Women in Leadership

Women In Leadership 2009

In today's changing business landscape, more and more women are pursuing business careers and leadership roles. In the Caribbean, women are moving increasingly into middle management and executive positions.

At the Women in Leadership (WIL) Conference 2009 you will explore how each one of us defines success as it pertains to our own professional and personal lives. This Conference will inspire and guide women to excel professionally and personally by making choices that satisfy their individual goals and reflect their unique styles.

Women in Leadership 2009 will:

Empower women to develop the strategies and skills to be more effective leaders
Support the discovery of new opportunities for innovation and change
Share insights and compare experiences with women and their champions from many different fields
Address business and personal challenges faced by women leaders
Provide networking opportunities and reignite professional and personal purpose

Recently a senior executive of a Fortune 100 company was asked, “What do we have to give the women we need in our company to stay?” And he replied, “Whatever they want!”

Kathryn C. Mayer
President, KC Mayer Consulting, Inc.

Ms. Mayer founded KC Mayer Consulting, Inc. in 2003 to provide sophisticated and customized leadership development solutions for Fortune 100 to 1000 companies to drive their efforts to attract, develop and retain emerging and high potential business leaders. KC Mayer Consulting works with clients in the United States and Europe in competitive industries ranging from investment banking to pharmaceutical, with a special emphasis on women in the workplace and diversity issues. KC Mayer clients include Credit Suisse, Citigroup Europe, Merrill Lynch, Symbol Technologies, Glaxo Smith Kline, Henry Schein, Smith College, United Entertainment Media, Price Waterhouse Coopers, and Selective Insurance, among others.

Ms. Mayer has a proven 20-year track record of coaching business professionals, guiding companies through transformative change, and designing learning systems to transition professionals into new roles, develop leaders, enhance team dynamics, strengthen core competencies, and change behavior.

She began her business career in the highly demanding and competitive investment banking and business consulting industries where she honed her unique approach to leadership and developed a proprietary strategic leadership model called Collaborative Competition.™ Ms. Mayer’s vision of competition offers clients a strategy to maximize the value of their greatest asset—human capital—to the fullest potential by building on strengths and through collaboration, developing areas that need improvement. It is a win-win strategy. Ms. Mayer wants everyone to find their competitive sensibilities and calibrate them to their greatest competitive advantage. Ms. Mayer’s passion for competition dates back to her career as a ranked junior tennis player. She was a top ranked amateur tennis player for 25 years. This is where Ms. Mayer first discovered the power of learning from your competition rather than fearing it.
She has recently completed a book on how women can succeed in the most competitive industries and enjoy it, Collaborative Competition ™: A Woman’s Guide to Succeeding by Competing. Kathryn has interviewed successful and powerful women around the country.

She holds certifications in Myers Briggs, Covey’s Seven Habits, FIRO-B, Personal Profile System, Political Savvy, The Center for Creative Leadership’s Benchmark Instrument, The Actors Institute Coaching Program, the Birkman Instrument, and Citigroup’s 360-degree feedback instrument.

She received a BA in Sociology with Phi Beta Kappa honors from St. Lawrence University and earned an MS in Counseling Psychology from SUNY at Albany. She has taken courses in the Workplace Learning Institute at Columbia University and seminars in Executive Coaching and Advanced Executive Coaching at New York University.