85 Broads and NUS Business School BBA Career Services invite you ...

85 Broads and NUS Business School BBA Career Services invite you to
celebrate the release of MORE THAN 85 BROADS Women Making Career Choices,
Taking Risks, and Defining Success on Their Own Terms by Janet Hanson and 95 Amazing Women from The 85 Broads Network.

Please join us for a panel discussion and a book signing with Grace Park
(in the Officers chapter) whose remarkable story is featured in this book!

6:30pm Registration
7:00pm 85 Broads introduction
7:15pm NUS Business School BBA Career Services Introduction
7:25pm Panel Discussion:
Women Blazing Their Own Trails
8:00pm Dinner and book signing

Proceeds from book sales will benefit women entrepreneurs affected by the Jakarta earthquake.


Women Blazing Their Own Trails Panelists:

Aidan Siobhan Madigun-Curtis (Moderator) Student, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Patricia Haas Cleveland Senior Vice President, Senior Client Relationship Management, Lehman Brothers
Catherine Loh General Manager, Lehman Brothers
Grace Park Entecavir Brand Manager, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Lucy Chow Senior Vice President, Market Development, Asia Pacific, HSBC
Michelle Eyles Entrepreneur

Friday, August 18, 2006 6:30PM • NUS Kent Ridge Guild House, Singapore

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Some post-event thoughts and learning points:


Grace Park. Entrepreneur (Crowd's fav)

• Turning crisis or struggles into opportunity to learn
• Facing struggles at younger age helped her, felt that was a gift (middle child, Korean)
• Rise up to challenges--> channeling this energy as an opportunity to excel
• Engage in activitites that can develop an identity --> through sports
• parents as champions, encouraging her
• hard work paid off
• Along the way, build confidenc, after a few small wins
• A virtuous cycle
• Seek greater challenges, greater wins thereafter
• How you handle stress (stress management at a younger age makes things better)
  
• Two Choices: (approaches)
• "To do nothing" OR "Face Adversity and allow yourself develop your ideas"
• Excel in Sports--> Judo (black belt); She practices everyday, art of defending the self
• Miltitary background; went through rigorous training programme
• Let successes in one area grow/flow into other areas--> Achieve ultimate goal

GEMS:

• Create your own opportunity
• Surround yourself with champions
• Be persistence in finding your own mentor
• Seek crisis as opportunity to excel
• Choose to be positive (Are you the driver or passenger?)
• Know your own source of motivation
• "Passion" OR "Fear of failure" (Park notes it's not sustainable if it's the latter)
• Drawing upon my passion
• Recognise your source of motivation, else what is your passion?
• Stay discipline
• Perservance

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Patricia (senior VP)

• What is your love/your passion?
• Keep you eyes on the big picture
• Women often hard on themselves to be perfect
• Don't believe in zero-sum game
• Have to be flexible; always got trade-offs
• Good things that happen to her came as surprises
• Be open to new ideas

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Catherine Loh
GM, Lehman Brothers, worked with Goldman Sachs

On women being treated equally in Asia...

Talking about women in finance

• Self-esteem, self-confidence
• Do what you want
• Don't let othes put ideas into you
• Competence more than gender
• Encounter no biz gender bias, as Lehman encourages diversity in workplace.

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Michelle Eyles

Michelle Eyles has been a friend of Janet Hanson and her family for over 8 years and in that time has had the opportunity to see the development of 85 Broads from its humble beginnings to where it is today. Michelle traveled for 8 years around the world involved in Sports Marketing and Management for her now husband who was formerly the World Champion on the international Squash Tour. She has had the opportunity to develop her understanding of different cultures and experience the many challenges that go with living abroad throughout this period of her life and has lived in both Italy and Bermuda. Today, Michelle is an Entrepreneur – owning 3 Franchise business’ in Australia. She has won numerous business awards including the Australian Ella Bache Franchise of the Year in 2004 and several National Business Development Awards.She resides on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia with her husband and two children.

• What makes you happy?
• To experience life experiences
• Go out of your comfort zone
• Believe in yourself
• Choose how you want to live your life...not being CEO, but to be HAPPY!