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Friday, November 30, 2007
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
University Center Ballroom
1 South Avenue
Adelphi University, Garden City campus
Free and open to the public
While women and racial/ethnic minority groups are growing in the ranks of leadership in corporations, institutions of higher education, and the political sector, conversations about leadership continue to portray women leaders as the exception. Styles of leadership alternately portray women leaders as "soft and ineffective" or having the "female advantage."
The Women and Leadership Lecture, featuring prominent women leaders and scholars on leadership who have broken the gender barrier and addressed cutting edge issues of gender and leadership, will explore the challenges faced by women leaders, the differences in how they lead, and the gender role expectations and diversity that influence their leadership styles.
In partnership with the Adelphi University Women, Peace and Justice Project; Office of Alumni Relations; and the Long Island Fund for Women and Girls.
Panel Participants
Jean Lau Chin Ph.D., ABPP is Professor and Dean of the Derner Institute for Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University. She is past-president of the Society for the Psychology of Women (Division 35), American Psychological Association through which she had a presidential initiative on Feminist Leadership. She is a licensed psychologist, and has held leadership/management roles for the past 35. She has authored or edited 9 books and numerous publications; and has given many talks on women’s issues, cultural competence, mental health services, and health disparities. Her most recent is an edited book: Women and Leadership: Transforming Visions and Diverse Voices. She serves on federal, national, state, and local boards, and is currently on APA Council of Representatives, National Register for Health Service Providers in Psychology, National Asian Pacific American Families Against Substance Abuse and BAPPI.
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Roya Ayman Ph.D. is a Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology and the director of the I/O graduate program at the Illinois Institute of Technology. She is a faculty fellow at IIT’s Leadership Academy. Dr. Ayman has carried out research in a wide variety of public and private sector organizational settings both in the U.S. A. and internationally. She was a coeditor of a book on Leadership Theory and Research: Perspectives and Directions and a leadership training manual for the National Fire Academy. She has an active consulting practice providing leadership development as well as managing diversity and cross-cultural interaction in the workplace for both private and public sector organizations.
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Bonita L. Betters-Reed is Professor of Management at the Simmons College School of Management and Faculty Affiliates at the Center for Gender and Organizations in Boston Ma. For over 20 years they have together conducted research in the area of diversity management with a special focus on women business leaders and entrepreneurs. She was invited author for a book entitled, Teaching Diversity: Listening to the Soul, Speaking from the Heart. Their current research stream investigates diverse women entrepreneurs, with a focus on the role of cultural identity in leadership effectiveness. It builds on earlier research that challenged the “whitewash effect” in organizational management research on women and its implications for management development and definitions of leadership success.
Betters-Reed have jointly received the Small Business Administration’s Woman in Business Advocate of the Year Award for Massachusetts and New England. This award was given primarily for organizing a national conference, which identified the research, policy and educational agenda for transforming the future of multicultural women business owners.
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Toy Caldwell-Colbert Ph.D., ABPP serves as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Central State University, located in Wilberforce, OH. She has been in private practice as a clinical psychologist and an independent consultant with expertise in higher education administration/leadership, campus diversity, faculty and student recruitment and retention, multicultural competency training, and curriculum transformation.
From 2003 to 2005 Dr. Caldwell-Colbert served as Senior Research Associate with the Center for Advancement of Racial and Ethnic Equity at the American Council on Education where she assisted the Center and the Office of Women in Higher Education in fostering leadership development to cultivate greater participation and achievement of minorities and women in higher education. She also served as Howard University’s Provost and Chief Academic Officer from 2001 through 2003.
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Alice Eagly Ph.D. is a professor of psychology at Northwestern University. Her leadership roles include President of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Her awards include the Carolyn Wood Sherif Award of the Society for the Psychology of Women for contributions as a scholar, teacher, mentor, and leader. She has published widely on gender issues, and in particular on women and leadership. She wrote the book, Through the Ladyrinth which is about women’s path to leadership.
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Diane F. Halpern Ph.D. is Professor Psychology and Director of the Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children at Claremont McKenna College. Diane was 2004 President of the American Psychological Association. She has published over 350 articles and many books including, Thought and Knowledge: An Introduction to Critical Thinking (4th Ed.); Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities (3rd ed.). She is also working with Fanny Cheung from Chinese University on a cross-cultural book titled Women at the Top: How Powerful Leaders Combine Work and Family. The book is based on more than 60 interviews with women with substantial family responsibilities in powerful leadership positions. Diane has won many awards for her teaching and research, including the 2002 Outstanding Professor Award from the Western Psychological Association, the 1999 American Psychological Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1996 Distinguished Career Award for Contributions to Education given by the American Psychological Association, the California State University’s State-Wide Outstanding Professor Award, the Outstanding Alumna Award from the University of Cincinnati, the Silver Medal Award from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, the Wang Family Excellence Award, and the G. Stanley Hall Lecture Award from the American Psychological Association.
Recent work includes studies of the effects of California’s paid leave insurance, how flexible work policies affect stress and health, and a school-to-work project for low-performing high school students.
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Sandra Shullman Ph.D. has had a distinguished career working with senior executives and executive teams in a wide range of national and multi-national organizations. In addition to over fifteen years of leadership of an organizational and behavioral healthcare firm, Dr. Shullman served as Director of Managerial Effectiveness Programs at the Center for Creative Leadership, where she led major projects involving performance management and executive and managerial effectiveness. She is currently Managing Partner of the Columbus office of the Executive Development Group, an international leadership development and consulting firm, with offices in Greensboro, North Carolina, Houston, Texas, Columbus, Ohio and London, England. In this role, she directs large scale executive coaching, executive education and development projects for national and multinational client organizations.
Sandy has co-authored Performance Appraisal on the Line, an early groundbreaking book about assessing performance with multiple raters and is currently under contract for a book on the development of executive coaches. She has written extensively throughout her career on timely workplace and leadership issues.
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Contact
For additional information about this conference, please contact:
Marge Burgard
Hy Weinberg Center, Room 221
p - 516.877.4835
f - 516.877.4805
e - burgard@adelphi.edu
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