“When women connect, the world changes” Debby Edelstein
Background
This one-day interactive conference will show you how to fast-track your path from good manager to great leader.
Learn how to step confidently into your own leadership potential and make sure your organisation reaps the rewards with a powerful combination of presentations, panel discussions, group dialogue processes and informal networks.
What you will learn:
This programme has been designed with two objectives in mind:
- How to fast-track personal leadership development and
- How women leaders can unleash the potential of people and possibility in organisations
Chair: Debby Edelstein – Women’s Leadership Consultant and co-founder of QualityLife Company
Agenda items and speakers:
Keynote: Love, Courage and Insubordination
Gloria Steinem famously said that “Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.” While love without power can be sentimental, power without love can be abusive and tyrannical. How do we combine the two so that we can act with integrity and courage? How can love, courage and power co-exist?
Pregs Govender, as one of South Africa’s foremost “truth-sayers”, is uniquely positioned to talk about power and how it can be exercised responsibly. Pregs is Deputy Chair of the South Africa Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), her awards include honorary doctorates in Law and Philosophy for her humans rights activism since 1974, the first Ruth First Fellowship and the Fullbright New Century Scholarship for the Global Empowerment of Women. She is author of Love and Courage, a story of Insubordination (Jacana)
Keynote: Why Me, Why Now?
If women are to play a fundamental leadership role in creating a sustainable democracy, what leadership role can you play in your family, your community, your organisation and your society right now?
Dr Sindiwe Magona is an author, poet, playwright, essayist, storyteller, actor, and inspirational speaker who retired from the United Nations and relocated to her home country, South Africa.
Panel discussions:
Moving Beyond Mean Girls and the PHD factor: A Better Way for Women to Work Together
The bullying of girls on girls has acquired worldwide media attention. But is there really a PHD (Pull Her Down) factor? Are women really tougher on women? If so how can we challenge this phenomenon and build mentors rather than detractors among girls of all ages?
Sam Wilson is the irreverent and funny editor-in-chief of the Women24, Parent24 and Food24 portals who describes herself as a “Feminist, anarchist, binge drinker and a renegade parent”. This ex-attorney has some strong ideas about managing an almost exclusively female staff complement
Synnov Skorge, MD of The Saartjie Baartman Centre, is well-known for her pioneering work in the field of gender-based violence. Synnov has presented the Centre as a best-practice model both nationally and internationally.
Dr Nazia Peer is a medical doctor, author of “House of Peace” and recipient of the Nelson Mandela Scholarship, which she used to study a Masters in Medical Law at CardiffUniversity in Wales. She was raised in a family of girls and currently works in a women-only team.
Wired Women – Wonderful Ways to use collaborative innovation in the Digital Economy
Social media like blogs, facebook and twitter reflect the easy and natural way women form community and share information. Learn more about how becoming a digital citizen can fast-track the achievement of your leadership goals as you make a difference to the world.
Maritza van den Heuvel is Product Owner at Fundamo, providers of mobile banking products and services. A wife, mother, linguist and blogger, Maritza is passionate about creating learning organizations.
Max Kaizen is one of the founders, and senior researcher for Huddlemind Labs, one of South Africa’s most respected digital education organizations. Max’s speciality is taking the terror out of technology and opening the doors on fresh opportunities the Internet offers, particularly for business and civil activism.
Monique Theron is originally from a local community on the Cape flats, Monique had a substance abuse problem for 8 years before turning her life around after a church group meeting. This was the first step in inspiring her to channel her energy into using social media tools for social good and she has not looked back since. Her blog http://shesthegeek.co.za is a 2010 SA Blog Awards Winner.
Mini-workshop
An introduction to Digital Storytelling
Discover what is needed to make a compelling digital story, Develop a script for your story of the day, Begin to assemble visual material to illustrate your story. Learn how to develop the story, and the relationships you have forged, at the conference and beyond.
Pam Sykes after 15 years of writing for a living, Pam became captivated by the transformative power and potential of multimedia digital storytelling. As a digital storytelling facilitator, she empowers others with the technical skills they need to take their stories into their own hands.
Soul jazz singer and poet
BLAQPEARL with full 5 piece band. An artist, entrepreneur and community activist who has had a strong need to express herself and to release some of the frustrations that she had to deal with in her community and life since the tender age of 12.
When and where
Cape Town
DATE: Friday 27 May
VENUE: Peninsula Hotel, 313 Beach Road, Sea Point
TIME: 8:00am for 8:30am until 4:00pm
COST: R3150 ex vat. (Speak to us about group discounts and special rates for NGOs)
BOOK NOW: Call Lizzy Mafalo on (011) 880-9749 or forward this email to Lizzy with your contact details, or to register online, click on “Click here to book” on the top of this page.
For more information on the 6th Annual Women’s Leadership Conference: “We are the Leaders We’ve Been Waiting For” or to purchase your ticket contact QualityLife Company on 011 880 9749.
Delegate Feedback from previous years
“I loved this conference. Fabulous panels. Clever interaction. Brilliant facilitator. Relevant topics. It built me up.”Ivanka Acquisto, St Stithians Girls College
“As always QualityLife did not disappoint and I am officially hooked to “We are the Leaders We’ve Been Waiting for”! It is an amazing event and words cannot even begin to describe how fabulous it was. The speakers were great, the venue was great, the food was divine, and the whole event was just so well organized.” Anna Komote, Strate
“The beauty of the conference is that the skills that we learned can be applied anywhere, at home at work and in the community. The content was practical and relevant to the current issues faced by women.” Ellen Mahlangu, Eskom
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3 Comments on "Cape Town: The 6th Annual Women’s Leadership Conference"
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Hi
We are running our 2011 conference in CT tomorrow so no, the 2012 programme is not out yet. We’ll start working on it quite soon though. We do accept exhibitors btw.
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