Unshackle the world's most forgotten women The most vulnerable person on the planet is a girl. We're losing our girls to childhood marriage, pregnancy and slavery. Rising International's dream is to create a world where women and girls matter. Carmel Jud is the visionary founder and executive director of Rising International. Her entrepreneurial passion began …
Join us as we review 2016 and look toward 2017. We'll share updates from committees, report financial results and present recommendations for consideration by the membership. Your input and feedback will be essential so this is a must-attend meeting for every active member.
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 …
Suzanne Woo is the top-selling author of On Course for Business—Women and Golf (Wiley), and teaches women how to use the game of golf to deepen business relationships and increase sales. As an attorney and business golf speaker for clients including Bank of America, Deloitte, GE, Merrill Lynch, Pepsi, and Wells Fargo, she shares how women are …
Jesse Cool is the reigning diva of CoolEatz and the chef-proprietor of three restaurants: Flea Street Café, jZcool Eatery and Catering Co., and the Cool Café at the Cantor Center for the Visual Arts on Stanford University campus. A restauranteur for over 25 years, Jesse has consistently followed her vision of using as many organic …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
Kathy Keenan is an award-winning local artist whose paintings combine realism, surrealism and impressionism in a way that connects the divine and the natural. An engaging and humorous speaker, Kathy will discuss her journey from Silicon Valley PR executive to dedicated artist as she shares her philosophy of art along with slides of her paintings. …
Reiko Nakayama has been a Feng Shui consultant and teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1997. She completed Feng Shui training with Helen and James Jay in June 1997 and advanced training with Seann Xenja in May 2002. Since 1993, she has practiced the martial art of Aikido, which is based on sensing …
