Title: Owner
Company: Freckle Face Dog Grooming
Location: Stonington, Conn.
For 21 years, Susan Belicka has been owner of Freckle Face Dog Grooming an in-home dog groomer. There, she provides grooming services, ear cleanings, nail clippings, bathing, and styling, including shed-outs, clipping or patterned styles. Ms Belicka is an expert in pet grooming, marketing, print production services, and accounting. Continue reading
Title: Pastel Artist, Oil Painter
Location: Largo, Ill.
Wielding a brush the past 30 years, Cheryl Yellowhawk continues as a pastel artist and oil painter. Her expertise include florals, still lifes, landscapes, figurative, and portraits with various pastels and oils. Ms. Yellowhawk received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from University of New Mexico and is a graduate from the Institute of American Indian Arts, with honors. She had three paintings of beach children showing at the beach art center until the end of October at Indian rocks beach, and will also be featured on the cover of women of distinction magazine Feb. 2016. Ms. Yellowhawk is currently showing new paintings at Gilmer Arts Gallery and Heritage Assn in Ellijay, Ga., and at Blue Ridge Art Center in Blue Ridge, Ga.
Beginning on March 18, 2016, Ms. Yallowhawk is proud to announce that Dunedin Fine Arts Center will be exhibiting her work, “Birds of Paradise” for six weeks. Additionally, her work will be featured at The Blue Ridge Arts Center in South Carolina, Gilmer Arts and Heritage Association in Georgia and the Center for Spiritual Living on Florida’s Gulf Coast.
Title: Founder, President
Company: Justin L Davis Foundation, Inc.
Location: Alexandria, Va.
Denise Wilkins is a Licensed Minister, Certified Life/Crisis Coach, Youth Advocate and Motivational Speaker. She’s passionate and dedicated to making a difference in the lives that she touches. Having overcome tragic events which have occurred in her personal life, she knew that finding the strength to help others avoid similar circumstances was necessary, and so she has pursued the birthing of the Justin L Davis Foundation, Inc. Ms. Wilkins spent twenty-two years pursuing her passion, which was being a youth counselor/coach, and minister, motivational speaker, to youth and adults in both the secular and Christian community, her expertise is with at-risk youth. Continue reading
Title: Licensed Minister, Certified Life and Crisis Coach, Motivational Speaker
Location: Princeton, N.J.
Honing in 50 years of writing and editing experience, Barbara Westergaard feels that working hard and not taking ‘no’ for an answer has contributed to her success. The advice that she can give to the younger generation of women entering the workforce is make assumptions that you are as good as a man without having a chip on your shoulder. Ms. Westergaard has always had a passion for reading and writing, so becoming an author was a natural progression for me. Continue reading
Title: President
Company: Weis Associates, LLC
Location: Scottsdale, Az.
Shirley A. Weis is President of Weis Associates, LLC, an international management and leadership development consulting firm. She specializes in providing strategic advice to leaders in health care, insurance medical related startup companies. Prior to launching Weis Associates, Ms. Weis was Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer (the chief operational executive) for Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Her work involved coordinating overall institutional strategy and operations of Mayo Clinic’s $9 billion, 60,000 employee healthcare system that treats more than a million patients a year from around the world through its sites in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Continue reading
