Women’s Business & Leadership Conference

Molly Barker
Founder, Girls on the Run International & Author

Molly Barker, MSW, founded Girls on the Run in 1996 in Charlotte, North Carolina. A four-time Hawaii Ironman triathlete, she used her background in social work, counseling and teaching, along with research on adolescent issues, to develop the program. Today, there are Girls on the Run councils in over 190 cities across North America serving over 150,000 girls and women each year. More

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Sandra Pianalto
President & CEO, Fourth District Federal Reserve Bank, Cleveland

Sometimes, Sandra Pianalto begins her life story in Valli del Pasubio, her birthplace in the Italian Dolomites, outside of Venice. In other tellings, the 55-year-old president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland starts with her introduction to Economics class at the University of Akron. It always ends up in the same place: at the innermost circles of local and national economic decision-making. Pianalto, who immigrated to the United States from Italy when she was 5 years old, says that some of the leadership lessons she’s learned along the way came from her parents. One of those important lessons: Embrace uncertainty and move out of your comfort zone. More

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Photos from 2011 Conference