Program Schedule
Thursday march 7, 2013
8:00 - 9:00 A.M.
Check-in and Continental Breakfast (in front of Bovard Auditorium)
9:00 - 10:00 A.M.
Opening Ceremony featuring University Greeting with First Lady of USC Niki C. Nikias and Keynote Address with USC Provost Elizabeth Garrett (Bovard Auditorium)
10:15 - 11:15 A.M.
Workshop Breakout Session 1 (various rooms in Ronald Tutor Campus Center)
*Please note that the five workshops repeat in each of the two sessions*
CAREER DEVELOPMENT
"Mastering Transitions along Your Career Journey"
Featuring Lori Shreve-Blake '88 (director, USC Career Center) and Serena Santillanes (president, Career Journeys)
In today's world of work, change and transition are commonplace. Whether it's a transition to a new job, new industry or new occupation, or just a change in one's mindset, understanding how to navigate these changes successfully will help you create the resilience you need throughout your career journey. Having helped thousands of women – of all ages – work through their own career transitions, Serena Santillanes, president of Career Journeys and a professional career counselor, will offer practical advice and strategies to help you create a personal model for career success. In this dynamic, interactive session, we will focus on:
- How to successfully navigate your career during times of work, occupational or industry transition and change
- The importance of creating an on- and off-line presence
- Strategies for staying mindful of your career at all phases in your working life and a plan to keep you on target during times of change and beyond.
FINANCIAL STRATEGIES
"A Legacy of Values: Managing Your Wealth"
Featuring Rebecca Rothstein, managing director - investments and private wealth advisor for Merrill Lynch Private Banking & Investments Group
Wealth management has become increasingly important for women in particular, as they control $41 trillion in assets that will pass from one generation to the next over the following 50 years. Learn how to navigate this financial responsibility and to become a leader in ensuring that you and your family continue to enjoy financial stability and growth.
WOMEN'S HEALTH
"The New Mother-Daughter Talk: A Legacy of Health"
Featuring the Keck Doctors of USC
Many diseases affecting women are hereditary. Knowing your family's medical history is one of the best prevention methods that can save your life. Three Keck Medical Center of USC doctors discuss a wide range of hereditary health issues facing women. Dr. Helen Baron, assistant professor of clinical medicine, tackles diabetes and obesity; Dr. Helena Chui, professor of neurology, discusses dementia; and Dr. Sharon E. Orrange, assistant professor of clinical medicine, provides general tips on disease prevention and health maintenance.
LEADERSHIP
"A Gift Centered Approach to Leadership for a New Generation of Leaders"
Featuring Susan Inouye (executive coach, speaker and author)
With each generation comes the courage to stand up for what one believes even if it means rejecting what generations before accepted as true. Millennials are no different. Like it or not, they are changing the rules of the game for how we must lead. "Command and Control" practices of leadership no longer work, especially on this new generation of emerging leaders. So are you willing to play by new rules?
Susan Inouye, who has a proven track record in transformational change with over 600 businesses and clients, shares what you must do to engage your employees for your company to thrive now and into the future. Her approach, "Sawubona Leadership," comes from a Zulu word that refers to bringing out the best "gifts" that each of us carry inside. Discover this "Gift-Centered" approach and why women are best positioned to adopt the next wave of cutting-edge leadership practices.
In this workshop you will:
- Discover the 3 most important things that Millennials and you want from a job and life.
- Learn the skills of Sawubona that help you engage employees so that they are motivated, committed and follow through to the desired results.
- Develop a leadership "way of being" through experiential practices that allow you to embody the competencies needed to lead employees to their success and yours.
WELLNESS
"Caring for the Caregiver: Wellness for the Sandwich Generation"
Featuring: Sherri Snelling '85 (CEO, Caregiving Club) and Camille Dieterle MA '07, OTD '08 (director, USC Occupational Therapy Faculty Practice)
Thirty percent of U.S. households have a caregiver; 66% are women. The chances are high that most women at some point in their lives will be in a caregiver role, most often for a family member. The challenge of the role include how to juggle children, career and caregiving without dropping the ball of self-care. Sherri Snelling, CEO and founder of the Caregiving Club, and author of A Case of Caregivers: Celebrity Stories to Help You Prepare to Care, and Camille Dieterle, director of the Occupational Therapy Faculty Practice in the USC Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, will give practical suggestions on how to manage it all. Their topics will include:
- Who is the "Sandwich Generation"?
- How younger generations can plan for a caregiving role
- The six dimensions of wellness: the science of why they are important, and what happens when they aren't cultivated
- Stories, solutions and tools women can use to find the help and time for self-care
- Guidance on selecting manageable and personal goals for healthy living
11:30 - 12:30 P.M.
Workshop Breakout Session 2 (various rooms in Ronald Tutor Campus Center)
CAREER DEVELOPMENT
"Mastering Transitions along Your Career Journey"
Featuring Lori Shreve-Blake '88 (director, USC Career Center) and Serena Santillanes (president, Career Journeys)
In today's world of work, change and transition are commonplace. Whether it's a transition to a new job, new industry or new occupation, or just a change in one's mindset, understanding how to navigate these changes successfully will help you create the resilience you need throughout your career journey. Having helped thousands of women – of all ages – work through their own career transitions, Serena Santillanes, president of Career Journeys and a professional career counselor, will offer practical advice and strategies to help you create a personal model for career success. In this dynamic, interactive session, we will focus on:
- How to successfully navigate your career during times of work, occupational or industry transition and change
- The importance of creating an on- and off-line presence
- Strategies for staying mindful of your career at all phases in your working life and a plan to keep you on target during times of change and beyond.
FINANCIAL STRATEGIES
"A Legacy of Values: Managing Your Wealth"
Featuring Rebecca Rothstein, managing director - investments and private wealth advisor for Merrill Lynch Private Banking & Investments Group
Wealth management has become increasingly important for women in particular, as they control $41 trillion in assets that will pass from one generation to the next over the following 50 years. Learn how to navigate this financial responsibility and to become a leader in ensuring that you and your family continue to enjoy financial stability and growth.
WOMEN'S HEALTH
"The New Mother-Daughter Talk: A Legacy of Health"
Featuring the Keck Doctors of USC
Many diseases affecting women are hereditary. Knowing your family's medical history is one of the best prevention methods that can save your life. Three Keck Medical Center of USC doctors discuss a wide range of hereditary health issues facing women. Dr. Helen Baron, assistant professor of clinical medicine, tackles diabetes and obesity; Dr. Helena Chui, professor of neurology, discusses dementia; and Dr. Sharon E. Orrange, assistant professor of clinical medicine, provides general tips on disease prevention and health maintenance.
LEADERSHIP
"A Gift Centered Approach to Leadership for a New Generation of Leaders"
Featuring Susan Inouye (executive coach, speaker and author)
With each generation comes the courage to stand up for what one believes even if it means rejecting what generations before accepted as true. Millennials are no different. Like it or not, they are changing the rules of the game for how we must lead. "Command and Control" practices of leadership no longer work, especially on this new generation of emerging leaders. So are you willing to play by new rules?
Susan Inouye, who has a proven track record in transformational change with over 600 businesses and clients, shares what you must do to engage your employees for your company to thrive now and into the future. Her approach, "Sawubona Leadership," comes from a Zulu word that refers to bringing out the best "gifts" that each of us carry inside. Discover this "Gift-Centered" approach and why women are best positioned to adopt the next wave of cutting-edge leadership practices.
In this workshop you will:
- Discover the 3 most important things that Millennials and you want from a job and life.
- Learn the skills of Sawubona that help you engage employees so that they are motivated, committed and follow through to the desired results.
- Develop a leadership "way of being" through experiential practices that allow you to embody the competencies needed to lead employees to their success and yours.
WELLNESS
"Caring for the Caregiver: Wellness for the Sandwich Generation"
Featuring: Sherri Snelling '85 (CEO, Caregiving Club) and Camille Dieterle MA '07, OTD '08 (director, USC Occupational Therapy Faculty Practice)
Thirty percent of U.S. households have a caregiver; 66% are women. The chances are high that most women at some point in their lives will be in a caregiver role, most often for a family member. The challenge of the role include how to juggle children, career and caregiving without dropping the ball of self-care. Sherri Snelling, CEO and founder of the Caregiving Club, and author of A Case of Caregivers: Celebrity Stories to Help You Prepare to Care, and Camille Dieterle, director of the Occupational Therapy Faculty Practice in the USC Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, will give practical suggestions on how to manage it all. Their topics will include:
- Who is the "Sandwich Generation"?
- How younger generations can plan for a caregiving role
- The six dimensions of wellness: the science of why they are important, and what happens when they aren't cultivated
- Stories, solutions and tools women can use to find the help and time for self-care
- Guidance on selecting manageable and personal goals for healthy living
12:30 - 1:30 P.M.
Lunch (Founders Park)
2:00 - 4:00 P.M.
"Living Your Legacy Speaker Series" (Bovard Auditorium)
According to inspirational speaker and executive coach Gloria Burgess PhD '80, MBA '86, "Living your legacy" means connecting to your past, living with intention in the present, and freeing your talents in order to realize your future potential. Each of the following speakers will give a short presentation on the theme of "living one's legacy" before joining a panel discussion moderated by Frank Buckley '87, co-anchor of the KTLA Morning News. Participants to date are: Barbara Hedges (USC administrator); Thelma Melendez de Santa Ana PhD '95 (superintendent of the Santa Ana Unified School District); Angella Nazarian (best-selling author and inspirational speaker); and Suzi Weiss-Fischmann ("The First Lady of Nails").
4:00 - 5:00 P.M.
Champagne and Dessert Reception, with Speaker Book-Signings (Widney Alumni House/Argue Plaza)
* Please check back here for updates! We will be adding further details and information to the site as the conference approaches.



