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• Summer Brunch

  • When
    08/21/2022
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    11:00 AM
  • Location
    Barbara Best's Home
  • Spaces left
    2

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  Enjoy Sunday Brunch lakeside in Buchanan, Michigan. This year's host, Barbara Best, will open her home on Sunday, August 21 to welcome CFE members for a relaxing and fun afternoon.

  The brunch is pot luck. You will be asked to indicate the type of dish you will provide during registration. Simply select the registration ticket that matches your dish. Quantities for each ticket type are limited to ensure a variety of options. 

  Registration is limited to 25 total attendees. A wait list will be established should the event reach capacity. Note the start time is 11:00am Central Time / 12:00pm Easter Time.
  

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• Conversation Circle - Executive Coaching

  • When
    09/13/2022
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    5:15 PM - 6:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Vitual Event

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  The Benefits of Executive Coaching
  

  The Member Engagement Committee invites you to a Conversation Circle on Executive Coaching, led by CFE member, Sandra Nash.
  

  Ever wish you had someone outside of your organization who you could go to who could help you strengthen a specific skill or skills?  Sandra did. 

  Last year she asked her CEO if she could work with an Executive Coach to help her strengthen a few specific skills that she felt she needed in order to be a stronger CFO. 

  In her words, the experience was game-changing! During the five-month coaching engagement, she learned things about herself that gave her new perspectives and tools for to use to fast-track her development in those areas.

  Join Sandra as she shares her experience and details how working with an Executive Coach impacted her professional development. She will be joined by  Eric Herrenkohl, Managing Director and Executive Coach at AchieveNEXT.

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• Downtown Book Club

  • When
    09/20/2022
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    6:00 PM
  • Location
    TBD

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  Join fellow CFE members for dinner and a social discussion on the book, The Paris Library, by Janet Skeslien Charles. The venue will be announced soon.

  About the book:

  Based on the true World War II story of the heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris, this is an unforgettable story of romance, friendship, family, and the power of literature to bring us together. A powerful novel that explores the consequences of our choices and the relationships that make us who we are—family, friends, and favorite authors—The Paris Library shows that extraordinary heroism can sometimes be found in the quietest of places.

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• Corporate Board Chat

  • When
    09/29/2022
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    5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Plante Moran, 10 South Riverside Plaza, Chicago

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  Join CFE Board Members Kathy Graham and Toni Diprizio at the office of Plante Moran on Thursday, September 29 for a moderated Corporate Board Chat.
  

  Topic: How can your non-profit board experience be a value-add to corporate boards?

  • What are the most notable differences between nonprofit board experience and corporate board experience?
  • What are the most effective ways to overcome those differences?
  • What are the similarities between nonprofit board experience and corporate boards?
  • What are the best ways/practices to highlight those value adds from nonprofit boards to corporate board directors?
  • What information would have been helpful to have known before making the transition to corporate boards?
  • What nonprofit boards are still active in your board portfolio and how does having nonprofit and corporate boards add value?

  Guest Speakers: Dorri McWhorter and JoAnn Lilek

  

  
  Dorri C. McWhorter is an Independent Board Director for Lifeway Foods (NASDAQ), Green Thumb Industries (OTC), William Blair Funds (mutual funds/ESOP firm), and Skyway Concssion Company (CHICAGO SKYWAY/private company/government privatization).

  Her corporate experience includes her current role as President & CEO, YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago; former CEO, YWCA Metropolitan Chicago; Partner, Crowe Horwath; Snap-On, & Booz Allen Hamilton. Dorri's Nonprofit board experience includes Common Impact, 1871 (Technology Business Accelerator), Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Civic Consulting Alliance, Civic Federation, Chicago Center for Arts and Technology, and Forefront.
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  JoAnn Lilek is an Independent Board Director for Amalgamated Bank (NASDAQ), and Datum One Series Trust, a trademark of Northern Trust Corporation/mutual fund. She also serves on the Advisory Board for Milton's Distributing and Gordon Logistics/family owned wholesaler and 3PL. 

  Her Corporate experience includes roles as former CFO & COO, Accretive Solutions, private equity owned sold in 2017; EVP/CFO & Corporate Secretary, Midwest Banc Holdings, Inc; CFO, DSC Logistics, Inc. EVP, ABN AMRO. JoAnn's Nonprofit board experience includes YWCA and the Illinois CPA Society.
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• Networking Event at Dominican University

  • When
    10/04/2022
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    5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Dominican University Parmer Hall, 7900 West Divison Street, River Forest

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  The Transitions Exchange invites you join us on the beautiful campus of Dominican University for a networking reception and conversation about confidence and acceptance in the workplace, and the ways in which role models and mentors can play a critical role in making a more diverse, welcoming workplace.

  Fulfilling the mission of CFE, this is an important opportunity to engage with the next generation of female leaders, and through your experiences, inspire and inform young students towards an effective path to a rewarding career. 

  Dominican University is a place where hard-working, talented students from a diversity of backgrounds can thrive. With a student body that is nearly 70% female and more than half who are first-generation college, Dominican students face the challenges that many of us faced early in our careers. 

  
  

  
  

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• Corporate Board Chat

  • When
    12/06/2022
  •  
    5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
  • Location
    Wilis Towers Watson

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  CFE member Kathy Graham, CEO & Founder of the HQ Companies, will moderate  quarterly Corporate Board Chats each with a panel of different CFE members who are current corporate board directors in various stages of their careers, representing a range of industries, geographies, life stages, backgrounds and ethnicity. 

  Panelists and topic will be announced soon!

   
  

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