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core pillars: entrepreneurship; financial literacy; elocution and self-presentation; health and well- ness; and self-esteem, beauty, and body image.
Breaking Out
As noted earlier, the conference will also fea- ture a number of breakout sessions designed to both inform and inspire.
Session 1 takes the title “The Misfit’s Guide to Managing, Surviving, and Thriving at Work,” and will be led by Jennifer Romolini, a writer, speak- er, senior digital-media strategist, and author of the book Weird in a World That’s Not: A Career Guide for Misfits.”
She will essentially debunk the theory that office-politicking extroverts are best set up for success. The session will help attendees under- stand, among other things, how to stop feel-
ing like a freak at work, how to start using one’s misfit nature as a strength in the workplace, and how one’s sensitivity and empathy can make her a boss who not only succeeds, but effects real change.
Session 2 is called “The Power of Meaning: Making Your Life, Work, and Relationships Mat- ter,” and will be led by Emily Esfahani-Smith, author of the book The Power of Meaning, which outlines four pillars essential to living a life that matters: belonging, purpose, transcendence, and storytelling.
In this breakout session, Smith will present the latest in psychology and neuroscience (as
well as the wisdom of great philosophers) to help attendees live more satisfying lives, and focus in on those four pillars.
Session 3, titled “The Real Role of Gut Instinct in Managing Complexity and Extreme Risk,” will be led by Laura Huang, a professor at the Har- vard Business School and author of the book EDGE.
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In her talk, Huang will discuss her research on decision-making in organizations and why the question shouldn’t be about data-driven decisions versus gut-feel-based decisions. Instead, effective organizational outcomes are the result of understanding the set of rules that are inherent in any complex decision, which dic- tates whether more data actually helps us make better decisions. Bringing her diverse work and research background (having conducted dozens of interviews with investors and observing pitch meetings with entrepreneurs) to analyzing the role of gut instinct in making choices, Huang developed an in-depth understanding vital role that gut feel plays in managing complexity and risk — and the difference between big wins and playing it safe.
Session 4 is titled “Staying Sane with Disrup- tive Personalities in the Workplace,” and will be
presented by Dr. Ramani Durvasula, a licensed clinical psychologist in Los Angeles and profes- sor of Psychology at California State University, Los Angeles. In 2019, her book, titled Don’t You Know Who I Am: How to Stay Sane in the Era of Narcissism, Entitlement, and Incivility, was released. She is also the author of the modern relationship survival manual Should I Stay or
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  Should I Go: Surviving a Relationship With a Narcissist, and You Are WHY You Eat: Change Your Food Attitude, Change Your Life.
Session objectives include understanding what a disruptive personality style looks like and how it may affect oneself; learning how to man- age disruptive personalities in the workplace, and what works (and doesn’t work); understand- ing how systems and people enable disruptive personalities in the workplace, and becoming familiar with a 10-step plan designed to provide the tools to manage disruptive personalities.
For more information on the conference, visit www.baypath.edu/events-calendar/womens- leadership-conference. u
George O’Brien can be reached at [email protected]
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