Financial Leader Patricia Powell ’73 to Present Lecture on Changing Careers as part of Beta Gamma Sigma's Meet the Leaders of Business Lecture Series

“The Power of Reinventing Oneself” will be held on Thursday, November 6 at 2 p.m. in the auditorium at 1600 Valley Road

Patricia Powell '73

The power of changing direction and focus to move a career forward is the subject of a lecture by Patricia Powell, a 1973 alumna of William Paterson, and a highly successful financial planning business owner. The program is part of Beta Gamma Sigma’s Meet the Leaders of Business Lecture Series sponsored by the University’s Cotsakos College of Business and the William Paterson University chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma.

“The Power of Reinventing Oneself” will be held on Thursday, November 6 at 2 p.m. in the auditorium at 1600 Valley Road. Admission is free and the public is invited to attend. 

Beta Gamma Sigma is the international honor society serving business programs accredited by AACSB International—The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.  The society launched the Meet the Leaders of Business Series during the 2012-13 academic year as part of its centennial celebration; the program is designed to feature prominent business people speaking on relevant topics.  This event, organized by William Paterson’s Beta Gamma Sigma chapter, will be broadcast live to all other Beta Gamma Sigma chapters throughout the United States and abroad.

As a certified financial planner and president of her own independent financial planning and wealth management services firm, Powell manages more than $120 million for her clients. While financial acumen is clearly necessary when providing investment advice, Powell says her most important skill is listening.

“This job is really all about the people,” she says.  “You certainly need the financial skills to do the work. But the other part is coaching my clients through the thought process of how to allocate the resources they have for whatever their needs are—retirement, helping their elderly parents, or paying for college.”

Powell will speak about how she has changed careers several times, moving over time from music to finance. She will offer advice on how others could reinvent themselves multiple times during their careers and why that might be necessary.

For additional information, contact Bela Florenthal, assistant professor of marketing and president of William Paterson's chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma, at 973-720-3679 or via email at florenthalb@wpunj.edu.

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