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Learning to Thrive in a Competitive Environment
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Tuesday, Feb 19
5:30 - 6:00 pm
Registration and Reception
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Presentation and Discussion
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The McGraw-Hill Companies
1221 Avenue of the Americas
James H. McGraw Hall, 50th Floor
(Between 48th and 49th Streets)
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$32 Members
$40 Non-Members
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Kathryn Mayer
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In today’s world, mastering competition is a key to success. The Emerging Leaders committee is proud to present Kathryn Mayer, CEO of KC Mayer Consulting Inc. (KCM).
As a veteran of the investment banking and management consulting industries, Kathryn Mayer understands the vital role competition plays in a company’s and an individual’s growth and success. She brings a unique blend of experiences ranging from competitive tennis, cognitive psychology, theatrical techniques and business to her consulting.
This program explores individual views on competition and risk taking and proposes a new view of leadership for women: Collaborative Competition™. Women tend to take more of a perfectionist and relationship oriented approach to leadership according to the current research on gender and leadership. The goal is to teach women that everyone has a natural style of competing, and the most successful leaders are aware of their style and know how to adapt it to any situation effectively. The four styles are presented, each having a slightly different approach to winning: initiator/take charge, diplomat, investigator/observer, and thinker/planner. This program makes participants aware of their natural tendency in competitive situations and discusses strategies and tactics for increased flexibility.
Discover your strengths and personal styles and learn how to manage both for the long-term and day-to-day perceptions. Kathryn Mayer’s advice will help you thrive in a competitive environment.
Special thanks to The McGraw-Hill Companies for sponsoring this event.
This event is organized by the Emerging Leaders Committee.
Speaker Profile
Ms. Mayer founded KC Mayer Consulting, Inc. in 2003 to provide sophisticated and customized leadership development solutions for Fortune 100 to 1000 companies to drive their efforts to attract, develop and retain emerging and high potential business leaders. KC Mayer Consulting works with clients in the United States and Europe in competitive industries ranging from investment banking to pharmaceutical, with a special emphasis on women in the workplace and diversity issues. KC Mayer clients include Credit Suisse, Citigroup Europe, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Symbol Technologies, Glaxo Smith Kline, Henry Schein, United Entertainment Media, Price Waterhouse Coopers, and Selective Insurance, among others.
Ms. Mayer has a proven 20-year track record of coaching business professionals, guiding companies through transformative change, and designing learning systems to transition professionals into new roles, develop leaders, enhance team dynamics, strengthen core competencies, and change behavior.
She began her business career in the highly demanding and competitive investment banking and business consulting industries where she honed her unique approach to leadership and developed a proprietary strategic leadership model called Collaborative Competition.™ Ms. Mayer’s vision of competition offers clients a strategy to maximize the value of their greatest asset—human capital—to the fullest potential by building on strengths and through collaboration, developing areas that need improvement. It is a win-win strategy. Ms. Mayer wants everyone to find their competitive sensibilities and calibrate them to their greatest competitive advantage. Ms. Mayer’s passion for competition dates back to her career as a ranked junior tennis player. She was a top ranked amateur tennis player for 25 years. This is where Ms. Mayer first discovered the power of learning from your competition rather than fearing it.
She has recently completed a book on how women can succeed in the most competitive industries and enjoy it, The Competitive Mystique: A Woman’s Guide to Succeeding by Competing with Style. Kathryn has interviewed successful and powerful women around the country.
She holds certifications in Myers Briggs, Covey’s Seven Habits, FIRO-B, Personal Profile System, Political Savvy, The Center for Creative Leadership’s Benchmark Instrument, The Actors Institute Coaching Program, the Birkman Instrument, and Citigroup’s 360-degree feedback instrument.
She received a BA in Sociology with Phi Beta Kappa honors from St. Lawrence University and earned an MS in Counseling Psychology from SUNY at Albany. She has taken courses in the Workplace Learning Institute at Columbia University and seminars in Executive Coaching and Advanced Executive Coaching at New York University.
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