Women In Consulting Volunteers lead and deliver all of our programs:

• Best Practices Research: The large team that leads the research, analysis, summary, and delivery of these unique and valuable insights brings their expertise to the project.
• Sandbox Community Discussion Series, the Expert Talks, our Networking events, and all our workshops are organized and facilitated by volunteers.
• Our Women In Consulting Board of Directors is all volunteer.

The one area that we have professional guidance and assistance is in the administrative operation that holds the business parts of being a 501c3 together.

Our Event and Marketing Volunteers

Ellen Grace Henson, Marketing Mechanics,  leads the overall programming for our events. She is also the inspired creator and facilitator for one of our most popular programs: the Sandbox Community Discussion Series.

Angel Rampy, Success Through Learning,  has been instrumental in building a thriving Women In Consulting Satellite Community in the San Francisco South Bay. Angel continues to grow our community and bring in excellent Expert Talks Series speakers.

Theresa Shafer, SKMurphy, Inc., provides the organization and follow up to actually get these events on the calendar and in the marketing mix. Her attention to detail and project management skills are invaluable to our event programming.

Ginger Weeden, Set In Motion Marketing & Media, leads the entire social media marketing effort to get the word out about all that Women In Consulting offers. Her inventive graphics and effective posting are key to letting both our members and greater community know what’s happening.

Best Practices Research Volunteer Team for 2021 Report

Theresa Shafer, SKMurphy, Inc. (Project Manager), managed the project timeline and hand-offs; facilitated team communication, and fine-tuned project timing and deadlines for key tasks throughout the length of the project.

Jen Berkley Jackson, The Insight Advantage (Survey Programming Training/Documentation), has been involved since Women In Consulting first began conducting this research. Jen helped define and document the flow, integrated the survey strategy into the survey document, and coached new team members on survey programing, survey status updates and reporting, and data cleanup.

Ruby Choi, Student, University of California Irvine (Survey Programmer), not only programmed the survey, provided QC for the survey, and provided the team weekly status updates on participation during the collection period, Ruby also performed the data cleanup, created data tables, and provided data used in the verbatim analysis.

The Women In Consulting President Kathryn Gorges, Inspired Success, plays an integral role in the Best Practices Research project, from start to finish. Kathryn facilitates strategic decisions regarding the survey and report distribution/sales, ensures that all project roles are filled, provides additional QC to the survey questions and mechanics, creates the survey promotion emails, analyzes verbatim comments for trends, reflecting findings in slides and speaker notes, and then co-presents the results at a webinar and creates the President’s Message introducing the report. findings.

Gabriela Martínez, Texto Graphic Design (Graphic Artist). This is the ninth year Gabriela has been responsible for layout and design of the final report, including creating all the charts, formatting the report, and QC for consistency with the presentation slides and materials.

Nancy Nelson, HR Prose (Partnerships), took the lead in getting the word out to our partners and external association contacts about participating in the survey and access to the report findings when available in the fall of 2021.

Teresa Schnabel, DELPHI Consumer Insights (Analyst), assisted with the survey QC, analyzed data tables for trends, reflected findings in slides and will co-present the findings with the Women In Consulting President.

Ginger Weeden, Set In Motion Marketing & Media (Marketing, Proofreading, Social Posts), took the lead on promotion of the survey through social channels, creating graphics for the various platforms, boosting posts to encourage participation throughout the collection period and afterward promoting the member benefit of access to the report findings and the advantage to nonmembers in purchasing access; preparing a press release is also something Ginger will assist with preparing.

And, last, but not least by any means, are the three special volunteers who previewed the survey prior to launch and helped the team fine-tune the survey and recommended updates in flow and mechanics of it. Many thanks to Chako Ando, Cando Advisors; Kay Paumier, Communications Plus; and Norma Watenpaugh, Phoenix Consulting Group, for your contributions to the project!