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Striking the Right Balance: Women and Work in the New Millennium
Moderator: Leslie Morgan Steiner, author, Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families
Panelists:  Shellye L. Archambeau, Karen G. Foley, Susan Penfield, Leslie Morgan Steiner, Jo Weiss
Thursday, April 12 - 4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. :: Full Summit Schedule

Come hear a dynamic range of women candidly discuss the hard work of discovering and applying women's unique leadership styles in corporate America, the non-profit world, and general management

Panelists
:: Shellye L. Archambeau , W'84
   Chief Executive Officer
   MetricStream Inc

As the CEO of MetricStream, Shellye Archambeau is responsible for running all facets of the business. Ms. Archambeau has a proven executive management track record and over 20 years of experience driving sales growth in the technology industry.

Prior to joining MetricStream, Ms. Archambeau was Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President of Sales for Loudcloud, Inc, responsible for all global sales and marketing activities. At Loudcloud she led the transformation into an enterprise-focused company while growing sales 50 percent year over year. Previously, she served as Chief Marketing Officer of NorthPoint Communications, where she led the design and implementation of all sales and marketing strategies. Ms. Archambeau also served as president of Blockbuster, Inc.'s e-commerce division and was recognized by Internet World as one of the Top 25 'Click and Mortar' executives in the country in June of 2000. Ms. Archambeau spent the prior 15 years at IBM, holding several domestic and international executive positions.

Ms. Archambeau is an author and sought after speaker on the topics of compliance, marketing, and leadership. She has been featured or quoted in numerous business publications including BusinessWeek, InformationWeek and the San Jose Business Journal. She is co-author of "Marketing That Works," and she guest lectures at the Wharton School in San Francisco and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Ms. Archambeau currently serves on the board of directors for Arbitron, Inc. and The Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Executives. She is also a member of the Trustees Council of Penn Women at the University of Pennsylvania and the Information Technology Senior Management Forum. She earned a BS degree at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

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:: Karen G. Foley , WG'91
   President
   Scholarship Chicago

Karen G. Foley serves as the president of Scholarship Chicago, an organization dedicated to helping high-need students graduate from college and transition into successful career paths. As president, she is working to build Scholarship Chicago into the premier scholarship organization in the city for underserved, college-bound youth. Currently she is engaged in leading the Campaign for Chicago Scholars, a plan developed with the Chicago Public Schools to help 10,000 students earn their college degrees over the next decade.

Prior to joining Scholarship Chicago, Ms. Foley served as executive vice president of CNA Insurance, a $15 billion Fortune 500 company based in Chicago. As a member of the executive committee, she had responsibility for the development and execution of strategic plans for global marketing, the CNA Foundation, public affairs, online communication, advertising, knowledge management and marketing research and analysis. She was named one of the Top 100 Women in Insurance by Business Insurance.

Ms. Foley holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from Kirkland College (since merged with Hamilton College) in New York. Along with her work for Scholarship Chicago, she also serves on the board of directors for Mathcounts, a national program dedicated to increasing enthusiasm for mathematics among junior high students, and is an elected trustee of the Hinsdale Public Library.

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:: Susan Penfield
   Vice President
   Booz Allen Hamilton

Susan Penfield is a vice president based at Booz Allen Hamilton's McLean headquarters. Ms. Penfield specializes in the management and strategic use of information technology within the global, national, and commercial health industries. She has almost two dozen years of strategy development and technology delivery experience for a wide scope of clients and engagements, such as:

  • Providing program management services for every major federal health-related organization in the U.S., including the Veterans Administration, Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, and National Institutes for Health, focusing on pandemic flu preparedness, vaccine inventory management and distribution network development, regulatory and safety systems development, and informatics program development;
  • Overseeing the development of and providing program management and strategy and technology support for the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Bioinformatics Grid (caBIG), including developing the architecture to support collection, sharing, and analysis of data for a broad community of cancer researchers across institutions, registries, pharmaceutical and biotech industries, and sub-disciplines of clinical and research informatics;
  • Developing large-scale technology transformation programs that include information technology, structured software development life cycle management, and program and project management;
  • Managing the strategy and technology change initiative to support the transformation of the FDA's pharmacovigiliance programs;
  • Designing, developing, and conducting avian flu strategic simulations which led to reports now widely referenced by the public and media; and
  • Transforming the CDC's Vaccine for Children program by streamlining vaccine distribution by creating efficient inventory management procedures and simplifying provider ordering and approval processes.

A recognized thought leader, Ms. Penfield has co-authored several industry articles, including "Avian Flu: A Test of Collective Integrity" for strategy+business. Her career experience spans a variety of technology management positions and support for science, engineering, and financial organizations.

Ms. Penfield is a member of the e-Health Initiative Board of Directors, NIH Children's Inn Board of Directors, and Healthcare Information Management Systems Society. She holds a BS degree in technology management from Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania.

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:: Leslie Morgan Steiner , WG'92
   General Manager
   Washington Post Company

With motherhood comes one of the toughest decisions of a woman's life: stay at home or pursue a career? Wharton MBA graduate Leslie Morgan Steiner has been there. As an executive at the Washington Post, Johnson & Johnson, Leo Burnett -- and a mother of three -- she lived and breathed every side of the "mommy wars" and decided to do something about it. She commissioned 26 outspoken mothers to write about their lives, their families, and the choices that have worked for them. The result is Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families (Random House March 2006) a frank, surprising, and utterly refreshing look at American motherhood.

After graduating from Wharton in 1992 with an MBA in Marketing, Leslie Morgan Steiner launched Splenda Brand Sweetener throughout Australia, the Mid-East and Latin America for Johnson & Johnson. She managed U.S. public relations supporting 1998 FDA approval of Splenda, which is now the #1 low-calorie sweetener in the United States.

She returned to her hometown of Washington, DC in 2001 to become General Manager of the 1.1 million-circulation Washington Post Magazine. Her accomplishments at The Washington Post include turning around the Sunday magazine into a profitable venture for the first time in its 17 year history; serving as advertising team lead on the 2003 launch of Express, The Washington Post's free 175,000-circulation newspaper targeted to nontraditional readers outside the flagship paper's demographic base; and the 2004 launch of Washington Post At Home, a luxury home and design magazine. She writes a popular on-line column about working motherhood for The Washington Post, "On Balance" (www.washingtonpost.com/onbalance).

Ms. Steiner holds a BA in English from Harvard College. Her first job was as an editor at Seventeen Magazine; she financed her Wharton degree by writing for Seventeen, Mademoiselle, New England Monthly and Money Magazine. In addition to writing for The Washington Post, she is a contributor to Ariana Huffington's On Being Fearless and Anne Burt's Your Father Married My Mother. She is a member of Advertising Women of New York (AWNY), a trustee of the board for The Maret School, a member of the Wharton Alumni Association Board, and a former spokeswoman for The Harriet Tubman Center in Minneapolis, the country's oldest shelter for abused women and children. She lives with her husband and three children in Washington, DC.

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:: Jo Weiss
   Senior Vice President and Director
   Lehman Brothers Inc.

Jo Maitland Weiss is senior vice president and director of Workplace Strategies in Lehman Brother's Diversity & Inclusion group. She is responsible for creating initiatives globally that help retain and develop a diverse leadership corps. Prior to her role in diversity, Ms. Weiss was director of Strategic Giving for the Firm, where she led the creation and implementation of the Firm's strategic philanthropy initiative globally, which encompasses foundation and corporate grants, volunteerism, nonprofit board service, gift matching, and in-kind donations. She also served as vice president and secretary of The Lehman Brothers Foundation.

Ms. Weiss has extensive experience in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, she was vice president of Advisory Services at Catalyst, Inc., where she led the global diversity consulting practice and board placement service, as well as membership development and fundraising. She was also on the senior leadership team of New York City Opera and served on the Community Advisory Board of Martin Luther King, Jr. High School in New York City. As a consultant and engagement manager at McKinsey & Co. for over five years, Ms. Weiss led Fortune 100 client teams in designing and implementing operational and strategic initiatives, developing special expertise in change management and financial services operations. She began her career in the retail marketing rotation program at The Standard Oil Company (Ohio).

Ms. Weiss received her B.S. summa cum laude from Wittenberg University and her MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She is married with two sons and two stepdaughters.

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