AGENDA Day 1 • Introduction from Brad Vierig, Associate Dean of MBA Programs and Executive Education and Taylor Randall, Dean of the David Eccles School of Business • Sui Lang L. Panoke: “Rethink Your Value. And ACT Now!” Interactive Q&A with Sui Lang L. Panoke • Keynote from Mary Nickles: “Positivity Through Adversity: Facing Negativity With Optimism and Humor” • Interactive Q&A with Mary Nickles Day 2 • Kickoff to day 2 • Dr. Jennifer Cummings: Session title TBD • Interactive Q&A with Dr. Jennifer Cummings • Panel discussion
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CONTENTS
Agenda ........................................................................................................... 1 A Message from the Dean ............................................................................... 3 Women’s Leadership Classes ....................................................................... 4 Speaker Biographies ...................................................................................... 5 Panelist Biographies ...................................................................................... 6 MBA Programs and Executive Education ..................................................... 8 Presenter: Sui Lang L. Panoke .......................................................................... 9 “Rethink Your Value. And ACT Now”
Presenter: Dr. Jennifer Cummings .............................................................. 11 “Anticipate Roadblocks – Break Down Barriers”
Keynote: Mary Nickles .................................................................................. 15 “Positivity Through Adversity: Facing Negativity With Optimism and Humor”
Sponsors ...................................................................................................... 18
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A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN Thank you for joining us for the 2020 Elevate U Women’s Symposium! Our business school is dedicated to empowering women in the workplace and providing opportunities for everyone to learn the skills necessary to succeed as business leaders. Our dedication to these values, both at the David Eccles School of Business and the University of Utah, has attracted some of the brightest female faculty, students, and business leaders, including President Ruth Watkins, the first woman to lead our university. Our programs provide women the opportunity to further their business knowledge at any time in their career, with four MBA formats and numerous non-degreed Executive Education courses. The true success of our students, however, is seen in their return on investment for their education. On average, our full-time MBA students see a 105% salary increase at graduation, while our parttime MBA students see a 25 - 35% increase. While our Eccles community celebrates the accomplishments of our women students, faculty, and leaders, our scope reaches beyond our campus. We lead by example and aim for our leaders to pave the way for Utah women in business. When women thrive, Utah thrives!
Taylor Randall Dean, David Eccles School of Business
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ENROLL NOW: WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP CLASSES Special Elevate U Pricing: $200 off Individual Classes with code FEMALELEADER ($1,800 $1,600) Certificate (Six Classes): $10,800 $8,600 With an emphasis on leadership and development, our women’s leadership classes provide participants with the expertise, credibility, and confidence needed to make the most out of their career. Gain insight into how other women lead organizations, explore current research and innovative solutions, and walk away with research-backed strategies and skills to implement immediately. You can choose to register for any single class, or you can register for the Executive Leadership Certificate, which requires the completion of six two-day women’s leadership or executive leadership classes within two years. Mindfulness & Interpersonal Effectiveness | June 18 - 19 | Dr. Georgi Rausch Mastering Public Speaking | August 20 - 21 | Dr. Kathryn Cañas Change Management | October 22 - 23 | Bonita Austin, MBA Leading High Performance Teams | November 12 - 13 | Dr. Jennifer Cummings Charting Your Path to Strategic Leadership | December 3 - 4 | Dr. Patricia Gorman Executive Leadership Certi icate | Six women’s leadership classes or executive leadership classes. Please visit our website to see the full list of class offerings.
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SPEAKERS Mary Nickles | KUTV 2 News Mary Nickles is an Emmy Award-winning Reporter and Anchor for KUTV 2 News. She joined the station in 1991 and currently co-anchors the news weekdays on 2News This Morning and 2News at Noon. In 2011, a mammogram for her news story found a malignant tumor. Her following stories chronicled her surgery, chemotherapy treatment, wig shopping, radiation, and long recovery. Those stories went on to win her an Emmy. In addition to working for KUTV 2 News, she is very active in our community as an advocate for health and a mentor for young people.
Dr. Jennifer Cummings | University of Utah Dr. Jennifer Cummings is an Associate Professor (Lecturer) in the management department at the David Eccles School of Business and is a certified conflict mediator and emotional intelligence consultant. Cummings’ areas of research include interpersonal and professional communication, leadership, conflict management, team relations, and public speaking, among others. Her papers have won several top paper awards from the Western States Communication Association and the National Communication Association, and she has been recognized at the David Eccles School of Business with the Daniels Fund Leadership in Ethics Education Award and the Brady Faculty Superior Teaching Award.
Sui Lang L. Panoke | Rethink International Sui Lang L. Panoke is the founder of Rethink International, a global social enterprise and international training organization designed to challenge people to rethink how and what they think. Sui Lang has trained thousands of leaders around the world leading in politics, business, government, higher education, nonprofits, and the media. Her areas of expertise include global leadership, personal empowerment, communications, branding, civil discourse, power speaking, diversity, inclusion, and unconscious bias. Most recently, Sui Lang co-founded the Inclusion Experience Project, which offers corporate diversity training to Utah’s business community aimed to elevate the consciousness of leaders.
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PANELISTS Jessica Ferguson | 97.1 ZHT Jess Ferguson has been on air with Frankie at 97.1 ZHT for over 14 years. After graduating Arizona State University with her broadcasting degree, she worked for a radio network where she made some awesome contacts that led her to Salt Lake City. While she thought she would only be in Utah for a few years, she fell in love with the people of the state and she is passionate about her career. She is best known for her laugh and for being a strong female voice in the Salt Lake Valley.
Selma Mlikota | O.C. Tanner Selma Mlikota is the Manager of Recruiting and Onboarding for O.C. Tanner Company. Over the 20+ years of her career, she has served in various leadership roles in client success, sales, and people teams. Selma works to source diverse talent and place candidates in positions across a range of functional areas and compensation levels. Between 2017 and 2019, Selma served as the Executive Director of Careers and Corporate Partnerships at One Refugee, a Utah-based non-profit aimed at improving refugee prosperity. She worked closely with 200+ refugee students and young professionals in Utah and Idaho on their professional development.
Neelam Chand | Zions Bank Neelam Chand is an accomplished diversity, equity, and inclusion expert with a decade of experience embedding multiculturalism into business strategy and facilitating critical dialogue on systemic change within a workplace environment. She works at Zions Bank as a Senior Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion, where she provides workshops on topics including social justice, tokenism, microaggressions, implicit bias, intersectionality, and women of color in the workplace. When it comes to inclusion work, her philosophy is to “keep it real” and to skip the etiquette of making people feel comfortable. She believes that through discomfort, we can begin the process of actual change.
Rebecca Johnson | University of Utah Rebecca Johnson is the Director of Research & Academic Affairs for University of Utah’s Department of Orthopaedics. While raising four children, she has built bridges and led change for over 20 years. An expert in program management in clinical research and biology, she professionally educates on issues of global health and international research, domestically and in developing countries. During her Masters of Public Health program, she managed the development of a clinical research unit in Tanzania and multiple industrysponsored HIV ART clinical trials for the University of Utah Infectious Diseases Division.
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UNIVERSITY OF UTAH MBA PROGRAMS AND EXECUTIVE EDUCATION The University of Utah David Eccles School of Business has experiential-based, impact-driven programs for every professional and executive. We offer an MBA in four formats - traditional, evening, weekend, and online. We also offer corporate and professional development solutions for both individuals and organizations. Partner with us and experience immediate, measurable career impact.
Full-Time MBA
Professional MBA
MBA Online
Executive MBA
Professional background
Schedule
Work experience
Average age
Rankings
For those seeking an immersive, experiential, and cohort-oriented program to connect to high-impact careers and networks
Two evenings a week from 6 to 10 p.m., on campus or online
6 years
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#1 in Utah, top 25 among U.S. public schools
For early- to mid-career professionals seeking to achieve career advancement or to begin a new career track
Two evenings a week from 6 to 10 p.m., on campus or online
6 years
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#1 in Utah, top 25 among U.S. public schools
For working professionals seeking flexible online solutions to achieve career advancement or to begin a new career track
Online with weekly live sessions and deliverables
10 years
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Top 10 in the world
For experienced, senior-level professionals seeking to gain executive-level strategy and leadership skills
Every other week on Friday and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
14 years
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#1 in Utah, top 25 in the U.S.
MBA.Eccles.Utah.edu - 801-581-5577 - MBA@Utah.edu
Executive Education
Professional and leadership development for individuals and organizations through short, skills-based classes • Average 2 to 3 day classes held on campus, online, or at client’s location • For mid- to senior-level professionals • Open enrollment classes, leadership certificates, and custom programs available ExecEd.Eccles.Utah.edu - 801-587-7273 - ExecEd@Utah.edu
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RETHINK YOUR VALUE AND ACT NOW Elevate Your Game. The greatest returns come to those who ACT now!
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A - ACKNOWLEDGE your WORTH Asset Assessment Activity $ Investment Mindset!? Experience. Education. Talents. Network.
C - COMMUNICATE your VALUE Personal BRAND (Name) Professional BRAND (Title & Organization)
VALUE System VALUE Added VALUE Proposition
T - The TIME to ACT is NOW! Internal Assessment External Assessment Risk Assessment
© 2020 All rights reserved, Rethink International www.rethinkintl.com
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ANTICIPATE ROADBLOCKS – BREAK DOWN BARRIERS
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Fixed Mindset
Growth Mindset
Intelligence is static
Intelligence can be developed
Leads to a desire to look smart and therefore a tendency to...
Leads to a desire to learn and therefore a tendency to...
CHALLENGES ... avoid challenges
... embrace challenges
OBSTACLES ... give up easily
... persist in the face of setbacks
... see effort as fruitless or worse
... see effort as the path to mastery
EFFORT
CRITICISM ... ignore useful negative feedback
... learn from criticism
SUCCESS OF OTHERS ... feel threatened by the success of others
As a result, they may plateau early and achieve less than their full potential. All this confirms a deterministic view of the world.
... find lessons and inspiration in the success of others
As a result, they reach ever-higher levels of achievement. All this gives them a greater sense of free will.
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Psychologist Carol Dweck’s research on Growth Mindset suggests one word that can make all the difference in becoming the person you want to be: YET. Instead of saying, “I’m not good at that,” say, “I’m not good at that yet.” Replace “I don’t know how to do that,” with “I don’t know how to do that yet.” “Yet” opens your mind to what you can do and places you on a path to getting there. Once you’re mentally on the path, get to work! Study, practice relentlessly, get a mentor, ask for feedback, make corrections, and give it time. 1. What is one thing you want to do but haven’t because you thought, “I’m not good at that”?
5. What 3 things are you willing to do to get better at this? 1.
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Mindset Mantra: 2. Why is getting better at this thing important to you? 6. How will you seek feedback and use criticism to learn and improve? 3. What will be challenging about this for you?
Mindset Mantra:
Mindset Mantra: 7. Who does this well and how can you learn from their success? 4. What obstacles and setbacks will you face?
Mindset Mantra:
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Growth Plan 1. Keep working on my growth mindset
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If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. Milton Berle
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POSITIVITY THROUGH ADVERSITY: FACING NEGATIVITY WITH OPTIMISM AND HUMOR Mary Nickles
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Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. Charles R. Swindoll
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Panel Notes
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THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS: Gold Sponsorship
Silver Sponsorship
Bronze Sponsorship
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