{"id":826,"date":"2008-04-03T16:00:13","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T20:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=826"},"modified":"2014-11-14T16:01:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T21:01:38","slug":"women-leaders-and-students-connect-at-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2008\/04\/women-leaders-and-students-connect-at-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Women leaders and students connect at conference."},"content":{"rendered":"
As successful career women demonstrated at the \u201cWomen Who Lead\u201d conference recently, they take their responsibility to female students seriously\u2014as role models, mentors, or both.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had several women mentors along the way who took the time to share their journeys, and that is why it\u2019s important for me to give back to other women,\u201d said Maria Hernandez<\/strong>, director, executive for Central American Region, IBM Corp.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlthough I had excellent mentors throughout my career, there were very few role models,\u201d said Carmen M. Perez<\/strong> (BBA \u201982), president, FPL FiberNet. \u201cA conference such as this one allows students to get exposed to the many different roles women play these days.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hernandez and Perez were among the leaders\u2014from business, law, public health, politics, athletics, and other sectors\u2014who showed women students the opportunities that await them. Organized by the Women\u2019s Center at Florida International University, the conference on February 29, 2008, included panels, workshops, a speech titled \u201cVote, Run, Lead,\u201d and networking. Approximately 425 students attended.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe college has a strategic initiative around female leadership development and we want to make sure we address all constituencies,\u201d said Joyce J. Elam<\/strong>, executive dean, College of Business Administration, who moderated a panel on entrepreneurship. \u201cWe\u2019ve run a program for high-potential women who already are established leaders and we felt it was important to have a dialogue with students to alert them to the career possibilities open to them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Deanne Butchey<\/strong> (PhD \u201905), academic director, Advancement for Quality, moderated a panel on finance, on which Perez spoke; and Irma<\/strong> Becerra-Fern\u00e1ndez<\/strong>, (PhD \u201994), faculty director, Master of Science in Management Information Systems, moderated the IT panel on which Hernandez served.<\/p>\n
Target audience appreciates the outreach.<\/em><\/p>\n
Jana\u00e9 Mitchell,<\/strong> a student in the college\u2019s Master of International Business (MIB) program, found it \u201cinspiring to see so many dynamic and phenomenal women making a real difference by dispelling archaic and antiquated notions about women in their respective fields.\u201d<\/p>\n
She also understood the importance of mentoring.<\/p>\n
\u201cA critical component of my professional growth and development is having someone to help me identify potential learning opportunities, widen my exposure, and provide candid feedback regarding my strengths and weaknesses,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
According to Elam, \u201cIt was a natural that we participate because of our strong relationship with women in our community, including the twelve women business leaders whom Natalia Echeverr\u00eda Sol<\/strong>, director of advancement and corporate relations, invited to participate.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\nIrma<\/strong> Becerra-Fern\u00e1ndez<\/strong>, Joyce J. Elam, <\/em>and<\/em> \nDeanne Butchey<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n
As successful career women demonstrated at the \u201cWomen Who Lead\u201d conference recently, they take their responsibility to female students seriously\u2014as role models, mentors, or both. \u201cI had several women mentors along the way who took the time to share their journeys, and that is why it\u2019s important for me to give back to other women,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[349,595,910,1720,1980,2679,2680],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24163,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/24163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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