NAWMBA Conference Sponsors and Speakers Announced

Aug. 2, 2011 - PRLog -- The National Association of Women MBAs (NAWMBA) announces the 2011 Conference and Career Fair sponsors and speakers. Walmart returns as a fourth year conference sponsor and has committed an additional $10,000 towards the Women MBAs Scholarship program. Additional sponsors include Intel, Ernst & Young, Ford Motor Company, and Northwestern Mutual.

This year’s conference theme - Are You Ready?- will be addressed by the following keynote speakers:
Entrepreneur, CEO, and writer Margaret Heffernan will express her motto: "Let's not play the game, let's change it." The author of Willful Blindness, Women on Top, and The Naked Truth has led an impressive career which began as a writer for the BBC, and grew to producing documentaries and dramatic films. Later she developed interactive multimedia products which led to buying and selling leading internet businesses, serving as Chief Executive Officer for InfoMation Corporation, ZineZone Corporation and iCAST Corporation. Margaret blogs for the Huffington Post and BNET and writes for Fast Company, Real Business, MORE, and other magazines around the world.

Named "The Entrepreneurial Guru for Women" by Business News Daily, Ali Brown is known as the voice for women's entrepreneurial success. Since starting her first business 11 years ago in her tiny NYC apartment, she's grown her enterprise into the millions and wants to show NAWMBA members how to grow a profitable business as well. As founder and CEO of Ali International LLC, Ali has created a dynamic enterprise that is devoted to empowering women entrepreneurs around the world and currently has over 50,000 members in her online and offline programs.

Ginger Hardage, Senior Vice President Culture & Communications Southwest Airlines presents leadership as "Communicating the Mission, supporting your team with the necessary resources, and getting out of their way so they can achieve great things." PRWeek has named Ginger one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Public Relations; she was distinguished as one of Texas' Most Powerful and Influential Women in 2010; received the National Public Relations Achievement Award in 2009; was named "Legendary Communicator" by Southern Methodist University in 2007; and was selected for the James C. Bowling Executive-In-Residence Lecture Series at the University of Kentucky in 2005.

The 2011 Conference and Career Fair has been designed to assist women, both students and professionals, as they continue along the journey to develop and enhance their leadership skills. Held at the Irving Convention Center, online registration is available at http://www.mbawomen.org/conference.

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The National Association of Women MBAs (NAWMBA) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to empowering women MBAs in order to propel more women into leadership positions in corporate America and to enhance the diversity of the nation's workforce.