2008 WWHEL 
STATE CONFERENCE

October 23 & 24, 2008
Alverno College
Milwaukee, WI

 Women Moving Forward:
Navigating Change

 Keynote Speaker: Nancy Archer-Martin

The conference will begin with a session focused on strategies to build on participants' strengths and aspirations in their professional and personal lives.

 

Nancy Archer-Martin has prepared a new "Career Mapping" exercise specifically for the 2008 WWHEL conference. Materials will be forwarded to participants upon registration to give them the opportunity to do the exercise before the meeting.

 

The Thursday afternoon workshop will focus on strategies to execute one's career mapping plan and will include small-group and networking activities.

 

The Friday morning session will focus on career mobility strategies, either internally or externally, including tips on bios, cover letters, CYs, interviews, and managing search consultants.

About the Keynote Presenter: Nancy Archer-Martin

Nancy Archer-Martin is the founder of Educational Management Network, an executive search firm dedicated to serving the senior leadership search needs of higher education and not-for-profit institutions. She merged this firm with Witt/Kieffer, a national search firm focusing on searches in the health care industry, in 1998. Her previous affiliations include serving as a search consultant with the Academy for Educational Development and Peat, Marwick Mitchell. She has been recognized nationally as one of the leading search consultants in higher education. In January of 2004, she resigned her position with Witt/Kieffer and co-founded Nantucket Coaching Network, a firm serving individuals and higher education institutions with their career and human resource development initiatives.

 

She is the co-author of Career Aspirations and Expeditions: Advancing your Career in Higher Education Administration (Stipes Publishing, 2003). The book provides the tools and strategies necessary for individuals to successfully navigate the job search process and guide long-term career planning. It is the only book of its kind available to senior administrators in higher education at this time. (The book will be available for purchase at  he conference.)

 

Ms. Archer-Martin is a sought-after workshop convener on the topics addressed in her book and is known as the "Academic Executive Coach." She served as a member of the Commission on Higher Education and the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, and volunteers her time in support of the American Council on Education's leadership development programs.

 

Ms. Archer-Martin has served on the Nantucket School Committee and as a trustee of the Nantucket Historical Association, and volunteered with various Nantucket not-for-profit associations. Currently, she serves as a trustee at Hampshire Country School in Rindge, NH.

 

Ms. Archer-Martin is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, holds a master's degree from New York University, and has studied at the graduate level at Middlebury's School of Foreign Languages and Stanford University.

 

Registration will open in August  2008