Graduation is not the end! Your WIN NEXT community is happy to offer an opportunity to step away from the day-to-day distractions, exchange ideas, gain fresh insights from industry leaders, and deepen your connection with an invaluable support system.
NEXT•STEPS is a bi-annual experience especially designed only for NEXT graduates. Here you'll release, re-connect, and re-commit over 3-days in a setting that supports an intentional slowing down in order to return as your best and most inspired self.
Professional Benefits
- Broaden network and community of senior women in leadership
- Attend business school-level learning opportunities with academic faculty (e.g., Strategy Development and Implementation, Competitive Environmental Strategy)
- Continued engagement with like-minded industry peers that mirror the INPO Principles of “Staying on Top of Advancing a Culture of Continues Improvement”
- Deepen and affirm mid-term professional commitments and long-term career goals
- Strengthen cohort community as a professional resource, and active role models
Objectives of the Event
- Acknowledge and Release challenges, triggers, and stressors collected throughout the year when showing up as a dedicated leader, parent, partner, family member, and friend.
- Re-connect with your NEXT cohort and expand your tribe by meeting and including other cohorts. Learn together in facilitated business-school level sessions to deepen your fluency and confidence as a business professional and nuclear leader.
- Re-new your commitment as a NEXT woman to watch by honoring your personal aspirations, defining your career goals, and how to pay it forward to those who are watching you climb.
Schedule of Events
*Full agenda to follow
| sunday, jan. 12 | |
|---|---|
| Attendee arrivals and hotel check-in | |
| 6–8 p.m. | Evening Group Check-In and Reception |
| monday, jan. 13 | |
| 7–10:45 a.m. | Breakfast Wellness Activities Morning Stretch Start your day with a head-to-toe stretch class designed to prepare you for a full day of Miraval activities. Preserve Hike Start the day with a hike designed for all abilities. Explore rolling hills with occasional brief, steeper sections, and overall elevation gain of 200 to 300 feet with distances of three to four miles. These hikes are a great introduction to the local balconies canyonland preserve Restorative Yoga Learn to rest deeply in your yoga postures in this practice known as “active relaxation." |
| 12–1 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1–5 p.m. | Welcome Julianne Edwards, WIN Chairperson, and Chief Development Officer, The Nuclear Company She is Me: A Career Journey of Paths, Pivots, and Personal Energy Carla Ogunrinde, Chief Executive Officer, Intend Coaching & Consulting LLC, and NEXT Program Director A personal story of constraints, obstacles, and truth telling. As a woman in industry, finding your voice is the second biggest career moment; the first is failing. Discover your superpower and how to share it, and how to choose thriving over surviving. Identify Your Superpowers Small Group Exercise Identify your superpowers and know when it’s okay to fold your cape, take your foot off the pedal, and to exhale. |
| 6–8 p.m. | Dinner on your own and Time to Explore |
| tuesday, jan. 14 | |
| 7–8:45 a.m. | Breakfast Wellness Activity |
| 9 a.m.–5 p.m. | Welcome Up Your Business Game: Guest Speakers Focus on business, specifically the intersection of the financial industry and nuclear. A summit-like session to understand the issues, followed by how to talk about these important opportunities facing nuclear. Cohort Debrief and Discussion Led by Julianne Edwards Talk About It: Media Training with public relations experts, Javelin. Media Training Presentation (e.g.) a. Media Fundamentals b. Media Ground Rules c. Print, Podcasts & Long-Form Media d. Talking Points e. Maneuvering Tough Questions f. Promoting Your Product g. Dos & Don’ts of Broadcast Interview h. Remote vs. In-Studio Interviews Includes panel-style mock interviews. Strategy Development and Implementation conversation Speaker TBD |
| 12–1 p.m. | Lunch |
| 7–8:30 p.m. | Group Dinner |
| wednesday, Jan. 15 | |
| 7–8:45 a.m. | Breakfast Wellness Activity |
| 9 a.m.–3 p.m. | Get Inspired: Access feminine energy through wisdom and grace and use them as divine tools to access power over might. Declare intentions for 2025 and get clear about your purpose. Ring of Light This fire ceremony offers an illuminated release. Purifying flames transform things we wish to release into embers in this symbolic practice. Gather around a ring of ceremonial light to write ideas, emotions, or situations you would like to leave behind and burn the paper that holds them back into the earth. Cohort Check Out Supported and Renewed |
| 12–12:45 p.m. | Lunch |
| 3 p.m. | End of Program |
Registration Information
| WIN members | fee |
|---|---|
| NEXT Graduates | $2,999 (inclusive of meals and lodging) |
Logistics
Hotel
Miraval Austin
13500 FM2769
Austin, Texas 78726
Phone: 855.690.8163
Arika Johnson will coordinate your three-night hotel stay at the Miraval Austin Resort and Spa, which is included in your registration fee. If you wish to extend your stay, you will be responsible for covering the cost of any additional nights.
Prior to the event, you will receive an email with important details on what to know before your arrival, along with a link to the “online booking portal.” Through this portal, you’ll be able to explore the daily schedule of wellbeing experiences, spa services, and customize your personalized Miraval itinerary.
Hotel cancellations must be made 48 hours prior to scheduled arrival to avoid a room charge. The room rate will be available three days prior and three days after the meeting. Check-in is at 4 p.m. Check-out is at 11 a.m.
Transporation
For information on airport, complimentary shuttles, and private car service, please visit https://www.miravalresorts.com/austin/transportation.
Airport – Austin Bergstrom International Airport (AUS).
Shuttles – Miraval Austin offers a complimentary shared shuttle service with pickups and drop-offs at Austin Bergstrom International Airport and Miraval Austin for overnight guests.
Live Participants List
NEI Respects Your Privacy
To respect the privacy of registrants, the registrant information is limited to title and company. NEI provides the attendee list to sponsors and exhibitors for one-time usage and to meeting attendees. Registrants who wish to be excluded from the list may opt-out during registration. For questions, please email [email protected].
| Company | Title |
|---|---|
| Framatome Inc. | Business Manager, Engineering and Products |
| Westinghouse Electric Company | Director, Systems and Risk Integration |
| Energy Northwest | Engineering Director, Nuclear Development |
| Duke Energy Corporation | Catawba Maintenance Manager |
| Entergy Operations, Inc. | Director- Fleet Performance |
| Constellation Energy Generation, LLC | Nuclear Fuels Director |
| Westinghouse Electric Company | Strategic Innovation Senior Director |
| Intend Coaching & Consulting LLC | Chief of Staff |
| Indiana Michigan Power | Executive Vice President & Chief Nuclear Officer |
| Duke Energy | Senior Vice President Nuclear Ops NC |
| Tennessee Valley Authority | Plant Manager, Watts Bar Nuclear Plant |
| Constellation Energy Generation, LLC | Nuclear Fuels Director of Technical Support |
| PSEG Nuclear LLC | Vice President of Corp Operations |
| Institute of Nuclear Power Operations | INPO Director of Industry Learning |
| Intend Coaching & Consulting LLC | Owner, Certified Leadership Coach |
