ATW - Denver Past Events

Event Name:	The Secret of a Personal Vision
Date & Time:	Tuesday, March 18, 2008 5:00 PM
Location:	Oracle 7700 Technology Way Denver, CO 80237 Bldg 3, 1st Floor Conference Room
Description:	Do you want to learn how to identify the financial and personal success you desire? Join us as Blair Koch explains how to create a personal vision statement that reflects the unique future of your dreams and how to balance this between work and personal life. Blair E. Koch President, TAB—Denver West www.TABDenverWest.com www.BEKTeam.com Blair Koch’s professional career spans more than twenty years as an executive, entrepreneur, and trusted business advisor to presidents, CEOs and business owners. Her back ground and experience includes business start-up, operational management, business development, sales and marketing, project and product management, strategic planning and facilitation. Her experiences as a business owner and shareholder provide her with broad exposure to the vast array of challenges, opportunities, issues and problems that top executives and entrepreneurs face. Blair began her career in IBM’s National Marketing Division while still in college and spent several years as a system engineer/programmer at General Motors/Electronic Data Systems and as a sales support executive at Syntellect, Inc. Prior to starting her consulting and marketing practice and becoming involved with TAB, Blair served as Vice President of Marketing at iSpring, Director of Product Marketing and Management at Aspect Communications, and Director of Product Management at Rapt, Inc. Blair holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and communication from California State University in Sacramento

Event Name:	Personal Safety Program
Date & Time:	Tuesday, October 23, 2007 6:30 PM
Location:	Oracle 7700 Technology Way Building 3 - 1st Floor Conference Room Denver, CO 80237
Description:	"If YOU were Attacked, would YOU Know What To Do?" "1 in 4 women and 1 in 17 men in Colorado had experienced a completed or attempted sexual assault in their lifetime." Quoted from the Colorado Convicted Sex Offender Site - 2007 In October, the Alliance of Women and Technology (ATW) will host a personal safety presentation. A speaker from Colorado Safety Educators will present a one hour program on Behavioral Safety and Personal Safety. Bring your mother, father, sister, brother, son, daughter, and friends to this educational presentation. For more information about Colorado Safety Educators, visit their website at http://www.coloradosafetyeducators.org/home.htm

Event Name:	Leadership: Influence and Strategic Self- Leadership/Scholarship Recognition Event
Date & Time:	Thursday, September 13, 2007 5:00 PM
Location:	Oracle Campus - Building 3 1st floor 7700 Technology Way Denver, Co 80237
Description:	Come join our scholarship winners Kathryn Rodhouse and Kari Tornow at our September event focused on Leadership. Women who break through into the upper echelons of business get there with a reputation for delivering results. They are comfortable gaining and using power. Too often, women wait to be granted permission to make their big impact or demonstrate their true leadership capabilities. If a person can?t get a higher level job without experience, and can?t get the experience without the job, what are some ways to break out, and develop a reputation as an influencer and leader? In this presentation, Leslie Scida, Vice President of Women?s Leadership Coaching Inc will explore ways to build your credibility and make a larger impact in business and in life, through understanding the mechanisms of power and influence. Topics you will discover include: ! How men and women can perceive power differently ! Identifying the facets of influence ! How to become a person of influence ! Strategic self-leadership: ways to grow as a leader, regardless of your current occupation or job ! How to act, think and feel like a leader every day. You will leave with a new toolkit of ideas to have a voice, and expand your reach, and make a greater impact, by strengthening your personal influence. Leslie Scida is VP Business Development of Women?s Leadership Coaching, Women?s Leadership Trainer and Coach, Mentor Coach, and Writer. For over 8 years, she has been leading and facilitating sales programs for corporate executives, community organizations and individual clients. As a Women?s Leadership Trainer and Coach, Leslie supports professional women in achieving at their next levels and beyond. Clients include professionals at Oracle, IBM, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Cisco Systems, Northrup Grumman, PG&E, Owens Corning, Independent Entrepreneurs and CEO?s, in addition to numerous other sectors including finance and technology. She has traveled widely in the US to facilitate corporate leadership development programs for organizations including Oracle Women in Leadership Conference (OWL), Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and the Women in Leadership Forum with the Alliance of Technology and Women (ATW). Leslie is a graduate of the ICF-accredited Life Coach Training Program through Coach for Life in San Diego, California, where she received her Life Coach Program Graduate (LCP) designation. Leslie holds a BS in Business from Florida State University. Prior to Professional Coaching, Leslie spent several years in the International Data and Technology industry achieving tremendous professional success as a top producer, achieving over $5MM + in individual annual sales year over year as a Senior Sales Executive and ranking as a Top 10 Sales Manager for a Fortune 500 company.

Event Name:	Members Only CIO Dinner
Date & Time:	Thursday, May 31, 2007 6:30 PM
Location:	Great Northern Tavern
Description:	For our members only, we will have a intimate dinner with Stephanie Pianka, Chief Financial Officer, SkyWay Systems, Inc and Rina Delmonico, REN, Inc.,CEO/Founder from the Denver Area. Come prepared with all of the questions you want answered regarding industry trends, career growth, and current events.