Cost: $10

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Join us at the home of WXW Co-Founder, Carrie Hensel, for our first-ever WXW Unscripted Exchange. WXW will provide lasagna as a main dish (both vegetarian and non-vegetarian options). Come with a pressing issue and a dish to pass. Go home fully fed and with some thoughtful input to help you on your way.

Due the nature of the venue, limited seating is available. We are unable to accept walk-ins for this event. Please register early to secure your spot.

WXW Exchanges are different because they are:

INTERACTIVE – We’ve all attended too many events where a speaker or panel talks at the audience. WXW promises that event attendees will actually talk through specific issues, share stories and struggles, and work together to find solutions.

OPEN – At WXW events, attendees choose the direction and content of the conversation. Questions, issues, ideas – all are encouraged in an open and confidential environment.

FUN – As leaders, we may often feel isolated. WXW is a place where we can have FUN, connect, laugh, talk through our issues, and be ourselves.

Cost: $25

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Join WXW as we kick off 2012 with an Exchange Event focused on jumpstarting your business into high gear. Bring your creative thinking, positive energy, and best ideas to share and build on. Who knows what great thoughts, ideas, projects, partnerships, and sparks of inspiration will come out of this event? Come and find out!

WXW Exchanges are different because they are:

INTERACTIVE – We’ve all attended too many events where a speaker or panel talks at the audience. WXW promises that event attendees will actually talk through specific issues, share stories and struggles, and work together to find solutions.

OPEN – At WXW events, attendees choose the direction and content of the conversation. Questions, issues, ideas – all are encouraged in an open and confidential environment.

FUN – As leaders, we may often feel isolated. WXW is a place where we can have FUN, connect, laugh, talk through our issues, and be ourselves.

4:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Cost: $15

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Ring in the season with other women business leaders at WXW’s annual holiday mixer. This event offers non-stop networking, savory hors d’oeuvres, and tasty wine & beer. At 5:30 PM we will offer a celebratory toast to our attendees’ accomplishments in 2011.

Again this year, we will be supporting the Women’s Center of Southeastern Michigan.  If you would like to participate, please bring a donation of  non-perishable food items to our event.  For more information about ways to support Women’s Center, please visit:

http://womenscentersemi.org/how_you_can_help  

Cost: $25

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 Agenda:

11:30 – 12:00: Arrival, Registration and Lunch
12:00 – 2:00: Welcome, Program and Close

In business, it’s not just what you know, it’s WHO you know. Back by popular demand, it’s WXW’s second speed-networking event. Meet the area’s business leaders and engage in meaningful dialogue – in just 3 minutes. Bring at least 50 business cards and be ready to meet new people, make connections, and maybe even swap a few referrals.

The speed networking event will start and end with a mini-workshop that will help you to jumpstart your networking know-how.

• Do you ever feel that you just don’t know what to say or how to start that first conversation? 
• Do you meet new people, but aren’t sure how to follow-up after?

At this mini-workshop, you will gain new tools to add to your toolbox on how to get started with the small talk that leads to the real conversation. You will also learn how to keep the conversation going.

Join WXW and networking superstar, Megan Crosbie, for this fun and fast-moving event! 

Mini-Workshop Facilitator

Megan Crosbie

A graduate of Eastern Michigan University, Megan Crosbie is the Marketing Coordinator for the Charles Reinhart Company Realtors, Ann Arbor’s market leader. Megan is on the Board of Directors of Ele’s Place and serves as Secretary on the Board of Directors of the Women’s Exchange of Washtenaw. In addition, Megan is the organizer of YP Underground, a local networking group for young professionals.

Location Sponsor: Eagle Crest Conference Center

Cost: $25

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Agenda:

3:00 – 3:30: Arrival and Registration
3:30 – 5:30: Welcome, Workshop and Close
5:30 – 6:30: Networking Happy Hour

Please join WXW and presenter Vicki Baker, Ph.D. for an interactive workshop designed for leaders (and aspiring leaders!) at all levels. In this workshop, you’ll learn:

1. The top 4 mistakes all leaders make (and how to avoid them), and
2. How to tap into your “inner leader.”

You’ll work in small groups to discuss common leadership mistakes, and then as a larger group to identify common themes and action steps to avoid making these mistakes. Our emphasis will be on women leaders in the workplace and at home. We’ll then use this information to identify ways to tap into your “inner leader.”
You’ll walk away with an individual action plan to implement in your daily life.
Following the workshop, please join us for a networking Happy Hour to extend the conversation!

Workshop Presenter: Vicki Baker
Vicki Baker is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Management at Albion College in Albion, Michigan. She teaches Management, Organizational Behavior, Consulting, Leadership, and a first year experience called Lessons Learned at “The Office”. She recently served as the Interim Director of the Gerstacker Institute, Albion College’s honors program in business. Prior to joining Albion College in August 2007, Vicki was an Instructor of Management & Organization at the Smeal College of Business at Penn State University for three years. Her research focuses on doctoral student development/learning, developmental networks and mentoring, and ethical and moral decision making.

Trendsetter Sponsor: Eastern Michigan University Professional Programs and Training

Location Sponsor: Eagle Crest Conference Center

Cost: $25

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Time Management: How to Get Stuff Done

Are you…

• Feeling pulled in a thousand different directions?
• Tired of being stuck in overwhelm?
• Finding that you are not making time for your highest priorities?
• Constantly saying that “I have no time for…?”

Do you want to…

• Learn how other smart, successful women manage their time effectively and get things done?
• Feel more in control of your time and activities?
• Find out how to move from “to do” to “done” in your work/life?

Attend WXW’s September 15th event to hear from local professional women who have mastered the art and practice of managing their time and getting things done – including one who has made effective time management her area of expertise. Find out what their biggest time challenges have been and how they overcame them. Listen to what they discovered about themselves as they made implemented more effective time management practices in their work and life.

Then join us for our patented Exchange Sessions to share your own strategies for getting control of your time and tasks and get ideas on how to make time for those things that will help you achieve your own personal vision of success.

Panelists include:

Susan V. Brown, PLC
Chelsea Family Law

Jennifer Ladley
Relationship Manager, KeyBank N.A.

Elizabeth Grace Saunders
CEO, Real Life E®

Panel moderated by Beth Stoner, Principal, Delta Possibilities, LLC

LOCATION SPONSORED BY:

AGENDA
7:30 – 8:00 am: Arrival, Registration & Continental breakfast
8:00 – 8:15 Welcome and Introductions
8:15 – 9:00 Panel Discussion
9:00 – 9:45 Exchange Sessions
9:45 – 10:00 Wrap up and Close