August 10, 2010
Speakers & Seminars
2010 Keynote Speakers
2010 Seminar Speakers
Emory Austin, CSP
Chosen as one of the only women in the International Speaker Hall of Fame, Emory Austin changes our perspectives; about ourselves, our organizations and our lives.
With just the right mix of message and humor, Emory allows you to see yourself in a different way, to better position yourself for success. Emory creates a platform of understanding based on her work analyzing myriad ways in which different people think, why they do what they do, neglect what they neglect, and choose what they choose.
UNMASKING YOUR LEADERSHIP POTENTIAL: Are Your Perspectives Keeping You Captive?
Perspective is far more important than attitude. Your skills and your perspective on leadership come from interesting, personal, and often surprising places. Emory will help you dig beneath the surface of the 'obvious' to the place where the stories of your life are either propelling you forward or holding you and your team(s) back. This will be a voyage of renewed scope as to your own power and how you can use it to climb higher.
Misti L. Burmeister M.A – Author, Speaker & Coach. Founder of Inspirion Inc.
Misti L. Burmeister is a nationally recognized expert, an engaging and results-driven speaker and executive coach. Burmeister brings more than a decade of professional experience – helping Fortune 500 companies and government organizations increase profits and productivity across multi-generational workforces through customized leadership development programs, executive coaching and keynote speeches. Her unique presentation style captures audiences of all backgrounds and encourages free and open communication that effectively breaks down communication barriers.
Expanding Your Influence™: Driving Performance Across Generations
Enhance your ability to ignite commitment and results across generations. Leadership success depends on your ability to harness the talents of each generation. You must capitalize on various styles of communication and use shared experiences to weave your team together. You will gain a clear understanding of how to leverage generational differences, creating the perfect opportunity to capitalize on continual shifts in our economy.
Who Should Attend: Enlightened leaders determined to achieve even greater success at every level within their organization.
Dr. Cile Chavez - President, Cile Chavez Consulting
Dr. Cile provides motivation and expertise to organizations in the private and public sectors on Leadership and Human Development. Her passion is to guide others in realizing their skills, talents, and potential in both their personal and professional lives. She emphasizes the power of modeling integrity, effective human relations, intelligent behavior, and enthusiasm. Her unique mixture of humor, storytelling, and metaphors has helped make her one of the most sought after speakers on contemporary leadership issues and possibilities.
The Leadership Imperative: Deloping the Human Potential
A leader’s fundamental role is to develop human potential in others for greater productivity, creativity, and satisfaction. Such development must begin with leaders themselves. Through unique frameworks, participants will examine what constitutes their essence as a leader; identify their level of performance on specific facets of leadership; and learn what it takes to move from an Informed (prepared) leader, to an Intentional (purposeful) leader and ultimately to the Inspired (passionate) level of corporate leadership.
Roxanne Emmerich - President and CEO of the Emmerich Group, Inc
Roxanne Emmerich is America’s most sought-after workplace transformation expert. She is listed by Sales and Marketing Management magazine as one of the 12 most requested speakers in the country for her ability to transform negative workplace performance and environments into “bring it on” results-oriented cultures. Roxanne is one of the few women inducted into the National Speaker Hall of Fame for her impact and quantifiable effectiveness.
Permission to Be Extraordinary®: How to Get Unstuck and Get Back Your Power
Have you lost a part of your soul to the outrageous demands and disappointments that come with being a leader? Are you working harder than ever and ready to scream, “Enough already!?”
Well, you’re not alone...and there’s hope.
For over twenty years, Roxanne, the New York Times bestselling author of Thank God It’s Monday!, has created immediate and sustainable performance breakthroughs for countless companies and their leaders, bringing results that many have called "miraculous." Is it time for YOUR miracle? Don’t miss this program!
Frans Johansson
Frans Johansson shows companies and organizations why and how to use diversity to drive innovation. Raised in Sweden by his African- American and Cherokee mother and Swedish father, Frans earned an MBA at Harvard Business School and a BS in environmental science at Brown University. Recognized as a thought leader on the topics of innovation and diversity, Johansson provides a unique learning experience for those ready to step into the intersection.
Innovative Leader: How to Break Out of the Pack
Whether you’re facing a challenge, threat or opportunity, it takes new thinking, creative ideas and collaboration if you want to survive, thrive or compete in today’s business world. Learn how to be seen as an innovative leader in your company. It doesn’t take a new budget, space-age thinkers or wildly creative types. You already have what you need. Gain a fresh perspective on what innovation is and isn’t, how it happens and, more importantly, discover how you can develop your own creative and innovative abilities to meet any challenge and make a difference.
Helene Lerner - Moderator
For more than two decades, Helene has been addressing the concerns of contemporary women. As a prolific author, independent public television host, Emmy Award-winning executive producer and Fortune 500 workplace consultant, she covers a wide array of women’s issues. She also advises corporations on leadership and diversity issues, spearheads panels, and delivers keynotes on a variety of related topics.
Reinventing your Career and Your Life: Success Stories From the Trenches
A Panel of Industry Leaders, moderated by Helene Lerner
At different stages of our career, we want different things. Be inspired by a panel of highly successful women and hear how they thrived in the midst of change. Create a strategy to move forward and capitalize on your assets, in these turbulent economic times. Emmy-award winning executive producer and host, Helene Lerner will moderate this interactive hour.
Chris Melching - Partner, Center Stage Group
Chris is a speaker, author and communications coach to senior executives of global enterprises and startups. Her passion is helping people to tell compelling stories, expand their networks, and grow as authentic leaders. In addition Chris’s leadership development retreat has been attended by leaders from around the world. Chris’s perspective comes from her years working Xerox, Computer Associates, and Oracle.
Paddle Your Own Canoe: Tips for Selling Yourself
Now more than ever it's important to stand out and gain visibility within your organization and your industry. Learn how to showcase your accomplishments on a consistent basis. There are two key ingredients to communicating your value to others. First, know what you want your audience to walk away remembering. Second, learn how to leverage your professional presence. In this interactive and engaging session, you'll learn how to:
- Strategize your ideal outcome
- Avoid common mistakes
- Maximize your presence
Sarah Michel, CSP – Perfecting Connecting
Sarah is an internationally recognized expert in building business success through connection. Sarah has presented to literally thousands around the world helping them to increase their netWORTH™ by investing in their network. She is the author of Perfecting Connecting©, A Guide to Mastering Networking in the Workplace.
The Domino Effect…Connecting the Dots for your Success
If you’ve been a victim of networking and wish there was a more authentic way to connect, this presentation is for you! Learn how to intentionally connect the dots for yourself and others to improve your A & I Factor™ for career and business success. With our current economic situation your Networth™ with your network is your most important asset as a business professional. Join Sarah Michel, CSP, master networker, to start perfecting your connecting!
Dr. Carol Scott MD, MSEd, FACEP – The Stress Relief Coach
Dr. Carol is The Stress Relief Coach for high performing women and Fortune 100 companies. The economy, relationships, job issues, kids, the toxic boss, technology, your health, parents aging, safety issues, taking care of everyone and everything---almost all of us are ‘stressed’! While there isn’t any silver bullet to eliminate stress from your life, you can’t afford the cost of letting stress sabotage your energy, health, joy, performance or business results.
Optimal Stress: Discover your Best Stress Zone
You will experience a combination of compelling stories and ground-breaking insights that allow you to understand how stress affects health & aging. You will learn how embracing Optimal Stress can change your life. You will learn the practical ‘Three P’ anchoring system that will bring harmony to a chaotic lifestyle. Finally you will be introduced to the practical step-by-step formulas that will help uncover personal uniqueness for reducing and better managing stress in your personal life and in your life in the marketplace.
Kim Snider - Founder and President of Snider Advisors
Kim Snider is award-winning entrepreneur, registered Investment Advisor, and mentor to thousands. Kim is also a mesmerizing speaker, author and radio show host. She has a unique perspective and the ability to make it come to life for audiences. The rich tapestry of her experiences combined with her dazzling command of facts and knack for story-telling, make normally dull and dismal topics fascinating!
How to Be the Family CFO: Applying the Principles of Business to the Business of You, Inc.
The job of Family CFO is arguably the most important job you will ever hold, especially for women. But where do you receive the training to become a capable Family CFO? In How to Be the Family CFO, Kim Snider shares the lessons she learned and the processes she created as she went from financial disaster to financial success. Always warm and engaging, with just the right dose of tough love, Kim will leave you feeling like you just sat down with a knowledgeable friend over coffee.
First Lady's Young Women's Summit Speakers
Jennifer Seibel Newsom
Jennifer Siebel Newsom graduated with honors from both Stanford University and Stanford Business School. She worked in Africa, Latin America, and Europe on assignments with Conservation International, a global environmental organization, where her primary focus was providing micro-enterprise opportunities to women. She has also performed in numerous films and TV shows (such as In the Valley of Elah, Rent, Something’s Gotta Give, The Nanny Express, Trauma, Life, Mad Men, and Numb3rs). Jennifer formed Girls’ Club Entertainment, LLC as an umbrella entertainment company to develop and produce independent films with strong social, political, and cultural significance, focused primarily on empowering women. She is currently writing, directing and producing the documentary film Miss Representation. Jennifer sits on the Board of Directors for the International Museum of Women while fulfilling her many duties as First Lady of San Francisco.
Kristi Yamaguchi
Athlete, artist, wife, mother, philanthropist—in each of these things Kristi Yamaguchi embodies the word champion. Her motto is "Always Dream," and Kristi’s accomplishments prove that dreams can come true with hard work and dedication. Throughout her career, Kristi has received numerous awards and accolades. In 1996 she was named Skater of the Year by American Skating World magazine. She was named to the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1998 and the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1999. On Dec. 8, 2005, she was inducted into the USOC Olympic Hall of Fame. In February 2008, Kristi received the prestigious Thurman Munson Award, acknowledging excellence in competition and philanthropic work within the community. One of her lasting legacies will be her Always Dream Foundation, founded in 1996. The foundation has been an active fundraiser and supporter of children’s charities in the San Francisco Bay Area, including annual Christmas toy drives. The Foundation’s most recent, and ambitious, accomplishment is the January 2010 completion of Always Dream Play Park.
Devanshi Patel
Devanshi Patel currently a Senior at Accel Middle College in San Jose, CA and scheduled to attend Stanford University as an Undergraduate in Fall 2010 to study International Relations/ International Business as well as Feminist Studies. Devanshi is heavily involved with YMCA Youth and Government Model Legislature (Statewide Student Government), specifically focusing on women in these fields.
Senior Executive Forum Speakers
Wendy Beecham
Wendy Beecham became the CEO of the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Executives in September 2007. She has led a transformation of the organization, clarifying the mission, upgrading the quality of the programming, and adding new member benefits including an Online Community to enable deeper collaboration among members to enhance their impact.Wendy was recently honored with both the 2010 Women of Influence award from the San Jose Business Journal honoring 100 women of influence in Silicon Valley and the 2010 History Makers Award.
Patricia Neal
Heartland is a leadership development organization that facilitates dialogue, connections and advanced learning for individuals in corporate, civic and educational spheres. Heartland programs are dedicated to nourishing a community of leaders committed to taking their visions into whole and balanced action. Since 1998, Patricia has co-convened over 160 Thought Leader Gatherings serving leaders in Minnesota and the Bay Area and co-developed The Art of Convening Trainings with Craig Neal. Patricia also leads When Women Lead retreats for women executives.
