Location: Boston, MA

Program Fee: $1,800

Master the art of developing and leading a highly effective team. In Leading High Performing Teams, you will learn how to improve team output by developing actionable strategies for establishing credibility, pre-empting conflict and enhancing communication and collaboration. Explore how others perceive you and your role as a woman who leads. Join Professor Mary Shapiro for this dynamic, two-day workshop to ensure your team is operating at peak performance.

Visit the Leading High Performing Teams website for more details or contact Elisa van Dam, Director, Executive Education at 617-521-3869 or elisa.vandam@simmons.edu.

Women with effective leadership skills have a greater chance than ever before to take their careers and their organizations to new heights. Join our nationally recognized faculty for a transformative leadership development program where you will master key leadership competencies including mentoring, team building and communication—with an emphasis on how your role as women leader impacts organizational behavior and workplace culture. You’ll learn how gender affects the way you take on leadership roles and how to strategically make your contributions visible and valued.

Visit the Strategic Leadership for Women website for more details or contact Elisa van Dam, Director, Executive Education at 617-521-3869 or elisa.vandam@simmons.edu.

Gender and feminist theory has a long and rich intellectual history in such disciplines as sociology, cultural, media, and women’s studies, anthropology, ethics, law, and economics. While research in marketing and consumer research has applied gender and feminist theory both conceptually and methodologically, it has not had the broad-scale impact on the field as seen in other disciplines.

In its 9th incarnation, this conference will serve as a refocusing and catalyst of the importance of gender and feminism in the academic discourse in marketing and consumer behavior. The call for papers thus reflects the theme by challenging submitters to move beyond research that focuses on basic differences between men and women to look more deeply into the rich tapestry that gender weaves upon consumers’ experiences.

Location: Boston, MA

Program Fee: $1,800

Change is constant in organizations today, but managing it well can be challenging. Change initiatives take many forms and may be the result of internal forces, such as a change to an organization’s mission or operational structure, or external forces, such as a change in the industry or economy. Your capacity to successfully manage change depends on your ability to identify and navigate the complex interpersonal and strategic issues involved. Led by Dr. Cynthia Ingols, Leading Organizational Change will provide you with unique perspectives, practical approaches and a clear framework that you can immediately apply to your own situation and ensure you become a more effective change agent in your organization.

Visit the Leading Organizational Change website for more details or contact Elisa van Dam, Director, Executive Education at 617-521-3869 or elisa.vandam@simmons.edu.

Location: Boston, MA

Program Fee: $850

The Leadership Brand you project is vital to achieving optimal career success. Managing Your Leadership Brand provides new and established leaders with the framework and tools to create a truly powerful leadership brand – one that drives business performance and career success. Join executive coach, Sue Hodgkinson, for this dynamic one-day workshop and ensure your personal brand is working for you.

Visit the Managing Your Leadership Brand website for more details or contact Elisa van Dam, Director, Executive Education at 617-521-3869 or elisa.vandam@simmons.edu.

Date: March 31, 2008

Time: 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Reception starts at 5:00 p.m.

Place: 451 Marlborough Street, Boston, MA

RSVP: entrepreneurship@simmons.edu

Join us to learn more from Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Radha Basu, about what it takes to create and sustain start-up and social ventures that are competitive and sustainable. Ms Basu will present her start-up and high growth experience in technology (SupportSoft) and social venturing (Anudip Foundation) as part of the SOM Leading Women Entrepreneur Series with time reserved for questions and discussion. With 30+ years of entrepreneurial business experience, Radha will share career defining moments and discuss how being a woman is relevant and advantageous in business.

To RSVP, email entrepreneurship@simmons.edu

This event is also part of the Leading Women Entrepreneur Series.

Join Dean Deborah Merrill-Sands, alumnae and current students to learn about the unique Simmons experience; hear firsthand stories about the Simmons MBA program and how it has opened up a world of possibilities for many women. You will also gain a glimpse into the classroom by participating in a “mini-case discussion” led by one of our esteemed faculty.

Find out about our one-year accelerated program, flexible part-time options, curriculum, career placement, financing and the application process.

FREE Parking is available!

To sign up online, click here.

Date: March 24, 2008

Time: 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. Reception starts at 5:00 p.m.

Place: 451 Marlborough Street, Boston, MA

RSVP: entrepreneurship@simmons.edu

Sheila Lirio Marcelo presents the second installment of the 2008 Leading Women Entrepreneur Series.

Sheila has always been passionate about business and family. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College while juggling an Economics major and raising her oldest son. In her son’s toddler years, she pursued dual degrees from Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School and was still able to work part-time as a consultant for Monitor Group. At Harvard, Sheila graduated with honors, and received two prestigious awards: the Dean’s Award for overall leadership and contributions to Harvard Business School; and the Fitzie Foundation Award, given by the Margaret Fitzgerald Grogan Petersmeyer Foundation, which honors the most outstanding female students.

From there, Sheila went on to serve as an executive at several successful Internet companies — most notably: Upromise.com, an online service helping families save money for college; and TheLadders.com, an online service helping people find jobs. Care.com is a continuation of Sheila’s pursuits to prioritize community involvement and helping people through successful Internet business strategy.

Don’t miss out on your chance to hear one of Boston’s most prominent and innovative web entrepreneurs share her experiences and insight building national online businesses!

Join Dean Deborah Merrill-Sands, alumnae and current students to learn about the unique Simmons experience; hear firsthand stories about the Simmons MBA program and how it has opened up a world of possibilities for many women. You will also gain a glimpse into the classroom by participating in a “mini-case discussion” led by one of our esteemed faculty.

Find out about our one-year accelerated program, flexible part-time options, curriculum, career placement, financing and the application process.

FREE Parking is available!

To sign up online, click here.

Location: Boston, MA

Program Fee: $1,800

Women negotiate all the time. Although we associate negotiation with formal agreements and contracts, the most important negotiations occur in the everyday work we do in our organizations. Every day, women negotiate on the job—for a plum assignment, a new client, credit for work, more time or more money. How we fare depends on whether we can take advantage of opportunities to negotiate. Join negotiation expert Dr. Deborah Kolb for this career-changing workshop where you will gain the skills and confidence to negotiate what you need to succeed in your work. Women who negotiate effectively report that they gain more leadership opportunities, better performance reviews and more satisfaction with their jobs. Learn how to negotiate for your leadership success.

Visit the It Pays to Ask website for more details or contact Elisa van Dam, Director, Executive Education at 617-521-3869 or elisa.vandam@simmons.edu.

Date: March 17, 2008

Time: 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. Reception starts at 5:00 p.m.

Place: Case Room 1, 451 Marlborough Street, Boston, MA

RSVP: entrepreneurship@simmons.edu

Owner of the Eliot Hotel Dora Ullian kicks off the 2008 Leading Women Entrepreneur Speaker Series on March 17. Born in Montreal, Canada in 1944, Dora Ullian received her BA at Mcgill University and continued her education at Harvard University Graduate School of Education, completing her EdD in Human Development in 1976. Ms. Ullian taught at Wheelock College until 1981 and received a Radcliffe Fellowship to conduct research and to write about male and female development in children and adolescence.

In 1983, she entered the Simmons SOM and completed her MBA in one year. Following a one year position at Fidelity, she decided in 1990, with her husband to rehabilitate and rebrand The Eliot Hotel to a luxury boutique hotel. Within 6 years, the hotel was awarded four stars by Conde Nast and was named one of the best hotels in the world. In 1998, with the declining visibility of the Eliot Lounge, Ms. Ullian sought to enhance the value of the hotel by adding an upscale restaurant and she developed Clio and Uni sashimi bar with her partner in the restaurant, Ken Oringer. Ms. Ullian now oversees the marketing and operations of the hotel as well as the restaurants.

Dora Ullian is married to Arthur Ullian, a real estate developer, and has a son Ben who is presently completing his senior year at college.

Join us as we hear firsthand about this leading woman entrepreneur’s experience owning and managing one of the finest and most successful hotels in Boston.

Join Dr. Teresa Nelson, Elizabeth J. McCandless Professor of Entrepreneurship, to learn how the Simmons Certificate in Entrepreneurship for MBAs has created a world of possibilities for many women. You will hear firsthand how the program has enabled participants to create and build ventures with the support of a cohort of women who study, achieve and encourage one another throughout the program and after graduation.

The information session will follow the first event of the 2008 Leading Women Entrepreneur Speaker Series, which starts at 6:00 p.m. Dora Ullian, owner of the Eliot Hotel and a Simmons School of Management Alumna will share her experience in and knowledge of the hotel industry in the event High Growth in the Boutique Industry. The talk will end around 7:30 p.m. and the info session will follow in the Purple Room of 409 Commonwealth Avenue.

If you are an MBA graduate interested in launching a company, contributing to the growth of a start-up, leading a new venture within an existing organization, developing innovative products, or unveiling a new social venture, join us to learn more about how the Simmons School of Management can help you reach your goals.

FREE validated parking is available!

Note: We welcome applications from Simmons MBA applicants, Simmons MBA students, Simmons MBA alumnae, and graduates of AACSB International accredited MBA programs.