Celebrate 2024 Program
Connect, Learn &
Get Inspired
Join us for a vibrant blend of networking, education and fun.
Get ready for Celebrate 2024! On Thursday, May 16, women and their allies from Northeast Wisconsin are invited for an evening of connection, learning and inspiration. Return on Friday, May 17 for a members-only workshop, to delve deeper into understanding workplace gender and cultural disparities, and to craft a personal roadmap for your future growth.
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- General: $50
- Member: $37.50, use promo code CELEBRATE24
- UW-Green Bay students, faculty & staff: Free
Day 1: Thurs, May 16
4-8 p.m., The Weidner, UW-Green Bay
4-5 p.m.
Networking Reception
Cash bar and appetizers. Visit and network with members and friends of the Institute.
5-6 p.m.
Panel: Allyship & Community Building
What does allyship and community building look like for women leaders? Hear from four women who are leading very different organizations that are all focused on transformation and change. The panel discussion will be moderated by Executive Director Pa Lee Moua.
6-7 p.m.
Keynote: Engaging All Allies: Moving from Awareness to Advocacy
Jeffery Tobias Halter
Gender Strategist, Author, Consultant & President of YWomen
The latest McKinsey research highlights the realities (and myths) hindering women in the workplace. Lack of flexibility, corporate culture and attitudes, microaggressions, and the broken rung (which creates a persistent underrepresentation of women, particularly women of color)–must be fixed if senior leaders want to retain the best talent and halt inequitable outcomes.
Jeffery Tobias Halter’s keynote, Engaging All Allies: Moving From Awareness to Advocacy, is designed to help attendees create a deeply internalized approach to equity, with a lens of intersectionality and a sense of urgency that will drive competitive advantage in the workplace and marketplace.
Keynote Takeaways
- Examine “The Future of Work” along with the shifting workforce demographics of age and race and their impact on advancing women and other underrepresented groups.
- Explore the barriers that women and other marginalized groups face in the workplace.
- Discuss the four barriers and the solutions to active advocacy.
- Prepare attendees to create 30-, 60- and 90-day action plans that put their learnings into immediate practice
7-8 p.m.
Social
Enjoy coffee and dessert while you mix and mingle.
Panelists: Allyship & Community Building
The following four women lead very different organizations—all focused on transformation and change.
Alida Al-Saadi
Senior Partner, Korn Ferry
Alida is a strategic thought leader bringing decades of experience driving business outcomes for Fortune 100 to 500 companies across the globe. She currently leads a new business venture, consulting at the intersection of business strategy, people strategy and artificial intelligence.
Maria M. Lara
President & Co-Founder, LPA of N.E.W.
LPA is a professional association, serving over 200 Latino professionals from an array of industries that Maria co-founded with Juan Corpus and Eddie Noriega. Maria has taught professionals for over ten years in both Mexico and the U.S.
Polly Olson
Chief of Police, City of Appleton
Polly rose through the ranks and was the first female Lieutenant, Captain and now Chief of Police. She is committed to mental health awareness and well-being in the community and was instrumental in creating a Peer Support Team, one of the first in the state that has been replicated many times since.
Mang Xiong
Executive Director, WUCMAA
Mang is the first female executive director of Wisconsin United Coalition of Mutual Assistance Association, Inc. (WUCMAA), a coalition that supports, advocates and empowers Hmong, AAPI and BIPOC nonprofits and businesses in Wisconsin. She leads a team that is the largest and youngest in WUCMAA’s history.
Allyship may be one of the most important reasons people decide to stay or go.
Become a
Better Ally
"Allyship today must include everyone. While men still remain the most critical cohort to becoming better allies (as they still comprise 70% of organizational leadership), the latest McKinsey report points out that white women and women of color have significantly different experiences in the workplace. The same can be said for people of color, LGBTQ+, and other marginalized or underrepresented groups. Simply put, EACH of US needs to be better allies…to everyone."
Jeffery Tobias Halter
Gender Strategist, Author, Consultant & President of YWomen
Day 2: Friday, May 17
9-10:30 a.m., Members Only Workshop
Creating Your Personal Success Strategies for Advancement
Do men and women view leadership differently? What are the things men think about women, but never say about women? If you work for a man, chances are he is evaluating you through a male paradox of what leadership should look like.
Jeffery Tobias Halter will lead an interactive discussion and strategy session to ensure attendees:
- Learn how men and women define and value leadership competencies differently.
- Explore unconscious gender bias that men carry that inadvertently hold women back.
- Examine the "double-bind" dilemma women face regarding performance, image and exposure.
- Leave with a personal action plan to ignite your career.
This program is capped at 50 people. If interested, please email the Institute.
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Need more details about Celebrate 2024? Reach out to us. Your participation can make a difference in women’s leadership.