Connect the Dots Ottawa

bringing women in business together

 

Schedule

Thursday November 12th, 2009

IGNITE your inner GODDESS

PJ Party sponsored by Ingite Potentials Training Inc.
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Penthouse (map)
Dress: PJ’s or lounge clothes

6:00 – 7:00pm Registration, Cocktails and Appetizers
7:00 – 7:30pm Event Kick-Off
7:30 – 8:00pm Goddessnet.com, Ignite your inner Goddess
8:00 – 8:30pm Relax, let go and Laugh with Motivational Humorist & Keynote Speaker Zandra Bell
8:30 – 9:00pm Female Fun, Love, Laugh and Libido with Sue McGarvie
9:00 – 9:30pm Dance Time with Cindy Almond
9:30 – 10:00pm Prizes: Trip for 2 to Dominican Republic & a new mattress bed
10:00 – 10:30pm Entertainment

Sleep – everyone is encouraged to stay at the hotel for a sleep over (CTD hotel rates available)


Friday November 13th, 2009

Connect the Dots – bringing women in business together

An event connecting leading women’s networking groups

Crown Plaza Hotel, Ballroom B and C (map)
Dress: Business

Event MC:  Susan Blain, Ottawa Business Journal

8:00-8:45am Registration in foyer, visit display tables
8:45-9:00am Welcome & Opening Body Connection – “Connecting with SELF”
with Jacqueline Richards – Yoga for your Personal Finances
9:00-9:10am Welcome & Opening Remarks
with Laura Booker, CTD Founder
9:10-9:20am Spotlight “Connecting Ottawa Women’s Networks”
with leaders from Ottawa women’s networks
9:20-9:50am Presentation & question period – “Intuitive Connections”
with Lisa Lajoie, Tapping Into it
9:50-10am Spotlight “Connecting Ottawa Women’s Networks”
with leaders from Ottawa Women’s Networks
10:00-10:35am Keynote – “Attracting the Right Dots”
with Belanie Dishong, Live at Choice
10:35-11:05am Presentation, group activity and Networking Break – “Authentic Connections”
with Laura Booker, Founder of CTD
11:05-11:15am Body Connection “Activity through Connectivity”
with Maryse Senecal, Myo-pression
11:15-11:25am Spotlight “Connecting Ottawa Women’s Networks”
with leaders from Ottawa women’s networks
11:25am-12:15pm Keynote – “WEC’s Ask & Answer Campaign”
with Lorraine Mastersmith, Women Entrepreneurs of Canada
12:15-12:25pm Spotlight “Connecting Ottawa Women’s Networks”
with leaders from Ottawa Women’s Networks
12:25-12:45pm Focus Group activity – “Making Our Asks”
12:45-1:30pm Lunch & Open Networking
1:30-1:40pm Body Connection “Core Connections”
with Maryse Senecal, Myo-pression
1:40-2:40pm Social Media Showcase – “Connecting with the World”
with Social Media Experts: Leslie Eisener, Lisa McKenzie, Natasha D’Souza, Lisa Larter, Jen Hunter, Carrie Irvine, Susan Blain, Rebecca Happy
2:40-3:40pm Success Panel – “Ottawa’s Million Dollar Women in Business”
with Heather MacLachlan, Lisa Larter, Gaye Moffett, moderated by Robin Bailey, Emerging Order
3:40-3:55pm Networking Break
3:55-4:30pm Keynote – “Connecting the Dots, Mind, Body & Spirit”
with Mary Cavanagh, Leslie Eisener and Cara Rose-Brown, from Ignite Potentials Training Inc.
4:30-5pm Discussion – “Connecting Conversations About the Future”
with Valerie Yersh, Future Weavers and Laura Booker, Founder of CTD
5:00-5:15pm Closing Remarks , Thank You and Grand Prize draw
with CTD Founding Team


Thursday November 12th, 2009

IGNITE your inner GODDESS

Cocktails and Appetizers

Pamper yourself at various booths offering complementary services such as manicures, facials, massages, spray tattoos, palmistry, tarot card reader, chocolate, candy, cake and much, much more.

Event Kick Off

MC – Susan Blain, Ottawa Business Journal kicks off the event. Welcoming remarks, by Laura Booker, CTD Founder. Sponsorship and community thank you. Event title sponsor WEC and PJ Party title sponsor Ignite Potentials Training Inc., are welcomed to the stage.

Ignite your inner Goddess

Goddessnet.com forum will unite women around the world. Come find out how you can be part of it! Visit the Goddessnet.com booth and share your favorite PJ Party story. Sign up for the forum and get entered into a draw for a trip for 2 to Dominican Republic courtesy of Transat Holidays.

Comedian, Relax, Let Go and Laugh

Rub your cheeks and hold your stomach for the laugh of a lifetime with Motivational Humorist & Keynote Speaker Zandra Bell. This is great opportunity for you to sit back, relax and let go of your daily stresses and just laugh with your girlfriends.

Female Fun, Love, Laugh and Labedo

Girlfriend time, are you ready to get the answers? Q & A with Sue McGarvie, find out the answers to the most common questions women have about love, lust and labedo.

Dance Time

Grab your shoes, a pole and let’s get down to business! Join Cindy Almond from Sensually Active, an expert pole dancer as she shows us the basics of getting your sexy back!

Prizes  – 2 tickets to Dominican Repubic & a new mattress bed

Don’t leave yet, we are just getting started! After you have registered for the Goddessnet.com forum, you get entered into the Grand Prize draw for 2 tickets to Dominican Republic donated by CAA/Transat and a bed donated by Mattress Mart.

Entertainment

Demonstrate your talents as we open the evening to fun on the dance floor and a few classic slumber party songs.  Feel free to get up on stage and sing with us – Girls just want to have fun!

Sleep – everyone is encouraged to stay at the hotel for a sleep over (this is not mandatory)


Friday November 13th, 2009

Connect the Dots – bringing women in business together

Connecting with SELF

Yoga For Your Personal Finances is an extraordinary workshop to get you balanced in your personal life energy and your personal finances. This warmup will give you a snapshot of a unique blend of solutions, guides us through specific money and wealth management challenges and how to balance the body’s seven energy centers called chakras. Traditionally, Yoga is a discipline that sustains the energies of the body, mind, and spirit; a healthy approach to money is an important component of a stress-free and happy life.

Intuitive Connections

The foundation of any successful business is the network of relationships that it is built upon. Master Intuitive, Lisa Lajoie will teach you the power of Intuition in your day to day business, and how connecting self with others can accelerate your success. If you are ready to learn the dynamics around building relationships that will lead to abundance in your life, this workshop is for you. Lisa will demonstrate how to tap into the higher levels of energy to help build relationships and breakthrough any barriers to your success.

Attracting the Right Dots

Do not miss this opportunity to hear and experience the MAGIC that Connecting the Dots expert Belanie Dishong has in store for YOU. You will discover the unknowns that will launch your next business opportunity. You will discover how to get the RIGHT people at the RIGHT TIME. Belanie takes us down the road to experience the success stories behind the ultimate connections and how they have been the foundation to all business success. Who are you connecting to?

Authentic Connections

Giving first and sharing is always the authentic philosophy behind success business connections. This activity will identify successful connections, teach you how to do it yourself and to connect everyone in the room. You won’t want to miss this Domino effect!

Activity through Connectivity

It only takes 10 minutes to activate the mind and body connection! Learn the body tactics that will energize you making everyday a powerful day! Come try Maryse’s 10 minute office energizer!

Ask & Answer Campaign

Women entrepreneurs are making the big ‘ASKS’ across Canada. The National ‘Ask’ Campaign will culminate with a comprehensive list of the needs of women entrepreneurs across Canada and move into forming a movement of a mission to get the “Answers” in 2010. What is your ‘ask’ as an entrepreneur to government, public, corporations and media?

“Making Our Asks” Discussion & Group Activity

In small groups discussions we will form around what your ‘asks’ will be as women entrepreneurs. Discovering the commonalities, exploring missed opportunities and developing new avenues to ask for what we need. All ‘asks’ will be collected and put forward to WEC as part of the ASK/ANSWER Campaign. If you could ask for anything to help you grow your business, what would that be?

Connecting Ottawa Women’s Networks

Representatives from the leading Women’s Networking Groups gather to share their contribution to our community and explain the benefits and services available. Come share and learn with some of the most connected women in the city; women who are leading the way for women entrepreneurship across the region.

Core Connections

Taking the time to energize your body will bring fresh vitality to your business. Learn the secret of connecting your health to the core strength of your business. Be ready to amaze yourself!

Connecting with the World

Experts share their tips and tricks on some of the hottest social media tools to expand your marketing reach.

Ottawa’s Million Dollar Women in Business

Featuring women from around the region who have achieved success in Money, Love and Life. What does success mean to you? Are you wealthy in money? Do you do the work you love? Are you living the life you’ve dreamed of? Everyone can obtain success, let’s learn and listen how these ladies did it.

Connecting the Dots – Mind, Body & Soul

Connecting the dots between the Mind, Body and Soul of a successful business woman. Learn about the Mind’s role in achieving success in business and how to build passion in your results by connecting it to your Soul. Find out how your Body is the meeting place between the Mind and the Soul and the messages your body stores for you.

Connecting Conversations About the Future

Share conversations about the future. Learn how having conversations about the future can have direct impact on future success for you, your community and the country. Success planning with the end in mind!

Crowning of the Ottawa Women Connector

Who is your connector? Who do you go to when you need to connect to others in your industry or when you need to solve a problem? One women will will be ‘Crowned’ Ottawa Connector. Sponsored by Crowne Plaza, prize includes a prize value of $2000 –(hotel suite, queen for a day at a spa, board room accessibility to host your favourite connection meeting).