2023 HiPower Offsite
Location: Dream Inn, Santa Cruz, CA
Start time: Friday, October 27, 2023, 2 pm PT
End time: Sunday, October 29, 2023 at noon PT
Friday Agenda:
4:30 - 6:00 pm - Asks and Answers - Wendy Lim & Eleanor Lacey
6:30 pm + - Evening Reception (bring a sweater, we’ll be outside)
2:00 - 4:00 pm - Welcome Party and Meet Ring 10 - Mona Sabet
4:00 - 4:10 pm - Ring 10 Inauguration
Saturday Morning Activities - 8 am - 9 am
HiPower New Ring Buddy Up
An opportunity for alumni members to spend some time with our new Ring graduates to build connections and community. Meet outside at the breakfast tables.
HiPower Morning Jog Run with Shannon Powers and Kathleen Vignos
Join a group of us for a 3+ mile run to get those endorphins flowing!
HiPower Meditation led by Preethy Padmanabhan
Start your morning off by calming your mind and body. Bring yoga mat or large towel and water bottle.
Meet in the lobby at 8 am for morning activities.
Breakfast is 8:30 am - 9:30 am
Saturday Sessions - 9:30 am - 9:30 pm
9:30 - 9:45am - Saturday Announcements
9:45 - 10:30am - Breakout Sessions
SESSION 1: Negotiating Your Next Job - Sharon Segev
SESSION 2: How To Write Your Op-Ed - and Why! - Delida Costin
SESSION 3: Habits that Stick - Connie Kwan
SESSION 4: Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time - Karen Gordon
SESSION 5: Menopause? More like meno-strong! - Lena Cheng
10:45 - 11:30pm - Speaker Series - Trisha Timm, Board Director and Author of Embrace The Power of You
11:30 - 12:15 pm - Breakout Sessions
SESSION 1: Negotiating Your Next Job - Sharon Segev
LUNCH: 12:15 - 1:00 pm
SESSION 2: How To Write Your Op-Ed - and Why! - Delida Costin
SESSION 3: Habits that Stick - Connie Kwan
SESSION 4: Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time - Karen Gordon
SESSION 5: Menopause? More like meno-strong! - Lena Cheng
1:00 - 1:45pm - Asks and Answers - facilitated by Wendy Lim & Eleanor Lacey
1:45 - 2:30pm - Options:
Join a Coaching Circle: Small group discussions with our amazing coaches.
Exploring Intrapreneurship with Maria Fernandez Guajardo: Entrepreneurship within a company is similar to creating startup - you need to build a new value proposition, raise "money", build your board, hire your team and find product market fit. But doing it inside a company with an established business has its own challenges and requires a unique "magic". As someone who has built 0 to 1 efforts at both Meta and Google, I will share lessons learned and tips and tricks for becoming an intrapreneur.
2:45 - 3:45pm - Thought Leadership with Denise Brosseau
Are you ready to accelerate your thought leadership journey? HiPower Ring 2 alum Denise Brosseau will take us on a fun and engaging session to strategize our next steps to getting our voices heard and our ideas more widely accepted. Bring your best practices to share (brag about!) and your challenges to workshop as this will be an interactive session.
3:45 - 4:00pm - Leviti Demo by Neda Mansoorian
4:00 - 5:00 pm - Asks and Answers
5:00 - 5:30 pm - Group Photo!
6:00 - 10:00 pm - Dinner & Karaoke Party at Barceloneta (1541 Pacific Ave Suite b, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Sunday morning walk - 8:00 AM - 8:30 am
Join a group of us for a scenic and peaceful walk around the beach - led by Einat Meisel
SUNDAY Sessions - 9 am - 12 pm
8:00 - 9:00 am - Breakfast
9:00 - 10:15 am - JAN Talks
JAN Talks are our signature “lightning practice TED talks”. Members are given about 5 minutes (give or take) to deliver a talk to the room as a practice for refining their talk for future speaking engagements. This is a great chance to practice the storytelling and communication skills we discussed during the year while perhaps building out your platform, in a supportive room with people who are here only to help make you even better!
10:15 - 10:30 am - HiPower Mission Reminder and Give/Get Pledge
10:30 - 11:05 am - Hipower Program Breakouts
BREAKOUT 1: Admissions Committee
BREAKOUT 2: Expert Series Committee - Wendy Lim
BREAKOUT 3: This Is Me Committee
BREAKOUT 4: Spring Refresh Committee - Candice Tubera
BREAKOUT 5: Racial Justice Breakout - Jennifer Chaloemtiarana
BREAKOUT 6: Second Act Breakout - Grace Wu
11:10 am - 11:45 am - HiPower Program Breakouts (second session)
11:45 am - 12:15 pm - Offsite Feedback Wrap Up
saturday breakout sessions
SESSION 1: Negotiating Your Next Job
You nailed your interview and received an offer for an exciting new position. But when you view the offer letter, the compensation isn’t as high as you expected. Negotiating an offer can feel intimidating. Hear some lessons learned from the front-lines and come ready to share your own stories and learnings.
SESSION 2: How To Write Your Op-Ed - and Why!
Show up with something you have written - it can be a draft or something you posted on LI that you would develop further. We'll discuss what it takes to turn it into an oped, where you might pitch it and how. This is a preview to a full op-ed program that we can run next year if enough members are interested.
SESSION 3: Habits That Stick
Habit change is hard. You’ve probably tried some things that didn’t work. But do you know why it didn’t work?
Because it’s not tied to your values. Values are stories about the world that lives in your bones. If you want your new habit to stick, then you need to attach it to something reliable, you need to attach it to your values. In this workshop we’ll help you create habit-value pairs to make your habit stick.
SESSION 4: Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time
Do you find yourself feeling overwhelmed, trying to keep up in a rapidly changing world? Do you wish that there was more time in your day to keep up with everything that you have in front of you? For the past decade, time management has been all the rage. So much has been written about the best way to manage your time; however, if you are only managing your time and not your energy, you are still going to find yourself feeling overwhelmed and burnt out. Energy, and how it is unique to each of us, is the untapped gold we need to mine. Understanding how to capitalize on your strengths and the strengths of others is a rich vein of goodness that will enable you to inspire others, create winning team cultures, come up with game-changing ideas, and better navigate the world of hybrid work, all while creating the key element of any great team or culture… trust. Energy Management is an incredible differentiator. Tapping into your core energies and learning to manage the energies of others is the next Pepita Canaã. In this session, you will learn how to work collaboratively by recognizing what is figure and what is ground for you and others, and you will be given a chance to practice tapping into your lower energies for optimal outcomes. We all have 24 hours in a day; depending on how we manage our own energy and the interaction of our energy with others throughout that time makes all the difference in how we feel at the end of it.
SESSION 5: Menopause? More Like Meno-Strong!
Get this: Numerous medical studies have shown over and over again that lacking physical strength leads to a 250% increase in mortality relative to being strong. Yikes! For context, having high blood pressure, Type 2 diabetes, or smoking leads to 20%, 30%, and 50% increases in mortality, respectively. And when you realize that muscle mass decreases around 3-8% per decade AFTER THE AGE OF 30—well, it’s easy to understand that loss of muscle mass is a fundamental cause of falls, disability, loss of mobility, osteoporosis—and generally a terrible quality of life. The risks are even higher for women who’ve experienced menopause. Here’s the good news: loss of strength and muscle mass is highly preventable and reversible. Resistance training—with bodyweight, bands, free weights etc—is a great way to build that strength and help ensure a longer, healthier life. If you’re interested in getting started or optimizing your existing program for longevity, come join us for this session on resistance training. You’ll walk away understanding: - What counts as resistance training - Simple ways to get started - The basics of good resistance-training form - How much training makes a difference - A quick-start equipment list - How to build strength in a fun, enjoyable way - Options for virtual coaching and/or programming.