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An Event for EXXcelling at Leadership

The Society of Women Engineer’s eXXec leadership training program is a four-day event, located at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Singapore. The program is designed to provide senior level leadership training for women who want to improve their knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA) and have adequate support to execute their leadership vision.

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eXXec 2018:

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eXXec 2018:

Curriculum

The eXXec curriculum focuses on the following three pillars of leadership:

Leading Self

Develop specific corporate mentality training tactics to manage energy for peak performance. Learn more.

Leading People

Identify and recognize high-performance practices to motivate and achieve goals in diverse settings. Learn more.

Leading Strategy

Prevent the undermining of strategic efforts by recognizing key factors and establishing team alignment with imperative daily interactions. Learn more.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND / PARTICIPATE?

Senior level professionals who want greater influence and authority. To obtain the most out of the program, attendees are encouraged to engage with the learning process, including multiple customized learning solution, as well as pre and post event learning activities and events.

Engineering and technology firms are struggling to build leadership pipelines for women executives. That’s why the Society of Women Engineers has created our new executive leadership program eXXec.

eXXec 2018:

ROI

Strategic leaders must not get consumed by the operational and tactical side of their work. They have a duty to find time to shape the future.

African American women in glasses - ROI as an individual
  • Gain new skills and strategies that you can immediately apply to your leadership goals using a variety of active and continuous learning methods including:
    • Live sessions with global executive subject-matter-experts
    • Project-focused learning using your own real-life challenges
    • Program-wide discussions and team projects
    • Social learning opportunities that allow you to openly discuss, question, share and support a new leadership network across a variety of organizations and functions.
    • Pre and post-learning opportunities including:
      • A behavioral assessment
      • Two 60-minute executive coaching sessions
      • Invitation to attend a WE Global event
      • Access to Diversity in Engineering Matters eLearning series
      • Inclusion Solutions - Discussing a Diverse Culture is in the Cards
  • A morning wellness event each morning
  • A professional headshot
  • A year membership to SWE
ROI for the Individual
Woman speaking to her organization about eXXec program
  • Strengthen leadership pipeline
  • Companies that "get it" with learning and development (L&D) are more likely to be high-performing
  • Leadership development is in high demand but short supply
  • Keep pace with the next generation and a desire for continuous learning
ROI for the Organization

eXXec 2018:

SPEAKERS

Leadership training from true experts. eXXec 2018 instructors will help you identify and grow the skills that make you your truest leader. View our 2018 Agenda

Prior to starting her own business in 2005, Sabina spent 15 years at Microsoft, first in software development and then in Human Resources. As Senior Director of Leadership, Management, Employee Development and then of Succession Planning, Sabina launched several worldwide programs to help identify and cultivate Microsoft’s current and future leaders.

Sabina has spoken at hundreds of seminars, events, and conferences including TEDx. Currently, she sits on the board of Power and Systems, a leadership development institute. Sabina believes the greatest privilege of working with leaders is bearing witness to their acts of courage. Look for more stories, insights, and advice on thriving as a leader on Forbes.com, HBR.org, and Inc.com.

Sabina holds a B.A. in Computer Science with a minor in Electronics from Smith College, an M.S. in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, and several certifications and advanced training in leadership development.

SABINA NAWAZ

Mabel Miguel is a professor of leadership and management and Director of the Global Business Center and Global Education Initiative at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. She leads global education programs and initiatives and teaches core leadership and management skills to MBA, Executive MBA, MBA@UNC and global OneMBA® students. She has developed and taught leadership skills courses for organizations in the United States, South America, Asia, and Europe.

Corporate clients have included Altria, BAE Systems, Bank of America, BD (Becton Dickinson and Company), Caterpillar, CEMEX, Cisco, CommScope, DH&R, Duke Energy, Eastman Chemical, ExxonMobil, FedEx, Ferguson Enterprises, Glen Raven Mills, Grant Thornton, Grundfos, J. M. Huber Corporation. Kaba Group, Marathon Petroleum, Performance Foods, PRA International, Reynolds American, Schneider Electric, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, Southern Wine & Spirits, TE Connectivity, Teleflex Medical, Textron, TIAA-CREF, Time Warner Cable, and Volvo Trucks. Government clients include the Department of Defense, Environmental Protection Agency, JFK Special Warfare Center, Department of Defense /Office of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and U.S. Air Force, Army, and Navy. Professor Miguel has also taught extensively in open enrollment executive programs. She has over 20 years of experience in Executive Development.

A citizen of the world, Dr. Miguel is uniquely qualified to lead UNC Kenan-Flagler’s Global Business Center and Global Education Initiative. Over the past two decades, she has designed and taught global MBA courses and led students on Global Immersion Electives to South America, Europe, and Asia. Born in Argentina, she has lived in Venezuela, Barbados, France and Turkey, where she was a visiting professor at Koç University in Istanbul. She speaks Spanish and English fluently, conversational French and survival Turkish.

Previously she was an associate at the Management Simulation Projects Institute atNew York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business, and a senior designer and trainer for Business Simulations, Inc., a New York consulting firm. At NYU, she trained and co-designed a number of behavioral and computer simulations. Clients includedKoç University, Stern’s Executive MBA Program, ESADE (Escuela Superior the Administración y Dirección de Empresas) in Barcelona, Glaxo, Inc, The American Banking Institute, The National Council for Savings Institutions, The Center for Creative Leadership, Citibank and Dow Jones.

She received Ph.D.from UNC-Chapel Hill and her MBA and BS from NYU’s Stern School.

MABEL M. MIGUEL, PH.D.

Smita Tharoor is the founder of Tharoor Associates, a training, coaching and organizational development company that understands the importance of stories- both personal and corporate- and their role in defining an organizations identity and practices. She is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, an NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) Practitioner, Coach and Mindfulness Practitioner.

Smita has over 25 years experience in all stages of the learning cycle. Her experience has been within corporate, regional and international frameworks and she has worked in large voluntary, public and private sector establishments. Her USP is making the individual more conscious of his/her unconscious bias. She has considerable experience in embedding a Coaching culture into organizations and providing turn-around solutions for training & development companies in their fledgling state. She has expertise in the pioneering and development of training and education provision, with particular experience in the business management and service improvement areas.

Growing up in secular India taught her the value of tolerance and the appreciation of accepting differences. She promotes diversity and cross cultural competence in line with E&D strategies and has designed and delivered training solutions within all sub-strands of diversity. Her experience working in the UK and India gives her a unique advantage in understanding the expectations and needs of different cultures. Smita is a visiting lecturer to senior civil servants from Afghanistan & MBA students in Delhi and Bangalore, and is on the board of Governors at an inner city comprehensive school in London.

SMITA THAROOR