The Business Women’s Conference consisted of businesswomen who are teaching and learning more skills to be successful.
There was a Trade Fair and Exhibition that served as one of the major funding venues for the business conference.
The booths that were set up varied from Bright House Networks to Scoopy’s Dog Waste Removal to Girl Scouts. They were offering samples and selling products.
The sessions had such titles as “Get Creative: Tax Planning Strategies that Help Your Business” and “Business Etiquette: Communicating as a Professional.”
There were three keynote speakers: Soledad O’Brien was the headliner, the opening speaker was Jeanne Robertson and the closing speaker was Anne Ryder.
Robertson, a businesswoman from North Carolina, said in her segment that she wanted women to know information that they would need to have in business.
“The main thing I want for these women to take away from this experience is to use a sense of humor every day,” she said.
O’Brien, a journalist from New York, talked about her career, including what it’s like to have a mainstream public career.
She emphasized the perks and the troubles of being a female journalist. O’Brien touched on the difference between women and men in corporate America. The main lesson she said she wanted the women to remember is this: “It’s not what or how much you know; it’s how well you know it.”
Each person was an expert in the area she lectured on.
Ryder, a journalist from Missouri, spoke in Bakersfield for the first time and talked about the stories she’s covered.
“We get so busy doing things for other people that we forget about ourselves, and that it’s not what you do that matters, it’s how much love you put into it,” she said.