Leading Global Teams Shapes Tech Executive Leadership Skills

Up Close & Virtual® interviews Rhonda Holt, Vice President of the Grid Engineering Program Office at Sun Microsystems. With 20 years in technology, Rhonda shares her insights about the growing need for global perspectives and experience leading geographically dispersed teams. Read Rhonda’s interview...

Career Transformation--From Teaching to Successful Financial Services Professional…

Meet Susan Cooper, Executive Vice President of AXA Advisor, LLC. Read Susan’s interview that covers her professional transformation from being an elementary school teacher to managing 450 financial professionals. Susan shares her insights on the importance of communication and presentation skills – something that she learned as a kindergarten teacher. Read the interview...

Steely Determination Forges Change Management Career Path

Up Close & Virtual welcomes Elizabeth Reed, Principle with The Revere Group. Learn more about how Elizabeth has embraced a philosophy of life-long learning that led her from a dead-end job in a steel town to a technology executive with a focus on Change Management. Read the interview...

Managing Wealth at Merrill Lynch...

Join us for an Up Close & Virtual® Interview with Linda Marcelli. She is the Director of the Merrill Lynch, Tampa Bay Complex managing a group of about 200 including financial consultants, support team and leadership team who service High Net Worth Clients and Business Owners in growing and managing their wealth. Ms. Marcelli shares with us her perspective on a career in financial services and her strategies for success in the industry. Read the interview....

The Essentials of a Career in Investor Relations...

Up Close & Virtual® interviews Linda Press, Senior Vice President at Pondel Wilkinson. Her background includes more than 15 years of financial, business, investor relations and corporate communications experience. She has consulted hundreds of companies, ranging from emerging growth to Fortune 500, on a wide variety of investor and public relations issues, from day-to-day strategies for enhancing shareholder value to crises, restructurings and IPOs. Ms. Press joins us to share her expertise. Read the interview..

e-Health Expert Shares her Career Insights.

Gale Wilson-Steele, CEO of Medseek tells us about her experience in the relatively new field of e-Health. She share her insights and experience with Up Close & Virtual... Read the interview...

Building Blocks to Success...

Sherry Silinger, CFO of Delta Corporate Services manages a $30 Million dollar company with over 190 employees, takes time out of her busy day to share her career insights with Up Close & Virtual®...

Careers at RadioShack -- Interview with the Director of Retail Service...

Irene Kieweg, Director of Retail Services at RadioShack Corporation tells us about her path to success and the opportunities at RadioShack.. Ms. Kieweg juggles a very busy life with Corporate responsibilities, an Executive MBA program and family life. Technology helps her keep up with it all – all while keeping the human touch. Read this informative and inspiring interview about a successful career woman...

Careers at Hewitt: Learn about the Keys to Success at Hewitt Associates

Human Resource outsourcing and consulting--The Hewitt way. Nellie J. Myers, Client Development at Hewitt Associates joins us to share her expertise and career advice. Ms. Myers responsibilities include overseeing a staff of five client managers. These client managers have responsibility for 40+ relationships representing annual revenues of $50+ million. She shares her keys to success...read the interview....

Top Marketing Executive Shares Career insights...

Ann-Marie Clark, General Manger, Public Sector Marketing for CDW-G joins Up Close & Virtualu® to share her insights and strategies for success in today’s fast-paced, dynamic business environment. Ms. Clark is responsible for the development and execution of a public sector marketing plan at CDW-G which drives over $1 billion in annual revenues. She discusses the importance of technology, strong communication & customer relations skills, continuing education programs and much more.

Leading the Way...

Read this exclusive Up Close & Virtual® Interview with Lucinda Duncalfe Holt, CEO and President of TurnTide, named one of the Top 10 Start-ups to watch in 2004. Holt has over 15 years of experience as a leading executive with both start-ups and global Fortune 500 companies. Here she shares her experience, career advice, and insights for success. Read the interview...

Successful Executive turned Entrepreneur...

Read this exclusive Up Close & Virtualu® Interview with Sophia Kabler, an experienced, successful executive turned entrepreneur. Driven by the idea of making quality personal development and training accessible and affordable to all women, Ms. Kabler founded Lift, Inc. Here she offers her insights and professional strategies for success! Read the interview...

Making a Difference

Read this exclusive Up Close & Virtualu® Interview with Linda Goode, an experienced, successful Professional Fund-raiser. Ms. Goode is the Director of Development for Easter Seals Arizona and the National Philanthropy Day Chair for the Association of Fundraising Professionals. She offers her insights and professional strategies for those interested in pursuing or advancing a career in fundraising. Her keys to this fulfilling career include strong business skills, relationship building, public relations/marketing and, of course, a sincere interest in helping people and making a difference.

Women in Finance

Read this exclusive Up Close & Virtual® with Linda Pei an accomplished woman in the financial industry. Not only is she the founder and President of the Women’s Equity Fund, she’s an advocate for women in business. She shares with us her keys to success, international business experiences and her insights about socially responsible investing. Ms. Pei is President and Director of Pro-Conscience Funds Inc. Prior to founding the advisor, Ms. Pei headed a management consulting practice working with U.S. banks, investment companies and government entities in Japan, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom. She has also held positions at Crocker National Bank, Edgar Dunn and Co., and Citibank. She is a board member of Alumnae Resources and the Global Fund for Women Advisory Committee.

Up Close & Virtual® with Carrie Richard,

Free-Lance Camera Operator for companies such as Fox Sports, E! Entertainment & CNN takes time to tell us what it’s like to work in the fast paced, ever-changing entertainment industry. She tells about her job, the real inside tips to breaking in to the entertainment industry and the rewards of her profession. Her advice: always act professionally, put out the best possible product, network as much as possible, never burn bridges and be willing to work at times you don’t want to in order to keep in the game!

Up Close & Virtualu® with Linda Childears,

President of both a real bank and a non-profit organization whose mission is the financial education for young people. The Young Americans Bank is the only real bank in the world just for young people. The non-profit organization she heads focuses its many programs on financial and economic education. With over 30 years of Banking experience, she has a wealth of information to share. Read, Learn and be Inspired by Linda Childears as she shares her industry experience, insights and expertise...

Up Close & Virtual® with Lisa Hammond

Lisa Hammond is the CEO and founder of Femail Creations, a specialty mail-order/online catalog, featuring products by, for and/or about women. What started as a one-woman print-only operation has grown into a multi-employee thriving specialty retail/online catalog, web site and women’s community. Read and learn about the retail/mail-order industry from this successful entrepreneur.

"Succeeding Sane!"

Bonnie St. John Deane is an international speaker, executive coach, author and the president of SJD&Co. As an Olympic medal-winning skier, Rhodes Scholar, Harvard honors grad and former White House official, Bonnie Specializes in high performance under pressure. Having been an amputee most of her life, she knows how to adapt when conditions are less than ideal. Bonnie has been featured by NBC Nightly News as one of the five most inspiring women in America. Her greatest challenge? Succeeding in business while staying sane with her family in San Diego. Bonnie’s recently released book, Succeeding Sane has been featured on the Today Show, Montel Williams Show, Home and Family, BET, CNN and in magazines and newspapers across the nation. Here she shares with the Career Exposure Network her experience, insights and expertise.

"A Girl Needs Cash" a Virtual® Interview with Joan Perry

I wrote a "A Girl Needs Cash", which starts with 6 women, naked, in a hottub talking about money in their lives, to engage women in the stories and understanding of the financial part of our lives. It goes from women’s issues to what to do. I also own a securities brokerage firm that seeks out the best strategies for us to grow our money (and not be "bag ladies" in the future). I personally worked on Wall Street for twenty years, and started the first female investment banking firm in the country that owned and distributed large blocks of municipal bonds. This is where I am different than other advisors -- I have personally taken large positions in the market. Take Charge Financial!, my company, has a mission to open the discussion of money for women (sex got better when we started taking about it) and educate. Without cash, and "financial legs", women have no power.

Working Solo

Meet Terri Lonier, Working Solo, Inc. Ms. Lonier advises companies on how to communicate with and access the growing small business and SOHO (small office/home office) markets. Terri Lonier is a consultant, speaker and author of the best selling Working Solo series of books, including Working Solo and the Working Solo Sourcebook (John Wiley & Sons, 1998.) You can also visit Working Solo on-line at http://www.workingsolo.com--a resource for independent entrepreneurs: the self-employed, home-based businss owner, telecommuter, virtual office worker, consultant or other independent professional --Visit Working SoloToday!