From the President
 Regardless of your goals in work or in life, mentoring can play a key role in helping you identify where you want to go, and how to get there. To help you on this journey, WICT RM is pleased to provide members with a formalized Mentoring Program which has proven very valuable to many of our members over the past few years.
This month, we will be kicking off our first mentoring session for the year with Introspect International’s President Susan Baker and Comcast’s Vice President of Customer Care Susan Rardin leading the way. All of the mentors participating this time around bring amazing experience, both personal and professional, to the program. We are so appreciative of them, and their companies, for volunteering their time and energy to help mentor our members. This season’s mentors include:
- Bill Solis, Vice President of Service Delivery, Comcast
- Dayna Piper, Director of Human Resources Development, Time Warner Cable
- Jill Christiansen, Vice President of Customer Care, DST Innovis
- Suzanne Sell, Director of Program Research, Starz Encore Group
- Wendy Farley, Senior Director of Government Affairs, Comcast
- Lynn Schmidt, Corporate Vice President, Training and Development, Charter Communications
Why do we offer this formalized mentoring program? WICT’s mission is to create women leaders, and this program is one of our key cornerstones to meet this goal. The mentoring program provides a structured way of:
- allowing junior executives to increase their network by being paired with someone from another company in the industry
- learning more about your personal work style
- having someone outside of your direct management chain discuss both career and individual issues that currently impact your decision-making and action-taking
- having someone outside of the direct management chain be a future supporter of your career and personal goals
Does the mentoring program make a difference? Is it helping develop women leaders? Here’s what a few former mentees and mentors have to say
“I have been able to utilize what I’ve learned in the Mentoring Program to help me improve my skills for developing my employees, which has helped me to build a more effective relationship with my team.” Liz Telk, manager of Creative Services and Branding for Charter
“The Mentoring Program has helped me to develop better as a manager, and let go of things I cannot control.” Kelly Percin, senior project manager for Comcast National IP Engineering/Operations
“Being a mentor has reminded me that I have knowledge to share with my mentee in the program, and spurred me to share my know-how with others within my own company.”Lane Hammond, senior vice president and general counsel, International Channel Networks.
The spring mentoring program is full, but due to strong demand, we will be offering multiple mentoring programs this year, with the next kicking off on June 8. If you are interested in finding out more about the program, or signing up to be a future mentor or mentee, please send an email to mentoring@wictrm.org or call Shannon Saviers, WICT RM Director of Mentoring, at 303-814-1117.
WICT Rocky Mountain -- Event Calendar for 2005
February 23rd, 7:30 – 9:30 AM
Courage as a Leader with Sandra Ford Walston
Franciscan (DTC)
March 23rd, 8:00 – 10:00 AM
Competition at Its Finest
Adelphia (DTC)
April 13th, 7:30 – 9:30 AM
Personal Leadership
Location TBD
April 28th, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
The Power of Play for Big Kids and Little Kids (Take Your Children to Work Day)
ESPN Zone tentative (Downtown)
May 11 – 13
WICT Forum (National)
New York
May 18th, evening
WICT RM Walk of Fame Gala
Hyatt Regency Tech Center (DTC)
June 1, time TBD
Customer Care Symposium
Location TBD
June 29, 7:30 – 9:00 AM
Learned Optimism with Marcia Kent
Location TBD
Upcoming Event
On the morning of February 23, WICT RM will host a seminar that reveals how women can reclaim courage, develop it as are source at work and at home, learn to draw on it, and even teach others to find courage in themselves. This two-hour seminar will help women understand that courage isn’t only relevant during particularly perilous times, but can make the difference when exploring new ideas, transitioning to a new career, transcending rejection, or taking initiative to face the hard facts as courageous moments.
WICT Walk of Fame Gala
This year’s Walk of Fame Gala will be held on the evening of May 18th at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in the Denver Tech Center. The call for nominations is now open, and the categories include: Woman of the Year, Woman to Watch, Woman in Technology, Mentor of the Year.
WICT RM Achieves the Pinnacle of Success
Mentoring Chair Shannon Saviers, WICT RM President Lisa Lee and Member Tera Stave join WICT President and CEO Benita Fitzgerald Mosely (l) and WICT Board Chair Susan Scott (r) to receive the Pinnacle Award for the Chapter’s work in 2004. The trio received the award at the Chapter Leadership Conference in West Hollywood, California, where all 22 WICT chapters get together to share best practices and learn about national initiatives such as PAR, mentoring, and education opportunities.
Mentoring
So, you’ve heard about WICT RM’s Mentoring Program, but what is it all about really, and how do you get involved in the next program, which starts this June?
Member Profile
The membership of WICT RM is brimming over with amazing women, and men, who have a lot to offer others. Each month, we get to know one of our chapter's members through a Q&A. This month, we chat with Mentoring Program Director and mom of twins Shannon Saviers, who believes that, because women still have so few role models at the executive level in our industry, mentoring is not an extracurricular activity, but a requirement of any woman at any level.
WICT RM Congratulates
After a challenging pregnancy, former WICT RM Website Chair Heidi Huber has safely delivered her twins, Elise and Nicholas. Mom and babies are doing well. WICT RM Treasurer Marian Hambrick also had her baby, Mark. Mark was born on 1/18 and weighed 7lbs, 4.8 oz.
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