NAAAP-DFW announces inaugural regional WIN! Conference presented by jcpenney

Join us for this exciting one-day inspiring conference designed for diverse women professionals to take full control of their professional journey.

DRIVE YOUR CAREER: TAKING CONTROL

Keynote: Ms. Anne Doyle, author of "Powering Up!" and communications strategy expert will provide insight into leadership and the value to an organization of fully tapping diverse talent. Doyle is an insightful advocate for visionary and innovative approaches to leadership development. Her keynote speeches are characterized by a wealth of stories from her three decades as an accomplished change agent.

Closing: Kathleen Wu, partner at Andrews Kurth LLP, recognized as one of "Dallas/Fort Worth's Most Influential Women" in the Dallas Business Journal's inaugural Women in Business Awards program and a Speaker for National Dialogue on the Workplace Flexibility, Women's Bureau. Awarded the Highest Achievement in the Law Award from the Asian American Chamber of Commerce, she has served as a commentator for the National Public Radio Dallas affiliate and is very active and participates in a variety of local, charitable and civic organizations.

Survive and Thrive through Networking

• Connecting and being connected are the order of today's social-media-driven world. But while technology is helpful and useful, don't let it get in the way of connecting with real people. This seminar and discussion is for those who want to learn the basics of networking and then apply those tools to a workable process. Be prepared to listen, to share and to participate.
  
  

He Said / She Said

• Learn to break down the communication barriers between men and women in the workplace to build meaningful work relationships founded on mutual understanding and respect.
  
  

We make it Stylish. You make it Work!

• Experience jcpenney's career fashion brands and learn how to put together stylish outfits that work for you. Discover the latest trends in fall fashion suitable for every budget and body type. Whether you're entry-level or a seasoned professional, jcpenney has everything you need to get noticed and make a lasting impression.
  
  

First To Lasting Impression

• Practice clear, effective communication to create impact in your personal introduction. Through thoughtful preparation and assertiveness, you can enhance your credibility while building self confidence and overcoming fear. Using critical thinking, applied time management and keen listening skills, learn how to cultivate a positive attitude and high-light your assets, ensuring your personality and style leave an auspicious imprint on those whose lives you touch.
  
  

Achieving Full Throttle Success Personally And Professionally

• Is your blackberry dictating your life? Ever feel like you're pulled into a million directions and not sure which way to turn? When do you say no to certain activities and yes to "me time?" Come join our workshop with Ginger Porter, managing director of GolinHarris Texas, as she shares insight on how to make the right rest stops and align your work-life balance to achieve maximum performance on your drive to success
  
  

Optimize Your Performance Beyond Just Survival!

• Very often we feel stuck, overwhelmed or frustrated in our professional and personal lives. We get burdened by our to do lists and/or over-commitments. We perform way below capacity as we think things never seem to go our way? This session goes through a simple model that provides strategies to get out of the downward cycle we sometimes fall in to and will help you bounce back to performing at optimum efficiency. Understand the causes, manage your stress and get back on track to achieving your goals and maximizing your performance. Manage your beliefs, take actions and see the results to reach a "happy" state!
  
  

Paul E. Maynard
The Relentless Networker

Paul is an independent marketing, communications and business development professional based in the Dallas-Fort Worth market.

He specializes in face-to-face marketing. Paul's experience as a dimensional marketing professional has allowed him to produce trade shows, exhibitions and events in 35 cities in 21 states and 7 international locations. This is a natural connection to his work as a social media strategist for small- and medium-sized businesses.

During his career, Paul has worked inside marketing organizations, as a vendor-supplier and as an independent consultant. A veteran of Honeywell and Boeing, his client list includes American Receivable, Aviall, Carlson Hotels, Esterline Control Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Philanthromax, Retalix, Target Corporation, and Xiotech.

Paul graduated from the University of Arizona and did graduate studies in Journalism at the University of Nevada in Reno.

An ambassador with the North Dallas Chamber of Commerce, Paul chairs NDCC's Small Business Committee. He is also a past IABC Dallas board member and is a volunteer with the DFW chapter of the American Marketing Association.

Paul is an active blogger and speaker and is known in the Dallas area as The Relentless Networker. You can learn more about him from his LinkedIn profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulmaynard or his website, www.paulemaynard.com.

Valerie Freeman

Valerie Freeman is the founder and CEO of Imprimis Group, Inc., a group of niche staffing and human resource companies headquartered in Dallas, Texas. She is also a founder and Executive Committee member of ANSERTEAM, LLC (Alliance of Staffing and Employment Resources) which is a national staffing company also headquartered in Dallas, Texas. She is also a Founder and serves on the Investment Advisory Committee of Texas Women Ventures which provides capital to women-owned businesses.

Since founding her first staffing company in 1982, Valerie has become one of the largest woman-owned staffing companies in Texas. Networking has played a big part in the growth of her companies and her involvement in non-profit, civic and business activities has helped fuel that growth. Currently Valerie serves on the Board of Directors of the Dallas Foundation; the Dallas County Community College District Foundation (immediate past Chair); Girl Scouts of NETexas (Chair of the Board); North Dallas Chamber of Commerce; Women's Business Council of the Southwest (Chair of Audit Committee); Executive Women's Roundtable (Steering Committee/Past Chair); and Women's Enterprise Publications (Advisory Board). She is also an alum of Leadership Texas and a member of YPO/WPO (Young President's and World President's Organization).

Valerie has received many awards including the Athena Award from the Dallas Regional Chamber; Real Girls Real Women Award from the Girl Scouts; Inspiring Texas Woman Award from Sterling Bank; Women's Business Enterprise of the Year from the Women's Business Council SW; Business Star Award from Women's Business Enterprise National Council; Ascendancy Award from w2wlink; Ernst & Young Enterpreneur of the Year; and National Woman Business Owner of the Year from NAWBO. The Dallas Business Journal named her one of the 25 most influential business women in Dallas.

Valerie holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in education from the University of Houston where she was honored as Distinguished Alum.

Marjorie R. Asturias

Marjorie R. Asturias is the president and chief social media strategist of Blue Volcano Media, a boutique social media marketing and PR agency based in Irving, Texas. The company specializes in helping small and medium-size businesses create and enhance their online presence in order to turn visitors into leads, and leads into sales.

Marjorie has worked as a copywriter, blogger, editor, and social media consultant for dozens of newspapers, magazines and websites. She has also worked with numerous businesses on crafting advertising and marketing campaigns to promote an array of products and services, from credit union loans and member services to weight loss products, from furnaces to eBay consignment services, and from independent film festivals to wineries.

She began blogging and using social media in 2006 and has since been mentioned and quoted in the New York Times, Inc.com, MSN Money, Mashable.com, and other publications. She's especially proud of her team at Blue Volcano Media and the passion, creativity and sharp professionalism each of them brings to every project.

Marjorie holds a BA in Political Science/International Studies from the University of Texas at Arlington. She's an active member of the North Dallas Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Irving/Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce, and is on the Board of Directors of the D/FW Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO). She's also passionate about animal rescue and is an active volunteer with DFW Rescue Me and Faerydog Corgi Rescue.

 

Steven L. Mitchell, MBA

Steven Mitchel has achieved a very distinguished record of success, in the field of "Sales and Business Development." As a pharmaceutical sales representative, for Merck & Company, his sales grew so rapidly that they were in the multi-million dollar range. In fact, he won Vice-President's Award, for being amongst the Top 10%. As a manager of business development, for a small "contract research organization," he worked to accelerate the company's sales from $8 million to $83 million, in just 4 years. Although he has had tremendous success in sales, his career did not begin with business development. It began as a Chemist.

After serving 3 years in the US Army, Steven earned his bachelor's degree, in chemistry (form the University of Nebraska - Lincoln). He worked as an analytical chemist, for companies such as Harris Laboratories and Marion Merrill. After earning his MBA degree, from Rockhurst University (in Kansas City, MO), he successfully transitioned from a career in chemistry to a career in sales.

Currently, Steven is working to upgrade his communication skills. He is studying both Spanish and Japanese.

Mara Farr

Mara Farr graduated from Stephens College with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fashion Design. After college she moved to St. Louis, MO to work for May Dept. Stores as an Assistant Color Stylist and later an Assistant Designer both in Cut & Sew knits. While at May Co., Mara gained experience in Textile Design as well as Apparel Design in Womens, Mens and Childrenswear. She was very fortunate to have the opportunity to travel to both New York and the Far East early in her career. After May Co., Mara moved to New York City to work for Federated Department Stores (now Macy's) as an Assistant and Associate Designer in I.N.C. New York was a great experience both professionally and personally. While in New York, she worked on many categories of business during her time at I.N.C - Suiting, Leather, Dresses, Soft Dressing, Sweaters, Cut & Sew, etc. She traveled extensively to the Far East while at Federated. In 2000, Mara moved to Dallas to work for J.C. Penney as a Designer. She has designed for multiple brands while working for J.C. Penney. Some of the brands include St. John's Bay, East 5th Sportswear, East 5th Dresses, St. John's Bay Dresses and ANA Dresses. During her career at J.C. Penney, she has again had the opportunity to work on various categories of business which include Sweaters, Cut & Sew Knits, Wovens, Suiting, Soft Dressing and Dresses. While working for J.C. Penney, Mara has had the privilege to have traveled everywhere from New York, Los Angelas and Miami to London, Milan, Paris, Barcelona and Amsterdam as well as Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Shanghai and India. She has been very fortunate to have worked for large companies that allowed her the opportunity to travel the world and learn extensively from all of those experiences!

Karen Shelton

Karen Shelton, a 1990 graduate of East Texas State University (now Texas A&M Commerce) with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and English, has twenty years of Engineering experience in the defense industry with E-Systems, Raytheon, and L-3 Communications, providing real-time mission processing, application GUI development, enterprise level training programs, and organizational process deployment. As a Quality Engineer for Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems, Karen ensures process improvement and adherence to CMMI through critical thinking and diverse communications as a member of multiple engineering and management teams. Hosts for her past net-working presentations include the Raytheon Women's Network, the Raytheon Asian Pacific Association, the Hispanic Organization of Latin Americans, and the Women's Leadership and Development Initiative group, the latter of which Karen served as President during 2000-2002. Karen attributes much of her leadership success to Toastmasters International. Having initially joined as a Toastmasters member in 2005, she achieved her Distinguished Toastmaster award in 2010 and won first place in the Toastmasters District 50 Evaluation Contest in May 2011. Karen enjoys singing, gardening, home improvement, and cherishing friends and family, particularly her grand-daughter, Sydni.

Ginger Porter
managing director, texas

Pure and simple, GolinHarris inspires and energizes me from head to toe. Since joining the GH family nearly 8 years ago, I've truly found a home that fuels my passion for the industry and keeps my career interesting with exciting new challenges. As Managing Director for Texas, my priority is to inspire our teams and bring new ideas and creative approaches that help our clients meet their goals, whether it's helping Texas Instruments sell more semiconductors, creating brand loyalty among pet “parents” for PetSmart, providing Cisco's sales force with new preference-building programs or building corporate social responsibility programs for Kimberly-Clark and Southwest Airlines.

With nearly two decades in public relations and advertising under my belt, I've worked with all shapes and sizes of consumer and technology brands — doing branding, corporate messaging, marketing communications, executive training, CSR, social media and more. Together, with the talented teams I lead across Texas, we help our clients make deeper and more meaningful connections with their customers, from the engineer to the mom-on-the-go to the tech-savvy teenager. I also serve as a global thought leader for Change, our practice that helps corporations define and develop new corporate citizenship programs. I'm proud to join clients in their journeys to build stronger brands by strengthening trust with their consumers, partners and employees.

My past career adventures in broadcasting and advertising led me to GH, where it's like the stars aligned in my universe and I can “grow where I'm planted,” as the saying goes. Each day brings new opportunities to thrive personally and professionally, and to continue helping clients promote and protect their brands. I always say that I've never really had a bad day at GolinHarris because every day at Golin is a better day than anywhere else.

Client Experience
Texas Instruments PetSmart Cisco Systems Kimberly-Clark Southwest Airlines
Areas of Expertise
Consumer Marketing Consumer Electronics Technology Corporate Citizenship
What's on my iPod, Kindle and TiVo
Usually Coldplay or Five for Fighting on the iPod. And anything crime-related on TiVo as I have a morbid fascination with grisly, unsolved crimes.
My Favorite Pastimes
I was a former radio personality, but now I just play tunes and give weather updates in my head.
My Favorite Quote "Every day at Golin is a better day than anywhere else." - Ginger Porter

Martha Germann
Manager, Learning and Development
Blue Cross Blue Shield Texas

A skilled facilitator, Martha brings over 15 years of experience in the consulting and learning and development field. She has facilitated courses and presentations designed for senior executives to increase leadership and management skills along with enhancing their communication skills. Currently she is works in the Texas Leadership Development group of the Learning and Talent Management unit at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, an Health Care Services Corporation Richardson, TX

Suzi Murphy, B.S., C.L.C.

Suzi Murphy has been a Sr. Health Promotion Specialist with Blue Cross Blue Shield for 16 years. Prior to coming to Blue Cross Suzi had her own wellness consulting business, working with organizations on designing and implementing internal wellness programs. She began her career as a teacher, working with all ages from elementary through college. Suzi has been a Certified Lifestyle Counselor since 1996 and says wellness suits her perfectly. She has always loved telling people how to run their life…now she gets paid for it.

Registration

	Regular (9/1-9/22)	At the door (9/24)
Member	$35	$40
Non Member	$65	$75

*There will be door prizes and giveaways for attendees.

Register Now!

NAAAP-DFW announces inaugural regional WIN! Conference presented by jcpenney

Join us for this exciting one-day inspiring conference designed for diverse women professionals to take full control of their professional journey.

DRIVE YOUR CAREER: TAKING CONTROL

Keynote: Ms. Anne Doyle, author of "Powering Up!" and communications strategy expert will provide insight into leadership and the value to an organization of fully tapping diverse talent. Doyle is an insightful advocate for visionary and innovative approaches to leadership development. Her keynote speeches are characterized by a wealth of stories from her three decades as an accomplished change agent.

Closing: Kathleen Wu, partner at Andrews Kurth LLP, recognized as one of "Dallas/Fort Worth's Most Influential Women" in the Dallas Business Journal's inaugural Women in Business Awards program and a Speaker for National Dialogue on the Workplace Flexibility, Women's Bureau. Awarded the Highest Achievement in the Law Award from the Asian American Chamber of Commerce, she has served as a commentator for the National Public Radio Dallas affiliate and is very active and participates in a variety of local, charitable and civic organizations.

Survive and Thrive through Networking

• Connecting and being connected are the order of today's social-media-driven world. But while technology is helpful and useful, don't let it get in the way of connecting with real people. This seminar and discussion is for those who want to learn the basics of networking and then apply those tools to a workable process. Be prepared to listen, to share and to participate.
  
  

He Said / She Said

• Learn to break down the communication barriers between men and women in the workplace to build meaningful work relationships founded on mutual understanding and respect.
  
  

We make it Stylish. You make it Work!

• Experience jcpenney's career fashion brands and learn how to put together stylish outfits that work for you. Discover the latest trends in fall fashion suitable for every budget and body type. Whether you're entry-level or a seasoned professional, jcpenney has everything you need to get noticed and make a lasting impression.
  
  

First To Lasting Impression

• Practice clear, effective communication to create impact in your personal introduction. Through thoughtful preparation and assertiveness, you can enhance your credibility while building self confidence and overcoming fear. Using critical thinking, applied time management and keen listening skills, learn how to cultivate a positive attitude and high-light your assets, ensuring your personality and style leave an auspicious imprint on those whose lives you touch.
  
  

Achieving Full Throttle Success Personally And Professionally

• Is your blackberry dictating your life? Ever feel like you're pulled into a million directions and not sure which way to turn? When do you say no to certain activities and yes to "me time?" Come join our workshop with Ginger Porter, managing director of GolinHarris Texas, as she shares insight on how to make the right rest stops and align your work-life balance to achieve maximum performance on your drive to success
  
  

Optimize Your Performance Beyond Just Survival!

• Very often we feel stuck, overwhelmed or frustrated in our professional and personal lives. We get burdened by our to do lists and/or over-commitments. We perform way below capacity as we think things never seem to go our way? This session goes through a simple model that provides strategies to get out of the downward cycle we sometimes fall in to and will help you bounce back to performing at optimum efficiency. Understand the causes, manage your stress and get back on track to achieving your goals and maximizing your performance. Manage your beliefs, take actions and see the results to reach a "happy" state!
  
  

Paul E. Maynard
The Relentless Networker

Paul is an independent marketing, communications and business development professional based in the Dallas-Fort Worth market.

He specializes in face-to-face marketing. Paul's experience as a dimensional marketing professional has allowed him to produce trade shows, exhibitions and events in 35 cities in 21 states and 7 international locations. This is a natural connection to his work as a social media strategist for small- and medium-sized businesses.

During his career, Paul has worked inside marketing organizations, as a vendor-supplier and as an independent consultant. A veteran of Honeywell and Boeing, his client list includes American Receivable, Aviall, Carlson Hotels, Esterline Control Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Philanthromax, Retalix, Target Corporation, and Xiotech.

Paul graduated from the University of Arizona and did graduate studies in Journalism at the University of Nevada in Reno.

An ambassador with the North Dallas Chamber of Commerce, Paul chairs NDCC's Small Business Committee. He is also a past IABC Dallas board member and is a volunteer with the DFW chapter of the American Marketing Association.

Paul is an active blogger and speaker and is known in the Dallas area as The Relentless Networker. You can learn more about him from his LinkedIn profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulmaynard or his website, www.paulemaynard.com.

Valerie Freeman

Valerie Freeman is the founder and CEO of Imprimis Group, Inc., a group of niche staffing and human resource companies headquartered in Dallas, Texas. She is also a founder and Executive Committee member of ANSERTEAM, LLC (Alliance of Staffing and Employment Resources) which is a national staffing company also headquartered in Dallas, Texas. She is also a Founder and serves on the Investment Advisory Committee of Texas Women Ventures which provides capital to women-owned businesses.

Since founding her first staffing company in 1982, Valerie has become one of the largest woman-owned staffing companies in Texas. Networking has played a big part in the growth of her companies and her involvement in non-profit, civic and business activities has helped fuel that growth. Currently Valerie serves on the Board of Directors of the Dallas Foundation; the Dallas County Community College District Foundation (immediate past Chair); Girl Scouts of NETexas (Chair of the Board); North Dallas Chamber of Commerce; Women's Business Council of the Southwest (Chair of Audit Committee); Executive Women's Roundtable (Steering Committee/Past Chair); and Women's Enterprise Publications (Advisory Board). She is also an alum of Leadership Texas and a member of YPO/WPO (Young President's and World President's Organization).

Valerie has received many awards including the Athena Award from the Dallas Regional Chamber; Real Girls Real Women Award from the Girl Scouts; Inspiring Texas Woman Award from Sterling Bank; Women's Business Enterprise of the Year from the Women's Business Council SW; Business Star Award from Women's Business Enterprise National Council; Ascendancy Award from w2wlink; Ernst & Young Enterpreneur of the Year; and National Woman Business Owner of the Year from NAWBO. The Dallas Business Journal named her one of the 25 most influential business women in Dallas.

Valerie holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in education from the University of Houston where she was honored as Distinguished Alum.

Marjorie R. Asturias

Marjorie R. Asturias is the president and chief social media strategist of Blue Volcano Media, a boutique social media marketing and PR agency based in Irving, Texas. The company specializes in helping small and medium-size businesses create and enhance their online presence in order to turn visitors into leads, and leads into sales.

Marjorie has worked as a copywriter, blogger, editor, and social media consultant for dozens of newspapers, magazines and websites. She has also worked with numerous businesses on crafting advertising and marketing campaigns to promote an array of products and services, from credit union loans and member services to weight loss products, from furnaces to eBay consignment services, and from independent film festivals to wineries.

She began blogging and using social media in 2006 and has since been mentioned and quoted in the New York Times, Inc.com, MSN Money, Mashable.com, and other publications. She's especially proud of her team at Blue Volcano Media and the passion, creativity and sharp professionalism each of them brings to every project.

Marjorie holds a BA in Political Science/International Studies from the University of Texas at Arlington. She's an active member of the North Dallas Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Irving/Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce, and is on the Board of Directors of the D/FW Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO). She's also passionate about animal rescue and is an active volunteer with DFW Rescue Me and Faerydog Corgi Rescue.

 

Steven L. Mitchell, MBA

Steven Mitchel has achieved a very distinguished record of success, in the field of "Sales and Business Development." As a pharmaceutical sales representative, for Merck & Company, his sales grew so rapidly that they were in the multi-million dollar range. In fact, he won Vice-President's Award, for being amongst the Top 10%. As a manager of business development, for a small "contract research organization," he worked to accelerate the company's sales from $8 million to $83 million, in just 4 years. Although he has had tremendous success in sales, his career did not begin with business development. It began as a Chemist.

After serving 3 years in the US Army, Steven earned his bachelor's degree, in chemistry (form the University of Nebraska - Lincoln). He worked as an analytical chemist, for companies such as Harris Laboratories and Marion Merrill. After earning his MBA degree, from Rockhurst University (in Kansas City, MO), he successfully transitioned from a career in chemistry to a career in sales.

Currently, Steven is working to upgrade his communication skills. He is studying both Spanish and Japanese.

Mara Farr

Mara Farr graduated from Stephens College with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fashion Design. After college she moved to St. Louis, MO to work for May Dept. Stores as an Assistant Color Stylist and later an Assistant Designer both in Cut & Sew knits. While at May Co., Mara gained experience in Textile Design as well as Apparel Design in Womens, Mens and Childrenswear. She was very fortunate to have the opportunity to travel to both New York and the Far East early in her career. After May Co., Mara moved to New York City to work for Federated Department Stores (now Macy's) as an Assistant and Associate Designer in I.N.C. New York was a great experience both professionally and personally. While in New York, she worked on many categories of business during her time at I.N.C - Suiting, Leather, Dresses, Soft Dressing, Sweaters, Cut & Sew, etc. She traveled extensively to the Far East while at Federated. In 2000, Mara moved to Dallas to work for J.C. Penney as a Designer. She has designed for multiple brands while working for J.C. Penney. Some of the brands include St. John's Bay, East 5th Sportswear, East 5th Dresses, St. John's Bay Dresses and ANA Dresses. During her career at J.C. Penney, she has again had the opportunity to work on various categories of business which include Sweaters, Cut & Sew Knits, Wovens, Suiting, Soft Dressing and Dresses. While working for J.C. Penney, Mara has had the privilege to have traveled everywhere from New York, Los Angelas and Miami to London, Milan, Paris, Barcelona and Amsterdam as well as Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Shanghai and India. She has been very fortunate to have worked for large companies that allowed her the opportunity to travel the world and learn extensively from all of those experiences!

Karen Shelton

Karen Shelton, a 1990 graduate of East Texas State University (now Texas A&M Commerce) with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and English, has twenty years of Engineering experience in the defense industry with E-Systems, Raytheon, and L-3 Communications, providing real-time mission processing, application GUI development, enterprise level training programs, and organizational process deployment. As a Quality Engineer for Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems, Karen ensures process improvement and adherence to CMMI through critical thinking and diverse communications as a member of multiple engineering and management teams. Hosts for her past net-working presentations include the Raytheon Women's Network, the Raytheon Asian Pacific Association, the Hispanic Organization of Latin Americans, and the Women's Leadership and Development Initiative group, the latter of which Karen served as President during 2000-2002. Karen attributes much of her leadership success to Toastmasters International. Having initially joined as a Toastmasters member in 2005, she achieved her Distinguished Toastmaster award in 2010 and won first place in the Toastmasters District 50 Evaluation Contest in May 2011. Karen enjoys singing, gardening, home improvement, and cherishing friends and family, particularly her grand-daughter, Sydni.

Ginger Porter
managing director, texas

Pure and simple, GolinHarris inspires and energizes me from head to toe. Since joining the GH family nearly 8 years ago, I've truly found a home that fuels my passion for the industry and keeps my career interesting with exciting new challenges. As Managing Director for Texas, my priority is to inspire our teams and bring new ideas and creative approaches that help our clients meet their goals, whether it's helping Texas Instruments sell more semiconductors, creating brand loyalty among pet “parents” for PetSmart, providing Cisco's sales force with new preference-building programs or building corporate social responsibility programs for Kimberly-Clark and Southwest Airlines.

With nearly two decades in public relations and advertising under my belt, I've worked with all shapes and sizes of consumer and technology brands — doing branding, corporate messaging, marketing communications, executive training, CSR, social media and more. Together, with the talented teams I lead across Texas, we help our clients make deeper and more meaningful connections with their customers, from the engineer to the mom-on-the-go to the tech-savvy teenager. I also serve as a global thought leader for Change, our practice that helps corporations define and develop new corporate citizenship programs. I'm proud to join clients in their journeys to build stronger brands by strengthening trust with their consumers, partners and employees.

My past career adventures in broadcasting and advertising led me to GH, where it's like the stars aligned in my universe and I can “grow where I'm planted,” as the saying goes. Each day brings new opportunities to thrive personally and professionally, and to continue helping clients promote and protect their brands. I always say that I've never really had a bad day at GolinHarris because every day at Golin is a better day than anywhere else.

Client Experience
Texas Instruments PetSmart Cisco Systems Kimberly-Clark Southwest Airlines
Areas of Expertise
Consumer Marketing Consumer Electronics Technology Corporate Citizenship
What's on my iPod, Kindle and TiVo
Usually Coldplay or Five for Fighting on the iPod. And anything crime-related on TiVo as I have a morbid fascination with grisly, unsolved crimes.
My Favorite Pastimes
I was a former radio personality, but now I just play tunes and give weather updates in my head.
My Favorite Quote "Every day at Golin is a better day than anywhere else." - Ginger Porter

Martha Germann
Manager, Learning and Development
Blue Cross Blue Shield Texas

A skilled facilitator, Martha brings over 15 years of experience in the consulting and learning and development field. She has facilitated courses and presentations designed for senior executives to increase leadership and management skills along with enhancing their communication skills. Currently she is works in the Texas Leadership Development group of the Learning and Talent Management unit at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, an Health Care Services Corporation Richardson, TX

Suzi Murphy, B.S., C.L.C.

Suzi Murphy has been a Sr. Health Promotion Specialist with Blue Cross Blue Shield for 16 years. Prior to coming to Blue Cross Suzi had her own wellness consulting business, working with organizations on designing and implementing internal wellness programs. She began her career as a teacher, working with all ages from elementary through college. Suzi has been a Certified Lifestyle Counselor since 1996 and says wellness suits her perfectly. She has always loved telling people how to run their life…now she gets paid for it.

Registration

	Regular (9/1-9/22)	At the door (9/24)
Member	$35	$40
Non Member	$65	$75

*There will be door prizes and giveaways for attendees.

Register Now!