Dr. Nancy Wayne

Overview of Women Advancing Together®

Uplift. Empower. Advance.

Dr. Nancy Wayne has over 30 years of experience teaching and leading workshops. She has enlightened, educated, entertained, and transformed the trajectory of people’s careers:

• Academic executive leader and professor at a premier research university
• Award-winning educator
• Advocate, mentor and advisor for women at all stages of their careers
• Leader in creating and implementing diversity programs
• Scientist and principal investigator 

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Dr. Wayne created and led the successful UCLA Women in Science Workshops for professionals, students and trainees, and administrators to help women overcome barriers in their careers. Dr. Wayne developed these workshops based on her own experiences, those of her women colleagues, and research data. Women Advancing Together® brings these workshops to a wider audience of women working in a man’s world across all fields. The workshops are a powerful and engaging way to learn about strategies for coping with common problems that face women:

• The Competence/Confidence Conundrum
• Imposter Syndrome
• Negotiating What You Want
• The Need for Self-Promotion
• Work-Life Balance
• Effective Communication
• Building Your Network For Success
• Bullies in the Workplace
• Pick Your Battles
• Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff: Setting Priorities in Order to Thrive
• Reinventing Yourself: Activating Your Plan B
• Applying SMART Goals to Your Career and Life

Women Advancing Together® Workshops have been presented at:

• UCLA (since 2010)
• Lehigh University (twice in 2015)
• Keck School of Medicine at USC (2015)
• University of Mississippi School of Medicine (2016)
• Yale University (2016, 2018)
• Women’s Journeys, Los Angeles (2016)
• Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Conference, Montreal (2016)
• UC Santa Cruz (2016)
• Cornell University (2016)
• UC Davis (2017)
• University of Puget Sound (2017)
• Loma Linda University (2017)
• Iowa State University (2017)
• Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Conference, Long Beach, CA (2017)
• Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference, Paris, France (2017)
• Lehigh University (2017)
• University of Michigan (twice in 2018)
• California State University – Dominguez Hills (2018)
• University of Buffalo (2018)
• Clemson University (2018)
• California State University – Long Beach (2018)
• University of Redlands (2018, 2019)
• University of New Mexico (2019)
• Princeton Plasma Physics Lab (2019)
• Southern California Permanente Medical Group Women in Medicine Symposium, Dana Point, CA (2019)
• Kaiser Permanente-Downey Women in Medicine Symposium, Lakewood, CA (2019)
• Murray State University (online 2020 and 2021)
• West Virginia University (online 2020 and 2021)
• University of Louisville (online 2020 and 2021)
• University of Colorado-Boulder (online 2021)
• Women in STEM:Breaking Barriers Conference (online 2021)
• Stanford University (online 2021)
• Lehigh University (online 2021)
• Kaiser Permanente-San Diego (online 2021)
• Circles of Washtenaw County (2022)

Upcoming workshops:

• Cornell University Empowering Women in Science & Engineering Symposium (postponed)
• University of Michigan Leadership Summit for Women (postponed)

I would love to add your organization to the list … contact me and we’ll set up a workshop plan. Email: WomenAdvancingTogether@gmail.com

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