Christina Bernal has lived a life more fascinating than fiction. When she was 14, she became the youngest dancer to join the San Francisco Ballet Company. Then at 18, she entered the Society of the Sacred Heart to live a contemplative life as a nun. She thought she would never dance again but she was …
Barbara Kate, a lawyer and journalist, has devoted her career to editing and writing about legal issues for consumers.
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Anne Warner Cribbs is a tour de force for all things Olympic. As a 14-year-old swimmer, she won gold in the 1959 Pan American Games. The next year as the American record-holder, Anne swam to fifth in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome in the 200-meter breaststroke and another gold as the breaststroker on the USA 4x100 medley relay team.
Jane Frommer is a scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center where she runs a lab involved in research in the basic sciences that form the underpinnings of nanotechnology. Since getting her Ph.D. from Caltech's chemistry department in organometallic chemistry, her research has focused primarily on organic materials in the solid state with the approach …
Bo Caldwell was born in Oklahoma City in 1955. She grew up in Los Angeles and attended Stanford University, where she later held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing and a Jones Lectureship in Creative Writing. She has received a fellowship in literature from the National Endowment for the Arts, an Artist Fellowship from …
Ms. Baker was most recently an executive-in-residence at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which she joined in 2006. Prior to that, she was president of BabyCenter, LLC, a Johnson & Johnson company. Under her leadership, BabyCenter became the world's leading Web site for new and expectant parents, winning numerous online health awards and expanding significantly …
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Cindy Solomon is an internationally recognized speaker, writer, executive coach and consultant and is sought after by companies large and small for her humorous, provocative and compelling insights on courage.
Janet Abrams is Director of the Public Management Program at Stanford Business School. She earned her MBA there in 1987. In her role with the Public Management Program, she administers an academic certificate offering and an array of extracurricular activities for students interested in government and the nonprofit sector and how industry deals with complex …
Denise Roy, LMFT, is a psychotherapist and an award-winning author of the books, Momfulness: Mothering with Mindfulness, Compassion, and Grace and My Monastery Is a Minivan. She has been featured in numerous publications, including: Real Simple, The Washington Post, Woman's Day, Redbook, First for Women, and San Jose Mercury News. For the last 18 years, …
No question social media is becoming an increasingly important set of tools for having conversations with customers. However, with any new set of technologies comes hype - and, consequently, the feeling that we have to jump on the bandwagon head-first or miss the ride. And, of course, let's not forget the pressure to 'monetize' our …
