Women’s Client SUCCESS Stories
High Impact Initiatives
Trusted By Fortune 500 Industry Leaders For Over 30 Years
Credit Suisse
Creating Strategic Connections: Fixed Income Women’s Initiative
Conducted a content-rich seminar that culminated in a networking happy hour with senior leaders. The goals were: to help women in Fixed Income to win greater career opportunities by developing a network of firm sponsors and mentors. | Results: maximized the women’s visibility with bosses and colleagues, including the ability to better position their value in an Eloquent Introduction.
Merrill Lynch
Cultivating Your Most Powerful Leadership Brand
Explored each participant’s executive presence and leadership brand: what it means, why it matters, how to define it for yourself. | Results: practiced critical skills for cultivating leadership gravitas and influence, and heard “that was surprisingly fun!” regarding exercises that involve giving & receiving feedback with trusted colleagues.
Financial Women’s Association
How Image, Etiquette & Communication Skills Contribute to Career Success
Delivered a two-hour, interactive keynote for over 60 high-potential leaders and other professionals from member organizations, exploring the importance – and practice – of healthy, career-supportive self-representation. | Results: a great deal of laughter mixed with occasional groans of self-awareness as women recognized how their current behaviors and choices may not be working in their best interest.
Goldman Sachs
Letting Your Wardrobe Reflect Your Wisdom.
Taught six classes for high-potential, women leaders about how to dress in a way that aligns with the organizational brand while also distinguishing yourself and your unique, personal style. | Results: women walked away knowing how to save money and time when organizing a professional wardrobe, including how to pack for travel, what colors work best for you, what do specific lines and designs communicate about your credibility and authority.
Prudential
The Pulse of the Workplace: The Power of Your Professional Brand
Facilitated a practice-intensive workshop for over 100 women Administrative Assistants and Executive Assistants as part of a celebration of their personal excellence and professional success. Results: participants applied tools and skills for enhancing their reputations as Trusted Resources, including tips on building their credibility and influence through business etiquette, professional image and skillful collaboration with leaders and teams.
HSBC
Winning the Deal While Enhancing the On-going Relationship
Ran two-hour, dynamic, skills-intensive workshop focused on how to negotiate in the context of on-going, long-term relationships, including: engaging a boss on salary or career advancement; closing deals with price-sensitive clients; influencing internal partners to secure time and resources for a project. Results: participants reported greater sense of confidence and ability to initiate difficult conversations while preserving the relationship.
Morgan Stanley
Managing Your Professional Brand for Leadership Opportunity & Impact
Conducted a 3-hour workshop, culminating in a speed-networking style engagement with key leaders, to help foster comfortable and proactive introductions of EDs and potential Sponsors, so that women candidates for leadership could know how to enlist mentors and gain valuable advice for career advancement | Results: created action plans for how to engage potential Sponsors, in anticipation of the speed networking session.
Mass Mutual
Winning the Game of Inches
Presented a highly-engaging four-hour workshop for over 200 Leaders (men and women) from Retirement Services as part of a week-long women’s initiative to enhance the visibility and promotability of diverse talent in the workplace. | Results: appreciation broadly expressed: “for the practical tips I can use immediately to help me position myself more credibly,” and “glad to find ways to ‘get out of my own way!”
Navigant Consulting
Managing Your Professional Brand Through Changing Market Demands
Ran several 1-hour webinars for over 100 Trusted Advisors from Tax, Audit and Consulting, focusing on 7 steps for Managing Your Professional Brand, with tips and techniques for anticipating—and nimbly navigating through—inevitable marketplace changes that threatened their individual relevance. | Results: participants created action plans for becoming nimble, market-responsive practitioners.
Morgan Stanley
Reaching Your Full Leadership Potential in Tough Times of Change
Explored the leadership brand – how others see you and how you want to come across to others – both inside and outside of work, discovering ways professional leadership brands – and professional reputations – are built. | Results: worked with real world issues among trusted colleagues and companions to give and receive ideas for enhancing your leadership brand and professional success.
Deutsche Bank
Presenting Yourself & Your Ideas with Impact.
Enabled women leaders from various lines of business to better prepare and deliver their research-based communications to key constituents, such as Board Members, highly-valued clients, and even their own teams and directs. | Results: contributed directly to upcoming meetings and presentations, which each participant brought to the two-day workshop.
Credit Suisse
Personal Impact for Professional Advancement
Engaged 30+ female IB producers at the VP and Director level in a day-long seminar, in partnership with the CS Women’s Network and their Development Program for Female Investment Banking (IB) Producers. | Results: supported the women’s need for a more systematic approach to career advancement and the company’s need for better talent retention of valued, diverse professionals.