5th

Annual

Women’s Legacy

Conference

Taking the Lead!

May 20, 2016 NIU Naperville Campus*

Register at http://tinyurl.com/legacyconference2016

REGIS- *Northern Illinois University (NIU) campus in Naperville, located at 1120 East Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois

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C onference at a Glance...

8:00 AM Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM Engaging Local Government Leaders Social Media Session

9:00 AM Opening Key Note by Pat Martel Leading Confidently into the Unknown

10:30 AM Choice of Breakout Sessions

Tips to Build Your Own Professional Path/Experience with Confidence

Understanding & Overcoming Career Traps for Women

Organizational Health—A Woman Leader’s Competitive Advantage

11:45 AM Lunch, Awards, & Business Meeting

1:00 PM Taking Care of Business during a Crisis by

Anne Marrin along with Yvette Heintzelman

2:30 PM Closing Keynote by Katy Simon Holland: Top Ten Leadership Secrets of Women Leaders

Post-Conference event ~ Join Colleagues at Eddie Merlot’s for further networking

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L eading Confidently into the Unknown

Presented by Patricia Martel, City Manager, Daly City, CA and President, International

City/County Management Association

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Addresses ICMA Practice Areas 1 Staff Development; 6 Initiative, Risk Taking, Vision, Creativity, and Innovation; 13 Strategic Planning; 17 Integrity; and 18 Personal Development

Pat Martel’s background shows that she’s not afraid to take on professional challenges. With over three decades of leadership experience in the public sector, she has led large organizations during times of rapid change. Reflecting on stories from her path, Ms. Martel will share her strategies for assessing whether to take the leap and do so confidently into each new opportunity full of unknowns. She’ll also speak about how she has found her way forward when things didn’t go as planned. Her comments will provide a great foundation for participants to build on in interactive conversations throughout the day.

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Join local representatives of Engaging Local Government Leaders (ELGL) as they provide a unique “live” social media training for Legacy participants. Tips and tricks for utilizing Facebook and Twitter will be provided during this hands-on demonstration and training. Make sure you are currently utilizing #legacy project event hashtag to stay abreast of conference events.

Tips to build Your Own Professional Path/Experience with Confidence Table Discussions

Presented by Pat Martel, City Manager, Daly City, CA and ICMA President (Keynote follow-up) Addresses ICMA Practice Areas 6 Initiative, Risk Taking, Vision, Creativity, and Innovation; and 18 Personal Development Drawing from her own background and the stories shared, Ms. Martel will launch attendees into table discussions to reflect on their own professional paths and experiences with confidence or lack thereof. What successes do you not hesitate to own and promote? Where do you need to give yourself permission to confidently embrace your skills and accomplishments? How can we help one another rewrite the stories we tell ourselves and others to get ready for new opportunities?

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Understanding and Overcoming Career Traps for Women Presented by Debra Hermann, Korn Ferry Addresses ICMA Practice Area 18 Personal Development Organizations that have women on their boards and executive teams are more likely to be successful. Yet, women continue to be underrepresented on boards and in top leadership and when women reach the highest levels, they receive lower compensation. The general consensus has been that as education and opportunities opened up, a natural momentum would correct this imbalance. But progress has stalled, despite decades of discussion.

The question is why—Why are women held to higher standards? Do women hold themselves to higher standards? Do women lack key qualifications? Are women’s qualifications underestimated? Is this a perception issue of an experience issue? Is this a confidence issue or a motivation issue? In this presentation, we will examine the data and explore how women can accelerate their movement into top organizational roles.

Organizational Health—A Woman Leader’s Competitive Advantage Presented by Katy Simon Holland, Simon and Associates Addresses ICMA Practice Area 18 Personal Development Organizational Health is the new term for an organization’s ability to function effectively, to cope adequately, to change appropriately, and to grow from within. Learn how you can use your skills and talents to lead the effort to maximize your organization’s health through alignment, action, and renewal.

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Taking Care of Business during a Crisis

Presented by Anne Marrin, Village Administrator, Fox Lake with Yvette Heintzelman, Clark, Baird, and Smith, LLP Addresses ICMA Practice Areas 3 Functional and Operational Expertise and Planning; 14 Advocacy and Interpersonal Communication; 16 Media Relations; and 17 Integrity Fox Lake Village Administrator Anne Marrin will discuss the challenges associated with being the first professional (and female) administrator in a small organization which, shortly after her arrival, garnered national media attention as a result of the death of a police lieutenant. She will discuss how Fox Lake sustained operations during the investigation of the officer’s death, including establishing an inner circle of trusted advisors, interactions with external investigators, managing local and national media attention, managing personnel and elected officials, and the aftermath of the investigation. She will discuss lessons learned and what she would do differently.

C Top Ten Leadership Secrets of Women Leaders

Presented by Katy Simon Holland, Simon and Associates Addresses ICMA Practice Area 18 Personal Development What could you achieve today if you knew the top leadership secrets of women leaders? Find out what research and real-time experiences teach us about how to lead successfully in today’s changing world.

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For those conference attendees traveling to the conference site, there are a number of hotels available in the

immediate vicinity for overnight accommodations.

Courtyard by Marriott

630-505-0550 or 800-321-2211

Country Inn & Suites

630-505-3353 or 800-596-2375

Fairfield Inn-Naperville

630-577-1820 or 800-228-2800

Hampton Inn, Naperville

630-505-1400 or 800-639-0019

Conference Location at the NIU Naperville Campus

1120 E. Diehl Road, Naperville

Thank you to the Legacy Project 2016 Conference Committee:

Yvette Heintzelman, Clark Baird Smith, LLP

Cristi Musser, Sikich LLP

Dawn Wucki-Rossbach, Lake County

Seville Spearman, NIU Community Engagement

Maleka Sumar, Evanston

Jill Velan, Oak Park

Robin Weaver, ICMA/ILCMA Senior Advisor

Dawn Peters, ILCMA Executive Director

Would you like to continue the

conversation and connect casually ?

If so, meet at Eddie Merlot’s

28254 Diehl Road, Warrenville, IL

after the conference.

ICMA President Pat Martel

will join us there!

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2016 Women’s Legacy Conference Sponsorship Levels

Bronze Sponsors ($300) Logo in the program Recognized at lunch

Silver Sponsors ($500) Logo in the program Recognized at lunch Includes conference registration for one

Gold Sponsors ($1,000) Logo in the program Recognized at lunch Sign at the door Includes conference registration for two

There’s still time to sponsor the 2016 Legacy Conference! If interested, please contact

Dawn Peters at dpeters@niu.edu or 815-573-0923

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SPEAKER BIOS

YVETTE HEINTZELMAN

Ms. Heintzelman has extensive experience litigating claims filed under various federal and state employment related laws in Illinois and nationally. She has tried to verdict cases in both federal and state courts, agencies and arbitrators. Specifically, Ms. Heintzelman led a team of attorneys in defending pattern and practice cases (class actions) filed by the EEOC. She has also defended employers in class action wage and hour litigation both in-house and as outside counsel. She has particular expertise representing Public Safety Departments in disciplinary matters interpreting the Peace Officers Disciplinary Act and the Firefighters Disciplinary Act and associated agreements, laws and regulations. Her experience in disability matters includes analysis of applications for and defense of municipal decisions under the Public Employee Safety Benefit Protection Act and the Public Employee Disability Act.

Ms. Heintzelman also provides counseling and training as employers rely on Ms. Heintzelman to help them avoid litigation through a proactive approach to responding and resolving various employment issues. She works with her clients to establish human resources policies and procedures necessary to comply with constantly evolving labor and employment law without hindering business operations. Ms. Heintzelman also provides necessary training to ensure that all personnel are informed and are able to implement and comply with policies and procedures. She has presented numerous training courses and presentations, such as sexual harassment training, anti-discrimination training, personnel policy training, handbook training, disciplinary investigations training (including public safety) and presentations on free speech and the recently amended Freedom of Information Act. Ms. Heintzelman was one of the first individuals selected to provide nationwide sexual harassment training as part of the conciliation agreement in EEOC v. Ford Motor Co. Ms. Heintzelman received her J.D. (cum laude) from Creighton University School of Law and B.A., Creighton University. She is admitted to both the California and Illinois state bar associations.

DEBRA HERMANN

Debra Hermann is a Managing Principal and Consulting Director for Korn Ferry Leader and Talent Consulting, based in the Firm’s Houston Office. Ms. Hermann brings over twenty years of experience to her talent consulting practice. In addition to leading a team of eight consultants, she regularly consults with CEOs and senior executives in the identification, development, and deployment of leadership talent in support of business goals and strategy. Succession planning, individual executive and executive team development, and coaching are among her fortes. Her experiences allow her dep insight into what excellence looks like for the most successful leaders.

Prior to joining the Firm, Ms. Hermann was a director/partner at executive assessment and development firms YSC Ltd. And RHR International. Responsible for P&L, she honed her understanding of leadership along with the financial acumen necessary to achieve business goals. Across her consulting, she has worked with clients in energy/oil and gas, manufacturing, financial services, private equity, insurance, retail, transportation, and pharmaceutical industries.

Earlier in her career, she was an executive at United Airlines. Overseeing a multi-million dollar budget, there she directed training, leadership assessment and development, organizational development, and communications teams and programs in support of a global workforce.

Ms. Hermann holds a doctoral degree in industrial/organization psychology from Rice University and an undergraduate degree in psychology from Washington University. She participates on the Board of the College of Social Sciences at Rice.

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KATY SIMON HOLLAND

Katy Simon Holland retired in 2013 after serving 15 years as the County Manager of Washoe County, Nevada, overseeing a budget of $800 million and 3200 employees serving 423,000 residents.

Ms. Holland has returned to consulting as President of Simon and Associates, and in that capacity has served local and state government clients in California, Florida, Colorado, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Arizona, Nevada and Alberta, Canada, as well as non-profits and corporations such as Qualcomm, Baxter Healthcare, Sony, Mitsubishi, Amoco Oil, USWest technologies, and others, in leadership development , strategy, performance excellence, and innovation.

Once named one of Twenty People to Watch in the New Millennium by the Reno Gazette-Journal, she is an ICMA (International City/County Management Association) Credentialed Manager and has chaired or served on the boards of the Alliance for Innovation, the National Association of County Administrators, the ICMA Center for Performance Measurement, and many other civic and non-profit entities. She most recently serves on the faculty and as Innovation Mentor for the Alliance’s national local government Innovation Academy, and as a guest lecturer for the USC Sol Price Graduate School of Public Policy. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in History magna cum laude from the University of California and a Master’s in Counseling from the University of Nevada. She was an Olympic Torchbearer for the 1996 Olympics, and in her spare time is a performing vocalist.

ANNE MARRIN

Anne Marrin is an alumni of NIU and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science/Public Law. She returned later in 2005 to earn a Master’s degree in Public Administration. Anne has worked for over 16 years in government serving as an elected official as well as in administration. She served as a trustee for the village of McCullom Lake for seven years and served on the Planning Committee, Police Commission, and Economic Development Committee. While obtaining her MPA degree, Anne interned at the village of Buffalo Grove and worked for WRB LLC with Bill Balling where she consulted on various projects. One of these projects was for the city of Highwood and assisting them to obtain ILCMA accreditation as a city administrator form of government. This was accomplished in 2008 and Anne was asked to stay on as assistant city administrator. Anne then became city administrator and served until 2010 where she accepted a position as city administrator for the city of Prospect Heights until 2014. Currently, Marrin serves as the village administrator for the village of Fox Lake where she has faced many challenges and continues to serve as a professional administrator.

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PATRICIA E. MARTEL

Patricia E. Martel has served as the City Manager of Daly City, the largest and most diverse full-service community in San Mateo County, CA, since 2005. She also serves as the General Manager of the North San Mateo County Sanitation District.

During more than thirty-five years of service in local government, Ms. Martel has held executive management positions with several California municipalities including the cities of Inglewood, South San Francisco and Daly City where she previously served as the Assistant City Manager from 1995-2001. In 2001, she was appointed the General Manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission with responsibility for managing the Hetch Hetchy water delivery system which serves 2.4 million people in the San Francisco Bay Area and the sanitation and power systems serving the City and County of San Francisco.

Ms. Martel’s community service commitments include work as a board member and volunteer for a number of non-profit boards, including currently serving as Board Chair of Peninsula Family Services. She also previously served as an appointed Trustee of the San Francisco Employees Retirement System.

Professionally, Ms. Martel is currently the President of the International City/County Management Association, the premier local government leadership and management organization. She is serves as a Trustee of the California City Management Foundation, Executive Committee member of the City Managers Department of the League of California Cities, and a Board member of the International Hispanic Network. Additionally, Ms. Martel is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

Ms. Martel was recognized by Women Leading Government as the recipient of the 2014 Career Excellence Award. KQED Public Broadcasting and Kaiser Permanente also honored Martel by selecting her as a Latino Heritage Month Local Hero for her outstanding contributions and commitment to community service. The San Francisco Business Times has acknowledged her professional accomplishments by naming her one of the 100 Most Influential Business Women in the Bay Area and has also cited her among the Top 100 Women Business Leaders in the Bay Area.

A graduate of the University of Southern California, Martel holds a B.S. degree in Public Affairs and a Master’s degree in Public Administration.

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