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