Wendy Lea is an accomplished entrepreneur, angel investor and CEO of Get Satisfaction, a network of online support communities. She’s also an active philanthropist, serving on the board of Silicon Valley Social Venture Capital and Watermark (formerly The Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Executives). In the many chapters of her business life, from bootstrapped entrepreneur, …
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Is your to-do list two pages long and getting longer by the hour? Are you caught or lost between worlds – your life and the lives of everyone around you. In this discussion, you’ll learn tools and strategies for managing "it all" and increasing productivity. Key takeaways include: The P’s of Productivity The real power …
Linda Gass is an environmental artist whose work is informed by the wilderness, maps, aerial photography and her activist passions. Her most recent work explores land use and water issues by portraying aerial views of the human marks on our landscape. Linda’s presentation will take you on a photographic journey to the places that inspire …
Julia will describe her climb up the corporate ladder from scientist to CEO. As a clinical scientist inventor she shares her process of inventing medical devices, and as an entrepreneur and CEO she emphasizes the value of a flat organizational structure and provides management tools she learned from working with 60 medical device companies (you …
The US is detangling itself from two wars that have taken its toll on the American people as well as the civilians where US troops are fighting. President Obama wants to get out of both Iraq and Afghanistan and leave those countries to govern themselves. But years of foreign intervention and aid have left these …
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Betty Jo completed her BA in Economics at UCLA in 1976. Her interest in education motivated her to go on to Vanderbilt University where she earned her MA in Art History. While pursuing a career in business, Betty Jo discovered she had a gift for teaching and public speaking, and a passion for Personal Growth, …
People sometimes come to a fork in the road that re-directs their lives. Michele Raffin (venture capital consultant, soccer mom and gold medal master’s olympic weightlifter) was on her way to the gym when she passed an injured dove by the side of the road. A few miles later, she turned back in order to …
Carol Firenze Anglin, the renowned author of The Passionate Olive, will tell us all we ever wanted to know about olive oil (and then some) featuring stories from growing up in her Italian-American family and using olive oil for everything. She will share photos and tales from her Olive Harvest Adventure tours to Umbria and Tuscany. …
Carol Realini is a successful Silicon Valley executive and an expert in financial services innovation. She is the author of Bankrupt, an optimistic book that uses the crisis we are experiencing as a way to look forward to a very different kind of future for banking—one that will benefit both the banks and their millions of …
What do you want to do? How do you want to live your life? What one thing would you want to be remembered for? With this presentation, Michealene Cristini Risley talks about women’s roles, the effect women have on the world, and how women can make change happen. Using her personal story of moving through …
