At the end of the session, attendees will be able to recognize the importance of formal mentoring and be able to implement mentoring and mentee techniques.

This highly interactive session will provide participants with the skills they need to communicate with confidence and influence others to action when they are presenting. Participants can count on an approach that connects mind, body and emotion for learning that begins on the inside and is conveyed on the outside.

Participants will learn the power of five important skill sets when it comes to influential communication. Interactive exercises and activities will allow attendees to experience what they are learning for a stronger transfer to the work environment. Participants will learn to gain command over their focus – always keeping their attention where it needs to be, on their audience. They will experience the power of relaxation – how to achieve it and even more important how to keep it when it counts. Attendees will “play” with the power of pictures when it comes to clarity. And, finally they will learn the three most important questions to ask when preparing for any presentation.

In this session, participants will develop a personal plan for how to identify and manage stress in their careers and lives. Learn the basics of managing stress, what happens when we go into the “grip” of stress and identify the specifics of how you personally manage stress based on your Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Participants will develop a personally relevant plan for how they intend to manage stress based on what they have learned.

A completed MBTI is required to attend this break-out session. Information on how to take the MBTI on-line will be given to registrants of this session.

With attention spans getting shorter every day, communication has become the single greatest challenge in business today. This session will help attendees reach their “A-game” in interpersonal communication, giving them more power to change minds and inspire remarkable results while talking less. This is an accessible and succinct introduction to 21st century communication skills. Attendees will learn to be more influential and make things happen in our distracted, attention-deficit world. You will hear specific tips and learn practical take-away strategies to ensure you are fully heard, clearly understood, and can ignite positive action in any business or social situation.