Featuring Jennifer Dangar,  President of Distrubution and Business Development and Shirley Powell, Executive VP of Corporate Communciations   - The Weather Channel

A Conversation about the Lean In Conversation

Anyone who's watched Sheryl Sandberg's popular TED Talk, "Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders," is familiar with--and possibly haunted by--the idea of "having it all." "Perhaps the greatest trap ever set for women was the coining of this phrase," writes Sandberg in Lean In, which expands on her talk's big idea: that increasing the number of women at the top of their fields will benefit everyone.

Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, encourages women to challenge the common workplace assumption that "men still run the world." She asks men to be real partners, sharing in the family work that typically leads to a woman's decision to stay home; she asks women who expect to start a family soon not to check out of work mentally. Sandberg's critics note that her advice may not resonate with the masses: The Harvard-educated exec can afford a veritable army to help raise her children. But Sandberg's point--which affects all of us--is that women who have what it takes to succeed at the highest professional level face many obstacles, both internal and external.

As hoped for, Lean In spurred many conversations that must happen for institutional changes to take place at work
Join us as Shirley Powell and Jennifer Dangar, two of the highest ranking women at The Weather Company (parent company to The Weather Channel, Weather Underground, Intellicast and WSI), have a back and forth conversation about this important conversation and discover ways to challenge yourself -- along with challenging the cultural norms --  to lean in. 
 

Date:  Friday, October 25th,  2013

Location: TPC Sugarloaf

Time:  7:45-9:15am (Breakfast) Doors Open at 7:15 for networking

Cost:  $35 for Chamber Members; $45 for Non-Chamber members

Questions: please contact Rachel Jeffers at 770-232-8816; rachel@gwinnettchamber.org.