Sg2009wc:innov

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Title: Session on Women in Innovation

Session: 1-D Bay Area Jan 2009

Convener: Claudia Yalvan

Attendess:

• Lisa Kao
• Tanya Silva
• Helena Scott
• Tess Um
• Debora Bowen
• Judith Secp
• Cindy Alvarez
• Aminie Elsberry
• Mary Vincent
• Jen Silva
• Stacy Banks
• Jennifer Mellor

Notes:

How to women get to the top of their game

• Men have a single focus

• • Women have a diverse awareness

• • Learning to work with your thinking style

• Storytelling: Wonder how will the stories be told in the future

• Women are social – spoken word

• • Is this the way? Developing our natural strengths small group storytelling to the next generation.

• Generations may be different

Recommended sites that might be helpful:

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Celebrating Men, Satisfying Women workshop is recommended

• www.celebratingmen.com site might be useful

Recommended Movie that is relevant:

• Slum Dog Millionaire – not everyone knows the answers to all the questions

• Consider your location –
• Get out of your comfort zone
• Discover where your focus is
• Setting goals – making a promise
• Where will we be 10 years from now?

Quotes:

• Technology goes out the window when spirit comes in….
• Never start something with “I don’t”
• Start to speak in a positive light

Recommended books:

• Seth Godin – The Dip – some things are difficult to do – people who persevere in practice
• Malcolm Gladwell – takes 10,000 hours to be good at something
• Trapped

Ideas:

• Form a No committee – to keep focus something helping you with boundary management
• Don’t be afraid to be a late bloomer
• Find places you can go to – ways to find cracks -> You ultimately run into what you want to do
• You provide the environment – Regio, Italy school is an example of creating the environment and seeing what happens – * Montessori school is another example

Product: We created a book during the workshop for Claudia

• Mama Gets a Patent