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Sue Enquist holds more National Championships (11) than anyone in the history of softball. She is UCLA Softball’s first All-American, National Champion, and Hall of Famer. In 2006, Enquist concluded her storied 27 year career as head coach of the UCLA Bruins with a 887-175-1 (.835) record, making her the winningest softball coach among all active coaches. She is the only person in NCAA Softball history to win a championship as a head coach and a player. Hailed a “coaching legend” by ESPN, Sue Enquist’s tenure produced 65 All-Americans and 12 Olympians. She has been inducted into the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Hall of Fame and the UCLA Hall of Fame. Enquist is also the recipient of multiple National Coach of the Year and Pac-10 Coach of the Year honors. She concluded her UCLA MVP playing career with a career batting average of .401. In her tenure as both a player and coach, Enquist has a combined 1,314 wins. UCLA Magazine lists her among the top 20th Century Bruins. A former World Champion and USA National Team coach and player, she is the only person to have played on the first Pan American gold medal team (1979) and to coach on the first Olympic Team National Staff (1996), which took home the first gold medal in the Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia.

Marciia Brixey hosted a weekly talk radio show “Let’s Talk About Money” for several months in 2004.  She’s a mentor for the Department of Labor Women's Bureau Wi$e Up Women program. Ms. Brixey received the 2006 YWCA Woman of Achievement award in Kitsap County.

During her 26 years working for the Social Security Administration Marcia Brixey met thousands of women who experienced financial difficulties resulting from a personal crisis—husband’s death, divorce, illness or loss of a job. In August 2002 she founded Money Wise Women Educational Services to ensure that every woman be financially articulate, confident, secure and independent. Today she hosts Money Wi$e Women Conferences throughout the Western United States. Ms. Brixey is the author of The Money Therapist: A Woman’s Guide to Creating a Healthy Financial Life (Seal Press).

Nadja Piatka made a dream come true armed only with an idea. Her tale of taking a company out of her kitchen with a $100 investment and creating a multi-million dollar food manufacturing company is an amazing story.

Nadja found herself as an unemployable single mother of two. Plagued by creditors and no income she began baking muffins at home and testing them on her two teenage children. She was soon selling her muffins to local coffee shops, and when her customer base grew, she commissioned a local bakery to “out source” and deliver her products.

Today Nadja Foods supplies her great tasting Healthy Brownies and Petite Angel Cakes to customers across the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Liz Cornish  leadership transition expert, adventure enthusiast and hard-working mom, seizes lessons from settings as varied as the boardroom, the soccer field and the Arctic Circle. Her combination of compelling story-telling and hard-won wisdom will both captivate and educate your audience and staff.

As the author of Hit the Ground Running: A Woman's Guide to Success for the First 100 Days on the Job Liz offers you the distilled advice of over 200 effective executives in a sharp, crisp, usable package. It will be your hip packet resource for any leadership challenge.

Robin Jay has discovered how to turn meal times into the most productive part of any executive’s day.  By learning the importance of sharing meal times, and understanding the right way to break bread with your clients, you will forever transform those relationships. Personalizing your business works to insure your success and overall job satisfaction. 

Robin Jay is the Author of “The Art of the Business Lunch ~ Building Relationships Between 12 and 2,” and she shares more than 25 years of successful sales experience with her audiences.

"The Queen of the Business Lunch," as declared by her clients.

Barbara Corcoran’s credentials include straight D’s in high school and college and twenty jobs by the time she turned twenty-three.  It was her next job, however, that would make her one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country, when she borrowed $1,000 from her boyfriend and quit her job as a waitress to start a tiny real estate company in New York City.  Over the next twenty-five years, she’d parlay that $1,000 loan into a five-billion-dollar real estate business.

Barbara is the author of If You Don’t Have Big Breasts, Put Ribbons on Your Pigtails, an unlikely business book that has become a national best-seller.  In it, Barbara credits her struggles in school and her mother’s kitchen-table wisdom for her imagination and her quick wittedness in the business world.  The book is a fresh, frank look at how to succeed in life and business and is as heartwarming as it is smart and motivating.

Renee Mitchell  is a hurricane of nervous creativity. In her day job, she writes an award-winning column twice a week for The Oregonian on Portland-related issues, ranging from neighborhoods, to schools, to politics to cultural identity. She tells people that being a columnist is the best job she's ever had. But what  feeds her spirit is writing poetry and advocating for women in her community.

Renee’s tireless and creative work to support survivors of domestic violence resulted in her being selected as one of  21 Leaders of the 21st Century by New York City-based Women eNews. She received the international Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism during a gala ceremony in New York’s Tavern On The Green on May 16. Renee was nominated for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. And in 2004, BrainstormNW magazine, based in Lake Oswego, selected her as one of the “15 Most Interesting People in Oregon.”