Lisa Toth
+1-212-452-2182
ltoth@wf360.com

Recent coverage:

The ABC's of Authentic Conversation is featured in the 800-ceo-read blog & has recently been listed in Susan Butler's Blog as a Recommended Read

Results of Wf360 Global Values Survey in the News 
> Click here for an article that appears in Innovation in the News.

Potentials Magazine reviews Leading Questions

Successful Meetings coverage of Leading Questions

Fourth Annual 2003 Pan Arab Conference (Susan Bird in the News)

Dilemmas of working women: A key topic at the MIT Pan-Arab Conference

Accenture and Wf360 on Yahoo! (external link)

TomPeters - People & Places that ROCK (external link)

Media Bistro (external link)


Past articles:

07/15/02 FORBES MAGAZINE AND WOMENFUTURE HOST PROVOCATIVE CONVERSATION AMONG DIRECTORS AND CEOs OF LEADING COMPANIES ABOUT GLOBAL BUSINESS
Findings Indicate Top Three Issues Keeping Top Executives Up at Night Are Corporate Governance, the Economy and Work-Life Balance

03/20/02 WOMENFUTURE PRESENTS MAINEVENT 2002 TO BE WEBCAST
Participants in Hundreds of locations will participate in an Unprecedented "Global Town Hall," Interacting with International Leaders Via Live Satellite Broadcast and Ground-Breaking Webcast

01/28/02 WOMENFUTURE EXCHANGE SERIES BRINGS TOP FEMALE EXECUTIVES TOGETHER AT THE NYSE
Womenfuture and New York Stock Exchange Host Second in Series Of Candid Conversations About Leadership

11/2/01 NYSE AND WOMENFUTURE
The NYSE to host Womenfuture conversation among select group of women business leaders

09/12/01 ACCENTURE AND WOMENFUTURE
To Expand Global Gathering Of Business Leaders To Asia And Australia

03/02/01 WOMENFUTURE
Presents MainEvent 2001

5/6/02   Corriere Della Sera (Italian), La lady di silicio di Hewlett-Packard, Patricia Russo di Lucent, Anne Mulcahy di Xerox. Tre storie con un punto in comune: il mentore

12/17/01   HBS Working Knowledge, Enterprising Women

10/25/01   Australian Financial Review, Clue To Closing Gender Gap

10/25/01   Karen Miles, Learning from Leaders

09/25/01   Japantoday, Women can change world with conversations

09/20/01   WomenJapan, Susan Bird speaking in Tokyo

03/14/01   Cool Friends Hot Ideas, Susan Willett Bird

PBWC—On Wednesday, May 29, COO Maria Reiling represented Wf360 at the Professional Business Women of California’s 13th Annual Conference, in Moscone Center, San Francisco. This year’s conference was entitled "Change: Embrace the Challenge." With an attendance of 5000 participants, PBWC hosted women from all walks of life ranging from World Cup Soccer Player Brandi Chastain to Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi. Other featured speakers included Joyce Gioia (Wall Street Journal), Richard A. Moran (partner, Accenture), Lieutenant Colonel Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch, Lalita Tademy (former president of Sun Microsystems), Debra Meyerson PH.D (author of Tempered Radicals), and Nikki Tesfai PH.D (founder and president of the International African Refugee Women’s Network).

NAFE—On Saturday, June 1, Wf360’s Heather Fox attended the "30 Years of Women at Work: the 30th Anniversary of the National Association for Female Executives." Women of all fields gathered in the heart of New York City at Crowne Plaza Times Squares Manhattan hotel, in part to honor NAFE’s top 25 companies (with Avon, Scholastic, and Liz Claiborne as the leading three). The conference’s agenda was divided into two days of workshops and general assemblies, hosting panelists like Joni Daniels (principal of Daniels & Associates), Elizabeth Smith (Managing Director of IBM and a MainEvent 2002 alum), Carol Evans (former publisher of Working Mother magazine) and author Virginia O’Brien. The keynote speaker was MainEvent 2000 alum, Pat Mitchell (President and CEO, PBS).

Forbes Executive Women’s Summit—This year, Susan Bird attended The Forbes Executive Women Summit in San Francisco. A wide range of issues such as innovation and entrepreneurship, leadership in changing times, and brand and talent were discussed. Featured speakers of the 2002 summit included Jamie Gorelick (Vice Chair, Fannie Mae), Marce Fuller (President and CEO, Mirant), and featured speaker Sherron Watkins (Vice President, Enron).

Wf360 CEO Susan Bird will give the keynote address at the Women's Networking Forum on February 26, 2002 in Tokyo, Japan. Hosted by Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. (NIKKEI), the theme focuses on how to build and maintain a network that enhances your career and opportunity for advancement. The event is targeted to career-oriented working women and is expected to exceed its original attendance estimate of 400 people.

If you read Japanese, check out the Women's Networking Forum website.

ME2002 Panelist, Kathleen Bader (Business Group President; Corporate VP, Quality & Business Excellence, The Dow Chemical Company), was recently hand-picked by President George Bush to serve on the Homeland Security Advisory Council. Ms. Bader is one of only two women members of the council. Click here for more information.