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Do you enjoy working in an exciting and fast-paced environment, researching options, and making recommendations? Consider a career in finance!

The Forté College Fast Track to Finance Conference is a great place to start. In this virtual experience, you’ll explore a multitude of financial careers, with a focus on Investment Banking and Investment Management. You will learn by “doing”, strengthen your leadership skills, expand your network, and get an inside look at how the financial services industry works.

You don’t need to be a finance major to attend — financial organizations need women from diverse academic backgrounds. Connect with financial leaders and recent college grads from top firms who will share why they love their career choice, along with insights on developing your personal brand, launching a finance career, and building client relationships.

Students will be asked to pay $25 to reserve their seat at the conference. Students from Forté partner schools, or those demonstrating financial need, are eligible for a deposit refund after uploading their resume to the Forté Job Center, attending the conference, and submitting their post-event survey. For questions, please see the Conference FAQs.

Registration deadline: September 23, 2021.

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Women Lead Webinar Series

Exclusively for Professional Access Pass members

Research shows that managers and employees who trust their senior leaders and executives tend to be more engaged. Leaders set the tone for the entire organization and shape its culture. Everyone wants to work in an organization where the leader makes wise decisions and behaves appropriately. High trust is contagious. Transparency is key to trust-building. This session will offer tips and techniques to link the two.

Attendees of this workshop will:

• Explore how trust and transparency foster innovation, engagement, and high performance
• Learn techniques for building trust with individuals and how to foster it in building or enhancing your organizational culture
• Enact principles that help create an environment that proactively encourages transparency and psychological safety

The webinar is presented by:

Barbara Nobles Crawford, PhD, Director of Executive & Leadership Coaching for MBA Working Professional Programs and Professor of the Practice in Organizational Behavior, University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler Business School)

Barbara is an award-winning relationship and results-driven executive who has extensive corporate, entrepreneurial, higher education, healthcare, retail, high technology, government, and leadership experience as a consultant and business leader in multinational corporations throughout the United States, Latin America and Europe. She earned a highly respected reputation as an executive coach and organization development consultant with an exemplary reputation as a business executive in achieving revenue and profit goals. Barbara’s experience in executive coaching, organization development and strategic planning development and implementation spans decades across multiple industries.

Prior to joining Kenan Flagler, she served as an Executive Coach and Senior Organization Development Consultant, and university associate adjunct professor in the MBA/MPA programs at Harvard University. Additionally, she previously served in Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s administration as Assistant Secretary of Human Resources (Secretariat CHRO), where she was responsible for leading and managing six agency human resource directors and the Executive Office HR staff.

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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 – 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.

Connections are key to your career success.  There is a real power in people connections, and these are often overlooked as a strategy to help determine your next career move.   We will discuss tactics for asking for and scheduling career conversations with mentors and sponsors, structuring the actual conversation, follow-up, and action plans.  The goal is to continue to build your network with confidence.

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.

Ready to level up as a leader? The Executive MBA (EMBA) is an exciting opportunity for working professionals who want to expand their knowledge and their network. The first step: figuring out which EMBA program is right for you.

To help you find a school that meets your needs and aligns with your career goals, Forté is holding a series of webinars featuring our EMBA partners. Hear what these top programs offer, what they look for in prospective students, and how to apply.

Panel schools include:

• Georgetown McDonough School of Business
• Rice University Executive MBA
• University of Michigan (Ross School of Business)
• University of Notre Dame (Mendoza College of Business)
• Wharton MBA for Executives

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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.

Forté MBA Forums are designed for all women considering an MBA — whether you’re a high achiever looking to change careers, a college student planning for the future, or a professional ready to take your career to the next level.

Forté’s free MBA Forums are held annually to empower women with information about the value of an MBA. You’ll make critical connections with admissions reps, MBA alumni, and students from top business schools in North America and Europe — all while forming an unmatched peer support network. And you’ll gain exclusive insights to the admissions process.

We’re going virtual again this year. Our 2021 MBA Forums will take place online to ensure your safety and provide greater access for all women. See you online!

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