FWA Connect and Collaborate - "A Practical Primer for Improving Your Professional and Personal Life"

Financial Women's Association presents

Making the Connection:
A Practical Primer for Improving Your Professional and Personal Life

Katherine Quinn will share her unique perspective on ways to bring greater fulfillment and purpose to our personal and professional lives as we juggle our multifaceted responsibilities. Guests and FWA members will learn stress-reducing techniques to establish more harmonious relationships with ourselves, family and colleagues. Blending her philosophy of being mindful and connected, "A Practical Primer for Improving Your Professional Life" will delight us with a simple but profound roadmap towards greater personal and professional wellbeing.

Program topics will include:

• Taking the First Step-Showing Up Where You Need To Be
• Connections are Everywhere-Just Look Around You and Take Stock
• I Have Made the Connections—Now What Do I Do With Them?
• Packing Your Tool Box-Essentials to Take With You Every Day
• Caring Counts-Getting Back to Basics to Boost Your Bottom Line
• You Can Have a Career and Life Too—Simple Steps to Making it Work
• Volunteering—Paths to New Beginnings

Goals for Program Participants

• To take a deep breath and assess what is truly important in her life
• To learn practical steps in making connections
• To learn useful tools that will benefit both professional and personal life
• To learn how to match her values and priorities with career choices
• To learn how to open new doors through volunteering, helping others
• To learn how to keep a sense of humor even when it is hard to find

Connect: Our setting will be casual with appetizers, soft drinks and coffee.
Collaborate: Our discussion format will also be casual with Kathy speaking on the topic with ample opportunity to have Q&A.

Speaker Profile

Katherine Quinn is the Executive Director of Support Connection, Inc., a not for profit organization established in 1996 that offers free, confidential breast and ovarian cancer support services that include counseling, wellness and educational programs. Ms. Quinn's initial career was in International Banking with Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. where she held positions as a financial analyst, budget analyst and Senior Planning Officer. In her last position before changing her career focus to the not for profit sector, she was responsible for managing the salary and benefits budget for offices worldwide.

Katherine Quinn holds an MBA from the Hagan School of Business of Iona College, a Bachelors of Science degree in Accounting from Herbert H. Lehman College of CUNY and a professional certificate in Not for Profit Management and Fundraising Prior to establishing Support Connection, Ms. Quinn was the Business Director at a crisis center, the Northern Westchester/Putnam Women's Resource Center that offered support and legal services to women and children affected by domestic violence and sexual assault.