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Special Edition: NAWBO

February 19, 2015 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Special Edition: NAWBO

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Jill serves as Vice President & COO for Henderson Shapiro Peck, a relationship driven, award winning marketing and business support company with 23 employees. Over the past 18 years, Jill and her partner, founder of the company, Debbi Shapiro have been instrumental in supporting women driven initiatives both personally and professionally.

She is the President of the National Association of Women’s Business Owners (NAWBO Atlanta), a member of the Certified Women’s Business Enterprise Council (WBENC) and the Metro Atlanta Chamber.

Jill has volunteered for Scottish Rite known as Children’s Healthcare of America, The Girl Scouts of America, The Council on Alcohol and Drugs, The Atlanta Food Bank, The Tolerance Education Program and was the marketing chair for Emerge Scholarships for three years.

Jill graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Science in Advertising and a minor in marketing from the College of Journalism and Communications.

Kara Cleary / Barnes & Thornburg LLP

Kara Cleary is a senior associate in the Atlanta office of Barnes & Thornburg LLP, where she is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department. Ms. Cleary concentrates her practice on insurance coverage litigation on behalf of policyholders in various industries. Additionally, she has experience in complex commercial lawsuits. Ms. Cleary received her B.A. magna cum laude in conflict studies from DePauw University, where she was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and DePauw’s Management Fellows program. She earned her J.D. magna cum laude from Valparaiso University School of Law.

Lissa C. Versteegh / Georgia Sales Development, Inc.

Spotlight on NAWBO

January 19, 2015 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Spotlight on NAWBO

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Nancy Chorpenning / C-Suite Advisors

Nancy Chorpenning is Founder & Managing Director of Atlantabased C-Suite Advisors, a business advisory practice. C-Suite Advisors specialty is advising women entrepreneurs whose businesses have emerged successfully from the startup phase and who are growing their firms into profitable, professionally managed businesses prepared for selling in the future.

Nancy also leads peer-mentoring for women business owners, and offers webinars on planning, leadership, and building business value among other business topics. This January, she is starting three programs for Business Owners to support their business growth: CEO School for Women is a year-long business growth program; the Value Builder System is a 1:1 advisor-led process leading to increased business worth; and a hands-on Business Planning Workshop called Vision & Clarity Workshop. Registration for all of these events is on Eventbrite.

From strategic discovery to organization structure and operations, Nancy’s mentoring of business owners is informed by her +20- year tenure as an executive in Professional Information and Education with Fortune 500 companies (such as Time Warner’s Little, Brown & Company, Publishers) as well as high profile startups (WebMD), combined with a superb graduate Marketing education from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Chorpenning participates actively in local and national business organizations. After serving on the Small Business Council for the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Nancy served on the Board of Directors for the Atlanta Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) for 6 years, including as Chapter President. She was appointed to the NAWBO Presidents Assembly Steering Committee (PASC) in 2012 with responsibility for 18 Southern Tier NAWBO Chapters, inaugurating the Leadership Bootcamp for NAWBO, and in 2014, became its Chair. Additionally, she was elected to the National Board of Directors of NAWBO in 2013 where she presently serves. She was recently added to the Advisory Boards of the international company, “The Sellability Score” and Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs (ACE) in Atlanta.

Darla Beggs / Abba Staffing

Darla Beggs is the President and CEO of Abba Staffing and Consulting, Abba Parking Services and MGD Management Group. Her broad business experience includes consulting with HR, insurance and oil and gas professionals to evaluate and establish effective programs with a focus on cost effectiveness coupled with employee satisfaction and retention. Prior to acquiring Abba Staffing and Consulting, Beggs held leadership positions with, Travelers Insurance and The Principle Group in account management services, marketing, and benefits administration. Ms. Beggs is active in various women-owned and minority owned business groups and is a devoted leader in in both professional and philanthropic organizations. In 2011 Ms. Beggs was appointed to the National Board of Directors of National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), where she serves on the Executive Committee as Chair. Ms. Beggs’ commitment to other women business owners succeed has gained her recognition by her peers and Abba Staffing was named the 2011 Overall Business Enterprise of the Year by the North Central Texas Regional Certification Agency, “Benefactor” and “Star” Awards by NAWBO® Dallas/Ft Worth and 2012 Done Deals Women Working Together Award by WBENC Southwest.

Additionally, Abba Staffing and Consulting was recognized in 2013 and 2014 as one of the fast growing private companies by Inc Magazine.

Ms. Beggs is active in many philanthropic organizations and devotes considerable time to these endeavors. She is the driving force behind Abba’s commitment to the community through volunteerism and financial support. Previous Board appointments include YMCA of Metropolitan Ft Worth and Mid-Cities Pacesetters Rotary Club. She is also active in many associations such as the Women’s Business Council Southwest, Society for Human Resource Management, Women’s President Organization and various Chamber of Commerce. Ms. Beggs resides in Colleyville with her husband of 30 years-Gary. They are the proud parents of Valerie and Matthew and 2 “crazy” Yorkies.

Jill Peck / Henderson Shapiro Peck

She is the President of the National Association of Women’s Business Owners (NAWBO Atlanta), a member of the Certified Women’s Business Enterprise Council (WBENC) and the Metro Atlanta Chamber.

Jill graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Science in Advertising and a minor in marketing from the College of Journalism and Communications.

Joy Lutes / NAWBO

Nancy Chorpenning, Founder/Managing Director of C-Suite Advisors

January 31, 2014 by angishields

Growth Matters

Nancy Chorpenning, Founder/Managing Director of C-Suite Advisors

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Nancy Chorpenning – Founder and Managing Director of C-Suite Advisors

Nancy Chorpenning [core-PENN-ing] is the Founder and Managing Director of Atlanta-based C-Suite Advisors, a business advisory practice supporting organizations in their quest to grow. She is Founder and Executive Director of the CEO School for Women, a year long business program starting next month, and is working on a book, “Business Whispers”.

From strategic discovery to organization structure and operations, Nancy’s work is informed by her +20-year tenure as an executive in Management, Professional Information and Education with Fortune 100 companies (e.g., Time Warner’s Little, Brown & Company Publishers) as well as high profile start-ups (WebMD), combined with a superb graduate Marketing education from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Included in Who’s Who Among American Women and Who’s Who in America, Nancy is active in local, regional and National business and community organizations. After serving on the Small Business Council and developing a CEO Roundtable program for the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Nancy served on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Women Business Owners – Atlanta (NAWBO Atlanta) for 6 years, including serving as President of the Atlanta Chapter. She was appointed to the NAWBO Presidents Assembly Steering Committee (PASC) in 2012, inaugurating a Leadership Boot camp for NAWBO, and is responsible for 18 Southern Tier NAWBO Chapters. Nancy will become PASC Chair in 2014. In 2013, she was elected to the Board of Directors for the Washington, DC-based National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) where she serves on the Executive Committee as Chair for Governance.

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Spotlight on NAWBO – National Association of Women Business Owners

September 24, 2013 by angishields

Burr Forman's Results Matter Radio

Spotlight on NAWBO - National Association of Women Business Owners

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NAWBO is the National Association of Women Business Owners. It is the oldest and largest business membership organization exclusively for women entrepreneurs who own their business. NAWBO was founded in 1975 to represent the interests of women business owners particuarly in public policy matters that impact thier businesses, incuding and especially what we are discussing today, the Women’s Business Ownership Act. Today NAWBO has 5,000 members across 3 chapters nationwide. The NAWBO Atlanta Chapter was formed in 1997 and meets monthly on second Thursdays at The Buckhead Club for a business education program and lunch.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/NAWBO/67883022683 AND https://www.facebook.com/NAWBOAtlanta

LinkedIn: National Association of Women Business Owners

Twitter: @NAWBONational AND @NAWBOAtlanta

Nancy Chorpenning/C-Suite Advisors

Nancy Chorpenning is Founder and Managing Director of C-Suite Advisors, a business advisory practice helping business owners, especially women entrepreneurs, grow their companies by planning and focusing on the right priorities. Nancy spent nearly 30 years in corporate America before founding C-Suite Advisors in 2006, punctuated by a 2-year stint as a midlife Peace Corps Volunteer in Papua New Guinea in the late 90s. She moved to Atlanta in 1999 as part of the management team that started up WebMD, where she launched the first physician website. She is a Director on the National Board of NAWBO where she serves as Chair of the Governance Committee. She has been a member of NAWBO since she started her business, and served on the Board of the Atlanta Chapter for 6 years including as Chapter President. She is also a member of the Presidents Assembly of NAWBO, past presidents who support current chapter leaders, where she has responsibility for 17 southern tier chapters of NAWBO. Nancy is a new bride, and she and her husband Paul live in Atlanta.

Dorothéa Bozicolona-Volpe

Dorothéa Bozicolona-Volpe is a strategic digital marketing executive who is fluent in 4 languages and specializes in developing business for international brands (Fortune 500) via initiating and integrating social media and digital strategies and enterprise social networking, as well as, building strategic partnerships and implementing marketing technologies. Dorothéa teaches marketers and business leaders how to measure, optimize and build current new media efforts to increase value and develop strong relationships between brands and fans Additionally, Dorothéa has appeared as a social media marketing strategy subject matter expert on CBS and CNN’s Ali Velshi show. Some of her clients include: Boy Scouts of America, Mashable, Ryan Seacrest, Ryan Seacrest Productions, Chrysler, The Weather Channel, AT&T, Georgia Tech, InterContinental Hotels Group, Mercer, Jewish Family & Career Services, Ogilvy & Mather, Reader’s Digest, Qualcomm, Turner Network Television, Coca-Cola. She is a new NAWBO member, and is presently leading a social media effort to engage interest in NAWBO’s upcoming Women’s Business Conference in Miami, October 3-5 this year.

Jill Peck/Henderson Shapiro Peck, Inc.

Jill Peck is Vice-President & COO for Henderson Shapiro Peck, Inc., a relationship-driven, award winning marketing and business support company. Areas of practice include healthcare, bioscience, pharma, communications/technology, publishing and non-profit. She is a member of National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), Certified Women’s Business Enterprise Council (WBENC), Metro Atlanta Chamber, North Metro Chamber of Commerce, Roswell Business Alliance. Board of Directors (NAWBO Atlanta), Board of Directors (Emerge Scholarships), Volunteer Arthritis Foundation, Tolerance Education Program, Atlanta Food Bank.

Tonya Hicks/Power Solutions, Inc.

Tonya Hicks is founder and President of Power Solutions, Inc., a 13-year old commercial electrical contracting and engineering firm in Atlanta; Power Solutions also has a newer Maintenance Division. Tonya became the first woman journeyman electrician in the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Meridian, MS in 1994. She is starting up another company “MaryAnn Works” providing work clothes designed for women in construction and uniformed services. Tonya is an avid blogger, and started “Women Do Everything,” to help women maintain, manage and renovate their homes. A single mother to two sons, aged 7 and 20, she is self-described as half Martha Stewart and half Oprah.

Linda Hughes/GreatRidge

Linda Hughes is the CEO of GreatRidge a consulting company focused on helping companies grow to meet their potential. Linda founded GreatRidge in 2008 after a 25 year career including leadership positions at companies including The Coca-Cola Company, AIG, and NorthHighland. Linda has been a member of NAWBO for over 3 years and is currently serving as the President of the NAWBO Atlanta chapter.

Elizabeth Gordon interviews Marlene Waldock – Founder of the Because We are Women Annual Symposium on the Chic Perspectives Show

February 17, 2010 by angishields

Chic Perspectives

Elizabeth Gordon interviews Marlene Waldock - Founder of the Because We are Women Annual Symposium on the Chic Perspectives Show

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Marlene Waldock – Founder of the Because We are Women Annual Symposium

Marlene is a seasoned business owner, award winning entrepreneur and the former host of New Jersey Business on News 12 New Jersey.

Her accolades include 2007 WOMAN OF ACHIEVEMENT – NJAWBO, WOMEN WHO MAKE A DIFFERENCE – SOROPTIMISTS, PRESIDENT, North Essex Chamber of Commerce, 2006 NJBIZ 50 BEST WOMEN IN BUSINESS, 2005 SBA Women Business Champion, 2005 Women Business Center Patron of the Year, SBA SMALL BUSINESS JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR 2003, and NJAWBO BUSINESS WOMAN OF THE YEAR 2003.

Marlene talks about how to re-invent yourself and create a new life experience leveraging what you have learned in your past.

She reveals the powerful process used with a high degree of success at the Because We are Women conference, that enables women to tap into what they really want, clear their path of obstacles and create a plan for moving forward.