SAVE THE DATE! March 6, 2012
Women Leaders in HR: Getting and keeping the best talent by understanding and maximizing the unique characteristics of each generation in the workforce
Lunch event
Olympic Collection Banquet Hall
& Conference Center
CHROs from Panda Restaurant Group, Edmunds, NBC Universal & Alcoa
Details & registration coming soon!
March 20, 2012 Women on Corporate Boards Co-ed Cocktail Event
Omni Los Angeles Hotel
at California Center
Panelists include: GABRIELLE E. GREENE General Partner,
Rustic Canyon/Fontis Partners JANET E. KERR
Founder and Exec Director,
Palmer Center for Entrepreneurship & the Law WENDY M. WEBB
Managing Director,
Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC
DARYA ALLEN-ATTAR Broads Circle Founder and Chairwoman
Financial Advisor
Los Angeles, CA
Darya founded Broads Circle in 2008 with the goal of creating an exclusive network of businesswomen and the professionals who work with them. The networking meetings began as invitation-only bimonthly breakfasts featuring guest speakers such as C-level women executives who shared their insights and lessons from the field. Since then, the membership has steadily grown and Broads Circle has added quarterly evening cocktail events featuring nationally recognized speakers. In an effort to enhance the networking opportunities for its members, the cocktail events have become co-ed with invitations extended to selected male executives.
With 22 years of experience in financial services, Darya's forte is strategic wealth management for families and foundations. She is a CPA and Personal Financial Specialist (PFS), and obtained her MBA from Fordham University (where she focused on finance and portfolio management). Darya has taught as an adjunct professor of Finance at New York University and has authored many financial planning articles.
Darya is married with three children, lives in Pacific Palisades, CA, and currently serves on the Board of the Westside YMCA, in addition to her position as Broads Circle Founder and Chairman of the Board.
CHERYL A. CALHOUN
Managing Director, Tax & Business Management
CBIZ Accounting Tax & Advisory Services, LLC
Los Angeles, CA
Cheryl specializes in business management, business consulting, tax, and financial planning for small and medium-sized businesses and high income and/or net worth individuals. Cheryl has practiced for over 25 years and her expertise includes all facets of the entertainment industry, with a particular emphasis in film and television. She represents talent, production companies, entertainment service companies, media service companies, publishing companies and executives in varied tax and business matters.
Her range of services include: outsourcing of chief financial officer duties including the provision of day-to-day supervision of finance and accounting decisions and transactions; contract negotiation and review; production, domestic and international distribution, and participation accounting; guild compliance; development of equity and debt financing plans; executive compensation planning; state and local sales, use, business tax planning, compliance and controversy; domestic and international income tax planning, compliance and controversy; business valuations; employee benefits; etc.
In addition to her private company practice, Cheryl also specializes in assisting Not-for-Profit Organizations including Private Foundations and Public Charities, combining her talents for business and tax issues with her desire to contribute and support causes in the community. Cheryl provides these organizations with services such as strategic planning, planning for and preparation of tax and regulatory filings and disclosures, and management consulting services required to maintain tax-exempt status, avoid the imposition of excise taxes, and assist the organizations to run efficiently and effectively.
Cheryl received her MBA and her BA from the University of California, Los Angeles and is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in California.
JOY CHUDACOFF
Founder
Smart Women Smart Solutions
Pacific Palisades, CA
Heralded as “The Coach for Women” in the millennium, Joy Chudacoff has x-ray vision when it comes to helping women discover their Big Ideas, Dreams and Goals. Joy draws on both her personal life and entrepreneurial experiences to support women in achieving better ways of living. It’s her passion, her purpose and her business. She is a Professional Certified Coach, highly skilled group leader, motivational speaker and a gifted communicator.
An entrepreneur for over 2 decades, Joy knows what it’s like to be a woman who integrates family and passionate work together. As a wife and mother of two, Joy understands the importance of self-care, family and reaching her entrepreneurial dreams of supporting women. Joy is on the Advisory Board for Women for Hire as well as a founding Board Member for Broads Circle. She is the Business and Life Coach for the National Association of Entrepreneur Moms and was awarded the 2009 Ali Brown Millionaire Protégé Club Platinum Excellence Award for having the most successful business programs that achieved growth in terms of clients and income. Joy is also a Platinum Mastermind Leader for Ali Brown of Ali International, LLC.
Whether you’re looking at what’s next in your life, are a new business owner or have been in business for a few years, Joy has easy, proven and simple programs that you can take advantage of to get everything in life that you want and deserve. Visit Joy’s website where you’ll find articles by Joy plus information about her Women’s Success Circles, Smart Women Smart Solutions Coach Certification Programs, Speaking engagements, teleclasses and upcoming events for women who are ready to live their Big Ideas, Dreams and Goals.
FAY FEENEY, CSP, ARM CEO
Risk for Good
Hermosa Beach, CA
Fay is an advisor to corporate board chairs and corporate counsel to clearly see a post Dodd-Frank world where risks for transparency and disclosure are 24/7 news. She helps board chairs lead their boardroom with an agenda that includes emerging trends like: enterprise risk management, digital literacy, corporate social responsibility, going green and board composition.
Leading the boardroom and governing in the post financial crisis requires an understanding of aligning these important trends to business strategy. She is a sought-after advisor and speaker focused on seeing business profit from the triple bottom line of people, profit & the planet. Having an ability to understand business risks allows business leaders to improve their performance and profitability. Smart executives understand that profiting while managing intangibles will be the challenge for the 21st century.
CAROL GEFFNER, PhD
CEO
ArpegioHealth, LLC
Denver, CO and Irvine, CA
Carol J. Geffner, Ph.D. brings over two decades of executive management and consulting experience working with health care organizations including hospitals, nonprofit organizations, Fortune 500 businesses and start-up organizations. Dr. Geffner’s unique approach combines deep experiences as both an operating executive and a senior consultant resulting in practical and client focused solutions to complex business issues.
At present, Carol is Chief Executive Officer of ArpegioHealth, LLC, a national health care management consulting firm and manages the Irvine, California office for the company. She is responsible for leading ArpegioHealth’s strategic consulting focus on transforming health systems including integrated delivery systems, health care technology companies, governmental agencies, insurance companies, nonprofit organizations, public policy institutions and multidisciplinary medical practices.
Her focus in her consulting practice has been within the health care arena, leading transformation efforts around health information technology and new approaches to organizing health systems as well as providing executive direction to a medical revenue cycle management company and best in practice leadership training and coaching for senior and mid level management. A recent focus is in bridging the generational gap between “baby boomers” in management and millennial generation employees in both management and line positions.
DANA HOLLINGER, JD
Life Insurance Advisor
The Dana Hollinger Group
Los Angeles, CA
Dana Hollinger focuses primarily on advanced wealth and business succession planning. A former attorney with more than 20 years experience in real estate and finance, Dana specializes in designing life insurance policies and capital transfer strategies that protect and maximize the assets of successful entrepreneurs and other high net worth individuals.
In 1984, Dana earned her JD at Southwestern University School of Law and was admitted to Practice Law in the State of California. She earned a BA in 1980 from American University, Washington D.C., Deans List; California Real Estate Broker Licensed, 1988; and was admitted to Practice Law in Federal Court, 1994.
Honors:
- The Suzanne Mubarek Women’s International Peace Movement and the Women’s Leadership Board of Harvard. Ms. Goldinger participated in a January 2006 joint conference held in Cairo, Egypt, “Towards Peace and Prosperity, Women: Engines of Change.”
- Harvard University Women’s Leadership Board. In 2004, Dana was asked to join a group of extraordinary women by the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. The Board is an external group that advises the dean and supports women’s initiatives at the School, including the Women and Public Policy Program and the Council of Women World Leaders.
- Orange County United Way Women’s Philanthropy Fund and the Alexis de Tocqueville Society of the United Way in Los Angeles.
- Founding Board Member of the Women’s Leadership Council in Los Angeles (WLC).
- CLUB 1800/John Anderson. Dana was personally selected by John Anderson of the Anderson School of Business and noted Philanthropist to join a group of 30 leading business women and female philanthropists, 2000-Present.
- Presidents Club Lincoln Benefit Life, 2004.
- Top 50/PMLI (Provident Mutual Life Insurance), 2002 and 2003.
- 1990-1991 WHO’S WHO In American Law.
TRACY WILLIAMS
President and CEO
Olmstead Williams Communications
Los Angeles, CA
Tracy is a leading expert in business-to-business communication with 25 years of public relations and crisis communications experience. She works with national and international print, broadcast and Internet media to secure top-tier placements that help clients meet their business objectives. Her firm is integrally involved in expanding clients’ business development networks through speaking engagements, marketing communications support and other tailored strategies. The firm focuses on technology and life science industries and the financial and professional service firms which support them. Clients include Ernst & Young, FlexEnergy, Whittier Trust Company, The Alfred E. Mann Foundation, Language Line Services and a number of national law firms.
Tracy currently serves on the boards of Town Hall Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation, The California Counsel on Economic Education and Broads Circle. She resides in Pacific Palisades with her husband, writer Christian Williams, and their two children Drake and Christian.
JOCELYN TETEL Vice President of Advancement
Skirball Cultural Center
Los Angeles, CA
Jocelyn Tetel is Vice President of Advancement at the Skirball Cultural Center. Upon arriving at the Skirball in 1997, Tetel established the Advancement Department and became a member of the executive management team. Today, she works closely with the Skirball’s Founding President and CEO to advance the organization’s mission through fundraising, strategic planning, government relations, and public affairs. She is responsible for managing the Advancement Department, overseeing fundraising activity that supports the Skirball’s general operations, temporary museum exhibitions, and capital campaigns. Her focus is on initiating and nurturing relationships with philanthropists, foundations, corporate donors, and government entities.
She serves as Director on the following Boards: Exceptional Children’s Foundation, Southern California Foster Family and Adoption Agency, and Mayme Clayton Library & Museum. Tetel is committed to help ensure the fiscal stability of these nonprofit organizations.
Prior to the Skirball, Tetel served as Vice President in the Los Angeles branch of Johnson & Higgins, at that time the largest privately owned insurance brokerage firm in the world. During her thirteen years in the insurance industry, she specialized in sales, account management, and marketing. A native of Durham, North Carolina, Tetel earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology from the University of New Hampshire.
LINDA WHALEN Associate Director, External Communications & Marketing
Ernst & Young LLP
Los Angeles, CA
Prior to joining Ernst & Young, Linda led the client and corporate communications effort at Mullin Consulting, a premier, nationwide executive benefits consulting firm. As a writer, her work has appeared in national, regional and local publications. She has produced corporate videos, trade shows and live theater, and has represented companies such as Symantec, Canon, Sears, Ford and countless others at live events, in television commercials and in corporate films. She also served as an associate producer at WPBA-TV, a PBS affiliate in Atlanta, Georgia.
A transplant from Chicago, Linda is happy to call Los Angeles home. She is working towards her Master of Arts in Humanities at Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles.
