ABC News’ Shipman to Speak at Worcester Women’s Leadership Conf.

Wednesday, April 02, 2014

GoLocalProv Business Team

Television journalist and bestselling author Claire Shipman

Television journalist and bestselling author Claire Shipman, along with Girls on the Run Founder Molly Barker, will make keynote presentations during the 5th Annual Worcester Women’s Leadership Conference on Friday, June 6.

Shipman is a senior contributor for ABC News’ Good Morning America, World News and Nightline, and co-author of The New York Times best seller, Womenomics: The Workplace Revolution That Will Change Your Life.

This annual, one-day leadership conference offers opportunities for business networking, professional development, and personal growth for all who attend.

500 Attendees expected

Approximately 500 attendees will come together for an agenda full of topics that impact women such as business empowerment and entrepreneurship, work/life balance, and career advancement. The event includes expert speakers, including the two keynotes, a luncheon panel, and a variety of breakout sessions.

Girls on the Run Founder Molly Barker

Girls on the Run

Barker will open this year’s conference with her keynote speech. A recovering alcoholic and four-time Hawaii Ironman tri-athlete, Barker used her background in social work, counseling and teaching, along with research on adolescent issues, to develop the program in 1996. Today, Girls on the Run has councils in more than 210 cities across North America serving over 200,000 girls and women each year.

Barker coined the phrase “Girl Box,” which she describes as the imaginary place many girls go around adolescence, where cultural and societal stereotypes limit choices as well as opportunities. Molly founded Girls on the Run to create a connected and safe “space” that invites girls and women to see, unravel from and eliminate their, often unconscious, buy-in to the Girl Box and its limiting messages.

Recently selected by the highly regarded Bipartisan Policy Center, Molly is serving on the 25-person commission that is tasked with exploring ways to encourage a more civil discourse at the highest levels of government. For more information about Molly Barker, http://www.girlsontherun.org" target="_blank">visit http://www.girlsontherun.org.

The Confidence Code

Shipman will present the afternoon keynote entitled, The Confidence Code: What Women Need to Know. She regularly conducts in-depth interviews with top news-making figures, such as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, President George W. Bush, President Bill Clinton, and Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie of York.

Shipman co-authored--with Katty Kay--The New York Times best-seller, Womenomics: The Workplace Revolution That Will Change Your Life. The book addresses how the management style of today’s woman is ideally suited for the 21st century business world as it produces more profitable companies with happier employees.

They also discuss how women can use this power to get what they really want—more time and freedom in their jobs without falling off the professional ladder. Her new book, The Confidence Code: The Art and Science of Self-Assurance—and What Women Need to Know, is an informative and practical guide to understanding the importance of confidence—and learning how to achieve it—for women of all ages and at all stages of their career.

Luncheon discussion

A luncheon discussion will feature four extraordinary women, three of whom have broken barriers in the male-dominated world of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math). WCVB’s Kelley Tuthill will moderate the panel, which will include Anne Margulies, Vice President and University Chief Information Officer, Harvard University; Vicary Graham, President at BNY Mellon Wealth Management; and Christina Chase, co-creator of Hack Boston and Entrepreneur in Residence at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Breakout workshops are being planned now and will be available for viewing in April.

Tickets can be purchased online at www.worcesterchamber.org. The agenda and location details are also available online.

The cost to attend the full-day conference is $150. Tables of ten are still available.

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