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FountainBlue: When She Speaks, Women in Leadership Series

Topic: Women Who Make Up Their Own Rules

Date & Time: Friday, September 10 from 11:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m.

Location: LifeScan, 1051 S Milpitas Blvd. Bldg 2, Cafeteria Annex Room, Milpitas

Pre-register:  $21 members, $32 partners, $42 general, $156 corporate passes for up to 10 people

Late and On-Site Cost: $42 members, $52 non-members, $124 Ongoing membership plus admission

Registration: Please pre-register by noon on 9/9 using the adjacent PayPal link

Audience: Women and men who support having women in senior technology positions.

Women Who Make Up Their Own Rules

Successful women create their own brand - their own personal way of making things happen. Sometimes they play within the rules, sometimes they make up their own rules, but the results speak for themselves. Join us and hear the stories from dynamic women who are making up the rules, as they go, while succeeding and advancing within the traditional system. Learn from them, and start thinking about how you can change the rules that are hindering your own success.

Facilitator Pat Obuchowski, Chief Empowerment Officer, inVisionaria

Panelist Daniela Bayer, Business Intelligence Manager for Central & Eastern Europe, Cisco

Panelist Sheryl Chamberlain, Senior Director, VMware Technology Alliance, EMC

Panelist Sudha Jamthe, Social Media Strategist, PayPal

Panelist Sharon Vonderau, Director, Americas Customer Solutions, LifeScan


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Facilitator Pat Obuchowski, CEO (Chief Empowerment Officer), inVisionaria

Pat Obuchowski, MBA, CPCC, is a Business Consultant and certified and credentialed Coach. She is an executive and leadership coach who helps clients become even more successful by sharpening their leadership, interpersonal, and organizational skills. She achieves life changing results with her clients on both a business and personal level.  Her company is a certified Women Business Enterprise by WBENC and the CA-PUC.

She has been in business at several different levels for over 25 years. She served in many leadership positions with companies such as Visa U.S.A., Otis Spunkmeyer, and General Electric and was the CEO and partner in a woman owned fulfillment company.

She currently serves on the Global Board of Directors for the International Coach Federation, recently co-authored "Scrappy Women in Business" and is a co-founder of the national Catalyst Youth Leadership Program.


 

Panelist Daniela Bayer, Business Intelligence Manager for Central & Eastern Europe, Cisco

Daniela Bayer was born in the Czech Republic. She left her home country after receiving MA degree from University of Economics in Prague. After a short stay in Vienna (Austria), Daniela relocated to the United States where she graduated with MBA from Suffolk University in Boston and started a wonderful career in high tech. In Boston she worked at EDS and Boston Scientific, and for the past 10 years she has been with Cisco in San Jose. Since 2006, Daniela holds the position of Business Intelligence Manager for Central & Eastern Europe, and travels frequently.

In her free time Daniela enjoys gardening. She also continues developing her skills of alternative healing arts, and holds certificates in Medical Hypnotherapy and First & Second Degree Reiki. Inspired by her own personal experience and life journey, it is Daniela's desire to encourage you to take risks, follow your heart, and write your own rules of engagement.


Panelist Sheryl Chamberlain, VP, VMware Technology Alliance, EMC

Sheryl Chamberlain works at EMC in Global Alliances and is responsible for developing, building and establishing global cross industry corporate and regional relationships with Computer Sciences Corporation, a 14 Billion dollar Outsourcer and Consulting Organization.    Specific emphasis on vertical and horizontal global solution development including Healthcare, Life Sciences, Financial Services, Oil & Gas, BPM,  Compliance, SAP or Oracle. She is the Founding President of the Women's Leadership Forum West Coast representing over 4,000 employees in EMC's Western Region.

Prior to EMC, Sheryl owned and operated a business consultancy practice focused on providing system integration business reengineering services to organizations with revenues of 5M to 1Billion. That was after she held key sales, marketing, project management and financial positions for Fortune 500 companies including IBM, PepsiCo, Norton Simon Corp. and Deloitte Touche. She was the CFO for Arizona based John Carlier General Commercial Contractor and application software implementation consultant for IBM ISV Computer Guidance Corporation.   

Sheryl has been involved in a number of leadership programs including serving as the Founding Officer and President of the Construction Financial Management Association Valley of the Sun, Institute for Women's Leadership - Executives Leading Sustainable Change, Santa Clara University Global Women's Leadership Network Women Leaders for the World,  Director Mentoring Program Alliance of Technology and Women Silicon Valley, Advisory Board Foundation for Self Reliance and Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Executives.

 


Panelist Sudha Jamthe, Social Media Strategist, PayPal

Sudha Jamthe is the Social Media Strategist at PayPal. She is passionate about innovative energy of communities, and specializes in partnerships that build ecosystems. She has 15 yrs experience in marketing and has built social media infrastructure and communities for AOL/Bebo, Intuit, Dash Navigation (now RIM), Network World and built out the web business for Harcourt (now Reed Elseiver). She is a venture mentor at MIT and leads the Bay Area Facebook meetup and Twitter meetups. She has a MBA from Boston University. She blogs at coolastory.com and tweets as @sujamthe.


 

Panelist Sharon Vonderau, Director, Americas Customer Solutions, LifeScan

Sharon is Director, Americas Customer Solutions for LifeScan, Inc. and has over 25 years of experience in domestic and international supply chain roles including, building materials, consumer goods and medical devices. Her organization at LifeScan is responsible for all North America revenue order processing, warranty and revenue fulfillment, inbound and outbound transportation, eCommerce, and Reverse Logistics.  She has dotted line responsibilities for the LifeScan business in Latin America.

Sharon is from Indiana originally and grew up on a farm.  She earned a BS degree at Ball State University and an MS Ed. degree at Miami University in Oxford, OH. 




FountainBlue stimulates collaborative innovation, one conversation, one leader, one organization at a time through our monthly events, our dynamic communities, our ongoing discussions on entrepreneurial issues, our invitation-only CEO forums, and through our consulting services.

 

FountainBlue When She Speaks women in leadership events were launched in May 2006 and have continued to grow and become an exceptionally high value event for women and men leaders in Silicon Valley, celebrating women leaders in Silicon Valley, inspiring the next generation of leaders, and building a proactive, collaborative and supportive leadership community overall. These events are organized as panel discussions, featuring senior executives in high tech companies across the valley. We routinely attract between 50-150 women and men corporate leaders and others each month.

 

Our events are held on the second Fridays of the month, at the facilities of one of our corporate partners, from 11:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m., and include a half hour for registration and networking, a quick breakout discussion to identify objectives and build connections, and then an interactive panel discussion with questions from the audience at the end. Past and upcoming topics are listed below in our calendar and notes from all our previous sessions are available at http://fountainblue.biz/whenshespeaks/whenshespeaks.html.


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Below is a list of program themes, speakers and sponsors for 2010. We welcome your recommendations for corporate women high tech executives for each of our upcoming programs. E-mail us at volunteer@whenshespeaks.com if you would like to recommend someone.
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Title

Panelists

Description

Jan 15 @ NetApp, 495 East Java Drive,
Sunnyvale

Expanding Your Influence, With or Without Direct Authority

Facilitator Jo Miller, CEO, Women's Leadership Coaching Inc.

 

Panelist Kristine Gallegos-Haehl, Trade Professional Manager, PG&E

 

Panelist Linda Holroyd, CEO, FountainBlue

 

Panelist Gwen McDonald, SVP, Human Resources, NetApp

 

Panelist Titina Ott, Vice President, Organizational Effectiveness, Oracle

Women who make an impact in business know that you do not need to hold an impressive job title to be a leader who makes a difference. Being an influencer requires
- Knowledge of effective influencing techniques
- Finding one’s own unique influencing style
- The determination to make great things happen.
Hear first-hand how our panelists establish credibility, gain buy-in for ideas, engage co-workers and lead business results – with or without direct authority.

Feb 12 @ Adobe, 345 Park Avenue,
San Jose

How to Throw More Balls Up Higher: Juggling Work-Life Balance in Demanding Times

Facilitator Deborah Campbell

Director, Western Region, Catalyst

 

Panelist Karen Catlin, Vice President, Core Services, Adobe Systems Inc.

 

Panelist Pat Cross, VP Career Management, Right Management

 

Panelist Lisa Dearborn, Vice President, Leadership Development, Hitachi Data Systems

 

Panelist Natascha Thomson, Director, Global Ecosystem and Partner Marketing, SAP

 

Silicon Valley women leaders are challenged by the corporate and business pressures of high-stress, high-impact positions, while still juggling the personal demands of life and family, and squeezing in time for yourself. Each ball – from the heavy, urgent demands in a corporate environment to the home-and-personal demands of children, spouses, friends and others, to your own always-addressed-last personal needs for balance, health and growth - is important.

 

Yet each balls keeps coming at you from more angles, and each ball is coming at you faster! So how do you juggle these often-competing balls and what we can do to adjust our own expectations and that of others on us, in order to ease the load and the stress? Our speakers will share their stories, commiserate with us, and challenge us to re-evaluate how roles, our priorities, and our own expectations for ourselves.

March 12 @ Hitachi, 750 Central Expwy, Bldg 700, Santa Clara

Agility - The Key to Building a Successful Career

Facilitator Linda Popky, L2M Associates

 

Panelist Amanda Dutra, Senior Vice President of Career Management, Practice Leader for the Global Transition Center of Excellence in the Pacific Region NA, Right Management

 

Panelist Linda Holroyd, CEO, FountainBlue

 

Panelist Lisa Jing, Program Manager, Cisco

 

Panelist Shari H. Moore, GPHR, SPHR, Vice President, Human Resources-Global and Americas Sales and Services, Hitachi Data Systems

 

Panelist Phyllis Stewart Pires, Director Community Experience and Learning and Talent Management lead, SAP Labs North America

Global megatrends are making it much more difficult to plan your career path, as there is more fluidity within and across corporations, across global markets, plus greater acceptance of people moving from one role or industry to another. Our panelists will focus on agility as the key to building a successful career, regardless of gender, featuring women who have changed roles and industries, positions and companies. They will share their stories of successes and challenges, and also share how they are supporting others to do the same.

April 9 @ Applied Materials, 3050 Bowers,
Santa Clara

Building and Reinforcing Your Executive Brand

Facilitator Lisa Orrell, CPC, The Promote U Guru

 

Panelist Erna Arnesen, Vice President, Worldwide Services Partners and Alliances, Cisco Systems

 

Panelist Christine Crandell, Senior VP of Marketing, Accept Software

 

Panelist Cissy Leung, Chief of Staff, Applied Solar

 

Panelist Whitney Tidmarsh, Chief Marketing Officer, Content Management and Archiving Division, EMC Corporation

 

Panelist Luciana Vecchi, Globalization Business Manager, Core Services, Adobe Systems Incorporated

Your brand tells people who you, and what to expect from you whether at work or at home. It helps people decide whether to trust you, and what to trust you about. Effective executives, both women and men, proactively build their brand, to ensure that others think highly of them, and have the confidence that they can execute under specific circumstances, and even in situations where they have little connections and expertise. Indeed, your executive brand can limit or launch your success. This month, our panel of women leaders will talk about what they have done to build and reinforce their executive brand, and how they leverage that brand to build credibility, position themselves and their teams and organizations for success, and strategically manage their career development.

May 14 @ Cisco in their New Frontier Conf Room, 225 East Tasman Dr, Bldg 3, 2nd floor, San Jose

The Mentors in Our Lives

Facilitator Kim Wise, Mentor Resources

 

Panelist Erna Arnesen, Vice President, Worldwide Services Partners and Alliances, Cisco Systems

 

Panelist Claudia Galvan, Principal Lead Program Manager, Windows Live, Microsoft

 

Panelist Vidya Venkatesh, Senior Specialist, Global Product Support, Life Technologies

As leaders, we appreciate the mentors, leaders and role models upon whose shoulders we stood. We carefully consider the support and guidance we are consciously and unconsciously providing for those who come after us. Our panelists this month will focus on our mentoring relationships, how we can share more of what we know with others and how we can identify the potential mentors available to us. Our panelists will share the ways that their mentors have impacted their thinking and development, and how this has, in turn, stimulated thoughts and actions in support of others. In addition, we will discuss how you can promote mentoring in your organization.

June 11 @ LifeScan, 1051 S Milpitas Blvd. Bldg 2

Cafeteria Annex Room

Milpitas

Millennials in Our Midst!

Facilitator Camille Smith, Work In Progress Coaching

 

Panelist Cyndi Stargiotti, Synaptics

 

Panelist Jenny Xu Woo, HR Manager, Talent and Executive Assessment, Cisco

 

Panelist Joan Watkins, IT Manager, LifeScan

The Millennial Generation otherwise known as Generation Y is no longer made-up of just kids and teens. The eldest are now graduating college and entering the professional workforce. They are in our workplace, impacting what we do, how we do it! They bring their share of perspectives and challenges, but they also bring new ideas and innovations and approaches, a mix of pluses and minuses.

 

A successful corporation will embrace the diversity offered by this influential generation. Our panel will speak on the general profile of millennials, recruiting and engagement strategies for millennials, and how to embrace all the millennials in our midst!

July 9 at Pillsbury in Palo Alto

Women's Leadership Styles: What's Right for You?

Facilitator Kristi Royse, KLR Consulting

 

Panelist Shalini Govil-Pai, Group Manager, YouTube and TV, Google

 

Panelist Ruchi Goyal, Product Manager, NetApp

 

Panelist Robin Kwok, Technical Program Manager, Energy and Display Systems, Applied Materials Inc.

 

Panelist Allison Leopold Tilley, Partner, Co-Head Corporate Securities & Technology Section, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

 

Panelist Shobhana Viswanathan, Senior Marketing Manager, Global Alliances, VMware

This month, women technology executives will share how they have adapted their leadership styles to succeed to a male-dominated technology world. Come hear their thoughts on gender-specific leadership traits, woman-to-women and woman-to-men interactions, and overcoming adversarial conversations with both men and women. Also hear their stories of successes and challenges under different circumstances and most importantly, their learnings from these encounters. You are sure to leave with new ideas, and be inspired by our accomplished panel of speakers.

August 13 @ Synopsys, 700 East Middlefield Rd.
Mountain View

Politics in the Workplace: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Facilitators Krista Henley and Rossella Derickson, Corporate Wisdom and SBODN

 

Panelist Haripriya Devnath, Pricing Manager, NetApp

 

Panelist Yvette Huygen, Worldwide PR Director, Synopsys

 

Panelist Kim Elisha Proctor, Senior Manager Holistic Quality, PayPal and BAODN

 

Panelist Eileen Sullivan, Group Director, Cadence

Let’s face it – office politics is a reality for everyone, regardless of the size of your organization or your position. As professionals we have all dealt with the challenges of doing our job while watching our backs, managing “up”, and dealing with difficult co-workers who treat others around them badly. With all the advances women have made in the workplace, why is this issue still holding us back? Our panel of high tech leaders will share how they have achieved their leadership positions by successfully navigating office politics, amplifying others’ contributions (men  and women), and generously supporting high potentials on the leadership track.

These and other questions on navigating politics in the workplace will be explored by our panel this month.

Sept 10 @ LifeScan, 1051 S Milpitas Blvd. Bldg 2

Cafeteria Annex Room

Milpitas

Women Making Their Own Rules

Facilitator Pat Obuchowski, inVisionaria

Panelist Daniela Bayer, Business Intelligence Manager for Central & Eastern Europe, Cisco


Panelist Sheryl Chamberlain, Director VMware Technology Alliance, EMC

 

Panelist Sudha Jamthe, eBay

Panelist from LifeScan to be confirmed

Successful women create their own brand - their own personal way of making things happen. Sometimes they play within the rules, sometimes they make up their own rules, but the results speak for themselves. Join us and hear the stories from dynamic women who are making up the rules, as they go, while succeeding and advancing within the traditional system. Learn from them, and start thinking about how you can change the rules that are hindering your own success.

Oct 8 @ EMC, 2831 Mission College Boulevard
Santa Clara

Women Leading Innovation

Facilitator Francine Gordon, FGordon Group and SDForum Tech Women's Program

Panelist Daniela Busse, Director of User Experience, SAP Labs


Panelist Shalini Govil-Pai, Lead PM, Google


Panelist Mirjana Spasojevic, Research Leader, Nokia Research Center


Panelist from EMC to be confirmed

Innovation is today’s buzzword - considered integral to an organizations culture, its competitive advantage. As women rise in leadership positions in the tech companies in Silicon Valley, how are they approaching the question of culture and innovation? How have they successfully navigated the challenges of advancement in today’s high tech companies? What is their advice to the rest of us?

Nov 12 @ eBay

Tips for Enlarging Your Sandbox: Learn to play with people who don't act right (like you)

Facilitator Kare Anderson, Say It Better

Panelist Christine Duran

Translation Technology & Quality Manager, Adobe Systems, Inc.

Panelist Preethy Padmanabhan, Team Lead in Cisco’s voice solution engineering team, Director of Professional Development in iCON Inclusion & Diversity Group


Panelist from eBay to be Confirmed


Panelist from Life Technologies to be confirmed

In our fast-paced, global world, both men and women leaders are faced with the need to communicate clearly and rapidly to teams in all corners of the globe and drive results. Gender and culture and other factors affect how well any exec can perform. For this special When She Speaks session, we will first feature a panel discussing best practices on cross-cultural communication, followed by a special mini-workshop on Tips for Enlarging Your Sandbox: Learn to play with people who do not act right (like you), led by our facilitator Kare Anderson.

Beyond honing your main talent, your surest way to stay sought-after is to strengthen your capacity to collaborate with people extremely unlike you. The biggest stumbling block in work performance is not the talent of a team but the ability for diverse individuals to understand each other and get along. From the Obama campaign team collaboration director discover three ways to bring out the best side amongst those of different cultures, ages, beliefs and expertise. That way, they will become higher-performing and happier together and for you.

Dec 10 @ Oracle in Redwood Shores

Leading Through a Changing of the Guard

Facilitator Marcia Ruben, Ruben Consulting Group Ltd.

Panelist from Oracle to be confirmed


Other Panelists to be confirmed

In business, you have to keep moving quickly, in response to market and customer demands. Standing still can mean a death sentence, even if the short-term numbers look good!
So corporate strategies are proactively changed, and new corporate executive teams assume the reigns in the quest of proactive change.
Our panel this month has participated in many of these changing of the guard' as an executive from the incumbent and from the newly-hired perspective. They will share their insights on how new corporate management teams really hit the ground running:
- by leading a smooth changing of executive suite members,
- by minimizing cultural impact, while ushering in necessary near processes, people and procedures, and
- by maximizing efficient bottom-line progress through a transition?



Please join us in thanking our speakers and facilitators and sponsors for FountainBlue's 2009 When She Speaks events.

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Title

Panelists

Description

Jan 16, Hosted by EMC

Breaking Through The Glass Ceiling

Facilitator Jo Miller, CEO, Women's Leadership Coaching Inc.

Panelist Sheri Atwood, VP of Global Solutions and Programs, Enterprise Marketing, Symantec

Panelist Nina Bhatti, Principal Scientist, HP Labs

Panelist Jennifer Bleakney, VP, Worldwide Distribution and Customer Support, National Semiconductor

Panelist Jan Schlossberg, Senior Mgr, Intellectual Property & Compliance, Cisco

It has been 22 years since the term glass ceiling was coined by the Wall Street Journal to describe the apparent barriers that prevent women from reaching the top of the corporate hierarchy; and it has been twelve years since the American government's specially appointed Glass Ceiling Commission published its recommendations. In 1995 the commission found that women had 45.7% of America's jobs and more than half of master's degrees being awarded. Yet 95% of senior managers were men, and female managers' earnings were on average a mere 68% of their male counterparts'.
Twelve years later women account for 46.5% of America's workforce and for less than 8% of its top managers.
Join us for a stimulating panel and discussion about why progress is so slow and what we must do to effect real, and rapid, change.

Feb 13, hosted by Symantec

Juggling Work-Life Balance in Demanding Times

Facilitator Francine Gordon, FGordon Group and SDForum Tech Women's Program

Panelist Jennifer Hall, VP of HR, Intuit

Panelist Kristi McGee, Senior Director, Open Work Services Group, Sun Microsystems

Panelist Linda Holroyd, CEO, FountainBlue

Panelist Phyllis Stewart Pires, Director of Community Experience, SAP Labs

Silicon Valley women leaders are challenged by the corporate and business pressures of high-stress, high-impact positions, while still juggling the personal demands of life and family. In today’s streamlined, fast-moving workplace, it’s more important than ever to make the most of every day and every moment.
This month's When She Speaks event focuses on how successful women are juggling these often-competing goals and what we can do to adjust our own and others' expectations on us, in order to ease the load and the stress. Our speakers will share their stories, commiserate with us, and challenge us to re-evaluate our roles, our priorities, and our own expectations for ourselves.

March 13, hosted by HP

Agility - The Key to Building a Successful Career

Facilitator Sandra Wales, President, Wales Investments, Inc.

Panelist Pat Cross, Vice President, Career Management, Right Management

Panelist Lisa Dearborn, Vice President, Leadership Development, Hitachi Data Systems

Panelist Lisa Jing, Program Manager, Integrative Health, Cisco

Panelist Patricia Wimberly, Sr. Manager, Solutions Practice, Global Services - Western Division, EMC Corporation

In this century, it is much more difficult to plan your career path, as there is more fluidity within and across corporations, across global markets, plus more acceptance of people moving from one role or industry to another. This month's panel will focus on agility as the key to building a successful career, featuring women who have changed roles and industries, positions and companies. They will share their stories of successes and challenges, and also share how they are supporting others to do the same.

April 10, hosted by EMC

Leading with Power, Influence and Integrity

Facilitator Camille Smith, Work In Progress Coaching

Panelist Erna Arnesen, VP of Global Services, Channels and Alliances, Cisco

Panelist Nina Bhatti, Principal Scientist, HP Labs

Panelist Nancy Long, Sr Vice President of Human Resources, Hitachi Data Systems

Panelist Alexandra Woody, Sr. Dir. Program Management & FPLC, Flextronics

We admire and applaud the heroes and mentors in our lives who are leading with power, influence and integrity. For this event, we will meet a panel of women who are successfully leading with power, influence and integrity, who will candidly share their barriers to and best practices for more effectively leading others and producing results that create successful businesses and fulfilling lives. 

May 8, hosted by Symantec

The Mentors in Our Lives

Facilitator Kim Wise, CEO, Mentor Resources

Panelist Martha Galley, Senior Director, Windows Live Business Development, Microsoft

Panelist Ruth Gaube, VP and Deputy Executive Council, Symantec

Panelist Amy Gonzales, Regional West Coast Director, Women Unlimited

Panelist Shivani Govil, Corporate Strategy Group, Office of the CEO, SAP

Panelist Darcy Kiefaber, HR, LifeScan

As leaders, we appreciate the mentors, leaders and role models upon whose shoulders we stood. We carefully consider the support and guidance we are consciously and unconsciously providing for those who come after us. This month's event will focus on our mentoring relationships, how we can share more of what we know with others and how we can identify the potential mentors available to us. Our panelists will share the ways that their mentors have impacted their thinking and development, and how this has, in turn, stimulated thoughts and actions in support of others. In addition, we’ll discuss how you can promote mentoring in your organization.

June 12, hosted by Cisco

Working with Millennials

Facilitator Lisa Orrell, The Generation Relations Expert, The Orrell Group, author of Millennials Incorporated

Panelist Urvi Bhandari, AT&T

Panelist Megan Campi, Customer Service Relationship Manager, Cisco

Panelist Kristen Dearing, Sun Microsystems

Panelist Claudia Galvan, Lead, International Program Management Group, Microsoft

Panelist Shalini Govil-Pai, Lead PM, Google

Panelist Lori Smith, Director of HR, Cisco

The Millennial Generation otherwise known as Generation Y is no longer made-up of just kids and teens. The eldest are now graduating college and entering the professional workforce.

How will this affect corporations looking to recruit and retain them?

What is unique about this generation, and how and why should corporations recruit and retain them?

Our panel of esteemed hiring managers and HR professionals work closely with Millennials and proactively plan recruitment and management strategies for these uniquely prized workers.

July 10, hosted by EMC

Women's Leadership Styles: What's Right for You?

Facilitator Rosemarie Carbone, Serial VP of HR

Panelist Nora Calvillo, Senior Product Manager, Adobe

Panelist Michaela Guiney, Product Engineering Director, Cadence

Panelist Nancy Long, Senior Vice President, Global Human Resources, Hitachi Data Systems

Panelist Marleen McDaniel, Serial Entrepreneur and Business Adviser

In other months of our When She Speaks Series, we touch upon the gender issue tangentially, but this month, the gender issue will be the theme. Questions may include:

What makes an effective woman leader, particularly one in a high tech world?

What are some typically feminine leadership traits, and how can they be leveraged in a male-dominated world?

How does one interact with other women, and their unique leadership styles?

How can one better understand her one style, and proactively expand it?

These and other questions on gender and leadership in high tech will be explored by our panel this month.

Aug 14, hosted by Symantec

Politics in the Workplace: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Facilitator Bobbie LaPorte, RAL & Associates

Panelist Mercedes De Luca, Global Customer Experience and Chief Information Officer at myShape.com, previously VP of Global IT at Yahoo!

Panelist Lise E Edwards, Oracle Women's Leadership (OWL), Program Manager, Oracle Human Resources

Panelist Susan Lai, Senior Director, Finance, Symantec Corporation

Panelist Eileen Sullivan, Group Director, Cadence

Let’s face it – office politics is a reality for everyone, regardless of the size of your organization or your position. As professionals we have all dealt with the challenges of doing our job while watching our backs, managing “up”, and dealing with difficult co-workers who treat others around them badly. With all the advances women have made in the workplace, why is this issue still holding us back? Our panel of high tech leaders will share how they have achieved their leadership positions by successfully navigating office politics, amplifying others’ contributions (men  and women), and generously supporting high potentials on the leadership track.

These and other questions on navigating politics in the workplace will be explored by our panel this month.

Sept 11, hosted by LifeScan

Cross-Cultural Communications

Facilitator Francine Gordon, FGordon Group and President SDForum Tech Women’s Group

Panelist Roya Afshar, Software Development Director, Oracle

Panelist Khrystyne Heard, Manager, Human Resources, LifeScan

Panelist Debi Hirshlag, VP, Worldwide Human Resources, Flextronics

Panelist Neerja Raman, Research Fellow, Stanford University, MediaX Distinguished Visiting Scholar

Panelist Peggy Wolf, Manager, Cisco Services Global I&D

In our fast-paced, global world, both men and women leaders are faced with the need to communicate clearly and rapidly to teams in all corners of the globe and drive results. Gender and culture and other factors affect how well any exec can perform. This month's panel of women executives will share their secrets on how to effectively communicate across cultures to drive results.

Oct 9, hosted by EMC

Women Leading Innovation

Facilitators Krista Henley and Rossella Derickson, Corporate Wisdom and SBODN

Panelist Nina Bhatti, Principal Scientist, HP Labs

Panelist Daniela Busse, Director of User Experience, SAP Labs LLC

Panelist Christine Duran, Translation Technology Manager, Globalization, Core Services Group, Adobe

Panelist Claudia Galvan, Lead, International Program Management Group, Microsoft

Panelist Jessica Roland, Director, International Product Operations, Content Management & Archiving, EMC Corporation

Innovation' is today's buzzword - considered integral to an organization's culture, its competitive advantage. As women rise in leadership positions in the tech companies in Silicon Valley, how are they approaching the question of culture and innovation? How have they successfully navigated the challenges of advancement in today's high tech companies? What is their advice to the rest of us?

Nov 13, hosted by Symantec

Corporate Women On Nonprofit Boards

Facilitator Wendy Beecham, FWE&E

Panelist Pamela E. Evans, Director, Executive Programs, NetApp

Panelist Cecily Joseph, Director, Corporate Responsibility, Legal and Public Affairs, Symantec

Panelist Marilyn Nagel, Director, WW Diversity & Inclusion, Cisco

Panelist Keren Pavese, Program Manager, Western Division Office of Sustainability, Community Outreach & Diversity Councils, EMC

Corporate leaders have the experience, impact, and authority to support their communities, yet often times, they don't have the time or bandwidth to actively participate in nonprofit boards. This month, we will feature some inspirational corporate women who are passionate and dedicated to their corporate AND their community causes, and they will share how supporting one cause, benefits the other.

Dec 11, hosted by LifeScan

Leading Through a Changing of the Guard

Facilitator Marcia Stein, Stein Consulting Inc. and HR Women and Friends

Panelist Deborah Colburn, Sales Manager, LifeScan

Panelist Laura Debacker, Sr. Director of Leadership Development and Employee Engagement, Sun Microsystems

 

Panelist Julie Criscenti Heck, Director, Global Partner Marketing, VMware - Virtualization Software Solutions

Panelist Lori Smith, Director of HR, Cisco

In business, you have to keep moving quickly, in response to market and customer demands. Standing still can mean a death sentence, even if the short-term numbers look good!
So corporate strategies are proactively changed, and new corporate executive teams assume the reigns in the quest of proactive change.
Our panel this month has participated in many of these 'changing of the guards' as an executive from the incumbent and from the newly-hired perspective. They will share their insights on how new corporate management teams really hit the ground running:
- by leading a smooth changing of executive suite members,
- by minimizing cultural impact, while ushering in necessary near processes, people and procedures, and
- by maximizing efficient bottom-line progress through a transition?




Below is a list of our past events for 2008, all of which were hosted at EMC. We would like to thank our speakers and our sponsors for their support.

Date Title Panelists Description
1/10/2008 The Glass Ceiling And Other Tragedies Facilitator Linda Prowse Fosler, Linda Prowse Fosler and Associates

Panelist Sarah Jane Militello, former Manager at HP, former General Manager at Agilent, President Varnare LLC

Panelist Marilyn Nagel, Director, WW Diversity & Inclusion, Cisco

Panelist Conchita Franco Serri, Ed.M., J.D., former Director of Affirmative Action, Santa Clara University; President Serri Compliance Training

Panelist Darlene Solomon, Ph.D., Agilent Chief Technology Officer and VP Agilent Laboratories

Panelist Whitney Tidmarsh, EMC Corporation, VP, Marketing, Content Management & Archiving
It has been 22 years since the term glass ceiling was coined by the Wall Street Journal to describe the apparent barriers that prevent women from reaching the top of the corporate hierarchy; and it has been twelve years since the American government's specially appointed Glass Ceiling Commission published its recommendations. In 1995 the commission found that women had 45.7% of America's jobs and more than half of master's degrees being awarded. Yet 95% of senior managers were men, and female managers' earnings were on average a mere 68% of their male counterparts'.
Twelve years later women account for 46.5% of America's workforce and for less than 8% of its top managers.
Join us for a stimulating panel and discussion about why progress is so slow and what we must do to effect real, and rapid, change. 
2/14/2008 The Up and Comers Four-Star Panel

Facilitator Nancy Monson, Nancy Monson Coaching

Panelist Katy Levine, Cisco

Panelist Connie Lin, The Zitter Group

Panelist Keren Pavese, EMC Corporation

Five-Star Panel

Facilitator Nancy Monson, Nancy Monson Coaching

Panelist Terri Jordan, VP, Tech Operations, eBay

Panelist Sridevi Koneru, Director, Engineering, Wireless Networking Business Unit, Cisco

Panelist Susan Mernit, Senior Director for the Yahoo! Personals products

Panelist Kathleen Murtha, EMC Corporation

Panelist Eileen Sullivan, Group Director, Cadence
Women are making a difference in at all levels within corporations. In honor of Valentine’s Day, FountainBlue is pleased to partner with ATW and GWLN and EMC Corporation to produce a half day, interactive program which celebrates women in leadership roles and their contributions.

Join us as we applaud their contributions and investigate questions such as:

• What are the secrets to being recognized as an up and comer?
• How did they get help along the way?
• How can up and comers make work-life balance choices while climbing the corporate ladder?
• How can we as women support each other whether we’re on the leadership tract or not?
• How are up-and-comers giving back to the community?

The event will provide much food for thought for women at all levels within organizations, whether they are up and comers or not. 
3/13/2008 Work-Life Balance Facilitator Kristi Royse, KLR Consulting

Panelist Raji Arasu, eBay

Panelist Lisa Jing, Program Manager, Integrated Health Team, Cisco

Panelist Allison Leopold Tilley, Partner and Co-Head Corporate Securities & Technology Section, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Panelist Linda Levenson, CEO, Morphosis Rejuvenation Center

Panelist Catherine Moore, Director Business HR, Nokia Research Center
Silicon Valley women leaders are challenged by the corporate and business pressures of high-stress, high-impact positions, while still juggling the personal demands of life and family. In today’s streamlined, fast-moving workplace, it’s more important than ever to make the most of every day and every moment.
This month's When She Speaks event focuses on how successful women are juggling these often-competing goals and what we can do to adjust our own and others' expectations on us, in order to ease the load and the stress. Our speakers will share their stories, commiserate with us, and challenge us to re-evaluate how roles, our priorities, and our own expectations for ourselves.
4/10/2008 Leading with Power, Influence and Integrity Facilitator Linda Holroyd, CEO, FountainBlue

Panelist Bettina Koblick, VP of HR, Global Talent, Symantec

Panelist Su Lim, VP of Business Development, EMC Corporation

Panelist Bev Strand, Diversity and Inclusion, Cisco

Panelist Barbara Williams, Sr. HR Manager, Sun Microsystems and President of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Oakland Bay Area Chapter 
We admire and applaud the heroes and mentors in our lives who are leading with power, influence and integrity. For this event, we will meet a panel of women who are successfully leading with power, influence and integrity, who will candidly share their barriers to and best practices for more effectively leading others and producing results that create successful businesses and fulfilling lives.  
5/8/2008 The Mentors in Our Lives Facilitator Kim Wise, Mentor Resources

Panelist Denise Brosseau, Invent Your Future

Panelist Shelli Hendricks, Education Consultant, EMC

Panelist Tanja Miller, Learning & Organizational Development, Genentech

Panelist Greta Mowry, Keiretsu Forum

Panelist Maria Schaffer, Strategic Alliances, Cisco
As leaders, we appreciate the mentors, leaders and role models upon whose shoulders we stood. We carefully consider the support and guidance we are consciously and unconsciously providing for those who come after us. This month's event will focus on our mentoring relationships, how we can share more of what we know with others and how we can identify the potential mentors available to us. Our panelists will share the ways that their mentors have impacted their thinking and development, and how this has, in turn, stimulated thoughts and actions in support of others. In addition, we’ll discuss how you can promote mentoring in your organization.
6/12/2008 Staying On Top In a Changing Global World Facilitator Amy Gonzales, Women Unlimited

Panelist Judy Armstrong, former CIO, Logitech

Panelist Shirley Olerich, VP of Human Resources, Adaptec

Panelist MeMe Rasmussen, VP and General Counsel, Adobe Systems

Panelist Lisa Simpson, VP, Business Operations, Market Analysis and Messaging, Alcatel-Lucent
The World is changing - getting bigger, but better connected, with more opportunities, and more barriers.

Are there more opportunities for women in lead in a more global world? What are the unique challenges and opportunities for women to take that next leadership step? How will networking, mentoring and education support that growing community of women leaders with global impact?

This month's program will feature some of these women leaders as they share the challenges of leading in a changing, ever more global world.
7/10/2008 Women at the Top of Their Game Facilitator Linda Holroyd, CEO, FountainBlue

Panelist Sandra Hassett, Director of Customer Service, LifeScan

Panelist Barbara Massa, Senior Director, Recruiting Services, EMC Corporation

Panelist Patricia Perry, Vice President, Digital Health Group, Intel Corporation

Panelist Amy Rubin, Marketing Director, Sandisk

Panelist Jackie Seto, Vice President, Product and Strategic Marketing, Lam Research
For this month's When She Speaks conversation, we will gather women who leverage the disciplines of sports - endurance, strength, flexibility, stamina, and perseverance - to address the daunting work-life demands imposed on women leaders in today's corporations.
We will cover the challenges and opportunities that leadership presents and how the important practices of self-leadership and personal accountability help them to more effectively leverage their leadership style and inspire others to also lead with power, influence and integrity. 
8/14/2008 The Value of Culture Facilitator Cathy Light, Business Builders and Assessment Leaders

Panelist Denise Herrick, VP of HR, Panasas

Panelist Dr. Bee Ng, Director Learning and Development, Intuit

Panelist Titina Ott, Vice President, Organizational Effectiveness &  Managing Director of Women's Leadership, Oracle

Panelist Mary Stanton-Stern, HR Director, EMC Corporation

Panelist Erica Wright, Director of Human Resources, Life Sciences Solutions Unit, Life Sciences and Chemical Analysis, Agilent
Leaders define the overall direction of an organization, and whether it achieves results for its stakeholders and shareholders. How leaders conduct themselves, and communicate and work with those around them sets the tone for an organization’s culture. This month’s When She Speaks panel will profile examples and counterexamples of company cultures and share advice on how you, as a leader, from any chair, can positively impact the organization for which you work.
9/12/2008 The Feminine Face of Leadership Facilitator Beata Lewis, Bridging Lives

Panelist Azlina Ahmad, Director of Engineering, Cisco

Panelist Jessica Chan, R&D Group Director, Cadence

Panelist Karen Pieper, Director of Synthesis at Tabula, Inc.

Panelist Samantha Thomas, CSO, Information Security, California State Department of Financial Institutions

Panelist Kathleen Murtha, QA Automation Manager, EMC Corporation
The pre-dominant gender of leaders, particularly in the high tech sector, are males. But the questions arise:
How are women who gravitate to technology fields different than their peers?
What unique challenges do women leaders in science face?
What do women need in order to succeed and lead in their chosen technology field?
How can women technology leaders shape leadership practices to be more inclusive of others, including women? 
10/10/2008 Women Leading Innovation Facilitator Krista Henley and Rossella Derickson, Corporate Wisdom and SBODN

Panelist Elizabeth Churchill, Principal Research Scientist, Yahoo! Research

Panelist Penny Howie, Director of Training and Technical Support, Varian Medical Systems, Executive on Loan to United Way

Panelist Janice Nickel, Senior Research Scientist, HP Laboratories

Panelist Liz Rajaram, Director of Engineering, Cisco Network Management

Panelist Sandra Toms LaPedis, AVP/GM, RSA Conference
Innovation' is today's buzzword - considered integral to an organization's culture, its competitive advantage. As women rise in leadership positions in the tech companies in Silicon Valley, how are they approaching the question of culture and innovation? How have they successfully navigated the challenges of advancement in today's high tech companies? What is their advice to the rest of us? 
11/14/2008 Overcoming Adversity Facilitator Mary Beth Deans, Douglas Partners

Panelist Lilly Chung, Lead Client Service Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP; Regional Managing Principal, Initiative for the Retention and Advancement of Women, Deloitte

Panelist Pat Dando, CEO, San Jose Chamber of Commerce

Panelist Sharon Durey, Training Manager, Field Development, Content Management and Archiving, EMC Corporation

Panelist Natascha Thomson, Director of Global Ecosystem and Partner Marketing, SAP
As we have heard from many past sessions, the leaders and heroes of today had experienced and overcome much adversity before achieving success. This event invites successful women to share their tales of adversity and offer advice and inspiration for the rest of us as we face our own obstacles.
12/12/2008 Leveraging Diversity for Business Results Facilitator Deepika Bajaj, Invincibelle

Panelist Genevieve Haldeman, Vice President, Corporate Communications, Symantec Corporation

Panelist Michelle Kerby, Sr. Manager; Technical Marketing and Communications, CTO Office, EMC Corporation

Panelist Catherine Moore, Director of Business HR, Nokia Research Center

Panelist Connie Osborne, Director of Business Development, Singer Lewak

Panelist Preethy Padmanabhan, Director of Professional Development, iCON Inclusion & Diversity Group, Cisco Systems
This month, we will celebrate the successes of women leaders who foster diversity within their organizations and demonstrate how and why diversity stimulates innovation, engages teams, and delivers results. Our esteemed panel will share their success stories, talk about how they rose to positions of authority, despite representing diverging viewpoints, and provide advice on how to embrace diversity within a team and an organization.


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
Friday, January 12 Succeeding in a Man's World Patti Wilson, The Career Company
Panliest Linda Prowse Fosler, Prowse-Fosler and Associates
Panliest Francine Gordon, ATW and FGordon Group
Panliest Mona Hudak, Cisco
Panliest Praveena Varadarajan, Sun Microsystems
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
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
Panelist Michelle Wright-Conn, Cisco Global Policy and Government Affairs
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
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
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 Vickie Grove, Development Director, Child Advocates
Panelist Amy Heidersbach, Vice President, Product and Merchant Marketing, VISA
Panelist Hali White, Director Process Excellence Office, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
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 Tracy Hughes, Global Lead for Cisco Sport and Entertainment
Panelist Barbara Massa, Director of Recruiting Services, EMC
Panelist Amy Rubin, Director, Digital Marketing Strategies and Programs, Intel
Panelist Jackie Seto, Managing Director of SW, MEMS & 3D IC, Lam Research 
Thursday, August 9 Corporate Social Responsibility and the Bottom Line Moderator Theresa Wilson, Partner, Lighthouse Blue
Panelist Brenda Hendricksen, AMD
Panelist Tracy Meersman, EMC
Panelist Joni Podolsky, Director of Community Programs, The Entrepreneurs' Foundation
Panelist Kathy Wheeler, Senior Manager, Global Community Involvement, Cadence
Thursday, September 13 Leadership Styles: What's Gender Got to Do With It? Moderator Bonita Banducci, Banducci Consulting
Panelist Carolyn Crandall, Vice President Marketing and Channels, Seagate
Panelist Pat Cross, VP, Career Management Consulting, Right Management
Panelist Eileen Fussner, Vice President of Channel Sales for the Content Management & Archiving division, EMC Corporation
Panelist Vinie Zhang, Vice President, Hitachi Corporate Ventures
Thursday, October 11 Women Leading Innovation Moderator Beata Lewis, Bridging Lives
Panelist Karri Carlson, Senior Product Manager, AOL, LLC
Panelist Jenny Dormoy, Director Customer Deployability, EMC 
Panelist Joy Mountford, VP User Experience and Design, Yahoo! Inc.
 Panelist Marie Tahir, Director of Technology Innovation Group, Intuit 
Thursday, November 8 Female Intrapreneurs Facilitator Kimberly Wiefling, Wiefling Consulting
Panelist Nina Bhatti, Senior Scientist, HP Labs
Panelist Sheryl Chamberlain, Director, Global Alliances, EMC Corporation
Panelist Cecily Joseph, Director of Corporate Responsibility, Symantec Corporation
Panelist Diane Pennica, Senior Scientist in Molecular Oncology, Genentech
Thursday, December 13 Leveraging Diversity for Business Results Facilitator Maria Hernandez, MGH Consulting LLC
Panelist Sharon Durey, Training Manager, Inside Sales, EMC Corporation
Panelist Wilma Flanagan, Partner and Managing Director for Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) Pacific Northwest Consulting Group
Panelist Sharon Hughes, Director of HR, LifeScan
Panelist Carin Taylor, Senior Manager of Global Diversity, Cisco



We are grateful to each of our 2006 facilitators and panelists for their participation and support and proudly acknowledge them below.

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
Panelist Remi Matsumoto, Founder and President of the Hina Coral Restoration Network
Praveena Varadarajan, Sun Microsystems
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




Below are selected testimonials about our When She Speaks series.
  • Thank you for establishing this organization to empower women, and enabling them to collaborate, network, share best practices and learn to grow.
  • Linda is highly extolled for her organizational efforts and her extraordinary ability to connect quality people.

  • I have found you FountainBlue’s meetings to be informative, professional, human, insightful and a must attend!  And to get typed/relevant notes the next day – priceless!!

  • Thank you for the opportunity to contribute and be part of this panel.   FountainBlue’s . . . foresight and ongoing support for these events is outstanding for the individuals, our companies and our community, that all benefit. What a great example of “pass it forward”!

  • I regularly send the FountainBlue meeting synopsis to others in many parts of the country to share the nuggets of wisdom.

  • Linda does an amazing job building a series of forums from nothing to something quite phenomenal… but in a very low tech, high touch, low hype way.  Her events are informative, focused and build community…which explains her success. 




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