6:30 - 7:00pm EDT | AWIB Welcome

Live session presented by AWIB Co-Presidents, Janique Francis & Priyanka Goswami, alongside current student panelists, Katie Hall (SY), Lindsay Perry (FY), and Ida Yonas (FY).

7:00 - 8:00pm EDT | Meet Your Women's Leadership Weekend Buddy

*You will receive information via email directly from your assigned AWIB buddy.

10:35 - 11:05am EDT | Curriculum & Concentrations Overview

Live session presented by Steve Misuraca, Assistant Dean, Daytime MBA Program.

Live session presented by Erika Elaine Glander, Assistant Director of Admissions, Weekend Executive MBA Programs.

1:00 - 2:00pm EDT | Charting Your Business School Career Course

Live session presented by Carol Rosenfeld, Sector Director for Energy, Career Management Center and Ed Bernier, Director of Daytime MBA, Career Management Center.

3:30 - 4:30pm EDT | Mock Class: Women & Negotiations

Presented by Ashleigh Shelby Rosette, Ph.D., Senior Associate Dean, Professor of Management and Organizations, and Center of Leadership and Ethics Scholar.

Ashleigh Shelby Rosette, Ph.D. is one of the foremost leading scholars on research that resides at the intersection of leadership, gender, and race. She is Senior Associate Dean and Professor of Management and Organizations at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Rosette is an accomplished leadership, diversity, and negotiations scholar and one of the most decorated teachers in the history of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Her research has been featured in Forbes, CNN, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, Business Week, the Financial Times, USA Today, Huffington Post, and National Public Radio.

She was ranked as one of the Fifty Most Influential Business Professors by mbarankings.net, one of the Favorite Professors among MBAs by Poet & Quants, and is the recipient of the PhD Project’s Trailblazer Award. She provides consulting services on topics such as leadership, diversity, decision-making, and negotiations to an array of clients in varied industries. She received her Bachelor in Business Administration degree and Master in Professional Accounting degree from the University of Texas at Austin. She received her Ph.D. in Management and Organizations from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Prior to her career in academia she worked as a CPA.

12:30 - 1:15pm EDT | Keynote Speaker Session

Live keynote session with Lindsay-Rae McIntyre, MBA'04, Corporate Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer for Microsoft.

*Don't forget to order your lunch through Grubhub!

From thought leadership, to operational execution, to employee engagement, McIntyre leads Microsoft’s strategic efforts on systemic solutions to advance diversity and inclusion guided by a commitment to be mission-driven, outcome-oriented, globally-informed, science-based, and culturally-competent. She spearheaded the publication of Microsoft’s first Diversity & Inclusion Report and shaped our recent action-oriented response to racial injustice. Under her leadership, her global team of human resources and employee engagement strategists are driving the adoption of Microsoft’s Core Priority for Diversity & Inclusion, introducing new solutions to advance inclusive behaviors and habits including Microsoft’s Allyship Program and employee self-identification, and helping leaders embrace their inclusion learning journey.

2:45 - 3:45pm EDT | Afternoon Concurrent Sessions - Navigating Rough Waters

*Please choose one of the two sessions below to attend for the entire hour.

Step Into Your POWER- Personal Development Workshop

Live session presented by Itir Keskiner (MBA'09). In this interactive workshop, uncover the limiting beliefs and mental blocks that are holding you back from being your whole, powerful self. Executive Life and Leadership Coach, Itir Keskiner, offers tools and thought provoking questions to help you articulate your values and how they relate to shaping your ideal life. Join us and discover how to use your full potential to get more satisfaction out of your journey while you reach for your goals.

Itir Keskiner is an Executive Life and Leadership Coach with her own practice in Durham, NC. After 15 years of consulting and marketing leadership experience at Accenture, Unilever, Samsung, and Burt's Bees, Itir uses her expertise in leading organizations, driving growth, and solving problems to help her clients transform their lives, organizations, and businesses. Itir earned her M.B.A. from Duke University, Fuqua School of Business in 2009 and her B.A. in International Affairs from George Washington University in 2004. Itir serves on the Duke Alumni Women's Forum Steering Committee and is an active member of the Rotary Club of Durham. She is a fitness and wellness enthusiast, world traveler, art lover, and home chef. Learn more at itirkeskiner.com.

Below the Surface- Identity Workshop

Live session presented by Stephanie Robertson, Director of Community Engagement and Inclusion. Do you want to delve deeper into who you are and how your various identities affect how you interact with colleagues, friends and family? This session will allow us to explore personal and social identities and help us learn more about each other through an interactive exercise. This is designed to be a judgement free zone in which you can share as much (or as little) as you are comfortable with!

Stephanie Robertson is the Director of Community Engagement and Inclusion with Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. She received her BA in German Language and Literature and Comparative Area Studies from Duke and her JD from Georgetown University Law Center. The highlight of her time at Georgetown Law was working with the Street Law Clinic, which provided law-focused education to high school students in Washington, D.C., and her Education Law and Policy classes. After graduating from law school, Stephanie worked at Thacher Proffitt and Wood LLP in New York City in their structured finance department, but soon realized that her passion lay in education. In 2009, she began a career in higher ed and has worked predominantly in admissions and graduate recruitment for business and law school. She has had the opportunity to work for amazing institutions including her alma mater, Georgetown Law, and Duke’s rival down the street, UNC Chapel Hill. During this time, Stephanie developed programs and created pathways to enable diverse populations to apply for, and enroll in, graduate school. Additionally, she has run key pipeline programs designed to expose underrepresented populations to the business and legal fields.

In her current role, Stephanie works closely with business school students, staff and faculty to develop programming that cultivates an inclusive and welcoming community at Fuqua. Her work is dedicated to creating an environment where students across dimensions of identity are provided opportunities to share their authentic selves as well as safeguarding spaces for difficult conversations. Stephanie also collaborates with internal and external thought leaders to develop strategies for Fuqua to become the premiere training grounds for inclusive business leaders.

Women's Leadership Weekend Slack Channel

• Click here to directly join!
• If you are already familiar with Slack, you can simply “Add the workspace” which is: fuquawlw

If you have any questions about this process, check out the Slack 101 resource, or feel free to reach out to Claudia Ceballos (claudia.ceballos@duke.edu) for specific questions and troubleshooting.

Trying to decide which Working Professionals Program is right for you? Take a view minutes to view this informative, pre-recorded session presented by Erika Glander, Assistant Director of Admissions, Executive MBA Programs and Allison Jackson, Assistant Director of Admissions, Global MBA Programs.

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