Women in leadership

By Keril Wright, Staff Reporter

WESTERN BUREAU:

IF YOU know who you are and where you want to go you can be anything -- so says Linda Wind, organiser of the fifth annual Possible Woman Leadership Conference held recently at the Grand Lido Hotel in Negril.

The conference brought together about 100 female power brokers from across the US, among them Sarah Weddington of the famous Roe Vs Wade abortion case.

"We come to learn from each other, not just about our accomplishments and how to succeed in this, a male-dominated world of business, but to share our experience of life and family, to strengthen each other," said Dr. Betty Siegel, one of the conference's keynote speakers.

Dr. Siegel is president of the Kennesaw State University and the first woman to head an institution of higher learning in the University system of Georgia.

While most of those attending were high achievers, Ms Wind noted: "...we have every kind of woman here - mothers and daughters, small business owners and even the stay-at-home woman."

The four-day conference, she further explained, was all about different women coming together to establish a shared-consciousness about their place in this world.

She noted that the concept of the possible woman originated with Dr. Marjorie Barlow, author and consultant, who was also one of the speakers at the three day retreat.

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