WIA: Meet-Ups Archive


 


Virtual Meet-up Topics and Links

AHTD's WIA meets online regularly to Empower, Inspire, Educate, and Advocate.  For reference, below are the topics and resource links from past Virtual Meet-ups.

 

2025 Virtual meet-ups  |  EMPOWERING our Women in Automation Series


January 16, 2025

PART 1 - New Year, New YOU!  Goal Setting & Creating Your Personal Brand  


2024 Virtual meet-ups


November

Resilience

  1. Check out this powerful video in which Lucy Hone discusses her insights as a psychologist and survivor in the 3 secrets of resilient people.
  2. We have also found this quick article giving some perspective on why our children are increasingly less able to handle the routine hardships of life: https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/inviting-monkey-tea/202209/whats-happened-emotional-resilience
  3. And here is one other article that talks about how resiliency skills affect our office dynamics: https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/news/inclusion-diversity/the-least-resilient-demographic-alive


June
Best Advice Given or Received


The following are commencement speeches shared for inspiration. 
  • Kristen Bell - USC School of Dramatic Arts Undergraduate Commencement Address 2019
  • Tom Hanks - Harvard Commencement Address 2023
  • Taylor Swift - NYU's Commencement Address 2022
 

February
Encouraging Women in STEM

 


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