KAY In The News

Kay in the Hartford Courant Oct. 11, 2006 - open pdf

A roomful of women, and two men, who paid $25 each at a sold-out luncheon at Hartford's Goodwin Hotel never found out "What Men Don't Tell Women About Business"...but it didn't matter.

The scheduled main speaker Christopher Flett, a lecturer who bills himself as an "alpha" male never arrived so the female audience took matters into their own hands.

Kay Wilson of Kay Wilson Coaching & Training in Ellington, jumped up from her seat and revved-up the antsy audience, launching an open discussion of what bugs women about the way they are treated in the workplace and the continued imbalance in promotions, money and respect.

"I liked it," said Shannon Eterginio, a principal of Crimson Communications in Farmington and a member of the Connecticut Women's Council, which sponsored the event with the Connecticut Real Estate Exchange.

"From my perspective, I disagreed with a lot of what was being said and feel like things have come a long way," she said of the impromptu discussion. "We could have gone on all day."

Event organizers said Flett apparently missed his train.