In addition, the event will also focus on the importance of mentoring, and each attendee is encouraged to bring along a “mentee”, or a young woman who he or she mentors. This would be a fantastic opportunity to recognize and reward the outstanding women in your camp who are doing a phenomenal job.

Going along with the theme, The Ad Club is compiling a book of advice and we want to include your thoughts! Submit “The Best Advice You Ever Got” to be featured in our take-away book which will be available to all event attendees.

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Sheriff Cabral is responsible for the operation of the House of Correction, the Suffolk County Jail and the Civil Process Division. The Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department is the largest sheriff’s department in the Commonwealth and the 30^th largest in the United States.  It has 1,051 employees, including executive managers, corrections officers, investigators, educators, health care providers, caseworkers and administrative staff, whose primary responsibility is to provide safe care, custody, control and rehabilitative support for more than 2,700 offenders daily. The average operating budget for the Department is $122 million.

Sheriff Cabral is a member of the Massachusetts Sheriffs’ Association.  Following a two-year term as Vice President, she served as its President from 2008 – 2009.

Sheriff Cabral’s career in public service spans 23 years.  Her legal career began in 1986 where she worked as a staff attorney in the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department at the Charles Street Jail, preparing and arguing motions for bail reduction in the Suffolk Superior Court. Subsequently, she served as an assistant district attorney in both the District and Superior Courts in the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office from 1987-1991.

From 1991-1993, Sheriff Cabral was an Assistant Attorney General in the Office of the Attorney General, where she worked in the Torts Division of the Government Bureau and the Civil Rights Division of the Public Protection Bureau.  Sheriff Cabral then began work at the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office in 1993 under District Attorney Ralph C. Martin III. From 1993-1994, she was director of the Roxbury District Court Family Violence Project. As director, she prosecuted domestic violence cases (including the county’s first stalking case) and helped to establish new administrative policies and procedures for the processing of such cases in the Roxbury District Court. In March 1994, Sheriff Cabral became chief of the Domestic Violence Unit where she supervised and trained district and superior court staff in the preparation and prosecution of major domestic violence felony cases. Additionally, she indicted and prosecuted major domestic violence felony cases in Suffolk Superior Court. In 1998, Sheriff Cabral was promoted to chief of District Courts and Community Prosecutions.  In this position, she effectively developed district court policies, staff supervision and evaluation tools, training curricula and case management practices in Suffolk County’s eight district courts and the Boston Municipal Court.  Sheriff Cabral also oversaw the staffing and supervision of all district court community prosecutions programs, which included the Safe Neighborhood Initiatives and Prosecutor in Police Stations (PIPS) Programs.

Sheriff Cabral’s published works include Obtaining, Enforcing and Defending Ch.209A Restraining Orders in Massachusetts and co-authorship of the article Same Gender Domestic Violence: Strategies for Change in Creating Courtroom Accessibility.  She is on the Boards of the Mass Mentoring Partnership and the Boston History and Innovation Collaborative and a regular contributor to legal forums sponsored by the American Bar Association, the Massachusetts Bar Association, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education and the Boston Bar Association.

In addition to receiving numerous awards and honors throughout the years, in 2007, Sheriff Cabral was named an Eisenhower Fellow and traveled to Australia for a month-long study of their criminal justice system.  Eisenhower Fellows are an international network of leaders from diverse backgrounds who create and share information and best practices within a vast array of professional disciplines.

Sheriff Cabral is a graduate of Boston College and Suffolk University Law School.

Prior to her current position, Cupelo was president of Massachusetts and Rhode Island for Verizon, responsible for service earnings, government and regulatory affairs, public policy and economic development.

Prior to that, Cupelo was vice president and general manager, with accountability for Operations, Construction, Engineering, Finance, Marketing and Public Affairs for Central and Western Massachusetts.

Cupelo began her career with New England Telephone in 1978 as a market administrator supporting customer services throughout Massachusetts. She has held various leadership positions within the Sales and Marketing organizations, specializing in the Finance, Insurance, and Healthcare, Education and Government Market segments.

Cupelo is active in many business, civic and charitable organizations in both MA and RI. She is on the IT Collaborative Organizing Committee, Co-chair of the IT study committee, and on the Executive Boards of the MA Private Industry Council, MA Business Roundtable and Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. In RI, she is a member of the Executive Boards of the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce, Junior Achievement and Heritage Harbor Museum. Cupelo is a member of the Providence College President’s Council, the past Chair of Providence College’s Board of Trustees’ Finance Committee and the Providence Foundation Board. She also serves on Brown University’s Civic Leadership Board. She is the Verizon Volunteers Pioneers Denver Chapter executive sponsor.

Cupelo received a Bachelor of Science degree from Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island in 1978 and a Masters of Business Administration from Babson College, Wellesley, Massachusetts in 1982.

After launching her latest book, The Male Factor: The Unwritten Rules, Misperceptions and Secret Beliefs of Men in the Workplace, on The Today Show in January 2010, Shaunti is now speaking to corporate groups about her surprising findings. This knowledge has proven to be of great interest to talented, high-potential women in the workplace as well as to men who want to cultivate positive working relationships.  Just as if they were doing business in a foreign culture, women find knowledge of the “internal” male culture immediately valuable in overcoming obstacles they may not have been aware of before, and having the greatest possible effectiveness and influence with male bosses, colleagues, subordinates or clients.

For more information on Shaunti’s research or to explore means for further application, visit www.HumanFactorResources.com.

Today, Diane leads Communispace’s employees in building and managing the more than 350 private online customer communities the company has created for a marquee list of global corporations. Communispace’s revenues have tripled over the last four years, and the company enjoys a 90+ percent client retention rate.

Diane has spent her 30-year career helping companies become customer-focused—both as a business executive, and as co-author of the best selling book Customer-Centered Growth: Five Strategies for Building Competitive Advantage. She has received many awards and citations for her leadership and workplace innovation, including Ernst & Young’s Regional Entrepreneur of the Year, and the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Entrepreneur of the Year. In addition to her professional recognition, Diane is quoted frequently in the business media and is a highly sought-after speaker and expert in the marketing arena.

Diane has committed time and energy sitting on the boards of numerous organizations including The Business Innovation Factory, the Progressive Business Leaders Network, the Mass Technology Leadership Council Board of Trustees, Horizons for Homeless Children, The Boston Philharmonic, Stand for Children, and the Tufts Alumni Council.

A summa cum laude graduate of Tufts University, Diane received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. She is the mother of two college-age daughters and co-founder of The Sound Bytes, a cappella group that writes lyrics about business and performs at major conferences.

Best Advice:

“Therefore I shall devote myself, my time, my energy, my talents, to the service of South Africa. I shall no longer ask myself if this or that is expedient, but only if it is right. I shall do this not because I am noble or unselfish, but because life slips away and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie. I shall do this, not because I am a negrophile and a hater of my own, but because I cannot find it in me to do anything else. I am lost when I balance this against that, I am lost when I ask if this is safe, I am lost when I ask if men, white men or black men, Englishmen or Afrikaners, Gentiles or Jews, will approve. Therefore I shall try to do what is right, and to speak what is true.

I do this not because I am courageous and honest but because it is the only way to end the conflict of my deepest soul. I do it because I am no longer able to aspire to the highest with one part of myself, and to deny it with another. I do not wish to live like that, I would rather die than live like that. I understand better those who have died for their convictions, and have not thought it was wonderful or brave or noble to die. They died rather than live, that was all. Yet it would not be honest to pretend that it is solely an inverted selfishness that moves move. I am moved by something that is not my own, that moves me to do what is right, at whatever cost it may be.” Cry, The Beloved Country, Alan Patan

In recognition of her career achievements, Boston Magazine featured Ms. Kaplan on its cover as one of the most powerful women in Boston.  The magazine also named her as one of the 50 most powerful people in Boston.  In 2008, Ms. Kaplan was selected by Advertising Age for its highly coveted “Women to Watch” special report honoring the nation’s top women in advertising, marketing, and media.

Ms. Kaplan has been honored with the prestigious Pinnacle Award from the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, and was inducted into the YWCA Boston’s Academy of Women Achievers.  In 2008, Ms. Kaplan was elected President of the Massachusetts Women’s Forum, a chapter of the International Women’s Forum, an international non-political organization of pre-eminent women leaders worldwide.

Ms. Kaplan is an integral part of Hill Holliday’s commitment to the community.  She is Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, serves as a Director of the Executive Committee of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce,  member of the Board of Governors of the Chief Executives’ Club of Boston and serves on the board of the Massachusetts Conference for Women.

Ms. Kaplan is a Trustee of Fidelity Investments’ Rutland Square Trust II and Commonwealth Trust II where she serves on the audit committee and governance and nominating committee, a Director of DSM (dba Delta Dental, Doral and DentaQuest) where she chairs the nominating and governance committee and serves on the compensation and executive committees, and a member of the Corporate Board Resource Committee of The Boston Club.

On July 24th , 2008 Nancy signed to play for the Detroit Shock of the WNBA. Thus becoming the oldest player to ever play in the history of the league at the young age of 50. This breaks the previous record of 39 years old which Nancy established as a member of the Phoenix Mercury in 1997. Her rise through the ranks of professional sports and her significant contributions to women’s basketball encompasses such a rich and elaborate history. Lieberman’s distinguished career is one of monumental strength and motivation in the pursuit of becoming the greatest women’s basketball player. Her refusal to accept anything less than the best, her devotion to the sport, her relentless time and energy to the advancement of women playing professional basketball are a source of inspiration. Her quest for excellence is brilliantly diversified as a Hall of Famer, two-time Olympian, three-time All-American, WNBA coach & GM, acclaimed broadcaster for ESPN/ABC/NBA TV, motivational speaker, and esteemed writer. Nancy Lieberman represents the epitome of triumph and serves as a true pioneer for women in sports.

Lieberman’s journey began on the rough and tumble asphalt courts of Harlem, which was no small departure from her native of Queens, New York. Lieberman quickly developed a reputation as a tough and gritty basketball powerhouse while attending Far Rockaway High School. In 1974, Lieberman’s talents were illuminated on the national spotlight after garnering one of 12 coveted spots on the USA’s National Team, and a year later managed to bring home a gold and silver medal at both the World Championships and Pan American Games respectively. Prior to enrolling at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia on a full athletic scholarship, Lieberman set another landmark by becoming the youngest basketball player in Olympic History (male or female) at 18 years old, and earned a silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.

Lieberman exploded onto the college scene and would ultimately drive the Lady Monarchs to two consecutive National Championships, a WNIT Championship, and leave a lasting impact that would be near impossible to replicate. Lieberman became the first ever two-time winner of the prestigious Wade Trophy, which recognizes the “Player of the Year” in women’s college basketball. Lieberman was selected as the Broderick Award winner for basketball as the top women’s player in America, as well as received three consecutive Kodak All-American honors during her collegiate career, making her one of the most decorated female athletes in the United States.

Lieberman went on to shape the landscape and future of women’s professional basketball as player, coach and renowned analyst. Beginning her professional career with the Dallas Diamonds of the Women’s Basketball League in 1981, she quickly led her team in 1984 to the WABA Championship, while also capturing the title of league MVP. More remarkably, Lieberman is recognized as the only woman to play in an all-male league, the United States Basketball League with the Springfield Fame (1986), and Long Island Knights (1987). In 1988, Lieberman toured the world with the acclaimed Harlem Globetrotters as a member of the Washington Generals. In 1997 Lieberman came out of retirement and was drafted by the Phoenix Mercury during the inaugural season of the WNBA. During her time as a professional player, Lieberman hit several milestones including an induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a player in 1996 and in 1999 was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame as well as the NYC Basketball Hall of Fame and the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame.

After playing in the WNBA, Lieberman was named General Manager and Head Coach of the WNBA’s Detroit Shock in 1998, where she helmed the team to the highest winning percentage of any expansion team in professional sports and was runner up for coach of the year. Lieberman served as president of the Women’s Sports Foundation for two years. Thereafter, she was named head coach of the Dallas Fury of the NWBL in 2004 where she guided the team to a championship title and runner up in 2005.

Lieberman’s career progressed from playing and coaching and into national commentating, motivational speaking engagements and philanthropic endeavors. Lieberman currently serves as a full-time analyst with ESPN for men’s and women’s college basketball, as well as women’s (WNBA). In addition to ESPN, Lieberman has lent her commentary to NBA-TV as a studio analyst, and writing talents to ABC, NBC, the NFL Network, the Dallas Morning News, the New York Times and USA Today. Lieberman is an accomplished author, having penned an autobiography entitled Lady Magic and Basketball for Women, and several “how-to” videos providing instruction and advice to aspiring basketball players.

Throughout her entire career Lieberman’s progress as a successful athlete and leader was based on her boldness and ability to take positive action. She is an influential communicator and has a passion for educating athletes and business leaders to improve efficiency and attain peak performance. Lieberman’s in depth industry experience is unparalleled and it is for this reason that Lieberman is recognized as a prolific motivational speaker for Fortune 500 companies. Nancy travels around the country to conduct speaking engagements for private and public corporations, non-for profit organizations and basketball camps. She speaks on a myriad of topics such as Business and sports, Image and Self Esteem, Teamwork, Winning, Working, and Parenting.

Guiding youngsters and helping the disadvantaged has always been a passion for Lieberman and is reflected in her active involvement with the Special Olympics, the Jimmy V. Foundation (named for the late Jim Valvano), the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, and recently her work with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Lone Star Chapter. Lieberman hosts and coach’s basketball clinics and camps for girls and boys in Dallas, Detroit and Phoenix, hoping that through positive guidance and helpful instruction, can help facilitate the next generation of student athletes to success.

Lieberman’s career is a colorful one and her impact on women’s basketball and professional sport is impressive. It is only fitting that awards are given in her honor, such as the Nancy Lieberman Award, which is bestowed upon the most outstanding female point guard in NCAA Division I Basketball, and have adorned the likes of Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi, Temeka Johnson, Ivory Latta, and Lindsey Harding. Nancy Lieberman’s legacy as a mom, basketball player, Hall of Famer, coach & GM, Olympian, writer, broadcaster, and motivator will forever endure.

Throughout her career, Nell Merlino has been inspiring millions of people to take action. She is the creative force behind Take Our Daughters to Work Day, which moved more than 71 million Americans to participate in a day dedicated to giving girls the opportunity to dream bigger about their future.

Through Count Me In, Nell is now inspiring women entrepreneurs to dream big and achieve even more. She is leading a global movement to empower women entrepreneurs to grow their businesses to a million dollars and beyond by providing tools, resources, and a supportive community of their peers. Count Me In’s Make Mine a Million $ Business program reaches women entrepreneurs in communities around the country through events and on-line community. This movement will not only add millions of jobs and billions of dollars of economic activity, but take women to new levels of independence, empowering them to act as economic leaders.

Nell is also the founder and President of Strategy Communication Action, Ltd. (SCA) in New York City, a firm specializing in the creation of public education campaigns that motivate people to act. She is a member of the U.S. Department of State Advisory Committee on International Policy (ACIEP), and appointed a Pathways Envoy by the U.S. State Department to promote women’s business growth through South and North America. Prior to founding Count Me In, Merlino created campaigns like the YWCA’s The Week Without Violence, the United Nations’ Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, worked in two state governments, was an advance woman in presidential politics, a union organizer and a Fulbright Scholar.

Merlino lives in Manhattan with her husband, Gary Conger.

Marcy sits on the Boards of the New England Council, The Partnership, the Massachusetts Business Roundtable, the United Way of Central Massachusetts, the Citizens Budget Commission of New York City and BritishAmerican Business and is a member of the Rockefeller Fellows Program within the Partnership for NYC.  She is extremely active in community programs in Massachusetts and New York.  She is the global executive sponsor for National Grid’s Women in Networks employee affinity group.

Marcy is a graduate of Dartmouth College and holds a Masters degree from Northeastern University. Married with two children, she lives in Concord, MA.

Susan is an inspirational speaker who shares her remarkable story of transforming personal loss into humanitarian outreach, helping others to embrace their own power to make a difference
and raising awareness of the struggle of Afghan widows. Susan has received a number of honors, including a prestigious award from Search for Common Ground and Traditional Home magazine’s Classic Woman award. Susan has been featured in many media outlets including CNN, People Magazine, NBC Nightly News, and the Oprah Winfrey Show. Susan is also a
subject of the award-winning documentary Beyond Belief.

Today, Susan continues to champion the cause of Afghan widows, although she is no longer
a widow herself. In 2006, Susan married Donald Ger, and in 2008 the couple welcomed a
daughter, Rebecca, to their busy family—joining siblings Ben, Molly, and Dina.

RADIO

In 2007 Mel launched her first radio show on Sirius Satellite radio and produced a successful morning drive call-in show.

In 2008, Mel left Sirius, partnered with Borders and launched Borders Radio.  Today, she broadcasts a daily, call-in advice show from a custom-built radio booth in Borders’ largest bookstore in downtown Boston.  Borders and Mel self syndicated Borders Radio on smaller stations across a few select markets where Borders has flagship stores – including Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas, Baltimore, and Pittsburgh and online at Bordersmedia.com and Borders.com.   She continues to produce this show in partnership with Borders – 11am – 12 pm EST Monday-Friday.

In 2009, Mel signed on with Greater Media on WTKK Boston Talks 96.9 FM and launched The Mel Robbins Show on Saturday mornings.  Under the direction of Program Director Grace Blazer, Mel’s unique lifestyle, commentary and advice talk show has become very popular.  In less than one year, WTKK has changed Mel’s time slot, added an hour (making it a 3 hour show) and has her as the regular fill-in for their most popular weekday host.  In just one year, she has accumulated an impressive list of advertising sponsors and Time Spent Listening (TSL) ratings for her show are among the highest of any show in Boston.

TV

In addition to her radio pursuits, Mel is currently in development on a network TV pilot (Fox) – a show that peers into the lives and struggles of small business owners and their staff. Prior to Fox, Mel was a contributor to CNBC on “The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch” and in 2007 was signed by ABC / Disney to a television deal after having launched her first radio show on Sirius Satellite radio.

PUBLISHING + PRODUCTS

Mel is a monthly columnist for Success Magazine (1.5mm subscribers), and is co-developing and distributing personal improvement products with Success Media.  Mel hosts and produces an interview show for Borders Group where she has conducted interviews with high profile celebrities and authors including Barbara Walters, Dr. Oz, Donald Trump, Mandy Moore, and Bill Cosby.  In addition to CNBC, Borders and others, Kaplan Publishing has engaged Mel as an author and co-producer of online coaching sessions for its customers (high school students facing the SAT exam and adults going back to college to earn degrees).

Mel is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Boston College Law School.  She is a former trial lawyer and technology executive.  Since 2001, Mel has run a successful coaching and keynote speaking business serving Fortune 500 corporations, conferences, and media events as well as to high-level executives and individuals, helping them reach their professional and personal goals.  Mel is currently writing her first book, to be published by Crown Publishing in 2010.  Her media company, Advice for Living Inc.Ô, co-develops and distributes personal improvement products with experts in the wellness, health, relationship and career categories.

She serves on the boards of numerous national and regional educational and cultural organizations, including the Presidents’ Board of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design and the Executive Board of Massachusetts Campus Compact. Dr. Sloan is a member on the New England Association’s Commission on Higher Education, the regional accrediting body for New England Colleges and Universities.  She is on the Executive Committee and is a team chair for the National Association of Schools of Art and Design.  She  is a board member of the Fenway Alliance and Cultural District, and is current Chair, and founding Chair, of the Boston Arts Academy Board.  She is past Chair of the Boston Higher Education Partnership, an alliance of public and private colleges and universities in greater Boston in support of the Boston Public Schools.  She is also a member and former Chair of Colleges of the Fenway, Inc., a board member of the ProArts Consortium, and a member of the Executive Committee of Massachusetts Academic and Scientific Community Organization, Inc. She has participated in numerous international meetings on arts education as an invited delegate and presenter.

Previous to her time at MassArt, Dr. Sloan served as President of both North Hennepin Community College and Greenfield Community College.  She has been published numerous times and has received many professional honors, including the Commonwealth Woman of the Year Award from Massachusetts Business and Professional Women and the Maud Morgan Award for Leadership in the Arts.  She holds degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University, Purdue University, and Mercyhurst College.

Previously she was a columnist at The New York Times, writing Love & Money for the Sunday business section, and Editor-At-Large at Fortune Small Business. She also was Vice President of Editorial Development at Oxygen Media and a contributing editor to Newsweek. While at Newsweek, she won the National Press Club’s Consumer Journalism Award in 1997 and the Clarion Award in 1998.

Spragins has been an editor at Smart Money, BusinessWeek and Inc., and a reporter at Forbes. Her articles have appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Working Woman, Bloomberg Personal, Worth, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Ladies Home Journal and Town & Country. She has also made numerous television and radio appearances.

Spragins graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in English and economics in 1977 from Barnard College, which awarded her the Estelle M. Allison Prize for Excellence in Literature. She lives with her husband, John Witty, and two children in Pennington, New Jersey

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