24th March 4, 2015 | Hyatt Regency Hotel | Tulsa, Oklahoma Learn more about moving toward your career goals, developing yourself and others, and enhancing your leadership skills from expert women leaders. Speakers from 2014 Conference Dr. Jeanine Rhea, Dr. Jeretta Nord and Mrs. Lou Kerr, The Kerr Foundation, Inc. Register today to learn more about these topics: Designing a Business/Designing a Life The Strategic Networker: Focus Your Attention and Tactics to Improve Your Outcomes Working with a Purpose - Intent and Intention Keys to Success in Business (and Life!) … A C.O.M.B.O. The Power of Philanthropy Presented by The Oklahoma International Women’s Forum, The International Women’s Forum Leadership Foundation, and the Center for Executive and Professional Development, Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University The 24th Annual Women’s Business Leadership Conference Wednesday, March 4, 2015 • Hyatt Regency Hotel • Tulsa, Oklahoma • 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Learn more about moving toward your career goals, developing yourself and others, and enhancing your leadership skills from expert women leaders. 8:30 a.m. Registration 9:00 a.m. Welcome and Introductions Facilitator: Alexis Smith – Assistant Professor of Management, Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University Ken Eastman – Dean, Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University Mary Frates – Principal, Eris Productions, and President, Oklahoma International Women’s Forum, Oklahoma City, OK 9:15 a.m. The Strategic Networker: Focus Your Attention and Tactics to Improve Your Outcomes Nancy May – President and CEO, The BoardBench Companies, LLC, Norwalk, CT 10:00 a.m. Designing a Business/Designing a Life Nancye Green – Chief Design Officer, The Medicines Company, New York, NY 10:45 a.m. Break 11:00 a.m. Working with a Purpose - Intent and Intention Sudha Pennathur - President and CEO, House of Pennathur, Tiburon, CA 11:45 a.m. Luncheon and Executive Leadership Panel - Questions and Answers Lou C. Kerr – President and Chair, The Kerr Foundation, Inc. and Chair, Oklahoma International Women’s Forum, Oklahoma City, OK Moderator: Teresa S. Weber – Managing Partner, Mattioli Weber Consulting, Oklahoma City, OK Executive Leadership Panel: Nancye Green, Nancy May, Sudha Pennathur, Toni Portmann, and Shannon Mabrey Rotenberg 1:30 p.m. The Power of Philanthropy Shannon Mabrey Rotenberg - Executive Director, j.k. livin Foundation, Los Angeles, CA 2:15 p.m. Keys to Success in Business (and Life!) … A C.O.M.B.O. 3:00 p.m. Wrap-up Alexis Smith, Oklahoma State University 3:30 p.m. Adjourn Toni Portmann - Board of Directors, Support.Com, SPRT, Dallas, TX Conference Sponsors Silver Sponsors: Bronze Sponsors: Dan & Marilyn Mabrey Sulivant Sponsors: Ann Simmons Alspaugh • Mary Frances Michaelis • R.L. Sias • MGW Enterprises • Excellence Engineering, LLC 24th Designing a Business/ Designing a Life Nancye Green Chief Design Officer, The Medicines Company New York, NY The Strategic Networker: Focus Your Attention And Tactics To Improve Your Outcomes Nancy May President and CEO, The BoardBench Companies, LLC Norwalk, CT Working with a Purpose Intent and Intention Sudha Pennathur President and CEO, House of Pennathur Tiburon, CA Nancye Green has owned the business she founded – off and on - for over 40 years. She has been a CEO, a Chief Brand Officer (twice), the president of several professional organizations – design and business, has been on a number of Boards of Directors, both corporate and not-for profit, has sold her company and started it again. She has taught in design schools, lectured to various kinds of audiences and mentored many young women Nancye Green is a designer and business leader, with a storied career addressing the complex communication challenges of large enterprises, startup companies and non-profit organizations. Today she is Chief Design Officer at The Medicines Company, a highly innovative fast growing hospital medicine company. Before creating a joint alliance between Donovan/Green and MDCO, Ms. Green developed, designed, and produced in multiple media on behalf of clients as diverse as 3M, P&G, Exxon, American Express, GM, and Sony. She has served on the Boards of Directors of several companies including Hallmark, Ingram Partnership and EcoHealth Alliance, and the Design Board of P&G. For those of you just starting to build your networks, you will learn that a strategic approach works better. For those of you more experienced, you will learn how to cut through the “fog” quicker, and better assess opportunities that you can capitalize on. By the end of the session, you will have met and learned how to leverage at least one valuable new connection. Nancy May is President and CEO of The BoardBench Companies, LLC, a corporate governance advisory and director succession services firm. Ms. May has over 25 years experience as a strategic advisor to high-growth, mid-cap, and Global 100 public and private companies and their boards worldwide on issues impacting financial health, rapid growth, and corporate sustainability. Early in her career, Ms. May was known for her work in emerging technologies where she developed and implemented advanced business, marketing, and consumer applications for such clients as Burger King, CitiBank, CocaCola, Ford Motor, Kodak and others. Sudha Pennathur’s talk will be about how we act in a changing world of social, cultural and environmental values. In her own business, she follows a “Working with a Purpose” model where the intent is first to make a profit, but then followed up with the intention of giving back to society. Sudha Pennathur is a nationally renowned designer, Founder, President and CEO of House of Pennathur, a global design and manufacturing company dedicated to providing unique, artisan-handmade jewelry and textiles for high-end specialty stores and museums. In the 29 years since its founding, House of Pennathur has employed over 2,000 artisans residing in developing countries worldwide, with particular focus in India, to produce her unique collections for stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman, and for catalogs and museums such as The National Geographic, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. She is dedicated to “giving back” to the community she is in and earmarks a large portion of her earnings to give to the non-profits to uplift the human spirit.” Enroll today! Call toll free 866-678-3933 or visit cepd.okstate.edu/women Keys to Success in Business (and Life!) … A C.O.M.B.O. Toni Portmann Board of Directors, Support.Com, SPRT Dallas, TX The Power of Philanthropy Shannon Mabrey Rotenberg Executive Director, j.k. livin Foundation Los Angeles, CA Toni Portmann will present an engaging and participative perspective on 5 keys to success in business (and life). It is never ‘one thing’ but a C.O.M.B.O. of elements that make up success and you will get to figure out the Key to the Acronym and leave with practical ideas and approaches that will frame how you approach your job and career and your work with others in new ways you may not have considered! Toni Portmann serves on the board of directors of Support.Com, SPRT, a publically traded company that provides remote technology services and home agent BPO to consumers and small business. She most recently served as CEO for LockIN, an early stage paradigm busting SaaS e-Learning company that ‘helps people remember what matters.’ Previously, Ms. Portmann was the CEO of Stream, Inc., where she transformed a 75 million dollar contact services division of Software Spectrum into a global BPO leader with revenues exceeding $530 million dollars and over 15,000 employees. Whether you’re a Fortune 500 company or a small start-up, giving back to the community is good for your business. Sharing what Shannon Mabrey has learned over more than 15 years working in the non-profit sector, she will outline the farreaching benefits of philanthropy and how to use your connections and resources to make positive difference in the world around you. She will also explore how to find non-profits that are a good fit for your company and how to develop fun and meaningful service campaigns. Shannon Mabrey Rotenberg, an Oklahoman native, started her career with nonprofit organizations and the entertainment industry while at Creative Artists Agency, a talent and sports agency based in Los Angeles. She was a program director in their philanthropic division before helping to launch the just keep livin Foundation. Started by actor Matthew McConaughey, the goal of the just keep livin Foundation is to empower teenage kids to lead active lives and make healthy choices. The foundation has partnered with other non-profits to run afterschool programs in inner-city high schools which encourage students to improve their physical and mental health. Questions? 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International Women’s Forum The International Women’s Forum is an organization of preeminent women of significant and diverse achievement. Members come together across national and international boundaries to share knowledge and ideas, to enrich each other’s lives, to provide a network of support, and to exert influence. Through the Leadership Foundation the International Women’s Forum helps prepare future generations of women leaders. IWF Members Ann Simmons Alspaugh | Owner | Red Stone Energies, Ltd. | Oklahoma City Barbara J. Gardner Anderson | Financial Services/Government Relations | Tulsa Freda Deskin | CEO/Founder | ASTEC, Inc. | Oklahoma City Gordona Duca | Realtor® | Tulsa Pat Evans | Owner/Board Member | Evans & Associates Enterprises, Inc. | Ponca City Dindy Foster | President/Owner | Dindy Foster Interiors, Inc. | Tulsa L. Lloys Frates | Principal | Renewable Resources Group | Los Angeles, CA Mary Y. Frates | Principal | Eris Productions | Oklahoma City Jane Jayroe Gamble | Author | Oklahoma City Martha Watson Griffin | CEO/President | MGW Enterprises | Muskogee Sue Hale | President | Sue Hale, Inc. | Oklahoma City Linda C. Haneborg | President | Haneborg Holdings | Oklahoma City Christine Hansen | Washington, D.C. Lynne Hardin | President | Magic of Why | Oklahoma City Yvonne Kauger | Justice | Oklahoma Supreme Court | Oklahoma City Lou C. Kerr | President/Chair | The Kerr Foundation, Inc. | Oklahoma City Ruth Leebron | Former Dean, International Programs | Oklahoma City University | Oklahoma City E. Claudine Long | Fee Only Comprehensive Financial Plans | Oklahoma City Paula Marshall | Chief Executive Officer | Bama Companies, Inc. | Tulsa Mary Frances Michaelis | Mack Oil Company | Duncan Debra Murray | President | Blue Spring International, LLC | Oklahoma City Francine L. 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Weber | Managing Partner | Mattioli Weber Consulting | Oklahoma City Tracey Wills | Founder and CEO | OptionOne | Edmond 215 Business Building Stillwater, OK 74078-4011 24th REGISTRATION FORM • 24th Annual Women’s Business Leadership Conference March 4, 2015 • Hyatt Regency Hotel, 100 East Second Street • Tulsa, Oklahoma • 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Copy for additional applicants or register online: cepd.okstate.edu/women REGISTRATION FEES: NAME (DR., MS., MRS., MR.) (includes materials, refreshments and lunch) $225 per person if registered by February 24, 2015. $275 per person if registered after February 24, 2015. TITLE COMPANY ADDRESS CITY STATE, ZIP TELEPHONE FAX E-MAIL If you are interested in becoming a sponsor or underwriter, please contact Kelle Scott at 405-744-5208, 866-678-3933 or [email protected]. Also, please contact us if you need special meals, services, or assistance. 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