The Agenda
Check Out All Day EXECUTIVE COACHING SESSIONS >>
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- What is Coaching?
- Strategic Planning
- Financing Business
- UPS Import/Export
- Finding a Mentor
- My Brand
- Personal Finances
- Personal Image
- CareerJump Start
- Start a Business
- Networking
- Social Media
The One-on-One Coaching Sessions allow our guests to get tailored feedback on their business and personal questions in an environment that supports confidential communication. The sessions are led by area professionals and consultants with years of expertise in their respective fields. The one-on-one sessions are scheduled in allotments of 15 minutes each.
- A Strategic Plan: A quick look at the essential components that will comprise the pathway for your business’ success.
- Financing My Business: Financing can be the hardest mountain to climb. Receive suggestions and tips for the financial needs and goals of your business.
- UPS Import/Export: Logistics & Financing. We can work with businesses that traditional financial service companies often ignore. Want to grow your business by expanding trade in global markets, or simply within your domestic market? Explore how UPS Capital can improve your cash flow, protect your goods and help speed the conversion of payments to cash.
- Finding a Mentor: Mentorship is often a key to upward mobility in both the corporate environment and in entrepreneurship. Learn how to identify the right mentor and establish the alliance.
- My Brand: What makes you different from the rest? Put a clearer focus on your business’ identity so that you can distinguish yourself from your competition.
- My Personal Finances: Budget problems? Investment questions? A private, confidential “second look” at your personal finances by a seasoned professional.
- My Personal Image: Attire, attitude, and confidence are all a part of your personal image. An expert will give you tips and advice on enhancing your image. Boost your confidence when speaking to investors or giving a presentation in front of your colleagues.
- How Do I Jump Start My Career? : Do you feel as if your career is at a standstill? An expert will give you the proper tools and tips to give your career a push!
- How Do I Start My Business? : Come in for a private tutorial to help you understand the elements required to establish a successful foundation for your enterprise.
- Networking: In today’s corporate and small business arenas, it’s important to establish the right set of relationships. This session will give you a “tune up” to help you accomplish that.
- Social Media: Let an expert show you how new media can be an invaluable element of your marketing efforts with social media websites such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
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Professional Track |
Entrepreneurial Track |
7:00am |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
8:00am |
Finding Your Best Help (E10)
Welcome: Guenet Beshah, Executive Coach, Capital One Financial
Presenter: Siobhan Dunnavant, MD, FACOG, Bon, Secours |
9:00am-10:15am |
Fast Track (Grand Ballroom)
Welcome: Marie Moore, Vice- President, Moore’s Auto Body, MBL Board Member
Moderator: Cheryl Burke, Principal, Richmond Public Schools
Panelists: Mary Gordon, Vice President, Manufacturing, U.S. Smokeless Tobacco
Patricia Jones, Vice President and General Manager of Kings Dominion
Lisa Schaffner, Public Relations & Marketing Director for UNOS
Mirta Martin, Dean of the School of Business, Virginia State University |
Ladies Who Launched (Room E10)
Welcome: Amy Devries, National Sales Manager, Cox Media Group
Moderator: Clovia Lawrence, Broadcast Journalist, Radio One
Panelists:Andrea Edmunds, President, Posh Tots
Sharon Dabney Wooldridge, President, The Kleane Kare Team
Genevieve Roberts, Founding Partner, Titan Group Sarah Paxton, Vice President, Sales & Finance, LaDIFFERENCE, Inc
Dr. Traci Lynn, CEO, Traci Lynn Fashion Jewelry
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10:45am-12:00pm |
A Conversation with the Most Powerful Women in Virginia (Grand Ballroom)
Welcome: Angela Wilkes, MBL Board Member, Director of Diversity/ SBLO, Owens & Minor
Moderator: Cynthia Cecil, Senior Manager of Community Relations and Employee Involvement, Altria
Panelists:Mary Doswell, Senior Vice President Alternative Energy Solutions, Dominion
Margaret Lewis, President, Capital Division, HCA,
Mary Anne Graf Vice President Bon Secours Virginia Health System, Group President, Sales and Marketing, Potomac Region, Verizon
Anne Marie Whittemore, Partner, McGuireWoods
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A Conversation with the Most Successful Entrepreneurs in Virginia (E10)
Welcome: Erika Thompson-Kemp, Vice-President and General Manager (VA and WV), AT&T
Moderator: Stephanie Kirksey, Vice President, Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce
Panelists: Josée Gallé Covington, Founder, President & CEO, Covington Travel
Marilyn H. West, Chairman, M.H. West and Company
Frankie Hughes,President, Hughes Capital Management
Freda Thornton, President, Thornton Enterprises |
12:00pm-2:30pm |
Buffet Lunch sponsored by Wachovia, a Wells Fargo Company (Exhibit Hall A) Welcome: Ida McPherson, Director, Virginia Department of Minority Business Enterprise.
Presentation: Wells Fargo is the number one leader to small businesses in the United States. Wells Fargo offers business financing solutions such as its Small Business Advantage Line of Credit, Equipment Express, and its Business Loan Term Loan. Join Sherita White, Relationship Manager for the Wachovia at Work Program to learn which Wachovia/Wells Fargo business solution is right for you. |
2:30pm-3:30pm |
Authors… Our Journey (Room E10)
Welcome: Velma Jackson Williams, Director of EEO and Assistant Vice Provost, VCU
Moderator: Connie Salinas, Account Manager/New Media, CBS-6
Panelists: Lillian Lincoln Lambert, The Road to Someplace Better; Eleanor Blayney, Women’s Worth: Finding Your Financial Confidence; Dawn McCoy, Leadership Building Blocks: An Insider's Guide to Success; Vanessa Easter, Paint the Sky Purple; Stacy Hawkins Adams, The Someday List |
Doing Business with Verizon (Exhibit Hall A)
Welcome: Saundra C. Rollins, Executive Director, South Richmond Adult Daycare Center, Inc.
Presenter: Tonya Rozier-DeAnda, Vice President of Sourcing, Verizon Service Operations
Verizon’s Supplier Diversity team works to encourage and support the utilization of diverse suppliers in our procurement process. This session shows you how to compete on an equal basis with all other suppliers who meet our product, service, procurement and contractual requirements.
Stopping a Serial Killer: Women and Heart Disease (Grand Ballroom)
Welcome: Marilyn H. West, Chairman, M.H. West and Company
Presenter: Dr. Christine Browning, Bon Secours Health Systems
Presentation: This session explores the special threat to women of heart disease and will help us to understand women’s stressors for and symptoms of heart disease; methods of prevention; when to tell if you should see a physician; and exciting new therapies and treatments in women’s heart disease.
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4:00pm-5:00pm |
Suze Orman Keynote Address (Grand Ballroom)
Welcome: Jacqueline Stone Esq., Partner, McGuire Woods
Introduction of Speaker: Mary Doswell, Honorary Chairman, Senior Vice President, Alternative Energy, Dominion
Keynote Address: Ms. Suze Orman
Close and Presentation: Guenet Beshah, Executive Coach, Capital One Financial |
5:15pm-6:15pm |
“Sweet Pie” Feeding Your Mind, Body, and Spirit (Grand Ballroom)
Welcome: JB Bryan, Principal, JB Bryan Financial Group
Presenters: Rita Ricks, Speak to Your Spirit, and Alice Freemen, Healthy Heart Plus
This session is dessert. It is the perfect finish to this feast of information, motivation, and inspiration that we have consumed today |
Session and times subject to change. |
