Networking Activity #1
Vanessa George

5:00-6:00pm
5:30-6:00pm

In this session you will hear from three women leaders within the University of California who will share with you their “pearls of wisdom” on what it takes to survive and thrive while making a difference and making a way. Each of the panelists' comes with a wealth of background and experiences both from within UC and outside of UC. Their candid discussion will help you to:

• Learn that your career is like a candy store
• Manage a life and career full of challenges, choices, and changes
• Learn how to take risks…and win
• Learn not to give up your power

• Power - what it is and what it isn't.
• Six sources of power – when and how to use each wisely.
• Women and power – why we don't use what we have and how to change that.
  

Public Speaking with Ease
Caterina Rando

How to Be a Compelling Speaker Every Time Do you know that most people are more frightened of standing up at a podium to give a speech than they are of standing in front of a firing squad? As a result, many people make it to the end of their careers having avoided numerous opportunities to speak in public. This interactive and fun speaking program creates a safe and supportive environment to allow everyone an opportunity to experience being successful in front of an audience.

You will learn:

• The importance of speaking up
• How to successfully think and speak extemporaneously
• The logistics of speaking
• How to overcome nervousness

Negotiating Leadership Through Consensus
Janet Martinez

Negotiation is a fact of life in work as well as personal life. Most women are not comfortable negotiating for themselves. This high impact session will give you the tools you need for deal making with the aim of achieving high-value, sustainable agreements. Through interactive exercises and examples we will focus on negotiation fundamentals -- how to map a negotiation to create and claim sustainable value.

True Colors: What Are Your True Colors? Are You Sure?!
Joyce Hammel

In this fun, interactive session you will discover your true greatest strengths and understand the strengths of others. You will learn quick, proven skills to assess those strengths and how best to use them to improve professional performance and personal satisfaction. Join us to experience:

• How to improve, strengthen, and understand more about all modes of communication
• How to influence and engage others for greater individual performance and gain more successful leadership skills
• How to gain more insight and tools into your professional and personal life
• How others have found life changing experiences with True Colors

Make the Right Career Move Looking to find and do work you love?
Rachelle (Shelley) J. Canter

This session will share crucial secrets of successful job searches to help you identify and land a personally fulfilling top job, as hundreds of executives and professionals using these methods already have. This session will introduce important tools, tips, and strategies to put you on the fast track to your dream job, including:

• The three mistakes that prevent women from getting their dream jobs
• A career planning strategy to build your career a few minutes at a time
• The three promotional tools that help you stand out from the crowd
• Essentials of a resume that dazzles instead of fizzles
• How to build your brand – and your confidence

• Identify the hallmarks of emotional intelligence
• Develop an understanding of how emotional intelligence relates to improved communication and leadership
• Develop strategies for improving skills for self-awareness, self-regulation, and influence
• Create a plan for using your emotional intelligence skills
  
  
  

Using Technology to Your Advantage in the 21 st Century
Syndi Seid

Did you know there are definite U.S. Postal Service guidelines to best address envelopes for fastest processing and delivery? What should you do when your cell phone rings in a public place or in the middle of a meeting…and you've got to take the call? Or, what's the best way to record a voicemail greeting, answer and place calls and take messages…so it won't appear you are screening the call? Attend this interactive session to learn the strategic do's and don'ts to email etiquette, cell phone and telephone courtesies, and how to properly send business and social correspondence by regular mail, either handwritten or via computer to give the best professional impression.

Coaching Skills: Transforming Yourself and Others to Be Their Personal Best
Tamara Wiggins Steele

Whether you want to achieve what appears to be the impossible or simply shorten the distance between your goals and success, coaching can help you plan and execute a strategy that gets you to where you want to be, today, tomorrow and for a lifetime. By going through the coaching process, managers are able to identify and modify behavior that blocks them from performing at their highest level. In this workshop, you will:

• Develop an understanding of coaching as a profession
• Learn fundamental coaching skills
• Identify internal and external challenges to the transformation process
• Learn how to clarify your values and set goals in alignment with your values.

Stepping Up and Moving Mountains with Spirited Contribution
Christie Hardwick

Join author of “The ABC's Of An Extraordinary Life” and executive coach, Christie Hardwick for an interactive workshop to inspire you to show up more complete in your work and in your life. How authentic are you allowing yourself to be? What way are you showing- in the way that you show up? Which of your gifts and talents are in the full light and which are hidden in shadow? Looking at your level of contribution is more than evaluating how hard you work or what progress you have made in your career – it includes the truth of how much of your individual spirit is present in your work and life everyday. Showing up fully, authentically – with a willingness to share the truth – can move you and your organization to greater levels of creativity, innovation and success. There is only one YOU and the world needs you to ‘be present' to succeed! Join us for this transformational workshop.

Equilibrium Dynamics: Balanced Emotions, Clear Focus and Good Judgment for Best Performance
Loma K. Flowers

In this session you will be introduced to Equilibrium Dynamics, a practical approach to emotional competence, the master key to leadership skills, from parenting to presidency. You will learn about managing your emotions, thinking and judgement both within yourself and to direct your actions in your personal and professional relationships. Join us to learn the fundamental principles and some basic strategies of how to manage your emotions, both positive and negative, to build a life in which feelings empower – not sabotage relationships, activities and careers

• Recognize the tip-offs that organizational politics may be negatively impacting your ability to have influence, impact and grow your career
• Begin to defuse some of the negative emotional charge that accompanies facing political realities
• Learn a Political Styles model so you can leverage your own strengths and guard against the weaknesses of political extremes
• Be introduced to the 12 Savvy Strategies that will support increased strategic influence and career satisfaction.

You will also have an opportunity to take an on-line Political Savvy self-assessment as follow-up to the session.

• Increase awareness around managing workforce diversity;
• Examine cultural assumptions, biases and limitations;
• Explore the impacts of our communication style on others in areas that are difficult or taboo to talk about at work such as race/ethnicity, class, disability, sexual orientation, gender, etc;
• Learn to listen without judgment, allow for difference, and explore both thoughts and feelings;
• Consider a multicultural competency model as a communication framework.

Financial Planning for Women: Improve Your Financial I.Q.
Leona Lau

Take stock of your money wisdom and “Get Financially Smart!” This interactive workshop will help you improve yourself financially. Expect to succeed and learn the steps you need to stay on track. The information and handouts in this workshop will lead you through a self assessment process:

• How to assess your financial position
• How to determine your financial goals
• How to ensure a sound retirement
• How to handle your money in each stage of your life

The Importance of Forgiveness for Health and Healing
JoAnne M. Saxe

Join us to explore the profound connection between forgiveness and health. What exactly is forgiveness? What are the benefits of forgiving and is there evidence to support forgiveness interventions? What are the concrete steps to forgiveness? If you believe that you or a significant other may need to do some forgiveness work, this is your opportunity to gain some resources to use to begin your journey.

Specific objectives of this profound and engaging workshop are:

• To discuss the importance of forgiveness
• To identify the benefits of forgiveness
• To explore the meaning of forgiveness
• To note the evidence that supports the impact of forgiveness interventions
• To practice some forgiveness strategies

Leadership From the Inside Out: New Ways of Women Leading
Akaya Windwood

In this interactive and experiential session, participants will get an opportunity to discover ways of leading that move from a place of purpose, authenticity, self-awareness and partnership.  Gone are the days of the single mountain-top based leaders – together, let’s map out new models of leadership that reflect the wisdom of women.  Come prepared to laugh, think, and be supportive of other women while getting support for your own leadership.

Turning Adversity Into Advantage
Jarralynne Agee

Wildly successful women have had to learn hard lessons through challenges, crises, and even their own mistakes. This workshop shares a new framework that moves beyond surviving but suggests that women can use adversity as a blueprint for future success. Every bad boss, poor relationship and personal struggle creates in each woman a competitive edge for excelling in situations where flexibility, nerve and resourcefulness are needed. In fact, in today's world, adversity is not a stumbling block but can be your best advantage. Your transformation begins in this workshop where we will:

• Learn how to make the most of a bad situation.
• Learn how to identify the lesson in the moment.
• Learn how to let go and move on.
• Learn how to identify your success pattern based on your unique experience.
• Learn how to put the three advantages of adversity to work for you.

How To Work Effectively With Faculty
Susan Christy

“Faculty are a different species with a different culture.” Do you agree with this quote from a Stanford administrator? This interactive workshop offers insights into faculty communication and work styles. You will learn many practical, positive strategies for working with faculty in a variety of University of California settings. Join us to discover:

• How working with faculty is different from boss-subordinate relationships in other organizations
• Opportunities and challenges of working with faculty
• Faculty communication and work styles, priorities, roles, needs and pressures
• Strategies to orient and communicate with faculty, manage their expectations, help them follow administrative procedures and partner for their success – and yours
• How to build your resources and relationships

Gender Differences in Communication: A Cross-Cultural Experience
Mercedes Martin

What are the social, political and cultural impact of women’s communication styles and patterns? After three years working with groups in South and Central America, Mercedes discovered that the majority of global research that had been done around communication styles did not fit those populations. Join her for an engaging and experiential workshop designed to help you navigate the complex intersection where power, culture and communication meet. Have fun while learning new interaction techniques designed to assist you when speaking with people from different cultures.

Why Mothers Don't Get Ahead, and What to Do About It
Joan Williams

This session will explore the maternal wall stereotyping that makes mothers seem less competent and committed, and will discuss the forces that make the workplace difficult for anyone without a wife - including single women!  A full array of best-practice policies to make academia better able to attract and retain women will be discussed. Join us to learn:

• The latest research documenting that motherhood is a key trigger for gender discrimination
• The ways bias against mothers disadvantages even women without children
• Best-practice policies to adapt the academic workplace to the needs of mothers and others with care giving responsibilities
• Best-practice policies to help avoid backlash and resentment
  

Become Wired for Joy: The Solution Method
Laurel Mellin

In this session, you will learn simple tools to pop your brain from stress to joy, even when you are in a meeting, caring for kids or waiting in traffic. The Solution Method includes four-week introductory group programs and, if desired long-term training but this session will give you a taste of the power of the method to transform your life. New brain research has shown that the brain is highly plastic. Use these skills to rewire your brain with one goal: JOY. Join us and experience:

• How to Check In with yourself and create a joyful moment
• How to approach yourself to rewire your brain for loving, secure attachment
• How to disrupt “business as usual” in the brain to change your wiring.
• How to use “Emotional Housecleaning” to feel more passionate and alive.
• How to do a “Cycle” - the most powerful tool of the method that rewires the build-up of stress from the past and pops your brain from stress to joy.

How to Do Space Age Work with a Stone Age Brain ™
Eve Abbott

Technology alone doesn't increase productivity – people do. Let Eve Abbott show you new discoveries about the human brain, so you can take advantage of your unique hardwiring at work . Use proven e-mail tips to get better results with less stress for everyone. Leave with enough brain-based tips to save an hour a day. Join us for a personal performance tune-up:

• Discover your personal best brain style (Visual, Auditory or Kinetic).
• Master email tips that will save you lots of time !
• Invest more time keeping your clientele (and boss!) happy.

Putting Your Best Foot Forward, Instead of In Your Mouth:
Jeanne-Marie Grumet

10 Keys to Successful Communication with Difficult People We all have to deal with them at one time or another: difficult people . In this lively session, you will learn tools to handle people and situations in a way that feels better, reduces conflict and produces the outcome you want. You will discover more about:

• What makes someone difficult
• Handling emotional buttons that get pushed and reducing defensiveness
• Understanding and dealing with different personality styles
• How body language can speak louder than words
• Ways to effectively deliver any difficult communication

• Which events shape the behaviors and communication patterns of our 4 generational workforce.
• The motivational differences of these generations, and the importance of understanding and being able to bridge the gaps.
• What each generation “wants” and “why” and how to go about closing the gaps and creating successful interaction by building harmonious bridges.

Women Chained Together Are Sisters: Fearless Collective Empowerment
Nandi Crosby

Do Mean Girls grow up to be mean women? What keeps us from truly supporting one another in the workplace? The purpose of this presentation is to examine the degree of dehumanization that is embedded within our relationships with other women. The core idea is that women's collectives, woman-centered healing groups, and the politics of sisterhood are germane to the upliftment of women. In this engaging, provocative workshop, participants will be given strategies toward personal empowerment by generating and garnering strength through alliances with other women.

Traveling Sola: Tips for Wandering Women Got Wanderlust?
Stephanie Elizondo Griest

This workshop covers everything a woman needs to know before hitting the road sola, including how to: conquer your fear, pack, haggle, fend off parasites (and sketchy men), handle culture shock, and avoid getting tossed off Trans-Siberian trains for not having your papers in order. You'll also learn about work and volunteer opportunities around the globe, from being a WWOOFER to a grammar gypsy, and how to maximize your time while minimizing your overhead. We'll conclude with a discussion of the world's most women-friendly destinations. Get ready to request a vacation!

Eve Abbott If you were born a Navy brat, moving ten times before finishing elementary school, you may well have become a personal productivity expert, too!  Since 1988, Eve Abbott has pioneered brain-based performance systems for leaders so their teams can work 25% more effectively.  Ms. Abbott's books include How to Do Space Age Work with a Stone Age Brain ™ and A Brain New Way to Work ™ (2009). Eve earned her degree in Sociology and Psychology from the University of California and holds a Lifetime Adult Teaching Credential.  She is a lively interview guest on TV and radio.  Look for Ms. Abbott’s expertise in The New York Times and her nationwide Business Journal's “Business Wise” column.  Ms. Abbott has assisted John F. Kennedy University, the Women’s Building Foundation, the Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning and St. Mary’s College School of Education in really working smarter instead of harder.

Jarralynne Agee, PsyD is a psychologist who focuses on workforce issues that impact performance and life satisfaction.  She is a principal analyst at UC Berkeley’s Center for Workforce Development and an instructor in the Departments of Psychology and African American Studies.  One of her proudest roles at UC Berkeley is that of research mentor to underrepresented students in higher education.  Dr. Agee has 15 narrative essays in print including: Souls of My Sisters: Souls Revealed, Souls of My Brothers and Chicken Soup for the African American Soul.  Her work has been published in magazines such as Ebony and American Society of Training and Development.  As a business consultant, she has worked on national projects with executives from major organizations including the NFL, NAACP, Sony Music, Wal-Mart and Kensington Press.  Dr. Agee’s personal story of resilience to adversity entitled “Weeping Mother” appears in Breaking the Silence a collection of mental health professional stories published by Oxford University Press.

Eileen Blumenthal, JD is the founder and managing partner of Rocket Science Coaching & Consulting, a firm specializing in executive coaching and organizational development for social justice and health-related non-profits.  She has extensive experience as a consultant, trainer, facilitator and coach, focusing on leadership, development and professional achievement and satisfaction.  Ms. Blumenthal practiced employment law with Morrison and Foerster and worked in the deans’ offices at Harvard University, Ohio Wesleyan University, and Union College.  She was board president of New Leaf, which provides mental health and substance abuse services for the LGBT community, and a board member for openhouse, a San Francisco nonprofit dedicated to creating and sustaining a senior residential community allowing LGBT seniors to age safely and with dignity.  She received a Bachelor of Arts from Bucknell University, Master's of Education from Harvard University, and law degree from Hastings College of the Law, University of California.

Denise Brouillette, MBA  Following a successful career in health education within the Harvard Medical School system at both the Massachusetts General and Cambridge Hospitals, Denise moved west and founded The Innovative Edge, LLC. Since 1994, her San Francisco leadership development company has been offering leadership programs and executive coaching for individuals at the executive, director, and senior manager levels.  In 2006 Denise launched Hairpin Turns ®, a career strategy consultancy for women leaders.  Denise’s clients are among the Fortune 500 and have included leaders from Google, Yahoo!, Genentech, Stanford University, Kaiser Permanente, Charles Schwab and Symantec, to name a few.  Denise received her BS with honors from Boston University and her MBA from Simmons School of Management, whose well-regarded programs are exclusively for women.  Denise is authoring her first book, Running in Pumps: Winning the Power Game at Work, to be published in 2008, and authors a blog and podcast by the same name.  When not working Denise enjoys running, hiking and backpacking into the wilderness, has been known to dive off cliffs and out of airplanes and is a tri-athlete.

Rachelle (Shelley) J. Canter, PhD is President of RJC Associates which provides career, leadership and team development services to client organizations.  Shelley has 20+ years of experience in executive search, assessment, development and outplacement, including work with industry leaders such as Korn/Ferry International and Drake Beam Morin.  She is adjunct faculty and lead coach for The Women’s Senior Leadership Program at the Kellogg School of Management.  She has written and spoken widely on career and leadership issues and has authored an action-oriented career guide, Make the Right Career Move, published in 2007 by Wiley.  Shelley earned her PhD in Social-Personality Psychology (where her dissertation was on achievement in women) from the University of Colorado and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University with a BA in Psychology.  Complete information on her firm, services, clients and publications is available on the RJC website.

Susan Christy, PhD, President of Christy Consulting, Inc., appreciates the complexity of University administration and management.  Susan has consulted for over 50 University of California departments over the last 18 years.  Her background as an experienced university consultant, tenured psychology professor, Trustee of The California Institute of Integral Studies, graduate student, business owner, training company VP and TV talk-show host lend depth, flexibility and creativity to her work.  Christy Consulting, Inc. is listed as one of the top 15 Management Consulting firms by the East Bay Business Times.
Susan is passionate about helping academic managers and teams mobilize their individual talents, align toward meaningful goals and create the best in education, research and community service.

Jeanne-Marie Grumet, CEO of Communication Catalysts in Novato, California, is respected nationally and internationally as a dynamic speaker, author, coach and facilitator of leading-edge communications training.  For over 20 years she has engaged participants in powerful programs that produce lasting, positive results.  Backed by effective training in psychology as well as years of experience and proven success working in sales, training and management, she delivers customized speeches and courses.  Her programs include interpersonal communications, presentation skills, team building, customer service, sales, conflict resolution and leadership.
Ms. Grumet is a co-author with John Gray, Jack Canfield and Bob Proctor of the book 101 Ways To Improve Your Life. For more information, please visit her website at www.JMGrumet.com.

Joyce Hammel works in the Work-Life Resource Center as the Administrative Officer in the Office of Sexual Harassment Prevention and Resolution for the campus and medical center at UCSF. She is a certified Investigator, Co-Active Life Coach and Mediator.  She is a certified True Colors Facilitator.  Joyce has owned a successful consulting firm for over 20 years before joining the University 12 years ago.  Her consulting client list includes organizations such as Oracle, Noah’s Bagels, United Jewish Federation, ESPRIT, NASA and a variety of nonprofit organizations.

Jackson Katz, EdM is an educator, author and filmmaker who is internationally recognized for his groundbreaking work in gender violence prevention education with men and boys, especially in the sports culture and the military.  He is the co-founder of the Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) program, the leading sexual and domestic violence prevention initiative in college and professional athletics, and director of the first gender violence prevention program in the U.S. Marine Corps.  He is the creator of award-winning educational videos including "Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity," and the author of The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help. For more information visit www.jacksonkatz.com.

Elizabeth Kearney, PhDsits on three boards, specializes in strategic planning and effective leadership training and founded Kearney & Associates: The Experts’ Alliance in 1983.  This award-winning author and professor was a John Hopkins Fellow, and three of her books were Fortune Book-of-the-Month Club selections.  Her last book, Women Who Paved the Way, was released in November of 2005, and her new work, The Baby Boomer Exodus and the Generational Fallout is due to be released in 2008.  Liz was selected in 2003 & 2004 as Businesswoman of the Year by the National Business Advisory Council and received the same accolade in 2003 from American Business Women's Association.  She was one of fourteen business owners honored in Washington, D.C. in March of 2005, and in the same year, she was presented with the Ronald Reagan medal for her work with small businesses and their related issues.

Maxine Hong Kingstonis Senior Lecturer for Creative Writing at the University of California, Berkeley.  For her memoirs and fiction, The Fifth Book of Peace, The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, and Hawai’i One Summer, she has earned numerous awards, among them the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the PEN West Award for Fiction, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as the title of “Living Treasure of Hawai’i.”

Dr. Julianne Malveaux is the 15th President of Bennett College for Women, the President/ CEO of multimedia production company Last Word Productions, Inc. and a native San Franciscan. Recognized for her progressive and insightful observations, she is also an economist, author and commentator.  Her writing appears regularly in USA Today, Black Issues in Higher Education, Ms. Magazine, Essence magazine and The Progressive. Her weekly columns appear in numerous national newspapers and she appears regularly on CNN and BET. She has appeared on PBS’s To The Contrary, ABC’s Politically Incorrect, Fox News Channel’s O’Reilly Factor and stations including C-SPAN, MSNBC and CNBC. She has also hosted talk radio programs in Washington, San Francisco, and New York.
She is the editor of Voices of Vision: African American Women on the Issues (1996), the co-editor of Slipping Through the Cracks: The Status of Black Women (1986), and recently co-edited The Paradox of Loyalty: An African American Response to the War on Terrorism (2002). She is most recently the co-author of Unfinished Business: A Democrat and A Republican Take On the 10 Most Important Issues Women Face (2002). A committed activist and civic leader, Dr. Malveaux serves on the boards of the Economic Policy Institute, the Recreation Wish List Committee of Washington, DC and the Liberian Education Trust.  Dr. Malveaux received her BA and MA degrees in economics from Boston College and earned a PhD in economics from MIT.

Mercedes Martin, MA is co-CEO/President of InPartnership Consulting Inc., an organizational development and strategic change firm specializing in global diversity and leadership development.  Mercedes has been a pioneer introducing global diversity and leadership development programs in Africa, South and Central America.  She is a member of the California Department of Education’s think tank “Building Cross Cultural Conflict Resolution Models” and an adjunct faculty member at a number of local institutions including San Francisco State University, the University of Santa Cruz and John F. Kennedy University.  A graduate of the University of Miami, Mercedes holds a Master’s Degree in Leadership Development from the University of San Francisco and diversity facilitation certification from Equity Institute, IBM and R. Thomas Consulting.  Mercedes is certified as an advanced facilitator using the conflict resolution model of Powerful Non-Defensive Communication (PNDC).  As a United States Air Force Officer for twelve years Mercedes was certified Master Facilitator in “Total Quality Management.”

Janet Martinez, PhD, MPA, JD is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Gould Negotiation and Mediation Program at Stanford Law School.  Dr. Martinez practiced law in San Francisco for ten years on a wide range of corporate transactions and business operational matters.  She subsequently moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she pursued graduate studies, research and teaching at Harvard Law School, Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School of Government.  As a Senior Associate with the Consensus Building Institute, Martinez managed a series of facilitated international policy dialogues for the United Nations Group of 77, the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the World Trade Organization.  Martinez has conducted extensive negotiation training and curriculum development for senior officials at international and U.S. federal agencies, corporations, law firms and nonprofit organizations.  She holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master's in Public Administration from Harvard University, a JD from Golden Gate University and BS in Bacteriology and Public Health from Washington State University.

Laurel Mellin, MA, RDis Associate Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco.  At the university over the last 28 years, she developed a method based on developmental skills training (DST) that is applied as The Solution Method for adults and the SHAPEDOWN Program for children and teens.  The method rewires the limbic brain for resilience and a new happiness set point.  It was named one of the top 10 medical advances of the year by Health magazine and is the only weight loss program other than surgery to have shown lasting results.  With the “medicine” of more joy in life, the brain’s drives and cravings for common excesses fades.  New brief programs for weight, mood, stress, relationships and addictions have been launched in the last year.  Mellin is The New York Times bestselling author of The Pathway (ReganBooks), a researcher and has been featured repeatedly in the media, including as a guest on Oprah three times.  She conducts research, professional training and group programs on The Solution Method.

Edith Ng is a Berkeley alumnus and has worked at UCB for over 30 years. She has served as head of Staff Affirmative Action, Equity and Diversity since 1991, developing and institutionalizing the first student and staff diversity programs at UC Berkeley. In 1994, Project DARE (Diversity Awareness through Resources and Education) was one of eight Bay Area programs to receive an “Excellence through Diversity” award for its work; the award was sponsored by the Center for Human Development. With over 20 years of experience in the diversity field, she has implemented multicultural organizational development efforts to enhance organizational productivity and has been strong advocate for staff development. She also currently teaches in the Peace and Conflict Studies program, offering courses in multicultural conflict resolution.

Caterina Rando, MA, MCC Since 1994 Caterina has been coaching women to communicate powerfully to get what they want. She delivers training on public speaking, communication, stress management and personal success to organizations and institutions including Hewlett Packard, Hitachi, Clemson University, North Carolina State University, the American Academy of Medical Society Executives, California Foster Parent Association and the Community College Foundation. Caterina holds an undergraduate degree in Organizational Behavior and a Master of Arts degree in Counseling Psychology. Caterina is an award-winning speaker, master certified coach, international sought-after speaker and author of the national best-selling book Learn To Power Think now also published abroad in eleven languages including Spanish, Japanese, Swedish, Polish and Estonian. Caterina writes monthly for more websites, magazines and newspapers than she can keep track of.  She was recently featured in Redbook, Women’s Day, Balance, Fitness and Latina magazines.

Judy Sakaki, PhD was appointed Vice President for Student Affairs for the University of California System in January 2007.  She is the first woman and the first Asian American to hold this senior cabinet-level position.  She provides leadership to a department that supports, advocates and enhances the academic, social and cultural needs and development of diverse undergraduate and graduate students.  Her units include Undergraduate Admissions, Student Financial Services, Campus Life, Academic Preparation, P-20 Education Alliances and Gender Equity in Athletics.
Previously, Dr. Sakaki worked in a battered women’s shelter and counseled high school students.  She began her higher education career as an academic advisor and rose through the ranks to eventually teach and serve as an administrator.  Most recently, Dr. Sakaki was Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs at UC Davis and Vice President and Dean of Students at Fresno State.  She was an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow and a trustee on the College Board.  She cares deeply about issues of access, equity, retention and student success.  She earned a BA and MS from California State University, Hayward and a PhD in Education from UC Berkeley.

JoAnne M. Saxe, RN, ANP, MSis a Nurse Practitioner and Health Sciences Clinical Professor at the UCSF School of Nursing.  She is the former Director of the Adult Nurse Practitioner Program that she has taught in since 1985.  She has also been a Visiting Assistant Professor the University of Hong Kong since 1998.  Additionally, she maintains an active faculty practice at Glide Health Services.  Selected areas of special interest include: 1.) Caring for vulnerable populations, 2.) Chronic disease management, 3.) Lifestyle modification for health education and 4.) The importance of forgiveness for heath and well-being.

Tamara Wiggins Steele, Esq.,CECis president and CEO of New Heights Company, an executive coaching and training company in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Ms. Steele has over 20 years combined business, legal and coaching experience.  Ms. Steele worked as Deputy County Counsel for Alameda County and Monterey County where she provided advice and counsel for various county departments.  Currently, she coaches and trains attorneys, corporate executives and sales professionals in the following areas: effective communication, leadership, self-confidence, work/life balance and diversity.  Ms. Steele received her JD from University of California, Hastings College of the Law and her BS from the University of San Francisco in Business Administration.  She received her certification as an empowerment coach from the Institute of Professional Empowerment Coaches (IPEC).  Ms. Steele is a member of the International Coaches Federation, National Bar Association and Business Network International/San Francisco Embarcadero Chapter.

Akaya Windwood, an executive coach and organizational consultant, has spent 40 years working for social justice. She is President of Rockwood Leadership, a national organization committed to promoting social change by providing individuals, organizations and issue sectors with powerful training in leadership and collaboration. She is founder of In Common, a multicultural consultation firm, and co-founder of the Women’s National Leadership Project. Her work has included consultation to nonprofit, school, government and private sector organizations. Akaya has served on the Alameda County Human Relations Commission and the Alameda County Hate Violence Prevention Task Force. She volunteers by sitting on various boards, caring for animals in shelters and providing respite care for hospice families. A long-time resident of the Bay Area, she loves the richness of living and working with diversity and is committed to joy, laughter and healthy, safe communities.