Leadership

Center for Gender in Organizations. This unit of the Simmons School of Business conducts and publishes research, consults, and holds a variety of seminars and workshops. Recent workshop topics include “It Pays to Ask: Negotiating for Leadership Success,” “Managing Your Leadership Brand,” and “Strategic Leadership for Women.”  

Presentations and Public Speaking

Presentation websites

Allyn & Bacon Public Speaking website. A commercial website linked to a textbook, but containing useful information on presentation preparing and delivery, including assessing your objectives and the speaking opportunity, analyzing your audience, researching and organizing your presentation, delivery, and enhancing your speaking skills.

Effective Meetings: Presenting. An extensive website with tips for preparing and presenting at meetings, plus information on presentation tools such as SMART Roomware, multimedia and of course PowerPoint®.

Gifts of Speech website. A project to preserve and provide access to speeches by influential contemporary women from around the world. The idea for the project originated in 1989 when Liz Kent, a college librarian, was asked to help a student find a speech by Gloria Steinem and was surprised when she could not find one.