Dr. Sheila Murray Bethel
Business Savvy and People Recognized Excellence… A master at targeting her presentations for you, Sheila addresses relevant trends and offers powerful, practical guidance.

Topics Include:
Leading Under Pressure---Making A Difference
Customer Focus Completes Your Brand
The Message, The Messenger and the Magic

Geraldine A. Ferraro
Geraldine A. Ferraro earned a place in history as the first woman vice-presidential candidate on a national party ticket. Ferraro was first elected to Congress from New York’s Ninth Congressional District in Queens in 1978 and served three terms in the House of Representatives. In Congress, Ferraro spearheaded efforts to achieve passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. She also sponsored the Women’s Economic Equity Act, which ended pension discrimination against women, provided job options for displaced homemakers and enabled homemakers to open IRA’s. Ferraro was appointed the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission by President Clinton in 1994 and currently serves in that position. Ms. Ferraro was a featured speaker on CNN’s "Crossfire" representing the left.

Mavis Leno
Mavis Nicholson Leno is the Chair of the Feminist Majority Foundation’s Campaign to Help Afghan Women and Girls, and has been the United States’ most outspoken critic of the Taliban’s horrific treatment of women. Leno joined the Board of Directors of the Feminist Majority Foundation in 1997, after playing an active role in the effort to defeat Proposition 209, the anti-affirmative action initiative on the 1996 California ballot.

Leno assumed her role as Chair of the Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan in 1997, less than one year after the Taliban’s brutal treatment of women began. She testified on gender apartheid in March 1998 before Senator Diane Feinstein of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and has consistently urged the Clinton and Bush Administrations as well as the U.S. Congress to do more to restore women’s human rights in Afghanistan. 

Recent television appearances include Larry King Live, The Today Show, CNN with Paula Zahn, Hardball with Chris Mathews, MSNBC Nightly News and the Tonight Show. Mavis has also been featured in articles in TIME, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Vanity Fair, US Magazine and People Magazine.

Topic:  A Voice for Silenced Women

Michele Norris (born September 7, 1961) is an American radio journalist and current host of the National Public Radio evening news program All Things Considered, which she began hosting on December 9, 2002. Before coming to NPR, Norris was a correspondent for ABC News, a post she held from 1993–2002. She also wrote for The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times. A Minnesota native, Norris originally attended the University of Wisconsin, where she studied electrical engineering, and graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in journalism.

Governor Barbara Roberts
In November of 1990 Barbara Roberts was elected as Oregon’s first woman governor. During her four-year term (1991-1995), Governor Roberts was recognized as a strong advocate for environmental management, for human and civil rights and for creative workforce development.  In December of 1998 former Oregon governor Barbara Roberts joined Portland State University’s Hatfield School of Government's Executive Leadership Institute as associate Director of leadership development. Her first major leadership program operation in September of 1999 and is called the "Legacy Program." 

Speaking topics are: Women in Leadership Making a Difference -focus on women in politics; Leadership; Citizen Advocacy and Active Community Service; and Death and Grieving. Strong preference to West Coast and Mountain States (Oregon, Washington, California, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada.

Madame Jehan Sadat
A world figure and widow of the late Egyptian President, Anwar Sadat, Madame Sadat has been active in the women’s movement both in her own country and in the world. She was responsible for the Egyptian Civil Rights Law which resulted in more rights for women. A long time political activist, Madame Sadat worked closely with her husband in his quest for peace. She is a teacher and a poetry scholar and has also worked for the eradication of world illiteracy. In Egypt, Madame Sadat initiated the idea for, and developed the SOS Children’s Villages, designed to help orphans lead a normal family life. She has represented the Arab-African nations at The International Women’s Conference in Mexico City. In addition, she has addressed The United Nations and is indeed a “messenger of peace.” Ms. Sadat teaches at the University of Maryland and has received honorary doctoral degrees in Humanities from universities worldwide. Topic: Women and Peace.

Topics Include:
Women and Peace

Patricia Schroeder
First elected to Congress in 1972, Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder is the longest-serving woman in the House of Representatives, being reelected eleven times. The Congresswoman retired from her post in January 1997 , and, following a semester of teaching at Princeton University, began a new job as president and chief executive of the Association of American Publishers, the trade group for the publishing industry, in June 1997. A true political maverick, Congresswoman Schroeder has been an outspoken independent voice within the Democratic Party. She has been a leader on foreign and military policy, arms control and disarmament, women’s economic equality and health, educational opportunity, constitutional rights, and policies that affect children, women and families.

Paula Zahn
Anchor of the Fox News Network's "The Edge," Paula Zahn has interviewed world leaders, politicians and other newsmakers in the U.S. and abroad. She covers national and international affairs and has hosted segments on "48 Hours," CBS Sunday Morning" and many prime time specials on breaking news stories. Zahn was co-anchor of "CBS, This Morning" for six years. She returned to CBS in 1990 after working at ABC News for two and a half years. While at KCBS in Los Angeles, she received an Emmy Award for her reporting on the mid-air collision of an Aeromexico jet and a private plane over Cerritos, California.