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 …
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.
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. …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
Lisa Hammann is a patient access champion in her volunteer role as the Vice-President of the San Francisco Public Health Foundation Board of Directors and in her job as a Director of Access Solutions for Genentech. Her values and how she lives her life are fully aligned. In her nine-year career with Genentech, Lisa has …
Gayle Keck is a Lowell Thomas Award-winner who writes about travel and food – preferably both at the same time. She has written for Gourmet, National Geographic Traveler, Islands, Executive Traveler, GQ, ForbesLife Executive Woman, Four Seasons, VIA, 360, the Zagat San Francisco Bay Area Restaurants guides and AARP The Magazine. Gayle is a frequent …
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The Smart Grid promises to change our relationship with electricity from that of a passive, unaware consumer to an active, engaged prosumer (as defined by Alvin Toffler, a producing consumer). This talk will discuss some of the greatest beneficial impacts Smart Grid technologies will have on consumers, energy markets, and our environment. Christine Hertzog is …
