This year’s WiMI Conference will be held June 12–14 in Nashville at the Grand Hyatt and is packed with opportunities to learn, grow, and discover all that you are capable of and what this industry has to offer.
Keynote speakers will include:
- Our industry’s own, Kathy Crosby will use the personal DISC assessment tool to help attendees uncover valuable information about themselves and others.
- Best-selling author Diana Kander will show how we can level up our simple questions to get significantly better results and drive innovation in the opening keynote presentation: Unleash Your Curiosity.
- In the Closing General Session, Be Who You Came to Be, through personal experience, stories, and research, Tara Renze, author and thought leader, will walk the audience through a three-step process to “be who they came to be.”
WiMi Conference Education Sessions
In the Women & Mental Health in Construction session, Sally Spencer-Thomas, Co-Founder & President, United Suicide Survivors International, will dive into why mental health matters for women in construction, why leaders need to attend to risk factors and environmental drivers, and what action steps they can take.
John Koontz, MCAA Director for Project Management Education, and Kathryn Crosby, Owner and Founder of C2 Consulting Inc, have seen hundreds of success stories in this industry, and they will share the traits they all have in common in the Quality, Traits, and Characteristics of Successful People in Our Industry session.
Colene Rogers, speaker and Executive Coach, will lead the session, Change the Conversation. Change the Culture, and provide practical tips to help attendees have conversations that address differences of opinion to resolve issues; what Colene calls Tough Talks.
Industry Panels
Keynote speaker Diana Kander will moderate an interactive discussion with some WiMI Committee members on lessons learned and keys to being successful in the industry.
Discover Your Allies, will be moderated by UA’s Special Representative for Training and Outreach, Laura Ceja, and feature Ray Boyd, UA’s Director of Education and Training, Bill Tavenner, Vice President of Sales at Ferguson Enterprises, Tom Bello, Executive Vice President of Mechanical Contractors Association of Metropolitan Washington, and MCAA’s Director of Project Management Education, John Koontz. The panel will discuss how men can be allies and support the growth of women in the industry.
Additional Opportunities for Development & Networking
Two sessions of roundtable discussions will cover a variety of industry and growth-related topics led by WiMI committee members. Evening receptions will provide additional time for networking and connecting with peers.
Hotel rooms are filling up fast, so register today and lock in the group rate by May 14!
Source: MCAA
