Anne-Marie Aigner, Boomer Broads with Attitude

Lesley Alderman was named Deputy Editor for REAL SIMPLE in July 2006. In this role, Alderman is involved in story creation across all beats and continues to guide REAL SIMPLE’s health coverage.

Formerly, Lesley Alderman was REAL SIMPLE’s health editor, the source for the latest health solutions to simplify women’s lives. Before that, Alderman was REAL SIMPLE’s news editor. Alderman does frequent television and radio interviews, having appeared on The View, Today and numerous local news programs.

Prior to joining REAL SIMPLE in January 2001, Alderman was a freelance writer focusing on travel, business and lifestyle articles for such publications as Barron’s, Business Week, Family Money, Forbes and Good Housekeeping. Alderman was previously an associate editor at Money magazine, where she worked from 1989 to 1998.

Before joining the editorial field, Alderman was a research associate at Biotech Investor. She began her career as an associate director of media at the Cunningham Dance Foundation.

Alderman received a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Hamilton College. She currently resides in New York City with her husband and children.

Nancy Clark, MS, RD, an internationally known sports nutritionist and nutrition author, is a registered dietitian (RD) who specializes in nutrition for exercise, health and the nutritional management of eating disorders. Nancy has a successful private practice located at Healthworks Fitness Center, the premier fitness facility in Chestnut Hill.

She offers nutrition consultations to both casual exercisers and competitive athletes, teaching them how to enhance energy, optimize performance and manage weight. Her more renowned clients have included members of the Boston Red Sox, the Boston Celtics, and many collegiate, elite and Olympic athletes from a variety of sports. Previously, she was Director of Nutrition Services at Sports Medicine Associates in Brookline, MA.

Nancy completed her undergraduate degree in nutrition from Simmons College in Boston, her dietetic internship at Massachusetts General Hospital, and her graduate degree in nutrition with a focus on exercise physiology from Boston University. She is a Fellow of the American Dietetic Association (ADA), the recipient of their 1995 Media Excellence Award, an active member of ADA's practice group of sports nutritionists (SCAN), and recipient of SCAN's 1992 Honor Award for excellence in practice. Nancy is also a Fellow in the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and recipient of the 1994 Honor Award from ACSM's New England Chapter. Her contributions to runners in the Boston area culminated in her receiving the 1994 Will Cloney Award. Nancy also holds the honor of being on the back of the Wheaties box for their 2004 Olympic series.

Clark is the nutrition columnist for New England Runner, Adventure Cycling and Rugby. She is a frequent contributor to SHAPE and Runner's World. Clark also writes a monthly nutrition column called The Athlete's Kitchen, which appears regularly in over 100 sports and health publications.

Nancy is the author of the best selling sports nutrition reference Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook, Third Edition. Her Food Guide for Marathoners: Tips for Everyday Champions helps novice runners and walkers go the distance with energy to spare. And her new book The Cyclist's Food Guide: Fueling for the Distance (co-authored with Jenny Hegmann, MS, RD) helps both beginning and experienced cyclists optimize their performance. Sports and nutrition are personal as well as professional interests.

A member of The Greater Boston Track Club, Clark has competed at the 10 Kilometer, half marathon and marathon distances. Clark routinely bike commutes and enjoys bike touring. She has led many extended bike tours, including a Transamerica Trip and other tours through the Canadian and Colorado Rockies. She has trekked into the Himalayas and planned the high altitude menu for a successful expedition. She and her husband, son, and daughter live in the Boston area.

Susan is a Partner in the Financial Services Industry Practice in the New England Practice of Deloitte & Touche LLP and has over 15 years of public accounting experience. She has specialized in the financial services industry throughout most of her career, with primary focus on investment management clients. Susan currently serves as an Audit Partner on a number of Deloitte’s largest investment management accounts with responsibility for oversight of client service coordination and delivery. In this role, she is responsible for the planning and execution of the mutual fund audit process, as well as all related internal control engagements and compliance with industry regulation.

In addition to her client service responsibilities, in 2004 Susan assumed the leadership role in the New England Practice for Deloitte’s Women’s Initiative Network (“WIN”). Established in 1993, this national initiative focuses on the development of its talented women professionals and identifies opportunities for them as future leaders within the Firm. The Initiative supports the Firm in its goal to train, develop and mentor professionals at all levels, regardless of gender, and create an environment where career success can be achieved.

Edward M. Hallowell, MD, Psychiatrist and Founder of The Hallowell Center for Cognitive and Emotional Health

Edward (Ned) Hallowell, M.D. is a child and adult psychiatrist and the founder of The Hallowell Center for Cognitive and Emotional Health in Sudbury, MA. He was a member of the faculty of the Harvard Medical School from 1983 to 2004.

A graduate of Harvard College and the Tulane School of Medicine, Dr. Hallowell is an expert at offering practical ways to approach some of life’s most difficult challenges. He gives over 100 speeches a year to businesses, conferences and organizations seeking his advice and wisdom on issues such as how to manage information overload, worry and anxiety, ADD and its treatment, how to raise healthy and happy children, and more.

Dr. Hallowell is the author of CrazyBusy - Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap - Strategies for Coping in a World Gone ADD and is the co-author of Delivered from Distraction (2005), Driven to Distraction (1994) and Answers to Distraction (1995), all of which discuss attention deficit disorder in children and in adults. In addition, he has written books addressing emotional issues such as the importance of forgiveness (Dare to Forgive, 2004), worry and anxiety (Worry and When You Worry About the Child You Love), how to raise happy children (The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness, 2002) and more.

Dr. Hallowell is a frequent speaker on issues that include ADD, how to lead a healthy life, communication strategies for businesses, worry, stress management, and the power of connection. He has published in the Harvard Business Review on the topic of “the human moment” and on the topic of why smart people underperform in the workplace.

As one of the leading psychiatric experts in the country, Dr. Hallowell has appeared on many national television and radio broadcasts, including "60 Minutes", "The Jane Pauley Show", “20/20”, “The Today Show”, “Dateline”, “Oprah”, “Good Morning America”, “NPR” and “The View.” He is also often interviewed and quoted in publications such as Time Magazine, US News and World Report, USA Weekend, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times and many other magazines and newspapers.

In addition to his speaking and writing commitments, Dr. Hallowell maintains an active practice at the Hallowell Center in Sudbury, MA. He lives in the Boston area with his wife and their three children. For more information go to www.drhallowell.com.

Diane Hessan is President and CEO of Communispace, one of the fastest growing social networking companies in the country, with a Blue Chip client list that would make a Madison Avenue giant jealous,” according to Advertising Age. A pioneer in creating online communities to help marketers deeply engage customers, Diane helped found Communispace in 1999 and hasn’t looked back.

Today, Diane leads 115+ employees in managing the more than 225 private online customer communities the company has created for Fortune 500 companies like Kraft, Unilever, Hewlett-Packard, Avon, Charles Schwab and GlaxoSmithKline. Communispace’s revenues have nearly doubled year over year for the past three years, and the company enjoyed a 96 percent contract renewal rate from its existing clients in 2006.

Diane has spent her 30-year career helping companies become customer focused—as a Forum Corporation executive, co-author of the best selling book Customer-Centered Growth: Five Strategies for Building Competitive Advantage, and Real World Consulting CEO. She has received many awards and citations for her leadership and workplace innovation, including Best Boss from Winning Workplaces / Fortune Small Business, one of the 10 “Women to Watch” in Boston, and one of 20 Visionaries in the Human Resources arena. Diane has committed time and energy sitting on the boards of numerous organizations including, The Business Innovation Factory, Horizons for Homeless Children, The Boston Philharmonic, The National Council on Women and Aging, and the Tufts Alumni Council.

A summa cum laude graduate of Tufts University, Diane received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. She is the co-founder of The Sound Bytes, a cappella group that writes lyrics about business and performs at major conferences. She lives west of Boston with her husband, two teenaged daughters, and a golden retriever.

As CEO and founder of Dancing Deer Baking Company, Trish Karter has combined her passion for food with a unique corporate culture that breaks down socioeconomic and racial boundaries. Under Karter's leadership, Dancing Deer has tripled sales volume since 2001, and emerged as one of the nation's most innovative food companies.

The company's success is found not only in its all natural food and whimsical packaging, but also in its unique employee benefits that are built around the belief in "shared effort/shared gain." All Dancing Deer employees are stakeholders in the company, part-time workers earn full-time benefits, and many food service employees receive workforce training and are able to work flexible schedules that allow them to return to their home countries on extended leave.

Karter has led Dancing Deer with a longstanding commitment to the Greater Boston community. Headquartered in Boston's inner city, Dancing Deer donates 35 percent of profits from its Sweet Home product line to programs that work to end family homelessness in the Greater Boston region.

Everyone wants to be fit, not only for the next wedding or by summer, but for life. The key to obtaining and keeping the “FIT FOCUS” is to develop an integrated program that offers new and exciting exercises that safely progress the client to the next challenging level. Observing the needs and differences of an individual is essential, in order to offer variations, make modifications, and supply alternatives to their everyday workouts.

My “FIT FOCUS” principals:
1. There are no quick fixes
2. Listen to your body
3. Progression is progress
4. Perfect posture leads to perfect form
5. Turn a negative into a positive

Education: BA in developmental Economics from Western New England College

Certifications: NASM-personal trainer, ARC CPR/AED, Prenatal/Post Partum certified, LEAN coach, STOTT Pilates apprentice

Jane McHale, Career Development Consultant, Career Coach and Trainer

Alaina Montuori, Master Trainer

Janet Prensky, Boomer Broads with Attitude

Responsible for translating the Circles vision into strategic business objectives and financial results, Kathy Sherbrooke has propelled Circles to a leadership position in the customer and employee loyalty space among Fortune 1000 companies.

Kathy is wowed by the change Circles is able to make in peoples’ lives. For example, by fulfilling a customer’s request to help achieve her sister’s life-long dream of riding an elephant while in remission from breast cancer, we were able to create a profound impact in her family’s life. Kathy is also moved by “putting together groups of people who love working together, have real friendships, and are passionate about what they do.”

Previously, Kathy was Product Marketing Manager for INC. Magazine’s business products division. In this role, she had direct responsibility for helping small businesses run effectively and caught the entrepreneurial bug.

A graduate of Stanford Business School, Kathy co-founded Circles in 1997 to address the needs of time-starved professionals and corporations that rely on these professionals as high-value customers or employees. Two things she didn't learn in school: the “power and importance of good decision making” and the “complexity in managing an organization full of people.”

Kathy believes Circles’ mission is to make peoples’ lives richer. “We are making a difference in the lives of the people who work here, the members who call in each day and our clients and partners.”

Kathy was a finalist for the 2003 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and was recognized as one of Boston Business Journal's Top 40 Under 40. Circles received the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year award for 2003.

Sharon is a professional Work-Life and Career Coach, author and speaker who specializes in coaching high achieving women, people at mid-career, and professionals seeking greater career satisfaction and work-life balance. Author of the 2005 book, Getting Unstuck Without Coming Unglued: Restoring Work-Life Balance, she has been International Coach Federation-certified since 1999, and was recently awarded the highest designation for coaches, Master Certified Coach (MCC).

Sharon works with individual clients throughout the US by phone, or in person in the Boston area, and always offers an initial consultation at no charge. She also delivers keynotes, workshops, and Lunch & Learns on work-life, productivity, and stress management for organizations. Her workshop clients include Merrill Lynch, Arnold Worldwide, the Women’s Executive Leadership Institute, Pepsi, and the Harvard Medical Center, as well as professional associations and alumni groups. She has been featured in several national publications including The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and Working Mother Magazine. Married for 30 years, she is the mother of two amazing young women.

Kristin holds an MBA from Babson College and has worked as a manager, leader, team player and coach in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors for over 15 years. Trained in the areas of leadership, negotiation, strategic human resources, Kristin understands the lessons and values that business and life can offer one another.

Kristin’s long-standing partnership with Healthworks started in 1991 when she began as a group exercise instructor. Continuously finding joy and balance in her life through teaching group exercise, Kristin’s focus as an instructor and as a coach is in helping people find their beauty and strength. Kristin is particularly interested in living life “openly and intentionally.”

With a decade in the educational publishing industry and years as a marketing and communications director of a national non-profit, Kristin counts her expertise in the areas of writing, project management, PR, and communications. Adept at coaching individuals, pairs, or groups from diverse backgrounds, members at any of the Healthworks’ locations can reach Kristin by phone or email for a free consultation.
617 859-7700 ext. 502 or kthalheimer@healthworksfitness.com

Ms. Wilkinson is the Director of Training, a Senior Financial Counselor, and a Member of The Colony Group. She works with select clients of The Colony Group and is responsible for the training and development of all professional staff. She is a graduate of Siena College where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance.

Ms. Wilkinson holds the Certified Financial Planner™ designation and is enrolled to practice before the Internal Revenue Service.

Prior to joining The Colony Group, Ms. Wilkinson was employed as a Financial Counselor for the Ayco Company, L.P. where she provided financial counseling and tax services for senior executives of Fortune 500 Corporations throughout the Southeastern United States.

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