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Session One San Antonio, Texas March 3-5, 2019

Enlighted Leadership for the Future: Leading in the Lone Star State

Leadership Texas is the longest-running and most successful women’s leadership program in the country. With more than 36 years in action, Leadership Texas puts women on a path to access influencers across the state – and become one themselves. Participants explore beyond the silos of career, family and local community to focus on and learn about the future of our state and global community.

As a leader today, or an aspiring leader of tomorrow, this innovative program helps women embrace their own powerful journey. Incorporating interactive learning opportunities and engagements with leading edge innovators and subject matter experts across industries and geographies, this is a one-of-a-kind experience. Participants can expect to exponentially broaden their network and understanding of the issues facing Texas and its place in the world. San Antonio, Laredo, Bryan/College Station and Austin – together we will explore each of these communities in unexpected ways.

Join us and:  learn about new leadership models and best practices  deepen your understanding of the unique cultures, resources and opportunities of these Texas communities  broaden your perspective on national issues and challenges  be a part of a diverse, influential network of women and create new collaborative possibilities  be empowered to share your new insights learnings to increase your personal impact at your workplace or community.

Welcome to the enlightened leadership for the future of Texas. Welcome to Leadership Texas 2019!

With Special thanks to the sponsors of Leadership Women. These corporations believe in helping women advance and achieve.

Appreciation to Our Session Sponsors

Special Thanks to the San Antonio Graduates:

Regional Ambassador, Ana Nelson, LT’04 Mary DeLay, LT’02 Erika Prosper, LT’15 Pilar Oates, LT’00, LA’12, LW Board Member

Leadership Texas 2019 Session 1 – San Antonio, Texas March 3-5, 2019

Omni La Mansion Hotel 112 College Street, San Antonio, TX 78205 Phone:

Draft Agenda Sunday, March 3, 2019 Suggested Dress: Business Casual Time/Location Event 1:00 p.m. Registration Available – Madero Ballroom (5th Floor) to 2:00 p.m.

2:00 p.m. Welcome & Overview of Session to 2:30 p.m.  Heidi K. Murray, Chief Operating Officer, Leadership Women, Inc.

Madero Ballroom, HEIDI K. MURRAY began her career in programming and special events at the John. F. th Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., working with logistics for 5 Floor international touring companies. From the performing arts arena, she began her 11-year career with Omni Hotels in various events management positions, including Director of Catering and Conference Planning at Omni’s flagship hotel, the Omni Mandalay Hotel in Dallas, Texas. Heidi has also served as the National Director of Sales for a destination management company, producing conventions, meetings, and a variety of special events throughout the U.S. Heidi’s work in the hotel business introduced her to Leadership Women and she has remained involved with the organization since graduating from the Leadership Pipeline Class of 2004. She first served as a member of the Leadership Pipeline Committee of the board and was a part-time contractor for Leadership Women before joining the team as the Director of Logistics and Alliances. Now she serves as the program director for Leadership Texas and Leadership International while also providing operational and logistics management for the Leadership America program. Heidi has been a Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) since 2001 and is active in the meeting planning community, regularly lecturing for Meeting Planners

Time/Location Event International. She was part of the 2010 Leadership Arts Class in Dallas and serves as a board member of the Dallas Black Dance Theater, Leadership Arts Alumni Association, and the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee. Heidi is a graduate of the 2015 class of Leadership Dallas and holds an honors degree in communications with a minor in psychology from the University of North Florida.

2:30 p.m. StrengthsFinder “Know Yourself, Know Each Other, and Know Your to 3:45 p.m. Strengths  Facilitated by Alise Cortez, PhD, LT’14, LA’15, Engagement and Development Catalyst, Alise Cortez and Associates DR. ALISE CORTEZ is a Speaker, Consultant, Coach, Published Author, Radio Show / Podcast Host, and Development/Engagement Catalyst based in Dallas, Texas. Having developed her expertise within in the Human Capital / Organizational Transformation industry over the last 20 years, today she is focused on helping people across the globe more meaningfully and productively connect with their work to achieve greater fulfillment, more impactful results, and meaningful work-life integration. She is a sought-after speaker, consults with organizations, and conducts workshops to increase employee engagement, performance, and leadership effectiveness.

3:45 p.m. Break to 4:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. The Changing Demographics of Texas to 5:00 p.m.  Dr. Lloyd Potter, Texas State Demographer Madero Ballroom, DR. LLOYD POTTER was appointed State Demographer on May 5, 2010. Dr. Potter holds a 5th Floor Ph.D. in Demography and Sociology from The University of Texas at Austin, a Master of Public Health Degree from Emory University, a Master of Science in Education from the University of Houston at Clear Lake and a Bachelor of Science from Texas A&M University. He is a professor in the Department of Demography at The University of Texas at San Antonio where he also serves as the director of the Institute for Demographic and Socioeconomic Research (IDSER). He has extensive experience working as an applied demographer in several settings. His current research focuses on public policy and health related demographic topics and training applied demographers. Dr. Potter also serves as the director of the Texas Demographic Center housed at The University of Texas at San Antonio. The Texas Demographic Center program produces population estimates and projections for the State of Texas, serves as a data archive for Texas, and offers technical expertise in demographic and socioeconomic research.

5:00 p.m. Break to 6:15 p.m. 6:15 p.m. Depart to Walk to Dinner along the Riverwalk – 700 N. Saint Mary's, Dinner Sponsored by South Texas Money Management Suite 100 South Texas Money Management (STMM) was founded in 2000 by Jeanie Wyatt, CFA. STMM operates as a Registered Investment Advisory firm and is a limited partnership formed under the laws of the state of Texas. The firm’s headquarters are in San Antonio with regional offices in Houston, Dallas, Austin, Brenham/College Station and Corpus Christi. Offering a disciplined and unique investment approach utilizing individual stocks and bonds for separately managed accounts, STMM works with a broad range of clientele which today amounts to approximately $3.4 billion in assets under management representing approximately 1,900 clients – including non-profits, endowments, employee benefit plans, as well as individual accounts and trusts & estates. Approximately 80% of STMM’s client base is comprised of high net worth individuals, and 20% of our clients are institutional.

6:30 p.m. San Antonio Fiesta Dinner to 8:00 p.m.  Hosted by South Texas Money Management

Time/Location Event 8:00 p.m. Depart for the hotel on your own after the reception. Explore the World Famous San Antonio Riverwalk The Riverwalk (also known as Paseo del Río) is a network of walkways along the banks of the San Antonio River, one story beneath the streets of Downtown San Antonio. In September 1921, a disastrous flood along the San Antonio River took 50 lives and plans were then developed for flood control of the river. In 1929, San Antonio native and architect, Robert Hugman, submitted his plans for what would become the River Walk. Although many have been involved in development of the site, the leadership of former mayor Jack White was instrumental in passage of a bond issue that raised funds to empower the 1938 “San Antonio River Beautification Project”, which began the evolution of the site into the present 2.5-mile-long River Walk. Expansion plans are planned for areas of the river north and south of Downtown. In May 2011, the River Walk was extended by several miles to extend from Downtown to Mission Espada which is on the city's south side. This addition (named the "Mission Reach") is notable for its emphasis on ecological controls and improvements, as well as trail improvements to support both hiking and biking.

Monday, March 4, 2019

Suggested Dress: Daytime – Business casual. Time/Location Event 8:00 a.m. Depart for Breakfast and Programming at the Federal Reserve Bank

402 Dwyer Avenue, The Reserve Bank of Dallas San Antonio Branch is one of three branches (El Paso, Houston, and San Antonio) of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. The mission of the San Antonio, Texas Dallas Fed is to serve the interests of the American public by informing and influencing our 78204 nation's monetary policy, fostering financial stability and delivering quality services to the United States government and the financial institutions in our region.

8:30 a.m. Breakfast at the Federal Reserve Bank to 9:15 a.m. 9:15 a.m. A Perspective from the Federal Reserve to 9:45 a.m.  Blake Hastings, Sr. Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, San Antonio Branch

BLAKE HASTINGS is Senior Vice President of the San Antonio Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. He has oversight responsibilities over the San Antonio and El Paso branch offices, which cover the Central and South Texas region, as well as West Texas and southern New Mexico. In this capacity, Blake is responsible for all Dallas Fed’s activities within these regions. This includes providing leadership and oversight of the operating and administrative functions with particular emphasis on its outreach activities to banks, businesses and community-based organizations. He is a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas’ Senior Management Committee. Hastings is a board member of Junior Achievement South Texas. Blake holds a Masters Degree in International Business and a Bachelor degree in International Economics from George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

9:45 a.m. Economic Drivers of the San Antonio & Texas Regional Economy to 10:15 a.m.  Keith R. Phillips, Assistant Vice President and Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, San Antonio Branch

Time/Location Event Keith R. Phillips joined the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in January 1984. His areas of concentration include regional economics and economic forecasting. Research Papers in Economics, which tracks publications in economics, ranks Phillips in the top five percent of economists across the world in terms of the number of distinct publications. Over the past sixteen years he has been the most accurate forecaster for Texas job growth in the Western Blue Chip Economic Forecast. In August, 1996, Phillips was transferred to the San Antonio branch in an effort to improve the regional economic coverage of the Dallas office and to better serve the needs of the South Texas community. Phillips teaches courses in managerial economics and quantitative analysis in the Executive MBA program at UTSA. He obtained his Ph.D. in economics from Southern Methodist University and holds a B.A. and M.A. in Economics and a Bachelor of Journalism degree in News/Editorial from the University of Missouri at Columbia.

10:15 a.m. Break to 10:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. Leadership Through Core Values to 11:15 a.m.  Sheryl Sculley, LA’90, San Antonio City Manager

SHERYL SCULLEY began serving as City Manager of San Antonio, Texas 10 years ago in November 2005. With 40 years in city management, Sculley is the Chief Executive Officer of the municipal corporation of 12,000 employees, an annual operating and capital budget of $2.4 billion, and a city population of 1.4 million residents. San Antonio is the nation’s seventh largest city. Appointed by the Mayor and City Council, Sculley was recruited in 2005 to transform the City administration and improve the community’s public infrastructure. During her nine-year tenure, she has appointed executive leadership, reorganized City departments, streamlined City business systems, improved customer service, and elevated the professionalism of local government through the City’s Core Values: Teamwork, Integrity, Innovation, and Professionalism. In 2006, Sculley proposed the largest capital bond program in city history. It was overwhelmingly approved by city voters in 2007. The $550 million program, which focused on street, drainage, and park improvements, was on schedule and under budget. After substantially completing the 2007 bond projects, Sculley recommended in 2012 a $596 million infrastructure bond program, also approved by the voters of San Antonio in May 2012.

11:30 a.m. Depart for The University of Texas Health Science Center

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (now known as UT Health 7703 Floyd Curl Dr. San Antonio) is an institute of health science education and research as a component of The University of Texas System. UT Health serves San Antonio and all of the 50,000 square miles area of Central and South Texas. UT Health has produced more than 28,000 graduates and more than 65 degrees, the large majority of them being graduate and professional degrees, in the biomedical and health sciences fields. UT Health is home to UT Health MD Anderson Cancer Center, designated a National Cancer Institute Cancer Center. The Cancer Center's Institute for Drug Development (IDD) is internationally recognized for conducting one of the largest oncology Phase I clinical drug trials programs in the world. Fifteen of the cancer drugs most recently approved by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration underwent development or testing at the IDD. Other noted programs include: cellular and structural biology, urology, nephrology, transplantation biology, aging and longevity studies, cardiology and research imaging. UT Health San Antonio’s newest meeting space, The Academic Learning & Teaching Center, is remarkable for its architecture inspired by gene mapping and is a $51.2 million nexus of interdisciplinary collaboration, innovation, and super technology. Among the nation’s most advanced learning environments, this premier 130,000-square-foot center features 31 classrooms enlivened by connectivity, plus a revolutionary digital anatomy lab with interactive imaging that is three dimensional.

12 Noon Lunch to 1:00 p.m.  Sponsored by the UT Health San Antonio

Time/Location Event 1:15 p.m. Welcome to UT Health San Antonio to 1:30 p.m.  Mary DeLay, LT’02, VP and Chief of Staff, UT Health San Antonio

Room ALTC 304 MARY DELAY joined UT Health San Antonio 29 years ago as the university’s first director of development and alumni relations. As chief of staff, she works closely with the president to provide administrative, organizational and planning support for the president’s vision and 7703 Floyd Curl Dr. initiatives, oversees the running of the president’s office and administers a community engagement program.

1:30 p.m. Healthcare, Biomedical and Military Health in San Antonio to 2:00 p.m.  Ann Stevens, President, BioMed SA

ANN STEVENS brings a unique combination of experience in the biomedical field, investment community and media industry – along with a collaborative leadership style and a passion for community service – to her role as Founding President of BioMed SA. In this role, she fosters the growth of local startup companies as well as homegrown industry leaders; helps recruit biomedical companies to San Antonio, and travels throughout the nation and world to raise the visibility of San Antonio as a City of Science and Health. Before accepting her leadership role with BioMed SA in 2005, Stevens spent eight years as Director of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations for ILEX Oncology, Inc., San Antonio’s first publicly traded biopharmaceutical company. She was a key member of the leadership team that raised the market capitalization of this homegrown, startup company from under $100 million to its final acquisition price by Genzyme Corporation of $1 billion in December 2004.

2:00 p.m. Innovations in Medicine: Identifying Novel Drug Targets for the Treatment of to 2:45 p.m. Alzheimer’s Disease  Dr. Bess Frost, Assistant Professor at the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity & Aging Studies, the Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer's & Neurodegenerative Disorders, and the department of Cell Systems & Anatomy at UT Health San Antonio DR. BESS FROST is an Assistant Professor in the department of Cell Systems and Anatomy, the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, and the Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Disorders at the University of Texas Health San Antonio. Dr. Frost obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Texas, Austin, where she worked in the laboratory of Dr. Susan Bergeson to investigate gene expression changes in the brain due to chronic alcohol exposure. She went on to earn her Ph.D. from the University of California San Francisco in the laboratory of Dr. Marc Diamond. As a graduate student, Bess pioneered work that ignited a now prominent area of research, which is that tau adopts prion- like characteristics that help explain its pathological spread through the brain and the diverse disease phenotypes of the human tauopathies. Dr. Frost performed her postdoctoral work at Harvard Medical School in the laboratory of Dr. Mel Feany, where she developed a multi-system approach to studying tauopathy, incorporating studies in Drosophila, mice and postmortem human brain tissue. Dr. Frost began her independent position in November of 2015. The research focus of her lab revolves around the basic neurobiology mediating brain aging and tau-induced neurodegeneration.

2:45 p.m. The Intersection of Healthcare and the San Antonio Military Community to 3:15 p.m.  Major General (retired) Dr. Byron C. Hepburn, Associate Vice President & Inaugural Director of the Military Health Institute at UT Health San Antonio DR. BYRON C. HEPBURN, Maj. Gen, USAF Ret, is Associate Vice President and the inaugural Director of the Military Health Institute at UT Health San Antonio. In this role, he strengthens the University’s DoD and VA collaborations with the goal of improving the health and well-being of military personnel, veterans and their families through innovative medical research, health education and clinical care. He holds the titles of Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Assistant Dean for Military Health in the School of Medicine and the USAA Patty and Joe Robles, Jr. Distinguished Chair for Military Health. Dr. Hepburn has a

Time/Location Event distinguished military career spanning 38 years. He served as the inaugural Director of the San Antonio Military Health System (SAMHS). In addition, he was Commander of the 59th Medical Wing, Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, the Air Force’s largest medical wing composed of 6,000 military, civilian, contract employees, residents and students. Previously, he served as Deputy Surgeon General of the Air Force, where he directed all operations of the Air Force Medical Service, a $5.1 billion, 43,000-person integrated health care delivery system serving 2.4 million beneficiaries at 75 military treatment facilities worldwide.

3:15 p.m. Break to 3:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. Leadership Lessons Learned: Women in the Military to 4:15 p.m.  Kimberly D. Olson, LA’15, Colonel, Retired, United States Air Force

KIMBERLY D. OLSON, through her trailblazing military service as an aviation leader, commander and patriot has reshaped the perception of women serving their country. Today, she is influencing the future of sustainable food production through her Community Supported Agriculture at the 4K River Ranch, Mineral Wells, Texas. Her 25-years in uniform encompassed a time of great change. A retired Colonel from the United States Air Force, she was part of the first generation of female military pilots, eventually accumulating nearly 4,000 hours of flying time. As one of the first women to command an operational flying squadron, Kim rose to the rank of Colonel, served in the Pentagon on the Joint Staff, Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the Air Staff and deployed to several combat zones, including Iraq. As the retired CEO/President of Grace After Fire, a Texas-based nonprofit dedicated to helping women veterans help themselves, she reshaped how care was delivered to thousands of women veterans. Kim exemplifies those military veterans who continue to serve their communities and their nation and was inducted into the 2014 “Texas Women’s Hall of Fame.” In working with veterans, nutritious food became the great healer for those struggling with the human heartbreak that is war. Kim, a Natural-Organic Certification from the Texas Organic Research Center and a Texas Master Gardener, provides naturally grown and “beyond organics” food, raises bees, and is committed to sustainable Eco-Agriculture. In 2018, she took her leadership skills into the political arena by running for Texas Commissioner of Agriculture.

4:15 p.m. Depart for the Hotel

5:00 p.m. Break to 6:00 p.m.

6:00 p.m. Leadership Women Luminary Reception and Dinner - (Madero Ballroom, 5th to 8:00 p.m. Floor)  Sponsored by Methodist Healthcare Ministries

The Luminary Women of San Antonio experience is designed specifically for LT2019. Some of San Antonio’s iconic women leaders are eager to discuss their challenges and accomplishments with the class of Leadership Texas. This is a personal and unique opportunity to hear “stories from the top” regarding their view of future of community. Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas, Inc. is a private, faith-based, not-for- profit organization dedicated to creating access to health care for uninsured and low- income families through direct services, community partnerships and strategic grant- making in 74 counties across South Texas. Building partnerships through collaboration is a key objective of Methodist Healthcare Ministries' mission. Using an asset-based and client-centered approach, Methodist Healthcare Ministries' community engagement efforts seek to champion and empower the community voice. With a focus on developing long-lasting, trusting relationships, Methodist Healthcare Ministries connects communities to identify health issues and design collaborative, community- driven solutions. Methodist Healthcare Ministries takes a community-wide, or regional, approach to health improvement with intentional investments in each region—a

Time/Location Event strategy Methodist Healthcare Ministries refers to as regionalization. Through community engagement, Methodist Healthcare Ministries works to infuse health equity principles by highlighting the social determinants of health—the unique social and physical conditions in which community members live, learn, work, play and pray— that are present in its service region to improve health for all.

8:00 p.m. Evening Concludes

Tuesday, March 5, 2019 Suggested Dress: Travel Attire. Time/Location Event 7:15 a.m. Breakfast Buffet Available – Veramendi Ballroom

8:00 a.m. Welcome to San Antonio Veramendi  Mayor Ron Nirenberg th Ballroom, 4 Floor RON NIRENBERG is the mayor of San Antonio, the fastest growing city with the 7th largest population in the United States. He was raised in Austin, Texas, and attended college in San Antonio. Nirenberg is the son of an immigrant from Southeast Asia and the grandson of immigrants from Eastern Europe who passed through Ellis Island. Through his personal experiences, Mayor Nirenberg developed a core commitment to civic participation and the universal values of liberty, justice, and equal opportunity for every person. He is focused on making key infrastructure investments necessary to accommodate the growth of San Antonio, which is expected to nearly double in population by 2040. This forward-looking approach drives the mayor’s vision of a compassionate community with a globally competitive economy.

8:30 a.m. Innovative Community Leadership in San Antonio to 10:00 a.m.  Jeanne Russell, Principal and Co-Founder, Mission Street Consulting  Belinda Román, Consultant, San Antonio Business & Economics Research Institute (SABER)  Jordana Barton, Senior Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, San Antonio Branch  Jeanna Saucedo-Herrera, President & CEO, San Antonio Economic Development Foundation Moderated by: Erika Prosper Nirenberg, Sr. Director of Customer Insights, H-E- B; First Lady of San Antonio; Immediate-Past Chairwoman, San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce JEANNE RUSELL started her career as a teacher, later tackled educational challenges as an investigative reporter, then moved to the public sector to contribute to solving the very concerns she spotlighted as a journalist. Today, she brings all those skills together as a consultant for organizations with a passion to make positive change. A strategist with a rare ability to mobilize and motivate cross-sector collaborations, Jeanne is known for her ability to synthesize complex problems and achieve outcomes that contribute to economic mobility and prosperity. Since co- founding Mission Street Consulting LLC, Jeanne has played a leadership role in multiple high- profile workforce and education projects including the Centers for Applied Science & Technology (CAST), SA Works, and Upgrade. CAST Tech was the first in the CAST network to open in August 2017, and she continues to act as the lead consultant in this San Antonio- based effort to make high school more relevant, college more affordable, and students more connected to their long-term goals. She previously served as part of the initial leadership team and Chief Strategist for SA2020, the community vision measuring San Antonio’s progress, where she introduced a data system to track progress on key community indicators and led the

Talent Pipeline Task Force. As Education Policy Advisor to San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro, she helped create Pre-K 4-SA, a sales tax funding high-quality early education, and café college, a national model for one-stop college advising. Jeanne entered public service as Communications Director to San Antonio Mayor Phil Hardberger. BELINDA ROMÁN, PhD is Professor of Economics for Palo Alto College – San Antonio, Texas. Her other activities include adjunct teaching at St. Mary’s University. She is member of the American Economic Association (AEA) and its Committees on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession and Economic Education, respectively. Dr. Román is also a member of the American Society of Hispanic Economists (ASHE) and serves on their Communications Committee. Her economic research includes working with the Brookings Institute-Global Cities Initiative, and collaborate studies for the SABÉR Institute of the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and St. Mary’s University. Prior to academia, Dr. Román worked for in Latin America for a USAID-funded project, on Capitol Hill in the U.S. House of Representatives, and in London (UK) for both non-profit and for-profit entities. Dr. Román is a fellow of the NSF-funded Diversity Initiative for Tenure in Economics at Duke University. JORDANA BARTON is Senior Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, where she supports the Federal Reserve System’s economic growth objectives by promoting community and economic development and fair and impartial access to credit. Her focus areas include the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), community development finance, digital inclusion, financial education, affordable housing, workforce development, and small business development. Jordana is lead author of “Las Colonias in the 21st Century: Progress Along the Texas-Mexico Border” (2015), and author of “Closing the Digital Divide: A Framework for Meeting CRA Obligations” (2016). Publications in progress for 2017 include “Preparing Workers for the Digital Economy,” “Telehealth: A Tool for Addressing Health Disparities on the Texas-Mexico Border,” and “Local Guide to Broadband Connectivity.” Jordana serves on the Steering Committee for San Antonio’s newly formed Digital Inclusion Alliance and the collective impact project, Digital Opportunity for the Rio Grande Valley (DO4RGV). She is on the Board of Directors of SA2020 and on the Advisory Board of the Texas Health Improvement Network of the University of Texas System. In 2012, she was awarded the FDIC’s Pioneer Award in Community Development, and Capital One was awarded Corporate Philanthropist of the Year in San Antonio by the Association of Fundraising Professionals. JENNA SAUCEDO-HERRARA joined the San Antonio Economic Development Foundation (SAEDF) as president and chief executive officer in July 2016. In this capacity, she is responsible for advancing the diversification and growth of the San Antonio regional economy through domestic and international business development, partnerships and market strategies. Before joining SAEDF, Saucedo-Herrera served as Vice President of Public Affairs and Brand Management for CPS Energy where she oversaw the economic development, corporate communications, marketing, and corporate responsibility functions for the organization. Saucedo-Herrera has received accolades including: the “2015 Women in Leadership Award” and the “2017 40 Under 40: Woman of the Year Award” from the San Antonio Business Journal, acknowledgement by the San Antonio Express News in their “2016 Women Who Run San Antonio” feature, and recognition in Culturemap’s “Top Texans Under 30”. She is an alumna of St. Mary’s University, with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing Management. Saucedo-Herrera also serves on several community boards and councils including: San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Visit San Antonio, EPIcenter, BioBridge Global, United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County, San Antonio Medical Foundation, and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) Advisory Trustee. ERIKA PROSPER NIRENBERG, as Customer Insights for H-E-B, leads a team charged with helping guide the development of H-E-B’s strategic vision and operational efforts by providing customer insights to change the business, gain share and establish preference for the company. Growing up as a migrant in the Rio Grande Valley, Erika now holds a Masters in Communication from the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School, and a B.A. in Plan II Liberal Arts and a second Bachelor’s of Science in Advertising from the University of Texas at Austin. She is the 2018 Chairwoman of the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, having served on its Executive Board for 6 years. She is also a member of the H-E-B Corporate Diversity Leadership Council and Health and Education Task forces and a former board member of Say Si Youth Arts. In 2016, she received the prestigious H-E-B’s David Ashworth Community Service Award and has received the Corporate Diversity Excellence Award for 2015 and 2016. She has also been the 2011 Women’s Service Awards honoree by the Hispanic

Chamber, the 2012 Marketing Leadership Awardee by the La Prensa Foundation and was the recipient of the 2010 Association of Migrant Educators of Texas’ Migrant Alumni Award. A Leadership Texas 2015 graduate and 2015/2016 Chair of the Latina Leadership Institute, much of Erika’s passion revolves around efforts to help improve quality of life among underserved populations through girls & women empowerment, arts education and literacy. She has led the creation of multiple education and economic development white papers, as well as an internationally available, bilingual workbook aimed at helping elementary school-aged children develop entrepreneurial mindsets. Erika and her husband, San Antonio Mayor, Ron Nirenberg, have one son, Jonah.

10:00 a.m. Break to 10:15 a.m. 10:15 a.m. ‘Ban Bossy’ to 11:00 a.m.  Stephanie Finleon Cortez, Chief Development and Communications Officer, Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas STEPHANIE FINLEON CORTEZ was named Chief Development and Communications Officer (CDCO) for Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas on January 18, 2013, after serving as Chief Communications Officer for the council since January 2010. A Girl Scout for 31 years, Finleon was among the first Daisies to join the organization in 1984. Finleon Cortez began her career in 2002 as a Membership Manager with Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council in Houston. Two years later, Finleon Cortez returned to her hometown of San Antonio and began her work in communications. As CDCO, she leads the council's fund development and communications department, to include oversight of individual and major giving, corporate contributions, foundation contributions, government grants and special events. She is also responsible for internal and external communications, to include public relations and advocacy, media relations, marketing, advertising, social media, crisis communications and brand management. Finleon Cortez uses her personal experience as a “grown-up” Girl Scout and Girl Scout Gold Award recipient to communicate the relevance of an organization that has impacted more than 59 million women nation-wide.

11:00 a.m. Wrap-Up and Next Steps  Heidi K. Murray, Chief Operating Officer, Leadership Women, Inc.

11:30 a.m. Session One Adjourns