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Check out the Rockstar Lineup from 2014 LEXI:

Shandel Slaten

Shandel Slaten

Wendy Damonte

Wendy Damonte

Abbi Whitaker

Abbi Whitaker

Alice Heiman

Alice Heiman

Jill Tolles

Jill Tolles

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Debra Trappen

Debra Trappen

Laura Partridge

Laura Partridge

Evelyn Chiang

Evelyn Chiang

8:00am         Registration

8:25am         Welcome & Group Excercise

9:00am         Keynote Presentation

10:15am       Networking Break

10:30am       LEXI Address #1

10:45am       LEXI Address #2

11:00am       LEXI Address #3

11:15am       Panel Presentation

11:50am       LEXI Address #4

Noon            Networking Lunch & Goal Setting

1:15pm         LEXI Address #5

1:25pm         Personal Reflection & Share

1:30pm         LEXI Address #6

1:55pm         Networking Break

2:05pm         LEXI Address #7

2:40pm         Panel Presentation

3:15pm         Closing Conversation

Sample Schedule:

Get to know our speakers:

Shandel Slaten

CEO/Founder True Life Coaching

www.truelifecoaching.com 

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“My purpose is to help other people find their purpose.”

 

Shandel Slaten’s passion for helping women in business is what motivated her to start the Women’s Leadership Summit in 2008. She plays an active roll in helping women achieve their goals as an Executive Coach. Shandel founded True Life Coaching with the intention to help leaders define their growth strategies for both their professional and personal lives. True Life Coaching focuses on the leader of small to mid-size businesses who desire to build strong teams, create amazing culture, and improve communication.

 

In her recent book, Clarity: Focusing On What Matters, Shandel shares 52 inspiring ways to take your leadership and life to the next level. Shandel is a Master Certified Coach with a Summa Cum Laude degree in Psychology from Vanguard University. She holds certifications in Behavior Analysis, Professional Values Analysis, and Trimetrix. In 2000, True Life Coaching was founded in Seattle, WA and Slaten launched the Reno, NV office in 2006. Read more at her blog www.truelifeinc.com

 

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Wendy Damonte

Evening News Anchor, KTVN Channel 2 News

www.KTVN.com

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Wendy Damonte is the evening news anchor and health reporter for the CBS affiliate in Reno, Nevada.  In 2011, she turned the cameras on her own family and chronicled her mother’s battle with breast cancer.  Her mom lost that battle.  Wendy lost her best friend.  But through her research, Wendy discovered her mom didn’t die from breast cancer; she died because she had dense breast tissue and no one ever told her.  Through her involvement with Each One Tell One, public speaking engagements and with the Dangerous Boobs Tour, Wendy is now working tirelessly to inform women about dense breast tissue.  She believes a senseless death only remains senseless if the survivors do nothing to promote change.  Wendy’s work is her mom’s legacy.

 

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Abbi Whitaker

Owner/President of The Abbi Agency

www.TheAbbiAgency.com

Abbi is the heart, soul and creative engine that drives The Abbi Agency. A veteran of international media campaigns for some of the nation’s largest real estate, tourism and business-to-business companies (including Intrawest, Mammoth Mountain, Squaw Valley USA, Trump International and Fast Wrap USA), Abbi innately understands what drives media coverage. She’s launched national franchise campaigns, turned technology start-ups into industry heavyweights and sold luxury real estate and tourist destinations across the globe. Before starting The Abbi Agency, Abbi was vice president of Lyman Public Relations.

 

Despite her role directing the company’s public relations strategy and orchestrating campaigns, Abbi is still most at home picking up the phone and landing top-tier media placements herself. She has secured feature coverage in the world’s most prestigious publications and television programming— The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune Small Business and MSNBC — and has the established relationships with world-class reporters and writers to show for it. Abbi has organized and led media tours across the world, in locations from London, Mexico and Costa Rica to Chicago and New York. A long-time Reno resident and a graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno, she volunteers with Let’s Move Nevada, the Obesity Prevention Foundation, Nevada’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, the Susan G. Komen Foundation and many other charitable and business organizations.

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Alice Heiman

Founder and Chief Sales Officer

Alice Heiman, LLC

www.AliceHeiman.com

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Alice has been helping companies increase sales since 1994. Formerly with Milller Heiman, Inc, Alice started her own company in 1997. Networking is one of her great passions and talents, therefore, she created the BizTalk Blender®, one of the easiest and most effective ways for salespeople and small business owners to increase sales. Her focus on enabling anyone to network effectively led her to create Connecting Your Way to New Business, a well-received training program to guide business professionals through the strategies and nuances needed to network for new prospects and sales. Alice began developing her sales expertise at Miller Heiman, Inc. where she was responsible for training, coaching, and program quality. She was named 2004 Saleswoman of the Year by Professional Saleswomen of Nevada, 2009 Marketer of the Year by the Reno-Tahoe AMA and has been featured in Selling Power Magazine and Entrepreneurs Startups Magazine. Alice is, quite simply, a great instigator of business relationships.

 

Jill Tolles, M.A.

Adjunct Professor, Communication Studies

University of Nevada, Reno

 

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Jill Tolles is an adjunct professor at the University of Nevada, Reno in the Department of Communication Studies in addition to teaching at classes at  Multnomah College and the National Judicial College. She specializes in Public Speaking, Listening, and Small Group Communication. In addition, she teaches Business and Professional Speaking, Communication between the Sexes, Interpersonal Conflict, and Interpersonal Communication. She is chair of the Washoe County School District’s Say Yes for Kids committee, a member of the Senate Task Force for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse, and a pro bono lobbyist for Parent Leaders for Education. Before teaching, Ms. Tolles worked for a non-profit and then joined the private sector as the Northern Nevada Regional Manager for ADP.

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Cindy Faber-England

CEO/FOUNDER of JESSICA ANN FABER FOUNDATION www.JessicaAnnFaberFoundation.org

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Cindy is a survivor.  In her lifetime she has encountered multiple significant losses, but has maintained a passion to encourage others to move beyond, and make choices that turn loss into gain.  Cindy will inspire you to choose to face your challenges, choose courage, choose to find hope – even in the midst of what feels like devastating loss, and look for blessings and promise instead.

 

Cindy raised and home-educated two daughters.  They were a very close trio until a tragic accident took the life of her youngest, Jessica at age 18.  She now serves as CEO for the Jessica Ann Faber Foundation, which commemorates Jessica’s passions & legacy.  Cindy’s passion is to help women overcome losses which become obstacles with her strong leadership ability and compassionate nature. Her hope is to motivate you to choose positively, find the inner strength you already possess to overcome loss in your life, and become a survivor!

 

Debra Trappen
Chief of Sass, Moxie, and Experience

d11consulting.com

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“Everyday I seek to ignite passion, infuse purpose, and inspire progress by connecting, engaging, elevating and empowering the amazing relationships and brilliant ideas in my world.”

 

She is the Chief of Sass, Moxie and Experience of d11 consulting.  She founded the firm to help growth-minded women in business, and companies who want to serve them, SHINE online by firing up their personal and business brands – along with their attitudes.  If you want to start a business, attract more ideal clients, build influence, or amplify your voice - but have no idea where to start, Debra can help.  Get ready to: clarify your values, purpose and niche; define what social media platforms are best for you; and ACHIEVE your goals… All with lots of tech tips, ooooodles of moxie, and tons of fun along the journey.

 

words that illustrate Debra: passion seeker * relationship builder * social media maven  * truth speaker * network connector * experience creator * natural promoter * wine lover * story teller * idea stormer * life photographer * confidence booster * energy sparker * believer * wife * tech geek raised by a computer nerd and a power woman.

 

The Seattle burbs is home base for the d11 den… along with her husband, Andrew, and their fabulously feisty pups Niko and Lizzie – otherwise known as her sidekicks. To learn more about her purpose, essence, and connect with her on the social channels, visit www.d11consulting.com.

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Laura Partridge

President
Creative Concepts Media + Marketing

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Offering 30+ years of advertising experience, now an expert of media strategy and planning, Laura administers all phases of the agency’s operations and is actively involved in arranging strategic media plans and supervising implementation. Laura specializes in developing custom, detailed media plans that includes many layers of exposure, and has deep industry ties, extensive relationships, and incredible negotiating abilities with the major media companies in the western states, specifically larger cities. Additionally, Laura understands a business has objectives and goals that need to be reached and knows exactly how to use media to achieve those goals.

 

Laura has been immersed in the advertising industry and broadcast media since 1982. Prior to building Creative Concepts from the ground up in 1991, Laura worked at radio stations in Santa Barbara, Reno, and New York. Her broad range in the industry include roles as; General Sales Manager, Advertising Consultant, News Director, Public Service Director, and Disc Jockey.  Currently, Laura is the President of the Reno Tahoe Entrepreneurs Organization (EORT) and also sits on the advisory board of BiggestLittleCity.org.

 

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A seasoned executive with over 25 years in strategy and operations, Evelyn has led teams and organizations internationally, across diverse functions including product management, supply chain and logistics, professional services, sales and marketing. Currently the General Manager for Haws Integrated, Evelyn is leading the strategic growth of the engineered solutions business unit of Haws Corporation.

 

Prior to Haws, Evelyn has led departments at companies in various industries, including supply chain and information systems at Tesla Motors, product operations and professional services at SAP, and brand licensing at IGT. Throughout her career, Evelyn has also leveraged her entrepreneurial background to build and run her own businesses.  

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