WICT Betsy Magness Leadership Institute (BMLI)
Helps women leaders in the industry enhance their personal style by focusing on strategy, creative problem solving, personal leadership, personal insight and ethics.
WICT Rising Leaders Program (RLP)
WICT’s Rising Leaders Program seeks industry professionals who are ready to challenge their own skills and to take the next step towards designing their individual leadership blueprint by participating in 3 hands-on sessions comprised of leadership analysis, case study work, cable business acumen and tactical personal leadership skill development.
WICT Executive Development Seminar (EDS)
EDS has been developed to help mid- to upper-level female executives with their professional development.
WICT Executive Mentoring Program
The goal of this initiative is to facilitate diversity in the cable and telecommunications industry by making mentors available to WICT executive members and assisting them with career advancement strategies. The mentor and menthe will work together to discover, develop and polish skill sets.
The WICT Annual Conference
WICT's new conference is THE leadership conference for the industry. Step up to learn how business leaders thrive in challenging business situations, the trends they are seeing that affect your success. Achieve greater impact through strategies acquired from business leaders inside and outside the industry with a wide range of expertise, including technical, marketing, programming, public affairs and human resources—among others—who will focus on how they exceed expectations, sustain high powered leadership, turn obstacles into opportunities, and lead through innovation.
WICT Foundation Best Practice Initiative
The Best Practice Initiative has evolved from the research the Foundation has conducted over the last several years on work/life productivity, pay equity, and corporate board services issues. Our research has provided a number of insights about women's success. With the research results from the initiatives, the Foundation increased the awareness of these issues to the industry. With each initiative, the Foundation has been an advocate for women working in the telecommunications industry. Through the Foundation’s research on workforce issues, it was evident that the next logical step was to look at company’s business practices and learn how they help women move forward with their careers.
Cable and Telecommunications Human Resources Association (CTHRA)
CTHRA provides member companies and the industry with tools that help organizations to effectively implement relevant proven programs and processes in the area of diversity.
Emma Bowen Foundation
The Emma L. Bowen Foundation was established by the media industry to increase access to permanent job opportunities for minority students. The Foundation's program differs from other intern programs by allowing students to work for a partner company during summers and school breaks from the end of their junior year in high school until they graduate from college.
National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC) Executive Leadership Development Program
The Executive Leadership Development Program (ELDP) is offered by NAMIC in partnership with UCLA's Anderson Graduate School of Management. It targets upper-middle managers (director level and higher) of color in the telecommunications industry who are seeking senior-level positions and whose senior managers believe that they possess the performance and potential to put them on track for future executive-level promotions. The program's central goal is to help the industry develop a pipeline of leaders of color who will be well prepared to take the next steps up the executive ladder.
NAMIC’s L. Patrick Mellon Mentorship Program
NAMIC's mentoring program was initially established in 1993, and renamed in 1997 in honor of the late L. Patrick Mellon, one of NAMIC's founding members. The goal of the L. Patrick Mellon Mentorship Program is to facilitate diversity in the cable and telecommunications industry by making mentors available to NAMIC members to assist them with their career advancement strategies.
Society of Cable and Telecommunication Engineers (SCTE)
SCTE is dedicated to advancing the careers of telecommunications professionals through enriching education, practical training and career-boosting certification. Regardless of your preferred method of learning, SCTE provides resources to keep you on top of evolving technologies and their applications. SCTE also provides scholarships to support continued education.
T. Howard Foundation
The T. Howard Foundation is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote diversity in the satellite and telecommunications industry by increasing the talent pool of qualified applicants and dramatically improving employment opportunities for women and people of color in the satellite telecommunications industry.
Advancing Women
Advancing Women is a skills building organization for women. The site provides comprehensive information about mentoring programs, from what they are, to how to set one up in your company.
Annenberg Public Policy Center
The Annenberg Public Policy Center was established by publisher and philanthropist Walter Annenberg in 1994 to create a community of scholars within the University of Pennsylvania that would address public policy issues at the local, state and federal levels. The Annenberg Public Policy Center continues to track the changing leadership role of women in communication companies and the way women candidates are treated by the media.
Catalyst
Catalyst is a nonprofit research and advisory organization working to advance women in business. The leading source of information on women in business for the past four decades, Catalyst has the knowledge and tools that help companies recruit, retain, and advance top talent and enable women to reach their potential.
Linkage, Inc.
Linkage, Inc. is a leading provider of organizational development and corporate education programs, products, and services. The organization’s mission is to be a strategic partner to human resource professionals, allowing them to connect organizational strategy with the competence needed to execute it and capture the learning needed to sustain it.
Simmons School of Management
The school is the center for women, leadership and management.
Women's Business Enterprise National Council
This Council provides its corporate members and certified women's business enterprises (WBEs) with access to a range of B2B sourcing tools including, an Internet database that contains information on certified women's businesses for purchasing managers nationwide.
Women’s Network from Entrepreneurial Training
This site within the Small Business Association programs sets up women business owners looking to increase and improve their company with successful entrepreneurial women in a mentoring relationship.
Working Mother
Working Mother Media includes Working Mother and Executive Female magazines, the National Association for Female Executives (NAFE), WMM Business Advisory Services, and a conference division that produces the 100 Best Companies Work Life Congress, the Best Companies for Women of Color Conference and the NAFE Women @ Work: Meaning, Money, and Making Connections National Conference.
Negotiating Women, Inc.
Negotiating Women, Inc. provides innovative training and consulting to professional women, organizations & associations.