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Keynote speaker for 2008 is sponsored by NSWC Federal Credit Union.

Hilary Fordwich

Crystallize Your Future with Five Cs -- Communication, Candor, Concern, Competence, and Connection
Hilary Bruggen Fordwich, President
Strelmark LLC, Business Development Consultants

Hilary Bruggen Fordwich, president and founder of Strelmark, a business development consultanting corporation, has spent more than 25 years helping service firms gain and retain clients and grow their businesses. A national expert in business development, strategic association building, and client relationship management, she has traveled the globe teaching professionals in service organizations and knowledge-based industries how to tap the power of relationships. The Mary Washington graduate has presented to and worked with Fortune 1000 professional-service firms and groups that include the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, National Press Foundation, the PGA Merchandise Show, Greater Washington Board of Trade, Commercial Real Estate Women, and Microsoft’s Annual Marketers Conference.


Previous keynote speakers:

2007      Belle Wheelan, President
Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
 “I Am Woman, Watch Me Lead”

2006    Dolores “Dee’ Esser, Commissioner,
Virginia Employment Commission,
“Women Change the Workforce”

2005    Mary E. Lacey, Program Executive Officer,
National Security Personnel System,
"Transforming the Workplace: Leading and Sustaining Change”       

2004    Senator Linda “Toddy” Puller
“Women’s Leadership in Challenging Times”

2003    Ambassador Frances D. Cook
“Why Women Make Good Leaders”

2002    The Honorable Sandra Dixon Bowen
Virginia Secretary of Administration

2001    Judge Janice J. Brice (first woman and African-American named to Prince William bench)
  “Finding Your Passion and Making it Work For You”

2000    Belle Wheelan, Virginia Secretary of Education
“The Leadership Journey”

1999    Jean Clary
“FutureThink for Women:  Leadership Skills for the New Millennium”

1998    Jan Alpert, president, LandAmerica

1997    Jana W. Yeates, Inc. Magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year 

1996    The Honorable Mary Sue Terry, Attorney General of Virginia

1995    Annette Gibbs, University of Virginia’s Director of the Center for the Study of Higher Education
“Leadership:  Balancing Voices and Choices”

1994    Bonnie Guiton Hill, special presidential advisor for consumer affairs and director of the U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs
“The Leadership Challenge”