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Month: January 2014

Nancy Chorpenning, Founder/Managing Director of C-Suite Advisors

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Nancy Chorpenning – Founder and Managing Director of C-Suite Advisors

Nancy Chorpenning [core-PENN-ing] is the Founder and Managing Director of Atlanta-based C-Suite Advisors, a business advisory practice supporting organizations in their quest to grow. She is Founder and Executive Director of the CEO School for Women, a year long business program starting next month, and is working on a book, “Business Whispers”.

From strategic discovery to organization structure and operations, Nancy’s work is informed by her +20-year tenure as an executive in Management, Professional Information and Education with Fortune 100 companies (e.g., Time Warner’s Little, Brown & Company Publishers) as well as high profile start-ups (WebMD), combined with a superb graduate Marketing education from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Included in Who’s Who Among American Women and Who’s Who in America, Nancy is active in local, regional and National business and community organizations. After serving on the Small Business Council and developing a CEO Roundtable program for the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Nancy served on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Women Business Owners – Atlanta (NAWBO Atlanta) for 6 years, including serving as President of the Atlanta Chapter. She was appointed to the NAWBO Presidents Assembly Steering Committee (PASC) in 2012, inaugurating a Leadership Boot camp for NAWBO, and is responsible for 18 Southern Tier NAWBO Chapters. Nancy will become PASC Chair in 2014. In 2013, she was elected to the Board of Directors for the Washington, DC-based National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) where she serves on the Executive Committee as Chair for Governance.

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Cynthia Frisina, Reaching for the Stars and Jane S. Goldner, Ph.D.,The Goldner Group

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Cynthia Frisina – Reaching for the Stars – A Foundation of Hope for Children with Cerebral Palsy

Shortly after her youngest daughter was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy, Cynthia launched “Reaching for the Stars. A Foundation of Hope for Children with Cerebral Palsy” in 2005 www.reachingforthestars.org – the first parent-led nonprofit foundation for children with cerebral palsy and their families focused on the prevention, treatment and cure of cerebral palsy, the most common motor disability in children impacting over 17,000,000 people globally. “Reaching for the Stars” has grown into the largest pediatric cerebral palsy foundation in the world with presence in the U.S., Canada, Asia and Australia.

In the past 25 years Cynthia Frisina has led the creation of award winning national advertising campaigns, built number one brands for Fortune 500 companies, testified before Congress, launched two successful marketing companies, created a global nonprofit foundation, rode elephants in the jungles of Thailand, sea kayaked off the coast of New Zealand, and is raising two wonderful teenage daughters. Cynthia is a global marketer, sought after speaker and senior level business leader consistently recognized for excellence in brand building and creating marketing success.

Cynthia is in the process of launching her newest venture in the spring of 2014, Health Marketing Works, a social media marketing practice focusing on healthcare communication. Cynthia also is active in a variety of other philanthropic and educational organizations. She is on the Executive Board of Blaze Sports America serving Georgia athletes with physical disabilities.

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Jane S. Goldner, Ph.D. – The Goldner Group and Author – Women Driven to Success: You Can Have It YOUR All

Jane S. Goldner, Ph.D. is a speaker, author, role integration coach and consultant. She brings 30 years of internal and external corporate experience as well as advanced degrees in counseling and human resource development to coach and counsel high-potential and women leaders. She has been quoted in The New York Times, CNN Money, AirTran Magazine, and CareerBuilder among many other publications. Dr. Goldner has appeared several times on 11-Alive, ABC Alabama, and is a member of the USA Today CEO Panel. She is a frequent keynote speaker at leadership and women’s conferences.

Her newest book, Women Driven to Success: You Can Have It YOUR All and her chapter in Roadmap to Success with Deepak Chopra & Ken Blanchard, provide women the understanding of how to integrate multiple roles without sacrificing their health, success, or peace of mind. It became a #1 best seller on Amazon for women in leadership.

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Becky Blalock – Author of DARE and Helene Lollis – President of PATHBUILDERS

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Becky Blalock – Author of DARE: : Straight Talk on Confidence, Courage, and Career for Women in Charge

Becky Blalock (Atlanta, GA) is the former SVP and CIO of Southern Company where she worked for 33 years before retiring in October 2011. Under her leadership, Southern Company delivered over a billion dollars in new technology initiatives and was recognized as one of the “100 Most Innovative Companies” by CIO Magazine and one of the “100 Best Places to Work in IT” by Computerworld Magazine.

Today, Blalock is a partner with Advisory Capital, where she provides strategic consulting, and is on the board of Computers for Youth, Emory Healthcare, the Georgia Health Sciences University, CSI Laboratories, Verdecco, and the business School of Mercer University.

Blalock also speaks regularly before large audiences. She was Women in Technology’s 2011 Legacy Award winner, Energy Biz Magazine’s 2009 CIO of the Year, the 2009 Chairman of the Board of Leadership Atlanta, Computerworld Magazine’s “100 IT Leaders,” and Atlanta Woman’s 2006 Power Woman of the Year.

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Helene Lollis – President of PATHBUILDERS

Helene Lollis is president of PATHBUILDERS, and guides strategic direction and program development, provides high-level partnership with clients, and represents Pathbuilders in the community. Trained as a chemical engineer, Helene spent 12 years with Amoco and BP Corporation in plastics process design, product development, marketing, strategic planning and company mergers and acquisitions.

Helene is frequently invited to speak on the topics of mentoring, women in the workplace and career planning. She has been published in HR Magazine, Diversity Executive, and Talent Management. Extremely active in the community, Helene serves on the Board of Directors of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce; the Advisory Board of the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Women’s Leadership Forum as well as the Private Bank of Buckhead; and is on the Board of Leadership Atlanta. She also serves as Chairman for the Executive Committee of Junior Achievement of Georgia. She was recognized as a Business to Business Woman of Excellence honoree in 2012, a POW! Purposeful Woman in 2010, and in 2007, received the Guiding Star Award from Emory’s Executive Women of Goizueta.

About PATHBUILDERS

Pathbuilders transforms top talent into high-impact leaders who move business forward. Through customized programming, Pathbuilders leverages a model that effectively combines mentoring, educational workshops, and interactive peer exchange to accelerate the career growth of individuals and directly contribute to the bottom-line success of client organizations. Pathbuilders was founded in 1995 with a unique focus on developing the potential of high-performing women and creating gender-diverse leadership teams. Today, Pathbuilders leverages the corporate experience of its team to develop impactful developmental experiences for high-potential men and women in forward-thinking organizations. Pathbuilders has worked with nearly 4000 professionals from more than 400 client organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, colleges and universities, and government agencies.

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Dr. Randy Ross – Remarkable!

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Dr. Randy Ross – Remarkable!

Dr. Randy Ross is founder and CEO (Chief Enthusiasm Officer) of Remarkable! Randy is a “craftsman of culture and a catalytic coach,” who inspires elevated performance. A master of cultural transformation, Dr. Ross has a unique understanding of employee engagement and offers practical solutions for increasing both the morale and performance of your teams. If you want to move your organization beyond Great to Remarkable!, where personal initiative and innovation are characteristic, then Dr. Ross can help your team members understand how they can create value in every endeavor.

 Randy is the author of Remarkable!, a leadership parable that illustrates the power of applied axiology to guide organizations toward the creation of a more compelling and collaborative culture, based upon Value Creation. Randy wrote the book with David Salyers, VP of Marketing for Chick-fil-A.

You can reach Randy or David at:

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Scott Geller – CTO Points of Light; Entrepreneur

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Scott Geller – Chief Technology Officer – Points of Light; Entrepreneur

Scott is a social venture and technology entrepreneur with more than 25 years of experience. In 2000, he co-founded, served as the first CEO and then chairman of TechBridge, a nonprofit social venture that is helping hundreds of metro Atlanta nonprofits utilize technology to improve their impact on the community. He has also been founder or CEO of four other technology companies, including 2order.com, which was sold to a public company, and Zooz Mobile, a leading mobile music app developer.

Scott holds a master’s degree in computer science from the University of California at San Diego and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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