Thursday, September 12th
7:30 :- Can We Talk?™ Registration Desk Opens & Continental Breakfast
The Program committee for Can We Talk?™ has designed a two-day forum consisting of large group keynote presentations, followed by small group discussions, with pre-assigned table groups and trained facilitators. This innovative design encourages participants to have more than superficial contact with one another for the duration of the forum, to enhance interaction and to delve more deeply into the issues. Participants are asked to seek further understanding, personal growth and interpersonal connections. This design is to promote a sustainable impact, so that women will leave the forum with a personal commitment to improve women’s workplace realities. Participants will hopefully personally work on the issues of race and gender, which permeate not only the workplace, but our communities as a whole, while remaining with your table groups for the 2 days of the forum. We thank you for your cooperation.
8:30 - 8:45 :- Conference Opening
- Welcoming Remarks
- 9/11 Remembrance
REALITIES
8:45 - 9:00 :- Building Awareness
- Video Excerpt (Part 1)
- Musical Selection
- Overview of Forum Format
9:05 :- Introduction - Special Guest Moderator
9:10 - 10:00
Keynote Speaker: Ann Simonton – Media Myths
This session will increase understanding of one aspect of women’s reality in the workplace… how working women are portrayed in all forms of media (print, television, and film) and the influence of the media in our lives and perspectives of each other.
10:15 - 11:45 :- Small Group Exercise & Discussions
11:50 - 12:00 :- Luncheon Seating
12:00 - 2:00 :- Luncheon Program
- Invocation & Welcome
- Video Excerpt (Part 2)
- Musical Selection
- Lunch
Recognitions & Door Prizes (Committee/Sponsors/BCW)
- Keynote Speaker: Sheila Wellington, President & CEO, Catalyst
21st Century Women at Work: Realities, Relationships, Results
Speaker will address challenges working women face today related to race, gender, mutual respect, trust and support. Ms. Wellington will also examine the impact of work on women’s relationships, and the results 21st century women should be attending to and striving for.
RELATIONSHIPS
2:15 - 3:15
Panel Moderator: Sheila Adams, President & CEO, The Urban League of Cincinnati
Panel Discussion: Crossing Cultural Valleys in the Workplace
A diverse group of women will participate in this panel discussion. The panel will address our 2nd major topic area of the Conference, “Relationships.” Given the racial and ethnic make-up of women in the workplace, how do we build bridges across these differences in order to increase our effectiveness individually and collectively in eliminating racism and sexism?
3:15 - 3:30 :- Questions & Answers
3:30 - 3:45 :- Break
3:45 - 5:00 :- Small Group Discussions
5:00 - 6:00 :- Café Reflection & Networking
Friday, September 13th
8:30 - 8:45 :- Welcome by Guest Moderator – Elena Echarri
Musical Selection
RELATIONSHIPS (continued)
8:45 - 9:45 :- Keynote
Speaker: Sandra Guzman, Editor-In-Chief, Solo Ella Magazine
Moving Beyond Collusion
This session continues the theme of “Building Relationships” by focusing on the topic of collusion and how women can and must move beyond it. To tap into our full potential and personal power, we must first examine the subtle ways in which we collude with more dominant others in our lives, and with the institutionalized barriers that still confront many working women in the 21st Century.
9:45 - 10:00 :- Break
10:00 - 11:30 :- Small Group Discussions
RESULTS
11:50 - 12:00 :- Luncheon Seating
12:00 - 2:00 :- Luncheon Program
- Invocation & Welcome
- Video Excerpt (Part 3)
- Musical Selection
- Lunch
- Recognitions & Door Prizes (Committee/Sponsors/BCW)
- Keynote Speaker: Valerie Lemmie, Cincinnati City Manager
Working Women Moving Forward Together, Amid Challenge & Change
This speaker will challenge women to continue to lead positive change in the workplace and in our communities, especially given the eroding racial climate locally and nationally. Participants will be encouraged to take full advantage of the increasing opportunities and choices available to working women and to lead the way in creating a workplace that is more just, inclusive and humane.
1:30 - 3:00 :- Small Group Discussions
Participants will set personal goals and plans to make real their commitment to economic just ice and equality, in the workplace and in our communities.
There will also be an exercise to provide closure to their small group sessions over the last two days.
Evaluations
3:30 - 4:30 :- Closing Presentation & Ceremonies
- Introduction of Speaker
- Speaker: Lorna Owens, Attorney, Entrepreneur & National Orator
…And The Women Gather…
This speaker will inspire participants to gather to become patches in an elaborate quilt of understanding, where their unique attributes enhance the quilt’s richness, durability and complexity.
And the women gather to make things happen, because they are the
essential fabric of family and community life.
Imagine!
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