Mississippi Women's
Spring Leadership Conference

March 1-2, 2007

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Thursday, March 1, 2007

9:00 a.m.          Registration..  ..........Plymouth Bluff Center lobby

10:00a.m.         Welcome...................Auditorium

                        Dr. Debbie Norris, WHEMN Coordinator

                        Dr. Bridget Pieschel, Director, Southern Women's Institute at MUW

                        Dr. Lucy Betcher, Director, Women's Center for Entrepreneurship

                                                                                                          at MUW

10:30a.m.         GENERAL SESSION I........Auditorium

                         "The Business of Manners"

                         Jill Rigby, President and Founder, The Business of Manners

11:45a.m.          LUNCH....... ....... .Plymouth Bluff Center

1:30 - 2:30p.m.   BREAK OUT SESSION I

                           "The Business of Manners"......................................Auditorium

                           Jill Rigby, President and Founder, The Business of Manners

                            "Balancing Stones: Women and Leadership"......Conference Room

                            Suzanne Bean, Director, Roger F. Wicker Center for

                                                                                      Creative Learning at MUW

2:30 p.m.              BREAK

3:00 - 4:00 p.m.    BREAK OUT SESSION II

                             "Balancing Stones: Women and Leadership"......Conference Room

                             Suzanne Bean, Director, Roger F. Wicker Center for

                                                                                      Creative Learning at MUW

                            "Communicating Divas: Getting Your Message Across"...Auditorium

                            Tonjanita Johnson, Executive Assitant to the Predident and Chief

                                                                                                         of Staff at MVSU

                             Debbie Montgomery, Director of Public Relations at MVSU

4:30 - 5:30 p.m.    SOCIAL HOUR

5:30 p.m.              DINNER.................Plymouth Bluff Center

                             Dr. Claudia Limbert, MUW President

                             Speaker - Dr. Betty Siegel

Friday, March 2, 2007

7:45 a.m.              Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m.              GENERAL SESSION II..............Auditorium

                             "Wild Thing"

                             Dr. Joyce Yates, Professor of Health and Kinesiology at MUW

10:00 a.m.             BREAK

10:30 a.m.             GENERAL SESSION III.............Auditorium

                              "The Future is Yours to Create"

                              Nancy Hunter Denney, Author and Speaker

11:45 a.m.              LUNCH.........................Plymouth Bluff Center

                              Recipient of the 2007 WHEMN Leadership Award announced

1:00 p.m.                ADJOURNMENT

This project is also co-sponsored by the Women's Entrepreneurship Center which is funded by a grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). SBA's funding should not be construed as an endorsement of any products, opinions, or services. All SBA-funded projects are extended to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis.