Women2Women - Excelling in your Executive Role: Negotiating & Influencing - Jan. 2024 - Jan 9, 2024

Excelling in your Executive Role: Negotiating & Influencing
W2W ATHENA Recipient Panel

Essential skills in an executive communicator’s repertoire are the ability to successfully negotiate different perspectives and viewpoints towards a collaborative outcome and positively influence the stakeholders around them. This skill is vital within organizations and has a direct impact on client partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, project teams, and interpersonal relationships. Women, generally, as leaders have a higher EQ and can create these relationships easier, but how can you move the needle in the direction you need? Our ATHENA Panel will offer their wisdom and advice from their own journeys across higher education, politics and entrepreneurism, and community service, on what has been successful for them each.

Meet our Panel:
2023 Women2Women ATHENA Recipient - Adelle Schade
2020 Women2Women ATHENA Recipient - Crystal Gilmore Harris
2008 Women2Women ATHENA Recipient - Robin Costenbader-Jacobson
1999 Women2Women ATHENA Recipient - Mary L. “Missy” Orlando

ABOUT THE ATHENA RECIPIENTS

Adelle Schade is the Founder of Total Experience Learning® and Dean of Pre-College + Summer Programs at Albright College. Total Experience Learning® was named a top four STEM program in the United States in 2019 by District Administrator Journal. In December 2022, the program received international recognition during a ceremony by the United Nations, New York, as the Most Innovative Educational Model by the Materials Science sub-division of the United Nations. Schade was appointed Adjunct Instructor of Pediatrics in the Penn State College of Medicine and also is a part of the Visions Federal Credit Union CEO Advisory Board. In 2022, she was named the recipient of the Whitaker Center’s Women in STEM Game Changer Award, and in 2023, was named a Girl Scout Take the Lead award recipient.

Crystal Gilmore Harris is the Social Services Administrative Assistant at the Reading School District, working closely with the Director of Social Services Wynton Butler. She is also Head Coach of the Reading High School Cheerleaders who double up as Girl Scouts troop #1353. This keeps her busy as a mentor for approximately 70 girls in grades 9-12 and has been since 2008. In 2016 she founded the “Finding Me Mentoring Program” which invites various women community leaders to a round table discussion about careers for the cheerleading squad and other sporting teams at Reading High School. Crystal is a member of various civic and service organizations dedicated to the betterment of Reading. The organizations include, but are not limited TLC Fore Reading, Kids That Ball, Inc., Blacktop Basketball, Inc., Reading Youth Athletics League, Voice UP and Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania. Crystal has received the Girl Scout Take the Lead 2013, and Athena Leadership Award 2020.

Robin Costenbader-Jacobson is the Principal of RC-J Consulting Associates, LLC. She believes, “Something good can happen all by itself – but nothing Great can transpire without change.” A Professional Certified Business and Life Coach, and a Conflict Resolution Mediator, Robin is a Change Agent for your ideas, motivation, and results. As an innovative community leader and the owner of RC-J Consulting Associates, LLC, she encourages individuals to reach their professional and personal goals. Helping people Dream Bigger, Robin’s services include divorce and family mediation and conflict management, corporate and individual one-to-one coaching, MasterMind© Group facilitating, assisting with goal setting and achievement, corporate team building, facilitating business strategic planning and public speaking coaching.

Mary L. “Missy” Orlando, MBA, PhD Candidate, is a well-known strategist, community development, and marketing leader throughout the financial services and non-profit healthcare industries. Over her career, Orlando has served in key leadership C-suite roles: At Malvern National Bank as its SVP and Chief Operating Officer and EVP and Chief Marketing & Sales Officer; At Sovereign Bancorp, as EVP, Chief Marketing Officer; as President & COO of The Anderson Group; Senior Director of the Penn State Health St. Joseph Foundation/Office of Development; and today serves as Alvernia University’s Executive Director for Business & Partnership Development.

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Date and Time

Tuesday Jan 9, 2024
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM EST

Location

Reading Country Club
5311 Perkiomen Ave.
Reading, PA 19606

Fees/Admission

$35 / GRCA Member
$40 / NEBerks Chamber Member
$45 / Future Member

Contact Information

Rachael Romig
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