Are You A Tiger or A Fish? - Women, Power & The Confidence to Lead

Learn how to Build Your Leadership Skills with commanding confidence. Executive Leadership Coach, Dr. Valecia ""Dr. V"" Dunbar, will share how she helps women business professionals, leaders and managers to develop their leadership mastery. During this presentation, participants will understand:

• How to leverage your “BQ” and the intellectual, social, and influential confidence that directly impacts your company's bottom line.
• Strategies and winning practices for women an underrepresented groups to increase Business Acumen (BQ)
• Practices for navigating limiting mindsets and self-beliefs that shake confidence and diminish the inherent power to lead

Renewable/Relational Confidence: Are Your Career Relationships Missing The Mark

Dr. V discusses proprietary research that explored the degree to which women were confident that their professional relationships were moving them closer to their career goals. These relationships were identified as coach, mentor, champion, and sponsor relationships which were defined in the survey.

Women gave mixed reviews on whether professional relationships are moving them closer to their goals. The study found that among women who identified as having a coach, mentor, sponsor, or champion, over the past three months, only 14.8 percent were fully career-confident prior to the relationship. During and after the professional relationship ended, the number of respondents with full career-confidence increased to ten or 37 percent.

Dr. V discusses key findings and solutions to improve Relational Confidence by implementing strategies to best leverage relationships, increase Social Capital and Social Equity.

Key Findings Discussed:

• More Than a Third of Women Report Professional Relationships Boost confidence
• Women Seek Multiple Types of Professional Relationships
• Leadership Skills: Where Women Gained the Most Confidence

With all groups combined, leadership was the skill that received the greatest level of increased confidence followed by problem solving and decision making. Of the groups that included champions and/or sponsors, these relationships focused on leadership first followed by equal attention given to building confidence in communication and problem-solving skills.

Lack Confidence: Why High Self Esteem Isn’t Helping It

Dr. V discusses strategies to build confidence with youth advocacy leaders and groups by sharing research and her personal system for developing more confident youth leaders.

The discussion distinguishes between self esteem as a value system and self confidence as a performance and self belief system. The importance of clarifying these value and belief systems for youth development, and tools educators and advocates can use to implement best practices in their programs and professional development training.

Financial Confidence or Financial Freedom: Start with the End in Mind

As a business advisor and financial coach, Dr. V discusses why women are pursuing entrepreneurship to create economic equity but are leaving nearly 80% of their capacity on the table. She discusses her work with women entrepreneurs and the issues she has seen firsthand. She says, "Start with the end in mind. Build better revenue models." She offers five ways to close the revenue gap and increase economic equity.

1. THOU SHALT KNOW THY PROFIT MARGINS

2. PRICE APPROPRIATELY

3. EXPECT TO NEGOTIATE

4. STANDARDIZE INVOICING

5. USE PRICE FORECASTING