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Friday, May 11, 2012
8:30 a.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Adelphi University
Ruth S. Harley University Center
1 South Avenue
Garden City, New York
Seven years ago there were no iPhones, no Kindles, no Zynga, no iPads, no Flip cameras, no Twitter, no YouTube, no Facebook, and no widespread instant messaging. Media as we know it is rapidly changing before our eyes. Today, more people in the world have access to smart phones than clean water. What does this mean for how we communicate our ideas, business, and stories? And, most importantly, how are these changes changing us, our agencies, our hiring practices, and how we think about our work?
Lisa Witter, Chief Change Officer of Fenton will lead a fun interactive discussion on 13 driving forces in communications and concludes with concrete steps on what you need to do in this "new normal."
About the Speaker
Lisa Witter
Partner, Chief Change Officer
Fenton
Lisa Witter is an experienced executive, social entrepreneur, communications strategist, writer, and social commentator with expertise in philanthropy, politics, women's issues, health, social innovation, new media, international development, corporate social responsibility, and leveraging pop culture for social change. She frequently gives workshops and lectures in these areas for the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. In 2010, she was named one of 197 Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum.
As partner and chief change officer of Fenton, the largest public interest communications firm in the country, she heads-up the firm’s work in innovation and global expansion/partnership and co-leads the practices in women’s issues, health, social entrepreneurship and global affairs for clients such as The Elders, Atlantic Philanthropies, Nobel Peace prize winner Wangari Maathai, International Criminal Court, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, National Geographic, The American Medical Association, David and Lucille Packard Foundation, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Half the Sky transmedia project, and Stonyfield Farms.
She serves as an expert panelist for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention as well as the Institute of Medicine on violence prevention. She also co-leads the Clinton Global Initiative’s Action Network on Women and Girls.
Witter is co-author with Lisa Chen of The She Spot: Why Women are the Market for Changing the World and How to Reach Them. She is a co-founder of the award-winning SheSource.org and was honored as an outstanding activist and expert on women’s issues by Oxygen.com in 2000. She co-founded two programs to encourage people to run for political office: Emerge and the Institute for a Democratic Future.
She has appeared on NPR, MSNBC, FOX News, CBS Early Show, and O, The Oprah Magazine, and has been published in numerous publications including Newsday, The Seattle Times, The Huffington Post, and AlterNet.
Registration Fee:
$10 Full Registration rate
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