Up Your Game: Quick Projects to Make New Business Friends
We have completely revamped how we’re making things happen for Women In Consulting activities, events, and the inner workings of the organization.
Why did we do that?
To make getting involved and meeting new people MUCH easier for you.
Help fit these projects into your schedule by making them short, well-defined, and interesting.
Offer more opportunities to get your brilliant thinking into the equation of where Women In Consulting is going.
Check out some of the opportunities below, organized by how you want to work and what you like doing.
Please note: Due to insurance requirements, you must be a WIC Member to join a volunteer team. See Volunteering at WIC for more information about the many benefits of taking on a volunteer role in WIC.
If you like meeting speakers and introducing them: Coordinate our monthly expert series for a quarter with another one of our members
Choose from our list of topics and speakers
Identify which 4th Thursday works for them and is open
Connect with them to clarify what our audience would enjoy and how they can be successful
Give them the link to our form for all their topic info, bio, and photo
Time required: 1-2 hours for each event; TOTAL ~6 hours over 3 months
If you like facilitating open discussion and getting to know a group of people: Coordinate and facilitate our monthly Sandbox series for a quarter
Choose a topic
Choose someone to provide expert insight
Facilitate open discussion and ‘play’ with the idea, concept, challenge
Time required: 1 ½ hours for the first Wednesday of each month; 1-2 hours coordinating with expert and creating title and description for the Sandbox focus; TOTAL ~8 hours over 3 months
If you enjoy making people feel welcome and meeting new members: Be a Women In Consulting Ambassador for a quarter
Contact new members after they join to welcome them and find out what they’re looking for
Connect the member up with at least one board member and other members via introductions
Follow up each month
Update member record for handoff to other ambassadors
Time required: 1-2 hours/month; TOTAL ~6 - 8 hours over 3 months
If you like helping Women In Consulting members get the word out about their business: Help organize sponsorships from our members for a quarter
Solicit sponsorships via listserve and our newsletters
Be point of contact for coordinating signups
Sponsor a meeting: get featured in the meeting and with a paragraph and image in our newsletter to the larger community list
Sponsor feature in the newsletter: paragraph and image in our newsletter to our larger community list
Connect them with the form to complete and upload all info and make payment
Check in with them to help them be successful with copy and call to action
Time required: 1-4 hours/month; TOTAL ~6 hours over 3 months
If you enjoy organizing seminars for high-powered women and in-depth topics: Develop one Executive Membership Level Program working with the Director of those programs
Coordinate speakers
Facilitate the event
Manage logistics: Zoom for remote; in person room and food later this year
Time required: 4-5 hours; TOTAL ~4 - 5 hours over 3 months
If you like helping high-powered women connect with one another: Join our Executive Membership Candidate Committee, along with the Director of this program, to identify and recommend candidates for this membership level based on their business revenues, goals, and additional qualifications
Look for candidates
Connect with each candidate and discuss their business
Discuss candidates and extend membership offers
Welcome them into the group
Time required: 4-5 hours; TOTAL ~ 4 - 5 hours over 3 months
If you are a connector and like working with a variety of organizations, getting to know their leadership and focus: Coordinate and add to Women In Consulting partnerships with other like-minded organizations
Look for candidates
Propose new candidates to the Executive Team of Women In Consulting
Highlight partner events that need to get promoted by Women In Consulting
Get partner event information to our marketing team
Get Women In Consulting event information to our partners
Time required: 2-3 hours/month; TOTAL 6 – 8 hours for three months
If you enjoy Marketing, we have options:
Join our Marketing Strategy Group later this year.
“Joining Women In Consulting’s board at this critical time in the organization allows me to act on my professional convictions through direct service. Women In Consulting’s goal aligns closely with my own: empower other women with the tools and opportunities to find their own professional freedom, defining success in whatever way matters most to them.”
Kate Stephenson, DYAD Engineering Board of Directors Member, 2022-2025
“Volunteering is the best way to get to know the members of Women In Consulting. One creates much deeper relationships with members, and is much more involved in the programs and organization benefits.”
If you like meeting speakers and introducing them: