Membership Options

Sponsoring Membership Benefits

Sponsoring Members will receive all Supporting Membership Benefits (listed previously), plus:

• Exclusive events. Professor Joan C. Williams, who has “something approaching rock star status” according to The New York Times Magazine, will come to your organization to keynote an event for any group your organization chooses (e.g., women and their clients, women and their sponsors, women’s or affinity groups, firm leaders, etc.). Professor Williams will not be giving talks for firms or companies unless they are Sponsoring Members. (While available, up to 10 events per year.)
• Two additional tickets to the annual Cutting-Edge Conference (four tickets total, with the option to purchase additional tickets at a discounted rate).
• A guaranteed seat at the Hastings Leadership Academy for Women (which is limited to 25 participants), with the first seat at full price plus a 50% discount for additional seats (up to three participants total).
• Top listing of your firm or company with a link to your website displayed on WorkLife Law’s Women’s Leadership Edge web page and program materials.

Pricing:

 $20,000 for Annual Sponsoring Membership.

Women’s Leadership Edge members receive organization-wide access to a series of webinars and accompanying written materials. Webinars are given live once per quarter and available online through a password-protected member portal. Anyone in your organization can participate in the live webinars, watch previous webinars saved on the WLE member portal, and access a wide array of member resources on the member website.

Webinar Topics

Webinars will cover a wide-range of timely, pertinent topics such as:

• Achieve Your Rainmaking Goals. Too often advice on rainmaking is anecdotal. This teleconference, suitable for men as well as women, will translate the extensive social science on networks into incremental, concrete steps to help women achieve rainmaking goals and build value in business networks.
• Successful Self-Promotion Strategies for Women and Diverse Professionals. Professionals need to be able to project confidence and self-promote in order to succeed.  But women and people of color often find that traditional self-promotion strategies don’t work well for them.  This webinar explains why and presents practical tips for promoting yourself, your colleagues, and your organization.
• Being a Team Player While Actively Pursuing Your Career Goals. Women and diverse professionals often face internal and/or external pressures to play office roles that give them less visibility and prominence.  This webinar provides concrete strategies to enable professionals to position themselves in the spotlight while still being seen as good team players.
• How to Have a Baby And Keep Your Job.  This webinar provides four key tools women need in order to plan their transition to motherhood: a step-by-step plan for their transition out of work and back into it, information on shifts in family dynamics triggered by childbirth, a template for building a family consensus around family and career goals, and guidance on how to gain flexibility in your schedule.
• Managing Mothers—and Fathers.  Managers’ good intentions can get in the way of mothers’ careers.  This webinar provides guidance for supervisors: what conversations to have and how to have them, how to be supportive without making undue assumptions, and how to separate one’s own experience of parenthood from one’s role as a manager.  The conversation will have a special focus on how to manage younger fathers, who may have expectations of parenthood quite different from those of older men.
• Tools for a Successful Women’s Initiative.  Too often, women’s initiatives are long on good intentions but short on deliverables.  This webinar will discuss how to develop effective metrics to measure success in women’s advancement, and will identify specific topics and materials for programming to allow women to develop the leadership skills they need to survive and thrive.