Barbara Rosenbaum Addresses "Conquering Your Fears" at Teleseminar

Jan. 17, 2012 - PRLog -- Barbara Rosenbaum, a senior partner at Santa Monica-based Gumbiner Savett, Inc., and a long-time advocate of women’s advancement in the accounting and financial industry, will participate as a guest speaker in a Jan. 18 TeleSeminar series presented by Women’s Wisdom Exchange. Part of the seminar’s “Dialogue with Extraordinary Women,” which will be broadcast globally, Rosenbaum’s participation focuses on her professional and personal experiences and how she has been able to face her fears and challenges and find inner strength and inspiration that has shaped her life.

An avid adventurer who lives by the philosophy that life is too short to be held back by fears, Rosenbaum had battled her own fears, which included public speaking and sharks. For Rosenbaum, whose fear of sharks is traced back to her childhood, her way of conquering this fear was a swimming expedition in 2008 which took her to the Pacific Ocean and skin-diving with man-eating sharks. When asked to be the co-chair of a large women’s event that required public speaking, a task that usually made Rosenbaum sick to her stomach, she tackled her fear head-on and agreed to the challenge by working with a coach and practicing diligently for the event.

A leader and coach to many of the women and men at Gumbiner Savett, Rosenbaum is active in both the business and charitable communities. Her leadership has taken her to different challenges, such as her efforts to take her department paperless, despite opposition.

In the TeleSeminar, Rosenbaum will also discuss how volunteerism and mentoring has brought great fulfillment to her life. She is an active member on several not-for-profit education organizations including a position on the board for the Women’s Leadership Council where she mentors young women from the inner city, a trustee of the Miriam School for Gifted Children, Trustee for the California Association of Certified Public Accountants Education Foundation, and the L.A. Advisory Board for Golden Gate University School of Tax.

Rosenbaum’s lecture, “Swimming with the Sharks,” is the second of three in the series for Women’s Wisdom Exchange and will be broadcast globally to countries including the U.S., Japan, India, Italy, Australia and England on January 18 at noon PST (3 p.m. EST). Registration is free: www.womenswisdomexchange.com

To schedule an interview with Barbara Rosenbaum or for more specific information, please contact Erik Hamilton (ehamilton@hoytorg.com) or Medha Paliwal (mpaliwal@hoytorg.com) at (310) 373-0103.

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