Ivanka Trump Keynote Speaker at 2015 Business Women's Forum October 23 in Connecticut

WATERBURY, Conn. - March 23, 2015 - PRLog -- Ivanka Trump, executive vice president of Development & Acquisitions for The Trump Organization and creator of #WomenWhoWork will be the keynote speaker at the 2015 Business Women’s Forum (BWF) (www.2015bwf.com) along with Juliet Funt, owner and founder of WhiteSpace at Work who will deliver the morning keynote under the event theme, “Making It All Work”. This 33^rd annual BWF is Connecticut’s longest-running, full-day conference for women and the more than 500 anticipated attendees from throughout New England will participate in a full day of networking, workshops, breakfast, lunch and a closing reception which will be held Friday, October 23 at the Aqua Turf Club in Plantsville from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Celebrating 33 years of notable success, the non-profitBWF is a program of the Greater Waterbury Chamber of Commerce Foundation in Waterbury, Connecticut. The thriving organization is led by female executives dedicated to the professional and personal growth of working women. BWF’s mission has been to raise funds for scholarships for female Post University students to pursue degrees in business. “The BWF’s continual commitment has been to the equality of opportunity and advancement for women in business,” explained Lynn Ward, a BWF Director and Waterbury Regional Chamber President and CEO. “During the past 32 years, the BWF has generated in excess of $190,000 toward those scholarships.”

“For more than three decades,” commented Ward, “BWF events have helped business women across Connecticut enhance their small to medium-sized companies as well as their personal careers. We are truly excited to welcome Ivanka Trump, who is one of the most recognized and influential young business women in the world today. She spearheads global expansion of The Trump Organization, along with her brothers Donald, Jr. and Eric, and is currently working on over 70 new and ongoing projects for the organization worldwide.

We are also very delighted to welcome Juliet Funt who is the daughter of the famous creator of the widely-popular ‘Candid Camera’ TV show, Allen Funt. Juliet is a nationally-recognized expert in business strategy and coping with the current age of overload in which we all live and work. She brings a good deal of humor and energy to her motivational presentations and will be the opening speaker at the October 23^rd BWF.”

2015 BWF’s luncheon keynote speaker Ivanka Trump is author of “The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life”, and involved in all aspects of real estate development for The Trump Organization with a focus on bringing the Trump Hotel Collection brand to the global market. Trump is a board member of the publicly-traded Trump EntertainmentResorts, and  is the youngest person to sit on a publicly-traded board in the United States. She is also principal of the Ivanka Trump Jewelry luxury diamond jewelry line, and stars on NBC-TV’s widely successful “Celebrity Apprentice”, and previously appeared as an advisor on NBC-TV’s Emmy nominated, globally-syndicated “The Apprentice”, and was a guest judge on Bravo TV’s “Project Runway”.

The 2015 BWF’s morning motivational speaker, Juliet Funt, owner and founder of WhiteSpace at Work, works with organizations to ‘flip the norms of business for the better.’ She is a nationally-recognized expert who provides thought-provoking content and immediately actionable tools for her audiences, along with a good deal of humor. A busy corporate speaker and consultant,  business owner, wife and mother, Funt is remarkably intuitive, and blends high-impact content and a keen understanding of her client’s needs into her presentations and consulting services. She works with organizations from intimate executive workshops to keynotes for audiences as large as 7,000, and her clients span a wide array of industries.

2015 BWF Chairwoman Maureen Pennington remarked, “Since its beginnings, the BWF has provided thousands of attendees with access to phenomenal speakers, networking opportunities and diverse training during a full day of activities. BWF conferences have featured such prominent, high-profile keynote speakers as Barbara Corcoran, Kathy Ireland, Elizabeth Vargas, Paula Abdul, Robin Roberts, Goldie Hawn, Jamie Lee Curtis, Suze Orman, Jane Seymour, Susan Saint James and Loretta Claiborne.

The BWF is anticipated to attract more than 500 regional businesspeople who the BWF Board is confident will benefit greatly from the highly-informative and exciting day of dynamic and accomplished speakers, professional business trainers as workshop leaders, networking opportunities and a very exciting closing reception that feature hors d’oeuvres, beverages, and many raffle and door prizes including a notable grand prize.”

Admission to the 2015 BWF  is $175/person and includes keynote presentations, six workshops, day-long networking, breakfast, lunch, and a high-energy closing reception with raffle and door prizes. To register, visit www.2015bwf.com, or call the Waterbury Regional Chamber at 203-757-0701.