Women in STEM

Why Women in STEM?

Are you facing challenges in expanding the variety of perspectives and backgrounds within your teams? Especially in technical areas? Does your workforce reflect your customer makeup? How can you better retain the talent you have? How can you increase your organization’s productivity? Solutions to these questions are presented in Dr. Trego’s offerings – from speaking, facilitating, and coaching to training. Typically, women’s groups utilize training around the Impostor Syndrome, Negotiations, and Mentoring (Male allyship)

Why Dr. Trego?

She was the first LDS woman to graduate with her doctorate in Mechanical Engineering at Brigham Young University, becoming a pioneer without seeking that recognition. She went on to become a successful engineer, as the sole female in a group of 200 engineers, to being a Fortune 500 executive. She volunteers her time at many organizations to support the increase of women and underrepresented populations including SWE, Women Tech Council, ABET IDE Council, and others. Over the past decade, she has been performing research in this area and dedicated her time to finding ways to help women and technical organizations be more successful. Provide experiences for your groups that were developed by a woman in STEM for women in STEM. Read more about Dr. Trego’s qualifications.

How Do I Learn More?

Whether you are an educator, technical organization, or meeting planner you can find the resources you need by either reading additional information below or by following the menus to find information specific to your organization. If you are interested in facilitation opportunities please send her an email directly.

Talks, Trainings and Topics

Keynote: SQUASHING THE IMPOSTOR SYNDROME:

Culture, Confidence, and Your Unlimited Potential

Have you, or someone you know or work with, ever felt like a fraud and someone will find out that you don’t deserve to be at the table?  The Impostor Syndrome paralyzes us into thinking we don’t belong and don’t have the skills to succeed.  This isn’t the case!  Discover what’s holding you back and how to gain the confidence you need to be successful. Squashing the imposter syndrome requires organizations to embrace a culture of confidence.

Through her own story as the sole female on a team of engineers working on highly technical projects, Dr. Trego brings audiences along on her journey to overcome the impostor syndrome. This program not only inspires, but also educates audiences about how technical organizations can foster a culture of confidence in their staff.

Outcomes
PARTICIPANTS WILL
  • Gain a greater sense of confidence in their own abilities to succeed
  • Gain a better understanding of how the culture of technical organizations often works against innovation
  • Become inspired to recognize and support peers who may be struggling with self-doubt
Who Should Attend

Both men and women in their early stages of their technical careers or just promoted into leadership positions.  Senior managers who have direct reports who might be suffering from the impostor syndrome and wish to gain a better understanding of how to help.

When Should You Use This Offering?

General session address to support attendee growth. This topic also has a workshop version.

Follow-on Trainings, Breakout, and Workshop Opportunities

The offered trainings are used to increase the recruitment and retention of women and underrepresented populations in your organization. 

Gain Confidence by Squashing the Impostor Syndrome

Want to learn more and dive deeper into developing tools that will guide you into how to overcome, or help others overcome, the impostor syndrome?  Schedule an interactive one-hour breakout or half-day workshop which allows participants to explore case studies, internalize and practice key concepts to increase their confidence and ability to reach their unlimited potential.

Many technical professionals suffer from impostor syndrome – a crippling anxiety that they are not “good enough” or “qualified enough” to do the job they currently have. This impacts individual, team, and organizational performance as fear of failure replaces confidence. This leads to increasingly “safe” choices that hinder innovation and output. In this highly interactive opportunity, Dr. Angela Trego discusses with story and interactive class participation how the Imposter Syndrome keeps technical professionals from achieving their full potential. Gain a better understanding of what sometimes causes it and learn tools to help combat and prevent the impostor syndrome.

Outcomes
PARTICIPANTS WILL
  • Understand the impostor syndrome
  • Look at examples of the impostor syndrome
  • identify ways to build self-worth
Who Should Attend

Both men and women in their early stages of their technical careers or just promoted into leadership positions.  SenioLeaders, administrators, counselors, and faculty members who might be experiencing the Impostor Syndrome or interacting with those who may have the Impostor Syndrome (that sort of means everyone!)

When Should You Use This Offering?

As a training for employees or faculty development days.

Inclusion & Diversity: How to Get ‘Em, How To Keep ‘Em!

Diversity in the workforce has been shown to produce better, more robust products and research – it even affects your bottom line! Learn about unconscious bias and micro-messaging techniques.  Discuss topics associated with methods to recruit and retain women in your organization.  As the sole female among her engineering team, Dr. Trego will use personal examples as well as other case studies to bring to light how technical organizations can take advantage of this typically underrepresented population. 

Outcomes
PARTICIPANTS WILL
  • Understand the benefits of having more women in your STEM organization
  • Understand micro-messaging and unconscious bias
  • Identify recruitment and retention methods for women in STEM
Who Should Attend

Organizations interested in increasing the number of women in their organizations.

When Should You Use This Offering?

For kickoff meetings and prior to major hiring events.

Seeing with New Eyes:
Unpacking Unconscious Bias for an Inclusive Culture

We all have them, but often we have no idea that we have them!  What is unconscious bias?  How can we genuinely try to be unbiased?  Through a mix of short presentations and lively activities, we explore some harmful side effects of how our brains naturally perceive, categorize and draw inferences about the world, including other people.  We then move into micromessaging and how to improve your interactions with others. Start your journey of understanding your own unconscious biases.

Outcomes
PARTICIPANTS WILL
  • Understand micro-messaging and unconscious bias
  • Gain an awareness of one’s own biases in a safe environment
  • Develop skills to improve micro-affirmations and reduce micro-inequities
Who Should Attend

Organizations and teams interested in increasing their team’s potential

When Should You Use This Offering?

During a kick-off, mentoring or just as a great foundational team soft skills workshop.

That’s My Best and Final Offer: Cornerstones of Negotiations

You are constantly negotiating in life whether it be with colleagues, customers, suppliers, bosses, family, or friends. While we don’t have control over whether we negotiate or not we do have control over whether we negotiate better or worse than others. Learn tools and tactics to increase your skills as an ethical negotiator. Transform your stress of negotiations into confidence as you enjoy dramatically better outcomes for all parties involved.

Outcomes

This course equips participants with tools that enable them to:

  • Win more “yeses” by persuading and influencing without making excessive concessions.
  • Understand the wants and needs of counterparts better to create more value.
  • Understand your negotiation power and how to boost your power. 
Who Should Attend?

Individuals interested in increasing their skills as an ethical negotiator.

When Should You Use This Offering?

For individuals and high potential individual contributors looking to understand the skills necessary to be a successful manager. General employee training.

Implementing a Wow-Factor in STEM to Recruit High School Female Students

An outreach program for high school women in STEM is beneficial when created collaboratively between academia and industry and is amplified when a wow-factor or hands-on interactive activity is included. Collaboration on STEM outreach programs for women and other under-represented populations creates a visible pathway filling the STEM pipeline. This workshop discusses a method and benefits for academic and industry collaboration.  It entails an event with high school female students utilizing a hands-on format with company workshops, an interactive display area, and a design challenge event with industry mentorships. 

Outcomes
PARTICIPANTS WILL
  • Identify benefits to both academia and industry partners for collaboration on outreach
  • Define benefits to women in STEM for outreach programs
  • Discuss an outreach methodology
Who Should Attend

Leaders, administrators, counselors, and faculty members looking for ways to increase the number of women entering their programs.

When Should You Use This Offering?

This works well to increase industry activation. Typically done during the school year.