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Eleanor Clift
Political Analyst
Eleanor
Clift is a contributing editor for Newsweek. She
reports on the White House, Congress and the various personalities
who make up the Washington power structure as she is a member
of the magazine's political team. She covered numerous Presidential
campaigns including Reagan and Clinton, reports on the government’s
response to terrorism, and regularly writes on women in politics.
She was also the magazine's congressional and political correspondent
for six years. In June 1992, she was named Deputy Washington
Bureau Chief. She is currently assigned to cover the changing
political scene in Washington as Republicans scramble to
hold on to their majorities in the House and Senate, and
Democrats try to figure out how to exploit the Bush administration's
missteps .
Clift is a regular panelist on the nationally syndicated
show, The McLaughlin Group, and a political analyst
for the Fox News Network. Playing herself, she has appeared
in several films, including Independence Day, and Dave,
as well as the CBS series, Murphy Brown.
Clift and her late husband, Tom Brazaitis, Washington columnist
for The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, have co-authored
two books. Madam President: Shattering the Last Glass
Ceiling (Scribner, 2000) is about the rise of women
in politics and the prospects for a woman on the national
ticket. Publisher's Weekly called it "a sharp
insider's view of the quest to elect a female U.S. president...Melding
the immediacy of a breaking news story with savvy investigative
journalism." An updated edition of Madam President was
published in paperback (Routledge Press) in 2003. War
Without Bloodshed: The Art of Politics (Scribner, 1996)
is available in paperback (Touchstone Books, 1997). The
New York Times book review said "War Without
Bloodshed unquestionably works as a road map through
the byways of the Washington they don't teach in civics classes." Clift’s
most recent work, Founding Sisters and the 19 th Amendment,
tells the story of how women gained the vote.
Eileen McDargh
Since beginning her consulting and training practice in
1980, Eileen has become noted for her ability to speak the
truth with clarity, wisdom, humor and compassion. Long-standing
clients and repeat engagements attest to her commitment to
make a difference in minds, hearts and spirits of organizations
and individuals.
She draws upon practical business know-how, life's experiences
and years of consulting to major national and international
organizations that have ranged from global pharmaceuticals
to the US Armed Forces, from health care associations to
religious institutions. Executive Excellence magazine selected
her as one of the top 100 thought leaders in leadership and
among the top ten consultant providers of leadership development.
She authored Work
for a Living & Still Be Free to Live, the first
book on work/life balance—a topic that placed her
as a futurist in this issue and continues to be published
in revised editions. Her second book, The
Resilient Spirit, is found from South Africa to California.
Her newest book, Gifts
from the Mountain: Simple Truths for Life's Complexities,
is a featured title with award-winning publisher, Berrett
Koehler.
She's been a guest on CNN as well as other television and
radio programs and has created an exciting Chicago-based
radio commentary, Celebrating the Human Spirit. She is a
featured author in A Women's Way to Incredible Success: Real
Life Lessons from 20 Prominent Business Women and a contributing
author in Meditations
for the Road Warrior. Her three-part video training program, Engaging
the Spirit of Nurse Leadership is in constant demand
within the healthcare arena.
Clients have
ranged from American Airlines to Xerox, from 3M to IBM, from
drill foremen in the Arctic to juvenile offenders in prison.
She served as one of ten faculty members in a business television
series, Reclaiming Business Excellence and has headlined
with speakers like NBA Coach Pat Riley, Notre Dame's former
coach Lou Holtz, Dr. Ken Blanchard, executive strategist
Marshall Goldsmith, William Bridges, and boardroom poet,
David Whyte.
Eileen is a certified speaking professional (CSP) and her
election into the CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame places her among
the top 3% of the 4000-member National Speakers Association.
She's served two three-year terms on the Board of Directors
of NSA and also currently on the national board for Take
Back Your Time, an international initiative for work/life
integration practices.
Linda E. Brooks RIX
Co-Chief Executive Officer, Avue Technologies
Corporation
Linda Brooks Rix founded Avue Technologies in 1983 and
has led Avue since that time. Prior to founding Avue, Ms.
Rix performed appeal adjudication and regulatory audits of
Federal government operations as a member of the US Office
of Personnel Management’s regulatory oversight
group. After leaving OPM and providing consulting services to Government
in the areas of civil rights, leadership development, and human capital
management, Ms. Rix, in 1988, designed and developed the first Federal
government human resources software application, which automated the
position classification function. Since then, Ms. Rix and her company
have led the way by rapidly adopting technology innovations and transforming
them into technology and service solutions that allow large, geographically
dispersed, and multi-mission organizations to manage, optimize, and
continuously monitor and improve performance. Today, Ms. Rix’s
company is the Federal market leader in commercial human capital solutions
fully deployed by a large variety of Federal government organizations
and the first to develop a business model that provides the full range
of services without requiring a capital investment by the client. The
current Avue offering is a hosted, shared services platform that accommodates
diverse Federal organizations with highly specialized mission critical
functions and a wide variety of human capital policies and business
processes. Among Avue’s clients are agencies operating performance-based
and market-based pay, pay banding, and alternative personnel and excepted
service authorities as well as more traditional Title V agencies.
Ms. Rix’s company supports a number of non-profit
organizations including Blacks in Government, Federally Employed
Women, The Federal Asian Pacific American Council, National
Image, Black Data Processing Associates, The Society of American
Indian Federal Employees, the Senior Executives Association,
and the American Federation of Government Employees. Over
1,400 organizations, both profit and non-profit, are included
in the outreach efforts Ms. Rix directs on behalf of her
clients. Among these are a wide variety of higher education
institutions, professional associations, and diversity groups.
Ms. Rix’s deep expertise and advice is often sought
by clients, the media, and members of Congress and their
staffs. For example, Ms. Rix recently testified, at the request
of Congressman Danny Davis, as a human resources expert before
the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization
Committee on Government Reform, U.S. House of Representatives
concerning diversity in the Senior Executive Service. Ms.
Rix is an investor in Avue Technologies and serves as Co-Chief
Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors.
40TH ANNIVERSARY KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Vernice Armour — EXCELerated PassionTM!
As featured on Oprah Winfrey, CNN, Tavis Smiley,
NPR, and others, Vernice Armour has
emerged as the leadership coach and speaker
for the 21st Century. Vernice’s dynamic style
and presentation methods have impacted
many organizations and individuals, leaving
them in an accelerated
climb holding
the throttle! Vernice
stands on many
shoulders, a strong
legacy, and is
highly sought after
for her message of
EXCELerated Passion
™!
While attending
Middle Tennessee
State University,
Vernice enlisted in
the Army Reserves
in the spring of
1993 and enrolled
in Army ROTC that
fall. When she saw the image of a young black
female in an Army flight suit during Army ROTC
Advanced Camp, her first thought was, “Wow,
why didn’t I think of that!”
Before graduating
from college, Vernice accomplished her childhood dream of
becoming a Police Officer in 1996. Still in search of the
next challenge, she was commissioned as a Second
Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps in
December 1998. Vernice earned her wings in
July 2001, ranked No. 1 out her class of 12, and
of the last 200 to graduate, becoming the
United States Marine Corps’ first African American
female pilot.
During Operation Iraqi Freedom, she was recognized
as America’s First African-American Female
Combat Pilot by the Department of
Defense and completed
two combat
tours of duty in the
Gulf before departing
the Marine
Corps.
Among her accomplishments,
Vernice
has been awarded
for being a pioneering
pilot and her
role in technology
and engineering!
Vernice was also
the first African
American woman
on the Nashville Police
Department's
motorcycle squad, Camp Pendleton's 2001 Female
Athlete of the Year, two-time titleholder in
Camp Pendleton's annual Strongest Warrior
Competition, and a running back for the San
Diego Sunfire women's professional football
team.
Vernice departed the Marine Corps in June
2007. Today through her keynotes, seminars,
workshops, and executive retreats, she conveys
her message of EXCELerated Passion through
her unique insight and life strategy: Acknowledge
the obstacles … Don’t give them power!
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