2010 Forums : Manage Your Success

July 21, 2010

Are You A Diva in the Workplace: Beyonce or Mariah…Which One Are You?

Originally used to describe a female opera singer, the term "diva" was redefined to refer to any female singer of superior talent.   Today, the diva moniker has evolved even further and made a partial return to its original latin roots when divus was the word for "divine one". The modern musical diva can be arrogant, difficult to work with, high-maintenance, or demanding. 

Yet a “diva” can also be described as one with a clear vision; a great communicator; a risk taker; passionate; tenacious; committed; and catalytic.  Some of the world’s top female CIOs and CEOs could be described this way.  So is it really all that bad to be a “diva?”

During this interactive panel discussion, you’ll have the chance to speak with two prominent “divas” and an Executive Coach who will help you learn how to recognize your “inner diva”, tame her to build relationships with others, and leverage her to get positive results.

Meet The Speakers

Deb Weiler, MCC, MA, SPHR

Deb Weiler, MCC, MA, SPHR

Deb Weiler is an ICF Master Certified Coach and a highly sought after management consultant with 14 years of experience as a corporate leader and senior executive in Fortune 500 firms. For 20 years, she has coached hundreds of individuals and teams, including CEOs, senior executives, coaches, and even world-class athletes, to achieve their goals with incredible results. Deb combines her experience as a corporate executive and a former world-class swimmer to coach leaders and their teams to attain peak performance and achieve new levels of success.More

Deb’s mission is to coach leaders to become masterful leaders, achieve peak levels of performance, and live extraordinary lives. Deb achieves this mission by sharing her knowledge and experience in human resources, leadership/organization development, TQM, and high-performance coaching techniques with her clients. In addition to individual and team coaching, she offers a variety of training classes and custom designed workshops to help leaders and their teams to attain peak performance. Deb is known for her uncanny ability to help leaders and their teams to deal constructively with negative emotions associated with change, get unstuck and inspire them into action. Deb has coached leaders and their teams in organizations such as: Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts, Resurgens, LexisNexis, Comcast, Ricoh, Staples, AT&T, Ken Blanchard Companies, CIBA Vision, Dekalb Medical Center, Drake Beam Morin, and Georgia Pacific.

She believes that most executives and their teams are only accessing a small portion of their true potential because they fail to fully leverage their talents, harness internal motivation and eliminate costly forms of mental interference (such as frustration, fear of failure and self-limiting beliefs). Just like world-class athletes, successful executives will benefit from the focus, challenge, structure and motivation that a coach can provide. In her work with her clients, Deb uses many of the same techniques that she used to attain peak performance as a world class swimmer to develop the mindset of a champion.

Deb has an MA degree in Industrial Organizational Psychology and has been awarded the Master Certified Coach designation; the highest level of professional coaching certification from the International Coach Federation (ICF). She served as an executive mentor in the Georgia 100 program for four years, where her first mentee won the “Outstanding Mentee of Year” award. She has been featured in The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, the Atlanta Business Chronicle and on Fast Company’s website. Deb was also named to the “ICF Coaching Dream Team” for the outstanding results achieved through her coaching. She currently serves as the co-chair for SHRM Atlanta’s OD Professional Emphasis Group and has done so for three years. She has also served on the Board of Directors for several organizations, including the Georgia International Coach Federation and the Dunwoody YMCA.

 

Shannon Johnston

Shannon Johnston

Shannon Johnston is CTO at Points of Light Institute.  She leads the technology organization and is responsible for Web, Salesforce, and Infrastructure design and delivery, and affiliate and partner support for Points of Light’s technology products. More

From 2001 to 2009 Shannon held various senior positions at CompuCredit, a financial services company, most recently Vice President, Global Infrastructure Services, responsible for worldwide IT Operations. She relocated to the UK for a year in 2007 to build and deliver the UK IT strategy and plan for CompuCredit’s entrance into the EEU financial markets and prior to that built an eBusiness organization to bring the company to the internet for their corporate and customer service needs.

Prior to joining CompuCredit, Shannon held senior positions in relationship management in the financial services industry, both for TSYS (www.tsys.com) and Enhancement Services (www.escloyalty.com).

Shannon is a member TAG (Technology Association of Georgia), the MentorNet community and IAOP (International Association for Outsourcing Professionals). She is an active volunteer in TAG’s societies, WIT (Women in Technology) and is on the board of directors for TAG Diversity. She is the recipient of WIT’s 2009 Women of the Year in Technology award for medium sized business.

Paul Shiman

Paul Shiman

Paul Shiman is WIT's Program Director for Marketing.More

Mr. Shiman joined Statrix Coroporation in April 2005 and was promoted to Vice President of Marketing and Strategic Alliances in January 2008. Mr. Shiman has over 25 years of sales and marketing experience leading companies in mobile and wireless technology, enterprise applications and most recently serving as Vice President for SiriusDecisions, an Executive Advisory Services company providing senior-level executives with the sales and marketing operational intelligence. Paul has led sales and marketing teams at a number of major technology organizations including Netkey, Motorola, (formerly Symbol Technologies), and GRiD Systems. Mr. Shiman received a B.A. degree in Business Administration from the London Metropolitan University and currently serves on the board of Sales and Marketing International Atlanta.

Anna Convery

Anna Convery

As Chief Marketing Officer for ClickFox, Anna is responsible for global marketing, product strategy and market development. A visible thought leader at industry conferences and in articles, she has more than 20 years experience in software development in the CRM, BPO, contact center and analytics space. Prior to joining ClickFox, she held executive roles at Jacada (JCDA), the leader in unified desktop and process optimization solutions, Nexidia Inc., where she developed the product and marketing strategy that established them as the industry leader in audio mining and speech analytics, and IBM Corporation.More

She is the recipient of the 2007 Women in Technology of the Year Award, and was acknowledged as one of Atlanta's 40 under 40 as recognized by the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

07:30 - 09:00 AM

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TAG Members $30.00
Non-Members $35.00

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