Women's Leadership Forums

Previous Women's Leadership Forums

The Women's Leadership Forum, available exclusively to COE Member Companies, students, faculty, and staff of the Fisher College of Business, 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.

May 18, 2011

Christina S. Sistrunk, Vice President Production Assets, Deep Water – Gulf of Mexico, Shell Energy Resources Company
“Life, Love and Operations Management: The Challenges of Managing Deep Water Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico”

April 23, 2010

Laura Ambrose, Responsible Care Leader, Dow Chemical
Women Leaders and Safety at Dow 

November 13, 2009

Stacey Gellner, Senior Group Leader and Kelly 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 through the HBR Web site.
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.
"Personal 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.
"Never 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 - INAUGURAL SPEAKER

Donna Demerling, Senior Vice President, Quality and Lean Six Sigma, Timken