Work Panel | Reinventing Your Career
Moderator
Mary Lou Quinlan is one of America's leading marketers to women. As founder of strategic consultancy Just Ask a Woman, she has interviewed thousands of women about their experiences as consumers and as professionals. She's a contributing editor to MORE magazine and the author of two highly regarded books about women and work: Just Ask a Woman: Cracking the Code of What Women Want and How They Buy and Time Off for Good Behavior: How Hardworking Women Can Take a Break and Change Their Lives.
Panelists
Since 1999, Rosemary Chieppo of Born to Organize (borntoorganize.com) has made her living doing what others hate to do: organizing. She is passionate about the benefits of an organized lifestyle (more time and money and less stress). She writes for the New Haven Register and has been featured in numerous magazines including Connecticut, Lifestyles in Connecticut, Connecticut Home & Garden, and MORE. She can be seen regularly on WTNH Channel 8. In fall 2007, the Business Talk Radio Network will present Rosemary as the Organizing Guru. She is the author of Clutter, Chaos & the Cure.
Theresa Creedon parlayed 23 years of business leadership experience -- including 17 years at Deutsche Bank and UBS -- into RETHINK LLC (www.tcreedon.com/rethink), a coaching and management consulting firm she launched in 2000. Her RETHINK assignments have included working as a project manager at New York Life Asset Management and as a coach and facilitator at Bayer HealthCare and Citigroup. With a 2005/2006 grant from the American Red Cross, she created workshops that led participants to develop the resiliency skills that could help them transform their personal lives and careers in the wake of 9/11. Her own career reinvention continues to inform her private coaching practice where she emphasizes finding an authentic career direction.
Jeanne Fitzmaurice is the founder of Design-her Gals (designhergals.com), a personalized stationery and gift company that celebrates women's individuality and style while forging a global community (currently 250,000 women) who want to make a positive difference. Jeanne left her home management company to create Design-her Gals in 2005, a career switch that has not only been fulfilling but was better suited for someone raising a family. Through the nonprofit Gal-to-Gal Foundation, Designhergals.com raises funds and hope for stage 4 breast cancer patients and their families.
Robin Freier, now an attorney specializing in matrimonial law, was formerly the coordinator of In-Patient Services at Saint Vincent's Hospital in Harrison, New York; a staff therapist at the South County Drug Abuse Foundation in Delray Beach, Florida; art therapist at North Shore University Hospital Drug Treatment Center; and the owner of a successful children's gift boutique. Her reinvention came from a lifelong desire to pursue a career in law, but she has found her experience as a therapist useful in helping her legal clients through difficult and stressful situations.
Lisa Green Hall is the director of Lending at Calvert Foundation, a nonprofit organization working to alleviate poverty through community investments in the U.S. and abroad. She manages a team of community investment professionals and a $120 million portfolio of loans to affordable housing developers, community development loan funds, microfinance institutions, and social enterprises. She previously worked for several Fortune 50 companies, including Fannie Mae, Travelers, and JP Morgan Chase (formerly Chemical Bank). She also worked in the Clinton Administration at the National Economic Council, covering community development issues. She earned a BS in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard University. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and 3-year-old daughter.
Pamela Mitchell is the CEO of the Reinvention Institute, an organization devoted to helping successful professionals and corporations transform their businesses, careers or lives. A popular speaker and columnist for Inc.com, Mitchell has been quoted in top media publications including the Wall Street Journal, MORE, and Black Enterprise. Prior to founding the Reinvention Institute in 2004, she spent 15 years developing international business for high-profile media and entertainment companies, including Discovery Channel, Knight-Ridder, and Playboy.com. In addition to being a certified coach, Mitchell has a BA from Harvard University and an MBA from the international business school Thunderbird.
Susan Murphy is founder and president of Murphy Motivation and Training, which provides communication skills training to organizations and individuals. She arrived in the communications training world after two years of teaching high school English and 20 years in the travel industry. In 1988, she left her job as director of travel industry marketing for Club Med for Communispond, an international communication-skills training company, where she worked with Fortune 500 companies as a consultant trainer. In 1992, she went out on her own. She divides her time between the United States and France.
Nancy C. Widmann was the first woman president at CBS, Inc., managing the CBS Radio Division for eight years. She has more than 25 years of sales and management experience in broadcasting and marketing. In June 2005, Nancy was inducted into the New York State Broadcasters Association's Hall of Fame, one of 25 honorees chosen for the first class. She frequently speaks on corporate politics and strategy. In addition, Nancy coaches senior executives in cable television, radio, publishing, retail, and investment banking. Widmann has volunteered for 10 years at Dress for Success. She was born in Boston and attended Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts. She currently resides in New York City.
Speakers subject to change.
