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Harlem Teen Girls Team Up
With Wall Street Female Executives For BRAG! Connections
Party on Monday, April 11th at Merrill Lynch
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Communication guru
Peggy Klaus will lead a "BRAG! Connections Party"
with 65 high-school juniors from the Young Women's Leadership
School of East Harlem (founded by Ann and Andrew Tisch)
along with about 65 senior Merrill Lynch women and hedge
fund executives who are members of a prominent philanthropic
group called High Water Women http://www.hedgefundwomen.org.
The private event will be held on Monday, April 11th,
11:30am-1:30pm in lower Manhattan at the offices of Merrill
Lynch, 250 Vesey Street, between West Street and North
End Avenue, 3rd floor.
BRAG! Connections Corporate Outreach is an innovative
cross-generational program that pairs aspiring youth with
seasoned professionals to teach critical networking and
self-promotion job skills to the employees and consumers
of the future.
Innovatively expanding the line-up of BRAG! programs into
the realm of corporate outreach, BRAG! Connections events
are similar to the BRAG! parties and workshops that Klaus
initially designed for business professionals. These interactive,
meet-and-greet affairs allow participants to network and
fearlessly practice tooting their own horns while Klaus
reveals key self-promotion techniques interspersed with
fun, experiential exercises.
"It's important for girls to take pride in their
accomplishments and to believe in themselves," said
Nancy Gleason, Director, Merrill Lynch. "BRAG Connections
help girls learn the art of self-promotion, a skill they
may not learn at home or school or that may even be discouraged,
but that is critical in life."
"While we've come a long way baby, even teens raised
on Britney are uncomfortable promoting their accomplishments
at school, on the sport field, and ultimately in the workplace," say
Klaus, a Fortune 500 communication and leadership coach,
and author of BRAG! The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn Without
Blowing It.
Ann and Andrew Tisch founded the Young Women's Leadership
School in 1996, in partnership with New York City's Board
of Education. They believed it would offer public school
families an appealing alternative to the larger, zoned
public schools where girls' voices are often unheard.
More About Peggy Klaus:
www.klausact.com
www.bragbetter.com
President of Klaus & Associates in Berkeley, CA, Klaus
has spent nearly a decade advising some of America's top
Fortune 500 executives in the art of self-presentation
and promotion. She reaches thousands of professionals a
year through speaking, coaching, and workshops on workplace
and management communication topics for leading organizations
including Levi Strauss, Disney, JP Morgan Chase, Booz Allen
Hamilton, American Express and NAFE, among others.
Klaus has led over 100 BRAG events at a variety of corporations
and organizations including SC Johnson, General Mills,
Credit Suisse First Boston, Ladies Home Journal, Count
Me In, GraceNet, Menttium, and the Harvard Business School
Alumni Association
Also well regarded in higher education, Klaus has lectured
on communication to students and educators at the University
of California Berkeley's Haas School of Business and
School of Public Health & Sciences. Most recently,
she has served as a lecturer at Wharton's Executive MBA
Program. She has also mentored and presented to teens
on communication and leadership issues through the Professional
Business Women of California (PBWC) and The CrossRoads
Foundation/Backyard Project.
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