Hello friends and colleagues – this is an invitation to participate in our PDW workshop at the upcoming Academy of Management meetings exploring the life stories of Latinos and Latinas. The PDW is sponsored by the Mentoring Committee and GDO. Although the workshop will focus on Latino and Latina stories, all are welcome to attend! Come to this highly interactive session to share your story and perspective, learn each other's personal histories, and explore the implications of our stories on how we approach our work as scholars, teachers, mentors, and practitioners.
Program Session #: 196 | (MEN, GDO)
Scheduled: Saturday, Aug 9, 2008 1:30PM - 5:30PM at Hilton Anaheim in Redondo
¿Quién Soy? ¿Quiénes Somos? Latino/a Life Stories and the Questions We Ask and Don't Ask
Chairs: Bernardo M. Ferdman, Alliant International U.; & Monica C. Gavino, Saint Xavier U.;
Facilitators: Placida Velasquez Gallegos; Fielding Graduate U.; Carlos B. Gonzalez; California State Polytechnic U., Pomona; Robin D Johnson; Cali Poly Pomona; Rowena Ortiz-Walters; Quinnipiac U. (Ilene C. Wasserman, ICW Consulting Group, will also support the facilitation).
Typically, there are very few opportunities in professional settings for most of us to explore the connections of our life stories and experiences to our approaches to research, theory, and practice. This workshop will provide a space for Latinos and Latinas and allies to exchange life stories, to examine and talk about our similarities and differences, and to explore together the implications of our stories for the questions we ask and the questions we don't ask (of ourselves and each other) as we do our work and as we interact, collaborate, and engage with colleagues. The workshop will be highly interactive and personally involving of participants. By creating this space, we hope to begin to build relationships among participants who would not have otherwise come together so as to encourage personal and professional learning about ourselves and each other, to create new mentoring opportunities, to foster inclusion in the Academy and in our varied work settings, and to continue to build an Academy culture in which more of us can bring more of ourselves to work and can support others to do so – all in the service of personal and professional effectiveness, individually and collectively.
All are invited to this session on the life experiences of Latinos/non-Latinos.
Pre-registration is required. To register, please visit https://secure.aomonline.org/PDWReg. The deadline to register is July 11, 2008. After the July 11 deadline, registration will be based on availability and handled by e-mailing Monica Gavino, mgavino@sxu.edu, directly.
Bernardo M. Ferdman, Ph.D. <bferdman@alliant.edu>
Professor, Marshall Goldsmith School of Management
Alliant International University (http://www.alliant.edu)
10455 Pomerado Rd., San Diego, CA 92131-1799, USA
Tel. +1 858 635-4408; Fax +1 858 635-4455
Webpages: <http://bernardoferdman.org>, <http://faculty.alliant.edu> (click on "Bernardo Ferdman")