letter from president 2015-2016 - ewi of milwaukee · 2016-06-23 · fundraising for operations...

1 President’s Message p. 1-2 • Birthdays p. 3 • Director Updates p. 4-5 • Year-At-A-Glance p. 6 • Previous Month Recap p. 7 • Thank You’s p. 8 • Raffle Winner p. 9 • Firm Recognition Night p. 10 • Food for Thought p. 11 • Professional Development p. 12 • Today’s Humor p. 13 • Corporate News p. 14-15 • Chapter Member List p. 16

Letter from President

Dear EWI Members, While reviewing the Board Reports in preparation for our June Board Meeting, I found the Membership Survey results disappointing. Not because of the comments that were written, but rather because we had not provided you with a clear understanding of our Education Fund proposal, the history,

and the reasoning behind it. For this I apologize. The information was included in the May Connect and was sent out to the membership approximately 10 days prior to our meeting. While it is everyone’s responsibility as a member, to stay informed, it is my responsibility as your President, to make sure you understand the information provided. I’ve decided to use this letter to better explain the proposal we received from our Past President’s Council (PPC) and discussed as a Board. Historical Information: Our Education Fund Investment Account has a balance of approximately $110,000. Each year, we spend a great deal of time and effort to raise $12,000 - $15,000 through our Golf Outings, Silent Auctions, Casino Nights, etc. We had hoped to raise enough funds to have this account become self-sustaining (endowed), but over time, realized that our goal was not a reality. Last year, we held two fundraisers; the Spring Conference and partnered to help All American Window & Door with their 30th Anniversary Celebration – between the two events, we raised nearly $30,000. At that time, it was agreed that we would not

MILWAUKEE CHAPTER EDITION

2015-2016 Officers & Directors

President Cindy Kunze

Mortara Instrument, Inc.

Vice President Terri Lodwick

All American Window & Door Co. Inc

Secretary Michelle Eggert

ConferenceDirect

Treasurer Kathy Marchant Olympus Group

Fundraising for Operations

Director Tina Braley

Environmental Innovations, Inc.

Retention & Recruitment Director Tina Braley

Environmental Innovations, Inc

Hospitality Director Ginny Czarnecki

Mueller Communications, Inc.

Program Director Patti Buck-Torrey

FedEx Ground

Communications Director Open

Philanthropy Director

Roxane Theisen-Kapp Johnson Controls, Inc.

ASIST Chair Rachel Adas

Harder Funeral Home

Children’s Literacy Chair Janine Kolbeck

Goodwill TalentBridge

Board Advisor Barb Benish

Briggs & Stratton Corp.

Chartered October 1965

July 2016

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EWI of Milwaukee, c/o Olympus Group ATTN: Kathy Marchant, 9000 W. Heather Avenue, Milwaukee WI 53224

online: ewimilwaukee.org email: [email protected]

Milwaukee Chapter Monthly Newsletter

ewimilwaukee.org

July 2016

fundraise for the Education Fund Investment Account during the 2015-16 year.

Proposal & Reasoning: The PPC, along with the Board of Directors, proposed that we continue to award $12,000 per year for the Chapter’s education and philanthropic initiatives ($6,000 for scholarships & $6,000 for literacy programs), but rather than holding a major fundraiser each year to support the expenditures, they proposed that we begin using the funds in the Education Fund Investment Account with the understanding that we would not allow the account to deplete below a certain amount.

In order for our Chapter to stay relevant, we recognize that we need to continue enhancing our member’s experience through programs, speakers, personal development, and community involvement. We want all of our members to experience a Leadership Caucus and Annual Meeting (LCAM). In order to do this, we could either increase dues or focus our efforts on fundraising for operations. Switching our fundraising efforts from the Education Fund to the Operation’s Fund will allow us to do this without increasing dues. I am confident that your experience will continue to be enhanced and our Chapter will stay relevant. You voted and it is clear that the majority of members wanted to begin using the Education Fund Investment Account for upcoming payments for scholarship and literacy programs. Once the Education Fund Investment Account nears $50,000, we will once again hold a major fundraiser with all monies raised going to said account. This strategy will be included in our Annual Strategic Planning that is reviewed, evaluated and updated each year. Just to be clear, at no time will we ever use our Education Fund Account for anything except Scholarship and Literacy Programs. Retention & Recruitment Policy On Guests (Non-Member) Fees It was also our intent to discuss with you our current Standing Rules regarding dinner fees for guests/non-members. Our current Chapter Budget had not set aside monies to cover guest/non-member dinner fees. At this time, we are going to continue to follow our Chapter’s Standing Rules that state guests will be charged dinner fees paid by them or paid by the member inviting them. If you have any questions regarding the above information, please don’t hesitate to call me. Our annual Potluck was once again a big success! Thank you to the committee for your hard work and thank you to everyone who provided a dish. The recipe document was great. And sometimes, we are lucky enough to have our very own members present the program, which was certainly the case with Debra May presenting Clarity on the 3G’s – Gratitude, Greatness and Growth. Deb, I’d like to thank you for your insight and tips on de-cluttering our busy lives! Now that summer is right around the corner, I’d like to wish each of you a safe and blessed 4th of July!

Cindy Kunze, 2015 – 2016 President

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July 2016

July Member Birthdays (Whoot Hoot!!!)

Ellen Aumann July 9 Becky Fellows July 20 Life Member Briggs & Stratton Hannah Lodwick July 14 Tricia Smith July 20 All American Window & Door Bacchus–A Bartolotta Restaurant Marjorie Yoshida July 19 Lorie Barbian July 21 Milwaukee Development Corp. Buca di Beppo

Celebrating You Today

And Every Day!!

July Membership Meeting Details

Tuesday

July 12, 2016 5:30pm to 8:30pm

BizTown at the Junior Achievement

Kohl’s Education Center 11111 W. Liberty Drive

Milwaukee, WI

Hope to see you there!!

See your Constant Contact invitation for more details.


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Postings: The following firm(s) were approved for Posting

at the June 14, 2016 Board Meeting: None at this time

** OUR MISSION **

Executive Women International (EWI) is an organization that brings together key individuals from diverse businesses for the purpose of:

Promoting member firms

Enhancing personal and professional development

Encouraging community involvement

** OUR VISION ** To be a global women’s organization of 5,000 engaged members empowering others for positive change.

** OUR VALUES ** Integrity, Excellence,

Respect, Collaboration

PHILANTHROPY UPDATE By Rocky Theisen-Kapp: Philanthropy Director ASIST – we submitted the application to Corporate for our 1st place ASIST Scholarship recipient Celestine Passo. CHILDREN’S LITERACY - Junior Achievement Biz Town in the Kohl’s education center will be the venue for the Children’s Literacy event at the July 12 membership meeting. The committee has selected Next Door as the recipient of the Children’s literacy award with Tracey Sparrow of Next Door as the guest speaker. BOX TOPS - Jen DeLaura will continue to collect Box Tops for Education thru the July membership meeting. She will work with the Literacy committee on selection of the school.

FUNDRAISING FOR OPERATIONS UPDATE By Tina Braley: Fundraising for Operations Director Our goal is $4,108.00 To date, we have raised $7,653.70 (186% of our goal). The Brewer’s Suite Raffle raised $3,880. The June Potluck raised $1,520 Congratulations everyone on your hard work!!!

RETENTION & RECRUITMENT UPDATE By Tina Braley: Retention & Recruitment Director 41 Member Firms 40 Representatives 6 Additional Representatives 1 Open Representative (Propeller) 1 Members-in-Transition 3 Life Members 2 Sustaining Members March of Dimes will not be renewing

Please Share!!

Forward this Connect

to your Firm Executive

and let them know we

are promoting member

firms, enhancing

personal and

professional

development, and

encouraging

involvement!


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AND SURVEY MONKEY SAYS:

29 members responded following the June meeting!! Thank you.

*Loved the potluck event – it always seems a little bit more casual and relaxed. *The park setting was beautiful! The view from the room was so peaceful and serene. I appreciated the parking being close to the building. *VERY nice venue for this meeting. I thought the room set up was great as well as the food tables / presentation. Excellent work by the committee! *There never seems to be enough time to chat with everyone that I would like to. *Great idea to pull the recipes together. Kudos to Tina and her committee. *Debra kept my attention the entire time and I came away with a lot of food for thought. *Good to be reminded of the following: Declutter your life! Imagine waking up every morning and you are surrounded by ONLY what brings you joy! *Forgiveness – how important it really is. *It’s never too late to BE THE CHANGE! *I like we are starting to revisit some of the chapter practices.

*Usually I love the meetings but this one just seemed off . . . .the scholarship fund vote was not explained clearly at all. The board members who spoke about it seemed to struggle. Also there was no discussion of the other point in the notes about guest fees. That was completely overlooked.

HOSPITALITY UPDATE By Ginny Czarnecki: Hospitality Director June 7, 2016 Membership Meeting Attendance: 46 registrants, 41 attended the meeting. 27 Representatives 5 Additional Reps 7 Non-members 27 Firms 2 Life Members 0 Sustaining Reps 0 Members-in-Transition 2 No Show 3 Excused

PROGRAM UPDATE By Patti Buck-Torrey: Program Director Please see the “year-at-a-glance” on the following page for the complete 2016 listing.

WEBSITE UPDATE Check out the Member Firm News Page for the latest updates. We’ve added a lot of events and current news. Our web address is: EWIMilwaukee.org

HAPPY SUMMER

FROM YOUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS!!


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2016 PROGRAMS:

DATE — LOCATION — SPEAKER — PROGRAM

July 12 (NOTE CHANGE OF DATE) – BizTown at the Junior Achievement Kohl’s

Education Center – Tracey Sparrow, President of Next Door – Children’s Literacy

August 2 – member firm BSI – Peter Kordus (BSI President & COO) – Gratitude

September 6 – Tuckaway Country Club – no speaker – Business Meeting

October 4 – The Wisconsin Club – Andrea Lodwick – Board Installation

November 1 – Hubbard Park Lodge – Matt Smith (SalesSmith) – Firm Recognition

December 6 – Westmoor Country Club – US Marine – Toys for Tots

2016 BOARD MEETINGS:

July 14 – Briggs & Stratton

August 9 – Johnson Controls

September 13 – Briggs & Stratton (joint boards)

October 11 – Johnson Controls (joint boards)

November 8 – Briggs & Stratton December 13 – Johnson Controls

2016 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WEBINARS (CORPORATE):

http://ewiconnect.com/?page_id=185

July 5 – 2pm

August 2 – 2pm

September 6 – 2pm

October 4 – 2pm November 1 – 2pm December 6 – 2pm


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Debra May was our speaker in June. She spoke on the 3 G’s – Growth, Greatness, & Gratitude. We were reminded to bring growth into our life to move to the next level. Greatness is the ability to let go and release things that no longer serve you. It gives space for growth. Gratitude is the glue that holds it all together. Imagine decluttering by taking EVERYTHING out of your closet to make physical space. Then put back in ONLY the things that make you feel great!!! You get clear and focused, moving you to greater things. Learn to be your authentic self. Take control over your emotions. Get rid of old emotions because they take up space, time and energy. Then learn to take action – build your inner strength – build your confidence – trust yourself – release thoughts to create space for new and greater things.


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Cindy & the Members of EWI of Milwaukee:

Thank you for the opportunity to be the speaker at the June Membership Meeting! I

was thrilled and honored to be a part of the evening. The following day, I arrived home

to the most incredible flowers I had ever seen. They literally took my breath away!!

Thank you so much for allowing me to showcase my business and for the beautiful

flowers!

Best, Debra

“Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things

really are.” Marianne Williamson


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Fundraising Raffle

To Benefit the

EWI Milwaukee Chapter

Club Level Suite #51 at Miller Park

June 10, 2016 at 7:10pm

Milwaukee Brewers vs New York Mets Donated by Commissioner Emeritus Allan H. Selig

AND THE WINNER IS . . . . . . . . . .

JEN DELAURA

“Hi Terri: I did not get a picture with the whole group! I am terrible about documenting

things with photos and should have thought of that – we did have a great time – especially my

mom who is a huge brewers fan (and Hank the dog groupie!). To be honest, I was worried I

wasn’t going to make it myself on Friday – I was very ill in the morning but was able to pull

it together for the evening and things turned out great. Jen”

Congratulations!!!!!!


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SAVE THE DATE

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Hubbard Park Lodge

Firm Recognition Night!!!!

Invite your executives, co-

workers, friends and prospects now

(before their calendars fill up!!!!!)

Let’s have 100 in attendance!!!


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CHAPTER FEES:

Member Firm & First Representative $110 Additional Representative $50 Admission Fee $15 Corporate Fees 1st Representative $180 2nd Representative $130 3rd Representative $105 Corporate Admission Fee $50

IF YOU HAVE A ROSTER UPDATE . . . . . . . . . . . . for any changes in firm information, firm representative information, or have a new executive please contact:

[email protected]

PLEASE KEEP COLLECTING

THEM!!!!

FOOD FOR THOUGHT


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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Things to live by

Here's the top five:

1. If you aren't enjoying your work, either

change what you do or change how you do it.

2. Treat people kindly, no matter who they are,

and it will always reward you.

3. Know your weaknesses and find people to do

what you'll never do well.

4. Create a bold vision that doesn't just make

you better off, but makes others better off.

5. Give yourself permission to make mistakes.

You'll never succeed if you're not risking them.


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Today’s Wisdom

NOTE:

SEND US YOUR MEMBER FIRM NEWS SO WE CAN POST IT

DIRECTLY ON OUR WEBSITE: Under the “Community Tab”

http://www.ewimilwaukee.org/member-firm-news/


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CORPORATE UPDATES

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WEBINAR DETAILS:

July 12, 2016 2pm CST

How to Develop Your Personal Brand . . .

and Why it Matters

Presenter: Josh Loebner – the Director of Strategy

for Knoxville-based advertising agency, Designsensory.

No matter your goals, developing your personal brand will

help you achieve them. Whether you’re networking, job hunting,

looking to advance your careers at your current employer, or you

have personal goals, personal branding differentiates you, helps

you stand out, and put you in a different position than others.

2015-2016 Corporate Board of

Directors

President Dianne Luckett

Irby Electrical Distributor EWI of Jackson

President Elect Benita Collins

Dallas Area Rapid Transit EWI of Dallas

Secretary/Treasurer Jiff Gaffney

Greenleaf Landscaping, Inc. EWI of Spokane

Director Cortney Ihde

ActionCOACH EWI of Milwaukee

Director Darlis Vauble Woodman Life EWI of Omaha

Director Cheryl Hawkins

American Clinical Laboratory Assoc. EWI of Washington, DC

Board Advisor Darlene Banogon

North Island Credit Union EWI of San Diego

EWI Operations Manager Kristine Pepin

ARE YOU RECEIVING THE

MONTHLY CORPORATE

EWIConnect

NEWSLETTER?

If not contact the Corporate

office at

[email protected]


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July 2016

NOW IS THE TIME – PLAN TO ATTEND:

Leadership Conference & Annual Meeting

Sept. 22 – 24, 2016 Spokane, WA

A new AOL Module will be presented. Get up close and personal in Spokane at LCAM 2016 for three days of Connections, Careers, & Community. IGNITE your passion for professional development, ENGAGE in networking

opportunities with attendees from across the country and help the Spokane community THRIVE.

Let Cindy & Terri know by June 24th (or respond to

the Survey that was sent out) if you’re interested,

and we’ll make it happen.

Tina Braley and Michelle Eggert are planning to go!!!! Academy of Leadership Philosophy

This is the foundation for the entire Academy of Leadership program, including all speakers, activities, and

information presented at each course.

Leadership can and must be taught.

Everyone has the capacity to lead.

There are stellar examples of leadership within EWI.


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EWI OF MILWAUKEE CHAPTER MEMBER FIRMS

Member Firm Representative(s) Member Firm Representative(s)

AAP Event Planning

Services Darchell Albritton KASANA Restaurant + Bar Ana Docta

ActionCOACH Cortney Ihde The Krizek Group -

Northwestern Mutual Loren Skerencak

All American Window &

Door Co.

Terri Lodwick*

Hannah Lodwick

Liz Stevens Mahler Enterprises, Inc. Tracey Pomeroy

Ameriprise Financial Shannon Lutze Marcus Hotels & Resorts Sarah Banach

Bacchus, A Bartolotta

Restaurant Tricia Smith Mary Kay Cosmetics Donna Munnik

Briggs & Stratton

Corporation

Barb Benish***

Becky Fellows Milwaukee Achiever

Literacy Services Tracy Loken Weber

Buca di Beppo Lorie Barbian Milwaukee Development

Corp. Marjorie Yoshida

Building Efficiency Group -

JCI Patricia Swilley Mortara Instrument, Inc.

Cindy Kunze*

Sonja Daly

Building Service, Inc. (BSI) Lori Torrison Mueller Communications,

Inc. Ginny Czarnecki**

Burbach Insulation Co., Inc. Christine Anderson Nonprofit Center of

Milwaukee Inc. Debbie Knepke

City of Milwaukee Common

Council Arlisia McHenry

Oasis Coffee & Vending

Services, Inc. Cathy Rohde

ConferenceDirect Michelle Eggert* Olympus Group Kathy Marchant*

Crowne Plaza Milwaukee

West Victoria Albanese Prescott Miller Jewelers Kathy Schnagl

Dickey’s Barbecue Pit

Pewaukee Sherri Povolo Propeller (TBD)

Environmental Innovations,

Inc.

Debra May

Tina Braley** Realty Executives Integrity –

Behrens Team Susan Behrens

FedEx Ground Patti Buck-Torrey** SalesSmith Inc. Mary Caye Smith

Fitness Advantage Trainer Jaime Wooten United Way of Greater

Milwaukee & Waukesha

County

Sue Cota

Goodwill TalentBridge Janine Kolbeck U.S. Cellular Pam Weisen

Harder Funeral Home Rachel Adas UW – Milwaukee

College of Nursing Julie Frey

Hometown Publications Tammy Crane We Energies Tracy Southern

Johnson Controls, Inc. Roxane Theisen-Kapp**

Marlene Griffith Wildtree Jennifer DeLaura

Life Member Ellen Aumann Sustaining Member Bonnie Gomer

Life Member Sharon Fryjoff Sustaining Member Joan Perdue

Life Member Margie Gehrman Member in Transition Ashley Gonzalez

*Indicates Board Officer, **Indicates Board Director, ***Indicates Board Advisor For any changes in firm information, firm representative information, or firm executive please contact: Cindy Kunze at [email protected]; (414) 362-7668


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