CAREER / LIFE PLANNING WORKSHOP FOR MIDLIFE WOMEN
Get the “Dish” with Best-selling Author & Career / Women’s Issues Expert Barbara Moses Ph.D.

   
 

Are you asking yourself what next? Are you re-evaluating priorities? Are you struggling with boredom, burn-out, or lack of balance? Are you seeking opportunities which will allow you to express your authentic self and still be successful? Are you concerned about developing corporate policies that create a culture that values what women contribute and will inspire them to want to stay?

The Experience

The landscape

  • Besieged and Restless: The emotional math of  female distress
  • How did you get from there to here?
  • Finding your truth in the second half
  • The myth of work/life balance

Know yourself (Career Advisor self-assessments)

  • What do you need to be happy and engaged?
  • Your best/worst match for roles/ environments?
  • What are your core career themes and motivators?
  • How are you changing?
  • Reflect and digest

Moving forward with grace

  • The anatomy of moving on
  • The 7 successful paths to midlife renewal
  • Why some women are successful in organizations, others need to do their own thing
  • There’s more to life than work e.g. giving back

Secrets to success in the second half

  • Women confidential: what we wish someone had told us

Wrap up clinic for talent managers (subject to participant interest)

  • What women want; why gender is a business issue.
  •  Learn how to create a female friendly workplace. 
Networking with cash bar

The Ultimate Online Self-assessment Tool: This special day is built around Barbara’s powerful online career management tool, Career Advisor, which has been acclaimed as “the ultimate career resource” and likened to “having a personal counselor on your computer.” You will have access to the rich, comprehensive content in Career Advisor for 12 months.

The Leaders

Dr. Barbara Moses is an internationally recognized career planning and women’s work / life expert. She has consulted to hundreds of organizations world-wide and is a sought-after speaker on career and women’s issues. Her latest best-selling book is Dish: Midlife Women Tell the Truth about Work, Relationships, and the Rest of Life.  She was recently selected by More Magazine as one of the Top 40 Women over 40 .

Jane Hutcheson is a respected career and leadership coach. In her former role as head of Learning and Leadership Development at TD, she was actively involved in initiatives which supported employee engagement, career planning and promoting women in leadership. She is frequently invited to speak on employee engagement, career planning and creating a successful employment brand.

What:   1-day workshop, facilitated by Barbara Moses and Jane Hutcheson
When:  October 3, 2008
Where:  Verity Women’s Club, Queen St, Toronto
Who:    Midlife women; organizations focusing on talent management

Cost: $695.00 + $34.75 GST= $729.75 (includes 12 month access to Career Advisor.)

Group discount: Three or more registrants from the same organization -- $50.00 off per person.

To register: Please contact Andrew Weiner, aw@bbmcareerdev.com, 416-924-9051