2002   "What Does a Woman Want?":  Research in Progress on Women’s Adult Development" Catalyst, New York, NY; Head Start/Johnson & Johnson Advanced Management Fellows Program, UCLA.

  2001   "Women’s Adult Development:  Preliminary Findings" New York University; Yale School of Management.

 1999   "Time and Pacing in Project Work"  Scandinavian Seminar on Project Work, Bifrost, Iceland.

 1999     "Achieving Women at Mid-Life" Distinguished Speaker in Organizational Behavior, University of Southern California, Graduate School of Management.

 1997     "Achieving Women at Mid-Life" Presenter and Co-Organizer of Research Workshop, Citicorp Corporate Headquarters, New York.

 1997     "Achieving Women at Mid-Life: Preliminary Findings" Harvard Business School.

 1996-7  "Chaos and Complexity Theory: New Paradigms for Understanding Organizational Behavior" Invited Colloquium Speaker at: Sloan School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University School of Organization and Management, Harvard University Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Graduate School of Business, Harvard Business School.

 1996     "What is Success?"  Harvard Business School Doctoral Orientation.

 1996   "Complicating the Portrait of Relationships in Organizational Studies" with Jean Bartunek and Jane Dutton; Academy of Management National Meeting.

 1996   "Revitalizing Organizational Research"   Keynote speaker, Asilomar Conference on Organizations, Stanford University, Asilomar, CA.

 1995   "Mentors, Colleagues, Students and Friends: Relationships in Academic Life" Colloquium, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, IL.

 1994     "Bringing Relationships into the Foreground of Organizational Research" with Jean Bartunek and Jane Dutton; Showcase Symposium (Chair & Presenter); Academy of Management National Meeting.

 1994   "In a Published Voice: Getting Diversity Research into Journals" Academy of Management National Meeting.

 1994 "Using Time and Pacing to Understand Organizational Behavior" Colloquium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

 1994 "Pacing Strategic Change in a New Venture" University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.