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  • The seven professional and personal benefits of playing golf

    Il Fornaio

    Suzanne Woo is the top-selling author of On Course for Business—Women and Golf (Wiley), and teaches women how to use the game of golf to deepen business relationships and increase sales. As an attorney and business golf speaker for clients including Bank of America, Deloitte, GE, Merrill Lynch, Pepsi, and Wells Fargo, she shares how women are …

  • The environment and you

    Dr. Standley conducted research at the Stroud Water Research Center (Avondale, PA), on the fate of natural and synthetic compounds in rivers for over 12 years.  She then attended the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy to earn a Masters Degree under the guidance of Dr. J. B. Byrne (ICPP member). Recently, Dr. Standley conducted research for three …

  • Planning to Recover from the Next Big Earthquake in the Bay Area

    Mary Lou Zoback is a seismologist and currently serves as Vice President, Earthquake Risk Applications with Risk Management Solutions in Newark, CA. She previously served as Chief Scientist of the USGS Earthquake Hazards team in Menlo Park, CA and also as Regional Coordinator for the Northern California Earthquake Hazards Program. Zoback joined the USGS in …

  • From Failed Waitress to New York Times Best-Selling Author

    Lolly Winston is a freelance journalist and best-selling author. Her first novel, Good Grief, was a New York Times best-seller, a #1 Book Sense pick, and was translated into 15 languages. Her second novel, Happiness Sold Separately, also hit the New York Times best seller list. Her short stories have appeared in The Sun, The …

  • Women in Politics – Current Status

    Mary V. Hughes heads a new initiative called the 2012 Project, a non-partisan group affiliated with the well-respected Rutgers University Center for American Women in Politics.

  • Get A Grip on Gen Y: Insights and Strategies for Effectively Relating to, Recruiting & Managing the Millennial Generation

    Lisa Orrell is an award-winning author of Millennials Incorporated and Millennials Into Leadership. She is an in-demand speaker who helps companies understand Millennials, and improves generational dynamics within their workforce. As a certified Leadership Coach, Lisa supports millennial employees to become effective, respected young leaders through her popular seminars and workshops, and one-on-one coaching services. …

  • Aging Parents! What’s Your Plan?

    Ana Hays is the director of marketing and communications at Hospice of the Valley in San Jose, California. Previously she worked in academia leading executive education programs and fund development events at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business as the Associate Director of Conferences and Special Events and at Stanford Law School as …

  • Getting to 50/50

    Sharon Meers is the co-author of Getting to 50/50, a book about how men and women find common ground so that men can be full parents and women can have full careers. Launched on the Today show in 2009, Getting to 50/50 has been featured in Time magazine, Forbes, Business Week and USA Today. It …

  • The Role of Women in Addressing Global Issues

    Linda Alepin is the Founding Director of Global Women’s Leadership and Executive Professor of Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University. Prior to her academic and not for profit career, Linda was a corporate executive in both startups and large corporations. Her career roots were at IBM and then Amdahl where she rose to be an officer …

  • Issues, Innovations & Impact – Driving Transformative Change in the Age of Information Overload

    Sandy Herz is Director of Strategic Alliances for the Skoll Foundation, which drives large-scale change by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs and other innovators dedicated to solving the world’s most pressing problems. Prior to the Skoll Foundation, Sandy worked with several innovative grassroots non-profit organizations and spent six years as Executive Director of …