A professional development company specializing in the retention, development and acceleration of women leaders.
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2009-2010 WEBINAR SERIES FOR PROFESSIONAL WOMEN
Negotiation and Risk Taking to Advance Your Career – August 28, 2009 -
12:00pm-1:00pm PST
To be successful in business, women need an arsenal of skills that they can cultivate
and deploy in a variety of situations. At the top of the list is knowing how to:
• Cultivate confidence
• Sell their ideas
• Handle adversity
• Develop mental toughness
• Identify and conquer their fears
• Ask for what they want
Learn from some experts on how to turn challenges into opportunities and know
when to take the right risk at the right time.
SPEAKERS:
MODERATOR:
To sponsor a webinar, contact Ruth Stergiou.
To suggest speakers and/or topics for upcoming webinars, contact Laura Deck or call
650.592.9227.
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Thank you to our corporate partners: HP, SAP Labs, and Symantec.
Employees of corporate partners receive complimentary downloads of previous webinars. Contact Laura Deck to get a link to the recordings.
Discounts available for corporate partners. Contact Ruth Stergiou at 650-592-9227.
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Award winning journalist Sydnie Kohara brings more than two
decades of experience to her position as news anchor at CBS-
5/KPIX TV. The founding host of CNBC Asia’s first show about the
Internet, “dot.com,” she later anchored CNBC’s “CNET News.
com" that explored the tech revolution. Ms. Kohara was part of
the KGO-TV newsroom that won the prestigious George Foster
Peabody Award and the Edward R. Murrow Award for coverage
of the 1989 earthquake.
Jennifer Millier is the Vice President of the Mission Critical
Business Solutions Group within the Business Critical Systems
business unit at Hewlett-Packard. As the leader of HP UNIX,
Linux, Windows, OpenVMS, Tru64, Alpha, and MPE Research and
Development organizations, Jennifer is responsible for the design
and delivery of all HP Operating Environments with robust mission-
critical virtualization, in-depth security and mainframe-class
availability. Jennifer’s managerial experience includes stints in
Marketing, R&D, Supply Chain, and International Business
Development. As a member of HP’s PC business unit, she
pioneered HP’s first worldwide volume direct sales program,
building the end-to-end go to market plan. She attended San
Jose State University and holds a BSEE degree.
www.hp.com




Julie Gilbert is the founder and CEO of WOLF Means Business, a
global consulting company that creates significant financial
growth in Fortune 500 companies to serve the now dominant
female market authentically. Today, WOLF is the only proven
approach and global network comprising more than 40 countries
that has significantly increased sales, market share, and cost
savings by engaging employees and consumers in innovation. She
created the highly acclaimed WOLF five years ago as a Senior
Vice President at Best Buy and was able to increase female
revenue by more than $4 billion, decrease female turnover by
more than 5% each year and increase women in the company by
more than 18%. She holds a Masters in Business and a Bachelor of
Science from the University of Minnesota. She is also a CPA in the
state of Minnesota.
www.wolfmeansbusiness.com