Bonita Banducci

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ABOUT BONITA BANDUCCI

Bonita Banducci teaches Gender and Engineering for Santa Clara University’s School of Engineering Graduate Program Core Curriculum, Engineering and Society. She was named a Silicon Valley Woman of Influence 2014 by the Silicon Valley Business Journal.Banducci\'s original research in one of Silicon Valley\'s Fortune 500 companies “What is the Contribution Women Make that Could be the Strategic Advantage in the Global Marketplace?” launched her work in Gender Competence®, a new framework for understanding gender differences as competencies. She is Gender Specialist for the Institute for Women\'s Leadership\'s Women Leading Change Program. As a founder of the Global Women\'s Leadership Network, she has been faculty and coach for the Women Leaders for the World Program. She has taught Leadership Experience at the Leavey School of Business including a mentoring program. She consults with organizations from all sectors: business, non-profit, academia, and governmentBanducci has worked with Adaptec, Amgen, Cisco, GM, Hewlett Packard, Intel, KLA-Tencor, Sun Microsystems, Xylinx. NASA Ames, Navy Corps of Engineers, US and California Environmental Protection Agencies, as well as organizations from business, academic and social benefit sectors. She has delivered workshops at Santa Clara University, USF, Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, and Stanford\'s Institute for Research on Women and Gender as well as women in technology conferences, WEPAN, WITI, Society of Women Engineers, SCU Women & Business.She worked with Dr. Fernando Flores, whose linguistic work spawned a new generation of human communication technologies. She is a graduate of the Fetzer Institute’s Healing the Heart of Diversity Facilitation Leadership Program. She represented the Santa Clara County Commission on the Status of Women at the UN World Conference on Women in Beijing leading a workshop on Creating Partnership of Women in Business with Women in Development for Sustainable Global Development.Specialties: Banducci’s training work in gender language, perception, paradigms and brain science, adds a powerful dimension to coaching women and men, facilitating change and accelerating new behaviors. Her workshops and focus group work provide new thinking to leadership, and increase productivity, innovation, and promotability for both women and men.She co-authored an Executive Handbook for the Royal Bank of Canada (now RBC), Making the Differences Work: Closing the Gender Gap-What We Can Do