College of Business<\/a>, on Thursday, Nov. 5, at 3:30 p.m. The virtual lecture is free and open to the public. (See details below.)<\/p>\n\u201cMy journey has taught me that it doesn\u2019t matter what your family background happens to be. You can overcome any adversity,\u201d says Boelkes, founder of Business World Rising. \u201cLife is too short to not love what you do. Discover whatever it is that you love and then do that \u2013 in an organization that you love, where the culture is a good fit for you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Boelkes started her career in fashion design in Southern California before relocating to Newport in 1980 with her husband, a naval officer reassigned to Naval Station Newport. Interested in running her own business, Boelkes went back to school, earning a bachelor\u2019s degree in business administration and an M.B.A. in management information systems from 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n
A 溏心vlog免费B站 internship with Raytheon\u2019s Missile Systems division in Portsmouth started a 30-year career leading sales, global business operations and professional service organizations within Fortune 150 technology companies, including AT&T, IBM, and Arrow Electronics. Along the way, Boelkes built a reputation as a passionate, people-first leader who inspired teams to deliver top results.<\/p>\n
In 2009, Boelkes launched Business Women Rising, a leadership develop firm dedicated to advancing high-potential business women to senior leadership roles. The company evolved into Business World Rising, which helps organizations create \u201cbest-place-to-work\u201d cultures where \u201cheartfelt\u201d leaders inspire their teams to do their best. Boelkes is also the author of \u201cThe WOW Factor Workplace: How to Create a Best Place to Work Culture\u201d (2019) and \u201cHeartfelt Leadership: How to Capture the Top Spot and Keep on Soaring\u201d (2020). She\u2019s working on her next book, \u201cWomen on Top: What\u2019s Keeping You from Executive Leadership?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLeadership development,\u201d she says, \u201ccan happen through trial and error, by observing and learning from role models (good and bad), from coaching and mentoring, and organized training. All of it is important if you wish to be a good leader.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are also many ways to create a successful workplace culture. It can happen by accident or it can be created and nurtured. What may seem like a great workplace to some, may not be so for everyone. Because life is too short not to love what you do, it\u2019s important to find a workplace culture that suits you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Boelkes, who lives in Florida with her husband, Chris, is active in numerous organizations, including founding and serving as chair of the Florida-based civic group, We The People, and as chapter president for P.E.O. International, a philanthropic organization that promotes the advancement of women.<\/p>\n
Boelkes\u2019 lecture, \u201cSoaring Beyond Roadblocks: A Heartfelt Leader\u2019s WOW Factor Journey,\u201d is open to the public. Go to the Vangermeersch Lecture webpage<\/a> to register; you will be emailed a link to watch the lecture when it is presented.<\/p>\nThe Vangermeersch Lecture was established in 2008 with a gift from 溏心vlog免费B站 alumna Deborah Ciolfi \u201980, endowing a series that honors former accounting Professor Emeritus Richard Vangermeersch, who retired in 2004 after 34 years at 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Oct. 28, 2020 \u2013 Through 30 years with Fortune 150 companies, Debra Boelkes soaked up a swimming pool\u2019s worth of knowledge about what makes leaders so successful that their inspired workers will gladly follow them. Actually, she was taking mental notes even before then. \u201cWhile I didn\u2019t realize it at the time, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-75782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","tag-college-of-business"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}