Executive Women in Government, 12th Annual Leadership Summit

Opening Remarks: Looking to the Future

Chamber Executive: Carolyn Cawley, Senior Vice governments, foundations, and NGOs sharpen their President, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation focus and engage audiences in programs ranging from public health to women’s economic development. In the Washington office, she was also a member of the management committee and group leader for international public affairs.

She came to Washington to join the speechwriting team for President George H.W. Bush and later served ! on the staff of California Gov. Pete Wilson. Her Carolyn Cawley is senior vice president of the U.S. husband’s military career took them to the Middle Chamber of Commerce Foundation. She leads the East, where she launched an English-language Foundation’s strategic planning and represents the business magazine in Egypt’s newly privatizing organization to major stakeholders across government, economy. corporate, and nonprofit sectors. Her parents were public servants and educators – both Ms. Cawley joined the Chamber Foundation in early were civilian teachers with the Department of Defense 2015 with more than 20 years’ experience in both school system – and she was raised abroad on military public service and business. Most recently, she was a bases. She moved to the United States for the first senior leader at the global communications time to attend the University of California, earning a consultancy Fleishman Hillard. At the firm she degree in political science. chaired the global public sector practice – helping

America’s Air Force: A Call to the Future

Keynote Speaker: Deborah Lee James, Secretary, the Air Force's annual budget of more than $110 United States Air Force billion.

Ms. James has 30 years of senior homeland and national security experience in the federal government and the private sector. Prior to her current position, Ms. James served as President of Science Applications International Corporation's Technical and Engineering Sector, where she was responsible for 8,700 employees and more than $2 billion in revenue.

For nearly a decade, Ms. James held a variety of positions with SAIC to include Senior Vice President Deborah Lee James is the Secretary of the Air Force, and Director of Homeland Security. From 2000 to Washington, D.C. She is the 23rd Secretary of the Air 2001, she was Executive Vice President and Chief Force and is responsible for the affairs of the Operating Officer at Business Executives for National Department of the Air Force, including the organizing, Security, and from 1998 to 2000 she was Vice President training, equipping and providing for the welfare of of International Operations and Marketing at United its more than 690,000 active duty, Guard, Reserve and Technologies. civilian Airmen and their families. She also oversees Executive Women in Government, 12th Annual Leadership Summit

served as an assistant to the Assistant Secretary of During the Clinton administration, from 1993 to 1998, Defense for Legislative Affairs. Ms. James served in the Pentagon as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs. In that From 1983 to 1993, she worked as a professional staff position, she was the Secretary of Defense’s senior member on the House Armed Services Committee, advisor on all matters pertaining to the 1.8 million where she served as a senior advisor to the Military National Guard and Reserve personnel worldwide. In Personnel and Compensation Subcommittee, the addition to working extensively with Congress, state NATO Burden Sharing Panel, and the Chairman’s governors, the business community, military Member Services team. Ms. James earned a Bachelor associations, and international officials on National of Arts degree in comparative area studies from Duke Guard and Reserve component issues, she oversaw a University and a master’s degree in international $10 billion budget and supervised a 100-plus-person affairs from Columbia University School of staff. Prior to her Senate confirmation in 1993, she International and Public Affairs.

Leadership Perspectives on Federal Procurement, Communications, Technology, and Shared Services

Panel Moderator: Kathryn Johnson, Executive achieve their personal and professional best and put Director, Leadership and Management Division, it to practice at Management Concepts. Management Concepts For the past 10 years, Kathryn has served as an Executive Director at Management Concepts, a learning and performance improvement company. In this role, she leads a team of professional experts that partner with government, business, and non-profit leaders to improve individual, team, and organizational performance and effectiveness. Her domains of responsibility include leadership and management development, analytics, and human capital/HR. From a very young age, Kathryn discovered that her Kathryn holds a master’s degree in Logistics success depended mainly on her own ability to make Management from the Air Force Institute of things happen. She learned how to uncover a need Technology and a bachelor’s degree in Home and find a solution, transform an “idea into action” Economics Education from North Dakota State and to give back more than she received. It was this University. She is a graduate of the Air War College same desire to succeed and help others that led her to and Air Command & Staff College and holds an thrive as an adult in our nation’s Air Force. During Acquisition Professional Certification –Level III her 20-year career as an Air Force officer, she was Contracting, and Professional Certificate in deeply involved in developing new business units, Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University. procuring critical R&D, technology, systems and Her most recent publication is The Insider’s Guide to services, and developing officers for more strategic Supervising Government Employees, published by leadership roles. MC Press.

In early 2000, when she traded her uniform for a Panelist on Technology: Margaret H. Graves, Deputy business suit, Kathryn took her public service Chief Information Officer (CIO), U.S. Department of experience and strong interest in helping people to Homeland Security (DHS) Executive Women in Government, 12th Annual Leadership Summit

years with A.T. Kearney, Inc. working for clients in the chemical, utility and medical services industries as well as holding positions in financial and administrative management. Ms. Graves holds a M.B.A. from the University of Virginia Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business Administration and a B.S. in Chemistry, also from the University of Virginia.

Panelist on Procurement: Honorable Lurita Doan, Former Administrator, U.S. General Services Margaret H. Graves was selected in September, 2008, Administration to serve as DHS Deputy CIO. As the Deputy CIO, she oversees an IT portfolio of $5.4 billion in programs. In addition, Ms. Graves manages the operations of the Office of the CIO, which covers the functional areas of Applied Technology, Enterprise Architecture, Data Management, IT Security, Infrastructure Operations, IT Accessibility, Budget and Acquisition.

Prior to her selection as Deputy Chief Information Officer, Ms. Graves served as the Executive Director of the Enterprise Business Management Office within the DHS Office of the CIO. She developed and Lurita Doan was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. executed IT Portfolio strategies in alignment with the Senate and served as the Administrator of the U.S. DHS Enterprise Architecture and established business General Services Administration (GSA) from May 31, processes for Capital Planning and Investment 2006 to April 30, 2008. She is the first woman and the Control, departmental IT budget reviews and second African-American, to serve as chief executive acquisition reviews. She also served as the Deputy of the U.S. General Services Administration. Program manager for the Border and Transportation Security IT Integration Program. This program Her tenure at the nation’s premier procurement established the business case and the operational agency was marked by a return to the fundamentals foundation for the current Infrastructure of business best practices and fiscal discipline that Transformation Program which is the DHS roadmap date to GSA’s creation in 1949. In 2008, Ms. Doan was for consolidating and securing the IT Infrastructure awarded the prestigious “Friend of the Americas” tri- including networks, data centers, e-mail, wireless national award, for her advocacy and innovation for services, desktop services, and help desk services. land ports of entry, by representatives from Canada, the U. S. and Mexico. Ms. Doan was identified in Ms. Graves has 20 years of experience in the February 2008 as one of the 25 Most Influential Black management consulting industry where she held Women in Business. executive positions and also performed consulting engagements for clients. She has experience in the Prior to her tenure in public service, Ms. Doan areas of systems engineering, business process founded a surveillance technology company in 1990 reengineering, strategic planning, financial that provided turnkey solutions including design, management, mergers and acquisitions and venture installation and maintenance of secure surveillance capital planning. She worked for several firms in the technology currently being deployed at over 85% of National Capital Region such as Technology all Land Border Ports of Entry (POEs) on the US- Applications, Inc., Advanced Technology, Inc., and Canadian and US-Mexican borders. Ms. Doan was Planning and Research Corporation. She dedicated 10 Executive Women in Government, 12th Annual Leadership Summit selected as one of SBA’s Women Business Owner Catherine Hand is the former Deputy Director, Success Stories for its 50th Anniversary Celebration. Communications and Public Liaison for US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) during John Berry’s Among Ms. Doan’s business awards are the 2004 tenure. She was part of the core leadership team National Women’s Business Council Award for involved in communicating both policy and political entrepreneurship, the 2004 “Circle of Excellence” decisions that impacted 1.8 million Federal workers. Award from the General Services Administration, the While at OPM, she coordinated dozens of events, 2003 National Director’s Award for Entrepreneurial supervised the day-to-day management of the Innovation from the Department of Commerce, agency's intranet website, and the production of over Council Award for entrepreneurship, the 2004 “Circle 50 videos and webcasts. of Excellence” Award from the General Services Administration, the 2003 National Director’s Award Prior to joining OPM, Catherine was an executive in for Entrepreneurial Innovation from the Department the entertainment and public relations industries of Commerce, the 2003 Committee of 200 Luminary producing events for non-profits and programs for Award for Innovation in Technology, and the 2003 radio and TV. She served as the executive producer Visionary Award from the National Foundation for on a multi-part cable TV series on healthcare that won Teaching Entrepreneurship. the 2009 GRACIE award for best public affairs programming. Catherine began her career as a Ms. Doan has served on a variety of boards in the development executive for the award winning non-profit and private sector, and served as a writer/producer Norman Lear and helped launch the member, or as the Chairperson, of various national nonprofit, People For the American Way. committees, to include, but not limited to, Governance, Audit, Nominations, Personnel and Most recently, she started her own communications Compensation, Technology, and Executive consulting company, Hand in Hand Communications, committees. Ms. Doan is descended from three that specializes in training clients to generations of African-American entrepreneurs. She genuinely connect with their audience. Catherine is is a member and former officer of YPO-WPO and a also developing a film adaptation of the award- member of the Committee of 200. winning novel, A WRINKLE IN TIME, with Jennifer Lee (FROZEN) for Disney. Ms. Doan has a Bachelor’s Degree from Vassar College, and has been a member of the Board of Trustees for 12 years. Ms. Doan earned a Masters’ Panelist on Shared Services: Laurie Park, Deputy Degree from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Assistant Secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs She and her husband live in Northern Virginia.

Panelist on Communication: Catherine Hand, President and CEO Hand in Hand Communications

Laurie Park was appointed as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Finance within the Office of Management at the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) in August 2014. With an annual budget of over $138 billion and 305,000 full-time equivalents, VA provides medical care, compensation, pension, housing, insurance, education and burial benefits to Executive Women in Government, 12th Annual Leadership Summit our Nation's veterans and operates the Nation's management environment, identified how Treasury largest health care system. Ms. Park serves as the and agency financial systems can work together more Acting Deputy Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the harmoniously to improve financial reporting, worked Department of Veterans Affairs and is responsible for with agencies to discover and share best practices Department-wide financial policy formulation and across the government, and identified and developed financial statement preparation, managing enterprise innovative technology solutions which could be financial operations including VA’s Financial Services commonly leveraged. Center in Austin, Texas, and VA’s Debt Management Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, and corporate financial Ms. Park previously served as the Director of applications including VA Financial Management at the Department of core accounting, payroll, and Transportation (DOT). In this role she was responsible human resources for strategic planning, development and leadership of management systems. As a all Departmental financial management functions as career senior executive, Ms. well as day-to-day oversight of financial operations Park advises VA’s Assistant and management of the 14 independent DOT Secretary for Management agencies, which comprise DOT. Ms. Park began her and CFO on all matters career at the Treasury’s Financial Management pertaining to the financial Service (FMS) where she served as a systems management of the accountant. In her tenure at FMS, she worked on Department and is several system implementations and business process responsible for strategic improvement efforts at numerous federal agencies. planning and operational functions of all Ms. Park has a B.S in Accounting and Business Departmental financial management activities. Administration from Franklin Pierce College, Rindge, Prior to coming to the VA, Ms. Park served as a Senior NH. She has received numerous awards and honors Advisor at the Department of the Treasury, Office of including distinguished awards from the Secretary of Financial Innovation and Transformation. In this role, Treasury and from the Secretary of Transportation. she analyzed the current government-wide financial

Enforcing Our Nation’s Immigrations Laws and Keeping Our Country Safe

Keynote Speaker: Sarah R. Saldaña, Director, U.S. In this role, Director Saldaña advances ICE’s mission Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to promote homeland security and public safety through the criminal and civil enforcement of approximately 400 federal laws governing border control, customs, trade and immigration.

Previously, Director Saldaña served as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. In that position, she led a staff of more than 200 employees, including approximately 100 attorneys.

Prior to that, she served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, where she As ICE’s Director, Sarah R. Saldaña leads the largest prosecuted a variety of criminal cases, including investigative agency within the U.S. Department of bank and mortgage fraud, civil rights, human Homeland Security. Created in 2003, ICE has a trafficking and public corruption. She also served as budget of approximately $6 billion and has nearly the Deputy Criminal Chief in charge of the District’s 20,000 employees in 400 offices in all 50 states and 48 Major Fraud and Public Corruption section. Before countries. joining the Department of Justice, she worked in Executive Women in Government, 12th Annual Leadership Summit private practice and at the Equal Employment Director Saldaña is the recipient of several Opportunity Commission, Housing and Urban meritorious awards and was most recently named Development, the Department of Labor. Latina Attorney of the Year at the Hispanic National Bar Association’s 38th Annual Convention. In Director Saldaña graduated Summa Cum Laude September 2011, Director Saldaña became Texas’s from Texas A&I University and earned her J.D. first Latina chief prosecutor. degree from Southern Methodist University.

A New Breed of Strategic Planning: A Panel Discussion on Futurism

Panel Moderator: Shoshana Grove, Secretary and Ms. Grove has been a frequent contributor and Chief Administrative Officer, Postal Regulatory featured columnist for a variety of industry Commission publications. She has held leadership roles in the National Association of Postmasters of the United (NAPUS) as Legislative Chair for the State of Virginia and as Vice President for the state of Maryland. She is a popular presenter and speaker on postal and women’s issues for government, business, associations and citizen groups. Ms. Grove serves on a number of non-profit Boards, to include Executive Women in Government and Women in Delivery and Logistics Services (WILDS). Shoshana Grove currently serves as the Secretary and She is a graduate of George Washington University Chief Administrative Officer at the Postal Regulatory and the Postal Service Leadership Academy and lives Commission. In this role she has responsibility for in Washington, DC with her husband Peter. She is an maintaining the records of the Commission; avid reader and serves on the Steering Committee for preserving Commission documents; managing the the D. C. Jewish Literary festival. She is also an Commission’s library and docket room, and enthusiastic bicyclist and rides her bike to work most managing the Human Resources, Budget, Personnel, days, weather permitting. Ms. Grove is an award- Information Technology, Facilities and winning federal executive whose accomplishments Administrative functions of the Commission. Ms. have enriched her agency, federal peers, community Grove also represents the Commission on the Federal and colleagues. CIO Council and Federal Small Agency Council. Panelist Futurism: Ellen Engleman Conners, Deputy Ms. Grove began her career as a Letter Carrier in Director of Governmental & Public Affairs, U.S. Washington, DC and worked her way up through the Coast Guard Project Evergreen postal ranks. She served as Postmaster in city and rural Post Offices including Herndon, Reston and Annandale Virginia and Bethesda, Maryland. Ms. Grove was Manager of Ground Products at the United States Postal Service, where she managed relationships with some of the Postal Service’s largest mailers and business partners and was instrumental in the development and marketing of strategic initiatives such as the Priority Mail Flat Rate Box, Online Notification of Carrier Pickup, Parcel Return Services, Click-N-Ship, the USPS/eBay partnership and Electronic Verification Service. Ms. Engleman Conners' government service includes serving as the Chairman and Member of the National Executive Women in Government, 12th Annual Leadership Summit

Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), as Administrator of the Research and Special Programs Administration at the U.S. Department of Transportation, as the Deputy Bureau Chief of Enforcement at the Federal Communications Commission, and as Director of External Relations for the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC). Ms. Engleman Conners also served as a public affairs officer (PAO) in the US Navy Reserves (1999-2008) for the Chief of Naval Information (CHINFO) at the Stephen B. Wehrenberg, Ph.D., is the Chief of Human Pentagon. Resource Strategy and Capability, United States Coast Guard, and Director of Future Force, an In the private sector, Ms. Engleman Conners was ambitious ongoing effort to overhaul human resource President and CEO of Electricore, Inc. a research systems and processes to support line managers and consortium for advanced technology R & D for the workforce in the pursuit of Coast Guard hybrid electric drive and alternative energy; CEO of missions. With 26 years on active duty and now 20 the Indiana Realtors Association, a 20,000 member years as a senior civilian analyst and program association; Director of Corporate and Government manager, he brings a broad array of lessons learned Affairs for Direct Relief International; and to any forum. In 2006, Dr. Wehrenberg added the Governmental Affairs Executive and Public Affairs title Director of Executive Development to his Manager for GTE North, Inc. (now Verizon). She is an portfolio. In 2013 he also became the sponsor and active community volunteer and has served on program manager for human resource information numerous boards of directors for community systems, and is leading the standup of a Program organizations. Management Office in that context.

Ms. Engleman Conners was awarded the Secretary of Dr. Wehrenberg has initiated, led, or been a key Transportation's 9-11 Medal and the U.S. Coast participant in numerous strategic planning efforts in Guard medal for public service. She received the public and private sector. Within the past four Aviation Week's Safety Laurel, the National Business years he has helped guide a scenario-based planning Traveler's Founders Award and the Harrison Award effort that resulted in a new breed of Strategic Plan for Public Service for her work as Chairman of the for the Coast Guard -- a plan that makes an NTSB and the NASA JSC Director's Commendation intentional assertion about the future, not merely a for her accomplishments as director of the JSC contingency plan. In an integrated effort, he created external relations. Ms. Engleman Conners has a law and documented a Business Model for Coast Guard degree (Juris Doctorate) from Indiana University, a Human Resources that describes how the HR system master of public administration from Harvard adds value to the Coast Guard's missions, and served University (MPA) and her undergraduate degree as the stepping off point for an HR Roadmap, a (BA) in English and Communication Media from capability-based HR strategy that has created the Indiana University. She is a member of the Indiana foundation for two annual business-planning cycles. Bar and received accreditation from the Public Dr. Wehrenberg also led a team that developed an Relations Society of America (APR). HR Dashboard, a top-level balanced scorecard that measures key leading indicators in the HR system to Panelist Futurism: Stephen B. Wehrenberg, Ph.D., evaluate the achievement of high level strategy. Chief, HR Strategy and Capability, Director of Future These measures, in turn, are linked to a continuously Force, U.S. Coast Guard and Associate Professorial evolving Coast Guard Readiness Management Lecturer, Organizational Sciences, The George System, that measures the Coast Guard's value to the Washington University Nation -- in the development of which he was a key contributor.

Executive Women in Government, 12th Annual Leadership Summit

Dr. Wehrenberg is a Professorial Lecturer in Organizational Sciences in the Graduate As an MIT Seminar XXI Fellow and member of the Organizational Sciences Program at The George Alumni Advisory Board, he has specialized in the Washington University. He co-founded and operated study of energy security and environmental issues, a consulting firm from 1980-1990; clients included the and brings that knowledge to the Coast Guard’s Hampton Redevelopment and Housing Authority, strategy development process. He is also a founding The College of William and Mary, AT&T Director of The Energy Consensus, a non-profit (Greensboro), Virginia Power, Kaiser Medical organization in Washington dedicated to educating Centers, and the Canadian Coast Guard. He was also decision makers in the many facets of energy security a contributing editor to Personnel Journal (now and the interaction of energy and the environment. A Workforce) from 1982-1990. His military career recognized expert in change management, Dr. covers the bases. He was a Chief Sonar Technician, a Wehrenberg co-founded the Association of Change Warrant Electronics Specialist, a Warrant Personnel Management Professionals (ACMP) in 2011; Specialist, and received a commission as a LT in 1986. worldwide He taught at the Navy's Fleet Sonar School and the membership now exceeds 10,000. Coast Guard Leadership and Management Program.

Counselor to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Keynote Speaker: Carol Hallett, Ambassador, U.S. industry standards, modernization and expansion of Chamber of Commerce airport capacity, as well as a regulatory environment that encourages competitiveness and free trade. She was twice named to “The Business Travel Industry’s 25 Most Influential Executives.”

Ms. Hallett brings to her current position years of private sector experience managing her own company and advising clients on all matters relating to international trade, including contract negotiations, customs and immigration matters, and commercial aviation issues. She also has years of government Carol Hallett serves as counselor to the U.S. Chamber experience. President George H.W. Bush appointed of Commerce. She also serves as counselor to the her commissioner of the United States Customs USCCF, the Chamber’s public policy think tank that Service, where she oversaw a $2.2 billion budget and drives the policy debate on key issues and provides a the processing of more than 1.3 million passengers forum where leaders advance cutting-edge issues daily and $1 trillion worth of merchandise annually. facing the U.S. business community. Ms. Hallett improved Customs’ investigation and enforcement operations, especially in narcotics and Ms. Hallett served for eight years as president and money laundering and the interdiction of illegal CEO of the Air Transport Association of America drugs. She also modernized the agency, automating (now called Airlines For America or “A4A”), which its processes and tailoring procedures to represents the chief executive officers of U.S. and accommodate the high-tech, global marketplace. foreign flag airline and cargo carriers. Following 9/11, Ms. Hallett helped craft and pass legislation to save Ms. Hallett was U.S. ambassador to the the domestic aviation industry from bankruptcy and Commonwealth of the Bahamas under President took the lead in the redesign of airline security Ronald Reagan. In addition, she was an policies and practices. In addition, she was a strong assemblywoman representing San Luis Obispo, advocate for airline safety, customer satisfaction, high Monterey, and Santa Barbara counties and served as Executive Women in Government, 12th Annual Leadership Summit minority leader of the California State Assembly. and the All Nippon Airways U.S. Advisory From 2001 to 2006, Ms. Hallett served on the CIA Committee. She is a member of the Advisory director’s National Security Advisory Panel. She Committee on Commercial Operations of Customs currently serves on the Transnational Threats Task and Border Protection (COAC). Ms. Hallett is a pilot Force at the Center for Strategic and International with more than 5,000 hours in single and multiengine Studies and on the boards of directors of Rolls-Royce aircraft. North America, Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings Inc.,

Author Panel: Professional Transition and Resilience

Panel Moderator: Katherine M. Coffman, Assistant Department of the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Awards and the National Intelligence Distinguished Public Service Medal.

Ms. Coffman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Maryland, a Master's Degree in Global Leadership from the University of San Diego, and a Master's Degree in National Resource Strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University. She is a graduate of the Defense Leadership and Management Program, and a Katherine Coffman, Assistant Commissioner of the graduate of the Senior Managers in Government Office of Human Resources Management (HRM), Program at the John F. Kennedy School of manages a centralized human resources program Government, Harvard University. providing service to nearly 60,000 nationwide and Ms. Coffman is a native Californian. As an avid overseas CBP employees. In this role, Ms. Coffman runner, she has completed four marathons, and supervises all matters involving human resources, recently completed the Great Wall of China Marathon including hiring, recruitment, organizational (10K) in 2011. Ms. Coffman is also a weekend golfer. realignments, compensation and pay administration, She and her husband, Bob, a retired Marine, have two benefits, workplace safety, and labor and employee grown children; a daughter working with the Defense relations. HRM consists of nearly 600 employees Department in Japan, and a son who is a Naval located in nearly 60 locations throughout the country. Aviator stationed in San Diego, CA. Prior to being named Assistant Commissioner, Ms. Coffman served as the Deputy Assistant Panelist: Anne Litwin, Ph.D., Author, New Rules for Commissioner for HRM. Women: Revolutionizing the Way Women Work Together Ms. Coffman's federal career spans over 26 years having served almost 24 of those with the Department of Defense. Her entry into the HR field was as a Human Resources Specialist Intern with the U.S. Marine Corps in Okinawa, Japan. Since then, her career has encompassed all facets of human resources including operations, policy development, and strategic planning while working for the Department of the Navy and the Defense Intelligence Agency in diverse locations such as Naples, Italy, San Diego, CA, and Washington, D.C. She is the recipient of three Executive Women in Government, 12th Annual Leadership Summit

Dr. Anne Litwin has been a consultant, coach and executive director, lobbyist, adjunct instructor, board trainer for more than thirty years in a wide variety of advisor, fundraiser and consultant in Washington, organizations throughout the world. Anne’s lifelong D.C. and across the United States. A graduate of interest in the unique dynamics among women in a Leadership Fairfax and a former Presidential wide range of work environments is at the forefront Management Intern, she holds a Masters Degree in of the research in her latest book, New Rules for Public Administration from Columbia University. Women: Revolutionizing the Way Women Work Together. In her 30 years of diversity and organizational change Panelist: Alice Muellerweiss, Author, It’s your Career: work, Anne has developed a passion for unleashing Own It the leadership potential of women in organizations and helping organizations groom their talented women as future leaders. She feels that one key to increasing the retention of talented women is to strengthen the ability of both female and male managers to create supportive environments where both female and male staff can flourish. Dr. Litwin earned a doctorate in Human and Organizational Systems from Fielding Graduate University. She is co-editor of the book, Managing in the Age of Change, along with numerous articles on gender differences and women’s leadership.

Panelist: Vera Steiner Blore, Author, Success in Your New Mission: A Guide for Senior Military Leaders in Transition

Alice Muellerweiss advocates for individual career ownership and whole person development. She challenges people to “own it” and prepare to invest in themselves. A combat Veteran who began her career more than 30 years ago as an Army private, culminating her federal career as a member of the senior executive service, she has experienced first- Vera Steiner Blore is the author of SUCCESS IN hand, observed people, and researched leadership YOUR NEW MISSION: A Guide for Senior Military and career management processes. She’s learned Leaders in Transition and is an executive career that investing in people inspire great work, motivate consultant to senior military leaders in transition to employees and deliver results. civilian life (www.seniormilitaryintransition.com). Ms. Steiner Blore co-developed and co-facilitates the Alice strikes the right balance from her personal story Military Officers Association of America’s Military and illustrates impactful models and career tips in her Executives in Transition workshop. new book, “It’s Your Career: Own It!” published in October 2014. Alice has led several transformational The spouse of a retired flag officer, Ms. Steiner Blore changes in her career. Most recent in January 2010, has a twenty-eight year history working with the she was appointed the Dean, Department of Veterans public, private and nonprofit sectors. She Affairs Learning University, given the mission to has transitioned her own professional career more move VA from a fragmented, decentralized, and silo- than nine times, including work as a nonprofit based training approach to a unified full service learning university. Within the first year, Alice led the Executive Women in Government, 12th Annual Leadership Summit advancement of a “university without walls,” developed a powerful and innovative career planning building an environment for employees to receive website. Winning multiple awards, in 2012 the tool leadership and technical training across the nation. received the Harvard University’s Kennedy School Minimizing travel and time away from the job, more “Bright Idea” Award and recognized for its potential than 200,000 people participated in training the first to positively impact employment in the midst of a year, with nearly 150,000 per year thereafter. challenging economic climate. This tool contributed to a best-in-class corporate university that drove Simultaneously, she led the development of an significant employee engagement and a monetary enterprise-wide competency model to standardize return on investment of over $77M in fiscal year 2012. core values and define standards of behavior for Her passion to help people visualize their careers and employees; creating the foundation for the employees develop a plan and Take Action to achieve career life-cycle management. aspirations led her to establishing CareerFit. If you care about career growth, career change, or career With documented high turnover of more than 30,000 readiness – CareerFit will help you own it – to make annually and low satisfaction among employees, she it.

1st Panel-Work/Life Balance in the Federal Government: Values and Benefits of Recreation

Panel Moderator: Ana B. Hinojosa, Deputy Assistant Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Ms. Hinojosa was recently named the U.S. candidate for the post of Director, Compliance and Facilitation, of the World Customs Organization.

Panelist: Jennifer Flather, President, Executive Women in Golf Association, Washington, DC Chapter

Ana Hinojosa, a bilingual member of the Senior Executive Service, with nearly 28 years Customs experience, serves as the Deputy Assistant Commissioner in the Office of International Affairs with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Jennifer Flather is a golfer by passion, not necessarily Ms. Hinojosa is skilled in managing budget, logistics, skill. Ms. Flather’s retirement from the Navy, after 25 human resources, customer relations, emergency years, did not afford her the freedom to golf every planning, stakeholder coordination, project day, so she is the Basis Technology Program Manager management, and collective bargaining for Highlight, transliteration software for the responsibilities. She has an extensive background in intelligence community. implementing operational requirements related to facilitating the legitimate flow of people, cargo, and In her spare time, when not on the golf course or at mail across international borders, and directing the office, she is the President for the Executive enforcement action against illegal movements. She is Women’s Golf Association, DC Metro Chapter and a also experienced in obtaining results in the Trustee of the Board for the Sage Colleges. implementation of national policy in strategic operations. Executive Women in Government, 12th Annual Leadership Summit

In addition to her golf fixation, she loves food, wine, highest, well, she lost count - but she had a blast and her husband, Kevin (not necessarily in that doing both! order). Her lowest golf score was an 88 and her 2nd Panel-Work/Life Balance in the Federal Government: A Panel Discussion on Managing Workplace Stress, Women’s Health, and Money Management

Panel Moderator: Honorable Nancy Harvey Steorts, Commission to Europe and the former Soviet Union, former Chairman of U.S. Consumer Product Safety which was sponsored by the Department of Commission Commerce. She has also been a speaker and delegate to the Public Health Care Mission to the Czech Republic. In addition, she was appointed by the Secretary of Commerce to the Department of Commerce "Export Now" National Advisory Committee.

Ms. Steorts was named "One of the Best Public Servants" by the Gallagher Report and is the recipient Nancy Harvey Steorts has had a distinguished career of the George P. Arents Medal for Excellence in in business and trade, political service, real estate, Government, conferred by her alma mater, Syracuse academia and the media. She remains committed to University. This is the highest award given to the concept of quality and safety for the consumer. alumnae. Ms. Steorts is a highly recognized national and international leader who makes a difference. Ms. Steorts serves on several non-profit, academia, corporate, and community boards. A noted lecturer President Ronald Reagan appointed Ms. and author, Ms. Steorts has delivered over 1,000 Steorts Chairman of the U.S. Consumer Product speeches in the United States and throughout the Safety Commission. and the United States Senate world and has written three publicly acclaimed unanimously approved her nomination. Prior to that books. She has appeared on numerous television she was a consultant to the Director of the U.S, Office shows and has produced and hosted her own on Consumer Affairs at the White House and served national television specials. under the President Nixon and President Ford Administrations as the Special Assistant for Panelist Workplace Stress and Women’s Heath: Consumer Affairs to the Secretary of Agriculture. Maureen Dollymore, Admiral and Assistant U.S. Surgeon General She served as the Official United States Representative to the Public Health, Medical Equipment and Drugs Expo, held in Moscow, USSR, and was selected as a Delegate to the U.S. Working Committee on Standards between Russia and the United States. She was appointed by the American National Standards Institute, as a delegate from the United States on the NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) Delegation on Environmental Standards. She was Chairman and implementer of the ! first trade mission to Spain for Women Entrepreneurs Maura K. Dollymore was promoted to the rank of from Texas, which was sponsored by the United Rear Admiral (RADM) in November 2011 and States Department of Commerce. In addition, she was concurrently named as an Assistant US Surgeon a delegate to the first Women's Entrepreneur Trade General. RADM Dollymore is the Coast Guard's Executive Women in Government, 12th Annual Leadership Summit

Surgeon General and Chief Safety Officer, serving as Support Activity. RADM Dollymore served as the the Director of Health, Safety, and Work-Life. senior clinician in the field, Health Safety and Work- life Support Activity, Chief of the Clinical staff from She is responsible for the Coast Guard's health care 2008 until 2009. She served as Chief, Office of Health system of 42 clinics and 150 sick bays, as well as, and Safety from 2009 until November 2011. RADM operational and off-duty mishap prevention, response Dollymore is a three time recipient of the Coast Guard and investigation. She oversees the Coast Guard's Meritorious Service Medal. child care programs and food services delivery programs, ashore and afloat, and the Coast Guard's Panelist Money Management: Guylaine Saint Juste, Ombudsman, Substance Abuse, Health Promotion Virginia Market Executive, Capital One and Sexual Assault Prevention and Response programs.

RADM Dollymore is board certified in Internal Medicine. She received her Doctorate of Medicine degree from the University of Maryland in 1981. Her Internal Medicine training was done at the University of Maryland and the Loch Raven VA Hospital and completed in 1984. Guylaine Saint Juste is the Business Banking Virginia RADM Dollymore entered the Commissioned Corps Market Executive at Capital One Bank. She provides of the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) in strategic oversight, cultivates a culture of purpose 1984 as a National Health Service Corps Scholar. She and significance, and creates a learning organization served for three years in McDowell County in where a team of banking professionals provides good Southern West Virginia helping to open a rural advice and expertise to clients in the emerging hospital in an isolated mining community, where she market. Her passion is to help her team, her clients, provided primary care to include obstetrics. After her community to scale, grow, thrive and prosper. completing her assignment in 1987, Dr. Dollymore became the medical director of the Shenandoah A thought leader with a keen sense of “perceptual Community Health Center in the Eastern Panhandle acuity”, adept at creating a culture of intention and of West VA. Her eight years of medical practice was purpose where human capital grows, learns performs dedicated to direct patient care to underserved and contributes. A dynamic, enterprising and populations. As the local hospital's Dept. of Medicine seasoned executive with broad-based management and President of the Medical Staff, she was and leadership experience in retail and commercial responsible for program development and services to banking, talent, operational and organizational the local community. In addition, she volunteered for strategy development, leadership and two short tours with the PHS as a reservist in 1989 implementation of major business lines/units to with the Indian Health Service and in 1992 at the improve performance and profitability, brand USCG clinic in Kodiak, Alaska. development to enhance value and competitive positioning. She spearheads the development of a In 1995 Dr. Dollymore returned to active duty with new start-up region. She oversees Small Business the PHS and USCG as a medical officer and then the strategy for 95 branches, 650 employees, with a Chief of Health Services at the USCG Training Center, deposit base of $1.1B, and total loans of $650M, and Cape May. In 2002 she was reassigned to serve as leads all aspects of Business Banking including talent Chief, Health Services at the Coast Guard Academy. acquisition, financial performance, performance In 2005 RADM Dollymore assumed the duties as management, marketing, and sales. Guylaine counts Chief, Health and Safety, Maintenance and Logistics over 20 years in the banking industry in various Command, Atlantic. She was a key partner in the leadership roles. She holds a Bachelor's Degree from modernization of health, safety and work-life services George Mason University and a Graduate Degree in and the stand-up of the Health Safety and Work-life Executive Women in Government, 12th Annual Leadership Summit

Retail Banking Management from the University of Financial Education (WAFE). Guy has been Virginia. recognized as a Woman Worth Watching by Profiles in Diversity Magazine, received the Hispanic Besides co-chairing the George Mason University Heritage Foundation Corporate Citizen Award, and School of Business, Women Symposium; serving on The President's Award from the Fairfax Bar the board of Goodwill, the Community Business Association. She is a frequent speaker and presenter. Partnership, and Adventure Theater, she chaired the Guy was born and raised in Haiti and has lived in the board of Prince William Court Appointed Special Northern Virginia area for 27 years. She lives with Advocates (CASA), and was co-founder and her husband in Clifton. President of the Board of the Women's Alliance for

EWG Mentoring Program

Panel Moderator: Honorable Marilyn Quagliotti, the U.S. Interdiction Coordinator, ensuring Former Deputy Director, Office of National Drug Interdiction assets were sufficient and integrated with Control Policy, Executive Office of the President overall international counter narcotics policy. She co- chaired, with the National Security Staff, the Illicit Drugs and Transnational Organized Crime Interagency Policy Committee.

As Vice Director for the Defense Information Systems Agency, she was Chief Operating Officer providing network services and cyber security services to the Honorable Marilyn Quagliotti is the Former Deputy President, Vice President, Secretary of Defense, Joint Director for Supply Reduction in the Office of Chiefs of Staff, and all the Combatant Commanders, National Drug Control Policy in the Executive Office as well as Military Services. As the Theater Signal of the President; nominated by the President and Commander of the European Theater and the Chief confirmed by the Senate on June 30, 2011. Prior to her Information Officer for all U.S. Army and Joint Forces appointment, Honorable Quagliotti served 32 years in in Europe, her Command supported the Supreme the U.S. Army, retiring as a Major General; she was Allied and Commander Europe (SACEUR), Joint the Army’s first woman to command a battalion in a Headquarters, and deployed forces in Kosovo, combat division. Throughout her notable career, Bosnia, Africa, and Afghanistan. The Honorable Honorable Quagliotti has held a number of executive Marilyn Quagliotti has a Master of Science Degree in positions leading large organizations with global National Security Strategy from the National War reach. She is a trailblazer for women in leadership College and a Bachelor of Science degree in Education positions and currently leads Executive Women in from Louisiana State University. Government’s Mentoring Program. Panelist: Kathy Wentworth Drahosz, President, The As Deputy Director of the Office of National Drug Training Connection, Inc. Control Policy, she was responsible for developing and coordinating interagency policy to achieve the President’s Supply Reduction goals. Her role included supporting international programs in the Andean region, Mexico, Central America, Afghanistan, Central Asia and Russia. She was also Executive Women in Government, 12th Annual Leadership Summit

effectiveness. Her extensive experience in this area has helped numerous trainers understand DISC and apply it effectively in the work environment. Her most pioneering endeavor has been the development of “The Mentoring Connection,” an innovative web- based delivery system designed to offer the federal government and other private and non-profit organizations a comprehensive, effective and more cost-efficient method of establishing and managing ! formal mentoring programs and partnerships. Kathy Wentworth Drahosz is the founder and Through the use of the internet and sophisticated President of The Training Connection, Inc., and data management tools, this program makes possible, author of The Keys to Mentoring Success. Kathy brings effective mentoring programs with significant savings over twenty years of experience in business, product in staff and administrative overhead. and people development to the services and products of The Training Connection, Inc. As a Certified The list of clients of The Training Connection, Inc. Professional Behavioral Analyst (CPBA) Kathy has represents many of the leading business and helped thousands of individuals worldwide government agencies across the country. Kathy has experience the power of her training programs and designed, developed and implemented long-range services. mentoring programs for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Veterans Affairs, NASA, EPA, A strong focus of Kathy’s work has been helping Department of Education, FDA, US Forest Service, public and private organizations develop effective, International Broadcasting Bureau, Defense Logistics formal mentoring programs. In addition to Agency, Department of Interior, DHS, Defense Media personally presenting numerous training programs in Agency, Department of State, EEOC, Marine Corps the mentoring field, Kathy is the developer and Systems Command, South Dakota Department of author of Dynamic Mentoring Connections, Transportation, and Patent and Trademark Office. A Discovering the Mentor Within and Strategic Career number of private organizations have benefited from Management; three practical approaches to her programs including CSC, Baltimore Gas and unleashing human potential. Electric, Inter-American Development Bank, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Eagle Alliance and For more than two decades Kathy has also specialized Technology Corporation, SAIC, Leidos and L3- in the DISC: a behavioral assessment tool to help Communications. organizations strengthen the connection between employee development and organizational

OPM SES ECQ’s

Panelist: Ms. Nikki Johnson

Ms. Johnson is the lead human resources specialist in Executive Resources and Performance Management Policy. She is OPM’s liaison for over 12 Federal agencies providing guidance and technical assistance on senior executive service (SES), performance management, and awards policy issues. ! Ms. Johnson participated in the development of Nikki Johnson began employment with the Office of regulations and guidance to assist agencies in Personnel Management (OPM) over 13 years ago. Executive Women in Government, 12th Annual Leadership Summit administering a United States flag recognition benefit providing recommendations on streamlining the SES for fallen Federal civilian employees. She also performance appraisal system certification process. contributed to the development of proposed regulations on managing senior executive Ms. Johnson received her Bachelor of Arts degree in performance. Most recently, Ms. Johnson provided Anthropology and a Master of Public Administration support to an interagency working group tasked with degree from the University of West Florida.

America’s Workforce: Engaged, Diverse, Inclusive, and Well-Trained

Keynote Speaker: Katherine Archuleta, Director, U.S. 10th Director of OPM, and the first Latina to head this Office of Personnel Management (OPM) federal agency.

Director Archuleta began her career in public service as a teacher in the Denver public school system. She left teaching to work as an aide to Denver Mayor Federico Peña. When Mayor Peña became Secretary of Transportation during the Clinton Administration, Archuleta continued her public service as his Chief of Staff. Later, Peña was appointed to head the Department of Energy and Archuleta served as a ! Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of the Secretary. Director Katherine Archuleta is a long-time public After the Clinton Administration, she went back to servant, who has distinguished herself as a leader on local government and became a Senior Policy Advisor human resources and management policy in a variety to Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper. of senior positions in local and Federal government. Archuleta spent the first two years of the Obama On May 23, 2013, President Obama appointed Administration serving as the Chief of Staff at the Director Archuleta to lead the U.S. Office of Personnel Department of Labor to Secretary Hilda Solis. Management (OPM), the agency responsible for As the Director of OPM, Archuleta is committed to attracting and retaining an innovative, diverse and building an innovative and inclusive workforce that talented workforce to make the Federal government a reflects the diversity of America. As a long-time model employer for the 21st century. On November public servant, she is a champion of Federal 4th, Archuleta was sworn in to begin her tenure as the employees.

Executive Women in Government: Summit Chair

Chair: Rhonda Shaffer Foster, Director, Department of She is an accomplished executive with over 28 years Veterans Affairs of combined federal and private enterprise experience, a proven leader of people, programs, and projects, with broad experience in guiding enterprise- level strategy, as well as operational tactics, techniques, and procedures. Ms. Shaffer Foster is a Director at the Department of Veterans Affairs, the U.S. government’s largest federal civilian agency, ! with a mission to serve 2.4 million Veterans and their Ms. Rhonda Shaffer Foster currently serves as Vice families. Prior to joining federal service, Ms. Shaffer President of Executive Women in Government (EWG) Foster held executive positions as a Chief Audit and is this year’s Annual Leadership Summit Chair. Executive and Director of Company-Wide Executive Women in Government, 12th Annual Leadership Summit

Compliance, Chief Financial Officer, and Controller. Government Financial Manager (CGFM). Ms. Shaffer For almost a decade, she owned and operated a Foster is an alumna of Leadership Kansas, one of the global accounting and consulting firm with a separate oldest and most prestigious statewide leadership Allstate insurance and financial securities franchise. programs in the country, dedicated to enhance and motivate future leaders from diverse communities. Ms. Shaffer Foster is the recipient of numerous awards, including two Department of Homeland Ms. Shaffer Foster is a member of the Inter-Agency Security (DHS) CFO Financial Management awards Seminar Group (IASG), participating in the group’s and a special leadership award from the Association distinguished speaker series on public policy and of Military Comptrollers. She holds a Master of national affairs at the Brookings Institution. She has Science degree in Business Intelligence, with an served on the Board of Directors for the non-profit emphasis in development of decision support organization Kansas Court Appointed Special systems. Ms. Shaffer Foster has earned a Bachelors of Advocate (CASA) for children. Ms. Shaffer Foster’s Science degree in Accounting, graduating with service on EWG’s Board of Directors from 2013 to distinction from Ottawa University. She obtained 2015 as the Treasurer and later as Vice President is but licensure in the areas of Insurance Life, Property, and another example of her commitment to public service Health as well as Securities Series 6 and 63. She is a and volunteerism. Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified