May 6, 2008 Luncheon Invitation (featuring Peggy Parks)

Connect.Learn.Lunch
Jewish Professional Women’s Network

You are cordially invited to attend a luncheon with other Jewish women professionals at

Powell Goldstein LLP
1201 West Peachtree Street
(on the corner of 14th Street and West Peachtree Street across from Einstein’s Bagels)
Atlanta, GA 30303

Directions


May 6, 2008
11:45 am ~ Registration
12:00 - 1:30 pm ~ Connect, Learn & Lunch (please bring
your business cards to share with others)

Web Site

http://www.jpwn.org/ and http://jpwn.blogspot.com/

Speaker




Peggy Parks ~ President, The Parks Image Group
Ms. Parks will speak on: “How to Edge Out Your Competition”

http://www.theparksimagegroup.com/

Space is Limited

If you are already a member, please register by clicking the following link and paying $25 by credit card: member link

If you are not a member, please register by clicking the following link and paying $35 by credit card: non-member link

If you would like to become a member before purchasing a ticket to this event, please click here: http://www.jpwn.org/Membership.htm

Registration fee for this event includes lunch. You will be notified by email whether you are confirmed to attend this event or whether you have been placed on the waitlist. If you are placed on the waitlist, you will receive email updates as to your status. If there is not availability, your payment will be returned. Cancellations for a refund (not including paypal fee) must be received by May 1, 2008.

If you have any questions, please contact Ronni Solomon at 404-572-3547 or info@jpwn.org.

Speaker Biography

Peggy Parks is an international image consultant and founder of The Parks Image Group, Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia. Custom corporate workshops on professional business attire and etiquette, private one-on-one consulting that features a personal and individually crafted image plan and wardrobe planning and selection form the core services Peggy’s company provides.

Before launching her business in 2003, Peggy spent more than twenty years in international business working in human resources, financial planning and management roles with companies that included Sea-Land Service, Hitachi and ISFA Invest. A graduate of the London Image Institute and a member of the Association of Image Consultants International, Peggy currently serves on the executive board of the Association of Image Consultants International (AICI) Atlanta chapter. She is also an active member of the Atlanta Women’s Network (AWN), Atlanta Women in Business (AWB) and is a sponsor of the Georgia Association of Women Lawyers (GAWL).

Fluent in three languages, Peggy has lived and worked on three continents. Her expert sense of style and ability to help her clients achieve professional success wherever they do business have been featured in Over-40 Job Search Guide by Gail Geary, New You Magazine, Women’s Wear Daily, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Jewish Business Network Newsletter, The Piedmont Review and the Daily Report. In addition to her monthly workshops on professional image for Right Management, Peggy is also a consultant for the American School of Protocol and Fashion and Image Correspondent for WCTV24’s Living Life With Style.

In founding the Parks Image Group, Peggy has combined her modeling, business, and image consulting skills into a flourishing business. As the President of The Parks Image Group, she has advised people in business and television, as well as consulted The American School of Protocol and Right Management. Beyond individual consulting, Peggy also provides corporate seminars and workshops on business etiquette, presentation and appearance. She brings both polish and the psychology of color and presence to successful business people worldwide.

Want to gain an edge? Join Peggy for lunch.

Cathey Steinberg Luncheon Event Recap

We really enjoyed having Cathey as a speaker. She told us stories about Georgia politics we could not believe. Did you know that in 1981 a woman could not vote in Georgia unless her husband was a registered voter??? Unreal. She also talked about having integrity and being in politics. We are greatful for her coming to speak to us and also for her services in the Georgia Legislature. Our state and the state of our lives is better because of Cathey's actions on behalf of women (and others).

Welcome to JPWN's new Blog!

Over the past several months, we have been thinking of different ways to keep our web site updated. Our web site was hopelessy out-of-date, which caused a ton of confusion. Finally, after hearing our January speaker, Toby Bloomberg, discuss blogging and new media, we had a eureka moment and decided to set up a blog attached to our events page that we can update from work, home and even our cell phones.



Expect to see our posts to this blog on upcoming events. This way you can register early for events and keep track of any venue or date changes. We are also going to use the blog in place of our newsletters, but still keep all of our features like Person, Place or Thing and the Jewish Professional Featured Woman.




What do you have to do to receive our posts? Well, you can do nothing and just receive an email from us when we have something important to share, just like you receive emails from us now. Or you can check our blog periodically by making http://jpwn.blogspot.com/ a favorite. Even better, you can subscribe to our blog. If you have google reader, click here:
I (Ronni) have personally become addicted to GoogleReader as a way to process all of the information about my specialty, E-Discovery, very quickly.

Please make sure to take our polls on the blog (in the right hand column), which will help us plan better events! Also, please let us know if you have any great suggestions for speakers!

Best regards-

Ronni

Invitation for JPWN's Luncheon on March 26, 2008 with Cathey Steinberg

Connect.Learn.Lunch
Jewish Professional Women’s Network


You are cordially invited to attend a luncheon with other Jewish women professionals at

King & Spalding LLP
1201 Peachtree Street
(on corner of 14th Street and Peachtree Street across from Colony Square)
Atlanta, GA 30303

Directions


March 26, 2008


§ 11:45 am ~ Registration
§ 12:00 - 1:30 pm ~ Connect, Learn & Lunch (please bring
your business cards to share with others)

Web Site

§ http://www.jpwn.org/

Speaker




Cathey Steinberg ~ 1st Jewish Woman in the Georgia Legislature

Ms. Steinberg will be speaking about, “Have Things Changed in the Political Landscape?"







Space is Limited

If you are already a member, please register by clicking the following link and paying $20 by credit card: member link

If you are not a member, please register by clicking the following link and paying $30 by credit card: non-member link

If you would like to become a member before purchasing a ticket to this event, please click here: http://www.jpwn.org/Membership.htm

Registration fee for this event includes lunch. You will be notified by email whether you are confirmed to attend this event or whether you have been placed on the waitlist. If you are placed on the waitlist, you will receive email updates as to your status. If there is not availability, your payment will be returned. Cancellations for a refund (not including paypal fee) must be received by March 21, 2008.

If you have any questions, please contact Ronni Solomon at 404-572-3547 or info@jpwn.org.

Speaker Biography

Cathey W. Steinberg has served as an advocate on behalf of consumers and families for more than 25 years as Georgia’s first independent Consumers’ Insurance Advocate, a business owner of an advocacy training and strategic planning company, a state legislator, and as Executive Director of a non-profit serving troubled youth.

Steinberg served from July 1999 through March 2003 as Georgia’s first Consumers’ Insurance Advocate, whose primary responsibility was to protect and promote consumers’ interests on insurance matters. Based on her long-standing reputation as a consumer and family advocate, in July 1999, Governor Barnes appointed Steinberg to this important position as an independent voice for Georgians on insurance issues. During her tenure, this office became nationally recognized and Steinberg was appointed a Consumer Representative with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

Steinberg previously spent a total of 14 years in the state legislature. She served in the House of Representatives from 1977 to 1989 and in the Senate from 1991 to 1993. In 1992, she ran for the United States Congress and won the Democratic nomination but lost the general election by less than a one-percentage point margin.

As a state legislator, Steinberg was involved in issues concerning families and health care as well as energy and the environment. She was instrumental in the passage of legislation regarding victims’ compensation, child support, family medical leave, and the State Commission on Family Violence. She served on the House Rules Committee and, in the Senate, chaired the Human Development Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee and the Aging and Human Ecology Subcommittee of the Youth, Aging, and Human Ecology Committee. She also served on the Senate Judiciary and Ethics Committees.

Additional legislative achievements include a landmark law to regulate land use by requiring impact studies before re-zonings (the Steinberg Act), the Nursing Home Residents’ Bill of Rights, the Georgia Child Care Council, under-age drinking laws, and tax relief for senior citizens.

After her congressional race, she developed and was managing partner of Ahead of the Curve, a public policy consulting and advocacy training firm she founded. During her eight-year tenure, Steinberg worked with several advocacy groups on a wide range of issues such as teen pregnancy prevention and issues important to people with disabilities and their families, such as accessible housing, community-based services, and employment.

Steinberg has served on the advisory boards of the Atlanta Business Chronicle and the Atlanta Lung Association. She was a member of the Executive Committee of the United Way’s Community and Government Relations Division, the Council on Elder Abuse, and the Governor’s Statewide DUI Task Force and Leadership Atlanta. She is a current member of the Carter Center Board of Councilors and the International Women’s Forum.

Steinberg has received numerous awards, including a Legislator of the Year award from the Georgia Council on Aging, an honorary life membership in the Georgia Parent Teacher Association, and a Certificate of Appreciation for her legislative efforts against child abuse and drunk driving. In the June/July 2000 edition of Business to Business Magazine, Steinberg was identified as a “Diva”, one of Atlanta’s most dynamic women. Similarly, in 2001, Steinberg was recognized by the Atlanta Business Chronicle as one of Atlanta’s 100 most influential citizens and by Georgia Trend Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential Georgians of the Year.

Steinberg received a bachelor’s degree from Carnegie-Mellon University and earned her master’s degree in guidance and counseling from the University of Pittsburgh.

From September 05 through September 07, Steinberg served as the Executive Director of the Juvenile Justice Fund, a non-profit dedicated to addressing the needs of troubled youth from the Fulton County Juvenile Court and other community resources. Focusing on difficult problems that most agencies do not address, such as sexual exploitation of children and serious family dysfunction, the Juvenile Justice Fund has a seven-year record of delivering innovative, effective interventions for youth and children who come to a juvenile court.

Steinberg is currently enjoying her family (3 grandchildren), and traveling. She is consulting and doing project work as needed.