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C05 Showcase: Building From the Inside Out: Empowering Women of Color Leaders in the Greater Boston Area

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Building From the Inside Out: Empowering Women of Color Leaders in the Greater Boston Area

Friday, July 15 2:15pm - 4:15pm

With

Doris Ferrer Roach, PHR Consulting; Jennifer Matias, Management Assistance Program, JRI Health

Brief Description

The presenters will share their experience, conceptual framework and best practices that emerged from the creation and launching of the first six-month leadership forum for women of color executive directors and senior managers of nonprofit agencies in the greater Boston area. The Compass Point study, "On The Rise: A Profile of Women of Color in Leadership" by Anushka Fernandopulle, Jan Masaoka and Pardis Parsa and the resulting successful network of women executive directors of color in the Bay Area (WEDOC), identified the need for leadership support on the east coast. Participants will be introduced to a series of culturally rooted and inspired tools and useful concepts for creating a successful women of color leadership network in their communities.

About the Presenters

Jennifer Matias, JRI Health

Jennifer Matias has been the director of the Management Assistance Program (MAP) of the Justice Resource Institute since 1999. MAP provides leadership development and organizational capacity building services designed to promote the viability and effectiveness of nonprofits throughout MA. In her capacity as director of MAP, Ms. Matias has developed and implemented a number of cutting edge executive leadership development programs, including the launching of the LEAD (Leadership Education And Development) Executive Coaching Project as well as a six month leadership forum for women of color nonprofit leaders. The LEAD Executive Coaching Project is the first of its kind in the region and only one of two nonprofit executive coaching programs in the nation. Ms. Matias has a long history of community activism. She is a founding member of the MA Asian AIDS Prevention Project, has served on the boards of a number of Asian Pacific American nonprofit organizations in the Boston area and is a multicultural diversity trainer.

Doris Ferrer Roach, PHR Consulting

Doris Ferrer Roach, J.D., is a nonprofit management consultant, trainer and executive coach. A former senior attorney with a major Fortune 500 Company, Ms. Roach left the legal profession to follow her passion – a passion to make a concrete, positive, and profound difference in the lives of individuals and organizations, by helping them to recognize and realize their potential for growth and transformation. Through her practice, PHR (Potential Horizons Realized®) Consulting, Ms. Roach provides creative and customized training, coaching and management consulting services as well as plans and facilitates meetings and retreats for non-profit organizations, boards, management teams and educational institutions. Ms. Roach is a highly skilled facilitator having designed and delivered numerous workshops and seminars on leadership development, management and supervision skills, vision planning, goal setting, team building, managing change, communication skills and Myers-Briggs (MBTI). A sought-after speaker, Doris has given presentations and made keynote addresses to national organizations such as the National Association for the Education of Young Children; facilitated workshops and programs at MIT, Boston Public Library, the Kripalu Institute, a nationally known center for yoga and holistic education and other venues, and been interviewed by and quoted in publications as diverse as the Boston Globe Magazine and Yoga Journal. Ms. Roach currently serves on the faculty of Northeastern University, where she teaches courses on organizational behavior, leadership and managing human resources. In addition to her legal experience and undergraduate degrees in education, she has completed certificate programs and studies in management, group dynamics, holistic thought and practice and women’s spirituality.