LEADERSHIP TRAINING DAY

Featured Hosts/Leaders

Katherine Ebner, Principal, The Nebo Company

Top Leadership Coach Katherine (Kate) Ebner, the founder and principal of The Nebo Company and faculty leader of Georgetown University’s Leadership Coaching Program, is passionate about helping people reach their highest potential by leading inspiring lives and careers. She founded The Nebo Company in 2004 to address a growing need for transformational leadership development experiences that deliver real change and desired outcomes.

The Nebo Company today delivers state-of-the-art executive coaching, mentoring programs and original leadership development courses to senior leaders in organizations such as National Geographic Society, Syngenta Corporation, Booz Allen Hamilton, Raytheon, Insight Research Group, MTV Networks, Nickelodeon, Merrill Lynch, The Wilderness Society, and The Oneness-Family School. Nebo has developed pioneering programming called “The Leadership and Life Curriculum” that teaches executives how to thrive professionally and live a fulfilling life.

Kate has personally led all aspects of organizational change. First at a prestigious liberal arts college and then as SVP and Chief People Officer at an international strategy consultancy, Kaiser Associates, her accomplishments include design and delivery of innovative mentoring and coaching programs, development of career paths and related competency models, creation of original, highly-rated leadership development courses for senior executives, and the creation and implementation of processes that improve organizational culture in significant, measurable ways. She brings this firsthand experience and a pragmatic, results-oriented approach to her leadership coaching work with C-level and senior clients across sectors.

Kate’s "Coaching for Leverage," a model for helping professionals who are overwhelmed with work, appears in On Becoming a Leadership Coach, and she frequently speaks on topics related to effective leadership, visioning for leadership and life, work/life integration and women’s leadership. Kate is currently working on a book about visioning and has recently been quoted in Self Magazine and Ladies Home Journal on topics related to career success and life happiness. She also hosts a weekly radio show called “Visionary Leader, Extraordinary Life” on VoiceAmerica, featuring the stories of inspiring leaders from all walks of life.

For more information, go to www.nebocompany.com or read Kate’s blog, The Inspired Leader.

Donna Friedman Meir, President, Lemonade Creative Consulting

Donna Friedman Meir is the owner and founder of LEMONADE Creative Consulting, a strategic consulting firm focused on building cross-media experiences for kids and families. Present and former clients include senior management at Sega, Nickelodeon, Cornucopia Arts/The Juilliard School, Dave Edwards Media and KIDO'Z. She also serves as Chief Innovation Officer for Insight Research Group, the research-driven strategy firm that inspires its clients to build innovative and impactful experiences for consumers. In her role at Insight, Donna innovates forward-thinking initiatives and services to best serve the needs of Insight’s clients. She is the company’s sparkplug, providing senior leadership on strategic direction, marketing and business development.

Prior to launching LEMONADE, Donna founded and served as president of National Geographic Kids Entertainment (NGKE). Under her direction, NGKE produced several critically-acclaimed television properties that have been honored with multiple Emmy Awards. Donna has also held senior executive positions with the WB Television Network and Nickelodeon.

Her accomplishments include leading Kids’ WB! to the #1 ratings position on Saturday mornings for four straight years and 10 consecutive sweeps victories, helping to build the first transmedia megabrand, Pokémon, and its successor, Yu-gi-oh!, and successfully leading brand strategy, marketing and early new business efforts for Nickelodeon’s first international channels.

Donna is a Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude graduate of Harvard University, and was named one of top 25 most powerful women in television by Electronic Media Magazine in 2002.

Donna currently serves on the board of directors for Children Now, an advocacy group whose mission is to develop and drive socially innovative “win-win” approaches to helping all children achieve their full potential.

Donna currently lives in Montclair, NJ with her husband and two children, Alyla and Joss.

For more information, go to www.lemonadecc.com.