EGG Engagement Contest Winners announced

Thank you so much to our first place winner Carolyn Cauceglia for the amazing number of nominations to the Executive Girlfriends Group, plus her efforts to get the Miami group organized for our first event, which will be Monday night. Carolyn won a new Amazon Kindle for her efforts!

The next 4 winners were all very, very close to one another. Rebecca McGoye was 2nd, Joni Newkirk was 3rd, Tiffany Topcik was 4th and Chris Bradshaw was 5th. They will each receive an American Express gift certificate and an autographed copy of a book from one of our Vignette speakers.

The balance of the top 10 include Flo Lugli, Christine DeZarn, Cheryl Weldon, Marcia Gipson and George Ann Dingus. They will each receive an autographed copy of a book from one of our Vignette speakers.

We have grown from just 100 members in January to over 420! Thanks to all who contributed to this growth and for your participation in the Executive Girlfriends Group, both on our calls and in EGG Local.

Chicke Fitzgerald | founder

EGG Engagement - Let the games begin!

In August of 2008, a small group of us started the Executive Girlfriends’ Group, a weekly 90-minute call to “connect, share, care and grow”. That group has now grown to over 300 and we have added a wide range of benefits for Charter Members.

In March of 2009, we launched the EGG community site, using Sabre’s Cubeless platform. Sabre became our first Corporate Charter Member of EGG. We now have 3 additional Corporate members, the US Travel Association, the American Hotel & Lodging Association and Mondial Assistance. As a result of this membership, EGG extends its Charter Member benefits to the female executives of these organizations.

Now, we are launching a contest to increase ENGAGEMENT. Here’s what you can do between now and May 31st to win great prizes, American Express gift cards and books from our EGG Vignette Speakers.

First, to be eligible for the contest, load a picture and update both the top part of your profile and answer ALL the profile questions below the corkboard on http://egg.cubeless.com

You will also receive points automatically for asking and answering questions on the site, leveraging the knowledge base of the membership.

• Participate in May EGG calls (started last week) – 10 points
• Participate in a 15 minute info session on use of the community platform - 50 points
• Join as a Charter member – 100 points
• Refer new members – 10 points each
• Refer new members in your home city – 20 points each
• If a new member that you referred becomes a charter member – 100 points
• Refer a paid corporate Charter member (all female execs are granted Charter membership) – 250 points
• Create a personal BLOG – 50 points
• Update it at least once a week – 10 points for each blog entry
• Become the moderator of your local group – 50 points
• Host a get together with other members in your area – 50 points
• Write a BLOG entry on one of the existing groups – 20 points

The first wave of prizes will be awarded on May 15th for the early adopters and those that are highly competitive! The final wave will be awarded on May 31st. Your points (and those of your competitors in the contest) are visible on your profile as Karma points.

Let the games begin!

Join us today for Susan Steinbrecher - Heart Centered Leadership

Susan Steinbrecher, an internationally acclaimed businesswoman, executive coach, speaker and author, is president and CEO of Steinbrecher And Associates, Inc. a management consulting firm that provides professional development services in the areas of executive coaching, group facilitation, and leadership training.

Prior to founding Steinbrecher And Associates in 1992, Susan was a rising star with one of the country's best known hotel chains for fourteen years. She went from entry level to the chain's youngest General Manager in history to leading the strategic training and development initiatives. Susan earned her Bachelor's degree in Applied Arts and Sciences from Southwest Texas State University, and an Honorary Doctorate in Hospitality Management. S

Her first book, Heart-Centered Leadership: An Invitation to Lead from the Inside Out was published in 2004. Susan's most recent book is a collaborative effort with NY Times Bestsellers Ken Blanchard and Stephen Covey entitled, Roadmap to Success, which discusses successful business and leadership strategies and how to effectively deal with adversity.

Susan has focused on leading authentically through out her career and has had the honor of working with many successful leaders and executives worldwide. We are certain her expertise and input would add value to the group. With Valentine’s Day around the corner, we’d like to suggest it would be the perfect time to discuss Heart Centered Leadership principles (which would address several of the Feb/March proposed speaking topics). To learn more about Heart Centered Leadership, please visit www.instituteofhcl.com

www.steinbrecherassociates.com

March 27th Vignette Speaker, Author Liz Goodgold

See YouTube for the promotion for the full March lineup:

Please join us on the 27th to hear Liz.

Liz Goodgold is the author, senior media correspondent, and feisty red head you have seen on CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS and in The New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Many recognize her from her columns in Entrepreneur magazine reaching over 1 million each month.

Liz is a true American success story. Her own humble beginnings, unstoppable perseverance, and potent professional content make her a charming, funny and motivating force.

Despite early challenges, Liz started working for Arco Oil as a lobbyist and by the time she was 18, she was taking such luminaries as Bob Dole and Henry Waxman to lunch!

She now boasts 25 years of experience in every area of marketing, naming, branding, advertising and new media.

Liz’s early successes came when she had a chance to prove herself with the industry giants Quaker Oats, Macmillan Publishing and Times Mirror.

She took her first campaign for Times Mirror from infancy to a $9 million revenue stream.

In less than six months at Quaker Oats, she turned what was at the time, their little known Natural Cereal into the exclusive granola in more than 1500 Baskin-Robbins and TCBY stores.

Liz Goodgold has a world renowned reputation for developing winning names, taglines, and branding strategies, with guaranteed flawless recall, for companies such as Univision, AMN HealthCare, and Proflowers.com.

Liz even caught the eye of Simon Cowell ….Liz was hoping it was for her killer legs……. but no, he was interested in capturing her smart wit and on camera acumen for one of his shows, American Inventor.

Vicki Donlan vignette recording now available

For those of you who missed the call Friday, Vicki Donlan provided us with an outline of her book and gave us some astounding statistics about women in the marketplace. She also talked about:

• What is holding women back from true leadership across the board?
• What can women do to be proactive in making the change?
• What's in it for men for more women to take the lead?
• What industries seem to be moving in the right direction?
• Where or what are the biggest obstacles to women taking a larger role in leadership?

For Charter members, the recording for our vignette speakers is free. You will receive the login to the intranet when your Charter Membership has been processed. The audio file is on the Intranet site available for download.

For Complementary EGG members, the recording is available for $10. You can order by sending an email to Live@Solutionz.com and then paying with a credit card on the Solutionz Web Site. The item is Vignette Recording under the EGG section of the payment page.

Chicke Fitzgerald

Anne Loehr Vignette recording now available

Anne Loehr

Coach, Entrepreneur, Author

A Manager's Guide to Coaching

Ann shared her 12 years of experience in Kenya, following graduation from Cornell.

• What led her to Africa
• What did she learn about herself as an American entrepreneur in Kenya
• The obstacles she had to overcome when working in Kenya, including wild animals in the safari camp
• Her biggest accomplishments in Kenya
• Cultural differences that she had to overcome?
• What she would you have done differently
  
• What inspired her to write an award-winning book

If you would like to order the recording of this call, the fee is $10 for non-members.

CLICK HERE to order and select Executive Girlfriend's Group Vignette Recording