Speaker Bios

 

Here's Some Background Biography Information on Our Speakers for 2010 and 2009.

 

Our May 2010 Monthly Meeting Speaker - Pamela Muldoon

Strategies to Strengthen Your Network

Pamela Muldoon is a Relationship Marketing Strategist with Next Stage Business, a marketing, training & consulting firm that specializes in helping Independent Professionals, Salespeople, & Small Business Owners develop marketing plans that work!  She brings a 3-Step process to building a marketing plan that is “simple, but not always easy”.

Pamela Muldoon brings over 20 years of career experience that includes radio broadcasting, theatre, sales, marketing, training and speaking.

 

As a Relationship Marketing Strategist, she helps people in business develop marketing that attracts their ideal clients, tracks results for a stronger ROI and brings fun back into the marketing process!

Pamela’s Relationship Marketing philosophy is three-fold:

1. Develop More Targeted Relationships With Your Prospects
2. Build & Maintain Strong Relationships With Your Customers & Partners
3. Connect the Relationship of Your Offline & Online Marketing Strategies

Relationships are key to Pamela’s personal & professional growth.  She is a member of the Board of Directors for the TwinWest Chamber of Commerce, pursues professional development with the MN Chapter of National Speakers Association and is also a Certified Social Media Strategist with the International Social Media Association.

Pamela is the host of Next Stage Business Radio Show airing Saturdays 1-3pm on KYCR-AM Business 1570 in the Twin Cities.  www.nextstagebusinessradio.com

 

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Our February 2010 Monthly Meeting Speaker - Jill Swanson

WHAT NOT TO WEAR

Do you struggle daily with decisions about what to wear?  Is your personal style whatever you can grab and throw on quickly?  Do you look into your bulging closet and think: “I have all these clothes and nothing to wear.”

 

Help is here! Jill Krieger Swanson will be demonstrating how you can look polished and put-together on a daily basis without spending a lot of time or money in the process. Learn to simplify your wardrobe and project a personal style that communicates beyond the spoken word.

 

(Note: Rescheduled from October, be sure to register early, you don't want to miss this one!!)

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Our September Monthly Meeting Speaker - Beth Woodward

Beth has been working with solo-professionals for 10+ years.  Combining her unique approach and personal journey with her love for the marketing success of business women, she founded the company, Marketing On The Playground. She is the creator of the Marketing On The Playground™ Storybook series, The “My Way” Marketing Plan and the teleclass, Unlock The Secret To Marketing Yourself.

Beth says, “Marketing is meant to be fun, comfortable and fit with precisely who YOU are, it’s that simple!”

Her recognition of individual learning styles, team development and passion to help women in business succeed led her to one of her most dynamic programs, the Minnesota based Adventures In Brainstorming™ for Women In Business.   Environments created to help women succeed through Brainstorming advisory teams in Adventure settings of a Fall Train ride, a Showboat, a High Tea and a Cabin In The Woods setting.

On September 9th, Beth will be leading the BWN group in a fun, highly productive style of networking called Mystery Networking.  We will be solving the mystery of the Tall Tale.  It is YOUR tale.  Within part of this process you will be telling your table mates four things about your business.  One of them is a Tall Tale (a lie).  If you can have your four things written down before you come to the event you will be more prepared.  More on this when we begin.  You won't want to miss it.  You'll know more about the women at your table than you've ever known before.

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Our August Monthly Meeting Speaker - Lori Ann Clark

Lori Ann Clark has been working with businesses, non-profits and other organizations since 1998 to develop and maintain their online presence. J4 Web Services offers web hosting, self-managed websites, e-commerce solutions and online marketing campaign options for its clients.

Our goal is to help you get comfortable using the Web to market and promote your business. We can do as much or as little as you want. We recognize that for many small businesses and organizations, the ability to manage and maintain the website yourself is a big time and money saver.

During my presentation for BWN in August, we’ll be going over some very practical ways to start right now—no matter what your technical skills—to use the Internet to promote your business, connect with your customers and find tools and resources that make you more effective. And I am confident that you’ll be thrilled with the screen shots, links and hints provided in my handout. Don’t miss it!

 

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Our July Monthly Meeting Speaker - Marianne Badar Ohman

Marianne works with corporate and non-profit leaders to create high-performing individuals and teams. 

Creative Connections is a resource for workshops, conference presentations, and assessments that help adults and teen-agers change the way they interact with others and accomplish more by giving them a deeper understanding of themselves and others and learn strategies to create collaboration and build trust and build leadership skills.

Marianne has worked in the communications field for 30 years and has been delivering training for over 10 years. All of Marianne’s workshops are informal, and highly interactive. The unique characteristic of her workshops is that she uses practical activities and exercises so that the participants can immediately apply what they learn.
She specializes in training programs with the following objectives:

• Sustain organizations through transformational leadership strategies
• Improve professional development
• Develop interpersonal communications and  influencing skills
• Increase leadership effectiveness
• Develop collaboration through understanding work style as well as generational and cultural differences
• Retain productive employees
• Adapt leadership styles for maximum individual and team performance
• Create strategic alliances with management, employees, and resources
• Manage conflict and stress
• Set goals and do action planning

Marianne is a partner with ShareOn Corporate Leader Resources, an on-line interactive leadership development plan and resource library, and a trainer with The Minnesota High Tech Association Leadership Academy (MHTA ACE).

She is a board member of The Rotary Club of St. Paul, chair of the Rotary District Youth Leadership Initiative, and a member of the International Association of Correctional Training Personnel (IACTP). She is an active supporter for Prevent Child Abuse Minnesota.

Marianne is a graduate of Moorhead State University in Minnesota with a degree in Communications. Since she graduated, she has studied and done advanced work in adult learning, creating collaboration and trust, leadership development, psychological types, and interpersonal communications.  

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Our June Monthly Meeting Speaker - Julie Hellwich

Julie is the founder and CEO of St.Paul-based Smart Women and a voice in social entrepreneurship. What started in 1999 as a kitchen-table effort to create clever, homemade birthday gifts for friends—like chalk and chalkboards declaring that “Smart Women Chalk It Up to Experience”—has become an internationally recognized brand from Denmark to Dubai.


Hellwich’s messages, aimed at uplifting and galvanizing women, have attracted partnerships with the League of Women Voters, The New Yorker magazine, and Chronicle Books. Her customers include Hillary Clinton and iconic political journalist Helen Thomas, who has a red Smart Women ribbon on her suitcase so she can find it in the airport, Hellwich says. It reads, “Smart Women Tie Up Loose Ends.”

As a single mother, Hellwich earned her bachelor’s degree in environmental geography. Her interest in international development and maternal and child health led to masters’ degrees in social work and public health from the U of M. She and her then-8-year-old daughter lived in India while Hellwich studied a simple, low-cost method for treating dehydration.

Her love of learning is conveyed by Smart Women’s top seller, a mug that reads “Smart Women Thirst for Knowledge.” “I like learning across disciplines. . . . I can see the connections between things that others might not think are connected,” Hellwich says. Being a businesswoman with a community health background helps her think across sectors—public, private, and nonprofit—where some might see rigid boundaries. And, her values-driven approach includes a commitment to keeping her products useful, minimally packaged, reusable or recyclable, and made in the United States whenever possible. Although Hellwich is Smart Women’s only employee, many functions that are outsourced, such as packaging, are done so locally.

Hellwich fields requests from numerous organizations to collaborate around her brand, and she enjoys helping promote causes she supports. Last year, she joined University of Minnesota Marching Band members in working with Goodwill/Easter Seals of Minnesota (“Smart Women Extend Goodwill”) to make hats and scarves with recycled sweaters.  As a volunteer, she’s working with a high school in St. Paul’s Midway neighborhood, teaching young entrepreneurs how to make candles and crayons from beeswax. Hellwich negotiated a trade with a beekeeper at a farmers’ market who’s supplying beeswax in exchange for candles.

Julie is also under-contract to write a book about 'smart women' who use social entrepreneurship as  a vehicle for addressing social issues such as unemployment, education inequities, and poor health. Julie's personal goal is to create a community of people who live to serve others; who are committed to 'being present' with their neighbors and community members.  This community would also assist with areas of economic development, social services, etc. delivered as-needed to assist in the creation of a community where every member has value and is visible.

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Our May Monthly Meeting Speaker - Cari Vollmer

Cari Vollmer, The Passion into Profit Mentor, teaches solo-entrepreneurs the HOW TO and MAGIC of attracting ideal clients, making more money, and making a name for themselves in their soul-inspired and purpose-centered business. Cari comes to this path of passion and profit naturally. Her parents were successful restaurateurs for more than 20 years, she helped her husband start his own thriving small business more than a decade ago, and her grandmother wrote children’s books back in the day when women were more apt to stay in the kitchen cooking than following their passions.

Cari herself developed her own Passion into Profit Blueprint which helped her increase sales by more than 300%, transforming her struggling private coaching practice into a small business that’s bursting at the seams with clients and potential. Yes, she comes to this path of passion, purpose, and profit naturally, but if you don’t that’s O.K., that’s what she’s here for!

Cari wants you to know, you can create a thriving small business, profit from your passions, life purpose and wisdom, and make a name for yourself as an expert in your field while also making a difference in the world. Others have done it, she has done it, and you can too!

Cari is the creator of the Passion into Profit Blueprint™, a step-by-step system that teaches service professionals how to attract new clients and make more money! To learn more about the Passion into Profit Blueprint™ visit www.LifeOnTrack.com

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