Message from the President

Lights, Cameras and Action...

Minnesota Business Women are working women, working together and the spot LIGHT is on you. Working women, on all that you do. It is about discovery and seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. It's about your innovative performances both personally and in business. As we go forth the CAMERAS are rolling as we do what we do... Doing all that we can do. By all the means we can. In all the ways we can. In all the places we can. At all the times we can. Benefiting all the people we can. This is what we strive for and this is what success is all about. Finally, perpetual motion... ACTION- being plans made, goals sought, sleeves rolled up and said initiatives hard won in the field. It's of will, determination, back bone and integrity. Action is about testing your every boundary, of epiphanies, new ideas, new horizons of creativity brought to light along life's well traveled path. It's about thinking on your feet throughout the journey. Phyllis Rose once said, "The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale...They resist captivity. They get up and go. They seek better worlds." This, my sister, is who we as working women are, we are the Minnesota Business Women. For in our wisdom we see that it is never too late -- in fiction or life--to revise the script.

My Grandma used to say.... "I have always know that at last I would take this road, but yesterday I did not know that it would be today."

LIGHTS,CAMERAS and ACTION! Things to look forward to in the year of 2011-2012:

This year our organization is going back to three state meetings. It seems like it's been awhile. But, these meetings are about networking, learning, growing and continuity of our organization. We have great things coming up this year with our speakers, break-out sessions, many educational opportunities, and celebrating what we do best will be offered through these meetings. Not to mention you! You count for a lot, you are a part of the sum of the whole. Thus, believing in our mission, attending and coming together as we do from across our fair state gives us strength, builds upon our new horizons as a forward moving organization and gives us the bi-partisan legislative clout that we are known for.

Fall Meeting, October 7, and 8, 2011. Owatonna. Focus: We will be putting some proverbial meat back on our Meetings' plate. We plan to do this with positive and educational opportunities to better our skill-sets both as individuals and in our professional work lives. Thus, Individual Development programming, fun interactive group dynamics, and fun with be had along with an afternoon business meeting. Finally, writing the script and directing our Lights, Camera and Action organization...setting the stage for our organization's future. What is EPW(?), could it be part of our future?

Winter Meeting: January 27/28, 2012. Metro Area, site to be announced. Focus: Legislation, the importance there of, and understanding the hot topics on the forefront of today's political process, and what they mean to women, families and our great state. Information will be included from the Minnesota Women's Candidate Development Coalition and the Minnesota Women's Consortium. Explore the idea of life-long learning. A short business meeting, should one be needed. We will also be fitting in a little something-something about self-nurturing ,pampering...we'll just have to see what the make-up and wardrobe folks come up with....

Spring Convention: May 4/5, 2012: Grand Rapids, MN. We will be including multiple break-out sessions of which you can pick and choose from a variety of hot topics. Topics in business, leisure activities to arts/crafts, along with forums for new officers, etc. It's also the annual MBW awards ceremony. (A complete list of contests with entry forms coming to website soon.) As well as our annual business meeting, and so much more!. Spring Convention 2012, promises to be a red carpet affair to remember!