Friday, October 14, 2011
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8:00am
Registration
9:00am
Opening Session (Continental breakfast provided)
Keynote Speaker- Simone Bruni, President and Owner of Demo Diva Demolition
Louisiana Pathfinder Award Presentation
10:15am
Breakout Session 1
11:00am
Break
11:15am
Breakout Session 2
12:00pm
Luncheon
Keynote Speaker- Lisa Leslie, Four-time Olympic Gold Medalist, WNBA Most Valuable Player, and Model
Men Who Champion Women Award Presentation
2:15pm
Breakout Session 3
3:00pm
Closing Remarks
Simone Bruni, President and Owner, Demo Diva Demolition
Ms. Simone Bruni, a Lakeview resident, was a corporate meeting planner selling the city of New Orleans to high end convention planners prior to Hurricane Katrina. After the hurricane, the convention industry suffered massive cancellations and Simone was laid off. Her home in Lakeview was flooded. Her family members also were flooded. And as a single woman with no construction experience, rebuilding was a daunting consideration. Simone was offered to relocate to other cities but chose to stay. Simone quickly recognized that her family, friends, and neighbors were in need of assistance and saw the opportunity to help meet those needs. Thus, the Demo Diva was born. Simone scrambled to find qualified subcontractors in demolition. She brought a pink flamboyance to her marketing and then hit the streets of Lakeview door to door. The Demo Diva Demolition Company has been in business for over four years now. While Demo Diva had started in residential demolition in Louisiana, the business has expanded to the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Demo Diva has now grown into commercial demolition and selective interior demolition. Having trademarked the Demo Diva Demolition name, Simone has dreams of taking her business to the world.
Lisa Leslie, Four time Olympic Gold Medalist and Former WNBA Superstar
Considered one of the most dynamic, popular female basketball players in the world, Lisa Leslie is a pioneer of the sport. She is a four-time Olympic gold medalist and three-time WNBA MVP. Fans voted her slam-dunk, the first in WNBA history, as the “Greatest Moment” in the WNBA's first decade. Standing six feet tall when she was in the sixth grade, Leslie picked up a basketball in middle school and has never looked back. While at Morningside High School in Inglewood, CA, she led the team to two state championships. In college at the University of Southern California, she finished as the all time Pac-10 leader in points, rebounds, and blocked shots. After college, Leslie launched her modeling career, signing with the prestigious Wilhelmina Agency in 1996. In 2001, Leslie was the first WNBA player to win the regular season MVP, the All-Star Game MVP and the WNBA Finals MVP in the same season. That year, she also led the Los Angeles Sparks to their first WNBA Championship. In 2002, after leading the Sparks to their second consecutive WNBA Championship, she was named MVP of both the WNBA Finals and WNBA All-Star Game. She garnered WNBA MVP award honors again in 2006. Not only has she dominated the WNBA for the past 12 seasons, she has led Team USA as a member of the gold-winning U.S. Olympic teams in 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008. She is the first team sport athlete to win four consecutive Olympic Gold Medals and is the all-time leader in points and rebounds for the Women’s Olympic team. Leslie sat out the 2007 WNBA season as she and her husband, Michael Lockwood welcomed their first child in June. During this time, Leslie wrote her memoir, Don’t Let the Lipstick Fool You: The Making of a Champion, which illustrates her journey on how she became a notable woman athlete and, ultimately, a champion. In September, 2009, after receiving 4 Olympic gold medals, two WNBA championships, three league MVPs and being named the league's all-time leading scorer (6,263 points) and rebounder (3,307), Leslie announced her official retirement from the WNBA, ending a stellar career. In addition to her international exposure as a four-time Olympic Gold Medalist, WNBA superstar and Author, Lisa is also an ESPN broadcaster of women’s college basketball, wife of former U.S. Air Force Captain and recent author, Michael Lockwood, mother to three precocious young daughters, as well as a philanthropist and community activist.
Harnessing the Human Potential Within Your Organization
Tonya Bolten-Ball, Renewed Perspectives, LLC.
Financial Readiness: Will You Have Enough To Be Happy At 70?
Debby Anselmo, Debby Anselmo Investments and Insurance
What Every Woman Must Know About Breast Cancer And Early Detection
Janet Dewey-Kollen, Komen Baton Rouge
What Got You Here, Won't Get You There
Devin Lemoine, Success Labs
The Social Media Revolution
Whitney Breaux, Wright Feigley Communications
She Who Can Does: Influencing Public Policy
Julie Mickelberry, Planned Parenthood
Laura Badeaux, Louisiana Center for Women and Government
Lea Young, League of Women Voters
Representative Patricia Haynes Smith, District 67
Exploring The Past: Louisiana Women and Genealogy
Judy Riffel, Le Comité des Archives de la Louisiane
Motherhood vs. Career: Balancing Work and Family Life
Dorothy Cadet, DACbooks
Women On Race
Paulette Senior, YWCA of Greater Baton Rouge
Communication DISCovery
Annette Wray, The Wray Group, LLC.
American Association of University Women
Linda Allred, Positive Affirmations, LLC.
The Medical Spa of Baton Rouge
Freshwater Pearls
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