Archive: Senior TechLeaders: “Women’s Leadership”

Cambridge, MA
May 9-10, 2005

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology in partnership with the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA (IPAM) announce the 2005 East Coast Senior Women Leadership Workshop.

Senior Women Leadership Workshop will bring together powerful women exercising major influence on the technology community in areas such as computer and computational science and applied mathematics from industry, government and academia. The workshop will focus on building critical skills for success in leadership roles and provide a venue where women leaders can meet to share ideas, tactics, strategies and learn together. Moreover, it will provide an opportunity to expand and deepen relationships with other senior women in the technical community. In addition, we will work on the issue of how the field of computer science is evolving.

Facilitators

The facilitators for the workshop are Nancy Houfek, M.F.A., Head of Voice and Speech, American Repertory Theatre, Harvard University and Lee Warren, Ph.D., Associate Director, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University.

They lead workshops that combine theatre training and leadership development in an interactive format that encourages highly personal learning. These workshops are designed to enhance professional women’s abilities, performance, and confidence in situations where they feel unheard and less effective than they wish when leading or participating in discussions, meetings, or group negotiations.

The focus of this workshop is on “Strong Women/Strategic Performance”. Nancy and Lee have been collaborating since 1997 and have worked with Harvard faculty individually, led workshops for senior women in chemistry (COACh – Committee on the Advancement of women Chemists) and in executive programs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Location
The event is being held at the Cronkhite Graduate Center

Agenda

Monday, May 9

12:00 pm – informal lunch (optional)
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm program (including break)

  1. Opening
  2. Introduction of Theater concepts and exercises useful to meetings and negotiations
  3. Introduction of Leadership concepts useful to meetings and negotiations
  4. Role play of one or two of participants’ stories
  5. Coaching
  6. Rerole play, with new strategies in place
  7. Conclusion

Dinner 7:00 pm
Discussion: Redefining the field of Computer Science
As part of planning for the dinner discussion on Redefining Computer Science, Dr. Jill Mesirov and Dr. Barbara Grosz have recommended “Computer Science: Reflections on the Field, Reflections from the Field”. It is available online in PDF form from the following link: http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cstb/pub_fcs.html

Tuesday, May 10

9:00 am Continental breakfast
9:30am -2:00 pm continuation of program (including break and lunch)

  1. Review and Introduction of Theater/voice concepts and exercises
  2. Real-time discussion by half the participants. Coaching in real time
  3. Debrief and coaching
  4. Real-time discussion by other half of participants. Coaching in real time
  5. Debrief and coaching
  6. Conclusion

Readings

Here are some reading recommendations. They are not required for the workshop but are helpful.

Babcock, Linda and Sara Laschever: WOMEN DON’T ASK: NEGOTIATION AND THE GENDER DIVIDE (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003). Astonishing insights into what we fail to do for our own good.

Heifetz, Ronald and Marty Linsky: LEADERSHIP ON THE LINE (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2002). Very readable and useful in thinking strategically.

Heifetz, Ronald: LEADERSHIP WITHOUT EASY ANSWERS (Cambridge: Bellknap/Harvard University Press, 1994). The precursor to Leadership on the Line, giving Heifetz’ basic definitions of leadership.

Fisher, Roger and William Ury: GETTING TO YES: NEGOTIATING AGREEMENT WITHOUT GIVING IN (New York: Penquin Books, 1981). Quick and useful read about how to think about negotiations in a win-win way.

Stone, Douglas, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen: DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS: HOW TO DISCUSS WHAT MATTERS MOST (New York: Penguin Books, 1999). Goes further and builds upon Getting to Yes. Very useful, easy and quick read.

Kegan, Robert and Lisa Laskow Lahey: HOW THE WAY WE TALK CAN CHANGE THE WAY WE WORK: SEVEN LANGUAGES FOR TRANSFORMATION (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001). Includes an interesting exercise that helps us figure out why we don’t do what we say we want to do.

Hotel information

Sheraton Commander Hotel
16 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 547-4800

Participants (updated 4/25/05)

  • Frances Allen, IBM Emerita
  • Deborah Agarwal, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Margaret Ashida, Director of University Talent Programs, IBM Corporation
  • Valerie Barr, Department Chair, CS – Union College, Schenectady, NY, US
  • Isabel M Beichl, NIST, mathematician
  • Linda Bernardi, CEO & President – ConnecTerra
  • Toby Bloom, Director, Sequencing Informatics Development, Broad Institute at MIT
  • Lenore Blum, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Elizabeth Bradley, Department of Computer Sciences, Professor and Chair – University of Colorado
  • Carla Brodley, Professor of Computer Science, Tufts University
  • Barbara Bryant, Associate Director, Millennium Pharmaceuticals
  • Justine Cassell, Professor, Northwestern University
  • Deborah Clayton, Executive Director, Charlotte Research Institute, University of NC, Charlotte
  • Lenore Cowen, Tufts University , Department of Computer Science, Associate Professor
  • Janice E. Cuny, Department of Computer and Information Science – University of Oregon
  • Susan Davidson, Deputy Dean, SEAS; Weiss Prof. CIS; University of Pennsylvania
  • Patricia Davies, School of Mechanical Engineering, Professor & Director of the Ray W. Herrick Laboratories
  • Carole Dulong, Computer Architect, Intel Corporation
  • Kathleen Fisher, AT&T Labs Research, Senior Member of the Technical Staff
  • Jen Fitzpatrick, Google, Engineering Director
  • Shafi Goldwasser, Professor of Computer Science, MIT
  • Frieda Granot, Dean of Graduate Studies, University of British Columbia
  • Irene Greif, Fellow and DGM Collaborative User Experience, IBM Corporation
  • Alice Hogan, NSF ADVANCE Program Director
  • Soha Hassoun, Associate Professor, Tufts University
  • Julia Hirschberg, Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University
  • Dr. Fern Y. Hunt, Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • Anita Jones, Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia
  • Wendy Kellogg, Manager, Social Computing, IBM
  • Maria Klawe, Dean of engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University
  • Rivka Ladin, HP Labs
  • Susan Landau, Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems Laboratories
  • Andrea LaPaugh, Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University
  • Andrea Lawrence, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science, Spelman College
  • Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
  • Barbara Liskov, MIT – Ford Professor of Engineering
  • Joyce Currie Little, Towson University
  • C. Dianne Martin, George Washington University, Professor and Dept. Chair
  • Kathleen McKeown, Professor of Computer Science – Columbia University
  • Joyce McLaughlin, Ford Foundation Professor of Mathematics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Claudia Morrell, Executive Director, CWIT Center for Women and Information Technology – University of Maryland, Baltimore County
  • Marcia Nizzari, Director, Genetic Analysis Informatics Development, Broad Institute at MIT
  • Sharon Nunes, VP, Emerging Businesses, IBM Corporation
  • Cherri Pancake, Director of NACSE- Oregon State University
  • Lori Pollock, Professor, University of Delaware
  • Tal Rabin, Manager, Cryptographic and Privacy Research, IBM Research
  • Karin A. Remington, VP Bioinformatics, The Venter Institute
  • Jennifer Rexford, Professor, Princeton
  • Debra Richardson, Dean, School of Information and Comp Science, UC Irvine
  • Lucy Sanders, University of Colorado, Boulder, Executive in Residence
  • Margo Seltzer, Associate Dean for Computer Science and Engineering, Harvard University
  • Candace L. Sidner, Senior Research Scientist, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs Inc.
  • Diane Souvaine, Professor and Department Chair, Tufts University
  • Lynn Andrea Stein, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Olin College
  • Carol Thompson, Chief Architect (Distinguished Technologist), Hewlett-Packard
  • Eileen Trauth, Professor of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University
  • Elaine Weyuker, AT&T Fellow, AT&T Labs

Organizing Committee

  • Co-Chair – Dr. Barbara J. Grosz, Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Dean of Science, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
  • Co-Chair – Dr. Jill P. Mesirov, Associate Director, Chief Informatics Officer; Director, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
  • Dr. Fran Allen, IBM Emeritus
  • Dr. Telle Whitney, CEO and President, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
  • Dr. Mark Green, Director, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA
  • Cindy Goral, Director of Operations, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology