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One - Adapting to Change
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| Regina
(Reggie) Liang Chun is San Francisco market president
for Bank of America, with responsibility for revenue generation
and community relations for the San Francisco market. She
also serves as national treasury management executive overseeing
the sales of cash management products in Commercial, Small
Business and Middle Market banking. A 1994 recipient of the
Outstanding Asian Woman Service Award from the Asian Business
League, Ms. Chun also received the Asian Women's Resource
Center's Outstanding Community Service Award in 1995. |
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| Lieutenant
Colonel Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch has been invited
to train and consult throughout the United States and Puerto
Rico. Following a distinguished military career, she retired
in 1996 to establish Educational Achievement Services Inc.,
a training/consulting firm that uses real-case studies to
provide an interactive learning environment. The first woman
commissioned as an ROTC officer in the state of Texas Ms.
Castillo has received the Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service
Medal, Army Commendation Medal and Army Achievement Medal. |
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| Debra
Meyerson is the author of Tempered
Radicals, named a top 10 book on work-life issues by the
Wall Street Journal, and is visiting professor at Stanford's
Graduate School of Business. Debra was named as a Bay Area's
"most influential women" by the San Francisco
Business Times. Her work has been featured by KQED,
Harvard Business Review, New York Times, Boston
Globe, San Jose Mercury, San Francisco Chronicle,
Inc. Magazine, Fast Company, Business Week,
Glamour, and others. |
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| Richard
A. Moran is a Partner with Accenture LLP in Change
Management. He has worked in all types of organizations worldwide.
Moran helps organizations implement their strategies by keeping
management focused and by getting lots of help from employees.
He is the coauthor of the 1993 landmark study Postcards from
Employees, which captures the perceptions of more than 50,000
employees regarding their organizations and managements as
well as customer service and other work-related areas. He
has been featured on CNN, National Public Radio, UPI, and
other media on workplace and employee issues. |
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Mary
Huss has, since 1991, served
as publisher of the San Francisco Business Times, the
premier weekly business newspaper serving 93,000 readers in
the five-county Bay Area. A past president of Professional
BusinessWomen of California, she is active on many boards
in the Bay Area, including the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce,
the Association for Corporate Growth, the Commonwealth Club
and SFSU College of Business. Ms. Huss received her BA in
journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
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Two - Workplace Trends
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| Kathy
Cleveland Bull is Founder and President of N~Compass
Consulting, a training and organizational development company
dedicated to helping clients “Navigate the Art and Science
of Change.” She has worked with Dr. Spencer Johnson to
develop training materials and presentations built on his
bestseller “Who Moved My Cheese?” and previously,
Ms. Cleveland Bull directed Training and Organizational Development
for some 2,000 employees of the Division of Student Affairs
at the Ohio State University. |
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| Carole
Young is General Manager of Global Diversity for ChevronTexaco
Corp. In this capacity, she is responsible for defining the
company's strategic direction, vision, philosophy, objectives
and metrics around global diversity issues. Previously, Ms.
Young served as Corporate Ombuds Director for Texaco Inc.,
a position she assumed in 1998, with responsibility developing
and managing Texaco's ombuds program, a resource within the
company to provide confidential assistance in resolving work-related
concerns by serving as a counselor and facilitator. |
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Three - The Enterprising Woman
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| Robin
Fisher Roffer presides over three companies that develop
brand building marketing and promotional campaigns for media
and technology businesses. Through her flagship company -
Big Fish Marketing - Ms. Roffer has created strategic marketing
for A&E, CNN, Comedy Central, Discovery Channel, ESPN,
Fox Family Channel, Galavision, Hallmark Channel, The History
Channel and Lifetime. She is also the author of Make a
Name For Yourself: Eight Steps Every Woman Needs to Create
a Personal Brand Strategy for Success. |
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| Bonnie
Wan is a key principal of the Juice talent management
agency, and has spent a decade interpreting people, their
values, and attitudes toward companies and brands. Ms. Wan
has consulted with numerous leading companies, including Sony
PlayStation, Nike, MTV, Sega, Epinions.com, Saturn and Discover
Card. Her background is a result of her experience with top
advertising agencies, including TBWA/Chiat Day, Hal Riney
& Partners, Foote Cone & Belding, Goodby Silverstein
& Partners and Weiss Stagliano. |
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Mari
Cortizo is a principal of Juice
Talent and has
over 12 years’ experience in brand development. She
was a founder member and Head of Strategic Planning at
one of London’s top advertising shops and
award-winning businesses, St Luke’s, (formerly
Chiat/Day). In 1999, she was brought to the US by
Blazing Paradigm to set up its strategic planning
department. Mari is a qualified healer in the UK and a
student of psychotherapy for 7 years.
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Griselle
Colón brings 15 years
of experience in the field of promotions, special event marketing
and public relations in both general and multi-cultural markets
with an emphasis on the Hispanic market. Ms. Colón
is the Director of Account Management for Orcí Public
Relations. In this capacity she manages projects for Verizon,
Allstate Insurance, Tampico, Gamesa and Shell Oil Company.
Ms. Colón is an accomplished journalist having produced
television and radio as an extension of her marketing projects.
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Lynette
Lew joined Sybase as Senior
Director of Corporate Marketing Services for Sybase in 1999,
with responsibility for managing corporate demand generation
programs and strategic events for Sybase's customers worldwide.
Previously, she served as the director of communications at
Maxager Technology, senior manager for marketing programs
for the Internet Business Unit at Cisco Systems and the manager
for field programs and event marketing at Intel. Ms. Lew holds
a BA degree from San Francisco State University.
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Four - Your Personal Landscape
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Leslie A. Blodgett is
a nationally recognized spokesperson in the beauty industry
with 20 years of experience in product development and marketing.
Bare Escentuals has retail boutiques, a strong QVC viewership
and an infomercial business nationwide. Forbes Magazine
says, “Leslie knows what women want.” She appears
regularly on KPIX Evening Magazine in the Bay Area. In 2001
Bare Escentuals merged with MD Formulations to form MD Beauty.
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Suzanne
Girard Eberle, MS, RD is a nutritionist, former elite
runner and author of Endurance Sports Nutrition.
An active member of the Columbia River Eating Disorder Network,
Ms. Girard Eberle teaches Smart CHOICES for Health, a 10-week
weight management program based on a non-dieting approach,
as well as course in sports and exercise nutrition at Portland
State University. A contributing editor for Running Times,
her nutrition articles have also appeared in Self,
Shape and Men's Fitness.
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| Laraine
T. Zappert, Ph.D. is the author of Getting It Right,
a book that advises readers about sound strategies for striking
the right balance between their personal and professional
lives. A clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences
at Stanford University, Dr. Zappert is also the founder and
director of the Women's Group Program at Stanford's Graduate
Schools of Business, Law, Medicine, and Engineering, she also
serves as Director of the University's Sexual Harassment Policy
office. |
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| Linda
Marks is a founder and principal of Rupert & Company,
Washington, DC-based advisors on the diverse and flexible
workplace. The firm is the premier provider of strategic consulting
services and management training on flexible work arrangements
to Fortune 1000 companies. Ms. Marks co-authored Negotiating
Time: New Scheduling Options in the Legal Profession.
She graduated with honors from Brandeis University and works
from her home office in San Francisco. |
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| Kathy
Burke is the Work/Life Strategy Manager for Hewlett-Packard,
working with internal partners and external alliances to help
ensure HP employees and their managers have the tools, resources,
and environment to manage their work and personal lives. She
has been with Hewlett-Packard since 1984 and is located at
HP's world headquarters in Palo Alto, California. Ms. Burke
is a member of the Work/Life Council of the Conference Board,
the Alliance of Work/Life Professionals, and One Small Step. |
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Five - Innovative Thinking
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Chitra
Banerjee Divakaruni divides
her time between San Francisco and Houston, where she teaches
Creative Writing at the University of Houston. A native of
India, she is the founder of MAITRI, a helpline for South
Asian women in San Francisco, and volunteers for Daya, a similar
service in Houston. A fiction judge for the 2000 National
Book Award, Ms. Divakaruni is also the author of "The
Mistress of Spices." Her work has been translated into
12 languages.
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Margot
Magowan is co-founder of the
Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership, an educational
organization that provides professional skills and mentorship
to young women. Her columns on politics and culture have been
published in Salon, Glamour and the San Francisco
Chronicle. Ms. Magowan has appeared on CNN's Crossfire,
MSNBC's Hardball and the Fox News Channel. She is also
a board member of the Third Wave Foundation, a grantmaking
project that addresses the needs of women between 15 and 30.
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Lalita
Tademy is a former vice-president
of Sun Microsystems who left the corporate world to trace
her family's history and write her first book, Cane River,
which traces four generations of women and the African American
experience. She was featured in Fortune magazine's
"People on the Rise" list and in 1998 she was named
an African-American Innovator in the New Millennium at the
Silicon Valley Tech Museum of Innovation. Ms. Tademy has a
BA and an MBA from UCLA.
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Jillian
Manus is president of Manus
& Associates Literary Agency, a bi-coastal firm representing
authors for 12 years. Ms. Manus has held senior positions
as a T.V. agent with I.C.M., Director of Development at Warner
Brothers and Universal Studios, V.P. of Media M&A at Credit
Suisse, and Associate Publisher at two national magazines.
She is a frequent lecturer on the publishing industry, women's
advocacy, and literary/education. She sits on several boards,
including the Board of Directors for New York University.
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Six - Young Women's Program
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Kay
Breeden is Vice President of
Environmental Health and Safety for Seagate Technology. An
authority in environment, health and safety management, she
has more than 25 years of experience working internationally
for industry and government in E,H&S management, business
strategy, policy development and technical studies. Ms. Breeden
joined Seagate in 1997 and holds global responsibility for
all environmental and occupational health and safety-related
functions for the company's 48,000 employees located in more
than 15 countries.
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| Amy
Love is CEO of ADL Inc, and Publisher for REAL SPORTS'
magazine, The Authority in Women's Sports coverage, and the
first-ever national consumer magazine focused on the real
representation of today's female athletes of all ages. Ms.
Love holds two Bachelor of Business degrees from Texas Tech
University and a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard
University. Ms. Love has held positions with Haagen-Daz, Procter
& Gamble, Booz Allen & Hamilton and Navigation Technologies. |
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| Brenda
C. Rhodes is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive
Officer of Hall Kinion and Associates. She began her career
in the staffing industry in 1981, and 10 years later established
Hall Kinion and Associates and has continued as its executive
officer growing the private company from one office and $10
million in revenue to the public company of today. Ms. Rhodes
attended Brigham Young University and in 1996 graduated from
Harvard University's OPM Program. |
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Alice
Smiler Ostrovsky is the Manager
of Workforce Development Programs at Autodesk, Inc. She is
responsible for company-wide high school and college internship
programs, School-to-Career activities, as well as a special
initiative called Design Your Future encouraging girls to
pursue math, science, and technology-based careers. Ms. Smiler
Ostrovsky earned her Bachelor’s degree with Honors from
Brown University, and her secondary education credential from
the University of San Francisco.
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Jennifer Jones
is currently the morning reporter for KGO Radio's South Bay
Bureau, where she began in July 2000. She got her first radio
job in Redding California after graduating from Shasta High
School, and continued to work as a disc jockey, news reporter
and anchor while attending Chico State University.
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