Jan Pendleton has published more than thirty short stories in literary journals such as The New England Review, The Antioch Review, The Quarterly, Quarterly West, Story Quarterly, Noon, and a reprint in Brown University's Impossible Object. She won a Phelan Award in poetry, made it through the final rounds at the Nelson Algren fiction competition, …
Kim Walesh joined the City of San Jose in January of 2003 as Assistant Director of Economic Development. In this role, she recently led the development of an economic strategy for the City that will help shape policies, investments, and partnerships over the next five years. Prior to joining the City, Kim was Co-Founder and …
Molly Morgan is a peace and social justice activist currently living in San Diego and Point Arena, California. In the late 1990s she left a successful 20-year career in the computer graphics field to pursue more social change work—"without," she says, "even knowing exactly what that meant." For the past six years she's been on …
Caroline Barlerin is a founding member and current Board Chair of Taproot Foundation whose mission is to strengthen nonprofits by engaging business professionals in service. Her experience includes management and leadership roles in both the corporate and nonprofit sectors. She is currently the Managing Director at Level Playing Field Institute, a nonprofit committed to promoting …
April Bignell spoke about the role the community can play in small non-profits such as the Center for Healthy Development, CHD. She talked about the various programs and the philosophy of our agency which serves as both a counseling agency and training ground for interns. April Bignell is the Business Development Director at the Center …
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Amelia Tess Thornton is our February speaker. Her focus now is women in leadership, and she'll start with talk to us about her beginnings at FedEx, where she was promoted to management at the age of 25. (Picture yourself at 25, managing Teamsters!) She will talk about the Women's Accelerated Leadership Institute, and why she …
Katie will talk about her year-long trip around the world with her family. After much planning and organizing, Katie and her family left home on Sept. 8, 2001. The events of 9/11 almost derailed the whole plan but they decided to persevere in spite of numerous pleas from family and friends to return to their …
Yvonne Schwab, Director of Foundations In Success, and the San Jose HypnoBirthing Center is a Certified Hypnotherapist through the National Guild of Hypnotists, and the Center for Hypnotherapy Certification, a Certified HypnoBirthing Childbirth Educator with the HypnoBirthing Institute and a Certified Spiritual Counselor through the International Hypnosis Federation. She is the Director for Northern California …
In recent decades, there has been a revolution in women's education and employment, which has created enormous monumental changes not only in our work organizations, but also in our personal relationships and child rearing. But the revolution is unfinished. What do women and men, work organizations, and governments need to do now to complete the …
Rhonda is the co-owner and CFO of Rollz Royce Limousine Service. Established in 2001 by Rhonda's husband Mo, Rollz Royce Limousine Service is a family-owned business committed to outstanding personal service, and is the official transportation company for the San Francisco 49ers, Make a Wish Foundation, Ronald McDonald House, City Flight Online, Stanford Athletic Department, …
Kimberly Wiefling is the founder and principal of Wiefling Consulting. She works with leaders of rapidly changes organizations to implement practical, common sense business leadership and program management solutions that get RESULTS! And these results are not the result of heroics or fire-fighting, but predictable and most importantly, reproducible. Kimberly's philosophy in a nutshell: "Business …
