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FountainBlue's When She Speaks Newsletter

The FountainBlue monthly When She Speaks newsletter is designed to communicate and connect regularly with our women-in-leadership members, to make special offerings to our members, and to share wisdom gained from our community. It is sent free monthly to all FountainBlue members of our When She Speaks community, of both genders, with additional information and access to our members through our Wild Apricot site. We welcome you to forward it on to interested others, with proper reference to FountainBlue. 

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February 2012: What's New with FountainBlue: Advisory Boards

We are serving on the advisory boards of for select members of our community, supporting their marketing, business development and recruitment efforts. Currently, we are providing advisory and business development support Speck Design and their product innovation services http://www.speckdesign.com, and advisory and investment strategy support for Bell Biosystems and their research on heritable magnetic signature in therapeutic cells, with huge implications for diagnostics, cancer, regenerative medicine and cell therapies. http://www.bellbiosystems.com. For more information about any of these organizations and the services they provide, and more information about the organizations where we serve, visit http://www.fountainblue.biz/consulting/advisory.html.


January 16: What's New with FountainBlue: Members as Referral Partners

At the request of our members, we will be sending out our job reqs to our members, inviting everyone to strategically forward them on to their networks of contacts. Thank you in advance to everyone who elects to forward our reqs. Please tell your contacts to mention that you connected him/her to us, so that we can track the origin of our candidate leads. We are happy to pay a referral fee to members who recruit candidates who get hired and stay for a ninety-day period. You may also elect to donate your referral fee to a FountainBlue-approved nonprofit or a nonprofit of your choice. For more information about our job leads, visit http://www.fountainblue.biz/openreqs.html.

January 9: What's New with FountainBlue: Giving Back

Since our launch in January 2006, FountainBlue has been committed to giving back to the community through active participation and financial support. As we shift into recruiting and consulting, we are pleased to contribute financially to nonprofit causes providing executive education, educational benefit, and women-in-leadership. Currently we are supporting the following types of organizations:

Executive Development Organizations:

   Career Actions

Educational Organizations:

   A Schmahl Science Workshop, as a member of the advisory committee.

Women-In-Leadership organizations:

   Global Fund for Women

   Global Women Leadership Network

   Women's Initiative

Please e-mail us with the following information at info@whenshespeaks.com or complete the form above if you would like to considered an approved, adopted FountainBlue cause.

   Your name

   Recommended Nonprofit

   Your involvement with Nonprofit

   Why you would recommend this Nonprofit

   Why FountainBlue's membership of clean energy, high tech, and life science entrepreneurs would find this nonprofit beneficial to the community overall

We are happy to profile a nonprofit each month, and recommend any of these nonprofits as worthy causes.

If you’re interested in catching up over the phone or in person, please visit http://meetwith.me/lindaholroyd and suggest a good time to connect. Please also let us know if we can support you with your recruiting, consulting and coaching needs as you grow your business.


January 2, What's New With FountainBlue : A New Year, A New Newsletter Format!

We are looking forward to an exciting new year, and an exciting new time for the valley and the global community! It is our hope that our weekly newsletter will provide you with relevant, useful information about business and market trends and their implications for your business. We invite your inquiries, suggestions, feedback and interest as we continue with our consulting, coaching and recruiting efforts! If you’re interested in catching up over the phone or in person, please visit http://meetwith.me/lindaholroyd and suggest a good time to connect. Please also let us know if we can support you with your recruiting, consulting and coaching needs as you grow your business.



Job Openings – Titles only, must be a member to see full listings

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  • Network Engineering Manager
  • Senior Competitive Consultant

Weekly Radio Show: Women Leaders in Conversation
Our weekly newsletter features news and information about our weekly radio show, held on Radio Zindagi from 11:30 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. To see upcoming information and notes from past sessions, visit http://www.fountainblue.biz/whenshespeaks/conversations.html. To join the weekly mailing list, e-mail us at info@whenshespeaks.com. 
Monthly FountainBlue When She Speaks, Women in Leadership Series Event
Our weekly newsletter includes an invitation to our monthly radio show, held generally on the second Fridays of the month from 11:30 a.m. until 1:00 p.m., at high-tech companies across the valley. To see upcoming information and notes from past sessions, visit http://www.whenshespeaks.com. To join the weekly mailing list, e-mail us at info@whenshespeaks.com. 

Productivity Tools and Community Offerings

At FountainBlue, we profile innovations envisioned, developed and distributed by our members, particularly if we think that it could be helpful to our community in general. Below are some tools offered by our community. To see a list of past offerings, visit http://www.fountainblue.biz/resources/productivity.html. To submit *your* hardware or software or services solution for consideration as part of a future newsletter, complete the form on the same page.


Our January 16 tool is Assessment Leaders.

Sound decisions require insight and intelligence.

Assessment Leaders (AL) provides a wide range of best-in-class assessment products to help managers and HR professionals tasked with hiring, developing, and promoting talent in your organization.. Join our global network of customers and see how easy it is to discover the untapped potential in your job candidates and employees. But that’s not all. AL also offers background checks, skills testing, and eLearning solutions, as well as specialized services for consulting companies. AL can even provide custom audits for leadership, compliance/SOX, culture and HR. Check us out at www.assessmentleaders.com to see how our solutions can make your job easier and more productive.   CALL TODAY TOLL FREE 1-866-864-8200


Our January 9 service recommendation is RAL & Associates.

Executive onboarding or executive assimilation is becoming increasingly important in today's marketplace. Onboarding is the process that supports new executives in becoming productive quickly in their new environments. The new employee is guided through a structured process that helps them to focus on the right activities in the right ways during their first few months on the job so that they are working in concert with their boss, setting the right direction for their team and making significant progress towards the most important deliverables. We are pleased to partner with and recommend Fortune 50 Executive, Leadership and Career Coach and Ironman Triathlete Bobbie LaPorte, to community members who are in need of onboarding services. http://www.bobbielaporte.com


Our January 2 Community Recommendations are below:

re.vu (pronounced review) is a great visual supplement to your LinkedIn profile. It helps you establish your personal brand and enables you to tell your career story using social evidence, infographics, interests and achievements. re.vu is free to use and a simple profile can be setup in 1 click as a LinkedIn import. You can then customize themes, backgrounds, and add widgets to best represent yourself. http://re.vu

Foundation3's Private Share Network™ Collaboration App - PSN™ sends you regular Silicon Valley news of interest to you, as you define it. The news articles highlights a company, and highlights any LinkedIn contact you might have impacted by this news, making it easy to remain connected with your contacts on timely, relevant information of mutual interest. For your free trial, visit www.foundation3.com.



Hot Trends and Recommendations for the Community

Every month beginning in January 2012, we will highlight a Clean Energy, High Tech and Life Science trend and also profile a local innovator leveraging that trend. You may sign up for weekly newsletters or see our trends at http://www.svcleanenergy.com, http://www.sventrepreneurs.com or http://www.svlifescience.com respectively.
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100-word description of leadership insight or business trend
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