Joyce Aboussie, CEO of Aboussie & Associates Heads Roster at St. Louis Business Journal’s Women’s Conference
St. Louis Business Journal’s Women’s Conference, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012.
Joyce Aboussie, CEO of Aboussie & Associates 2011
This year’s conference features the rock stars of St. Louis, women who lead their companies, schools, organizations and our community. The roster is stellar. For those who think the St. Louis business world is a male bastion, think again. The keynote speaker is Brown Shoe President and CEO Diane Sullivan. It will be time to meet Laclede Group President Suzanne Sitherwood who will kick off the morning session. They’re joined by a spectrum of women leaders included in the roster below:
Joyce Aboussie, CEO of Aboussie & Associates
Barbara Archer, President & Founder of Archer Wealth Management, LLC
Erin Budde, Sr. VP, Head of Community Affairs of Wells Fargo Advisors
Maxine Clark, President of Build-A-Bear Workshop
Dr. Myrtle Dorsey, Chancellor of St. Louis Community College
Tracy Elsperman Hart, President of Tarlton Corp.
Laurna Godwin, Co-founder & Principal of Vector Communications Corp. and Board Chair of Greater St. Louis Community Foundation
Darlene Green, Comptroller of City of St. Louis
Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge, Director of Lambert International Airport
Catherine Hanaway, Partner of The Ashcroft Group, LLC
Ellen Harshman, Dean of Saint Louis
University, John Cook School of Business
Wendy Henry, Managing Partner, St. Louis & Decatur of BKD, LLP
Jan Hess, Senior Vice President of St. Luke’s Hospital
Deb Hollingsworth, Regional VP, External Affairs of AT&T
Stephanie Leffler, CEO of CrowdSource LLC
Peggy Lents, President of Lents & Associates
Linda Locke, Principal and Founder of Reputare Consulting
Lisa Lyle, Head of School of MICDS
Patricia Mercurio, President of Missouri of Bank of America
Brenda Newberry, CEO of Nesher, LLC
Kathy Osborn, Executive Director of Regional Business Council
Vicki Pohlman, CEO & Founder of PohlmanUSA
Anika Porter, Founder/Owner of Fitness with Anika
Kathleen Ratcliffe, President of St. Louis Convention & Visitors Commission
Lisa Richter, Managing Principal of Stakeholder Insights
Sally Roth, Area President, Missouri, Iowa and Western Kentucky of Regions Bank
Suzanne Sitherwood, President of Laclede Group
Julie Stackhouse, Sr. VP and Managing
Officer, Division of Banking Supervision, Discount Window Lending, and
Community Affairs of Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Dr. Elizabeth Stroble, President of Webster University
Diane Sullivan, President & CEO of Brown Shoe
Patricia Whitaker, CEO of Arcturis
Last year more than 800 women attended the conference. This year, we’re hoping for a thousand.
I hope you’ll join them by attending the conference and/or sending women you know. There are sessions on banking, philanthropy, politics, you name it. I promise you’ll learn something you can use the very next day.
Check out www.slbjwomensconference.com. It has all the registration details.
Hope to see you or a woman you know at the Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch on Jan. 18.
