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Friday, October 24, 2008 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Frontenac B–C

Speaker(s)
Steve Schueth President, First Affirmative Financial Network
Barbara Simonetti View

Description
This interactive session is designed to provide an open and creative conversation on a topic of mutual interest. Working together, we will surface our collective knowledge, share ideas and insights, and gain a deeper understanding of the issues involved. The topic will emerge out of our experience together earlier in the day. What will be the burning issue on which we will want to focus as a group? Maybe "transformative investing." We'll see?

Speaker Biographies
Steve Schueth is President of First Affirmative Financial Network, an independent Registered Investment Advisor that specializes in serving socially conscious investors. For nearly 20 years, Mr. Schueth has been a nationally recognized authority, consultant, and resource to the sustainable and responsible investment industry. He served as a Director of the Social Investment Forum from1992 to 2002. He was with Calvert from 1989 to 1997 where he led a product development group that created the first global socially screened mutual fund in the U.S. and was involved in launching four other new funds designed for socially conscious investors. As President of Calvert Distributors from 1994 to 1997, he ran Calvert?s sales organization and was responsible for the company?s relationships with over 2,000 broker-dealer firms. Mr. Schueth was born and raised in Iowa where he began working in his father?s hardware store at a very early age. His professional background also includes five years as a real estate broker, four years as Vice President of a real estate securities company, and three years as Director of Development for The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Barbara Simonetti is a skilled consultant, facilitator and project manager who specializes in developing the capacity of managers and organizations to create, share and use knowledge to meet emerging business challenges. She is dedicated to working with clients in a way that focuses on achieving the immediate business goals while building the capacity of the organization and its leadership to create and facilitate robust internal and external networks that can continue to sense and respond effectively to key strategic issues. Barbara has over 26 years of experience working with clients to create and implement winning business strategy through interactive meeting designs, surveys, presentation and facilitation skills coaching, training design and delivery, group facilitation - both remote and face-to-face, compensation programs, and the creation and application of technologies for supporting and ?mapping? communities of practice and networks. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from Fordham University, a Master of Science degree in Education from Columbia University, and a Master of Business Administration from New York University. She has completed graduate course work at Harvard University in Microcomputers and the New Technology. She is a contributor to the recently published book ?What Is Your Life?s Work?? by Bill Jensen.