A day of training, networking and inspiration!

March 11, 2010

Time: 8:00am-4:30pm

Location: U.S. Chamber of Commerce

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This year's Summit features:

Cokie Roberts
Named a "Living Legend,"  by the Library of Congress this year, Cokie Roberts is one of the very few Americans to attain that honor.  She's an author, NPR news analyst and ABC News political commentator.  She co-anchored This Week with Sam Donaldson. Winning an Emmy Award three times, Cokie was cited by American Women in Radio and Television as one of the fifty greatest women in the history of broadcasting and has been inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame. Cokie writes a weekly column syndicated in newspapers around the country by United Media.  Cokie Roberts's number one bestseller, We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, is an account of women's roles and relationships throughout American history. (A copy will be provided for conference attendees.) Cokie Roberts holds more than twenty honorary degrees, serves on boards of non-profit institutions and the President's Commission on Service and Civic Participation. She is the mother of two and grandmother of six.

Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton

Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton is now in her tenth term as Congresswoman for the District of Columbia. She is chair of the House Subcommittee on Economic Development, Emergency Management, and Public Buildings. Named by President Jimmy Carter as the first woman to chair the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, she came to Congress as a national figure who had been a civil rights and feminist leader, tenured law professor of law, and board member of three Fortune 500 companies. Ms. Norton also had been named one of the 100 most important American women in one survey and one of the most powerful women in Washington in another.

Helen Thomas
Helen Thomas is an American news service reporter, a Hearst Newspapers columnist, member of the White House Press Corps and author. She served for fifty-seven years as a correspondent and, later, White House bureau chief for United Press International (UPI). Thomas has covered every President of the United States since the later years of the Eisenhower administration, coming to the forefront with John F. Kennedy. She was the first female officer of the National Press Club, the first female member and president of the White House Correspondents Association, and, in 1975, the first female member of the Gridiron Club. She has written five books, her latest with co-author Craig Crawford, is Listen Up, Mr. President: Everything You Always Wanted Your President to Know and Do.

Gillian Tett

Gillian Tett is the U.S. managing editor of the Financial Times. She leads the editorial development of the paper’s U.S. edition and of U.S. news on FT.com. Previously, Tett was assistant editor responsible for the FT’s markets coverage. She has also served as capital markets editor, deputy editor of the Lex column, Tokyo bureau chief, Tokyo correspondent, London-based economics reporter and a reporter in Russia and Brussels. Tett was named Journalist of the Year (2009) and Business Journalist of the Year (2008) by the British Press Awards and Senior Financial Journalist of the Year (2007) by the Wincott Awards. She is the author of New York Times bestseller Fool’s Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe (Little Brown, UK and Simon and Schuster, U.S.) published in May 2009, and Saving the Sun: A Wall Street Gamble to Rescue Japan from its Trillion Dollar Meltdown (Harper Collins, 2003).  Fool’s Gold won Financial Book of the Year at the Spear’s Book Awards in 2009. Before joining the Financial Times in 1993, Tett was awarded a PhD in social anthropology from Cambridge University based on field work in the former Soviet Union. While pursuing the PhD, she freelanced for the FT and the BBC. She is a graduate of Cambridge University.

Eva J. Pell
Eva J. Pell, Senior Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School at Pennsylvania State University, was recently named Under Secretary for Science at the Smithsonian Institution. Pell has been Vice President and Dean since 2000 and was promoted to Senior Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School at the university in 2006. She was a professor in the department of plant pathology at Penn State for more than 35 years. Pell holds a bachelor’s degree in science from the City College of New York and a doctorate degree in plant biology from Rutgers University. Her research focuses on the effects of air pollution on plants. Pell has served on panels and advisory boards for the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Commerce. She currently serves on the National Science Foundation’s Biological Sciences Advisory Committee. In addition, Pell is active in economic development and serves on a number of Pennsylvania state boards, including the Ben Franklin Center of Central and Northern Pennsylvania and the Life Sciences Greenhouse of Central Pennsylvania. She is also the president of the Penn State Research Foundation and the Research Park Management Corporation.

Shelley Metzenbaum
Shelley Metzenbaum serves as the Office of Management and Budget's Associate Director for Performance and Personnel Management to oversee the performance management agenda. Ms. Metzenbaum is a former Clinton administration appointee at the Environmental Protection Agency, author of several performance management books, and founder the Collins Center for Public Management. 

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is Maryland's first woman Lieutenant Governor and the eldest daughter of Robert F. and Ethel Kennedy. Kathleen is also the first grandchild of Rose and Joseph P. Kennedy.  She ran for Governor of Maryland in 2002.

Lisa Haneberg
Lisa Haneberg serves as Vice President and OD Consultant, Management Performance International. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) and the author of HIP & SAGE  - Staying Smart, Cool and Competitive in the Workplace.


Brigadier General Loree K. Sutton
Brigadier General Loree K. Sutton is the highest ranking psychiatrist in the U.S. Army.  She has served as Director of the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE) since November 2007. She also serves as special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs.
 

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What should you expect at the Summit? Click here to take a look at one of our prior Summits as summarized in the May 2008 newsletter.