Powwow of Women Leaders June 3 at Simmons College on Developing Girls' Leadership
Unusual Meeting of Women Leaders in Greater Boston to Develop Agenda to Foster Future Leaders

BOSTON (May 29, 2002) – A candid discussion by women leaders throughout greater Boston about what it will take to foster the next generation of women leaders is the focal point of an unusual event Monday, June 3 at Simmons College in Boston.

Operating on the theory that there are concrete actions today’s women leaders can take to increase girls’ leadership potential, more than 250 women leaders throughout greater Boston in business, government, non-profits, academia, and the volunteer sector will meet to determine those steps, and develop an action agenda for women and their institutions to help prepare young girls as future leaders.

The meeting, co-sponsored by the Patriots’ Trail Girl Scouts Council and the Simmons School of Management, is from 6-9 p.m. in the Conference Center, Main Campus Building of Simmons College, 300 The Fenway in Boston.

The meeting is the primary celebration vehicle of the Patriots’ Trail Girls Scouts Council, which represents 30,000 Girl Scouts in greater Boston and is one of the largest councils in the nation, to recognize the 90 th anniversary of the Girls Scouts of America. It is co-sponsored by the Simmons School of Management (SOM), the only business school in the world specifically designed for women, because of their mutual goals of developing girls and women for positions of leadership.

The women will explore such questions as what it takes to be a woman leader today, what it will take in the future, what will be different, what skills and competencies will girls need to be future leaders, and what advice to offer girls as they move ahead.

A kickoff panel discussion will be followed by roundtables, with the meeting results summarized and distributed as a report and action agenda.

Panel moderator is Deborah Kolb, professor of the Simmons School of Management and president of the Board of Directors of the Patriots’ Trail Girl Scouts Council. Panelists include Judy George, founder, chair, and CEO of Domain Home Fashions; Bennie Wiley, president and CEO of The Partnership, Inc.; Eileen McNamara, Boston Globe columnist; and Meizhu Lui, executive director of United for a Fair Economy.

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Diane Millikan
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