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From selecting the wrong recommender to confusing the reader with industry buzzwords, unsuccessful MBA applicants often make several easy to avoid mistakes. Join us for this webinar to learn more about the most common mistakes MBA applicants make each year. Plus, get practical advice from Personal MBA Coach Founder and industry veteran, Scott Edinburgh, on how to ensure your MBA applications shine.

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Women Lead Coffee and Careers Webinar Series

Exclusively for Professional Access Pass members

Are you ready for a career change, but not sure where to start? Take a coffee break with Forté, and explore how to make the most of your resume, LinkedIn profile, interviews, and more. Each 30-minute webinar in this series for women includes a live Q&A.

LinkedIn continues to evolve as a professional networking and personal branding tool. Today, it’s often the first place recruiters go to search for talent or learn more about potential job candidates. This session will challenge you to review and update your LinkedIn profile, focusing on seven crucial areas.

The webinar is presented by:

Diane Fennig

Diane Fennig is a passionate architect at the intersection of opportunities and talent. She brings more than 25 years of career development and management experience in a University environment to Executive Search and Leadership Development.  Diane joined The Human Capital Group in 2009 to incorporate her network with her keen sense of talent as a Consultant in Retained Executive Search.  She embodies the motto…We make a difference in your business…by doing things differently in ours… Diane enjoys Association Affiliations with the Forté Foundation, WACUBO, SACUBO, YMCA, SHRM and SHRM-Atlanta.

Diane has earned degrees from Marquette University, Miami University and The University of South Carolina as foundations for her role as career connector and educator. She also serves a guest blogger for the Society of Human Resource Management in the areas of recruitment, retention and employee satisfaction.

Forté webinars are produced for the benefit of our members. Information provided on this webinar should not be reproduced, distributed or published without the written consent of Forté and permission from individual speakers. If you wish to use our content, please contact Forté for permission.

Women Lead Webinar Series

This webinar is free to all Forté members!

What is it like to be an Asian woman in business right now, and what insights can Asian American executives offer on overcoming stereotypes and stigmatization?

Forté has invited three women leaders of Asian heritage to join us for a live panel discussion on how their cultural backgrounds have influenced their career experiences. Over the course of this engaging hour, our panelists will share personal stories, wisdom, and advice.  Listen in as they compare notes on the paths they took to their current roles, the challenges they’ve faced as Asian American women at work, and what they’ve learned along the way.

This session will cover:

• How to thrive in the current environment
• Bringing your authentic self to work
• Managing racial/ethnic identity challenges
• The importance of developing a strong, diverse network

And more!

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Moderator: Ana Duarte McCarthy, Senior Director, Corporate Partners, Forté

Ana Duarte-McCarthy has more than 30 years of experience as a subject expert and thought leader, dedicated to fostering equality, respect and ensuring individuals can achieve their full potential. Most recently, Ana was Managing Director and Chief Diversity Officer, Citi, from 2002 through 2016, and led the development and integration of Citi’s global workforce diversity strategy for hiring and developing diverse talent, fostering an inclusive work environment and ensuring management accountability. During her tenure as Managing Director and Chief Diversity Officer at Citi, Ana established a framework of policy and practices that advanced the organization’s recognition as a top company for diversity and inclusion. Ana joined Citi in 1995 and held previous roles within global diversity.

Jennifer Chow Bevan, Principal, Next Step Partners

Jennifer Chow Bevan is a Principal with Next Step Partners, a leadership development consultancy.  As an executive coach and facilitator, Jennifer partners with leaders to grow their leadership capabilities starting from the inside out – by helping leaders build self-awareness, challenge internal assumptions, experiment with new mindsets and behaviors, and create inclusive and high performing teams that thrive in complexity. Jennifer has worked with hundreds of senior leaders across diverse industries. Select clients include Facebook, Instagram, Kite Pharma, Gilead Sciences, NBC Universal, Murad Corp, MasterClass, A.T. Kearney, and Bain & Co.

Jennifer is committed to bringing a DE&I lens to her coaching to help leaders build teams and cultures that foster trust, inclusivity, and psychological safety. She is also deeply committed to supporting women, BIPOC, and Asian American leaders to unlock and elevate their authentic leadership. Since 2015 Jennifer has co-facilitated Women LEAD, a senior women’s leadership program at Facebook, Inc. and is a Guide & facilitator at Chief.com, a private network for senior women leaders. She earned her MBA from The Wharton School.

Sumona De Graaf, SVP, Chief Human Resources Officer, Republic Services

Sumona De Graaf is the SVP and Chief Human Resources Officer at Republic Services and oversees Republic’s Human Resources organization. She is responsible for driving the Talent Agenda and ensuring that Republic continues to be the place where the best people come to work. Prior to her current role, Sumona was a Principal Consultant at ghSMART, a leadership advisory and consulting firm where she helped companies drive value creation and business results by transforming their approach to people. She specialized in hiring practices, inclusion and diversity, and talent and leadership development, and worked on multiple projects with Republic over the last several years.

Prior to that, Sumona spent nearly a decade at Bloomberg working in various hands-on roles across HR, including learning, talent development, workforce analytics, and career development. Before her time at Bloomberg, Sumona worked in human capital management at American Express and Goldman Sachs. She has also served as adjunct faculty at The University of Georgia, teaching Masters-level courses on leadership development, diversity and inclusion, and human motivation. She earned her PhD in Industrial Organizational Psychology from The George Washington University.

Janet Huang, Senior Assistant Dean for Career Management and Corporate Relations – Undergraduate and Graduate Programs, UT-Austin McCombs School of Business 

Janet Huang is the Senior Assistant Dean for Career Management and Corporate Relations for undergraduate and graduate programs at The University of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business. Her career has been built on developing new teams, launching new solutions, and transforming businesses across a variety of industries—energy, healthcare, financial services, and technology. She currently directs a staff of 50+ and career support efforts for 7,000+ McCombs students, as well as all corporate recruiting relationships for BBA, MBA, and 5 other degree-granting specialty Master’s programs.

Before joining Texas McCombs in 2015 to fulfill a lifelong passion for higher education, Janet led the launch of non-profit technology company Blackbaud’s new cloud-based solutions, transitioning the company’s largest legacy products to the cloud. Her prior career experiences also include product marketing strategy for digital, social, and predictive analytics solutions at American Express; business development at Boston Scientific; and operations management for ethylene/propylene production at ExxonMobil. Janet earned her MBA from Harvard Business School.

Forté webinars are produced for the benefit of our members. Information provided on this webinar should not be reproduced, distributed or published without the written consent of Forté and permission from individual speakers. If you wish to use our content, please contact Forté for permission.

Get a head start. Competition is fierce — so you should be, too.

Meet hundreds of like-minded women MBA students at this two-day virtual conference and start slaying the business world before you even begin your MBA. Learn from highly-successful business leaders how to develop stand-out skills and project an authentic leadership style while building a powerful network of impressive colleagues.

This is your time to explore career paths, connect with recruiters and mentors, and hear from today’s most influential businesswomen.

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