Executive Voices: Women Building Today

Description

Ask for More: Strategic Negotiation for Women Leaders: Negotiation is not just about money - it's about influence, opportunity, and leadership. And for women in business, negotiation is the oxygen that powers their companies and magnifies the impact they have on the world. Only 7% of people know the secret to negotiating at an expert level - but mastering it is simpler than many people think! 

In this innovative, interactive talk, participants of all seniority levels will learn how to improve their negotiation abilities, including not just ways to make deals, but how to nail the messages that land those great deals. Straight from the pages of Alex's Wall Street Journal bestselling book, Ask For More: 10 Questions to Negotiate Anything, participants learn how to ask powerful diagnostic questions, adjust their word choices to increase the odds of a "yes" and then "land the plane" for the greatest effect. The results? Quantum-leap results in their personal and professional lives. 

Here is what you can expect from our time together: 

Confident Negotiation as a Leadership Skill 

1. Why negotiation is so much more than haggling over money. 
2. How to overcome the barriers women face (reluctance to self-advocate, "it's fine" mindset, hesitation to claim expertise). 
3. The #1 tool in your negotiation toolbox that creates more value and better relationships. 
4. Why leaning into the best of who you are, even if it makes you "different," is your winning strategy.

Tactical Tools Attendees Can Use Immediately 

1. Practical negotiation strategies for: 
   1. Salary and/or compensation 
   2. Client contracts (entrepreneurs) 
   3. Promotions and scope expansion (corporate leaders) 
2. Language shifts that increase authority without sacrificing authenticity. 
3. How to prepare before "walking into the room."
4. A simple framework attendees can use the very next day. 

The Power of the Collective (Amplification & Networks) 

1. Why individual success accelerates inside strong networks. 
2. How amplifying other women strengthens your own reputation. 
3. The ROI of networking done intentionally. 
4. Group negotiation and the power of aligned women!

Join us as a sponsor or an attendee at the Executive Voices: Women Building Today featuring Alex Carter, internationally renowned keynote speaker, TED Talk presenter, Columbia Law School professor, bestselling author, and trusted advisor to leaders across Fortune 500 companies, the United Nations, and beyond.

Learn how to negotiate with confidence. 

Discover leadership strategies that drive results. 

Leave inspired to make bold moves for your business and career.

Thank you to our Presenting Sponsor: 

This isn't just another event, it's an opportunity to put your company's name alongside a marquee caliber speaker whose message is transforming workplaces across the country.

✨ Why your business should be part of this event✨

• Align your brand with a nationally recognized speaker
• Gain visibility with influential business and community leaders
• Reach audiences beyond the Aurora region through Alex Carter's extensive national following
• Network with top executives, entrepreneurs, and decision-makers
• Showcase your organization's commitment to leadership, innovation, and professional growth

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES:

Registration Experience Sponsor - $1,000

• Logo on lanyards
• Registration sign recognition,
• Full page ad in digital program
• Logo in digital program 
• Verbal recognition during breakfast

Executive Breakfast Sponsor - $750

• Breakfast signage recognition
• Half page ad in digital program
• Logo in digital program and attendee bookmark
• Verbal recognition during breakfast

Leadership Sponsor - $500

• Logo on event signage 
• Quarter page ad in digital program
• Logo in digital program and attendee bookmark

Community Impact Sponsor - $250

• Logo on banner 
• Recognition in digital program

Ticket Pricing

$95 - Member Ticket      

$110 - Member Ticket + Book     

$900 - Member Table of 8 + Books    

$145 - Non-Member        

$160 - Non-Member Ticket + Book  

$1,400 - Non-Member Table of 8 + Books    

BIOGRAPHY

Alexandra Carter is the Everett B. Birch Innovative Teaching Clinical Professor of Law and the Director of the Mediation Clinic at Columbia Law School. In 2019, Professor Carter was awarded the Columbia University Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, Columbia's highest teaching honor. Her first book, Ask For More: Ten Questions to Negotiate Anything, was published by Simon & Schuster in May 2020 and became an instant Wall Street Journal Business bestseller, the first negotiation book solo-authored by a woman to make that list. She is also the CEO of Ask For More Group, which offers best-in-class negotiation, self-advocacy, executive presence, and public speaking training from some of the world's leading experts.

Professor Carter's teaching and research interests lie in the field of alternative dispute resolution, primarily in mediation and negotiation. She is a leading trainer on negotiation and mediation for many from the private and public sectors, including the United Nations, where she has conducted dozens of workshops for more than 80 nations, U.S. courts and federal agencies; private corporations, such as Google, Comcast NBCUniversal, New York Life, Bloomberg and Viacom; and law firms, including Cravath, Swaine & Moore, A&O Shearman, Sheppard Mullin and Morrison & Foerster. She has also worked with medical schools and university systems, including Oregon Health & Science University, University of Vermont and Brown University. 

She has served on the New York State Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Committee commissioned by Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee for the New York City Bar Association, and the Mediator Ethics Advisory Committee for the New York State Unified Court System. She is an admitted mediator for the Southern District of New York. 

Professor Carter received her Juris Doctor degree in 2003 from Columbia Law School, where she earned James Kent and Harlan Fiske Stone academic honors. She also won the Jane Marks Murphy Prize for clinical advocacy and the Lawrence S. Greenbaum Prize for the best oral argument in the 2002 Harlan Fiske Stone Moot Court Competition. After earning her degree, Professor Carter clerked for the Hon. Mark L. Wolf, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts in Boston. 

Professor Carter is a frequent media commentator on negotiation and pay equity for women, with appearances on Good Morning America, MSNBC's Morning Joe and MSNBC Live, Hardball with Chris Matthews, the CBS Erly Show, and NPR Marketplace.  She is a contributor for NBC News' Know our Value, a news site devoted to helping women grow in their careers and reach their full potential.

Professor Carter's TEDx talk, entitled "How to ask for more - and get it," was released in July 2024, designated as an Editor's Pick and then promoted to TED.com, where it has been seen by more than a million people worldwide.