General Session - Multi-Million Dollar Success Panel

Learn how multi-million dollar women business owners start, run and grow their businesses.  Hear about their ups and downs, and benefit from their survival tips, success instincts and breakthrough ideas.

Lurita Doan

President & CEO, New Technology Management, Inc.

Edie Fraser

President, BWNI

Rhona Silver

Owner, Huntington Town House

• Cash & Working Capital--Learn how to become wealthy—smart women have money!
  • Maria Coyne, KeyBank
  • Kristen Sundin, KeyBank
     
• Triumph through Technology--Learn how to incorporate technology into your business so you can accomplish more in less time and create more balance and quality of life.
  • NeKeta Argrow, Microsoft
  • Joanna Krotz, Muse2Muse Productions
     
• Savvy Selling --Learn masterful sales, marketing and promotion strategies to attract more business to you. 
  • Lorin Beller, Big Fish Nation
  • Linda Clemons, Sisterpreneur, Inc.
  • Julie Thomas, ValueVision Associates
  • DeLores Pressley, Born Successful
     
• Smart Women Publish!--Learn how to leverage your knowledge and intellectual capital by turning that "book inside you" into a publishing success.
  • Sherí McConnell, National Association of Women Writers
  • Linda Sivertsen, Award-winning author
  • Jan King, eWomenPublishingNetwork

General Session Panel - Conquering Contracts in the Private & Public Sectors

Learn how women business owners can tap the billion dollar spending budgets of the government (federal contracts) and private sector (Fortune 1000).  There are huge contract opportunities available for women now!

Allegra F. McCullough

Associate Deputy Administrator, Small Business Administration

Theresa Alvillar-Speake

Director, Office of Minority Economic Impact & Diversity,
U.S. Department of Energy

Judith Ann Bradt

Principal & CEO,
Summit Insight, LLC

Telisa Roberson
Manager, Global Advertising & Media Services
Ford Motor Company

• Achieving Multi-Dimensional Success--Balanced success is important to achieving true happiness.  These professional women will provide collaborative and cohesive perspectives to creating success through passion, people and profits.
  • Genevieve Bos, PINK Magazine
  • Jet Parker, CEO IQ
  • Ruth Thoes Vivrett, American Express Financial Advisors
  • DeLores Pressley, Born Successful

 

• Planning for Powerful PR--Become a media darling. Learn how to develop and effectively harness  a powerful PR buzz for your business.
  • Jeff Crilley, Emmy Award winning reporter and author
  • Jill Lublin, Promising Promotion, GoodNews Media, Inc.

 

• Shift Happens--Growing your business requires learning, unlearning and relearning.  Share the triumphs and tribulations of successful business women and walk away with new insights and strategies.
  • Maureen Beal, National Van Lines, Inc.
  • Sue Malone, Strategies for Small Business
  • Astrid Pregel, Society of International Business Fellows
  • Felicia Hall Allen, Felicia Hall and Associates

• Wholistic Approach to Lasting Success with Andrea Pennington--Learn how to find balance when you can hardly stand-up. Learn how successful, busy women are creating balance in an out of balance world. 
  • Andrea Pennington, MC, C.Ac.

General Session Panel - Sports Success Panel

Experience an eye-opening discussion among women who share their stories and insights while navigating and leading the way through sports. We must first and foremost understand that business is a game.
 
Reneé Brown
Women’s National Basketball Association
Chief of Basketball Operations & Player Relations
 
Linda Armstrong Kelly
Author, No Mountain High Enough: Raising Lance, Raising Me
 
Kathy Milthorpe
Chief Financial Officer, Ladies Professional Golf Association

Maureen O'Toole-Purcell
Founder, The Pursuit of Excellence Sports Academy

Donna DeBerry
President, DRP International