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“Every woman has the ability

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Shining
A Spotlight On
camaraderie
integrity
leadership
COMMUNity
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Tame Your Tongue: Cut the curse words at work
Learn to Listen: Let the other gal speak!
Make a Mess: Is highly-organized over rated?
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communication.
And so does my
$9 billion company.
I heard Enterprise was different, but until I
started working here I didn’t appreciate how
much. The first thing I noticed is that people
count. Whether it’s a long-time customer or
an employee who’s just starting out, every
opinion matters.

Take our signature "pick you up" service. This

was started by a manager who simply listened
to customers who needed a ride. Not everyone
was convinced it was a good idea, but he was
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industry-leading company just doesn’t exist
here. So if I have a good idea, no matter what
my job title, I know it will be heard and my
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successful hires as a result of our events. We are equally as excited when we hear that
nuggets of information from our website, seminars and books have helped countless
women nab the positions, promotions and pay they sought.

While the majority of our efforts target college-educated, professional women, we’ve
also met many wonderful people at the other end of the spectrum who are just as eager
to tap into our services. We’ve formed the Women For Hire Foundation to specifically
serve displaced homemakers and low-income women by helping them to realize their
career potential.

Whether it’s traveling to areas of crisis—as we did in the aftermath of Hurricane

Katrina—or reaching out to troubled women—as we did during a visit to the Federal
Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, the Women For Hire Foundation offers
information and inspiration to assist women with skills training and job placement at
pivotal moments to put them on a path to financial freedom and independence.

Additional on-going outreach includes the advice, leads and resources we offer every
day to women who connect with us for help because of something they’ve seen on one
Photo by Allyson Lubow of my segments on ABC’s Good Morning America. A recent series focused on legiti-
mate home-based employment opportunities for people who can’t work outside of their
homes because of physical or emotional challenges and for those who crave flexible
options to accommodate child and elder-care responsibilities. The outcome: more than a
thousand people are now making money on their time as a direct result of that reporting.

Countless other viewers turned to us for more assistance, and it’s the work of the Women
For Hire Foundation to respond to those inquiries with meaningful direction to help
these women get hired.

As a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, the Women For Hire Foundation relies on

the support of individuals who value the benefit of our work. While we will donate a
portion of annual revenue from Women For Hire events and services, it is our great-
est desire that the bulk of funding come through a grassroots effort. If you believe in
empowering women’s career development, please consider making an online donation
at womenforhire.com today. No amount is too small—even $5 or $10 can go toward
making a big difference.

With your help, together we can do great things through the Women For Hire Founda-
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Thank you for your interest and support.

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Pamela Nicholson: Loyal Leader Linda Hall: Wise Winner
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JJ Ramberg: Searching For Success
Carolyn Turknett: Living Ethically
Kumu Gupta: Technically Serving
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Are we really supposed to believe that
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our time isn’t all it’s cracked up to be?
Eric Abrahamson and David Freedman say
yes. And in their new book, A Perfect Mess
(Little, Brown and Company), they offer
what they believe to be highly overrated
habits of time management. You be the
judge after reading this special excerpt.
Being focused: By zeroing in on specific
goals and maintaining consistent habits
designed to achieve them, time manage-
ment orthodoxy tells us we will avoid
distractions that delay our progress. But
what happens if after years of focus and
consistency, you discover you’ve picked
the wrong goals? How do you know that
the things you are excluding from your life
as time wasters are really time wasters if
you’re excluding them from your life?
People tend to get trapped in “habit webs.”
When they try to affect an important, use-
ful change, they find they’re stuck tight.
But if they snip away at individual, thin,
supporting strands of the web, the web
can be loosened enough to permit more
important change. New behaviors lead
to new experiences and to new thinking.
Office Managers:
Tell Us About Your Real Job
Whether it’s counseling coworkers, plan-
ning last-minute birthday celebrations,
or chauffeuring the boss to the airport,
today’s small business office manager is
increasingly performing more colorful and
complex roles at work.
Staples Inc. wants to know about all of
your many roles, so the company has
created the “My Real Job” sweepstakes to
give small business office managers a voice
and the chance to describe what it is you
really do every day for your business.
Randomly varying easy-to-change habits Getting it done now: Procrastination
not only helps people to become better isn’t always a bad thing. For starters, it
managers, but also to lose weight or repair can keep you from working on tasks that
relationships with spouses and children. ultimately turn out to be less important
than you thought. In fact, putting off
Sticking to a schedule: A strict schedule undertaking almost any form of neatening
is a great idea, assuming you can precisely or organizing will likely have some ad-
anticipate every turn of events that vantage, because it’s much more efficient
will take place over the course of the to organize a large set of things at one
schedule and correctly guess what you shot than it is to try and organize them in
and those who influence you will think pieces as they come along.
and feel about everything that goes
on moment to moment. Otherwise, build-
ing in some flexibility may be a good idea.
Tight schedules are brittle: if one item is
thrown off, the entire remainder
of the schedule may be out of whack.
Also, some people will need to exert more
effort setting up a schedule than they
could possibly make up by having that
carefully crafted plan.
Longer-term planning: With the U.S. di-
vorce rate hovering around 50 percent, and
the career-changing bible What Color Is
Your Parachute? now well into its fourth
decade of bestseller-hood, it’s not hard
to conclude that people are often kidding
themselves when they think they’re ca-
pable of making decisions that will seem
wise five years from now.
Visit www.staples.com/myrealjob to com- these office managers a voice, and the op-
plete a simple online form detailing your
typical routine as a small business office
portunity to have some fun with their job
descriptions.”
manager. Your submission will produce an
instant salary calculation for your Real Job At the end of the submission period,
as described by the answers you pro- three lucky participants’ lives will suddenly
vide. Creative and humorous entries are get a little easier through winning prizes
encouraged. selected to honor the extremely busy and
often-underappreciated office managers
“Office managers at small businesses that hold small businesses together.
deserve to be recognized because they
juggle so many important tasks every
single day,” said John Giusti, vice president
of Staples Business Delivery, a division
of the office-supply company focused on
serving small businesses and home offices.
“Our aim with ‘My Real Job’ is to give
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Knock Knock. No company makes products that bring more fun and humor to
the workplace. These are our newest favorites.
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that reads ‘Don’t let the bastards get you down.’
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ness on breaking their bad communication
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crease sales and improve their productivity
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skills. Inevitably, he says, at the end of
these popular sessions, every participant
We all lead three lives, so why settle for one notepad?
recognizes that his or her willingness
to listen to others needs dramatic
improvement and they’re eager to
make changes to modify their behavior.
It’s not just those people who could
use some help. All of us are guilty
in brushing off anyone who doesn’t
excite us. “Be honest. How often would
you say that you begin to tune-out during
a conversation once you’ve decided
that you know where the person is
headed,” asks Kehela. “I bet it’s quite
often.”
Kehela says it’s a dangerous habit
because we miss important information.
Information that might be the difference
between people feeling that they were
really being heard or left assuming you
weren’t really listening to them at all.
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you should know
The trouble, he says, of always being in
a rush and not being polite and patient
enough to hear someone out ranges from
losing business to souring relationships.
When a car salesman or a sales clerk fails
to listen to what you want, and instead
tries to push what they want to sell, most
of us walk away without opening our wal-
lets. Similarly, we end friendships when
we believe that the other party doesn’t
hear what we have to say.
Kehela says one simple solution is to wait
for the other person to finish his or her
entire statement before you begin to for-
mulate a response. This doesn’t just mean
waiting to speak until they’ve stopped. It
means not even thinking about what you
want to blurt out until they’ve finished.
Then take a second or two to reflect and
respond. Good advice for all of us to
consciously follow.
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find your moment
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We’re surrounded by people in the
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But what about the women we don’t see
in front of flashbulbs and television crews,
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We encourage you to find your own place
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Pamela Nicholson: Loyal Leader

See Yourself Here You hear the stories all the time,
from the mail room to the board
room. They started as the intern
She’s living proof that the right mix of
determination, perseverance and loyalty
can be leveraged for major success within
than 850,000 vehicles, Enterprise Fleet
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Divisions.
an organization.

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and now they run the company. Only the third COO in Enterprise’s history,
Her title stands alone, but her humble
Enter Pamela Nicholson. a company now celebrating its 50th year,
We are a company with a clear vision. beginnings tell the whole story. Starting at
Nicholson stands out as a woman in a very
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male-dominated industry, the automotive
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University of Missouri, Columbia in 1981,
at the rental counter, and has held nearly
Nicholson spent the next 25 years steadily
every position in between—from Assistant
climbing the corporate ladder. Today she
Branch Manager to Branch Manager to
A place where you are empowered to do something brilliant. Where challenges await your ideas. oversees the operations of the whole com-
Area Manager, Regional VP and Corpo-
Where ideas turn into actions. And leadership emerges. A place where diversity is appreciated. pany as the Executive Vice President and
rate VP—she has a very down-to-earth
Chief Operating Officer.
approach with the employees she interacts
See yourself in our Corporate Headquarters, Stores, or within Supply Chain/Logistics.
with and appreciates their responsibilities.
As she’s grown professionally, the com-
They too value her because she’s been
pany has too. Enterprise was a regional
there and done it.
rental car company with only 10,000
vehicles in service; and as one of the
company’s top performers throughout her Nicholson of all people knows that mu-
Target.com/careers career, she has been essential in helping
Enterprise achieve its tremendous success
tual respect is essential. After all, given
Enterprise’s long tradition of promoting
and growth. Today it is the largest rental within, the counter clerk today could be
car company in North America with more the big boss in the future.

Maureen Crawford
Hentz: TOP TALENT
Even though she is the manager of tal-
ent acquisition for Osram Sylvania, one
of the world’s leading lighting manu-
facturers, Maureen Crawford Hentz
has no direct reports. She can’t lead
by command or pull rank on those
beneath her. Instead, to get colleagues’
support for her ideas and initiatives,
Hentz must lead by influence.
With a passion for recruiting millennials, Hentz has secured her
place as a thought leader inside and outside of the company for
her knowledge of how this youngest generation in the workplace
impacts business. Her prior experience as director of career
services at Wentworth Institute of Technology is the driving
force behind this ideology.
In addition to attending career fairs and other external recruit-
ing events, Hentz works with the company’s internal groups to
champion women’s issues. She is involved in the Women’s Affinity
Group and was the founding Vice President of the Advocates
with People with Disabilities Affinity group, focusing on efforts to
expand the recruitment of women and men with disabilities. She
uses her HR skills to provide training on hiring and working with
people with disabilities.

She was hired to help diversify the candidate pool and to
improve sourcing. And she’s done just that by listening to
peers and understanding what they need, not just pushing what
she wants to offer. Her recommendations are taken seriously
because of the trust she has built and the expertise she is
able to share.
After observing Hentz in action, a colleague with a reputation for
being a tough cookie turned to her and said, “You really do care
about what you do. I can see your influence on the company al-
ready and you’re really as good as we thought you were.” That’s
awfully rewarding feedback for the woman who’s usually more
comfortable doling out the praise and recognition for others.

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Carolyn Turknett: leadership

Living Ethically
Can one person really make a difference to
the ethical culture at work? Carolyn Turknett,
co-founder of an Atlanta-based consulting
firm, says yes.
In her book Decent People, Decent Company: How to Lead with
Character at Work and in Life, co-authored with husband Bob
Turknett, she argues that if an individual—at any level in the
corporate hierarchy—leads with character, that person can create
an organization with a culture of decency, respect, and integrity.
Many women, however, find it difficult to disagree with their
boss when they observe something wrong at work. They wonder
if it’s worth the risk to come forward about unethical activity
they’ve seen or heard. They may fear losing their jobs, benefits
and financial stability, but recent research reveals that something
else may be at stake.
A Turknett Leadership Group study revealed that though female
managers rated higher than male managers on 25 of 47 manage-
rial and leadership competencies and as good as male managers
on 21 of the 47 categories, the only competency women scored
lower on was self-esteem. The study defined this category as a
high level of self-worth and confidence.
while. Go ahead and take a stand even when others don’t. You’ll
be respected in the long run.
• Take responsibility for your own mistakes. In a successful or-
ganization, everyone must take responsibility for and ownership
of success and failure. Maintain personal accountability as well
as hold others accountable. Don’t take everything upon your-
self, but be accountable for the things you are involved in. Take
responsibility for the success of the collective effort. Humility is
concerned with results, not recognition.
• Control your emotions. Believe that you can control your envi-
ronment and affect change. If you cannot control your emotions,
you can’t manage others. Maintain emotional responses that are
goal producing.
• Remember that every little thing matters. Is there a difference
between stealing millions of dollars in company stock or a box
of paper clips? In the most fundamental sense, the answer is no.
The consequences might be worlds apart, but the action in both
scenarios is the same and they’re both wrong. Be sure to maintain
integrity when no one is watching because someone always is.
Davies-Lawery

“Women without confidence tend to stay quiet when they know

something’s wrong,” says Turknett. “If the top brass is ignor-
ing ethical standards of business, they are more likely to reward
employees who blow the whistle with permanent vacation rather
than bonuses.”

Turknett Leadership Group (www.turknett.com) helps ma-

jor companies like BellSouth, Georgia-Pacific Corporation,
American Cancer Society, Hewlett-Packard and Mercer Human
Resources Consulting achieve leadership character, an essential
ingredient to a profitable and successful company.

“Leaders’ mistakes, even enormous ones, can be overcome,” she

says. “But failures of integrity cannot. Companies must make eth-
ics a priority if they want to be successful.”

As public trust in corporate leadership erodes, Turknett says the

importance of ensuring that employees at every level maintain
integrity at work is the best way to reinvigorate organizations.

Turknett’s Top Ways to Work Ethically Every Day

• Don’t wait around for others to act ethically. You might wait a
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leadership

Kate Frucher: want to work on, Axiom offers women

more control, balance and exceptional
York City’s child welfare system, Frucher
has always looked for ways to make a
SHARE KNOWLEDGE. quality of life. Since joining in 2005, difference by forging new ground. When
Leading Lawyer Frucher has been directly responsible for New York City, along with the rest of the
more than doubling revenue to almost $30 country, witnessed the devastation of 9/11,
million last year. Frucher took on the position of senior aide
to the Fire Commissioner. She played a
FOCUS ON TEAMWORK. Perhaps even more impressive is Axiom’s critical role for the fire department at an
attrition rate which is around ten percent, important moment in history, putting much
well below the roughly twenty-percent needed protocols in place that are being
turnover at a typical law firm. Histori- used to this day.
cally, female lawyers working in firms
EMBRACE DIVERSITY. have had little choice but to work full- Concurrent with her position as the
time, which, in the legal field, constitutes General Manager of Axiom’s New York
as much as 15 hour days. Balancing life headquarters, Frucher has been a senior
Under Kate Frucher’s leadership, Axiom outside of work is seen not only as a chal- fellow in the Combating Terrorism Center
The Home Depot is more than Legal has pioneered a modern alternative lenge, but in some cases a weakness. The at the U.S. Military Academy at West
an equal opportunity employer. to the traditional law firm by providing women attorneys at Axiom credit Frucher Point. Since graduating with honors from
We constantly look to our onsite counsel services to large corporate for freeing them mentally from having to both Harvard College and Stanford Law
associates for great ideas, and clients. Axiom attorneys have the op- make those difficult choices. School, this crusader has built a portfolio
we recognize that many minds portunity to do challenging work in-house of credentials far more impressive than
are better than one. That’s why with leading corporations, yet are part of From launching the Americorps National most people dream possible. Fortunately
the Axiom firm and community. By al- Service Program as part of a small Clinton for us, we’re all benefiting from her un-
diversity, teamwork and
lowing attorneys to choose how much they White House team, to serving under wavering and admirable devotion to public
innovation continue to help
want to work and the kinds of things they Mayor Rudy Giuliani to overhaul New service and private practice.
The Home Depot grow as an
industry leader.

Kim Houlne:
PERFECT Balance
As the mother of two young boys and the founder and chief exec-
utive of a successful business, Kim Houlne knows the challenges
of being a working mom. And her brainchild Working Solutions
is largely based on this concept.
The company contracts with home-based agents to provide
customer service to leading brands, including Wyndham Hotels
and Resorts, Office Depot, Cingular and Kodak, in a variety of
industries. This virtual workforce includes more than 600 women
agents, all of whom are motivated and led by Houlne, which has
meant low turnover and high growth for the company.
Houlne saw the demand for viable work-at-home employment
and seized the opportunity, creating a great environment for her
Ready to join our team? workers in and out of the office. The proof is in the employees:
For the last two years, Houlne’s corporate staff nominated Work-
Apply online today for full and part-time positions, store management opportunities and more:
ing Solutions as a “Best Place to Work” in the Dallas-Fort Worth
area, and it ranked within the top 20 both years.
a performance update in the early stage of the business relation-
ship, the client offered their feedback in the form of a report card.
Working Solutions received mostly positive marks, but scored an
F in one category. Although Houlne was surprised and disap-
pointed to receive the low grade, her response was to smile and
say, “Wow, I have never received an F before, but at least now
I know we can only go up from here!”
Instead of assigning blame or pointing fingers, Houlne gathered
her team to brainstorm next steps and decide how to best improve
client relations. She leads not through fear and intimidation,
but rather through positively soliciting opinions and avoiding
criticism and personal attacks.
In addition to keeping clients happy, she’s
a hands-on pro at making sure staffers are
satisfied too. On several occasions, Houlne
has gone above and beyond to ensure prop-
er work life balance and job satisfaction
by making schedule adjustments, revising
job functions, or even creating a new role
entirely. And when some employees seem

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to be doing just fine with the workload
Her staff credits her calm, cool demeanor—even in the face of assigned, Houlne comes along and gently
challenge and adversity—as one of her impressive strengths. pushes them to reach new goals to expand
When Houlne and her senior managers met with a big client for their knowledge and skill sets.
The Home Depot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Bilingual candidates are encouraged to apply. Available positions may vary by store.
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 m o r e t h a n 10 Wendy
Opening ts in 2007!
leadership

Hambleton:
restauran Partnering
With Integrity
In a profession sometimes plagued by
scandal, Wendy Hambleton stands out for
always playing by the rules. As a Partner
Cheryl

Now HiriNg
and Associate Director of Assurance with

Dorrell:
BDO Seidman, the world’s fifth largest
accounting network, her ethics are
uncompromising.

One of the few women to reach the ranks

RESTAURANT MANAGERS of technical advisor, her peers know she’s
a wealth of information and that she’s the
go-to gal when it comes to technical ac-
Real Mex Restaurants is the largest full-service, casual dining counting and reporting issues. Hambleton
Mexican chain operator in the United States. co-authored two courses related to SEC
Reporting, which are taken by hundreds
of professionals each year seeking to
Real Mex Restaurants offers great increase their knowledge of the field.
A Name
For Herself
Dealing with family can be difficult on personal matters, and it can be especially sticky
when you mix business with pleasure. Cheryl Dorrell’s stepfather thought she had a
head for business and a flair for creativity, so he decided to put the family business
under her reign.

opportunities and benefits Aside from her in depth knowledge of the

• Performance-based Quarterly
Bonuses
• Competitive Salaries
• Paid Vacation & Sick Leave
• Outstanding 401(k) with
Company Match
• Broad Choice of Medical/
Dental/Vision Benefits
• Life Insurance Equal to Twice
your Salary
• Comprehensive Training &
Support
• Identity Theft Protection
• Employee Assistance Program
• Educational Reimbursement
• Management Referral Bonus
• Restaurant Dining Privileges
& Discounts
industry she loves, Hambleton looks at
the complexity of public accountancy with
a different eye than most. Public accoun-
tants, by virtue of their roles as auditors
of public companies, are charged with pro-
tecting the interest of the investors. Often
times, this role puts people like Hamble-
ton at odds with their clients in inter-
preting their accounting literature. This is
where her ethics and strong management
skills, which have been described as “calm
This hadn’t always been Dorrell’s plan. She was pursuing her dream of becoming a
television reporter while working at a station in Tuscaloosa, Alabama when her stepdad
announced he wanted to semi-retire. He suggested that Dorrell move back to Atlanta to
learn the ropes at Name Makers, which mass produced personalized sewing labels.
After working her way up from telemarketer to president more than a decade ago,
Dorrell has been the driving force for corporate growth. She launched exciting new
personalized packaging concepts, including a wide selection of personalized gift wrap,
ribbon, boxes and bags, as well as an updated line of sewing labels. At the 2005 National
Stationary Show, her company took Best New Product Award for its personalized gift
wrap. Her products have been featured on NBC’s Today, Oprah’s O List in The O Maga-
zine, Martha Stewart Weddings, Glamour, In Style, and even The Wall Street Journal.

877-840-JoBS
assertive” by colleagues, bring her to the
forefront of a highly stressful, and at times
ethically ambiguous, field. Even though she gave up her original career aspirations to accommodate her family’s
wishes and she often misses out on time with her kids when she’s on the road, there
or apply online Hambleton works with BDO Seidman’s are rewarding moments that Dorrell says make running a family business worth all the
client service teams and clients to help sacrifices she has had to endure. She never tires of hearing a buyer exclaim that amid
www.realmexrestaurants.com resolve these sticky situations with ap-
propriate interpretations of accounting
thousands of things at a trade show, her products are the only ones they really love.

literature and how it applies to the clients’
circumstances. Her style is to let people
voice their opinions and concerns, provide
advice as to what the rules say and why,
and keep the situation moving forward to
an appropriate resolution.
Dorrell says communication with her stepfather can be difficult at times because he still
has a hand in the business and sometimes insists that his two cents be heard. Yet she
takes comfort in knowing he could have picked someone else to run the ship, and she’s
proud that he believed in her and knew she could do it.

Her direct reports say that Hambleton

works through the most difficult of issues
with a sense of ease and a touch of humor,
always composed and helpful, even with
those who cause others to stress out.

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7HATAREYOU
Renee West:
MADEOF
GAMBLING ON DIVERSITY
Running a casino certainly isn’t
just for the guys anymore. In
fact, the scene on the strip has
changed so significantly–with
more family-oriented activities
than ever before–that women
now rule the ranks.
Meet Renee West, president and chief
operating officer of Excalibur Hotel &
Casino, a 3,991 room mega-resort with
more than 3,400 employees. A veteran of
the gaming industry—previously holding
positions at Caesar’s Palace and Station
Casinos—West is the first and currently
the only woman to lead a property on the
Las Vegas Strip.
Aside from her many duties as COO
within the MGM Mirage enterprise, one of
the world’s largest hospitality and enter-
tainment companies, West was recently
charged by the chairman to create a diver-
sity pilot program that may be modeled
by the other 23 properties of the company,
enabling diversity to become a focal point
leadership
of their operations.
Her diversity efforts reach beyond what
is required. West implemented a number
of industry-leading programs including
development of the industry’s first full-ser-
vice on-site housing community, allowing
employees to live closer to work, cutting
commute times by around 40 minutes each
way.
In addition, under West’s leadership,
Excalibur Hotel & Casino is participating
in an innovative ESL program called Sed
de Saber, a self-study English-as-a-Second
Language Program that enables the prop-
erty’s Hispanic employees to improve in
their overall business performance as well
as their self-confidence in the workplace.
Her managerial style differs from that of
other industry leaders because she did not
advance through the normal channels of
operations—marketing or finance. Instead
West’s background is in human resources,
and she firmly believes that by being a
respectful manager and colleague she can
best support happy employees.

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y o u r o w n Barbara Bowman:
Create d e x h o .
t S o chief care-giver
Career a Bowman created a program allowing
them access to support groups, a buddy
Look for us at system and nursing rooms. Children’s
these Women for Every day the people of Sodexho lead the teams that touch
Memorial does not have on-site daycare,
so she advocated for back-up family care
hundreds of thousands of lives throughout the country. We are
Hire Career Expos looking for leaders who believe in making every day a better
for employees, which includes child care
planning assistance and up to 80 hours of
day through managing quality-of-life services for our clients. free back-up care in employees’ homes or
Chicago Navy Pier That is just the beginning of your contribution and opportunity
at local centers.
With over 20 years of experience in health
March 13th at Sodexho. That’s because no matter what position you start
in, you can choose to apply your talent and ambition toward
care human resources, Barbara Bowman She is also responsible for introducing an
knows the importance of keeping employ- on-site concierge team for both employees
becoming a leader in any of the countless disciplines where and patients. The service will run errands,
ees happy. As the Chief Human Resources
Tampa we provide service. Officer for Children’s Memorial Hospital do laundry, buy coloring books or slippers
in Chicago, she oversees a $19 million for a sick child or make travel arrange-
Convention Center Visit www.sodexhoUSA.com
budget for an operation that employs some ments. They offer free movie rentals
to view all of our current openings. within the hospital for patients, and they
April 3rd 4,500 people, and she never forgets the
importance of finding time to make each even have an on-site financial program for
Sodexho is committed to diversity and inclusiveness at all levels of our person and patient feel special. employees to help plan for college or the
organization and is an equal opportunity employer. purchase of a first home.
Bowman implemented several initiatives
to make life a little easier on the staff, the By balancing the big picture without ever
physicians, the patients and the parents losing sight of the small details, Bowman
who walk through the hospital’s doors. has created a community in the workplace
To ensure a smooth transition for working that benefits everyone who enters the
mothers returning from maternity leave, medical facility.

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Cingular is the Nancy simple a choice as cooking dinner—some- She is also a staunch advocate against the

most
thing she also mastered through rais-
ing three children and accommodating
Wonnell: 20-person meals for her husband’s friends
and business associates. After acquiring
Mother In Law her degree, Wonnell built her business and
death penalty. On her latest death penalty
case, she negotiated with the prosecutor
to drop the death penalty specification,
thereby ensuring that her client wouldn’t
receive the death penalty even if he is

recognized
When Nancy Wonnell turned 50, she
wasn’t thinking about retirement. In fact,
she had just started a brand new career.
At 47, Wonnell graduated from Ohio State
University’s Law School with her Juris
Doctorate.
reputation as a lawyer who cares—about
her clients, about the law and about other
new lawyers, especially women coming
out of law school at a non-traditional time
in their lives.
Now the sole owner and operator of a
found guilty of murder. When asked
why she opposes it so strongly, it’s a
similar tone as why she went to law
school in her forties: “I could give you
some complex
answers: it’s unfair
between the races

wireless company for Working as an aide in her husband’s office

full service law firm in Columbus, Ohio,
Wonnell is a source of inspiration and
and the rich and the
poor but really it’s

diversity.
and making frequent trips to the court- knowledge for women in the courtroom. pretty simple. I’m
house to file paperwork prompted her She has assisted many in completing the Irish Catholic and
desire to become a trial lawyer—even at requirements to become court appointed I’ve been against it
what many would call a later time in life. lawyers—allowing them to second chair my whole life. It’s
her in criminal trials and shadow her in how I was raised
Her matter-of-factness makes it seem as traffic court. and what I believe.”

Dr. Kathleen Hall:

At Cingular, we strive to create a work environment that’s inclusive and enriching for our employees. We
know that the latest ideas and solutions come from everyone. So, although we’re proud to be the most
recognized company for diversity among all wireless carriers, we’re even prouder of our efforts to achieve
our ultimate goal. Raising the bar.
At Cingular, the career opportunities are as boundless as the technology. Visit www.cingular.com/careers
to learn about exciting new career opportunities in retail sales and technology.
AT&T and the AT&T logo are registered trademarks of AT&T Inc. All rights reserved. ©2007 Cingular Wireless. All rights reserved.
Stress Buster
Dr. Kathleen Hall knows stress. She juggled
a career as a stock broker with a Wall
Street firm, two young daughters, a mar-
riage and owned and managed a thriving
horse breeding business. She exercised
furiously, drove expensive cars and lived
with her family in a beautiful home. Then,
in a flash, her seamless life began to un-
ravel with intermittent panic attacks.
Paula Gould
Rejecting society’s definition of success, Dr. Hall became fasci-
nated with the emerging field of mind-body medicine. She found
that job stress costs companies billions of dollars annually in
health care premiums, lost work time and decreased productivity.
Dr. Hall, author of A Life in Balance: Nourishing the Four Roots of
True Happiness, says most of the people she met were feeling
overbooked, overworked and overwhelmed. She related to them
on a personal level and chose to spend many years immersed in
the field of stress—seeking education, training and experience
Among the results: A website (stressinstitute.com) of rich re-
sources and a series of effective stress management techniques
that Dr. Hall says are her favorites.
Laugh often. This releases the healing hormone endorphins, the
body’s natural pain killers. Rent a funny movie or listen to a
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comedian. Laughter lowers blood pressure, reduces stress hor-
mones and boosts your immune function.
Eat Breakfast. People who eat breakfast consume less fat and
have a higher intake of essential vitamins and minerals and lower
serum cholesterol, which lessens the risk of heart disease.
Get a Pet. Studies reveal there are benefits of owning a pet,
such as reduction of blood pressure and inducing a relaxation
response in our bodies. Pets are emotional life savers. They help
people experience intimacy and also deal with changes and
losses in their lives.
Find Friends. Friendships are strong indicators of mental, physi-
cal and spiritual health. Friendship is not a luxury, but is essential
to work-life balance and your health. Studies show that isolation
decreases immune functioning and increases mortality risk.
Attitude of Gratitude. It is physiologically impossible to be
grateful and experience stress at the same time. Research
shows grateful individuals report having more energy and
less physical complaints than their non-grateful counterparts.
Gratitude exercises result in higher levels of alertness,
enthusiasm, determination, optimism and energy.
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ADVANCING
PERSONAL AND
PROFESSIONAL
GROWTH. Chilson bought her first home in 2002
when she was just 25. That experience
has enabled her to show others that it is
indeed possible. One of her clients—a
single 26-year-old—was expected to
honor her culture by remaining at home
with her parents until she was married and
The Toyota Way of doing business centers on respect for people and continuous improvement. could buy a home with her future husband.
Although respectful of her family and its
Welcome to excitement and opportunities at Toyota Financial Services (TFS) heritage, with Chilson’s careful financial
guidance and emotional encouragement,
and Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. (TMS). If you’re a motivated individual who thrives she chose to put her own financial security
in an atmosphere of collaboration and dedication, then Toyota is your destination. ahead of other people’s wishes by purchas-
ing a home valued at more than $400,000.
TOYOTA FINANCIAL SERVICES She realized waiting for marriage wasn’t
Since 1983, Toyota Financial Services (TFS) has grown from a small company of eight the best way to build her wealth.
associates to more than 3,000, with over $50 billion in managed assets, serving 2.3 million With more single women than married
customers. At TFS, tomorrow means rising to the challenges of a changing marketplace by women living in this country—and with
promoting a high-performance culture that will allow us to develop better solutions, programs, the often-devastating financial realities of
and services for both existing and new customers. To inquire about career opportunities with divorce facing many women—The Girl
Powered team is well on its way to awak-
TFS, please visit our Web site at: www.toyotafinancial.com/careers. ening the power and courage that already
exists in every woman’s soul. Chilson’s
TOYOTA MOTOR SALES, U.S.A., INC.
Established in 1957 and headquartered in Torrance, CA, Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. (TMS) Amie Chilson: selling 21 homes in her first year as
a licensed agent in 2004, and earning
leading the charge to channel that energy
into ownership of our financial futures.
honors as Realtors Magazine “30 under
is the U.S. sales, marketing, and distribution arm that oversees operations in 49 states for Toyota,
Lexus and Scion products. TMS and its subsidiaries are also involved in distribution, logistics,
Wise Investor 30” and Business Journal’s “Top 40
Under 40.”
motorsports, and research and development. At TMS, we take pride in what the Toyota name Let’s face it, we no longer need to bring
along a guy to help us buy a car, and we After realizing her passion to help single
represents – innovation, quality and reliability. To inquire about career opportunities with
don’t have to wait for an engagement ring women purchase their first homes and
TMS, please visit our Web site at: www.toyota.com/talentlink. to move out on our own. Amie Chilson her natural knack for the business, she
understands that power of independence formed Girl Powered Real Estate. Since its
We offer competitive salaries, a comprehensive benefits package, and ownership, and she’s empowering inception in 2005, the company has helped
and exciting opportunities for career development. women to establish financial security more than a dozen women buy homes and
through real estate. they’re currently working with over 20
Toyota supports equal opportunity and a diverse and inclusive workforce. other women on a Girl Powered game plan
In Campbell, CA Chilson established to buy property—a wise investment—
herself as a real estate power house by within the next two years.
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Golden Corral
Add some flavor
to our mix
At Golden Corral, we appreciate that
our uniquely diverse team of hospitality
professionals lends flavor and spice, not
just to our award-winning food, but to our
rewarding environment. And we recognize
that it is because of the talented men and
women who dedicate their skills to our
success that we have been voted #1 for the
tenth consecutive year in the family buffet
grill segment by Nation's Restaurant News.
Our management team members know that
Golden Corral is committed to helping them
pursue their goals for success by providing
them with the very best training possible
and a dedicated promote-from-within policy.
As a matter of fact, most of our General
Managers have been promoted from the
Associate Manager level. Talk about rising
to the top!
Come add your one-of-a-kind flavor to
the Golden Corral family. To explore
the many career opportunities with
Golden Corral across the country,
visit us at www.goldencorral.net.
Amy Scott:
friendly mentor
Amy Scott appreciates the value of women
helping women and she exudes a unique
blend of friendship and mentoring in the
workplace every single day. As a manag-
ing partner at New York Life—one of the
youngest people to be promoted to this top
title—she supervises three partners and
more than 70 agents while juggling her
own family of three young children. Her
colleagues say she’s a role model who in-
spires women to recognize that it is indeed
possible to lead a balanced life and to be
successful as well as compassionate.
to do good for others and to do well for
themselves. Add to that the opportunity
to carve out ample time for family, and
you have what Scott believes is a winning
world of work.
Her leadership and service extend out-
side of the office too. Scott was the team
captain for the 2006 Susan G. Komen
Breast Cancer Awareness walk and she is
on the board of the Children’s Hospital in
Columbus, Ohio. She also lends her time
to Coats for Kids and Heart of Georgia
Big Brothers Big Sisters.
• In 2006, New York Life had 308
women members of the Million
Dollar Round Table, the premier
association of financial professionals,
more than twice as many as any
other US company.
• New York Life recruits and retains
the highest number of women agents
in the industry according to LIMRA,
the industry’s largest resource
for financial services marketing
information.
• Learn more about the career
opportunity at New York Life at
nylcareersforwomen.com.

Above and beyond her core responsi-
bilities, Scott actively participates as a
speaker at events to promote the growth
and development of other women. She
knows firsthand that a career in insurance
and financial services can be a great fit for
women because it combines the ability
Scott says watching agents who she
recruited and trained excel is incredibly
satisfying, and she calls their success one
of the most gratifying aspects of her ca-
reer. “I believe and strive to communicate
that your career should enrich your life
and those around you.”

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Michele Wong:
Being the leader in SHARING THE
women’s entertainment WEALTH
is only part of the story. Everyone has had those days: your favor-
ite coffee shop is closed, your car breaks
down, you’re late for work and your boss
The other part of the story is our people— isn’t going to care for your excuses. Phyl-
lis Fultz, an administrative assistant at
the talented and diverse individuals who Synergex, was having one of those days,
make Lifetime such a great place to work.
but luckily, her boss did care.
“My car went out and it was going to cost
If you’d like to be a part of a company that quite a bit of money to fix,” said Fultz of
invests in women’s success, we’d like to her car woes, “Michele [Wong] had the ac-
countant give me a check for the cost and
see your resume. did not charge me interest to repay her. I
had only been with the company for six
Please visit Lifetimetv.com/about/jobs
to learn more.
Mary Wayman:
time keeper
Mary Wayman never planned on becom-
ing an entrepreneur, but when she was
diagnosed with uterine cancer in 1998,
eventually spreading to her breast and then
her brain, she knew she had to make some
things happen fast for her family and for
herself. One of her greatest desires was to
see her oldest of three children graduate
from college.
Wayman learned that less than forty per-
cent of students graduate from four-year
programs in the same number of years.
The prolonged process costs them both
time and money, and Wayman knew that
time was an incredibly valuable commod-
ity at this stage in her battle to survive.
She formed Application 2 Graduation,
which has grown since 1999 into a mil-
lion-dollar firm dedicated to empower-
ing students while they pursue a college
education.
Lifetime Networks is an equal opportunity employer, committed to the recruitment and retention of employees of diverse backgrounds, sex, race, religion and sexual orientation.
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months at that time.”
Michele, the heroine in Fultz’ story, is Mi-
chele Wong, the CEO of Synergex, a 54-
person computer programming company
in Northern California. There are no doors
on any offices at Synergex, redefining the
term “open door policy.” Any employee
is welcome to drop in on any executive
at any time for an impromptu exchange.
There is a company information exchange
meeting twice a month to keep all employ-
ees abreast of the various departments.
Wong makes a point of meeting with each
project group without the manager pres-
ent to discuss work and leisure activities.
Synergex also mentors minority student
interns from high schools and provides
resources and encouragement for them to
continue their education.
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camaraderie & connectivity
Other perks that Wong implemented: free
daily breakfast, a fully stocked kitchen,
paid, long term care along with insurance
packages, casual dress code, company
picnics, lunches, dinners, outdoor activi-
ties, and movies. Such initiatives granted
Synergex with the Best Place to Work
award for a small for-profit company by
the Sacramento Bee in 2006.
“As a single mom, it is hard on the budget
for extra activities,” Fultz says, “Michele
gives us free tickets to the museum all the
time, along with a host of other wonder-
ful ways to help expand my daughter’s
development.”
With many corporate executives appear-
ing cold and unfeeling, it’s a pleasure to
recognize someone who is anything but.
For Wayman, who has a Juris Doctor-
ate from Howard University and was a
Judge Advocate General in the military
before retiring as a Major after 22 years of
service, her accidental journey into entre-
preneurship has helped more than 6,000
students with everything from school se-
lection, application process, and financial
aide to curriculum building and course
scheduling. She boasts a 99 percent
success rate in clients graduating in four
years rather than the standard six.
As a way to ensure that A2G’s services
are available to those who cannot afford
it, Wayman created Four Year Tops. This
non-profit scholarship program selects
talented and dedicated college-bound indi-
viduals who can benefit most from A2G’s
comprehensive guidance.
Wayman continues her struggle each day
to maintain a healthy, whole and healed
body while she runs the business. And her
son is on track to graduate at exactly four
year mark. She plans to be in the stands,
waving him on to the next phase.
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Liz Ryan:
Dot Com
Doyenne
Who are you? At the height of the dot com era in the
nineties, advances in technology paved
the way for an entirely new platform for
networking and sharing knowledge online.
Liz Ryan saw an opportunity to fill a void
in the way women communicated.
She created WorldWIT, one of the first
global online and offline networks for
women in business and technology, which
today connects more than 40,000 members
across industries via its free discussion
groups. And, through Ryan’s leader-
ship, the group has brought face-to-face
networking and educational events to
businesswomen in 25 countries since it
launched seven years ago.
The launch of individual WorldWIT
chapters has created the basis for building
strong communities by combining online
conversation, quick information sharing
and in-person events.
community
school exclusively for girls. The program
promotes a sense of fluidity
between the generations. E-mentoring
gives young girls a window into the adult
workplace, and it gives working women
an opportunity to look at aspirations
through the eyes of middle school stu-
dents.
Her mentoring extends to women who
haven’t yet embarked on their careers with
the recent launch of PhillyCampusWIT,
the first WorldWIT chapter for college-age
women.
In addition to being an award-winning
entrepreneur, Ryan speaks French, Polish,
and Korean, and she says she can offer
greetings in 55 other languages. It’s just
one more way she’s able to connect with
different communities.
Learn more about Ryan’s social and pro-
fessional networking expertise and how
to cultivate an online network for global
reach, and business and personal support
in her new book Happy About Online
Networking: The virtual-ly simple way to
build professional relationships.

Although her efforts have expanded glob-

ally, Ryan remains rooted in Colorado’s
business community, where she lives with
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Ryan also helped debut a pioneering

e-mentoring program between ChicWIT,
the group’s Chicago chapter, and a seventh
grade class at Young Women’s Leader-
ship Charter School, which is the nation’s
only math and science-focused charter
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In the mid eighties, Ingrid Watkins moved from Columbia,
South Carolina to Washington, D.C. with her life savings of
$2,000, about 200 copies of her short resume, and the determina-
tion to make it in a big city. She landed a role at the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting, but it wouldn’t be the last gutsy career
decision she had to make.
Several years later she gave birth to twins, one of which was
born with special needs. She put her career on the back burner
to devote all of her time to her family. She created a parents’
support group and became a foster mother for other special
needs children.
When her twins were only four years old, Watkins found herself
a divorced single mother who could no longer afford to be
unemployed. Out of necessity, she returned to work and accepted
a job that she considered well beneath her skill level to ensure
she had a flexible schedule for her children. Because the position
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Ingrid Watkins:
always On
the Move
as a coordinator in the finance area of The Coca-Cola Company
offered few challenges, she grew bored with her duties. But
instead of remaining stagnant, Watkins took it upon herself to
learn some basic technology skills and she created an e-news-
letter and website for her group that was ultimately distributed
company-wide.
That exposure caught the eyes of the company’s supplier diver-
sity team, which was in need of a communications and website
manager. Watkins was promoted to that role. Her efforts have
been instrumental in aiding the Supplier Diversity team to meet
and exceed its goals of engaging minority and women-owned
businesses in procurement opportunities within The Coca-Cola
Company.
Never one to rest on her laurels, at the age of 40, Watkins
returned to school for her MBA, which she received with honors.
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 Noreen Heron
A few of our favorite things…
Zautcke:
Big Cheese
Noreen Heron Zautcke made her mark
with cheese.
The publicity guru was charged with
developing a high-profile campaign for
the 40th anniversary celebration of
Chicago’s legendary fondue restaurant,
Geja’s Café. Her big-buzz idea: create
the world’s largest pot of cheese fon-
due, melting more than 1,050 gallons
of cheese, breaking the record set in the
While everyone who joins our team is drawn here by something different – from the support we offer
Guinness Book of World Records. The
new graduates to our advanced services that open exciting challenges for even the most experienced
public was invited to enjoy the compli-
team members – one thing is always the same. Our dynamic career environment is designed to bring out
the best in individuals by helping them own their future and to bring out the best in our entire team mentary concoction, which was enough to
through a shared mission of excellence in patient care. Our spectacular new expansion, outstanding serve 35,000 people with leftovers going
education benefits and flexible scheduling options are some of the fantastic assets our team enjoys, all to the Chicago Food Depository. A new
in a beautiful suburban location. menu was unveiled at the event and guests
A Magnet facility and one of the region's busiest, most comprehensive facilities, AMH is an independent,
received steep discounts on dining.
570-bed, acute-care teaching hospital with a medical staff of more than 800 physicians and 5,000
employees. That’s not the only gigantic stunt she’s
organized. Since opening her own public
relations firm in 2000, Zautcke planned
What will be your favorite thing? the World’s Largest Office Party, which
celebrated a benefit for the Sun-Times
• Generous tuition reimbursement Charity Fund at the Hyatt Regency in
Chicago, and the Pepsi Easter Fairy Tale
• Formal reward and recognition program
Adventure with a parade.
• Flexible scheduling
• Career advancement Her creativity and theatrics can be traced
back to high school when she worked as
• On-site child care facility
an usher at a dinner playhouse. She contin-
ued working there throughout college and
Learn more and apply online at www.amh.org ultimately became the house manager and
then the publicity director. She went on to
We are an equal opportunity employer. handle marketing for Chicago’s long-run-
A JCAHO Certified Primary Stroke Center ning smash hit, Nunsense, and has since
represented an impressive 300 productions
in her career.
Not everything she does is in the spotlight.
Every week Zautcke sends care packages
of t-shirts, toiletries, hard candy and body
Abington, Pennsylvania
wash to American soldiers in Iraq. To
her, they are among the real stars of our
country.
Linda Hall:
Wise Winner
Whoever said landing a new job at sixty-
something is impossible hasn’t met Linda
Hall.
At 63, this Salt Lake City computer pro-
grammer knew she didn’t fit the profile
of a traditional techie. The industry is
male-centric and youth-dominated, both
of which worked against her during her
nine years at a global IT giant. She was
surrounded by swarms of fresh college
grads and twenty-somethings with sharp
skills and the ability to learn at lightning
speed.
Yet even with what was sometimes a
generation difference between her and
her colleagues and often times her boss-
es, Hall was good at her job, and with
a warm and welcoming personality, she
was well-liked by peers. As an extremely
dedicated employee, she as frequently
called on to work into the wee hours of
the night to complete critical tasks.
None of that mattered when, thirty years
into her career, Hall received the worst
possible news for a mature worker in the
technology sector: She was being laid off.
With just a three month cushion of
severance pay and benefits, Hall was
justifiably nervous about securing a new
job. Being single, a steady salary was a
financial necessity, and being career-
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minded, a meaningful and challenging job
was emotionally critical. Job searching is
always difficult but with a line of young,
fresh geniuses in front of her at every
interview, there were weeks of despair
and discouragement where Hall
worried that her career days may have
been behind her.
She used her anxiety to establish a
plan—thanks in part, she says, to the
advice in Women For Hire books and
on our website. She stepped up her
networking immediately, asking everyone
for both job leads and candid feedback
on strengthening her resume. She en-
rolled in a weekly job search workshop
offered by her church where she devel-
oped a polished elevator pitch, rehearsed
interview questions, and connected with
head hunters
All of those efforts—along with the
belief that her maturity and years of
experience were assets and not impedi-
ments—finally paid off. Four months
after the layoff that turned her world
upside down, Hall received an offer from
one of the largest banks in the city as
a programmer with regular nine to five
hours and a $15,000 increase over her
previous position.
Today Hall says she love the new chal-
lenges she’s facing and the relationships
she is building. And perhaps best of all,
she cherishes her unique position and
perspective as a mature woman in a
young person’s world of work.
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 JJ Ramberg: community

Searching For
Charitable Success
Join One of the Top 50 In 2005, journalist JJ Ramberg, who reports on business for MSNBC, partnered with

Places to Launch a Career. her brother Ken, a dot com entrepreneur, to launch GoodSearch.com, a Yahoo-pow-
ered search engine that donates half of its revenue to the charities and schools its users
designate.

Redefining car insurance since 1937, Progressive
Insurance is the third-largest provider of personal auto
insurance in the U.S. and has recently been
recognized by BusinessWeek as one of the Top 50
Places to Launch a Career.
The Rambergs wanted to create a way for people to effortlessly support and feel con-
nected to their favorite charities. They knew everyone cares about a cause—whether
it’s finding a cure for AIDS, rescuing stray animals, cleaning up the environment,
or improving education—but not everyone has the time or money to devote. They
identified a way to take someone that all of us do every day—search the Internet—and
turn it into doing good simultaneously. Ramberg says search engines earned more
than six billion dollars in advertising revenue last year and with GoodSearch.com
she’s hoping to redirect some of that money to organizations trying to make the world
a better place.

Progressive Offers:
• An innovative, challenging, fun work environment
where you are encouraged to risk, learn and grow
• The chance to work with diverse, bright colleagues
Ramberg, who graduated cum laude from Duke University and holds an MBA from
Stanford Business School, is no stranger to philanthropy. She has volunteered over-
seas in India and Uganda for microfinance organizations. After watching her mother
lose her battle to cancer, Ramberg knows how great the need is to raise funds to care
for those suffering from the disease. Her nephew is fatally allergic to peanuts so her
family works to raise money for an organization searching for a cure. And one of her
best friends started the TEAK Fellowship program, which fundraises to support its
effort to help economically disadvantaged children get into good schools.

• Comprehensive pay and flexible benefits
• Extensive development opportunities
Realize your career aspirations with a company of
more than 28,000 employees in 450 offices across
While our favorite non-profit is the Women For Hire Foundation, which was estab-
lished last year to assist displaced, low income women with career development,
GoodSearch.com users can choose to support any cause they wish. Each time you
conduct a search, just as you would on any other search engine, a penny goes to your
favorite charity, which is generated from Goodsearch.com’s advertising revenue. One
hundred people searching just four times a day will raise more than $1,400 a year for
a cause.

the country and whose name says it best – More than 21,000 organizations are listed on GoodSearch, ranging from giants like
Progressive. the United Way to an Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, and the first round of checks
were mailed in December 2006. Ramberg says it was incredibly rewarding to see how
her enterprise is working to fund so many great causes. Her efforts are certainly good
news for all of them.

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Kumu Gupta:
Technically Serving
Moving alone to the United States from Kuwait at 18 in the midst of Saddam Hussein’s
invasion of her homeland, Kumu Gupta didn’t know if her family would survive the
violence and bloodshed of the Desert Storm war. She was forced to learn how to survive
here on her own and immersed herself in higher education. She earned dual degrees
with honors in Material Science and Engineering Science often as the only woman in
many of her classes. Prompted by a strong desire to help others, she received a Master’s
in Psychology. This paved the way for her younger siblings to pursue college degrees
from top universities in this country.

Today in addition to maintaining a profitable consulting firm she founded and providing
analysis for investment managers at a global consulting firm, Gupta finds plenty of time
to volunteer for a variety of causes.

She’s active with the South Asian Women’s Support group in Boston and founded the
Donate A Cell Phone program for victims of domestic violence. She was recognized
for her efforts by being appointed to the city’s Mayor’s Commission on Women and
received an honorable mention at a state awards ceremony for service to the community.

Her outreach services expanded further in Boston when she was appointed to the Board
of Directors for non-profit organization Blue Hill Adventure and Quarry Museum, an
outdoor group that focuses on the Blue Hill Reservations. She photographed the area and
then put her technology skills to work to build a website promoting the group.

She’s not only proud of what she’s given to this country, but she’s also appreciative of
the opportunities afforded her. During a company-sponsored baseball outing, Gupta,
who hails from the Middle East, was the lead singer of the national anthem at a San
Francisco Giants baseball game.

Get Involved: Donate A Cell Phone

 
Since Valentine’s Day 2001, Jane Doe Inc.—in affiliation with the Massachu-
setts Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence—has run a
variety of cell phone drives, and the public has responded by donating over
20,000 phones.

The Donate A Phone campaign is an ongoing effort sponsored on the

national level by the Wireless Foundation, Motorola and the National Coali-
tion Against Domestic Violence. To find out more, please check out their
web-site at www.wirelessfoundation.org. Phones can be mailed directly to:

Call to Protect
2555 Bishop Circle West
Dexter, MI 48130

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Erin Fuller:
Women Mean Business
Did you know that women owned businesses are growing at twice
the rate of all businesses in the United States? Or that 47 percent
of all privately held business in the United States is owned by
women? As executive director for the National Association of
Women Business Owners, Erin Fuller works on behalf of all of
them every day.

She’s testified before Congress, and lobbied the U.S. Small Busi-
ness Administration, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commis-
sion, and both the Senate and House Committees on Small Busi-
ness regarding business ownership issues. Some of her expert testimonies discuss issues
such as health care or equal employment rights.

Most recently she testified to the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepre-
neurship, arguing that women in business are not getting their fair share of procurement
opportunities despite a law that was passed for this reason over ten years ago.

“It’s important to educate the public about the growth of women-owned entrepreneur-
§

§
ship in the U.S.,” says Fuller of her testimonies.

Within her own organization, she has seen the membership of NAWBO grow from 5,500
in 2002 to 8,000. As women business owners contribute significantly to the economy,
they recognize the value of an organization devoted to representing and fighting for their
unique economic, social and political needs. Fuller will continue to lead their crusade.

Photo by Leroy Hamilton

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Sabira
Alloo:
Cultural
Activist
Even as a young girl growing
up in Walnut, CA, Sabira Alloo
Jeanne had been exposed to the atroci-
ties and misfortunes of the
Fitzmaurice: third world. Her parents—both
born and raised in East Af-
rica—made sure that she and
Stylish her siblings visited various cul-
tures in Europe, Africa, Asia,
Crusader the Middle East, and North and
South Americas. After seeing
how poverty and deprivation
Always true to her vision, Jeanne Fitzmaurice has dedicated affected so many, Alloo devel-
herself to helping women who are enduring the realities of oped a strong compassion for
Stage IV breast cancer. those without and decided to
apply it to her career.
Several years ago, her cousin passed away from the disease, and
through that experience Fitzmaurice came to understand the Today, she works as Member-
desires of women to retain their dignity and family dynamic at a ship and Development Man-
ager for the Pacific Council on
time when their cancer spreads and cannot be contained.
International Policy, a non-
profit, non-partisan member-
With the vision of helping those who are living and dying through
ship organization that informs
the progression of this disease, Fitzmaurice formed the Gal people about international
to Gal Foundation, dedicated to generating funds for existing policy issues. She was respon-
organizations supporting those living with this least understood sible for organizing their an-
and least recognized phase of breast cancer. As the first national nual flagship event—which is
organization dedicating one hundred percent of its resources to known as the premier interna-
Stage 4 causes, Fitzmaurice has set a goal of raising a million dol- tional policy gathering on the
lars over the next three years—and she’s well on her way. West Coast, congregating over
200 world leaders and policy
shapers to unite and discuss
To assure the fundraising success, Fitzmaurice formed Design-her
ideas for future change. She is
Gals to celebrate women and the world of fashion and fun. On
also responsible for increas-
the website (designhergals.com), users can design note cards and
other paper products using images to replicate their likeness.
With Design-her Gals, everything in your closet always fits, and
every day is a good hair day—even if you may have lost it all in
chemo.
With more than 150,000 registered users—thanks, in part, to
a plug from Oprah—Fitzmaurice, who works out of her home
in Bend, Oregon, still finds time to answer almost every email
personally to stay connected to her loyal base. Every sale rings
up smiles for satisfied customers and support for the spirits of
women in Stage IV.
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ing their annual revenue by 80
percent through fundraising
efforts.
Only a few years ago, as a
student she established the UC
Berkeley Chapter of a national
volunteering organization
while studying there for her
BA in International Develop-
ment. The organization’s focus
was aimed at reducing and
preventing hunger, homeless-
ness, and disease through
community awareness and
involvement.
During her studies, Alloo was
also the managing director of
the Berkeley Women’s Shelter,
a three-year commitment
that was done entirely on a
voluntary basis while work-
ing and going to school. She
was ultimately responsible for
coordinating the care required
for over 80 women who were
victims of domestic violence.
Through her extensive travels
and cultural experience (she
also speaks five languages),
Alloo has a deeper apprecia-
tion for life. “Visiting so many
places, usually ones that don’t
enjoy the same luxuries you
have at home, made [me] much
more aware, compassionate
and driven to make a change.
Apart from that it gave [me]
a deep appreciation for other
cultures, crafts and languages
which [I] still value and am
influenced by today.”
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Shondale Bostick:
Partner in Compassion
Accenture, a global management consulting,
technology services and outsourcing com-
pany boasts annual revenues of over $15.5
billion and over 130,000 employees. At a
global giant of that size, it’s easy to see how
someone could get lost in the shuffle. Not
Shondale Bostick.
An all boy orchestra dressed to impress for the show
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Orlantha Ambrose’s former students with Bostick in Sri Lanka
She’s among the five percent of employees who are Partners, and
she’s one in only a handful of African American women to hold
the prestigious title. On the job, her most recent project required
her to manage a team of up to 80 direct reports, covering as many
as 30 cultural backgrounds domestically and overseas in the
Arabian Gulf and Europe.
Despite her extremely demanding position, Bostick keeps com-
munity and global service high on her list of priorities. In De-
cember 2005, a year after a tsunami killed an estimated 190,000
people in Sri Lanka and other parts of South and Southeast
Asia—including a children’s music teacher, Orlantha Am-
brose—Bostick took a personal leave of absence to travel there
and produce a Christmas program. She had never met the music
teacher, but heard of the work she was doing offering children
free music lessons with the hope that it could create a communi-
cation channel and bring peace and unity to a war-torn country.
Every year Ambrose produced a Christmas program that mixed
underprivileged and mentally challenged children with able-bod-
ied and high society children in a performance of violin, vocal
pieces, and other instruments.
Leaving her Partner duties behind, Bostick traveled to the Gulf
to write, organize and produce a similar Christmas concert called
Heart Strings to honor the teacher’s passion for string instru-
ments. She stays in touch with Sri Lankan families and she
promises to return next year, making sweet music with them
at a bi-annual affair.
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Shuchi Pandya
Anyone who has moved to New York City from a rural loca-
tion knows the transition isn’t always easy. In fact, it can be
down right brutal. After studying at Emporia State University
in Kansas, Shuchi Pandya was ready for a change and decided
to pursue her dream: Life in the Big Apple. She packed her
bags and moved to the East Coast. Now, she thought, she
better find a job quick.

“I was getting worried that I may not find a job in the field I
wanted to work in, but would end up taking something that
would help me just get by,” says Pandya.

Despite the culture shock, the new pace of life, and the com-
petitiveness that Pandya faced in New York, she was able to
find work. In a matter of a few weeks, she had a great position
in her field at RSM International, a top ten accounting,
consultancy and corporate finance firm. How did she do it?
Women For Hire.

Pandya heard about the Women For Hire career expo through
her brother, a student at New York University. While looking
through a registration form online, she liked that the event
was focused specifically for women and she appreciated the
prestigious list of companies that would be attending.

“Most of the other career fairs I attended had a lot of unrelated

jobs,” she says. “Women For Hire had big companies and a
lot of finance positions. I knew I could meet the people
I wanted to meet.”
Indeed she did. She met Jodi Goldman, a recruiter for RSM
International, and landed a position as an audit associate.
Sound Sleepers
After reading an advertisement in the Boston Globe,
Catherine Raymond and Roberta Mathis decided to take
a chance. They put on business attire, printed resumes and
headed to the Women For Hire event.

“I keep telling Jodi that Women For Hire was the best thing Raymond saw the diversity of job postings and opportunity to
that happened to me,” says Pandya. “In fact, I went to the next meet face to face with hiring representatives as a sure shot that
New York Women For Hire event as an RSM employee and she would land a job, or at the very least, develop her inter-
helped recruit with Jodi!” viewing and resume skills. Mathis, who had heard of Women
For Hire, liked the concept of a woman-focused career expo
Pandya couldn’t be happier with her position. “I love it. I think and thought it was a great opportunity.
the best thing is we work with different clients and we get to
meet new people. There’s travel involved. It’s not a boring They both landed jobs as Sleep
desk job; there are always different situations to face.” Counselors with Mattress
Discounters in the company’s
sales department. Raymond and
Mathis are excited to be work-
ing at a company with great
training, strong earning poten-
tial and exceptional growth
opportunity, and they’re quick
to credit Women For Hire.
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WE VALUE THE INDIVIDUAL.

Different perspectives generate fresh ideas. That’s why at Bank of the West, we value
diversity of gender and equal opportunity for our female employees. Year after year,
we continue to grow stronger thanks to our unique blend of people. After all, in today’s
competitive banking environment, it is our employees with innovative ideas that keep
us a step ahead of the rest.

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