A Dynamic Advisory Board Guides Our Mission

The Enterprising Women National Advisory Board is comprised of a select group of women and men who show their support for the publication and give back to the women business owners’ community — helping provide leadership, motivation and inspiration to thousands of women entrepreneurs across the United States and Canada. Board membership is reserved for the country’s top women business owners and corporate representatives, and it is considered a prestigious honor for a select group of accomplished women.

Members of the Enterprising Women National Advisory Board are called upon to offer advice in their areas of expertise to the publication’s staff on how to best tailor the publication to meet the needs of entrepreneurial women. Many Board members author articles that are published in Enterprising Women, and all are consulted periodically throughout the year for input.

All Board members are invited to participate in the annual Advisory Board meeting, which is held the day of the Enterprising Women of the Year Awards Gala. This meeting provides the magazine’s editorial staff with valuable input. Our Board also gathers informally throughout the year at key conferences and events targeted to women entrepreneurs.

Enterprising Women National Advisory Board members are asked to become the eyes and ears of the publication as they go about their work throughout the year. Board members often supply the editorial team with ideas about outstanding women entrepreneurs to be profiled in the publication, make the publication staff aware of important events or conferences where the magazine should have a presence, and generally promote the publication within their network of business associates and friends.

The Board has become a powerful networking tool for the women and men who participate. The leaders of the major non-profit organizations that support women’s business enterprises each have representation on the National Advisory Board. Over 100 high-level women entrepreneurs are also on the Board, providing a diversity of ideas from a cross-section of businesses and industries.

Corporate support has also been important to the Advisory Board. Many of the leading corporations that support women entrepreneurs have representatives on our Board, including United Parcel Service, American Airlines, IBM, OPEN from American Express, the Walt Disney Company, The Coca Cola Company, FedEx, Bank of America, and others.

Board membership is available at two levels: a Platinum Level annual membership at $10,000, which includes three full-page, four-color ads that the member may choose to run in Enterprising Women or donate to a non-profit organization, and a Gold Level annual membership at $5,000, which includes three half-page, four-color ads that may also be run in the magazine or donated to a non-profit for use anytime in the coming year. Some members elect not to use the advertising included with their membership, but all benefit from the excellent PR that Board membership generates for their business.

Many Board members tell us that the alliance that exists between Board members is one of the most valuable benefits of Board membership. Each has made it clear that they are willing to give back to support the growth of the women business owners’ community and to mentor and provide leadership to other women. Board members become better acquainted with the businesses of other Board members, and they are often able to use these alliances to grow their own businesses.

To learn more about the Enterprising Women National Advisory Board and the qualifications for membership, please contact Publisher/CEO Monica Smiley at 919-362-1551 or e-mail her at msmiley@enterprisingwomen.com.

The Enterprising Women National Advisory Board

Roz Alford
ASAP Staffing LLC
www.asap-staff.com

Ann Marie Almeida
Association of Women's Business Centers
www.awbc.biz

Leslie Atkins
LA Communications, LLC
www.corporatestorytellers.com

Alta Baker
Safe Haven Enterprises
www.safehavenenterprise.com

Tina Teree Baker
Cadence Group
www.cadence-group.com

Nancy Freeman Balkcom
MySupplies
www.mysupplies.com

Robert Bard
Latina Style
www.latinastyle.com

Susan Phillips Bari
The Susan Bari Company
www.thesusanbaricompany.com

Jaki Baskow
Baskow & Associates
www.baskow.com

Jennifer Bisceglie
InTEROS Solutions, Inc.
www.interos.net

Lori Blaker
Technical Training Inc./TTi Global
www.ttinao.com

Gloria Bohan
Omega World Travel
www.owt.net

Johnnie B. Booker and Eyvon C. Austin
The Coca-Cola Company
www.coke.net/supplierdiversity

Kristina Bouweiri
Reston Limousine
www.restonlimo.com

Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
www.mmimarketing.com

Leah Brown
ATEN Solutions, Inc.
www.atensolutions.com

Susie Duboe Bryant
Hinsdale Furriers
www.hinsdalefurriers.com

Elaine Buxton
Confero
www.conferoinc.com

Lana Calloway
Exhibit Resources
www.exhibitresources.com

Mary Cantando
WomanBusinessOwner.com
www.womansadvantage.biz

Lena Claxton and Alison Woo
New Media Mavens
www.newmediamavens.com

Angelika P. Coghlan
Catwalk Consulting
www.catwalkconsulting.com

Faye E. Coleman, PhD
Westover Consultants
www.westover.com

Jennifer Collins
The Event Planning Group, LLC
www.tepgevents.com

Louise Collis
Willowtec
www.willowtec.com

Kim Cooper
Desert Fleet-Serv, Inc.
www.desertfleet-serv.com

Carol Curran
Phoenix Data Corporation
www.phoenixdatacorporation.com

Michelle D’Souza
Unified Business
Technologies, Inc.
www.ubtus.com

Yaeko de Hiraoka
Mensajeros de la Paz
www.hiraoka.com.pe

Sherre L. DeMao
SLD Unlimited Marketing/PR, Inc.
www.sldunlimited.com

Nancy Denker
Focus Ink, Inc.
www.focusink.com

Linda J. Denny
Women’s Business Enterprise National Council
www.wbenc.org

Harriet Diamond
Author, writer, speaker
www.harrietdiamond.net

Mary Ardapple Dierker
Apple’s Bakery, Inc.
www.applesbakery.com

Diane DiResta
DiResta Communications, Inc.
www.diresta.com

Michelle Thompson Dolberry
OPEN from American Express
www.OPEN.com/women

Karen Druziako
Principal Asset
www.principalasset.com

Renée L. Duff, Esq.
Renée L. Duff, P.C.
www.rldpc.com

Kathy Durfee
TechHouse
www.tech-house.com

Carey Earle
Green Apple Marketing
www.greenapplemarketing.com

Rosalie Stackman Edson
Meadows Office Furniture Co. Inc.
www.meadowsoffice.com

Damali Curry Edwards
Conscious Recruiting, Inc.

Lynne Marie Finn
Superior Staff Resources, Inc.
www.superiorstaffresources.com

Marsha Firestone, PhD
Women Presidents’ Organization
www.womenpresidentsorg.com

Judy Fourie

J. Fourie & Company, Inc.
www.jfourie.com


Edie Fraser
Diversity Practice/Diversified Search Ray & Berndtson
www.diversifiedsearch.com


Leslie Frécon
LFE Capital
www.lfecapital.com


Carolyn Gable
New Age Transportation, Distribution & Warehousing, Inc.
www.newagetransportation.com

Joan Killian Gallagher
Warden-Brooks, Ltd.
www.wardenbrooks.com

Jena Gardner
JG Black Book of Travel
www.blackbook.travel

Julie Garella
Citigroup Capital Strategies
www.citigroupcapitalstrategies.com

Lea-Ann Germinder
Germinder and Associates, Inc.
www.germinder.com

Jean M. Gianfagna
Gianfagna Marketing
www.gianfagnamarketing.com

Naomi Glaser
Valera Global
www.valeraglobal.com

Nancy Aber Goshow
Goshow Architects
www.goshow.com

Ludy Green
Second Chance Employment Services
www.scesnet.org


Leslie Grossman and Andrea March
Women’s Leadership Exchange
www.womensleadershipexchange.com

Celeste Gudas
24 Seven Inc.
www.24seveninc.com

Donna Gutman
Women of the World
www.womenwotw.org

Debra J. Guzov
Guzov Ofsink, LLC
www.golawintl.com

Sharon G. Hadary
Sharon Hadary & Co.
www.sharonhadary.com

Janice Hamilton
JMH Education
www.jmheducation.com

Helen Han
National Association of Women Business Owners
www.nawbo.org

Sandra Hansen
Rock Solid Motion/AgVenture Feeds
www.rocksolidmotion.com

Rose Harr
BlueWare, Inc.
http://blueware.us

Lani Hay
Lanmark Technology, Inc.
www.lmt-inc.com

Gloria B. Herndon
G.B. Herndon and Associates
www.gbh-associates.com

 

Joseph D. Hill
Bank of America
www.bankofamerica.com/suppliers

Deborah Hodges
Crown LSP Group
www.crownlspgroup.com


Beverly A. Holmes

Center for Women's Business Research
www.womensbusinessresearch.org

Kathy Homeyer
United Parcel Service
www.ups.com

Monique A. Honaman
ISHR Group
www.ishrgroup.com


Marion Hook
Adobe Rose Inn LLC
www.aroseinn.com

Letty Hudson
Chicago Mini Bus Travel, Inc.
www.chicagominibustravel.com

Julie B. Kampf
JBK Associates, Inc.
www.jbkassociates.net

Barbara Kasoff
Women Impacting Public Policy
www.wipp.org

Karen Kerrigan
Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council/
Women Entrepreneurs Inc.
www.sbsc.org


Sung-Joo Kim

Sungjoo Group
www.sungjoogroup.com

Margery Kraus
APCO Worldwide
www.apcoworldwide.com

Terri Krivosha
Maslon Edelman Borman & Brand, LLP
www.maslon.com

Diane Kuehn
VisionPoint Marketing
www.visionpointmarketing.com

Jeffrey A. Landers
Bedrock Divorce Advisors, LLC
www.bedrockdivorce.com

Patricia A. Laus
The Atlantic Club
www.theatlanticclub.com

Virginia Littlejohn and Elizabeth A. Vazquez
Quantum Leaps, Inc.
www.quantumleapsinc.org


Michele McGough
solutions4networks
www.s4nets.com


Wanda McKenzie
IBM
www.ibm.com


Sherri Macko and Belinda Pridgen
American Airlines
www.aa.com/supplierdiversity


Lynn Macrone & Lois Moran
JUICE Pharma Worldwide
www.juicepharma.com


Francine Manilow
Manilow Suites, Inc.
www.manilowsuites.com


Patricia Massey
Myca Multimedia & Training Solutions
www.mycatrain.com


Lisa Matthews
Winslow, Evans & Crocker, Inc.
www.winslowevanscrocker.com

Tanya Matthews
TMG Construction Corporation
www.tmgworld.com

Patricia May

TEMBUA – The Precision Language Solution
www.precisionlanguages.com

Nell Merlino

Count Me In
www.countmein.org

Martha Mertz
Athena International
www.marthamertz.com

Amy Millman
Springboard Enterprises
www.springboardenterprises.org

Judi Sheppard Missett
Jazzercise, Inc.
www.jazzercise.com

Terry Neese
The Institute for Economic Empowerment of Women
www.ieew.org

Sheila H. Ogle
MRPP, Inc
www.mrppinc.com
The Matthews House, LLC
www.matthews-house.com

Sheri L. Orlowitz
Shan Industries, LLC
www.shanindustries.com

Lisa Pineiro
Technical Services, Inc.
www.technicalservicesinc.biz

Norma Polcek
Samco
www.samologo.com

Debra Politte
Dieb Enterprises
www.mwassoc.com

Patricia Pope
Pope & Associates
www.popeandassociates.com

Mary Quigg
Vandover
www.vandover.com

Hedy M. Ratner
Women’s Business Development Center
www.wbdc.org

Susan Rector
Schottenstein Zox & Dunn
www.szd.com

Diana Richards
Vacuum Systems International, Inc.
www.vacuumhelpline.com

Karen Rogers
FedEx
www.fedex.com

Leeanna Román
Providence Pediatric
www.providencenj.com

Manishi Sagar
Kinderville Group
www.kinderville.com

Hallie Satz
HighRoad Press, LLC
www.highroadpress.com

Leslie Saunders
Leslie Saunders Insurance & Marketing International
www.lsimi.com

Mary Schnack
Communication Bridges/Up From the Dust
www.maryschnack.com

Valerie Shondel

Selecto-Flash, Inc.
www.selectoflash.com

Donna Shultz
Mirror Show Management
www.mirrorshowmanagement.com

Maria de Lourdes Sobrino
Lulu’s Dessert Inc.
www.luludessert.com

Susan Solovic
SBTV.com
www.sbtv.com

Susan Soltis
Datascope, Inc.
www.datascope.com

Nicolina Stewart
Capital Management Advisors, Inc. www.cmaadvisors.net

Shelly Sun
24-7 Brightstar Healthcare LLC
www.247brightstar.com

Matt Thursam
Walt Disney World
http://MinorityBusiness.wdwPublicAffairs.com


Paula Turner
Lexair Electronics
www.lexairsales.com

Donna Vandiver
The Vandiver Group, Inc.
www.vandivergroup.com

Lucie Voves
Church Hill Classics
www.diplomaframe.com

Marnie Walker
401 Bay Centre
www.401bay.com

Gail Warrior-Lawrence
The Warrior Group
www.warrior-group.net

Betsy Weaver
TPR Media LLC
www.tprmedia.com

Julie R. Weeks
Womenable
www.womenable.com

Lisa Wehr
Oneupweb
www.oneupweb.com

Diane Williams
Precision Tube Bending
www.precision-tube-bending.com

Bonnie Wong
Asian Women in Business
www.awib.org

Sandra Yancey
eWomenNetwork.com
www.ewomennetwork.co

Jade Zhou

America-China Women Business Alliance
www.acbwa.org

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