ASWA - Bellevue Washington, Resources for Women CPAs.

Mariam Reiss, Master Certified Coach, President, Wisdom at Work

"Communications Makeover: 5 Jumpstart Strategies for Getting Bigger, Better Results with Clients, Vendors and Office Staff"

Miriam Reiss is the President of Spirited Marketing, a marketing and career coach who helps professional women get past their "niceness" and work more effectively, so they get the salary, perks and other goodies that life's banquet has to offer. Miriam's clients have ranged from Microsoft and the Washington Society of CPA's to CEO's, cartoonists, and culinary experts. Former Board Advisor to the Women's Business Exchange and Past President of the International Coach Federation's local chapter, Miriam holds a bachelors degree from Cornell University, and masters degrees from Columbia University and Peace Theological Seminary, where she is completing her doctorate.

Miriam's female CPA clients say that inside their hearts lurks the capacity to have serious fun -- and the ability to think with more imagination and intuition than their bosses might appreciate.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Educational Foundation for Women in Accounting

EFWA

Have you checked out the EFWA website lately? We have made some exciting changes, and there are more in the works. Check us out at: www.efwa.org.

Here's a simple, easy and free way for you to support EFWA - give us your e-mail address! We would like to send you our semi-annual newsletter and other updates electronically. This would allow more funding to go to our scholarship, leadership training, and other programs. New donors can provide us their e-mail address right on the donor envelope. The EFWA will not sell or otherwise distribute your contact information; it is exclusively for us to contact you.

Please take a couple of minutes to visit us at www.efwa.org or send us an e-mail at: info@efwa.org. We would love to hear from you!

Shirley Laird

President

EFWA

Dinner On US

Have you made a habit of reading our Newsletter?

It keeps you informed of what's new in our chapter.

We've got new members, listing of local, regional and national events.

What's for dinner, guest speakers and member achievements.

Now's your chance to be rewarded for being informed.

The first person who locates ☺ in this newsletter and emails me with the correct paragraph/section will receive a free dinner when attending the Bellevue Chapter dinner meeting.

(Preceding smiley face in the above phrase is for illustration purposes only. The 'real' smiley face exist somewhere else in this newsletter)

Yes, there are rules though....

1) The free dinner must be redeemed within 2 dinner meetings from the month of the newsletter. For example: you saw it in this June Newsletter...you must redeem it during the June or July dinner meeting.

2) One winner per year, please.

3) Not redeemable for cash and not to exceed the monthly cost of our dinner.

4) Cannot be transferred.

5) Alcohol not included.

6) Have fun !!!

CALL TO ORDER: The September 2006 Bellevue dinner meeting was called to order at 6:37pm by Laura Ohringer, President. Presiding Secretary: Eleanor Siverts-Akerman, on behalf of Robin Noyes-McGuire, who was absent today.

She gave a brief summary of the national conference- 5 Bellevue members attended with over 300 attendees overall at the JNC. There was great CPE tracks and met many CPA's from around the states. There were no By-Law changes, but one exciting news is that Paula Bishop won the grand prize for the Recruiting contest held by National.

There is a new "9 in 9" membership campaign for 2006-2007 where if you recruit 9 new member, each chapter will receive one free registration to the 2007 National Conference to be held in Orlando, Florida.

We will have to start forming a committee when Bellevue will be hosting the 2008 NW Conference. Anyone interested, please see Laura.

The North Cascades will be hosting a Fall Seminar in October. They will be sending registrations out shortly.

At 7:33pm, Mellany Winter introduced tonight's guest speaker Debbie Allen Overbillig, Allen Partners. Debbie is a board member of Washington Women’s Employment & Education (WWEE). This non-profit organization holds seminars for women and men to get them ready for the workforce so that they may break the cycle of poverty. Programs such as computer training, resume writing, interview techniques, skills assessments and basic support are just some of the topics covered to help women support themselves. WWEE was founded in Pierce County in 1982 by a group of four local women.