OFFSITE | win | win Circle of Champions Luncheon: Advancing Women in Leadership

"Advancing Women in Leadership"

Featuring

Maxine Clark

Founder, Build-A-Bear Workshop

December 15, 2015
11:15 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Location
The Gallery Event Space
Kansas City Power & Light District
61 E 14th St.
Kansas City, MO 64105

Pricing

Individual Tickets: $35

Sponsorship Opportunities Available
Agenda

11:15 - 11:30 Arrival & Registration
11:40 Welcome & Lunch Served
11:50- 12:30 Keynote
12:30 - 12:45 win|win Awards
12:45 - 1:20 CEO Panel Discussion
1:20 - 1:30 Close

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Keynote Bio
Maxine Clark is one of the true innovators in the retail industry. During her career, her ability to spot emerging retail and merchandising trends and her insight into the desires of the American consumer have generated growth for retail leaders, including department store, discount and specialty stores. In 1997, she founded Build-A-Bear Workshop®, a teddy-bear themed retail-entertainment experience. Today there are more than 400 Build-A-Bear Workshop stores worldwide. Cumulative sales have exceeded $5 billion and over 140 million stuffed animals have been sold world-wide. In June 2013, Maxine stepped down from her Chief Executive Bear role to apply her entrepreneurial skills to her passion for improving K-12 public education and to invest in and mentor women and minority entrepreneurs.

Panelist Bios

Brad Sprong, Managing Partner, KPMG Kansas City Office
Brad has more than 29 years with KPMG assisting primarily banking and real estate clients address their tax needs around the world. As one of KPMG’s Tax Transformation leaders, Brad focuses a majority of his efforts integrating operational tax solutions with business transformation activities to improve tax processes and efficiencies. This activity requires a deep understanding of tax regulations as well as business operating models to identify and implement tax efficient opportunities prevalent in business transformation activities. Collaboration with the business transformation teams is critical and Brad is well versed in assisting clients with business case planning and simplifying for all interested parties what can be a complex process.

Joyce Trimuel, Vice President, Kansas City Branch Manager, Chubb & Son, Inc.
Joyce began her career as an INROADS intern with Chubb the summer of 1997. Upon graduating from college, she joined the Executive Protection Practice in 1999 in Chicago, IL and soon after transitioned to the Itasca, IL office where she worked as an underwriter and agency coordinator. From 2002 to 2007, Joyce assumed a variety of underwriting, marketing and leadership roles, including managing the profit & loss of a $25m portfolio. Interested in marketing and ultimately a branch manager role, in October 2007, Joyce was again promoted within Chubb to serve as Marketing Manager for the Washington, DC region. In February 2012, she was promoted to branch manager of the Kansas City office where she is currently responsible for the profit & loss of a $100m portfolio. In this role, she provides leadership direction in growing this portfolio profitably, ensuring stakeholder engagement and support of goals, and staff development of a team of 25 high performing individuals. In addition to her profit & loss responsibilities, Joyce recently served as the 2014 chair of Chubb’s Multicultural Development Council (MDC). Under her leadership, the MDC has a rededicated mission of advancing multicultural employees to officer level leadership roles within the Organization. Key accomplishments while in this role include the development and implementation of Project Ignite, a first of its kind leadership development program for select multicultural officers.

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Date and Time

Tuesday Dec 15, 2015
11:15 AM - 1:30 PM CST

Tuesday, December 15
11:15 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Location

The Gallery Event Space
Kansas City Power & Light District
61 E 14th St.
Kansas City, MO 64105

Fees/Admission

Individual Tickets: $35

Website

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/winwin-network-exchange-circle-of-champions-luncheon-advancing-women-in-leadership-tickets-19151598948

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Edgar Palacios, Chief Engagment Officer
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