Betsy Myers

ABOUT BETSY MYERS

Betsy Myers most recently served as a senior adviser to Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign. She joined the campaign in January 2007 as the Chief Operating Officer tasked with the challenge of building a $100,000,000 organization and established the campaign with a business operational model and customer service mentality.

Myers also represented the campaign as a senior adviser and as Chair, Women for Obama. She traveled extensively in 2008 speaking to undecided voters and particularly on women’s outreach. These efforts included a working partnership with Women for Obama and the DNC’s Women’s Leadership Forum. She spent significant time working on unity efforts—meeting with Clinton supporters across the country hearing their concerns and inviting them to join the Obama efforts.

A senior official in the Clinton Administration, she was the President’s senior adviser on women’s issues. As Deputy Assistant to the President, she launched and was the first Director of the White House Office for Women’s Initiatives and Outreach. She played a critical role in Clinton’s re-election effort in 1996 and figured prominently in shaping the Administration’s legislative agenda on issues such as domestic violence, reproductive choice, breast cancer, and women in business.

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ABOUT VIGOR EVENTS

Vigor-Events is a subsidiary of Vigor-Enterprise that is found and managed by a group of young Egyptian entrepreneurs who decided to accumulate the professional experience they own in one place, the team came together from different industries; human resources development, marketing and sales, events management, engineering, Finance, E-Commerce and Information Technology.

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SEMINAR OVERVIEW

Betsy Myers will explore the history of the women’s movement for equality. She brings personal insights that include working closely with Gloria Steinum, Betty Freidan and Bella Abzug. She also brings perspective from her own experience as a woman leader from her own business in the financial services industry to the President’s senior advisor on women in the Clinton White House and most recently, as COO of the Obama Campaign and Chair, Women for Obama.

As Chief Operating Officer and Senior Advisor to the Obama ‚for America campaign‛. Betsy Myers had a front row seat to history in the making. She will translate lessons learned from the campaign and President Obama’s leadership style that could be applied to every organization and leader in both the public and private sector. Myers will outline key elements of respectful leadership and give helpful insights for leaders who want to improve both their personal and organizational success.

Betsy Myers believes that the hardest person you will ever manage is yourself. This seminar will discuss some key tools to thinking about and exploring your personal leadership effectiveness.

Betsy’s belief and fundamental observation is that leadership navigating thru conflict to guide and facilitate change.

Leaders must be prepared to anticipate and spot conflict and guide organizations thru it. Ignored and unsolved conflicts are a key ingredient of why leaders fail personally and professionally.

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KEY LEARNING Myers will discuss the latest thinking and research about women and leadership: - Closing the confidence gap - The balance question—is it possible?

- Leadership and the new generation of women - Biology, Ideology, and the difference - How women deal with fear and risk Myers will outline key elements of respectful leadership: - How to empower your team to take initiative with personal responsibility - Gaining credibility from your team by talking truth to difficult issues - Making people your priority and letting them know they matter - Understanding the Obama leadership traits that changed the course of history Myers will discuss key thinking and research around critical leadership skills that include: - Personal authenticity

- Developing a personal advisory board - Appreciation and acknowledgement of yourself and team

Myers will share her experiences with the organizational leaders faced with managing change and garnering critical support: - Myers will present her 10 C’s of change.

- These valuable insights and tools will help any leader address the conflict in his or her organization and enable them to reach their goals.

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PREVIOUS EVENT IN DEC.2009-KUWAIT Betsy Myers ( The New Leadership Model ) Kuwait City, Kuwait 8th December 2009 Kuwaiti business leaders, representatives of the public and private sectors, critical thinkers, academics and journalists gathered 8th December 2009 at an event that discussed the new paradigm of leadership. ’Think big, act big,’ it turns out, is the mantra underlying the concept of new style of leadership and the crucible of leadership innovation. Betsy Myers, a senior advisor to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and a leadership expert presented her vision of leadership during the seminar titled ’The New Leadership Model.’ The one-day forum, which was attended by business leaders, advisers, consultants and media was held at the JW Marriott Hotel in Kuwait City on 8th December 2009.

Myers, who has held executive leadership positions in the public sector for over two decades and a grand total of 25 years in the turf, admits that she has a ‚life-long curiosity about leadership.‛ Providing her own description of a leader, Myers says that ‚listening and saying thank you‛ are key to the new leadership paradigm – an argument culled from a long stint of experience.

In her words, leadership goes beyond one single national context. ‛Leadership is self-knowledge. It is not about having all the answers. It is about asking the questions,‛ she asserts. According to her, being authentic and being true to one’s self are pivotal for a leader – a concept that made her join the Obama campaign team. ‚Obama is truly authentic,‛ she said providing firsthand accounts on the ground of her work on the campaign trail.

Attending to her pivotal topic of what makes a good leader, she stressed that leaders are optimists who’bring energy to the organization.’ Taking the point further, she said that leaders have ‘a sense of curiosity’ and remain ‘student(s) of life.’

She also argued that working hard on your self-knowledge and challenging your personal assumptions are essential for a leader. Leaders challenge assumptions, she said. She further stressed that listening is ‘a critical skill’ and ‘leadership is a team sport.’

Grounding her argument on the lessons learned from the campaign trail and Obama’s leadership style, she argued that remaining true to yourself is critical to a leader. Working on the Obama campaign, she said,‛was an opportunity for her to have a front-row seat and see a new type of leadership‛.

During the forum, Myers outlined pivotal elements of respectful leadership and provided insights for leaders who want to improve both their personal and organizational success. The forum also dwelled on a toolkit that leaders could apply in thinking about and exploring their personal leadership efficiency.

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