Leeza Gibbons, Entreprenuer, Bestselling Author, Emmy Award Winner Keynote at 2015 Business Women's Forum (BWF) Oct. 23

Leeza Gibbons, Emmy Award winning television and radio host and producer, “New York Times” bestselling author and successful business owner, will replace Ivanka Trump as the luncheon keynote speaker at the 2015 Business Women’s Forum (BWF). She will join nationally-recognized business expert and speaker Juliet Funt, owner and founder of WhiteSpace at Work, will deliver the morning motivational keynote address at the 2015 BWF which is anticipated to attract more than 500 attendees from across New England.

“Making It All Work” is the theme of the 33rd annual non-profit BWF which is Connecticut’s longest-running, full-day conference for women. It’s a program of the Greater Waterbury Chamber of Commerce Foundation which is led by female executives dedicated to the professional and personal growth of working women. BWF’s mission has been to raise funds for scholarships for female Post University students to pursue degrees in business and two Post juniors will receive scholarships at the October 23rd BWF. During the past 32 years, the BWF has generated in excess of $190,000 toward those scholarships and helped business women across Connecticut enhance their small to medium-sized companies as well as their personal careers.

An inspiring speaker and a “business superstar,” Leeza Gibbons is well known for anchoring and reporting on “Entertainment Tonight,” the most popular entertainment-news show in television history, and anchoring her award-winning daytime talk show, “Leeza.” She currently hosts Lifetime’s successful prime time magazine, “What Should I Do?” and produces her own syndicated talk show, “America Now”, and a PBS weekly news show, “My Generation”. In 2013 she won a Daytime Emmy Award for “Outstanding Talk Show Host” and was named a “New York Times” best-selling author of “Take 2,” a personal growth guide designed to help people recreate themselves and their personal and professional lives.

Leeza also started her own innovative non-profit organization, the Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation launched after helping her grandmother and mother in their struggles with Alzheimer’s disease. To help other families, she authored, “Take Oxygen First: Protecting Your Health and Happiness While Caring for a Loved One with Memory Loss.” In March 2015, she was crowned winner of NBC’s “The Celebrity Apprentice” Season 7, having raised more than $700,000 for one of her signature foundations, Leeza’s Care Connection, making her the second woman to win the program. She opened her signature Leeza’s Place and both programs offer free support and encouragement services for family caregivers of loved ones with Alzheimer’s.

Juliet Funt is a nationally-recognized expert in business strategy and in coping with the current age of overload in which we all live and work. She brings humor and energy to her morning motivational presentation. As owner and founder of WhiteSpace at Work she has worked with organizations to “flip the norms of business for the better.” She is a nationally recognized expert who provides thought-provoking content and immediately actionable tools for her audiences, along with a good deal of humor.

Admission to the 2015 BWF on October 23 is $195/person and includes keynote presentations, six workshops, day-long networking, breakfast, lunch, and a high-energy closing reception with raffle and door prizes. To register, visit www.2015bwf.com, or call the Waterbury Regional Chamber at 203-757-0701. We look forward to welcoming you all. Register today.