Workshops for First Year MBAs (Class of 2012) 
Participants will select from one of the sessions below:

Math Prep: Build Your Quantitative IQ
Get a jump on your MBA program by learning basic finance and accounting concepts needed to succeed your first year. Peter Regan, founder of MBA Math, will help boost your quantitative IQ and performance confidence. Move beyond a basic understanding of the recent financial crisis to knowing how to compute answers to important, first-year MBA math problems.  Make the most of this workshop: www.mbamath.com/events/forte.htm for a workshop overview and guidance on highly recommended pre-work.
Presenter: Peter Regan, Founder, MBA Math

First Impressions: Powerful Insights on How Others Perceive You
What role do first impressions play in the life of a leader?  What matters most on those first few seconds?  Jeff Anderson, Associate Dean at University of Chicago Booth School of Business and head of Chicago Booth’s renowned Leadership Effectiveness and Development (LEAD) program will guide you through an interactive seminar that will illuminate how others size us up and how to use those first impressions to establish enduring credibility.  You’ll gain critical insight into how you see others and how others see you that will add tremendous value to your first year team experiences and beyond.  Presenter: Jeff Anderson, Associate Dean, LEAD, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Follow Your Dreams with Confidence
How do you make smart choices that align with your dreams to find meaningful work and long-term career satisfaction? In this session, Alexandra Levit, workplace author and speaker, will help you uncover your true passion through self-assessment. Then you’ll learn how to research careers that match your unique skill set, track down job opportunities and network in your field. Define your version of career success. Don’t rely on what others think. Create the career of your dreams!
Presenter:  Alexandra Levit, Workplace Author and Speaker

 Cultivating Leadership Skills: What You Won’t Learn in Business School
Embrace and cultivate your future as a leader by becoming your own advocate for professional growth and advancement. Prepare to champion your career-long development using insights from Selena Rezvani – speaker, consultant and author of The Next Generation of Women Leaders.  Her practical how-tos for negotiating the workplace will be drawn from the advice and remarkable lives of successful women. Learn from the real world what you won’t in business school about leading and shaping a career with meaning.
Presenter: Selena Rezvani, Author, Speaker, Consultant

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Workshops for Second Year MBAs and Beyond (Class of 2011, 2010 and Alumnae) 
Participants will select from one of the sessions below:

Communicating for Success
What are the key drivers for success in your internship or first position after graduation?  Effective communication skills, hands down.  Join Jodi Glickman Brown, founder and president of Great on the Job, in a seminar to help you convey competence, confidence and professionalism in every workplace encounter.  Jodi will discuss how to differentiate yourself from your peers through strategic and persuasive communication skills.  Be regarded as a “high potential” employee from the moment you step into your new position. Participants will role play various situations and will have an opportunity to learn and practice Great on the Job’s proven strategies for making themselves stand out at work.
Presenter: Jodi Glickman, Consultant, Coach and Public Speaker, Great on the Job

Social Entrepreneurship
For many years there has been controversy over the idea that business has a social responsibility beyond “maximizing shareholder value”. In this session, Timothy Fedderson, Wendell Hobbs Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences and Director of Social Enterprise at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University will outline some of the historical context of this debate and the emergence of the idea of social entrepreneurship. The Kellogg School of Management has introduced several new initiatives that help students turn their inspiration into action. The session will cover some of these initiatives and highlight some of the most inspirational examples illustrating how these students leveraged their MBA to become social entrepreneurs.
Presenter: Timothy Fedderson, Wendell Hobbs Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences, Director of Social Enterprise, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University

Dialogue with Leadership
Despite all the gains that women have made in civil rights, education and the labor force, there is still dearth of women in the senior ranks of companies.  Yet over the past few decades women have made innumerable contributions to business. Join in this candid conversation as Deborah Doyle McWhinney, President of Citi's Personal Wealth Management and Caitlin Pappas, President of Johnson & Johnson’s Baby businesseswill share insights and dispense advice on how to overcome the challenges of advancing to the top.  Moderated by Pattie Sellers, Editor at Large of FORTUNE. This expert panel will analyze women’s distinctive leadership abilities to step up and steer business in positive directions including ethical leadership and more connections to social enterprise. An exclusive event for conference participants and Forté sponsors, all attendees will have the opportunity to pose their own questions in addition to listening in. Click here to learn more about the Dialogue with Leadership.
Panelists: 
Deborah Doyle McWhinney, President, Citi Personal Wealth Management
Caitlin Pappas, President of Johnson & Johnson’s Baby businesses
Pattie Sellers, Editor-at-Large of Fortune Magazine (Moderator)

MBA Company Expo
Forté Foundation’s Company Expo brings together Fortune 100 recruiters and exceptional talent in a welcoming environment and on a personal scale. At the Company Expo current women MBAs meet employers one-on-one, explore company culture, and learn about long-range opportunities.  Gain an advantage over your MBA peers by developing personal contacts with companies early in the job search process.  It’s the only event of its kind where the most prestigious corporations in finance, consulting, consumer products, technology and healthcare come face-to-face with a select group of the most talented and ambitious women in the country.

Students will have the opportunity to upload their resumes upon registration for the MBA Women’s Conference.  Forté will compile a Resume Book and send it to the companies 1 week prior to the Company Expo. The deadline to submit your resume is May 28.  Click here to learn more about the Company Expo.

Note: The Company Expo is open to students attending the Forté MBA Women's Conference in the classes of 2011 and 2012.  The Company Expo is not a job fair and is intended as an opportunity for current students to network with Forté corporate representatives and learn about long-range opportunities. ________________________________________

Company Fireside Chats
Conference participants may be invited by Forté companies to small group meetings. 

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Functional and Industry Introductions
Representatives from Forté sponsor companies and school alumnae will present an overview of industries and functions of business including--

• Financial Services – Investment Banking, Asset Management, Private Equity, Private Wealth
• New Ventures – Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital
• Marketing, Sales & Brand Management
• Consulting
• Technology
• “Socially Responsible” Industries – Non-profit, CSR, “Green” Careers
• General Management/Leadership Development Programs
• Corporate Finance
• Healthcare/Pharma/Biotech

This is a great opportunity to learn about possible options to pursue through your MBA program and start building your network.  Click here learn more about the Functional and Industry Introductions.   

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Workshop for Second Years & Alumnae – Concurrent with Company Expo

Strategic Networking – Taking it to the Next Level
As professional women we know networking is valuable in concept, but how do you know if you are doing it effectively?  Networking expert Diane Darling, author of the Networking Survival Guide, will show you how to build and sustain mutually beneficial relationships.  This interactive workshop will focus on how to benefit from the natural strengths women bring to networking and how to avoid embarrassing moments and regain your equilibrium.  Diane will also discuss how to maximize technology in your networking by blending offline people skills with Facebook, LinkedIn and email to your advantage. You will leave with concepts and tools enabling you to transform your social and business networks into engines that support your objectives and expand your influence in life and at work. 
Presenter: Diane Darling, Author, Founder & CEO of Effective Networking, Inc.

• Preparing for and Landing An Internship*
• Leadership Begins at School*
• Lessons from the Class of 2010*
• Think Competitively, Work Globally
• Building a Supportive Sisterhood
• Embracing Social Enterprise

• Preparing for and Landing An Internship*
• Lessons from the Class of 2010*
• Successfully Making a Career Change*
• Succeed as a New Manager
• Moving from Work/Life "Balance" to "Integration"
• Stand Out as an Emerging Leader

Lunch & Keynote  
In 2003, American businesswoman, Connie K. Duckworth, retired as a successful private sector financier, to embark on a new journey of global investment — an investment in hope for women. Founded by Duckworth in 2004, ARZU is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that helps Afghan women weavers and their families break the cycle of poverty by providing them steady income and access to education and healthcare by sourcing and selling the rugs they weave. ARZU’s impact extends to tens of thousands of Afghans providing prospects and effecting change within the communities as a whole.

In its 5th year, ARZU evolved to ARZU STUDIO HOPE - a new model of social entrepreneurship dedicated to empowering women through artisan-based employment.
Presenter: Connie K. Duckworth, ARZU STUDIO HOPE, Founder and CEO

June 24 - 25, 2010

Are you an incoming MBA student in the class of 2012 that is interested in a career in financial services?  The Financial Services FAST Track Conference provides an opportunity to explore the exciting world of Finance and the diverse careers opportunities available in this industry.  Get a jump start on planning your career and meet with senior professionals currently working in the challenging and rewarding world of Financial Services! 
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