2023 Women’s Summit and Women to Watch Awards

Everyone is so overwhelmed with demands today, it’s not uncommon for professionals to work 60 hours a week or more. Stop trying to “do more with less”! Instead, “do less and achieve more!” You’ll learn how to scale back—reduce, reduce, reduce is Laura’s mantra. Laura shows how you to separate the productive wheat from the nonproductive chaff, hone in on high-value tasks, and focus on their execution. You’ll find dozens of ways to shrink your to-do list, calendar commitments, distractions, interruptions, information overload, inefficiencies, and energy expenditures. You’ll see how you can be achieve maximum results in minimum time.

AI and Intelligent Automation are the opportunity to achieve your leadership potential or be left behind. Noble Automation is a both a call to action and a practical approach to achieving more success. The formula is combining Intelligent Automation with inspired leadership. Employing Noble Automation leads to more product and service innovation, higher employee engagement and successful business transformation. 

Automation and AI are essential now and will be even more so in the future. Helping humans be heroes in this age of automation is the key to serving all stakeholders and building winning companies and teams. Fear and struggles give way to excitement and success.

Machines that can learn, can (and almost always do) learn to be biased. What are the ethical, social, and business ramifications of this? Participants will gain an accurate (but non-math, non-engineering) understanding of how bias seeps into AI models, even if the computer algorithms are coded in a non-biased way. They will know what transparency is ( the ability to show why a computer made certain decisions and recommendations) and how transparency may be achieved (in some cases). The will know the best ethical practices for managing bias in business uses of AI.

The virtual world has changed the way we interact. We will learn some tips for doing it well. We'll also revisit some of the things we never should have stopped doing because the format changed.

Learn about:

Thir Virtual Contract

Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain

Everything Old is New Again

Learn how to engage in difficult conversations that foster growth while maintaining and building relationships.

Prepare for, execute, and follow up on difficult conversations

How to have difficult conversations that build and strengthen versus damage relationships

Navigating difficult conversations in a remote world