Suzie Isaacs is founder and president of Ampersand, Inc., which she started in 1995. Its purpose is to create, position and market innovative intellectual properties including books, memoirs and other works, offering a full range...

Sandra P. Guthman has been Chair of the Board of Directors of the Polk Bros. Foundation since 1988 and its full-time CEO since 1993. The Polk Bros. Foundation is a private foundation with assets of...

Throughout Carol Wyant’s professional career she has been a transformational change agent. In the early 1980s it was unusual for a woman, working for a full-service real estate firm specializing in downtown mixed-use development to...

In 1976, Thea Flaum created a television show that redefined the way an entire generation learned about the movies. She put two Chicago film critics, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, in a movie theater balcony,...

Jill Wine-Banks is an MSNBC legal analyst, appearing regularly on the network’s prime-time and daytime shows. She began her career as the first female organized crime prosecutor at the US Department of Justice, which led...

Kristine K. Fallon has been a pioneer in applying information technology to architecture, engineering, construction and facility management since the 1970’s. After 15 years leading IT strategy and deployment in large firms, she founded Kristine...