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  • 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 …

  • Health Care Access: Lessons from Genentech and the SF Department of Health

    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 …

  • Going Beyond the Tourist Track and Discovering the Nuances of Social and Cultural Life

    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 …

  • Members Meeting

    Closed to members only Minutes: Annual Members Meeting

  • Smart Grid – Promise or Peril

    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 …

  • Leading Through Crisis, Big or Small

    Carole Leigh Hutton will discuss managing through such crises as a merger of competitors, a lengthy and bitter strike, the death of a company leader, the sale of two companies and the slow, painful decline of the newspaper industry. Carole Leigh Hutton is an accomplished executive and dynamic public speaker, experienced in strategic planning and …