— Coaching, leadership, performance, communicate

Speaker: Camille Smith, President, Work In Progress Coaching
Meeting Date: Thursday, March 7, 2013
Time: 6:00 PM: Registration & Informal Networking, 6:30 PM: Management Forum, 7:15 PM: Dinner, 7:45 PM: After Dinner Presentation, 9:00 PM: Adjourn
Location: RAMADA Silicon Valley 1217 Wildwood Ave Sunnyvale, CA 94089

Management Forum / Guided Networking: Topic: Networking Presented by:  Facilitated by IEEE-SCV-TMC board member

Summary:
Leaders: Until you know what’s going on with you and your people, you won’t really know what’s going on with your team or company.  Nor will you have access to impact performance.  Knowing how individuals make decisions, prefer to communicate, deal with change and what motivates them makes the difference between a team that’s awe-shucks and one that’s awesome, between products and ideas that collect dust and those that generate revenues and breakthroughs.  It’s not that you aren’t interested in understanding team dynamics, it’s just that there hasn’t been a way to access the data that makes business sense … until now.  In this interactive session, we’ll look at how talent analytics take the mystery out of people issues and provides data to connect talent strategies to business goals.  This conversation will challenge the status quo and, hopefully, your thinking.  Join us.

Bio:
Camille Smith, leadership coach and president of Work In Progress Coaching, teaches leaders and teams to produce results that matter by building relationships that work.

Camille’s business experience includes 6 years as an international consultant transforming cultures of NutraSweet, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Guinness Brewing Worldwide, 10 years with an international training organization leading workshops in productivity and teamwork and responsible for staff training and development and liaison to satellite offices in Brazil, Mexico, Israel and Europe.  Prior to founding Work In Progress Coaching in 2002, she spent 10 years in high-tech startups responsible for sales, operations, account management and product marketing manager in Nokia’s security division.

She received a B.S. and M.A. from The Ohio State University.  She is a former adjunct professor at Santa Clara University, Leavey School of Business, and a founding member of the Global Women’s Leadership Network committed to igniting a new future for humanity by liberating leaders to bring us all to a world built upon human rights and gender equality, sustainable development, and global integrity. Camille served three years as an executive coach for The Global Institute for Leadership Development, founded by Warren Bennis.