Schedule of Events

The 2008 Schedule is not available. Please review last year's schedule.

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Registration - Colorado Convention Center, Pre-Function Area of the Four Seasons Ballroom

9:00 - 11:00 AM

Table & Booth Exhibitors Set up – Rooms 201-203-205-207

12:00 - 2:00PM

NHLI Annual Class Representatives Meeting (Alumnae Class Reps. Only) (Room 106)

2:00 - 4:30PM

Career Recruitment Fair and Health & Wellness Fair – Rooms 201-203-205-207

2:00 - 2:15PM

Health & Wellness Kick-off & Pa’Bailar - Rooms 201-203-205-207

Moderators: Natasha Bannan, Catherine Pino
Denise Tryner & Yoli Casas — Fitness Experts and Personal Trainers

Express yourself culturally through healthy warm-up movements without missing a beat!  Learn a few warm-up excercises with Latin rhythms that will make you want to exercise more often!

2:15 - 2:30PM

Latina Health Priorities - Rooms 201-203-205-207

Presenter: Elena Alvarado, President and CEO, National Latina Health Network

Live the carefree life you want to live! Knowledge is power.  Learn the top Latina health issues and some simple ideas on how to prevent them.  Get excited about women’s health! 

2:30 - 3:30PM

Opening Keynote Address - Rooms 108-110-112

The Secrets of a Confident Woman
Maria Marin, President, Voice of Empowerment

By understanding the importance of self-confidence, taking control of your life, over-coming your fears, taking risks, and dropping the excuses you use, you will learn how to make an honest commitment to yourself and create a successful plan of action that will work for you. It takes commitment, confidence and hard work to fulfill your dreams. The success of life begins where your dream turns into purpose and your commitment makes it a reality. It all starts with one commitment; this is the key to your success!

3:30 - 4:30PM

Concurrent Sessions

Room 111-113

“Empowerment: Believe It, Create It”

Presenters:
Aliana Apodaca, President, Positive Directions
Sonja Mazón Rubalcava, Director, Strategic Planning for Arvizu Advertising

Come and learn the skills and techniques of true empowerment.  Obtain the tools to help you create your life as you want it and the world you want to live in! Executive and life coaches will share with you how to dream boldly and that you have everything within you to fulfill your highest visions!

Room 102-104

“Putting Yourself First:  Empowering Yourself to Be Healthy & Strong”

Presenter: Nanci Luna Jiménez, President of Luna Jiménez Seminars

Any difficulty you have had sticking with an exercise or diet program is not because you lack discipline or willpower.  Being empowered around our own health is a challenge most every woman faces. Many of us lack reliable information about nutrition and exercise. Even more of us lack sufficient support to try out this information with our own bodies.  Still more of us have been trained to think about others first, to sacrifice our own wants or goals to serve our families or organizations.  And even more of us have never talked about: What do our addictions to food help us numb out? What are ways we were hurt as young Latinas around being physically active? How has becoming “larger” helped minimize sexual harassment or unwanted attention? In this session you can decide to put yourself first — prioritizing your well being, identifying your emotional barriers to a doable wellness program and learning tools to empower your way  back to health!

Room 210-210

“Healing the Healer”

Presenter: Rosa Tupina Yaotonaluauhti-Orta, President, Acalli Mystical Journey

Transport yourself on a mystical path to find healing at the end of your journey. This session will provide participants an overview of “the healer” from the tribal-indigenous perspective and an awareness of how all of us might fit into the “healer” category in our communities. We will present practical strategies to make cultural decisions about our own health, placing importance on how culture influences medical decisions for the healer as patient, for the family and for the chosen provider.

Room 103-105

“So You Want to Write a Book? How to Get Started in Writing Your First Book”

Presenter: Raquel Ortiz, Creative Director & Project Manager, Raquel Ortiz Productions

Need help on writing your first book? Do you often wonder where do I begin? How do I begin, with the story, the characters or the format? How will I find the time and how often do I write? Where do I write? And, what is the right voice and genre (memoir, fiction, poetry, non-fiction or “how to”, etc.). Get those and any other of your questions answered through writing exercises and obtaining a better understanding of writing elements and principles.

Room 107-109

“How to Get Latinas on National Boards”

Panelists:
Dr. Sandra Madrid, Assistant Dean, University of Washington School of Law
Peggy Montaño, Attorney at Law
Gloria Rodriguez, President, MAPA Communications
Moderator: Dr. Joyce Martinez, President, Education Solutions International

Come join this interactive panel discussion allowing you to understand what it takes to become part of a national board as Latinas are grossly underrepresented on corporate boards. They hold 0.3% of all board seats and represent .08% of all executive officer positions in Fortune 1,000 companies. The panelists will share their expertise and journeys with you to help you develop your own path to becoming a powerful national board member.

5:45PM

Bus pick-up at the Hyatt Regency Lobby to transport attendees to the Denver Art Museum

6:00 - 8:00PM

Welcome Reception – Honoring NHLI Founders and Alumnae
Denver Art Museum, 100 West 14th Avenue Parkway, Denver, CO 80204, 720-865-5171
(Open to all conference participants)

8:00PM

Bus transportation back to the Hyatt Regency  for documentary viewing

8:30 - 9:30PM

Special Documentary Screening “The Sugar Babies: The Plight of the Children of Agricultural Workers in the Sugar Industry of the Dominican Republic”
with Director/Producer, Amy Serrano (Hyatt Regency Hotel Capital Ballroom)

9:30 - 10:00PM

Q & A: Amy Serrano, Director/Producer for SIREN Studios

7:00 -7:45 AM

Latina Health & Wellness Activities and Exercise
Wake-up Yoga (Room 208) or Power Run/Walk (Meet at the Colorado Convention Center Lobby)

Trainers: Denise Tryner and Natasha Bannan

Need a burst of energy in the morning? Do you want to get a good, positive start before you kickoff your day?  Then join us for one of the two morning exercise activities.  Roll out your mats or lace up your gym shoes and join other “Leonas” to roar into wellness.

7:30AM - 4:00PM

Registration  – Pre-Function Area of the Four Seasons Ballroom

7:30 - 8:30AM

Continental Breakfast – Pre-Function Area of the Four Seasons Ballroom

8:30 - 9:30AM

Morning Keynote Address – Four Seasons Ballroom

Servant Leadership and Leaving a Legacy
Ltc. Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch, President of Educational Achievement Services, Inc.

9:30 AM

Welcoming Remarks from the
Honorable Mayor John W. Hickenlooper, Denver, Colorado

9:30AM - 4:00PM

Career and Health Fairs Open – Rooms 201, 203, 205, 207 

9:30 - 10:45 AM

The Disney Approach to Loyalty – Four Seasons Ballroom

Presenter: Nicole Lauria, Program Facilitator, Disney Institute

Learn from Disney how to create relationships with people and foster loyalty to your brand.  Disney facilitator will inspire you to create relationship magic with your customers. Through fascinating insights and insider information our facilitator will provide your group with an engaging overview of the Disney Approach to Loyality.  While listening to this entertaining presentation you will discover:

•   The Walt Disney World model for generating loyal customers and employees

•   How to create lifelong customer relationships

•   How to apply Disney's principles of loyalty in your organization

10:45AM - 12:00PM

The Pillars of Successful Executive Leadership – Center for Creative Leadership
Four Seasons Ballroom

Presenter: David Gonzalez, Senior Associate, Center for Creative Leadership

What if you had hundreds of senior leaders at your disposal all willing to answer your questions about how to achieve executive success? What would you ask them about being a top leader? What would they say about important topics such as performance, integrity, and relationships? We will talk about the pillars of successful executive leadership. These pillars are based on over ten years of CCL research studying and listening to senior executive leaders that have participated in CCL’s Leadership at the Peak program. The pillars are: performance, getting results, executing and communicating vision, leadership style, culture, integrity, relationships and goals and balance.

12:00 - 1:00PM

Latina Authors Book Signing - Room 207
Mayte Prida – A Difficult Journey, My Battle with Cancer
Dr. Ana Nogales – Latina Power! Using 7 Strengths You Already Have to Create the Success You Deserve
Juana Bordas – Salsa, Soul, and Spirit, Leadership for a Multicultural Age
Raquel Ortiz – The Silk Purse - A memoir
Ltc. Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch – Journey to the Future
Carol Evans – This is How We do It: A Practical Guide for the Working Mother
Leslie Sanchez – Los Republicanos: Why Hispanics and Republicans Need Each Other
Dr. Joyce Lujan Martinez  – Eight Steps to a Financially Successful School

1:00 - 2:30PM

Luncheon - Four Seasons Ballroom

Keynote Speaker: Carol Evans, President & CEO, Working Mother Media

Latina Producers Panel Discussion

Panelists:
Amy Serrano, Director/Producer, Siren Studios
Cecilia Domeyko, President & Director/Producer, Accent Media, Inc. 
Mayte Prida, Author/Executive Producer and Spokesperson for PhRMA’s PPA Program

2:30 - 4:00PM

Developing Your Leadership Skills - Four Seasons Ballroom

Presenter: Todd L. Pittinsky, Associate Professor of Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership

The John F. Kennedy School of Government’s mission is animated by the belief that “public leadership” — the acts, large and small, involved in addressing the challenges facing a group, organization, community, or society — is essential to the common good. The Center for Public Leadership seeks to remedy this situation through the enrichment of leadership research and teaching, and also by providing cutting-edge leadership-development workshops by developing all seven public leadership competencies. The seven essential competencies include: catalytic, contextual, interpersonal, leadership theory, organizational, personal and social systems.

2:30 - 3:30PM

Concurrent Sessions

Room 107-109

Latinas in Corporate America

Panelists:
Magda Yrizarry, Vice President for Workplace Culture & Compliance at Verizon Corporation
Stephanie Valdez Streaty, Senior Manager, Philanthropy and Diversity Communications,
Nissan Corporation
Carmen Bauza, Vice President, Wal-Mart Corporation

Corporate America needs you!  The Latino purchasing power has surged to nearly $800 billion and is projected to reach $1 trillion by 2010. We have the dollar power, since women control approximately 80% of the household spending. The panelists discuss why they have a dominant advantage over all the rest when it comes to understanding today’s diverse market. Learn the challenges and opportunities for Latinas in Corporate America.

Room 210-212

Feng Shui for the Latina Home

Presenter: Jenny Parra, Feng Shui Consultant

Discover the richness of the ancient principles of Feng Shui applied to our modern life. We will study the Bagua (directional map) and its connection to the organs of our body, body parts and related illnesses. Expand your understanding of how our dwellings and workplaces intimately reflect and influence our inner realities. When our home and office environments nourish us, we feel most empowered to reach our goals.

Room 110-112

“Pushing” the Limits of Sexism:  Reclaiming Your Powerful Female Body

Presenter: Nanci Luna Jiménez, President, Luna Jiménez Seminars

Every woman has fought against limits on her life. Our full potential can be reclaimed by lifting the limits on our bodies. Messages we get when we are little: “girls don’t do that,” “that’s for boys,” “don’t hurt yourself,” “don’t get dirty,” etc. continue to impede our lives. In some parts of our lives, we may feel helpless, waiting for someone to protect or take care of us. In other areas we can act “hyper-competent” and functioning in isolation—unable to tell there is support out there. Either way, we internalize these limits — what we can or should do, how big we can think, how strong we are or can be!  In this session, we will explore some of the early messages we heard, challenge these limits by doing a physical activity — like push-ups — and reclaim joy in our powerful female bodies!  (Women only session, please.)

Room 111-113

Interviewing for Higher Level Positions: Did You Do Your Homework?

Presenters:
Barbara J. DesMarteau, Director, Adams County Community & Economic Opportunties Department, Colorado
Olivia V. Meza, Board Member, Arizona Board of Executive Clemency

Seeking the secret to scoring that top-level position? That dream job is finally open, are you ready to claim it?  Wonder if you have what it takes to fill that position?  Question your interview skills? Join us for the simplicity, complexity and power of “the plan.” Learn the elements of a plan; the checklist for professionalism and an opportunity to declare — claim — your interest and competitiveness. Listen to two NHLI graduates share their direct experience as senior executives managing multimillion dollar budgets, directing federal and county government programs, supervising large workforces and accountable to federal judges and elected county commissioners.

Room 103-105

Transformational Healing of Mind/Body/Spirit in Corporate America 

Presenter: Renee Peña, Founder, Hypno-Energy

A practitioner located in Southern California known for her healing transformational processes in restoring the senses of well-being, self empowerment, and life purpose.  Applying principles from the movie “THE SECRET” and understanding the ability of our healing power from within!  She discusses her latest global documentary project set to launch in 2008.   

Room 102-104

A Path to the Truth: How to Structure Your Story

You want to write a book, but don’t know where to start. Or you have started your book, and don’t know how to finish. This workshop will help you understand and discover your creative writing process and will give you specific tips for how to go from idea to page.  Hint: It’s not all about inspiration!

3:30 - 3:45PM

Break

3:45 - 4:45PM  

Concurrent Sessions

Room 102-104

Unity Equals Power: Building Partnerships with Women of Color

Presenter: Juana Bordas, Author of Salsa, Soul, and Spirit: Leadership for a Multicultural Age

In two short years 35% of Americans will come from communities of color and women are already the majority!  To leverage the power of these changing demographics, women of color must take the lead in forging unity and partnerships among their communities.  This session will look at leadership principles that can bring communities of color together and the unique role Latinas are called to play in forging our multicultural nation.

Room 107-109

Latinas in Government

Panelists:
Honorable Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez, Secretary of State of New York
Honorable Delia Garcia, State Representative, Kansas
Celia Nuñez, City Council Member, City of Wilsonville, Oregon
Maria Teresa Petersen, Executive Director, Voto Latino

The 2006 election brought a record number of women to the U.S. House of Representatives for the 110th Congress. Seven of the women serving in the 110th Congress are Latinas. Latinas are entering politics in records numbers as elected and appointed officials. Come learn how to run and maintain a successful political career from those that have already done it. Learn what you can do to increase the numbers of Latinas in politics and continue making significant strides to empower all Latinos!

Room 103-105

From Inspiration to Publication:
What Latinas Need to Know About Getting a Book Published

Presenter: Marcela Landres, Editorial Consultant

Finding the right publisher is difficult for any writer, but Latinas face unique challenges — and opportunities. Topics discussed include: the significance of Latinas to mainstream publishers; writing in Spanish vs. English; dealing with the label of “Latina Writer”; how to find a good agent and editor in a non-Latino industry; overcoming cultural and social barriers, especially for Latinas; and the most important thing you can do to ensure the future success of Latino publishing.

Room 111-113

Creating a Successful Career in the Arts

Latina Artists: Sina Sutter, Laura Lopez Cano, Esperanza Gama and Virginia Robles-Villalba

Latino art, music and culture are an essential and vibrant piece of our country’s identity.  Women working in the arts contribute to the overall two-thirds of the world’s work that is being done by women. Learn how these fabulous artists use their artistic talents and make it into a business.  The panelists have learned how to cultivate their talent and contribute to enriching this country’s society successfully.  Find out how you can use your  artistic talents and make a living out of what you love doing.

Room 106

Healing the Healer

Presenter: Rosa Tupina Yaotonaluauhti-Orta, President, Acalli Mystical Journey

Transport yourself on a mystical path to find healing at the end of your journey. This session will provide participants an overview of “the healer” from the tribal-indigenous perspective and an awareness of how all of us might fit into the “healer” category in our communities. We will present practical strategies to make cultural decisions about our own health, placing importance on how culture influences medical decisions for the healer as patient, for the family and for the chosen provider.

Room 110-112

Latinas and Cancer

Panelists:
Mayte Prida, Author, A Difficult Journey, My Battle with Cancer
Lillian Roybal Rose, President, Lillian Roybal Rose Seminars
Ysabel Durón, Journalist & Anchor for KRON 4 News and President, Latinas Contra Cancer

Learn how these fabulous Latinas have survived cancer and use it as an opportunity to help others.  Hear how they view life after cancer and what recommendations they have for you and your loved ones.  Latinas have the highest incident rate for cervical cancer, in all age groups among all women and the second highest death rate from the disease. Out of 100,000 women who succumb of breast cancer, 16.1% women are Latinas. Hear how this incredible group of women beat the odds and what they are doing now to bring awareness to this serious disease affecting Latina women today.

Room 210-212

Mental Health: Dealing with Depression and Trauma

Panelists:
Dr. Mary DeFerreire, President of International Multicultural Psychological Services, Inc.
Dr. Ana Nogales, Clinical Psychologist & Founder of Nogales Psychological Counseling, Inc.
Dr. Luisa Medrano, Clinical Psychologist & President, Medrano Associates

Latinas have a significantly higher rate of suicide attempts than their White, African-American and Asian peers. Latina women suffer from depression more than any other group of women; however, Latinas are less likely than Whites to receive needed mental health services. Some reasons for this may include language and cultural barriers, lack of health insurance or lack of money to pay for services. The panelists will share their expert insight on addressing these issues and prepare you to address your own mental health issues. They will also address how to deal with trauma caused by domestic violence, war and many others.

Mujer Awards Gala Events

Colorado Convention Center

6:00 - 7:00PM

Reception, Silent Auction and Art Exhibit - Four Seasons Ballroom Foyer 

7:00 - 8:00PM

Dinner & Entertainment  - Four Seasons Ballroom

Ysabel Durón, Mistress of Ceremonies

Lizary Rodríguez Ríos, Harpist

Entertainment by Mariachi Sol de Mi Tierra

Presentation of Founding Partners Awards

Center for Creative Leadership
Harvard University
Coors Brewing Company

8:00 - 9:00PM

Mujer Awards Presentation

Rosario Dawson
Actor/Activist
2007 NHLI Chair Honoree

Dr. Mary DeFerreire
President, International and Multicultural Psychological Services
2007 Regional NHLI Mujer Awardee

Dr. Gloria Bonilla-Santiago
Professor, Rutgers University
2007 National Mujer Awardee

9:00PM -12:00AM

Dance

Entertainment by Conjunto Colores

Saturday, November 10, 2007

7:00 -7:45AM

Morning Power Walk/Run (Meet at the lobby of the Hyatt Hotel)

Trainer: Denise Tryner

Come and end the conference with a healthy walk or run after two days of enriching your mind and empowering your spirit to take over the world!

8:00AM

Meet at Hyatt Regency lobby for bus transportation to Coors Brewing Company, Golden, CO (NHLI Alumnae and Board Members only)

8:45 - 11:15AM

Alumnae & Board of Directors Breakfast at the Coors Brewing Company
(NHLI Alumnae and Board Members only)

11:30am

Bus transportation back to the Hyatt Regency Hotel