Oscar de la Renta Retrospecitve
On Sunday April 3, the FWSF's Mentorship Committee hosted a special docent-led tour of the Oscar de la Renta Retrospective at the de Young Museum to close out the mentoring year. At the Sold Out event, 20 of the FWSF mentees, mentors, and members networked while admiring Oscar de la Renta’s designs, which celebrated the best in women—beauty, optimism, and confidence.
Read moreFWSF’s First Interest Group: Book Club
At the beginning of 2016, FWSF launched the Book Club as the first Interest Group. The Interest Groups were created to give members an opportunity to meet and form deeper relationships with women in the FWSF community. The organization is already made up of many professionals that care about seeing more women succeed in the finance industry, but there are a lot of other hobbies within the FWSF. There are women in the group that love the arts, the outdoors, cooking, or volunteering. Through the Interest Groups, FWSF hopes to bring these people together and allow them to share their experiences and interests with each other.
Read morePowerful Presentations and Conversations: Professional Development Series with Kristi Royse
Opportunities to present yourself occur every day. You start presenting when you walk out the door. Sharing ideas in public is essential to your success in life and business. Kristi Royce, CEO of KLR Consulting, shared with the FWSF East Bay group techniques to use now to make every opportunity a success.
Read moreEffective Story Building/Telling
In early February the FWSF Board held their retreat in San Francisco. We were pleased to host two of the very dynamic Coaches from the Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute, CEO, Doy Charnsupharindr and COO, Susan Houlihan, who were invited by our President Darcy Illg to coach the Board on Story Building and specifically telling our own story and how it motivated us to be part of FWSF. Darcy herself volunteers at the Institute.
Read moreDebbie Messemer, Managing Partner at KPMG and also a member of FWSF writes for Fortune.
Read more about the initiatives and goals set out by the United Nations including more about the 2016 theme for International Women’s Day of “Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality”
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