FountainBlue

About Us

Management

FAQ

Testimonials

Community

In the News

Contact Us

ExecutiveEvents

Leadership

Transitions

When She Speaks

EntrepreneurEvents

CleanEnergy

High Tech Entrepreneurs

Life Science Entrepreneur

Consulting

Speaking

Coaching and Facilitating

Networking

Consultants

Partners

SV Events

Sponsors

Giving Back

Volunteers

Resources

CleanEnergyNotes

ConnectionsNotes

LeadershipNotes

EntrepreneursNotes

LifeScienceNotes

TransitionsNotes

WhenSheSpeaksNotes

FountainBlue's Store

FountainBlue's "When She Speaks" Women in Leadership Series

FountainBlue's monthly "When She Speaks" Women in Leadership Series highlights the stories of influential Silicon Valley women in high technology, life science and clean energy companies. Our intent is to: 

  • stimulate critical thinking on the social, leadership and business issues of the day,
  • to build support networks and deeper relationships between like-minded professionals in support of leadership (for both men and women)
  • to and
  • even to mobilize leaders to take specific action and achieve tangible results.

    .
     

Register Now!

More Information

We are pleased to produce monthly events on the second Thursdays of the month from 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m., These events provide ongoing opportunities for leaders and emerging leaders in the valley to celebrate leadership, share best practices and forge bonds with fellow professionals in support of women in leadership. Men and women professionals in support of women in leadership are welcome to attend.

For notes from previous meetings, visit
http://www.fountainblue.biz/resources/whenshespeaksnotes.html or visit our wiki at http://fountainblue.pbwiki.com to ask questions for upcoming sessions, contribute suggestions for information and resources, and participate in the discussions following our meetings. Feel free also to visit our store to purchase online video or audio tapes of specific When She Speaks meetings as well.

Meeting Agenda
5:30  Registration, Snacks and Networking
6:00  Welcomes and Thank Yous
6:05  Panelist Introductions and Panelist Discussion
6:45  Additional Questions Submitted from the Audience (since the events are filmed, questions are submitted in writing during the event)
7:00  Break-outs in groups of 4-6, Led by Panelists
7:25  Debrief from Break-out Groups and Final Remarks
7:30  Thank Yous and Meeting Adjourned

Sponsorship
FountainBlue gratefully applauds the leadership and support of our sponsors, and are thankful also for their assistance in shaping and marketing our programs to emerging leaders in Silicon Valley and beyond.

Thank you to our previous sponsors, UCSC Extension and Gevity who sponsored our series since its launch in May 2006 through January 2007. A thank you also to Cisco
http://www.cisco.com who helped us grow the program and enlarge its reach with its support from February 2007 through April 2007.

We are also grateful to our current sponsors, EMC Corporation
http://www.emc.com for their commitment to support the series from May 10, 2007 through October 11, 2007. Our monthly events will be held from 4-6 p.m. at the EMC offices, 2831 Mission College Boulevard in Santa Clara.

Our June 14 Topic: Optimizing Your Team with Rossella Derickson and Krista Henley, Corporate Wisdom and SBODN

A critical aspect of leadership at any level is the ability to work with others in teams. Whether you are working with staff members to create a product, with the executive team and board members to define and implement a strategic direction, with customers to define market needs, with channel and other partners to market and distribute your products and services, a leader needs to strategically define objectives, communicate them in a way which would inspire others to follow the program, and continue to deliver strategic, measurable results, enlisting the support and buy-in of all stakeholders.


For our June When She Speaks session, we have invited effective team leaders to share their successes and challenges, and give us advice on how we can more effectively and efficiently participate and support our teams, leading and following from any chair. Our discussion will be led by:

  • Moderator Rossella Derickson and Krista Henley, Corporate Wisdom and SBODN
  • Panelist Sheryl Chamberlain, Global Alliance Manager, EMC, Director ATW Mentorship Program
  • Panelist Vickie Grove, Development Director, Child Advocates
  • Panelist Amy Heidersbach, Vice President, Product and Merchant Marketing, VISA
  • Panelist Melinda Lockhart, EDS
  • Panelist Hali White, Director Process Excellence Office, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
Register Now!
We are grateful to our event sponsors, Cisco.
We are grateful to our event sponsors, Cisco.

See below for a list of program topics and facilitators for 2007. Register for any upcoming program by visiting http://www.acteva.com/go/FountainBlue by noon the day before the event.

Date Title Panelists Sponsored Nonprofit
Friday, January 12 Succeeding in a Man's World Patti Wilson, The Career Company
Panliest Linda Fosler, Prowse-Fosler and Associates
Panliest Francine Gordon, ATW and FGordon Group
Panliest Mona Hudak, Cisco
Panliest Praveena Varadarajan, Sun Microsystems
Alliance for Technology and Women
Friday, February 9 Healthy Lifestyle Choices Facilitator Geetha Rao
Panliest Lisa Jing, Cisco Systems, Integrated Health Initiative
Panliest Julie Johnston, El Camino Hospital
Panliest Linda Williams, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte
El Camino Hospital
Planned Parenthood
Friday, March 9 Women in Policy Facilitator Leslee Guardino, Canyon Snow
Panelist Cindy Chavez, former Vice-Mayor, City of San Jose
Panelist Kathleen King, City of Saratoga City Council
Panelist Liz Kniss, Supervisor, County of Santa Clara
Panelist Bev Strand, Manager, Strategic Partnerships, Worldwide Diversity & Inclusion, Cisco, Member, California Commission on the Status of Women
Women's High Tech Coalition
Thursday, April 12 Leading with Power, Influence and Integrity Facilitators Camille Smith, Work In Progress Coaching
Panelist Michele Forte, Senior Director of Development, CARE
Panelist Afsaneh Laidlaw, Senior Director of Engineering, Cisco 
Panelist Tammi Smorynski, Intel Capital
Panelist Natascha Thomson, Senior Manager, Market Intelligence, EMC, Women's Leadership Forum at EMC
Global Women Leadership Network
Thursday, May 10 The Mentors in Our Lives Moderator Catherine Ngo, Startup Capital Ventures
Panelist Joan Banich, Cisco
Panelist Sheryl Chamberlain, Global Alliance Manager, EMC and Chair of Mentorship Program, ATW
Panelist Carol Muller, MentorNet
Panelist Eileen Sullivan, Cadence
ATW
MentorNet
Thursday, June 14 Optimizing Your Team Moderator Rossella Derickson and Krista Henley, Corporate Wisdom and SBODN
Panelist Sheryl Chamberlain, Global Alliance Manager, EMC, Director ATW Mentorship Program
Panelist Vicki Grove, Development Director, Child Advocates
Panelist Hali White, Director Process Excellence Office, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
ATW
Child Advocates
Thursday, July 12 Women at the Top of Their Game Moderator Roberta LaPorte, RAL & Associates
Panelist Lisa Felder, Team in Training, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Panelist Barbara Massa, Director of Recruiting Services, EMC
Panelist Amy Rubin, Director of Marketing, Intel
Panelist Jackie Seto, Lam Research
Other Panelists to be confirmed
ATW
Thursday, August 9 Corporate Social Responsibility and the Bottom Line TBD ATW
The Entrepreneurs' Foundation
Thursday, September 13 Leadership Styles: What's Gender Got to Do With It? Bonita Banducci, Banducci Consulting ATW
GWLN
TBD
Thursday, October 11 Women Leading Innovation Beata Lewis, Bridging Lives
Claudia Backus, Motorola
Maria Alvarez, Chief of Staff, Search and Advertising Technology Group, Yahoo Inc.
ATW
Thursday, November 8 Female Entrepreneurs Michelle Messina, Explora International ATW
Thursday, December 13 Leveraging Diversity for Business Results Moderator Kristi Royse, Founder and CEO, KLR Consulting ATW


Below is a list of When She Speaks topics and facilitators and panelists from 2006.

Date Title Panelists Sponsored Nonprofit
Friday, May 12 Overcoming Adversity Christine Comaford-Lynch, Mighty Ventures
Linda Holroyd, FountainBlue
Support Network for Battered Women
Friday, June 9 Leaving a Legacy Ann Tardy, LifeMoxie
Jennifer Rowe, Community Foundation Silicon Valley
Community Foundation Silicon Valley
Friday, July 14 Empowering Others Sally Pera, PeraConnect
Ysabel Duron, KRON News
Cindy Padnos, Outlook Ventures
Latinas Contra Cancer
Friday, August 11 Global Perspectives Catherine Zinn, DLA Piper
Michelle Messina, Explora International
Catherine Ngo, Startup Capital Ventures
Global Women's Fund
Friday, September 8 Education is Fundamental: The Need for a Public-Private Partnership Usha Sekar
Geoff Ainscow, Sunnyvale School District Education Foundation
Hillary Aitken, BUILD
Anna Song, Santa Clara County Board of Education
Paula Wasowska, Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group
Santa Clara County Office of Education
Friday, October 13 It Takes a Village: The Case for Collaborative Leadership  Katharine Fong, San Jose Mercury News
Patricia Burbank, One World Children's Fund
Dyan Chan, Lighthouse Blue
Mona Hudak, Cisco 
One World Children's Fund
Friday, November 10 Fostering Women Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries Linda Alepin, Global Women Leadership Network
Mythili Sankaran, American India Foundation
Praveena Varadarajan, Sun Microsystems
America India Foundation
Global Women Leadership Network
Friday, December 8 Creating a Work-Life Balance Michele Bolton, ExecutivEdge
Jennifer Gill Roberts, Maven Ventures
Jan Dukes-Schlossberg, Cisco
Nivisha Mehta, El Camino Hospital Foundation
Kristi Royse, KLR Consulting
El Camino Hospital Foundation

Join our community for Silicon Valley Executives,.
Join our community for Silicon Valley Women Leaders.
Join our community for Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs.
Join our community for Silicon Valley Investors.
Join our LinkedIn Community for all FountainBlue members.
Contribute to FountainBlue's wiki.
For more information, contact us at info@FountainBlue.biz
.