Smeal To Host Conference Celebrating Women In Business
Penn State's Smeal College of Business will host a conference this spring to bring together Penn State alumnae and businesswomen for networking, professional development, and the opportunity to share some of their career and life experiences with their fellow alumnae and current students.
Smeal To Host Conference Celebrating Women In Business
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (February 7, 2008) – Penn State's Smeal College of Business will host a conference this spring to bring together Penn State alumnae and businesswomen for networking, professional development, and the opportunity to share some of their career and life experiences with their fellow alumnae and current students.
Powerful Women Paving the Way: Penn State Celebrates Women in Business, sponsored by the Penn State Women in Business student organization, will be held March 27-29 on Penn State's University Park campus.
Attendees will hear perspectives from some of Smeal's most accomplished women leaders, gain issues-based insights and knowledge that can be applied to their professional and personal lives, and forge connections with other successful alumnae.
The conference opens with a welcome reception on March 27. On day two of the conference, two Penn State alumnae will offer keynote addresses: Joan Amble '75, executive vice president and corporate comptroller for American Express Co., and Michelle Austin '89, founder and owner of Fluidity Fitness.
Amble is responsible for all controllership finance functions across three major divisions at American Express. She has also worked as chief operation officer and financial officer for Capital Markets, a service business within GE Capital Services, Inc. Amble's presentation is entitled "Harnessing the Power of the Changing Workforce: Are We Ready?"
Certified by the American Council on Exercise, Austin has been quoted in leading fitness and fashion magazines including Elle, Fit, Fitness, Marie Claire, Muscle and Fitness, and Self, as well as in medical journals including the Food and Fitness Advisor of the Weil Medical College of Cornell University. Her presentation, entitled "Entrepreneurship in Today's Competitive Marketplace," will focus on various stages of entrepreneurship from idea conception to multimillion dollar business.
Day two of the conference will also feature a presentation on career customization by Anne Weisberg, director of talent at Deloitte, and breakout sessions on topics including "Handling Life Transitions," "Discovering Your Leadership Style," and "Marketing Yourself," among others.
The conference wraps up on March 29, with a talk from Penn State Distinguished Alumna Sue Paterno '62.
For complete conference details and registration information, visit www.smeal.psu.edu/powerfulwomen.
About Penn State Women in Business
Women in Business was founded as a student organization at Smeal in 1997 with a goal of increasing the recruitment and retention of women students into the college and to create an environment in which women could come together to discuss personal and professional issues. Today, Women in Business has more than 300 student members.
For more on Penn State Women in Business, visit www.clubs.psu.edu/up/wib.
REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.
Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
