What can you do in an hour?
How about meeting some of the nation’s top business minds one-on-one?
How about changing a young girl’s life and setting her on a path towards confidence and a career she loves?
This is what happens when you attend Power Hour, benefiting Step Up Women’s Network.
Join us April 25 and be part of a powerful evening of mentorship.
Here’s just four of the many mentors you will have the chance to meet at Power Hour!
New York Women Making History Panel
March saw Step Up hold a national panel discussion series on Women Making History, which gathered more than 500 Step Up supporters across Step Up’s three cities in celebration of Women’s History Month.
The discussion included takeaways for women of all career levels, as well as the panelists’ reflections on challenges facing women in the workplace today.
Here are our favorite takeaways and tweets. What are yours? Leave us a comment below!
Body language is crucial. Learn to read others’ nonverbal cues.
Bring a notebook in a nice leather portfolio and dress well for interviews. It’s an investment in your own image and success.
Don’t be afraid to ask for help.
Don’t focus all your energy on trying to live a balanced life. Find joy in the imbalance.
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Luminary Circle founding member and former chair of the Los Angeles Board of Directors Liz Dennery Sanders offers Step Up members insight each month into key steps to success.
When a potential client asks, “why you?,” do you have an answer? Are you prepared to communicate your unique message about what makes you special and different from everyone else in your industry? Why should someone work with you?
A brand is either positive, negative or neutral. If you don’t decide what your own personal brand is, others will do it for you. You exude your personal brand in everything you do – from the clothes you wear, the tone of your voice, the manner in which you treat people to how you communicate your brand message. Your personal brand is the great separator – it distinguishes you from everyone else and it’s what makes you stand apart from the rest.
In honor of Step Up’s 15th anniversary, we’re catching up with some of our most memorable teen programs participants who are now busy fulfilling their potential and changing the world!
Confidence. It’s one of the key traits that Step Up Women’s Network instills in its members and students. It’s that confidence that has led Feli Hernandez through high school and into Beloit College where she’s currently studying to be a nurse—a goal she’s had since she was a little girl.
The future didn’t always look bright for the ambitious 20-year-old. It was only a few years ago that a high school teacher proclaimed Feli would amount to nothing, going as far as to proclaim that Feli “should go work at McDonalds.” That was in her freshman year and at the time, she believed him. Any confidence she had in herself was erased. “I no longer believed that I could amount to anything,” she says. It was a trying time that luckily turned around after she transferred schools, joined Step Up and learned to embrace her challenges.
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Kate Casale MacNally
Kate Casale MacNally joined Step Up as a member in November 2012. She literally jumped in with both feet, volunteering for every event, including representing Step Up at outside events in the community. Kate engages members and members-to-be with her passion for the organization and how she found a home in Step Up. Kate also serves on the Connections Committee, the Events Committee, and is a mentor to Step Up teens. Kate is an outstanding example of the numerous opportunities you can have to “Step Up and give back.”
