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Cost: $975 per Person
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Feminine Leadership: Discovering Your Centerpoint is an opportunity for women to discover fresh ways of thinking and obtain greater clarity about their leadership style, effectiveness and growth areas. Based upon more than 15 years experience with women leaders, the CenterPoint Leadership Assessment © is a unique instrument that focuses on the most essential leadership concerns of women.
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Research indicates that women leaders face unique challenges:
At this workshop, you have the opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of your unique challenges, develop your authentic presence, and learn how to use your authority and power in an ethical and effective manner. Because the workshop not only focuses on the individual women leader, but also on the unique leadership culture of her organization, you return with a plan to enhance your organization’s leadership culture. Past participants have reported that they have influenced their organizations to become more focused, flexible, collaborative, and resilient in responding to change and transitions.
Testimonials:
"Feminine Leadership: Discovering your CenterPoint was most helpful, it was an experience I will never forget. The experiences, similarities, and differences of the women in the group make for a beautiful learning climate. Feminine Leadership provided a loving and supportive environment which allowed for me to release my worries and aid in my personal growth and building. Feminine Leadership was facilitated by two shining stars Judith and Bobbie, thank you for your hard work!" "My experiences in the Feminine Leadership conference were extraordinary. Not only were the three days fruitful and beneficial, but the staff and grounds were beautiful!" |
The Eight CenterPoint Leadership Arenas
CenterPoint addresses eight leadership arenas.
We explore these arenas in depth, identifying those areas that are in balance and those that need development.
During the workshop, each participant receives coaching on her developmental areas.
Learning Objectives:
At a CenterPoint Learning Experience, participants:
Methods:
This learning experience utilizes dynamic experiential methods that integrate multiple learning modalities: cognitive, emotional, kinesthetic and relational. Each participant will complete the CenterPoint Leadership Assessment©. We will talk, listen, move, rest, journal, engage in small group dialogue, and dance, while learning about self, leadership and systems!
Take Aways:
Feminine Leadership: Discovering Your CenterPoint is facilitated by Judith A. Leibowitz and Bobbie O'Connor.
Judith A. Leibowitz
Judith develops individuals and organizations. She is creative, engaging, and curious. Her talents include helping organizations, groups and individuals expand their capacity to change, collaborate, and become more effective and productive. Judith is adept at working with groups and teams, and in coaching, training and organization development. For 30 years, she has worked with a broad range of organizations in the non-profit, government and private sectors.
The types of learning experiences she designs and facilitates include Communication Skills, Conflict Management, Diversity Awareness and Inclusion, Group and Team Dynamics, and Leadership. Based upon her experience working with women leaders, she developed the CenterPoint Leadership Model and Assessment.
The focus of her executive coaching work is to expand leadership capacity by increasing personal awareness and presence, and strengthening the interpersonal and strategic skills of her clients. Her approach is holistic in nature, attending not only to organizational dynamics and interpersonal skills areas, but also to work-life balance strategies.
Clients include health care organizations, government agencies, social policy and human service organizations, utilities, and financial institutions.
Judith holds an M.S. in Human Resource Development from The American University/NTL Institute and, a B.S. in Education from the University of Maryland. She is a certified Coach with the Success Unlimited Network. Judith is a graduate of the Percept Orientation Training of Trainers offered by WeirMerrill Associates, and is certified in using the Meyers Briggs Type Indicator. She has published several articles related to diversity, interpersonal effectiveness and group dynamics.
She is a member of the NTL Institute, the OD Network, and the Women's Leadership Collaborative. A past president of the Chesapeake Bay OD Network (CBODN), Judith served in a variety of capacities on the board from 1987 to 1992.
Bobbie O'Connor
Bobbie O’Connor is a passionate and committed advocate for social justice and change.
She inspires high level government, corporate and non-profit leaders to promote and champion significant change in race relations, as Director for Project Breakthrough – Changing the Story of Race in Jacksonville. Previously, Bobbie served as Executive Director of OneJax, an agency whose mission is to promote respect and understanding among people of different religions, races, cultures and beliefs.
In 1995 Bobbie saw a need for women to have a space where they could fully embody their power and ability to stay in important relationships. With a keen talent for generating an environment for women to learn and grow, she decided to create and direct Living Waters: a Therapy and Training Center, where her primary focus was on women’s leadership issues. Living Waters also provided therapeutic services to individuals and families as well as education and consultation to nonprofits. In collaboration with three other women, Bobbie developed and staffed a 5-year learning community - Araña a Web of Women Leaders. A significant example of which is Bobbie’s work with JASMYN – a local nonprofit which provides support for youth who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. Through her efforts support structures were formed for these youth who were being marginalized in the foster care system.
Bobbie has a BS in Education and an MA in Counseling Psychology and is a licensed Mental Health Counselor. She is a member of the Women’s Collaborative Learning Community and has been a part of this evolving group since 1993 when it was begun by Joyce Weir and Alexandra Merrill. She also has extensive training in astrology and uses that benevolent lens to augment her work. Bobbie is a member of an ongoing group which meets to explore the Divine Feminine.
Some of her important volunteer efforts include former Board chair of the Women’s Center of Jacksonville and serving on the Mayor’s Commission on the Status of Women. Bobbie’s hobbies include contract bridge, reading, crocheting and working in her flower garden.
Bobbie is passionate about her belief that we can learn to live together as inclusive and equitable communities and she works tirelessly toward that goal.
Leisan Smith
A native of Columbus, Ohio, Leisan attended the University of Cincinnati where she earned her
Bachelor of Arts in Communication and her Masters of Education in Educational Foundations and a Graduate Women's Studies certificate. Her professional experiences and her passion include working with and advocating for students/young people, especially those whose voices are not always heard. Her career history includes running a program for teen moms at a YWCA, being a Principal at an alternative charter school and serving the Director of an Upward Bound Program which serves high school students from low-income and 1st generation college families. Currently, she serves as the first Program Director of the LGBTQ Center at the University of Cincinnati.
Leisan sits on the Board of Directors for Hope Springs Institute where she serves as the secretary and is a member of the programming committee. She is also a member of MUSE Cincinnati’s Women’s Choir, a choir dedicated to musical excellence and social justice and a member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc. In her free time she enjoys reading, singing and spending time with good friends.
Leisan attended the University of Cincinnati where she earned her
Bachelor of Arts in Communication and her Masters of Education in Educational Foundations and a Graduate Women's Studies certificate. Her professional experiences and her passion include working with and advocating for students/young people, especially those whose voices are not always heard. Her career history includes running a program for teen moms at a YWCA, being a Principal at an alternative charter school and serving the Director of an Upward Bound Program which serves high school students from low-income and 1st generation college families. Currently, she serves as the first Program Director of the LGBTQ Center at the University of Cincinnati.
Leisan sits on the Board of Directors for Hope Springs Institute where she serves as the secretary and is a member of the programming committee. She is also a member of MUSE Cincinnati’s Women’s Choir, a choir dedicated to musical excellence and social justice and a member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc. In her free time she enjoys reading, singing and spending time with good friends.
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Judith Leibowitz: judithleibowitz@comcast.net
Bobbie O'Connor: oconnorbg@gmail.com
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