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WBO SIG: Aligning Your Knowledge Skills with Your Passion - ONLINE REGISTRATION CLOSED - WALKINS WELCOME
Venable LLP
8010 Towers Crescent Drive, Suite 300
Tysons, VA 22182
USA
703-760-1600

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Tuesday, January 21, 2020, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM EDT
Category: Women Business Owners

This interactive workshop will help participants unlock their imagination by providing real life examples of how business owners have used their passion to envision new ideas. Passion is a key ingredient to the Imagination step as it fuels ideas, motivation, and perseverance. The event will begin with an overview of the Invention Cycle with a deep dive into the Imagination step. Next, Arti Varanasi will lead participants through an interactive exercise and discussion on visioning, discovering their passion, and aligning their passion with tangible skills. Robin McDougal will share how she has used dream boards to visualize her business strategy and how her own dream board helped her launch her company. Participants will leave with actionable steps and a strategy for harnessing their imaginations to launch and drive their businesses forward.

Registration Fees
$25 WIT Members
$35 Non-Members
$45 On-Site

Pre-registration for this event has closed, but you are welcome to walk-in and register.

Speakers

Arti Varanasi
President and CEO, Advancing Synergy, LLC

As President and CEO of Advancing Synergy, LLC, Dr. Arti Patel Varanasi is passionate about developing innovations that empower all individuals to lead healthier and longer lives. She has over 25 years combined experience in cancer research, advocacy, capacity building, health care, public health and project management. Dr. Varanasi’s ultimate goal is to work across sectors to “advance synergy” and develop tools and technologies that help to build sustainable health capacity in resource limited settings. Dr. Varanasi received her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and MPH from the Johns Hopkins University. She is a graduate of the National Science Foundation funded ACTiVATE® program for women technology entrepreneurs. Dr. Varanasi has a long-standing track record of advocacy, mentoring and empowerment.


Robin McDougal
CEO, e-Glam

Robin McDougal is the 2017-2019 Chair of Women Business Owner SIG and CEO of a technology accessories company, e-GLAM, Inc. After starting a business with pocket change and a dream, she has learned first-hand that there is a difference between running a small business and steering a thriving enterprise. She has specialized in data analysis, market intelligence, and impact strategy to bring products to market. She attended George Mason University in the Executive MBA program in Global Business. When she is not growing her business, she indulges her passion for philanthropy. As STEM Advocate and founder of the Pearl Project Institute for Innovation in STEM Literacy she is committed to increasing STEM Literacy in the neediest communities.