First day of UBTech 2018 brought a very good Women in IT Leadership Summit with some outstanding speakers and the opportunity to meet other women in IT. Highlights from the Summit:
1. Jenny Evans from PowerHouse Performance talked to us about crushing the confidence gap through an animated and personal discussion of how we need to take care of ourselves through reflection, sleep, and exercise, with exercise allowing us a (relatively) easy way to push ourselves into and through our zones of discomfort for increased challenges that allow us to see other challenges, like phone calls, as doable if not trivial. She also reminded us to go on an intellectual diet, purging our RSS feeds, catalogue subscriptions and other consumer-focused media inputs to limit what we see, read, and thus get tempted to deal with.
2. Marcia Dorita Baker from U of Nebraska provided strategies for inclusion that focused on different skill sets and practicing them so that everyone in a team gets the opportunity to grow in different skill sets.
3. Nicole Aboltin from Lone Star College discussed 3 models of mentoring which gave me some ideas on how to structure the Women in IT mentoring program I have been thinking about for Auburn.
4. Finally, Rebecca Gill from U of Nevada gave us crushing statistics on why women choose not to stay in IT -- with the top reasons the lack of female role models, female mentors, and female networking in an otherwise (white) male dominated profession. Time to get to work.
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