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The WIA (Women in Architecture) is a subcommittee of the AIA Silicon Valley. Founded in 2015, the committee’s focus is on expanding equity, equality, and diversity in the profession of architecture. The WIA offers programs which empower and support women as they establish their professional identities, develop their career paths, and find their leadership direction. Gender serves as a gateway topic to addressing experiences of diversity - allowing a flexible and expansive focus on topics. These are addressed through our events as the committee members and event guests navigate their intersectional identities and the challenges of living and working in a complex socio-historic context, a dynamic economic and technological region, and a turbulent political climate.

Interested in learning more about our upcoming plans and stay up to date with WIA activities? Join us virtually
every third Wednesday of the month at noon.

Zoom Meeting Link : https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81103086362?pwd=MUN2L29tYkRnS09NeVRvM1pGS0Zidz09
Meeting ID: 811 0308 6362
Passcode: 431783

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Closing the Confidence Gap

  • San Jose Woman's Club 75 South 11th Street San Jose, CA, 95112 United States (map)

Join us at the San Jose Women’s Club to hear Kim Walesh and Kate Purmal share research, insights, and actions to boost confidence and elevate executive presence.  Women and men of all ages, from students to elders, are welcome.

COST
AIA Silicon Valley members - no fee (be sure to sign-in first)
Non-members - $10
Donation - $10. Your support is appreciated!

SCHEDULE
Program | 5:30 to 6:30pm
Refreshments and Networking | 6:30 - 7:00pm

You can purchase the book THE CONFIDENCE CODE on Amazon.

You can purchase Kate’s book COMPOSURE on Amazon.

Prior to the meeting we suggest you take the Impostor Breakthrough Assessment to better understand how Impostor Behaviors may affect you.

Kim Walesh will kick-off the program sharing why confidence is critical to professional success, especially for women as research shows self-doubt is more common for women than men. Drawing from The Confidence Code by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman, Kim offers practical tips to push through self-doubt toward action, greater contribution, and more ease. 

Kim’s personal interest in this topic emerged through her career in community development and public policy.  She’s worked with civic leaders to build more creative, sustainable, collaborative communities through the global consulting firm SRI International, as co-founder of Collaborative Economics, and as executive in a leading big city government, San Jose.   Kim is the co-author of “Grassroots Leaders for a New Economy: How Civic Entrepreneurs Are Building Prosperous Communitiess” and “Civic Revolutionaries: Igniting the Passion for Change in America’s Communities.”

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kimwales

Kate Purmal, author of COMPOSURE: The Art of Executive Presence takes us deep to explore Impostor Syndrome - characterized by reactivity, self-doubt, perfectionism and sensitivity to criticism and feedback. Impostor Syndrome is known to impact more than 70% of all executives at least once in their career, and is also more common and persistent for women than for men. 

In her talk Kate explores its root cause, including the psychology and neuroscience behind imposter behaviors, and provides simple game-changing tools to unlock your executive presence to become confident, clear and composed. With composure and presence,  you can feel more calm and grounded even when the pressure is on. And she provides practical tips for ways you can foster confidence and become an effective ally for others.

Kate is a Corporate Board Director, Angel Investor, Executive Coach, and Business School Lecturer at Stanford, Georgetown, and the University of Michigan. She has served as CEO, COO, and CFO for numerous technology companies and is the author off two books: COMPOSURE: the Art of Executive Presence and The Moonshot Effect: Disrupting Business as Usual.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-purmal-922133/
Website: www.composurethebook.com

Earlier Event: October 27
Intersections : Enabling the Circular Economy through Sustainable Architecture
Later Event: March 15
Beyond Architecture: A Panel Discussion on Alternate Career Paths