CAMBRIDGE MIT-INSTITUTE: Mid-Career Enterprise Education for Technology & Science (MEETS) - March / April 2008

Cambridge-MIT Institute Working in Partnership Programme.

Mid-Career Enterprise Education for Technology & Science (MEETS)

Weekend I: 7th-9th March 2008 
Weekend II: 25th-27th April 2008
Venue: Lucy Cavandish College, Cambridge

We are delighted to announce that the MEETS course will run again in the spring of 2008.  This popular course, now in its third year, is aimed at professional women who have completed their second degree, and have an interest in exploring enterprise opportunities within the science and technology sector.

The programme is designed to meet the needs of mature female professionals with substantial work experience in science and technology, who are currently working in business, taking a career break, or considering starting a business of their own.  The programme combines presentations, practical workshops, small group sessions and individual project work, in order to achieve its mission - to enable women to assume leadership roles in company innovation and entrepreneurship by encouraging and enhancing their personal and professional development.

Topics include:

• What it takes to become more enterprising
• Presentation and networking skills
• Negotiation and organisational skills
• Career anchors and self assessment
• Business planning and finance

Programme Directors:

Shirley Jamieson - Head of Marketing, Cambridge Enterprise Ltd:
Shirley worked in executive search for 15 years and then in the mid 1990s, she ran her own consultancy firm. In 1999, Shirley co-authored the successful bid on behalf of the University of Cambridge to create the Cambridge Entrepreneurship Centre, which has now become part of Cambridge Enterprise. In 2002 she was the Cambridge Evening News “Business Woman of the Year.” She has been a Governor of Anglia Ruskin University since 1993.

Rochelle Weichman - Executive Director, Office of Executive Education, MIT Sloan School of Management:
Rochelle Weichman is responsible for helping corporate clients define their educational needs, and then designing and delivering a customised educational programme with MIT faculty. Prior to this position, Rochelle was responsible for entrepreneurship within the Cambridge-MIT Institute, helping to establish the CMI Enterprisers programme for undergraduates and the MEETS programme for mid-career women.

Working Together:
The course is designed and led by Shirley Jamieson and Rochelle Weichman. Both have extensive experience in entrepreneurship and enterprise education. Furthermore, they have a deep commitment to helping women become entrepreneurs and reach senior levels of management, and designed the MEETS programme to help make this vision a reality.

For more information on the course, and how to register please see www.cambridge-mit.org/events/article/?objid=2301

Course Fees:
The cost to attend the MEETS course is £750 per weekend for industry delegates and £250 for academics. This includes dinner on the first evening and lunch and refreshments on all three days. Accommodation costs are not included in the fee, for information on where to stay please see the Visit Cambridge website.

A limited number of bursaries are available. For more information, please email Jackie Ouchikh.

To register, please download the registration form from the website and return to Jackie Ouchikh by:

Fax: +44 (0) 1223 765891

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