Accelerating Women In Industry: Recent Episodes
AcceleratingWIN
Educating and empowering women is an essential element of the Rowland School of Business at Point Park University. The Women In Industry (WIN) initiative exists to accelerate the success of women-identified students and professionals. By leveraging university and community resources, we strive to engage leaders, effect conversations and encourage allyship through a variety of elevating experiences.
What does the future hold for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in sports? Join Point Park University’s Women in Industry (WIN) and Women in Sports and Events (WISE) Pittsburgh for a virtual PowerPlay session as a panel of sports and DEI leaders share their experiences and approaches to developing and evolving DEI initiatives in sports, including the positive impact diversity, equity, and inclusion can have on sports organizations and the broader community, as well as actionable steps needed to become more inclusive and equitable.
This episode explores how to develop productive professional relationships and to encourage participants to view mentoring as mutually beneficial and seek out others to whom they can give as much as they get.
We hear about the wage gap frequently, but paychecks aren’t the only thing holding women back in retirement and planning for their retirement. Most of us are so busy with our professional lives and taking care of everyone else, we lose sight of our own finish line! This session will discuss how to plan for YOUR finish line, what will happen to you financially, and what will happen to your business when you reach retirement.
Cindy Adams Dunn: Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
Successful women navigating their career journeys featuring Allie Sabo, Lisa Fitting, Melissa Myers, Heather Fusko, Suzanna Maduro with CGI, a global IT and Consulting Services Firm.
The global pandemic has caused innumerable shifts to the way that people live, work and do business. One such change is how we connect with others. Since March, people have been called to master video conferencing and new technologies that make business and communication possible in a socially distanced world. Our guests for this series are Liz Lamping, PHRA Executive Director and Katherine Miller, PHRA Membership Development Specialist
This episode is dedicated to Illuminating the challenges faced by women that have been further exacerbated by the pandemic. The discussion provides encouragement and direction towards a path forward through community and workplace collaboration.
In this time of uncertainty and stress, we and our businesses must adapt for more healthful and prosperous outcomes. In this interactive talk we will explore the notion that mindfulness practices are not just done on a cushion in a candle lit room and that we can use these practices anywhere, anytime.
Join Life Coach Christy Stuber to illuminate how you identify stress and some coping mechanisms to manage it.
Sales is typically thought of as a masculine discipline, and yet, we all need to know how to sell. Whether that's selling your idea to a group, selling your candidacy for a new job or promotion, or selling a new idea to a board of directors, there are principles that the best sales professionals use that can be adapted with success by those in non-sales roles. In this session, you will learn the basics of building a relationship to sell, using data to uncover rather than hard sell, and how to present with power in your sales situation.
Women’s Business Enterprise Center East are advocates for women business owners and entrepreneurs in Pennsylvania, from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia, as well as Delaware and Southern New Jersey.
Stacey Etherson is the founder of HR Solutions, a human resources consulting company for small businesses and nonprofit organizations with a focus on coaching new leaders and generalist responsibilities to help create, improve and sustain a healthy culture. Etherson presents human resources training programs to CPAs and attorneys through the Community College of Allegheny County's continuing professional education program and other community organizations.
Julie Anixter is an enterprise design principal for Throughline. Anixter represents a cohort of designers and innovators who serve enterprise design. Her career has been focused on imagining and creating remarkable results through imbedding imagination, creativity, design and innovation in large and small organizations.
Marianna Stoneburner MSN, RN, NEA-BC, chief nursing officer and vice president of patient care services for UPMC Horizon and UPMC Jameson, joined UPMC in 1993 and has 27 years of progressive nursing leadership experience in academic, community and rural acute care organizations. She serves as the nurse executive with the authority and responsibility for establishing standards of nursing practice and overseeing functions including driving, supporting and modeling a caring service-oriented professional culture focused on employee engagement, quality, patient safety, service excellence, fiscal responsibility and the overall patient experience.