“Advocating for Yourself” – A Workshop for Women

When:
November 1, 2016 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm America/New York Timezone
2016-11-01T18:00:00-04:00
2016-11-01T20:30:00-04:00
Where:
MITRE Corporation - Building M - Room 1M306
202 Burlington Rd
Bedford, MA 01730
USA

Women In Engineering

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Advocating for yourself in the workplace: How to talk to your boss/co-workers about what you need

You are not alone! Many women have had the experience of being the only woman in a male-dominated organization. We’ll provide a short interactive workshop where we’ll share what we know and what we’ve seen, and invite you to role-play in a safe environment those conversations you need to have with your boss/co-worker(s) to keep your sanity and get what you deserve! Think you can help another woman engineer navigate this terrain? Need help yourself? This workshop is for you!

Bryn Dews

Bryn has 30+ years of experience as a business and systems analyst with a BBA in Management from U-Mass Amherst and an MS in Computer Information Systems from Boston University. The poster child for the winding career path, going from Banking to User-Centered Design in Software Development; from HR to Corporate IT and back. Throughout that journey, she has stayed tethered to her Career Anchor (from Edgar H. Schein’s tool): Pure Challenge. The bigger, more complicated the problem, the more appealing it is! Particularly if it involves learning new domains, technologies or cultures. For all but 6 years of her career, Bryn has been responsible for teams of people, as a direct supervisor or a project leader and is a recognized champion for Women’s Professional Development at MITRE. She is passionate about STEM outreach, coaching, and mentoring kids including her own.

Meeting Location: MITRE, 202 Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730 – Building M – Room 1M306