The debate has been active for years—can you teach leadership or are you born a leader? Executive Women International stepped forward to address the question by designing the Academy of Leadership for Member Firms and individual representatives of those firms.
The many industries that make up the membership of EWI teach industry-specific skills. The Academy of Leadership teaches leadership skills that are transferable regardless of industry and title.
The guiding principles on which the Academy of Leadership is based are as follows:
- Leadership can and must be taught
- Everyone has the capacity to lead
- There are stellar examples of leadership within EWI
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EWI Spring Conference
Executive Women International of Richmond is proud to host the 2012 EWI
Spring Conference in Richmond, Virginia March 29-31, 2012.
A New Academy of Leadership Module with Colette Carlson
'It all Begins with You - How to Empower Individuals and Motivate A Team'
The information provided in this module will teach you to:
- Develop the behaviors characteristic of an inspiring leader
- Empower others and motivate them to do their best
- Create a work environment that drives excellence and fosters a climate of trust
- Implement the five essential stages of building a winning team
- Sustain high-level performance from your team
Every leader must learn to inspire and move a team to action. With
the skills of empowerment and team-building your professional brand is
elevated and opportunities expanded.
Other Guest Speakers to Include:
- Thomas F. Farrell, II, Chairman, President and CEO, Dominion Resources, Inc.
- Lisa Schaffner, Public Relations & Marketing Director, United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)
- Laura Posey, CEO, Dancing Elephants Achievement Group
For more information click here or download the Program/Registration Form.
Academy of Leadership Faculty
Colette Carlson, MA
Audiences
worldwide love the funny way Colette Carlson, MA, speaks the truth
while inspiring them to maximize relationships, revenue and results.
Only by telling the truth on herself was she able to overcome her own
fears and addictions that kept her 50 lbs. overweight and making
underwhelming choices. Whether she's opening for Suze Orman or speaking
in house at Fortune 100 companies to include Microsoft, Boeing, New York
Life, PepsiCo and Cisco, Colette brings her cutting-edge content and
incredible sense of fun to every program.
As a human behavior
expert she knows her stuff and has the research, education and
experience to back it up which is why she's been featured in Success,
Working Mother, and Personal Development Magazines, and interviewed on
The Success Training Networks's "Made for Succeed" series. Colette's
expertise has been sought after in motivational movies, Pass It On and
Riches: The 7 Secrets of Wealth, in addition to her monthly column,
"Tactfully Speaking" in Business Management Daily,
Her career
began as an administrative assistant, then to straight-commissioned
sales with legend Tom Hopkins. Colette became the #1 Sales Producer,
leaped to Brian Tracy's International organization and applied her sales
skills in a corporate environment as National Sales Trainer for US
West. In the midst of raising her two daughters, Colette went back to
night school to earn her Masters in Human Behavior which certainly helps
now that they're teenagers!