Whom You Know: WOMENSPHERE GLOBAL LEADERSHIP SUMMIT UNITES TOP BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURIAL WOMEN WITH SOCIAL CHANGE LEADERS & FILMMAKERS SUZY WELCH TO ADDRESS KEYNOTE

Thursday, October 15, 2009

WOMENSPHERE GLOBAL LEADERSHIP SUMMIT UNITES TOP BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURIAL WOMEN WITH SOCIAL CHANGE LEADERS & FILMMAKERS SUZY WELCH TO ADDRESS KEYNOTE

On October 24^th, 2009, in Lower Manhattan, the Womensphere Global Summit 2009 will gather over 500 women leaders, and feature over 30 innovative women as speakers including author and media journalist Suzy Welch; Barbara Adachi, Deloitte Consulting Chief Talent Officer; and Shazi Visram, CEO, HAPPYBABY -- one of three finalists in the NBC-American Express Shine a Light competition – bringing them together with successful women executives, CEOs, community leaders, and social entrepreneurs. The Summit, which is Womensphere’s flagship event of the year, will be held at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center.

With lead sponsor Goldman Sachs, the Summit will also feature the Womensphere Film Festival, a Career Expo, a Women Entrepreneur’s Expo, a Non-Profits/NGO Expo, and a VIP lunch with Suzy Welch and Speakers. The evening will conclude with a networking reception, including a Wine & Chocolate tasting, compliments of Banfi wines, W.R. Tish - Wine for All and illy Issimo.
“We have created an extraordinary day, bringing together women leaders from all walks of society – to inspire vision, exchange insights and strategies, build valuable connections, and make a difference. By uniting top women in business and entrepreneurship, with women social entrepreneurs, artists, filmmakers, and leaders of world-changing non-profit organizations, this powerful gathering will enable women leaders to pursue and create groundbreaking opportunities in this country and around the world,” remarks Womensphere CEO and Founder Analisa Balares.

The Summit will feature over 30 influential women leaders from all walks of society, including:

SUZY WELCH - Author of “10-10-10: A Life-Transforming Idea”; Media columnist on BusinessWeek and O, The Oprah Magazine; Co-Author with Jack Welch of the bestselling book “Winning”

BARBARA ADACHI - Chief Talent Officer, National Managing Principal, Initiative for the Retention & Advancement of Women, DELOITTE

MADELINE NELSON-SMALL – Executive Director, Mary J. Blige Foundation for the Advancement of Women

SHAZI VISRAM - CEO & Founder, HAPPYBABY - premium organic meals for the family; One of three national finalists of the NBC-American Express SHINE A LIGHT national small business contest!

ABHA DAWESAR – Award-winning novelist; Author of That Summer in Paris, Babyji, Miniplanner

KATE KOHLER - Chief Operating Officer, The Pentagon Federal Credit Union Foundation (The Pentagon Foundation)

NANCY PEDOT - Former CEO, Gymboree; Former CEO, Party City

BETH SCHOENFELDT - CEO & Founder, Collective-E; Founder & former CEO, Ladies Who Launch

SARANNE ROTHBERG - CEO & Founder, ComedyCures Foundation

STEPHANIE HAUGE – President, Financial Women’s Association (FWA)

MAURA CURTIN – Executive Director, Social Media Advertising Consortium

LARA GALINSKY – Senior Vice President, Echoing Green

ELAINE BARSOOM – Director, Exclusive Resorts

DIANE BURSTEIN – Director of Operations, All for Africa

MICHELLE TITUS – Executive Director, Freshwater Haven

JACQUELINE WALES – Author and CEO, The Fearless Factor

The Womensphere Global Summit 2009 is also launching the inaugural Womensphere Film Festival. Film screenings of social issue-focused films created by women will be followed by talks with the filmmakers.

Community screenings include:

“Pray the Devil Back to Hell” – Winner of numerous film festival awards, including the Tribeca Film Festival Best Documentary Award – Produced by Abby Disney, Directed by Gini Reticker - about the story of the courageous women of Liberia and their nonviolent struggle for peace and freedom.

“Crossing Midnight” – by award-winning filmmaker Kim Snyder, Co-Founder of the BeCause Foundation. Today, one million internally displaced persons are living in the jungles of Eastern Burma in the midst of on-going armed conflict. Set on the border of Thailand and Eastern Burma, Crossing Midnight tells the story of a remarkable community of refugees from Burma working against incredible odds to help their own.

“Tapestries of Hope” – Launch of a new documentary film produced and directed by Michealene Risley, aimed at bringing awareness and inspiring action against the crises in Zimbabwe. As of May 2008, Zimbabwe is the number one AIDS-infected country in the world. Part of the rapid increase in AIDS in Zimbabwe stems from a single barbaric practice: traditional healers counsel that in order to cure his AIDS, all a man needs to do is rape a virgin. As a result, young girls and infants are being raped and thereby contracting AIDS.

“Birth” – by the award-winning Signe Baumane, Latvian animator and New Yorker, screened at numerous international film festivals, about a 17-year old young woman who is afraid of giving birth.

“Wild Horses of the Eastern Barrier Islands” – preview of a Womensphere film about the history, life, and conservation of the oldest breed and last remaining wild horses in America. Produced by Womensphere, directed and filmed by Cass O’Meara, Womensphere Chief Creative Officer for Film.

The Womensphere Global Summit 2009 brings together leaders from across a number of communities. Corporate partners includeGoldman Sachs, Exclusive Resorts, Fridman Law Group, and Bon Vivant LLC. Community partner organizations supporting the Summit include All for Africa, ASTIA, ASCEND Pan Asian Leaders, Ayala Foundation, CARE, ComedyCures Foundation, Early Stage East, Freshwater Haven, Global Fund for Women, Golden Seeds, Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, the Mary J. Blige & Steve Toute Foundation for the Advancement of Women, NAWBO New York, Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO), WINGS Worldquest, and Women Presidents Organization (WPO).

GLOBAL SUMMIT WEBSITE: http://www.womensphereglobalsummit.com

ABOUT WOMENSPHERE:

Founded by a Harvard Business School alumna in 2007 right at the beginning of the economic decline, Womensphere has grown to become one of the most vibrant and dynamic global leadership communities, comprised of over 10,000 leaders, managers and emerging leaders across a variety of disciplines – banking, media, consulting, entrepreneurship, law, finance, technology, sciences, international development as well as music and the arts. Womensphere convenes leaders and emerging leaders from all walks of society, around themes such as women’s leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship, professional advancement, and creating social and economic impact - connecting women through these themes. Womensphere’s mission is to inspire, empower and connect women, and to bring together a community of leaders striving to solve local and global issues.

Since it’s founding, Womensphere has produced over a dozen conferences and forums, bringing together several thousand leaders to collaborate on productive and meaningful endeavors while weathering one of the country’s toughest economic recessions.

ORGANIZATION WEBSITE: http://www.womensphere.org

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