Women's Leadership Forums
Center for Operational Excellence
The Women's Leadership Forum, available exclusively to COE Member Companies, explores a variety of topics related to women in leadership. We believe that the COE’s Women in Leadership Forum offers unique opportunities for the very few professional women working in the field of operations management to network and share their challenges and successes.
Previous Women's Leadership Forums
November 13, 2009
Stacey Gellner, Senior Group Leader and Kellly Sakai, Store Team Leader with Target
"Creating a Culture of Opportunities for Women Leaders at the Target Corporation"
May 5, 2009
Tammy Bliss, Strategic Project Manager in the Office of the CEO & President, Coca-Cola
"Overcoming Challenges for Women Leaders in the Corporate World"
January 20, 2009
Michelle Carnahan, Executive Director Global Marketing & Sales Transformation and Jo Taylor, Executive Director Customer Engagement Model with Eli Lilly
The article “Women and the Vision Thing” by Herminia Ibarra and Otilia Obadaru, published by the Harvard Business Review can be purchased at: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/common/item_detail.jhtml;jsessionid=JMQEYSU5FEMIKAKRGWDSELQBKE0YIISW?id=R0901E&referral=7855&_requestid=30023
Click Here to view a discussion guide to accompany a conversation of the article.
October 17, 2008
Panel from Cardinal Health: Cassi Baker, Vice President, State Government Relations, Deborah Dunipace, Senior Diversity & Inclusion Consultant , Cara Forester, Director Communications, Stephanie Revish, Director of External Reporting and Technical Accounting, Jill Felton LaNouette, Vice President Communications
"Creating an Internal Women's Network"
May 1, 2008
Lynn Kelley, PhD, Vice President Six Sigma with Textron, Inc.
"Personel Story of Challenges and Successes by a Women Leader"
October 17, 2007
Maria C. Coyne, Executive Vice President and National Sales Executive for KeyBank
"How to Create and Support your Own Internal and External Women's Network"
May 22, 2007
Cheryl Jones,Vice President Manufacturing at Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc.
"Nerver Turn Down an Opportunity in your Career"
November 3, 2006
Carol A. Christobek, Business Process Redesign Manager at Ashland, Inc.
"Successes and Challenges in my Career in Operations Management"
September 30, 2005
Mary Ellen Sheets, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of TWO MEN AND A TRUCK/INTERNATIONAL, Inc. and her daughter, Melanie Bergeron, President
"From a Small Moving Business to an International Corporation"
November 2004
Jan Santerre, Vice President of Lean Enterprise for Parker Hannifin
"Balancing Family and Key Leadership Role at Parker Hannifin"
January 2003
Donna Demerling, Senior Vice President, Quality and Lean Six Sigma, Timken
