The 2016 Women of Color in Technology Executive Roundtable Session

(WOC 1712) The 2016 Women of Color in Technology Executive Roundtable Session

 

Our business community must confront the challenges of the shortage of women in STEM leadership positions in today’s workplace, and the entrance of vast numbers of millennial talent who will reshape the workforce, and the rules of the workplace.  The next generation of female leaders will contribute to be heard, and influence the dialog driving these changes. They will have particular impact on conversations addressing gender related workplace challenges and solutions. 

 

We must address the gender gap, and the overall lack of diversity in senior leadership.  How we do so must be an important component of our national and global talent strategies, and work in conjunction with systemic change efforts effecting our workforce.  But to get this right, first, organizations must better understand how to attract, develop, and retain female and other diverse talent from the millennial generation.  

 

We hope that our 2015 Women of Color in Technology Executive Roundtable is a livewire symposium.  Our interchange will examine the 21st Century challenges of women in today’s technology driven workplace and why it is seen as a man’s world. Moderated by Ted Childs, Workforce Diversity Catalyst for Change, and Raina Washington, Vice President, Culture, Diversity and EO Programs, Lockheed Martin, attendees will hear from women executives who have competed in high intensity, competitive, technology driven workplaces. We do not want a discussion about what women have not done, or cannot do. We have assembled a panel of accomplished executive women to discuss their career journeys and do the following: 

 

1. Engage in a candid dialogue about the challenges women face in today’s workplace, including at the executive level. 
2. Explore factors that limit women from breaking the glass ceiling.   
3. Identify best practices in diversity workforce change. 
4. Discuss ways to overcome challenges and stereotypes.

 

 

Learning Outcomes: 

• Increase awareness of the challenges that women may encounter on their career journey, and strategies to address those obstacles;  
• Discover techniques that encourage women to succeed on reaching the management level.