If you are planning on going to the FY15 Region C Conference in Austin, TX February 6-8, please register by Friday, January 23. If you would like to be paired up with a roommate for the weekend, email us at dallas.swe@gmail.com and we’ll try to match you up with someone!
Please join us on February 25, 2015 at SMU for She Networks, She Wins! Meet & mingle with professionals and students during their 12th annual networking event. Click the flyer below to register online.
The next Design Your World – STEM Conference for Girls will be on March 28, 2015!
The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Dallas Section and the Southern Methodist University Student Section will host the next Design Your World event for 4th and 5th grade girls on Saturday, March 28, 2015! The location is still TBD, but we are aiming to serve communities in south Dallas this time around.
Please stay tuned to the Design Your World website for more details coming soon!
Happy New Year everyone! Please plan to join us at the following upcoming events:
Tuesday, January 20, 2015: Debra Hunter Johnson is our guest speaker on the topic of How to Get the Best Out of Your Team. Click here to read more about the topic, our speaker, and how to RSVP.
Saturday, January 31, 2015 – DISD STEM DAY: Volunteers are needed to help run a spaghetti and marshmallow building activity with students at Dallas ISD’s STEM Day at Skyline High School. We’ll have two shifts: 1:20pm-2:20pm and 2:30pm-3:30pm. If you are interested in volunteering, please fill out this form and email our VP of Outreach, Nandika D’Souza.
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 – She Networks, She Wins: Save the Date for this annual event with the SMU SWE student section! We’ll be at the Palmer Conference Center in Caruth Hall on the Southern Methodist University campus. Stay tuned for a link to RSVP!
Saturday, February 28, 2015 – E-Week Family Day: Join Dallas SWE a the Frontiers of Flight Museum from 10:00am-1:00pm as we lead a fun E-Week activity! Email Jennifer Vilbig jennifervilbig@gmail.
Please join us for our January professional development meeting!
Average leaders focus more on recruiting and less so on how to develop and use talent once they are hired. Good leaders focus on finding people, at whatever level, who know the things they don’t. Outstanding leaders take the time to understand the capabilities of each individual so that they can connect employees with the right opportunities-thereby building a virtuous cycle of attraction, growth, and opportunity. Debra Hunter Johnson will share insights on how you can take your team from average to outstanding with her presentation: People Management: How to Get the Best Out of Your Team.
About the speaker:
Debra Hunter Johnson is Vice-President, CLO & CHRO for Reciprocity Restaurant Group, which owns and operates Church’s Chicken Restaurants in Oklahoma. Debra brings 25-plus years of experience to her role and is responsible for all legal matters as well as leadership development and training for over 250 employees. Debra also owns a training and consulting practice that focuses on leadership development, employee engagement, conflict resolution, inclusion/diversity and legal issues related to workforce management.
Prior to her current role, Debra served in several leadership roles at American Airlines, Inc. including Vice President – Global Human Resources Services where she led a team of over 100 human resources professionals in the U.S., Latin America, Canada and Mexico and Associate General Counsel responsible for the areas of domestic and international employment and benefits law and litigation, environmental, immigration and the company’s compliance program. Debra has also served as a attorney with Chrysler Motors Corporation and with the law firm of Patterson, Phifer & Phillips in Detroit, Michigan.
Debra is a member of the Corporate Counsel Women of Color, American Corporate Counsel Association, National Employment Law Council and the state bars of Texas and Michigan. She is also very involved in the community and serves on the boards of the Dallas Museum of Art, Planned Parenthood of North Texas and is active with The Dallas Assembly. In the past, she has served of the Boards of Trustees of the Jack & Jill of America Foundation and The Hockaday School in Dallas and on the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee. She is also a member of The Links, Inc., Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and the Junior League of Dallas.
Thanks everyone who came out for Dallas SWE’s first Younger Members brunch! Recent graduates from all over the country have relocated to the Dallas area and Saturday met for a tasty brunch at Gloria’s in uptown Dallas.
For those who didn’t make it, we raffled off two sets of circuit board nail wraps! Congrats to the winners, Amanda Posadas and Kristen Parrish! We have two more sets to raffle off for next time, so save the date for next month.Saturday, January 24th at 11am at Social House in Addison.
If you’re interested in being added to the younger members email list, please email Dallas SWE secretary Morgen Schroeder!
On December 3, Dallas SWE joined with Women of AT&T, Women in Technology International (WITI) Dallas, Slalom Cosulting, and The Intersect Group for an evening of networking and delicious refreshments! Over 75 men and women met at BJ’s Restaurant in Addison for the occasion.
Bri Crow, a Senior Technology Recruiter for The Intersect Group, welcomed attendees and interviewed special guest Debbie Allred, Senior IT Director at JC Penny, in a fireside chat format. Debbie took a circuitous route to her director position and gave great advice to women pursuing leadership roles, work-life balance, the rewards of mentoring, and more. Attendees also got the opportunity to ask Debbie questions directly. Afterwards, a large percentage of the group stayed to mingle and connect with one another. It was really inspiring to have such a diverse group and meet a lot of new people! Click below to view a few photos from the event.
We got some great feedback on this event: if you attended, check your email with a link to our survey! We plan to hold another joint event in the spring, this time with the National Society of Black Engieers (NSBE) and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE). Stay tuned for details!
