The Luncheon Speakers: Part 2

Finally! another installment of the women who will be leading the Industry Lunches:

Accounting: Edna Mullen

Edna earned both Bachelors and Masters degrees in Accounting from BYU. She spent three years working in Big Five (at the time) accounting in both Tax and Audit in Boston and New York City.  After marrying John Mullen, she left the large firms to work for a variety of companies in Boston, Greenwich (Connecticut), and San Francisco as her husband pursued his career and graduate degree . She currently works part-time from home during tax season for a regional accounting firm, and full-time from home as mother of her twin three-year-old daughters.  She and her family recently moved to the San Fransisco area. In her free time she sews, attempts woodworking, is learning to garden, makes nerdy toys for her kids, and tries to accomplish all the fun she can while she is home with her daughters.

Finance & Consulting: Jennifer Johnson

Jennifer Johnson, CFA, is the founder and President of Coraticum Asset Management, LLC.  She is also the fund manager, directing and executing all investment strategies.  She has both an undergraduate degree and an MBA from BYU.  From 2001 through 2006 she worked as an equity portfolio manager at Ensign Peak Advisors, Inc., the investment affiliate of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  Her commitment to lifelong learning includes the completion of the CFA program (2006) and two sequential language immersion programs at the Spanish Language School of Middlebury College in Vermont (summers of 2006 and 2007).

Art & Design: Leslie Graff

I highlighted Leslie in an earlier post, as she'll be a panelist on the Staying Home, Staying Connected panel. Her art is really fabulous - below is a screenshot of her website, showing a piece from her motherhood series (this picture makes me want to get a creamsicle with my kids ASAP). She is probably fairly typical of many people in the art/design world - without meaning to, she has become a businesswoman. Marketing, sales, finance - all of these (and more) are part of being an artist.

The Luncheon Speakers: Part 1

The list of fantastic women participating in the conference just keeps growing! In addition to the keynotes and panelists, we have women from a variety of industries speaking at the Industry Breakout Lunches. In addition to sharing some of their background in the industry, they will facilitate networking among the attendees. Here's a brief intro into who will be speaking:

Anne Wunderli: Non-Profit

Anne is Director, Facilities & Social Enterprise for Pine Street Inn, a Boston, Massachusetts non-profit human services organization that serves 1300 homeless individuals daily with permanent supportive housing, emergency and transitional shelter, food, street outreach, job training, mental health support and substance abuse treatment. She serves on the board of the Social Enterprise Alliance, a national membership organization for social enterprise and is also Board Chair for the Massachusetts Social Enterprise Alliance Chapter. She has spoken about Pine Street Inn’s social enterprises at several Boston area universities, including Brandeis University, Boston University, Babson College, Simmons College and Northeastern University. Anne has a BA in English from the University of Utah.


Pat Bluth: OB/HR

Pat Bluth is currently Director of the HR Operations Division at the LDS Church in Salt Lake City. Prior to joining Church employment in 2008 Pat had a varied career ranging from teaching at BYU to manufacturing diapers and toilet paper in a major consumer goods company to leading organizational development for a high-tech start-up organization. After earning her MS degree in Home Economics Education, Pat started her career as an instructor at BYU—teaching textile production and hand-weaving-- before she left academics to work in what she calls the ‘real world’.  Returning to school at age 37, she completed her MBA, with an emphasis in Operations. Then she landed a job with Procter & Gamble, where she worked for 20 years in line manufacturing and operations assignments making paper products (Bounty, Charmin, Pampers and Luvs)  She benefitted greatly from P&G’s management development approach, which hinged on deliberate 2-3 year assignment changes – including Process Engineering, Human Resources, Maintenance & Quality Systems, Organization Development and Process Improvement.  Her most enjoyable and challenging roles were those related to starting up new organizations, High Performance Work Systems, Non-traditional Skill Development and Process Improvement.

Today Pat is leading a major change effort in the HR Department of the Church – to reorganize how HR products and services are provided via simple, standard, affordable and scalable solutions to the Church workforce around the world. She uses experiences from her past work assignments every day and feels the hand of the Lord in her work on a regular basis.

CK Woolley and Sarah Davis: Entrepreneurship

I wrote about CK & Sarah on an earlier post - they'll be speaking at the panel on starting your own business. CK is co-founder of Shabby Apple and Sarah is founder of Fashionphile.