Nov
6
Wed
Women Faculty Networking Lunch: Acting With Power @ Li Ka Shing Center - LK101
Nov 6 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
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Lunch will be provided.

This event is sponsored by the School of Medicine Office of Faculty Development and Diversity.

ACTING WITH POWER

Exploring your personal relationship to power, status and authority allows you to navigate nuanced organizational and communication dynamics with increased agility. This agility helps you accomplish your strategic, operational and professional objectives. Cultivating your Presence & Power requires alignment of self-perceptions and perceptions that others have of you. Expanding your authentic delivery range can change how we are perceived. Combining performance techniques and data from the fields of social psychology and gender research, this highly interactive session provides insight into how behavioral range – physical, vocal, intellectual, mindset, strategic – affects your impact. Objectives for the workshop may include:

  • Obtain deeper understandings of power, status and authority
  • Learn to observe and understand the behaviors that underlie power and
  • status dynamics
  • Learn how to use power constructively
  • Learn to use your voice and body most effectively
  • Learn to identify and use under-utilized parts of yourself
  • Develop a broader repertoire of useful verbal & non-verbal behaviors

Kay Kostopoulos directs and teaches acting, acting pedagogy, musical theater, voice, speech, and Shakespeare in the Department of Theater and Performance Studies (TAPS) and Continuing Studies Program at Stanford University. She teaches “Acting with Power” at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, and has coached for the Knight Fellows Journalism Program, the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, and the Department of English. Kay has created and directed many training programs for Stanford’s School of Medicine.

She has also taught private seminars for Apple, Twitter, Airbnb, Genentech, Cisco, Sony Pictures, Hitachi, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Lippincott, Ernst and Young, First Republic, Stanford’s Executive Program for Women and Women in Entrepreneurship Program, eBay’s Global Women’s Conference and Women In Cable Telecommunications.  Her work has been featured in “O” magazine. http://www.oprah.com/spirit/Body-Language-Signs-Body-Language-of-Women/2and she has been featured on NPR’s Philosophy Talk radio program http://philosophytalk.org/shows/faces-feelings-and-liesfor her work on understanding facial emotions in the treatment of Autism.

Melissa Jones Briggs is a Lecturer at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Trained as a theatre artist in London and New York, Jones Briggs specializes in performance as a tool for social change. She is a founding member of the teaching team for the renowned Acting with Power course at the GSB, she lectures in several Stanford Executive Programs, and coaches at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Melissa is especially passionate about inclusive leadership. Outside academia, Melissa designs, directs & deploys global leadership programs for corporations, NGOs, academic and federal institutions. As a speaker, she engages audiences around the world on topics like power, performance and inclusion. As a teaching artist, she developed devised performance curricula for underserved and severe special needs youth. She now serves as a Member of the Board of Directors at Youth in Arts, an arts education and social justice non-profit in the San Francisco Bay Area. Melissa studied at Wake Forest University, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, the Actors Center New York, and she has guest taught at London Business School, Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland and the United States Naval Academy.

Registration Open Until Tuesday, November 5, 2019 3:00 PM (EST)

Jan
13
Mon
Center for Population Health Sciences Seminar Series: Lauren Gaydosh, Vanderbilt University @ Li Ka Shing Learning and Knowledge Center, Room 320
Jan 13 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Center for Population Health Sciences Seminar Series: Lauren Gaydosh, Vanderbilt University @ Li Ka Shing Learning and Knowledge Center, Room 320

The Depth of Despair among US Young Adults

Known as the deaths of despair, the drivers of increasing midlife mortality are under debate, and the role of hopeless and despair is unclear. Using data from the nationally representative National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), I test whether increases in indicators of despair have been particularly acute among White, low-educated, rural members of the cohort.

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Mar
4
Wed
Women Faculty Networking: Marc Tessier-Lavigne, President, Stanford University @ Li Ka Shing Center - LK209
Mar 4 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Women Faculty Networking: Marc Tessier-Lavigne, President, Stanford University @ Li Ka Shing Center - LK209
Apr
1
Wed
Women Faculty Networking: Phil Pizzo, MD
Apr 1 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Women Faculty Networking: Phil Pizzo, MD

Please join us with special guest Phil Pizzo, Former Dean, Stanford School of Medicine and Founding Director of the Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute, April 1, 2020, 12:00-1:30pm, location TBD. RSVP to Kathleen Victor.