Cathleen Black started her career in advertising sales with several magazines including Holiday and Ms. She made publishing history in 1979 when she became the first woman publisher of a weekly consumer magazine: New York.

She serves as a member of the boards of IBM, iVillage and the Coca-Cola Company, and held a two-year term (1999-2001) as chairman of the Magazine Publishers of America. She is also a board member of the Advertising Council, a trustee of The University of Notre Dame and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2006, she made Forbes magazine’s list of “The 100 Most Powerful Women” and was listed among Fortune magazine’s “50 Most Powerful Women in American Business” for the seventh consecutive year. In 2006, she was named “Corporate Publisher of the Year” by The Delaney Report and “Publishing Executive of the Year” by Advertising Age in 2000. In June 2002, Crain’s New York Business named her one of its "100 Most Influential Business Leaders."

Black is a graduate of Trinity College, Washington, D.C., and holds eight honorary degrees.

Beth Bohn is a television packaging/literary agent and Senior Vice President at APA.  Her clients include Production Companies, producers, writers and directors working in all areas of television, and on shows such as “The Shield”, “Simmons Family Jewels”, “Mind of Mencia”, “Divorce Court”, “MADtv”, “The Real Housewives of Orange County”, “The Tyra Banks Show”, and “Family Feud”.

Ms. Bohn is currently on the Board of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and on the Board of Directors for Women In Film.  She is featured in Linda Buzzell’s book, “How To Make It In Hollywood”, Scott Lewinski’s “Alone In A Room”, and she has been featured in Script Magazine as an expert in the scripted and reality genres.

In 2001, Ms. Bohn was named “Outstanding Alumni” at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.  She is a frequent speaker and panelist at various colleges and organizations including The Los Angeles Bar Association, UNLV, The Television Academy, The Learning Annex, Scriptwriter’s Network, and Wisconsin’s Screenwriters Forum on the topics of “How To Be Successful In The Entertainment Business”, “How To Make It In The Reality Arena”, and “How To Be A Successful Writer In The Network Scripted Business.”

Genevieve Bos has a successful development, sales, operations and product management background. As publisher of Business-to-Business, Georgia's top business publication, Bos created numerous, sold-out conferences featuring many top Fortune 500 CEOs. She also spent nearly two decades in international software sales before joining Cynthia Good in  founding “Pink,” and becoming its founding publisher.

PINK represents more than a color. It´s a badge of honor celebrating a global mission of equity and opportunity - a movement acknowledging all that women are today and will be tomorrow.

Jacqueline Boyle joined Microsoft in 1999, and was instrumental in driving the launch of the new Windows Vista to 40 million small businesses worldwide. She is responsible for developing Microsoft’s small business marketing campaigns for this flagship product, and is passionate about helping business owners benefit from technology advances.

During her time at Microsoft, Jacqueline spent six years in their UK subsidiary, where she was responsible for their marketing campaigns to 2 million customers, and won the ‘2000 Advertising Excellence Awards: Most Innovative use of Business-to-Business Media Award’. She then specialized in their channel program, being responsible for 25,000 Microsoft partners, and their partner websites, call centers, events and communications. Jacqueline relocated to Seattle two years ago, to take on a global role, and regularly speaks on behalf of Microsoft to both customers and partners.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Jacqueline started her career in Sydney, Australia as a PR consultant for a number of large and small Australian corporations, before moving to Digital Equipment Corporation to manage their networking division’s marketing programs across Asia Pacific. She also took a year to travel the world, and says that it was one of the most amazing experiences of her life. She is passionate about travel, personal development, and is a dual national of Australia and the UK.

Pamela Bush-Davis is the founder and CEO of Advantage Claims Recovery Group, Inc., a nationally recognized medical claims recovery group.  Under her direction ACRG has grown to the largest service provider of it’s kind in the nation.  For 12 years ACRG has assisted thousands of health care providers in the recovery of denied, reduced and disputed workers’ compensation claims.

Pamela lectures throughout the country to Physician based organizations on her sought after expertise in insurance claim reimbursements.  Advantage Claim Recovery is recognized by numerous Associations and is noted for its outstanding reputation in the Medical Community.

Sharon Epperson, a correspondent at CNBC since 1996, covers personal finance, the energy markets, and other business and financial news for the network. Her reports can also been seen on NBC's Nightly News, Today,  the MSNBC network and various NBC affiliates nationwide.

Her personal finance book, The Big Payoff: 8 Steps For Couples To Make The Most Of Their Money -- And Live Richly Ever After, was published by Collins in May and has been featured in numerous publications, radio and television programs.

She is also a personal finance columnist for USA WEEKEND magazine and a contributor to ESSENCE and TIME magazines.

Sharon teaches a course on professional development for graduate students interested in careers in international media and communications at Columbia University’s School of International Public Affairs.

A native of Pittsburgh, PA, she lives in Westchester County, New York with her husband and two children.

Throughout an extraordinary career in business, Carly Fiorina has successfully blazed new trails, taken risks and defied the odds. As the former chairman and chief executive officer of global technology solutions provider Hewlett-Packard, she brought all of her skills to bear to write a new chapter in the life of a historic company.

After joining HP in July 1999, Fiorina led the reinvention of the company many associate with the birth of Silicon Valley, returning HP to its roots of innovation and inventiveness. Fiorina successfully led HP's controversial merger with Compaq Computer Corp., now recognized as the most successful high-tech merger in history.

In keeping with more than six decades of HP corporate stewardship, and during a time when corporations make up 51 of the 100 largest economies in the world, Fiorina called for a new era of leadership, one in which corporate leaders have an opportunity to redefine the role of the corporation, to use profit engines to raise the capabilities, extend the hopes, and extinguish despair of people across the globe.

Fiorina took an unconventional route to becoming CEO of a leading technology company, earning a bachelor’s degree in Medieval History and Philosophy from Stanford University. Fiorina holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland at College Park, Md., and a Master of Science degree from MIT’s Sloan School.

Prior to joining HP, Fiorina spent nearly 20 years at AT&T and Lucent Technologies, where she held a number of senior leadership positions and directed Lucent's initial public offering and subsequent spin-off from AT&T.

Fiorina was named an Honorary Fellow of the London Business School in July 2001. She has been honored with the 2002 Appeal of Conscience Award and the 2003 Concern Worldwide “Seeds of Hope” Award in recognition of her worldwide efforts to make global citizenship a priority for business. The Private Sector Council honored Fiorina with its 2004 Leadership Award for her contributions to improving the business of government. The White House appointed her to the U.S. Space Commission to advise it on the nation's space science agenda and contribute a broad range of high-tech expertise. Fiorina also sat on the New York Stock Exchange's executive board.

Fiorina has previously served on the boards of Cisco Systems, Kellogg Company and Merck & Company. She currently serves on the boards of CyberTrust (specializing in cybersecurity), Revolution Healthcare Group, MIT Corporation Board of Trustees and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSCM).

In her October 2006 best-selling memoir, Tough Choices, Fiorina talks about her career and her views on such issues as what constitutes a leader, how women can thrive in business and the role technology will continue to play in reshaping our world .

At the age of 52, Carol Gardner was facing a divorce that left her with a huge debt, no job, no income, and depressed. Her divorce attorney gave her some advice: “Get a therapist, or get a dog.” Gardner chose the latter and bought a four-month-old English bulldog she named Zelda. They were both underdogs looking for a big dose of unconditional love.

A friend who knew of Carol’s financial plight told her about an annual Christmas card contest that a local pet store was sponsoring. The winner would receive forty pounds of free dog food every month for a year. Carol used her background as a creative director in advertising to combine the visual of Zelda along with verbal wit and wisdom.

With the Christmas theme in mind, Carol borrowed a Santa hat from a neighbor, filled the bathtub with bubble bath and lowered Zelda into the tub. With the hat on her head and a beard made from the bubbles, Zelda was the perfect Santa imposter. Carol snapped the photo and sent it off to the store with the one-liner: “For Christmas I got a dog for my husband... good trade, huh?” Six weeks later Zelda and Carol won the contest. She remembers asking Zelda how many ways she knew to fix dog chow!

Carol sent the prize-winning image out as holiday cards to all of her friends. The overwhelming response sparked the creation of Zelda Wisdom and a few years later, the attention of Hallmark. The unique international greeting card, gift, clothing, jewelry and book line offers wisdom such as “Life is tough...wear a helmet.” “Smile...it could be worse!” “Enjoy life...this is not a rehearsal.” “Go braless...it pulls the wrinkles down.”

Zelda, whose measurements are 32-32-32, allows us to laugh at ourselves and to recognize that things could be worse. “At the core of Zelda Wisdom is humor and healing,” says Gardner. “She always makes me laugh. Zelda and I started out as underdogs, but we are proof that you don’t have to be thin, rich, young or wrinkle-free to be successful. More importantly, you don’t have to be perfect.”

Charles Gibson of Good Morning America calls Zelda “the industry’s top dog!…a supermodel that has it all!” Tough but tender, sweet but strong, Zelda has attitude. Zelda Wisdom allows us to laugh at ourselves and helps us realize that in life’s ups and down, we are never alone. There is a Zelda in all of us!

Zelda is the official "spokesdog" of Delta Society Pet Partners®, an international program dedicated to the human-animal healing bond. She's a certified therapy dog and works with children who have learning disabilities. Zelda's one-liners keep them laughing while they learn to read and write.

Stedman Graham is an entrepreneur par excellence, Chairman and CEO of S. Graham & Associates (SGA), a management and marketing consulting company, and bestselling author of You Can Make It Happen.  As a businessman, educator and speaker, he presents, consults and conducts training with corporations, organizations and nonprofits, teaching that in the 21st century, your talent and skills above all else will define your value.

A highly sought after speaker, Graham presents on the topics of maximizing leadership, achieving success, growing a business, embracing diversity, achieving optimal health, and personal and professional branding.  His corporate seminars are driven by his proprietary Nine-Step Success Process™.  In addition, Graham educates individuals and industries on using Success Circles™ a work-life balance tool he developed to make information and experience relevant to personal, professional and business growth.

Graham has authored ten books, including two New York Times bestsellers, You Can Make It Happen: A Nine-Step Plan for Success and Teens Can Make It Happen: Nine Steps to Success.  Build Your Own Life Brand explores the concept of personal and professional branding. Move Without the Ball is a collection of principles that teaches students that sports are a part of life, not life itself. Who Are You? Building Your Life’s Foundation focuses on success through self-discovery.  His latest release Diversity: Leaders not Labels includes his unique approach to eliminate barriers to success.

Actively involved in education, Graham is a former adjunct professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago where he taught a leadership course based on his Nine-Step Process. At the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, he taught a management strategy course entitled “The Dynamics of Leadership.”  He also founded and directed George Washington University’s Forum for Sport and Event Management and Marketing – the first of its kind in the country. 

Graham has shown a lifelong commitment to youth and community. In 1985, Graham founded AAD  Education, Health and Sports, a nonprofit organization of athletes and other civic leaders committed to developing leadership in underserved youths. An organization with over 500 professional athletes, AAD has served over 15,000 students through education and scholarships. Graham serves on several boards to include the national board of Junior Achievement (JA) and the 7-Eleven Education Is Freedom Foundation, and he is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago.

Graham holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Work from Hardin-Simmons University. He received a master’s degree in Education from Ball State University and an honorary doctorate in Humanities from Coker College, where he is also a distinguished visiting professor.

In 1986, Sappington Farmers Market, a 75 year-old produce and grocery store, was on the edge of financial disaster. Two of the store's three partners decided to file bankruptcy and close the store. Only one obstacle stood in their way - Tessa Greenspan.

Tessa decided to keep the store open, which meant she inherited all the company stock - and all the company debt. Sappington owed everyone from the government to its suppliers. Tessa found herself responsible for $413,000 in overdue bills.

Tessa’s ability to turn Sappington into a profitable million dollar company earned her the Small Business Administration's “2002 Small Business Person of the Year” honor for the St. Louis district. Through the years she also received the Blue Chip Enterprise Award, the Distinguished Woman Entrepreneur Award, and the 2007 Entrepreneurial Star Award, among others.

Her business savvy will help in her newest endeavor as a Distributor for a Global Beverage Company.

Dr. Kathleen Hall is an internationally recognized stress and work-life balance expert, and Founder and C.E.O. of The Stress Institute. Dr. Hall's advice has been featured by all the major media including The Today Show, CNN, FOX,  ABC News, CBS, Good Morning America Radio, Martha Stewart Radio, Fortune, USA Today, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine, Business Week, Parents, Cosmopolitan, Real Simple, and Woman’s Day.

She is the author of A Life in Balance: Nourishing the Four Roots of True Happiness, which won the 2007 Nautilus Book Award, and Alter Your Life: Overbooked? Overworked? Overwhelmed?

Alecia Huck has worked with hundreds of organizations and individuals on the key elements of high performance.  In 2004, she took her experience and started her own consulting firm, Maverick & Company, which specializes in providing customized training programs and business consulting to entrepreneurs, executives and sales teams.  Alecia’s experience includes work with a wide range of audiences from CEO’s to football teams.  Maverick and & Company has developed and delivered programs to thousands of participants on creating breakthroughs in their performance.

Loriann Ikeda is passionate about helping small businesses succeed online. Loriann is a part of the U.S. Marketing Team for Microsoft Office Live (http://www.officelive.com), a Microsoft service for small business with over 350,000 customers.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Loriann worked at a number of small companies and was responsible for building online marketing strategies and PR campaigns, helping win company awards like “Entrepreneur of the Year from Oregon Entrepreneurs Forum.”

Loriann has her M.A. in International Management from Portland State University, and a B.A. in International Studies from Washington University.

Jan B. King is a founder and the Editorial Director of eWomenPublishingNetwork, devoted to transforming women who are experts with important contributions in their fields into successfully published authors. She is the author of two books. Her book Business Plans to Game Plans is praised by academics and business people alike and is in its 3rd edition (John Wiley & Sons, 2004). Her second book Smart Women Publish was published in 2005. She is also a member of the Author's Guild.

She began her career with Merritt Publishing, a then 30-year-old publishing company, in 1983. When the company's founder retired in 1990, she became President and CEO. Ms. King transformed this small niche publisher into an employee-owned business as well as a recognized brand for financial information to professionals and consumers. She doubled revenues during the first half of her eight-year tenure, finally leading the company through an employee-buyout and its eventual sale to a leading computer based training company in 1998.

Julie Lenzer Kirk, an award-winning entrepreneur and mother of two, grew her business to multi-millions in revenues while raising her family. She cashed out of her company and now teaches entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland.  She is the author of The ParentPreneur Edge: What Parenting Teaches About Building a Successful Business (Wiley, June 2007).

Tory Johnson is the founder and CEO of Women For Hire (www.womenforhire.com), the only producer of high-caliber career expos and recruitment services connecting leading employers with professional women in all fields since 1999. Johnson is also the Workplace Contributor on ABC's "Good Morning America," where she appears frequently to offer advice on a range of career topics, including achieving flexibility and advancement for entrepreneurs and traditional employees. Glamour magazine dubbed Johnson the "raise fairy godmother" for her expertise in coaching a panel of women to ask for-and get-salary increases. She's written three books on career success, including, most recently, Take This Book to Work: How to Ask For (And Get) Money, Fulfillment and Advancement.

Daryn Kagan is the creator and host of DarynKagan.com, an inspirational online community that features a daily Web cast of stories that “Show the World What is Possible!” DarynKagan.com has become a daily destination for thousands of Internet users who seek news stories that inspire. The Boston Globe noted DarynKagan.com is "bucking the media tide," with its "emphasis on stories that illustrate the triumph of the human spirit."

Before heading into cyberspace, Daryn anchored news for CNN for 12 years. She reported live on-site during numerous global events, including the war in Iraq from Kuwait, a 2-week tour in Africa with U2’s Bono and U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill, numerous Presidential elections, and the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy. Daryn was on the air live during the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Before joining CNN, Daryn anchored sports for CNN/Sports Illustrated, the 24-hour sports news network.

Daryn earned a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University.

Gloria MacDonald is the Founder and President of Perfect Partners, The Personal Relationship Executive Search Firm, a highly successful, personalized matchmaking service.  Drawing from her experience, having interviewed hundreds of single men and women, and put together over 1400 couples, Gloria is co-author of the book Laws of the Jungle:  Dating for Women Over 40 (2007).

Jenifer Madson is a nationally renowned Financial Success Coach, and the author of the award-winning book, A FINANCIAL MINUTE: From Money Madness To Financial Freedom, One Minute At A Time! She has brought her unique brand of financial wisdom to television and radio programs across the country, been featured in national magazines such as Shape and The Nest, and was recently dubbed one of the Top 5 Female Entrepreneurs in Denver by Colorado Company Magazine, for her work in raising financial awareness for underserved portions of the community. Today she is called upon by corporations and individuals around the world to share her secrets of financial transformation. She lives in Denver, Colorado

Describing her speaking style as "big, broad and animated,” Patricia Russell-McCloud is proud to be one of the nation's only professional orators. Carrying forth an oral tradition practiced by Frederick Douglas and Martin Luther King Jr., she has spent more than twenty years on the lecture circuit. Organizations such as McDonald's, General Motors, the FBI, Xerox, Proctor & Gamble, and hundreds more have all benefited by having Patricia dispense her inspirational wit and wisdom.

She has received many honors, including being named one of the top five business motivators in the country in 1998 by Black Enterprise Magazine. For the last four years, Ebony Magazine has named her one of the most influential people in the United States.

Before embarking on a speaking career, Russell-McCloud was the Chief of Complaints for the Federal Communications Commission. She is a graduate of Kentucky State University and Howard University School of Law. 

Dahlynn McKowen is one of Chicken Soup for the Soul’s most trusted coauthors. Besides being the lead coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur’s Soul, she also coauthored Chicken Soup for the Fisherman’s Soul, Chicken Soup for the Soul in Menopause, the upcoming Chicken Soup for the Soul: Celebrating Brothers and Sisters and is currently creating Chicken Soup for the Female Entrepreneur’s Soul.

Dahlynn and her business partner/husband Ken stay active with their company Publishing Syndicate, a small business that provides writing, ghostwriting and editing services to publishers. The McKowens author many books each year, the most recent being Best of California’s Missions, Mansions and Museums: Bringing the Golden State’s Past Alive for Today’s Travelers for Wilderness Press.

The duo has over fifty years of professional writing experience. Dahlynn is an established freelance writer with numerous book contracts underway. Since 1987, she has produced over 2,000 works including business features, B&B reviews, restaurant reviews and travel articles. Her reputation is such that she has also ghostwritten stories for a former U.S. president, more than two dozen Fortune 100 and 500 corporate founders and CEOs, as well as a few California governors. 

Judi Sheppard Missett founded Jazzercise in 1969. As president and CEO of the  world’s leading dance-fitness program, Judi oversees 150 staff members and 6,800 franchisees worldwide.  Additionally, she teaches Jazzercise classes, choreographs routines and travels extensively as a guest speaker.  Judi also spearheads activities to give back to the community and has collaboratively raised more than $26 million for various charities. Her passion for bringing the joy of fitness to people has led to great success and numerous honors, including induction into the Enterprising Women Hall of Fame, Club Industry Fitness Business Pro’s “Lifetime Achievement Award,” San Diego Business Journal’s “Women Who Mean Business Award,” IDEA Health & Fitness Association’s “Lifetime Achievement Award,” induction into the National Association of Sport and Physical Education Hall of Fame, and March of Dimes “Mother of the Year Award.”

Delia Passi is the nation’s leading authority on Selling to Women. As President and CEO of MedeliaCommunications, Passi supports companies in their efforts to be the very best in their industry at closing the deal with the woman customers and retaining that customer forever. Passi is a prominent speaker and trains thousands of sales representatives each year on how to better sell to women and couples through a series of sales development training programs that she has created.  Passi is also the author of Winning the Toughest Customer, The Essential Guide to Selling to Women (Kaplan, 2006). Passi’s knowledge is complimented from a successful career of proven sales, marketing, and entrepreneurial experience. Prior to founding MedeliaCommunications, Passi was the Group Publisher of Working Woman and Working Mother magazines.  

Called a “marketing guru” by the Wall Street Journal, Michael Port, has lectured, trained, inspired, and provided coaching and consulting services to over 20,000 business owners in the last two years alone. As a speaker, he has headlined events with leaders like Brian Tracy and Tony Robbins.

Michael is the author of the national bestselling Book Yourself Solid, The Fastest, Easiest and Most Reliable System For Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even If You Hate Marketing And Selling and the soon to be released Beyond Booked Solid: Now, Build a Bigger, Better Business By Leveraging the Power of People and Processes to Make More Money While Working Less. He’s also a contributing author to Success Secrets of the Online Marketing Superstars and Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters.

Michael received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Tulane University and a Masters degree from New York University.

Creating the Action Advantage and an ROI (Return on Innovative Intelligence), Edie Raether is an international authority on breakthrough thinking for personal and business excellence. An expert on the neuroscience of success, influence, and emotional, intuitive and innovative intelligence, her transformational concepts – MindShift, FutureThink, LeaderShift and TeamThink- engage whole-brain performance for personal renewal, strategic positioning, and organizational change. As a keynote speaker, Edie has empowered over 3,500 professional associations and Fortune 500companies such as IBM, General Motors, JC Penney, S.C. Johnson, Oscar Mayer, the Marriott, NCR, Avon, SHRM, MPI, ASTD, NAR, and women entrepreneurial organizations and small businesses

An internationally acclaimed author, Edie’s books have been translated into numerous languages and include: Winning!  How Winners Think – What Champions Do, Why Cats Don’t Bark, Sex for the Soul, and Forget Selling! 12 Principles of Influence and Persuasion.  In addition to many audio and video Change Mastery programs, Edie has also co-authored several inspirational and business anthologies to make success a conscious choice.

Edie is an expert resource for hundreds of publications such as The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The New York Times, Prevention, Selling Power, INC, and Reuters.  Edie has also shared the platform with such celebrities as Tom Brokaw, Patch Adams, Art Linkletter and Bob Hope.

A human behavioral expert for optimal performance, Edie has over thirty years of experience as an international speaker, performance coach, and corporate trainer in business development. She has also been a college professor, and talk show host with ABC. Edie is a CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) which is the highest earned designation awarded by the National Speakers Association to fewer than 8% of its membership.

Barbara M. Rubin is the founding partner of the entertainment law firm of Raskin Peter Rubin & Simon. Ms Rubin is a veteran entertainment attorney who has put her extensive in-house corporate business and legal affairs experience at the service of writer/producers, actors, directors and small production companies in both film and television.

The former Head of Business and Legal Affairs for Spelling Television, A&E Television Networks (West Coast) and Rysher Entertainment, Ms. Rubin came up through the business and legal affairs departments of CBS Television and Theatrical Films as well as Disney Television.

Twice elected to the Board of Governors of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS) and twice appointed to its Executive Committee, Ms. Rubin is an active member of the entertainment community. She served on the Emmy License Negotiation Committee and currently co-chairs the Next Act Committee.

Ms. Rubin currently teaches “Negotiating the Writer’s Deal” at UCLA and is a guest lecturer and panel moderator at USC, ATAS, Writer’s Guild of America, Association of Talent Agents,  CSUN, Woman In Film, California Bar Association,  NAPTE, AMEC and MediaXchange, and additionally serves on the Planning Committee for the USC Institute on Entertainment Law and Business. Ms. Rubin is the author of two recent cover articles for Los Angeles Lawyer: “The Secrets of the Business Affairs Executive” and “Negotiating with Media Giants.” Emmy Magazine called Ms. Rubin a “top industry negotiator.”

Representative Clients
Ms. Rubin's clients include WGA Award-winner Ellen Weston (Head Writer, Guiding Light), Jeff Melvoin (Executive Producer, Alias, Army Wives), Bruce Zimmerman (Writer/Producer, Desperate Housewives, CSI: Miami) and actresses Serena Scott Thomas (Hostage), Alison Sweeney (Days of our Lives/The Biggest Loser). Among the production companies she represents are Netflix (Red Envelope Entertainment), New Line Television, Maverick Films and GOTV.

Jean Starling received an MBA in International Business and after working in corporate America for many years, indulged her passion for horses when she and her husband bought Sunshine Hills Ranch to raise, breed and show quarter horses.  To her surprise, it was then that she reached a deeper understanding of leadership and how to teach it.  She is the author of Taking the Reins: Let Horses Teach You to Lead with Spirit (2007).

Ann Tardy, a CPA-and-corporate-attorney-turned-queen-of-moxie! As the creator of the LifeMoxie! movement, Ann infused her passion into LifeMoxie!, the ambition-on-a-mission company inspiring and motivating others to be their biggest selves with the art of creating their own life moxie. She is the author of Life Moxie! Nine strategies for Taking Life by the Horns (2007).

Linda Kaplan Thaler founded KTG in 1997, and she is the ultimate decision-maker, cheerleader, and has oversight on all creative output. She has been responsible for some of the most touching, relevant, and famous commercials during her 24 years in the advertising business. Under her creative leadership, KTG has been ranked by industry publications as the fastest-growing agency in the United States and touted for its breakthrough creative and immediate results. She has won too many awards for creativity and leadership to mention. Linda is the author of, The Power of Nice: How to Conquer the Business World with Kindness.  Some principles from her book are:

• NICE is the most underestimated tool for getting ahead
• In today's interconnected world, companies and people with a reputation for cooperation and fair play forge the kind of relationships that lead to bigger and better opportunities, both in business and in life
• Nice people are healthier, live longer, have more successful relationships & marriages and get hired first
• There are six key principles of NICE and with these easy to use tips, you will see your actions reap rewards in many positive and unexpected ways

Sandra Yancey is a networking expert who teaches others how to create relationships that harness great dividends. She is the Founder and CEO of eWomenNetwork, the #1 resource for connecting and promoting women and their businesses worldwide. Starting with just 20 women in her personal database in 2000, she has grown her organization to now have 113 chapters throughout the U.S. and Canada and a database of over 500,000 women business owners and professionals. Ranked #1 by Business Women’s Network as the best online community for women business owners and professionals in North America, eWomenNetwork.com is the most visited women’s business website on the World Wide Web, receiving more than 200,000 hits daily.

Sandra is the recipient of numerous national business awards, including the 2005 Entrepreneur Star award from Business Women’s Network and Microsoft, 2005 Woman Advocate of the Year from the Women’s Regional Publishing Association, and the 2006 Enterprising Women Advocacy Award from Enterprising Women magazine. She hosts the top-rated eWomenNetwork Radio Show, which broadcasts out of Dallas on the #1 ranked ABC affiliate, 820 WBAP. Sandra has been profiled in hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles throughout North America and is recognized as one of the leading authorities on the topics of networking and relationship building.

Sandra is the author of the book, Relationship Networking: The Art of Turning Contacts Into Connections. Her story has been selected for the hot new Chicken Soup for the Soul series, Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur’s Soul, which features the top entrepreneurs from North America. In fact, the eWomenNetwork logo is featured on the book’s front cover!

Sandra holds a Master’s degree in Organization Development from American University in Washington D.C. and a post-graduate degree from the prestigious Gestalt Institute in Cleveland, Ohio.

The eWomenNetwork Foundation, which Sandra founded in 2001, has awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash grants, in-kind donations and support to women’s nonprofit organizations, as well as scholarships for emerging female leaders of tomorrow.