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Breakfast Session: Finding Your Best Help - 8:00am
Presenter: Dr. Dunnavant will discuss ways to find your best health at every stage life, including holistic approaches to wellness, recommended screenings and a guide to preventing disease and illness. |
Fast Track- 9:00am-10:15am
These women have firmly established themselves on extremely successful career paths in their respective fields. These fields have, traditionally, been dominated by men. They have managed the hard career choices and evidenced a coherent action plan to move themselves up in their organizations. They have positioned themselves to make the largest impact possible.
Participants in this session include Mary Gordon, Vice President, Manufacturing, U.S. Smokeless Tobacco, Pat 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.
Moderator: Cherly Lewis Burke, Principal,Richmond Public Schools
Cheryl Lewis Burke has been a resident of Richmond since her professional career began in the Richmond Public Schools as an elementary school teacher.
Cheryl was appointed as a Teacher Specialist, and was promoted to Principal of Chimborazo Elementary School in 1996.
During her years as principal of Chimborazo, Cheryl has initiated several innovative programs; has received numerous honors and recognitions for her creative work as a principal. Among these honors are
- Award for Outstanding Contributions to Education, presented by Alpha Phi Zeta Chapter Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.
- Recognized as Educator of the year of 2006, by The National Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa, Inc.
- Award for Educational Excellence as Principal of Chimborazo by the 7th District’s Richmond City Council
- Award for Outstanding Improvements in Student Achievement meeting Virginia’s Standards of Learning, presented by the Commonwealth of Virginia, Gov. Mark Warner
- Award for Outstanding Service to the Fulton Community for Relief due to Hurricane Gaston, presented by the Richmond School Board
Among her most notable experiences was in May 2005, during Memorial Day Week-end. Mrs. Burke solicited partners from the community to help her provide a reward for their outstanding performance in attaining full state accreditation and making adequate yearly progress (AYP-No Child Left Behind) on the state Standards of Learning exams. She personally planned and executed a trip for 57 members of her Chimborazo staff and parents to fly to the Bahamas for a fun-filled weekend basking in island sun. During their stay, the staff participated in a staff retreat on, “Team Work”. The entire experience was one that allowed for consensus building, forging new professional relationships and strengthening the bonds of inter-personal relationships. |
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Ladies Who Launched - 9:00am-10:15am
These women have overcome the odds and launched very successful businesses. From commercial cleaning services to enterprise software development, these women have found success in entrepreneurship. In this session, attendees will learn about their challenges and successes. Most of all, they will hear what sparks and sustains these amazing women.
Participants in this session include Andrea Edmunds, President, Posh Tots, Sharon Dabney Wooldridge, President, The Klean Kare Team, Genevieve Roberts, Founding Partner, Titan Group and Sarah Paxton, LaDiff.
Moderator: Clovia Lawrence, Broadcast Journalist
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Clovia Lawrence, a seasoned broadcast journalist who is best known in the Richmond Metropolitan area as “Miss Community”. Covering the Central Virginia market, she has a proven track record as a news reporter, announcer and community affairs director working at more than a dozen radio stations and virtually every format, Ms. Lawrence has produced top ratings.
Currently the news director for Radio One Richmond's 4 stations and Executive Director of the Nationally Syndicated Tom Joyner Morning Show. She is also the Community Affairs Director for three of the networks' stations and she hosts the market's number one public affairs show, “Community Conversations” which covers a wide range of topics including health, education, crime, politics and wealth. She frequently makes public appearances, hosts events, moderates forums, and participates in community fund-raisers. Ms. Lawrence has made the commitment to not only educate, but to elevate the African-American Community and is probably at her best when there is a need for calling citizens to action. A strong advocate for youth, Ms Lawrence has raised money to send more than 220 children to camp. While she is everywhere and making a difference in many lives, her number one career goal is being the very best mother to her three year old daughter Kenya Sarai.
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A Conversation with the Most Powerful Women in Virginia -
10:45am-12:00pm
These women are at the top of their professions. They have broken through the glass ceiling and achieved recognition and status in their fields. This session will explore how they got there and the obstacles that they have had to overcome. This “conversation” will inspire you and help propel you to your own success.
The speakers in this session are 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, and Anne Marie Whittemore, Partner, McGuireWoods.
Moderator: Cynthia Cecil, Senior Manager of Community Relations and Employee Involvement
Cynthia Cecil serves as Senior Manager, Community Relations & Employee Involvement for Altria Client Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Altria Group. In her role, she leads development of community engagement strategies in Altria’s priority communities, which includes employee volunteer and giving programs.
Prior to working for PM USA, Cynthia served as a Partner at Hunton & Williams, in the law firm’s Litigation, Intellectual Property and Antitrust section.
Active in her community, Cynthia has volunteered as the pro bono counsel to the Board of Directors for the Commonwealth Alliance for Children, Schools and Families and served on the Board of Directors for Freedom House, which provides much-needed services to Richmond’s homeless. |
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A Conversation with the Most Successful Entrepreneurs in Virginia -
10:45am-12:00pm
These women have taken their start-ups to an extremely high level of achievement. They have received national recognition as well as in their respective industries.
The participants in this roundtable will be Josée Gallé Covington, Founder, President & CEO, Covington Travel, Ashley Chen, President, Actionet, and Frankie Hughes, President, Hughes Capital Management.
Moderator: Stephanie Kirksey, Vice President, Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce
Stephanie Kirksey has served as the Executive Vice President, Programs and Services since 2002. In this role she oversees the Chamber’s membership, marketing, events and programs and fundraising efforts. She serves on the boards of Goodwill, SportsBackers and the United Way Women in Leadership Council. |
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Authors... Our Journey -
2:30pm-3:30pm
This session will feature several authors who have written books filled with insights about their careers. How they made it to the top and what they learned along the way. You may be inspired by their stories or want to learn more about how to write a book.
Presenters include Lillian Lincoln Lambert, Author-Speaker-Entrepreneur and Eleanor Blayney, Author-Speaker.
Moderator: Connie Salinas
Connie Salinas is a seasoned veteran in print, online, broadcast and digital media. Connie began her career in Texas, developing new technology and products for smaller newspapers. She became part of a national speaking circuit with the Kelsey Group launching ‘talking newspapers’. As marketing director for the Austin American-Statesman, she led the newspaper’s marketing and audience development initiatives, which garnered five first place awards in the International Newspaper Marketing Association (INMA).
She joined Cox Radio in 2004 as Internet Sales Manager. She continued her career in the digital arena and then joined CBS 6 WTVR in November 2008 as CBS 6 Job Link Director. Despite the dismal employment category during 2009, Connie created job events to bring hope and opportunity to displaced workers, as well as finding non-traditional revenue during tough times.
Connie received her marketing certifications through the Associated Press Executive Management and the American Marketing Association (University of Texas.) She is an active member of her local chapter of Business Networking International (BNI). |
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Sorry, the Verizon session CANCELLED.
Business Supersized: Making your Business Appear Larger, Perform More Efficiently and Become More Profitable - 2:30pm-3:30pm
Enhance your businesses’ ability to compete on the same level as businesses twice the size of yours. A Verizon Wireless Specialist will show you how, regardless of your industry.
The Verizon Wireless Solution can:
- Provide unified communication solutions that integrate multiple communication service across multiple devices such as mobile and desktop phones.
- Provide real-time insight into worker location and performance.
- Provide wireless connectivity at remote job sites, allowing employees real-time access to company intranets.
- Provide you with the necessary tools to meet customer/company service/maintenance level agreements, control costs, and minimize loss.
- Provide e-services dispatch and mobile work order management.
- Allow businesses to securely and reliably provide voice and data communications services critical to your business activities at all times, despite adverse circumstances or events.
Stopping a Serial Killer: Women and Heart Disease
Dr. Browning, an internist and cardiologist, will talk about the special threat to women of heart disease. She will discuss how women’s stressors for, and symptoms of, for heart disease are different than men’s; how women can prevent heart disease; when to tell if you should see a physician; and exciting new therapies and treatments in women’s heart disease.
Dr. Browning completed her medical school, residency in internal medicine, and fellowship training at Medical College of Virginia. She is board certified in both internal medicine and cardiology, and also in nuclear cardiology. She has a special passion for all her patients, but particularly for women, whose health needs are different from men. She is a member of Bon Secours Medical Group and practices at the Bon Secours Heart Institute, St. Mary’s Hospital and Memorial Regional Medical Center.
Contact Information: Richmond Cardiology Associates, 7001 Forest Ave, Suite 101, Richmond, VA 23230 Phone: (804) 288-0808 Fax: (804) 288-8887 |
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"Sweet Pie" Feeding Your Mind, Body and Spirit-
5:15pm-6:15pm
SWEET PIE is like the dialogue women have while sitting around the table eating dessert, after drying the last dish. It’s a time for sharing deep thoughts and feelings women often keep to themselves because no one else would understand (or so we think). These are the kind of thoughts and feelings which keep us from moving forward and becoming the whole woman in mind, body and spirit.
Alice and Rita share their experiences, their challenges and their recipes for healing. It’s called a dialogue because the women in the audience participate in the sharing and healing as well. Some choose to talk while others choose to listen, but all are enriched by Sweet Pie. |
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