Women in leadership positions 2015
”Passenger or pilot – getting the best out of it”
Department of Telematics (ITEM)
Department of Computer and Information Science (IDI)

Recruiting more women, as students, researchers and to Scientific management positions has been and is an important goal for NTNU.
In 2014 IDI ran a five day program, divided in to three separate session, motivating and preparing our female staff for leadership positions and roles. In 2015 we have established a new project; “Passenger or pilot – Woman in leadership positions 2015”, aimed at continuing the focus on female leadership at our departments through the coming year.
Program 26.5.2015, in room 242 at IDI (2. floor)
One of the project first activities in the project is a seminar held on May 26th where all female scientific staff are invited. The overarching topic of the seminar will be Leadership, gender and culture.

08.30 Welcome to the seminar by Letizia Jaccheri and Harald Øverby

08.50 Presentations and expectations for this year by each participant

09.30 Workshop: Leadership – what it is really all about?
Part I: Lars Asle Einarsen, Specialist in Work and Organizational Psychology

Part II: Individual tasks and group discussions

11.30 Lunch

12.30 Workshop: Challenges in taking a leadership position at NTNU – Gender or Culture?
Part I: Lars Asle Einarsen, Specialist in Work and Organizational Psychology

Part II: Individual tasks and group discussions

14.30 Coffee break

14.45 ”The Grace Hopper Conference Celebration of Women in computing”- Why is it great and worthy of participating!

Inspirational talk by Anne Cathrine Elster
Participants’ motivational statements

15.30 Feedback and sum-up by Lars Asle Einarsen

16.00 The end

Social event on Sunday June 7th with the aim of setting up networks between the young women (Women in CS program) and more experienced women visiting at NTNU in the period (Junia Anacleto; Anke Dittmar; Leila Alem). We are also inviting a few men who are very welcomed.

Program, Sunday June 7th, 15-21 o’clock
We are planning to take a boat around the Canal harbor, up the river Nidelven and out on the fjord. The dinner will be served in Hotel Clarions’ Astrum restaurant with a panoramic view over the Trondheim’s fjord.