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UW-Madison
Women &
Leadership Symposium
Thursday, July 7, 2016 The Pyle Center
Stained glass design of the W crest logo in the Main Lounge at the Memorial Union. Photo by Jeff Miller, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW-Madison
Women & Leadership Coffee & Conversation
2016 - 2017
Save the Dates!
Thursday, September 8, 2016 Thursday, October 13, 2016
Thursday, November 17, 2016 Thursday, February 9, 2017 Thursday, March 16, 2017
Thursday, April 6, 2017
8:00 a.m. check in 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. conversation
9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. informal networking
**All dates, times, and locations are subject to change. Check talent.wisc.edu for announcements.**
These FREE events feature a presentation and conversation with one of
the women deans on campus as well as an opportunity to network.
Registration is appreciated.
Register at: talent.wisc.edu — See “Conferences & Special Events” Questions: Kathleen Smith, [email protected]
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7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Check In
8:30 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. Welcome and Keynote
9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Featured Sessions
11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Featured Sessions
12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. Lunch
1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Featured Sessions
2:45 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Endnote
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Networking Reception
UW-Madison
Women & Leadership Symposium
Thursday, July 7, 2016 The Pyle Center
Agenda
Partners
This day of learning and leadership is made possible by generous event partners:
UW Foundation Women’s Philanthropy Council
UW-Madison Committee on Women in the University
UW-Madison Office of Talent Management in the Office of Human Resources
7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Symposium Check In Pyle Center Lobby. Refreshments available outside rooms 325/326 and 313.
8:30 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.
Welcome & Introduction: Soyeon Shim, Dean of the UW-Madison School of Human Ecology Kathleen Smith, Office of Talent Management, UW-Madison Office of Human Resources Natalia DeLeon, Kate O’Connor, Rebecca Scheller, UW-Madison Committee on Women
Keynote: Kathy Moran, Introduction by Dean Soyeon Shim
Early bird seating in room 325/326; Additional seating in room 313
9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Featured Sessions
Room 121
Secrets to Financial Happiness for a
Lifetime
Peggy Olive
Room 213
Wellbeing and Leadership:
A Reflection on Agency and
Empowerment
Lori DiPrete Brown
Room 309
Social Media: Sharing Your Work in the Public Square
Kelly April Tyrrell
Room 325/326
Women Deans’ Panel: Creating an Inclusive and
Supportive Work Environment
Lori Berquam Diana Hess
Katharyn A. May Margaret Raymond
Norma Saldivar Soyeon Shim
Kathryn VandenBosch
Room 313
Seven Essential Customer Service
Skills
Tammy Starr
Room 335
Building a Culture of Collaboration for Stronger
Project Management
Sarah Carroll
10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Break, beverages outside room 325/326
11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Featured Sessions
Room 121
Mindful Success: How Yoga and
Meditation Changes Everything
Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau
Room 213
Effective Communication Strategies with Plain Language
Beth Gaytan
Room 309
Women and Money: An Important Conversation
Rebecca Gerothanas
Room 325/326
Workplace Inclusion: Your Destiny To Make a
Difference
Kathy Moran
Room 313
Moving From Victim to Victorious
Jessica Moehr
Room 335
EMPTY
12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Lunch Pick up food in Alumni Lounge. Seating available in Alumni Lounge, AT&T Lounge, or in any of the featured session rooms. Limited seating available on the Rooftop Terrace.
1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Featured Sessions
Room 121
Stop! Act!
Listen!
Lynn Freeman
Room 213
Energize Your Life
Debra Lafler
Room 309
Resilience, Story Sharing, and Leadership
Alice Traore
Room 325/326
EMPOWER: Embracing and
Promoting Options for Women to Enhance
Retirement
Tarna Hunter &
Shelly Schueller
Room 313
Creating a Roadmap for Your
Professional or Personal Life
Julie Kovalaske
Room 335
EMPTY
2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Break, beverages outside room 325/326
2:45 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Endnote : Soyeon Shim
Early bird seating in room 325/326; Additional seating in room 313
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Informal Networking Reception
Rooftop Terrace at the Pyle Center (Refreshments served) *Rain location: Pyle Center Alumni Lounge
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Check In
Featured Sessions
Featured Sessions
Keynote, Endnote, & Featured Sessions
3rd Floor
Refreshments
Access to Rooftop Terrace
Featured Sessions
Check In
1st Floor
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Keynote & Endnote Additional Seating
Gender Neutral Restrooms
Health Room
Elevator & Stair Access
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8:30 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. Room 325/326 and Room 313
Keynote:
Diversity and Inclusion: My Personal and Professional Ongoing Journey Kathy Moran
Kathy will discuss how we, as women leaders, can identify and respond to opportunities which can
lead to creating a more healthy, inclusive, and engaging work environment.
Kathy Moran is an experienced employment attorney who advised and represented McDonald’s
USA, LLC for 20 years on a variety of U.S. federal, state and local employment law and employee
relations matters including charges, lawsuits, and internal investigations in the areas of
discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and other employment-related issues. She conducted or
consulted on hundreds of sensitive employment-related investigations across the country and
delivered employment law and respectful workplace training to various sectors of McDonald’s
system. In addition, Kathy directed McDonald’s Human Resources Consulting Department, a
unique center of excellence where members of McDonald’s US system could call and receive
advice, coaching, and consulting on a wide variety of employment law and employee relations
issues. While leading the HR Consulting Department, Kathy built an extremely diverse and high
performing team whose members were developed to feed and strengthen McDonald’s human
resources and operations systems. Prior to McDonald’s, she practiced employment law with
Seyfarth Shaw in Chicago, IL. She recently was called out of retirement to provide legal consulting
support to Creata (USA) LLC on a part-time basis. She is a proud “double Badger,” holding a
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and her Juris Doctor from UW-Madison.
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2:45 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Room 325/326 and Room 313
Endnote:
The Ecology of Human Wellbeing in the Workplace: Why Leaders Should Pay Heed Dr. Soyeon Shim, Dean of the School of Human Ecology (SoHE)
As the dean of the School of Human Ecology, Soyeon Shim leads not only with her head but also with
her heart because she wants SoHE to be a personally fulfilling and happy place to work. She will
discuss her reasons for believing strongly in workplace wellbeing, and she will explain how she has
promoted wellbeing in SoHE. She will also describe the results of these efforts, as well as the lessons
learned.
Dr. Soyeon Shim assumed her current position as the Dean of the School of Human Ecology at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison in August 2012. Under her leadership, SoHE established the first
endowed chair in the history of the School in 2013, the Mary Sue and Mike Shannon Chair for Healthy
Minds, Children and Families. Dean Shim serves as “lead dean” on a number of campus-wide
initiatives aimed at improving life for women, children, and communities including 4W: Women, Well-
being, Wisconsin and the World. Prior to joining the SoHE, she served as the Director of the Norton
School of Family and Consumer Sciences and Associate Dean, Strategic Initiatives, College of
Agriculture and Life Sciences, at the University of Arizona.
Dean Shim’s scholarly research is in the areas of consumer decision-making, consumer and youth
financial behavior, and global retailing. In 2007, serving as the Principal Investigator and Founder, Dr.
Shim launched APLUS (Arizona Pathways to Life Success for University Students), a major
longitudinal study monitoring young adults’ formation of financial attitudes and behaviors. Dr. Shim
has received numerous teaching, research, development, and leadership awards, both at the university
and state/national level. She has authored or co-authored over 100 scholarly articles in refereed
journals. Dr. Shim received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea,
and a doctoral degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Secrets to Financial Happiness for a Lifetime 121 Peggy Olive Does your spending reflect what's most important to you? Does
your money help you and your family live the life you want? This
workshop will explore a holistic approach to financial happiness
across the lifespan. We will cover strategies for everyday
spending, credit management, and creating a financial safety net
that increases an individual’s financial well-being. Participants
will leave this fun and thought-provoking session with a new
outlook and action steps to turn dreams into goals.
Peggy Olive is a Senior Outreach Specialist with the UW-Madison
Department of Consumer Sciences in the School of Human
Ecology. She translates financial education research into practice
for the UW-Extension and UW-Madison Center for Financial
Security where she serves as the Financial Capability Specialist.
She brings 25 years of experience in providing financial education
and coaching, and has met with more than a thousand households
to help them reach their financial goals. In addition, Ms. Olive
consults with NeighborWorks America where she teaches
financial capability certification courses for fellow financial
educators and coaches. She holds a Professional Life Coaching
Certificate from UW-Madison and a Master’s in Social Work from
UW-Milwaukee.
Wellbeing and Leadership: A Reflection on Agency and Empowerment 213 Lori DiPrete Brown The UW-Madison 4W Initiative engages with a broad range of
issues that impact women. All of these efforts center around
concepts of wellbeing, thriving across the lifespan, and
leadership. This session will allow leaders at all stages of
development to consider their own leadership, agency and
wellbeing in the context of their lives, taking into account self,
kinship networks, community, and society. Lori DiPrete Brown
will share insights from the 4W Directors Circle, and participants
will also have time to reflect and share their personal wisdom with
the group.
Lori DiPrete Brown is a Distinguished Faculty Associate at the
UW-Madison. She has worked extensively with global efforts to
enhance health and wellbeing, and directs the 4W Women and
Wellbeing Initiative.
Social Media: Sharing Your Work in the Public Square 309 Kelly April Tyrrell Social media, with its overabundance of cat videos and vacation
selfies, often receives a bad rap in professional circles. But did you
also know that academic scientists who tweet about their work
benefit from more citations? Leaders willing to venture outside the
traditional boundaries of the academy and industry are now often
finding more success than their less-socially-inclined peers. Social
media is a great way to leave the office or the ivory tower and
wander into the public square, reaching new audiences, interacting
with colleagues and sharing your work on your own terms. It’s a
place for you to develop and exercise your voice, while also
supporting others.
In this workshop, we’ll explore a variety of social media networks
and talk about their pros and cons. We’ll look at the ways the
University of Wisconsin–Madison is using social media, in
keeping with the Wisconsin Idea, to engage with others and share
our good work, identifying some of the university’s most
successful social leaders. We will also spend some time working
together, hands-on, to learn the language of social media and how
to use it to communicate effectively. Come prepared to talk about
how social media has, or hasn’t, worked for you and, as leaders,
find ways to use it to your benefit.
Kelly April Tyrrell is a scientist-turned-science writer at the
University of Wisconsin–Madison with a BS in Zoology from the
University of Florida and an MS in Cellular and Molecular
Biology from UW–Madison. In 2011, she completed the coveted
Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellowship through the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, learning
journalism – trial-by-fire – at the Chicago Tribune. Tyrrell has
also worked as a health and science reporter for the News Journal
in Wilmington, DE, and as a freelance writer for the Philadelphia
Inquirer and others. She joined University Communications in
2014, where she covers research of all kinds. Tyrrell started the
UWMadScience research blog, manages the UWMadScience
Twitter account and the UW–Madison Research Facebook page,
and contributes to the number one higher-ed Twitter account,
@UWMadison. Social media is integral to both her professional
and her personal life.
Seven Essential Customer Service Skills 313 Tammy Starr In this session we will discuss customer service and the role we all
play in making sure the customer is happy. The session will focus
on how relationships are crucial to successful customer service.
We will also walk through the seven essential customer service
skills needed for keeping your customer service experience
positive.
Tammy Starr is the Registration and Learning Management
System Coordinator for the Office of Talent Management within
the Office of Human Resources. She has been a part of the
UW-Madison HR Team since the end of June 2011 and is a 2016
UWPD Chief’s Award recipient. Her day-to-day responsibility
include setting up registration sites for many different events on
our campus. Prior to coming to the university, she had 15 years of
customer service experience managing a call center in the private
sector. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management, is a
Six Sigma Green Belt, and has many other certificates in training
topics and change management.
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Women Deans’ Panel: Creating an Inclusive and Supportive Work Environment 325/326 Lori Berquam, Diana Hess, Katharyn A. May, Margaret Raymond, Norma Saldivar, Soyeon Shim & Kathryn VandenBosch
By setting a supportive and enthusiastic tone, the leader of an
organization can play a crucial role in any drive to increase
diversity and inclusiveness. In response to keynote speaker Kathy
Moran’s address, women deans at UW-Madison are invited to
share their own experiences and describe their efforts to overcome
personal challenges related to gender and racial biases, as well as
their successes in helping other women overcome these barriers.
After holding a series of student-centered positions at universities
around the country, Lori Berquam came to the University of
Wisconsin-Madison in 1995 and has been in the Dean of Students
Office since 2002. As Vice Provost for Student Life and Dean of
Students, Dean Berquam oversees a division of more than 90
professional staff from nine departments. All Division of Student
Life departments are united by a shared commitment to cultivate a
Wisconsin Experience for all students that advances and
interconnects their academic, professional, personal, and social
development. Under Dean Berquam’s leadership, the division
strives to create a campus community where students are inspired
and prepared
to live the Wisconsin Idea. Dean Berquam is an ardent student
advocate, committed to social justice and to building strong
relationships both on and off campus.
Diana Hess became dean of UW-Madison’s School of Education
on Aug. 1, 2015. Hess, only the ninth dean of the School of
Education since its founding in 1930, comes to this post after
serving as senior vice president of the Spencer Foundation in
Chicago since September 2011. The Spencer Foundation funds
research to improve education policy and practice. Hess, however,
is no stranger to UW-Madison. She first arrived on campus in
1999 to join the School’s No. 1-ranked Department of Curriculum
and Instruction as an assistant professor. She climbed the ranks,
becoming an associate professor in 2005 and a full professor in
2009 before taking a leave from the university to work at Spencer.
In 2016, Hess won the American Educational Research
Association’s Outstanding Book Award for her 2015 book, co-
authored with Paula McAvoy, The Political Classroom: Evidence
and Ethics in Democratic Education. Her research interests
include the impact of school-based civic education programs on
youth, political and civic engagement, and how students
experience and learn from discussions of highly controversial
political issues. A previous book, Controversy in the Classroom:
The Democratic Power of Discussion, won the National Council
for the Social Studies Exemplary Research Award in 2009. Hess
began her education career as a high school social studies teacher
in Downers Grove, Illinois, in 1979. During her time there, she
became president of the Downers Grove teachers’ union before
working as the associate director of the Constitutional Rights
Foundation Chicago from 1987-95. Hess next headed to the
University of Washington-Seattle, where she earned her Ph.D. in
1998 from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, with
extensive coursework in educational policy and law. Hess also
holds a master’s degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign and a bachelor’s degree from Western Illinois
University.
Since January 2001, Katharyn A. May has served as dean of the
University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing. During her
tenure, May has focused on strategic leadership in nursing
education. She has served on the Governor’s Select Committee on
Healthcare in the Workforce; the Capitol Region Healthcare
Workforce Alliance; and the Healthcare Leadership Committee of
THRIVE, the region’s economic development agency. She
currently serves on the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and
Clinics Authority Board and chairs that board’s committee on
quality and safety.
May was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing
in 1987, and has received distinguished alumna awards from Duke
University and the University of California–San Francisco.
May led the campaign to design and build the new School of
Nursing building, Signe Skott Cooper Hall, which opened in 2014.
This facility houses the largest concentration of engaged learning
environments in university nursing education today, and will
support expansion of the school’s research and educational
programs well into the future. Signe Skott Cooper Hall, only the
third academic building on the Wisconsin campus named for a
woman, serves as an important campus resource in furthering
educational innovation at Wisconsin.
In addition, May has worked to stimulate dialog and promote
greater public and private investment in nursing education and
research at state and national levels. In the spirit of the Wisconsin
Idea, she fostered the growth of technology-enhanced education
and outreach initiatives in the school in order to extend the
expertise of its research and clinical faculty across the state and
nation and around the world.
May will step down as dean in July 2016 to return to the faculty of
the School of Nursing.
Margaret Raymond was named Dean of University of Wisconsin
Law School in July 2011. As Dean, she serves as the chief
academic and executive officer of the school, with responsibility
for faculty and staff development, personnel oversight,
fundraising, budget planning and management, curriculum and
student academic affairs.
Dean Raymond received a bachelor's degree from Carleton
College and earned her J.D. at Columbia University School of
Law, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Law
Review.
She served as a law clerk to the late Justice Thurgood Marshall of
the U.S. Supreme Court and the late Judge James L. Oakes of the
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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Following her
clerkships, she practiced as a commercial litigator and a criminal
defense lawyer. She was a member of the faculty at the University
of Iowa from 1995-2011, where she was named the William G.
Hammond Professor of Law and was honored with the law
school's Collegiate Teaching Award. While at Iowa, Dean
Raymond held a number of campus leadership roles, including
president of the University Faculty Senate.
Dean Raymond's scholarship focuses on constitutional criminal
procedure, substantive criminal law, and the professional
responsibility of lawyers. She is the author of a Professional
Responsibility casebook, The Law and Ethics of Law Practice.
Norma Saldivar came to the University of Wisconsin in 1998, and
currently serves as the Interim Executive Director of the Arts
Institute. Formerly created as an inter-college unit, sponsored by
the College of Letters and Science, School of Education, and
School of Human Ecology, the Arts Institute under Saldivar’s
leadership was reorganized in early 2014 as the first division
dedicated to the arts on the University of Wisconsin-Madison
campus. The institute continues to speak for the arts to the
university and external communities. As a Professor of theatre,
Saldivar served as head of the Graduate Directing Program and
Director of Theater Production. Before arriving at UW-Madison,
she served as Artistic Administrator & Resident Director for
Milwaukee Repertory Theatre where her duties included serving
as casting director and internship coordinator. Professor Saldivar
earned a BFA in Acting from Illinois Wesleyan University and a
MFA from the University of Illinois-Champaign and is a member
of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. She is an
affiliate member of the Chicano and Latino Studies Program and
has served as adjunct faculty and taught seminars at prestigious
institutions, such as UCLA, USC, University of South Carolina,
and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Soyeon Shim assumed her current position as the dean of the
School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-
Madison in August 2012. Under her leadership, SoHE established
the first endowed chair in the history of the School in 2013, the
Mary Sue and Mike Shannon Chair for Healthy Minds, Children
and Families. Dean Shim serves as “lead dean” on a number of
campus-wide initiatives aimed at improving life for women,
children, and communities including 4W: Women, Well-being,
Wisconsin and the World. Prior to joining the SoHE, she served as
the Director of the Norton School of Family and Consumer
Sciences and Associate Dean, Strategic Initiatives, College of
Agriculture and Life Sciences, at the University of Arizona. Dean Shim’s scholarly research is in the areas of consumer
decision-making, consumer and youth financial behavior, and
global retailing. In 2007, serving as the Principal Investigator and
Founder, Dr. Shim launched APLUS (Arizona Pathways to Life
Success for University Students), a major longitudinal study
monitoring young adults’ formation of financial attitudes and
behaviors. Dr. Shim has received numerous teaching, research,
development, and leadership awards, both at the university and
state/national level. She has authored or co-authored over 100
scholarly articles in refereed journals. Dr. Shim received her
bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Yonsei University, Seoul,
Korea, and a doctoral degree from the University of Tennessee,
Knoxville.
Kathryn VandenBosch became dean of the UW-Madison College
of Agricultural and Life Sciences in March 2012. Prior to that,
VandenBosch was a professor of plant biology at the University of
Minnesota in St. Paul. In 2001, she became head of the plant
biology department there, but took a brief hiatus in 2006 to serve
as interim dean of the newly formed College of Food, Agricultural
and Natural Resource Sciences. She also served as a member and
former chair of the executive committees of both the Faculty
Senate and the University Senate.VandenBosch’s research focused
on the genetics of plant-microbe interactions and nitrogen fixation
in legumes, a family that includes several agriculturally important species. In 2009,
VandenBosch was named a fellow of the American Society of
Plant Biologists.
Prior to her tenure at the University of Minnesota, VandenBosch
was a faculty member at Texas A&M University for 12 years. She
holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in botany from the University of
Massachusetts Amherst, and spent time at both UW-Madison and
the John Innes Institute in Great Britain as a postdoctoral
associate.
Building a Culture of Collaboration for Stronger Project Management 335 Sarah Carroll In this interactive session, we’ll explore the four phases of project
management and why collaboration with others is so critical to
achieving successful outcomes. You’ll learn to spot symptoms of
poorly performing project teams; to identify (and avoid) a
common mistake that groups often make when beginning projects;
and to cultivate strategies for collaborating with others more
successfully throughout the life cycle of any project. Come
prepared to have fun – and leave with tools you can implement
right away!
Sarah Carroll has a Master’s in Education with an emphasis in
adult learning and 15 years of human resources experience,
including recruitment, onboarding, training and staff development,
in a variety of settings including non-profits, healthcare, the
performing arts, and information technology. She’s the HR
competencies program developer and trainer with the HR
Communities of Practice Team in the Office of Human Resources
(OHR) at UW-Madison.
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11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Mindful Success: How Yoga and Meditation Changes Everything 121 Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau The breakneck speed of life in 2016, combined with the relentless
pursuit of career and personal success, can leave the best of us
gasping for air. With life so compressed, we can often wake up
decades too late wondering where our lives have gone and whether
or not we had lived as we intended.
Meditation and yoga help us create breathing space in our day, our
minds, our bodies…some gorgeous space that allows us to
remember who we are and what we really want in this life. In that
space, the answers to the biggest issues and questions we face
become clear and from there, we gain flashes of insight regarding
the next best action step. Incorporating meditation and yoga as
daily rituals, we become more focused, creative, productive and
peaceful. We become better for our work and for every person in
our life. It becomes unmistakable that making the time for these
beautiful practices is the most efficient and selfless thing we can
do.
In this workshop we’ll learn the basics and explore practical ways
to incorporate mindfulness into our lives. We’ll practice a guided
meditation and strike a few calming yoga poses. We’ll take a
breath and feel the instant and dramatic impact of more space,
more possibility.
(Come as you are…no special attire needed.) Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau is the creator and owner of The
Studio, a yoga studio in Madison, WI, host of the syndicated talk
radio show, The Kathleen Show (a program about living bold and
healthy) and the writer/director of the feature film Side
Effects starring Katherine Heigl. She has spoken throughout the
country and been featured by media outlets worldwide including
The New York Times, USA Today, CNN, The Economist, Oprah
Radio and Oprah Magazine. In 2011, Kathleen opened The Studio
featuring two locations and over 100 yoga classes per week.
She actively runs the business, mentors individuals and teaches
classes and workshops. Kathleen is a graduate of the University of
Wisconsin with a degree in Political Science as well as a certified
yoga teacher and personal fitness trainer. She is a passionate
advocate of yoga and meditation and attributes much of her
success, happiness and peace to daily practice of both.
Effective Communication Strategies with Plain Language 213 Beth Gayton Have you ever wanted to get your message across better or
faster? Have you wished you could feel more confident that you
were understood correctly - the first time?
Effective communication is vital in all aspects of our personal and
professional lives. No matter whom you’re talking with or where,
getting a clear message across the first time ensures more
successful outcomes and a smoother, more efficient process along
the way.
In this interactive workshop, we will discuss strategies ranging
from word choice and grammar tweaks to teach-back and non-
verbal signals. Through a blend of presentation and practical
exercises, we will prepare you with a toolkit of techniques that you
can use immediately to improve your verbal and written
communication.
Come learn why everyone from medical providers to educators to
office professionals rely on plain language and effective
communication strategies to improve outcomes and lessen
workloads!
Beth Gaytan has worked in adult education for 12 years and
collaborated with healthcare organizations, service industries and
manufacturing companies to enhance outcomes through improved
communication. Much of Beth’s experience has been working
with medical staff and providers to improve patient-provider
communication and create person-centered healthcare
environments. Beth has partnered with the United Way, the Willy
Street Co-op and Group Health Cooperative to implement
usability testing and plain language translations for a wide range
of documents. The primary author of a curriculum recognized by
the State of Wisconsin as “a promising practice” to improve
minority health outcomes, Beth has presented at conferences
across the nation on collaborating for more effective
communication. Currently, Beth is an English Instructor and
Trainer in Cultural Linguistics Services in the Office of Human
Resources at UW-Madison. She works with supervisors and
employees across campus to enhance communication, morale and
efficiency on the job.
Women and Money: An Important Conversation 309 Rebecca Gerothanas
Nine out of ten women will be solely responsible for their finances
at some point in their lives.1 But women are more confident
discussing medical issues with a doctor than money and
investments with a financial professional.2 Owning your financial
wellness empowers your life, providing security and freeing
energy to make positive impacts for yourself, your family and the
community. In this session, you’ll hear insights on women’s
approaches to money, strategies that build financial security and
common obstacles to effective actions. You’ll take a short survey
to help you identify your money style and open a conversation
around money that is sure to leave you with ideas to apply in your
own financial life. (1-National Center for Women and Retirement
Research; 2- Fidelity Investments Money FIT Women Study, Feb
2015)
Rebecca Gerothanas oversees the branch network, contact center,
facilities, risk management, information technology, and
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operations for the second largest credit union in Wisconsin. With
$2.4 billion in assets, Summit is a not-for-profit financial
cooperative serving more than 150,000 members from 34 offices
in southern Wisconsin. Gerothanas has more than 20 years of
experience in the credit union industry, 12 of them in senior
leadership. She shares Summit’s passion for supporting and
guiding women as they own their financial wellness, positively
affecting their own lives, their families and their communities.
Gerothanas is a graduate of UW-Madison with a B.A. in
Journalism and Political Science.
Moving From Victim to Victorious 313 Jessica Moehr “The brain is like Velcro for negative experiences, but Teflon for
positive ones.” – Dr. Rick Hanson
Often in life we fall into victim thinking, focusing on how unfairly
we’ve been treated or how much better things would be if
‘someone’ would just ask for our opinion. We have the ability to
control our mindset, which affects our emotional state and helps us
overcome feelings of being the constant victim. By being able to
positively reframe, we gain control in our lives and find success
and victory in more of our interactions. Looking for opportunities
for learning and growth in all situations can ensure we find
success in our lives. This workshop will explore why we fall into
these patterns and how to infuse positive thinking into our lives,
allowing them to ‘stick’ with us. Positivity influences our
behaviors and interactions, which in turn influences how others
behave and react to us.
Jessica Moehr is a Training Coordinator in Learning and Talent
Development in the Office of Human Resources. She serves as
the program manager for the Fully Prepared to Lead program.
She’s been teaching leadership and professional development
courses for over 12 years while consulting with and coaching
employees, supervisors, and managers on a variety of topics such
as performance management, change management, leadership at
all levels, business writing, coaching, and feedback. A graduate of
UW-Madison, she has facilitated workshops for the Women &
Leadership Symposium, the Leadership & Management
Development Conference, the Office Professional Conference, and
Leadership Sun Prairie. Areas of expertise include Performance
Management, Professional Development, and Leadership
Development.
Workplace Inclusion: Your Destiny To Make A Difference 325/326 Kathy Moran As a follow-up to the keynote presentation, participants will work
independently and in small interactive groups to explore, share and
set strategies and goals to identify, embrace and respond as
women leaders to opportunities to create a more healthy, inclusive
and engaging work environment. This also will include exploring
how our own personal journeys to embrace, support and champion
inclusion shape who we are and the role we play in our
professional lives.
- Participants will share and explore what "inclusion" means to
them.
- Participants will explore their own personal and professional
journey towards inclusion.
- Participants will engage with others to identify how they, as
leaders, can make a difference to support and foster inclusion in
the work environment.
- Participants will set their own short-term and long-term goals
(a) for continuing their personal and professional journey, and (b)
for taking specific action to support and foster a healthy, inclusive,
and engaging work environment.
Kathy Moran is an experienced employment attorney who advised
and represented McDonald’s USA, LLC for 20 years on all variety
of U.S. federal, state and local employment law and employee
relations matters including charges, lawsuits, and internal
investigations in the areas of discrimination, harassment,
retaliation, and other employment-related issues. She conducted
or consulted on hundreds of sensitive employment-related
investigations across the country and delivered employment law
and respectful workplace training to various sectors of
McDonald’s system. In addition, Kathy directed McDonald’s
Human Resources Consulting Department, a unique center of
excellence where members of McDonald’s US system could call
and receive advice, coaching and consulting on a wide variety of
employment law and employee relations issues. While leading the
HR Consulting Department, Kathy built an extremely diverse and
high performing team whose members were developed to feed and
strengthen McDonald’s human resources and operations
systems. Prior to McDonald’s, she practiced employment law
with Seyfarth Shaw in Chicago, IL. She recently was called out of
retirement to provide legal consulting support to Creata (USA)
LLC on a part-time basis. She is a proud “double Badger,”
holding a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and her Juris Doctor
from UW-Madison and UW Law School.
1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Stop! Listen! Act! 121 Lynn Freeman
Have you witnessed or experienced inappropriate behavior in the
workplace? Have you wanted to respond, but weren’t sure how?
This session will be a combination presentation and workshop;
participants will explore those behaviors that cause our workplaces
to be less inclusive and welcoming, and then learn and practice
strategies for responding to those situations. Addressing
inappropriate behavior can help your workplace be healthier, more
inclusive and engaging.
Lynn Freeman is the Director of Learning & Talent Development
(formerly OHRD). Lynn came to UW-Madison last August from
UW System Administration, where she worked on transfer student
initiatives, including the department of web-based tools and
statewide training for staff and faculty. Before that, she spent nine
years at UW-Oshkosh leading the campus in the redesign of the
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undergraduate advising program. Lynn has 25 years of experience
in public and private higher education across the country, and has
provided organizational development consulting to non-profits,
community groups, and colleges and universities.
Energize Your Life 213 Debra Lafler In this session, we’ll talk about creating balance and fostering our
personal energy. Attendees will be able to identify what creates
wellness and wellbeing in their lives, what aspects they are
balancing, what their personal needs, values, and priorities are,
what they can let go of, and how they can change ideals of should
and perfectionism into optimalism instead. Attendees will walk
away with personal insight, motivation, and a sense of
wholeness.
Debra Lafler is the Wellness Coordinator and serves as a
Consultant, Coach & Speaker for Group Health Cooperative of
South Central Wisconsin (GHC-SCW), located in Madison,
Wisconsin. She has a Doctorate in Spiritual Studies (DSS) degree
from The Emerson Institute, a Master of Arts (MA) in Health &
Behavior Studies—Health Education degree from Columbia
University, and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in
Communication, with Certificates in Wellness and Coaching from
the University of Wisconsin–Parkside. Debra is a Certified
Wellness Speaker (CWS) from the National Wellness Institute; a
Certified Worksite Wellness Program Consultant (CWWPC) from
the Chapman Institute; and a Certified Yoga Teacher from a Yoga
Alliance (YA) Certified Yoga School. She has 20 years of
experience in the wellness field. Debra’s personal passion and
mission is to help other’s with their lifelong journey of wellness
and wellbeing.
Resilience, Story Sharing, and Leadership 309 Alice Traore In this workshop, participants will discover the power of story
sharing - how sharing and listening to personal work-related
stories can result in the discovery of one's leadership style.
Individuals will learn lessons from each other, identify with
relatable situations, and gain insight in hearing how others
overcame work-based challenges.
During this interactive workshop, participants will be given
"written prompts," encouraging them to unearth a story that has
become a persistent obstacle, keeping them from success or
causing them to suffer from "imposter syndrome." Participants
will be given time to write and share a brief story. By the
workshop's end, participants will have explored ways to turn
negative-self messages into stories of resilience that they can
apply to their current workplaces.
Alice Traore has been a Student Affairs professional for over 16
years. She has also worked in Academic and Multicultural Affairs
at various colleges and universities in the Midwest. As the former
Associate Director of UW-Madison’s Multicultural Student
Center, Alice obtained training and teaching experience in topics
related to Social Justice. Currently, Alice uses past work
experiences and topics such as social identity, privilege, and
inclusion to punctuate her work as trainer for Learning and Talent
Development in UW-Madison’s Office of Human Resources. In
this capacity, Alice develops curriculum for, coordinates, and
instructs the department’s Thrive at UW-Madison courses. These
courses help UW-Madison staff and faculty discover skills,
knowledge, and abilities that allow them to contribute to their
departments in ways that create engaging, inclusive and healthy
workplace cultures.
Create a Roadmap for your Professional or Personal Life 313 Julie Kovalaske In this interactive session you will be led through exercises to
identify goals you want to set for your professional or personal
life. After identifying a few goals, we will walk through a process
to create a plan that will help you reach those goals.
Julie Kovalaske is the Training Coordinator of the Fully Prepared
to Manage Program with the UW-Madison. She has over five
years of experience designing and facilitating professional
development opportunities. Before working at UW-Madison, she
worked for three years in the Peace Corps in Tanzania providing
training, education and development opportunities in the
community, and two years providing professional training and
development opportunities with Cabela’s. She has experience
with both classroom-based learning and online training.
EMPOWER: Embracing and Promoting Options for Women to Enhance Retirement 325/326 Tarna Hunter and Shelly Schueller Did you know that women are almost twice as likely as men to
live below the poverty line during retirement? Many of these
women who end up in poverty have never been poor before. Will
you have enough money to retire?
For a number of reasons, women save significantly less money for
retirement than men. In 2015 the Department of Employee Trust
Funds sponsored a year-long, statewide educational campaign to
inspire and encourage women to save for their retirement. The
educational campaign, “EMPOWER: Guiding Women of All
Cultures Toward a Strong Financial Future,” provided a greater
awareness among public employees of their current Wisconsin
Retirement System benefits, improved basic financial literacy, and
helped build an understanding of the tax advantages of
supplementing their retirement savings through the Wisconsin
Deferred Compensation Program, 403(b) plans, or other
supplementary savings.
This session will provide participants with an overview of the
EMPOWER campaign, information on the unique challenges that
women face preparing for retirement, and strategies and tools to
better prepare for retirement. The session will conclude with next
■ Featured Sessions and Presenter Biographies
■ Featured Sessions and Presenter Biographies
steps and a discussion on how, women as leaders, can work to help
close the retirement savings gap.
Tarna Hunter is co-founder of the EMPOWER Campaign, a
statewide project designed to educate and engage women about
saving for retirement and the retirement savings gap affecting
women. The EMPOWER Campaign received the 2015 Innovator
Award by Pensions & Investments Magazine, the Wisconsin State
Council on Affirmative Action 2015 Diversity Award and the 2015
Wisconsin Financial Literacy Award from the Governor’s Council
on Financial Literacy.
Tarna is the Government Relations Director for the Wisconsin
Department of Employee Trust Funds (ETF). She is an expert on
state and federal policy issues relating to retirement security and the
administration of state retirement programs.
Prior to joining ETF, Tarna worked as a senior policy analyst for
Wisconsin’s community and economic development
programs. Tarna holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and
Women’s Studies from San Diego State University and a Masters
of Public Administration from the University of Wisconsin –
Oshkosh.
Shelly Schueller is the Deferred Compensation Director at the
Wisconsin Department of Employee Trust Funds (ETF). She
oversees the Wisconsin Deferred Compensation Program, a $4
billion retirement savings plan used by over 58,000 public
employees in Wisconsin. Ms. Schueller co-founded the award-
winning EMPOWER Campaign. This campaign was created to
engage and inspire women of all cultures to take charge of their
own retirement financial planning and security. The EMPOWER
Campaign received the 2015 Innovator Award by Pensions &
Investments Magazine, the Wisconsin State Council on Affirmative
Action 2015 Diversity Award and the 2015 Wisconsin Financial
Literacy Award from the Governor’s Council on Financial Literacy.
Ms. Schueller received her undergraduate degree in political
science and German from St. Cloud State University (MN) and
earned her graduate degree in public administration at the UW-
Madison. In addition to her work at ETF, she serves on the Partners
in Giving annual charitable campaign.
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■ Notes
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UW Foundation Women’s Philanthropy Council http://www.uwfoundation.wisc.edu
UW-Madison Committee on Women in the University http://www.secfac.wisc.edu/senate/2013/1202/2457.pdf
UW-Madison Office of Talent Management Office of Human Resources
http://www.talent.wisc.edu
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