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

NEW YORK (January 28, 2002) - The second event in the Womenfuture Exchange Series, which brings together select groups of world-class leaders for conversations on a variety of important topics, convened today at The New York Stock Exchange to discuss leadership in turbulent times. Noreen Culhane, Executive Vice President, New York Stock Exchange, Catherine Kinney, President, Co-Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice Chairman, and Susan W. Bird, CEO, Womenfuture, co-hosted the event, and the conversation was jump-started by Pamela Thomas-Graham, President and CEO of CNBC and Ms. Kinney. Among the issues discussed by a wide array of senior business leaders was the concept of "360 degree leadership," central to the vision of Womenfuture.

"360 degree leadership is a new way to approach the future, encompassing several intersecting concepts," said Susan W. Bird, CEO of Womenfuture. "It says that leaders at their best draw upon all aspects of their personalities, as well as the full range of their experience and expertise, as appropriate to the situation and context; That leaders at their best continually seek to increase the circumference of their circles of personal knowledge and experience by maintaining a curiosity of the world around them, regardless of the source of information; That a company led by leadership at its best, strives to exploit all the skills of its workforce, awarding talent and risk-taking in every employee, regardless of gender, background and experience, and; That such a company considers itself a global citizen, seeking to circumnavigate the globe to find new markets and new talent, regardless of geography."

Attendees at the lunch included: Myrna Blyth, Editor-in-Chief, Ladies Home Journal; Maura Breen, SVP & Chief Marketing Officer, Verizon; Susan Butler, Managing Director, Accenture; Betsy Cohen, Chairman, Rait Investment Trust; Dede DeRosa, SVP and COO, Lincoln Financial Group; Dimity Giles, Managing Director and Partner, Violy, Byorum & Partners; Karen Gordon Mills, Managing Director, Solera Capital; Sue Herera, Anchor, CNBC's "Business Center;" Jennifer Howze, Managing Editor, Work Channel, Money Channel, iVillage; Catherine Jessup, CFO, The Topps Company; Jenette Kahn, President & Editor-in-Chief, DC Comics; Candace Kendle, Chairman & CEO, Kendle International, Inc.; Ellen Kullman, Group Vice President & General Manager, DuPont; Dave Moran, President, Fusion 5; Kathleen Moriarty, Partner, Carter, Ledyard & Milburn; Holly Taylor Sargent, Sr. Associate Dean for Strategy and External Relations, Harvard University; Muriel Siebert, Chair & President, Muriel Siebert & Co., Inc.; and, Jane Warner, Managing Director, EDS.

On November 12, 2001, Womenfuture and the New York Stock Exchange hosted the first Womenfuture Exchange event. The November gathering discussed how American companies are leading business forward post-September 11. Featured speakers included Heidi G. Miller, Vice Chairman of Marsh Inc., the world's leading risk and insurance services firm, whose offices were located in One World Trade Center, and Marilyn Jordan Taylor, Chairman, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP, the architecture firm supervising plans for rebuilding the Financial District.

Womenfuture creates global networks through live events, interactive webcasts, video programming and customized panel discussions. Conversation is at the heart of Womenfuture's content which connects people around the world with extraordinary leaders that inspire others to lead, giving individuals and corporations the opportunity to engage in affecting change in themselves and the world in which they work.

On April 11, 2002, Womenfuture will host its third annual MainEvent, a day-long, interactive, Global Town Hall on key topics of leadership, combining the latest in technology with more traditional opportunities for networking, on both a local and global scale in corporate locations around the world and on hundreds of college and university campuses.

For more information visit www.womenfuture.com or call (917) 452-0290.

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