Top Women CEOs are Keynoters for Women's Leadership Institute Conference at Manhattanville School of Business on June 3

Purchase, NY, May 4, 2015 -- The new Women’s Leadership Institute at Manhattanville School of Business (MSB) will feature several of the nation’s top women business leaders at a lively and inspiring one-day conference on Wednesday, June 3, 2015. Keynote speakers for the inaugural “Rising to the Challenge” leadership summit will be Dr. Patricia Galloway, president and CEO of Pegasus Global Holdings, Inc.; Vicki Escarra, Global Chief Executive Officer, Opportunity International; and Evelyne R. Matthews, CEO of Matthews and Matthews Consulting.

“The breadth and depth of topics and opportunities at this leadership conference is unprecedented for women in the Hudson Valley and Connecticut,” said Kathryn Meany, the director of the new institute, which is part of MSB. “It is geared to women executives, women entrepreneurs and emerging women leaders, and will include highly interactive concurrent workshops, informative panel discussions, C-suite networking, and action planning.

Workshop agendas will include: Leadership From the Inside Out; Essentials of Business & Financial Acumen; Take the Lead as CEO of Your Career; and Get LinkedIn Savvy.

Registration and additional information about the conference, which will be held at Reid Castle on the Manhattanville College campus in Purchase, NY, can be obtained at: http://community.mville.edu/msb

About The Manhattanville School of Business:

The Manhattanville School of Business (MSB) helps prepare today’s professionals for tomorrow’s business. Students capitalize on the school’s industry-driven content, convenient formats, and extensive faculty and alumni network. Graduates and faculty are employed at top companies including Morgan Stanley, MasterCard, PepsiCo, the NFL, Verizon, and the New York Stock Exchange.

Located in the heart of Westchester County in Purchase, NY – and surrounded by Fortune 100 and 500 companies – MSB offers six Master’s degrees, including Business Leadership, Finance, Human Resource Management and Organizational Effectiveness, International Management, Marketing Communication Management and Sport Business Management.

MSB also offers five accelerated Bachelor’s degree programs for adult learners and degree completers; BS/MS dual degree options; a pre-professional post-baccalaureate degree program; the Education and Research Center for Managing Risk; the area’s only Payment Systems programs; a unique Nonprofit Management Certificate program that is delivered in five-module hybrid format; and the Women’s Leadership Institute, designed to meet the leadership and professional development needs of women in the workplace. No other academic women’s leadership institute of its kind exists in the Hudson Valley, Connecticut or New York City. Additionally, MSB’s Corporate Learning Services offers an array of industry-driven resources to assist organizations develop their employees and achieve their goals.

For more information about program offerings, visit www.mville.edu/business or call 914-323-5150.

Pegasus is a 100% woman-owned, international management consulting firm to the energy and infrastructure industry. Dr. Galloway, among other accomplishments was the first WOMAN president of the American Society of Civil Engineers and served on the US National Science Board, appointed by President George W. Bush.

Opportunity International is the premier global financial service organization for the poor, which has a network of 17,500 employees and 30,000 donors who are helping 12 million clients in 22 countries.

Matthews and Matthews, dba diverstiyofficers.com, is a human resources and labor workforce company. In addition to a prolific consulting business, Ms. Matthews currently lectures at Cornell University and New York University.

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