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Join WBL to celebrate 10 Years on November 2, 2011 in Washington!
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Join WBL on November 2, 2011 in Washington, DC to celebrate 10 years of the WBL Foundation!
WBL’s July Boston Business Mission Event!
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WBL Works to Diversify Corporate Boards and Facilitate Connectivity in Health Care Industry
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Beginning March 23, WBL will host a gathering of 175 Board Members, CEOs and other senior executive level women from the $2 trillion health care industry at the 2011 WBL Summit in Washington, DC. The WBL Summit is the only industry-wide meeting of senior level women from the health care industry.
New Email Addresses!
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WBL is excited to announce new email addresses and a new website address (http://www.wbl.org) for the WBL Foundation!
Food for Thought - 20% Corporate Diversity in Kansas City by 2015?
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Last week, WBL Founder & President was invited to speak at the launch of the Win | Win initiative, led by the Central Exchange and supported by the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, the Kansas City Area Development Council, University of Missouri - Kansas City’s Bloch School, the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, and the Kauffman Foundation. The Central Exchange is a membership organization in the Kansas City area supporting women by providing leadership development, business skills enhancement, and access to valuable resources, across all industries and career levels.
The win| win campaign was launched after a study by The Central Exchange found that women made up only 7% of board members and 7% of executives in the Kansas City region’s top 39 public companies. Lagging behind US Fortune 500 companies by nearly 50%, Win|Win set an ambitious goal of raising that 7% number to 20% by 2015. To learn more visit http://www.winwinkc.com.
WBL - Here’s to Us 2010-2
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WBL Here’s to Us - 2010-2
Congratulations to the following WBL Foundation Associates on their outstanding achievements and the achievements of their companies in the following four categories: Awards & Recognitions, Horizontal Advancement, Vertical Advancement, and Publications/In the News.
HORIZONTAL ADVANCEMENT™
WBL Foundation Associate Esther Emard, Chief Operating Officer, National Committee of Quality Assurance has been elected to the Board of Directors of VNA of Care New England. VNA of Care New England is a non-profit, Medicare-certified home care and hospice agency serving adults and senior citizens across Rhode Island since 1908.
WBL Foundation Associate Carole Fisher, President and CEO, Nathan Adelson Hospice has been elected to the Board of Directors of Nevada Executive Women in Healthcare. Nevada Executive Women in Healthcare is dedicated to being a dynamic community of women health care executives in southern Nevada, who encourage and inspire each other throughout the development of their careers.
WBL Foundation Associate Vicky Gregg, President and CEO, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has recently been named Chair of the Board of Directors of AHIP, America’s Health Insurance Plans. AHIP’s Board of Directors is comprised of CEOs of leading health insurance plans from across the nation. For the full press release, click here.
Vicky was a recent speaker at the WBL dinner at Conservation Hall in Nashville and participated in the Leadership Health Care panel by Nashville Health Care Council on “Managing Change in an Era of Reform.”
Upcoming Here’s to Us - Send Recent Career Announcements Now!
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Upcoming Here’s to Us - Send Recent Career Announcements Now!
WBL Foundation Associates:
We will be sending out our quarterly edition of Here’s to Us in a month. Please send me your recent career achievements and announcements to include by Friday, July 2nd at acolburn@ebglaw.com
Thank you!
Adrienne
WBL - Announcement and Here’s to Us 2010-1
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We would like to take the opportunity to announce that Adrienne Colburn, Strategic Relations Coordinator at the WBL Foundation, will be leaving WBL to pursue her career in Austin, Texas. Adrienne has been with the Foundation since October 2007. We will miss working with her as we are sure many of you will as well. Adrienne will be staying with WBL until June 2010 to ensure a smooth transition and will remain a resource to WBL and our Foundation Associates for several months. We hope you will join us in wishing Adrienne all the best for a wonderfully successful career, and we hope that those of you in Austin will consider reaching out to her.
WBL Here’s to Us – 2010 – 1
Congratulations to the following WBL Foundation Associates on their outstanding achievements and the achievements of their companies in the following four categories:
HORIZONTAL ADVANCEMENT™
WBL Foundation Associate Donna Cryer, JD, Chief Executive Officer, CryerHealth has been selected for a five year term to serve as a patient representative and consultant to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and will serve as a member of the Gastrointestinal Drug Advisory Committee.
WBL Foundation Associate and WBL Advisory Board Member Ginger L. Graham, President and CEO, Two Trees Consulting and Former CEO, Amylin Pharmaceuticals has been elected to the Board of Directors of Walgreen Co. effective May 1. Ginger becomes the board’s 10th member. Walgreens is the nation’s largest drugstore chain with fiscal 2009 sales of $63 billion.
WBL Foundation Associate and WBL Advisory Board Member Carrie Harrie-Muller, Chief Administrative Officer, Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic States Region, recently joined the Healthcare Advisory Board of Pinstripe, Inc., a human resources and recruitment outsourcing company. Carrie was introduced to this opportunity through a WBL board search opportunity. WBL Foundation Associate Jill Schwieters, President, Pinstripe Healthcare used WBL as a resource for finding candidates for this board opportunity.
WBL Tours the National Museum of Health and Medicine
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A small group of DC based (and several Nashville based) Foundation Associates were lucky to get a private tour of the National Museum of Health and Medicine on the Walter Reed campus in DC. Although the companies of those attending represented the future of medicine, the group learned about the past—“plagues that changed history”, battlefield surgery (both during the Civil War and now, in Iraq), and the final hours of Abraham Lincoln. We also saw the first ever heart monitor that began to allow doctors to practice medicine and monitor conditions away from the bedside. The tour is one of several exciting events WBL is beginning to plan for Foundation Associates in the DC area. The group was joined by several more for dinner at a restaurant in Silver Spring for more networking opportunities.
(Pictured: Foundation Associates pose with a disease mask used during an outbreak and Foundation Associates study the historical artifacts of Abraham Lincoln’s death.)
WBL hosts BYOCC Dinner in Tel Aviv, Israel
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WBL was proud to host another BYOCC Dinner in Tel Aviv, Israel on January 18, 2010. In 2007, WBL took a group on a business mission to Israel, which was a great kickoff for the BYOCC’s. Three years later, there are now almost 80 Israeli Foundation Associates! WBL plans to return again with a group in 2011, but in the meantime, we hope to see you at future BYOCC dinners. Thanks to all who joined us!