Wednesday, February 16, 2022 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Advocacy Journey 2022, Part 1: An introduction to NAWBO Advocacy
This webinar is hosted by NAWBO Greater Philadelphia’s Advocacy Committee as part of a series to educate and engage members around the National NAWBO advocacy agenda and give members a greater understanding of their role and influence as a business owner. Three women who have been involved in advocacy will help tell the story: Sandy Clitter, Ellen Fisher and Elle Patout.
Who should attend?
Greater Philadelphia Chapter members and others who want to learn more about advocacy for women business owners, such as non-member WBO’s and entrepreneurs, Alliance Partners, and NAWBO members from other chapters. This webinar will be of particular interest to those who want to learn about how NAWBO works on behalf of its members and the larger WBO community. It also will be inspiring to those who would like to become more active in advocacy.
Registration is required. Registration closes 5pm on February 15, 2022.
Meet our panelists:
Sandy Clitter
President at Your Tech Tamer, LLC
Sandy founded Your Tech Tamer in 1998 to close a hole that she felt existed in getting “real time” information into the hands of managers with ease. As an Information Architect and Business Processes consultant, Sandy provides her clients with insightful solutions to business challenges. She works with small and mid-sized companies, helping them to manage the data and systems that drive their business, rather than allowing the systems to drive the processes. While the last 20+ years have seen great changes and improvements in technology, Your Tech Tamer still prides itself on making meaningful data analysis ‘One Buttonable’.
While Sandy has been a business owner since 1998, she wasn’t lucky enough to discover and join NAWBO until the fall of 2008. By the end of her first year, she had taken to heart the saying “The more you participate, the more you get out of it.” Since then, Sandy has served at both the NAWBO Greater Philadelphia and NAWBO National levels. A few of her roles and accolades have included being a member of the NAWBO Greater Philadelphia and NAWBO National Technology Committees, Chapter Board Treasurer, recipient of Greater Philadelphia Board Member of the Year and President’s Awards, and member of the National President’s Assembly Steering Committee. Sandy has attended every National Women’s Business Conference, except for one, since 2010.
Ellen Fisher
Networker Extraordinaire
Ellen Fisher is an award-winning entrepreneur and experienced community leader recognized for her innate passion for building collaborative successful businesses/organizations from the ground up throughout the Philadelphia region. She used that passion in her bid for the PA State Senate this past November.
Ellen is well known for creating the Women's Yellow Pages of Greater Philadelphia and co-founding the Women's Business Enterprise Center-East in Philadelphia which continues to provide services and programs that support and accelerate business ownership.
In 2013 she was recruited by the Philadelphia Center for Advancing Entrepreneurs to introduce the nationally recognized Young Entrepreneurs Academy to the Delaware Valley. Since its inception Ellen annually raised tens of thousands of dollars, recruited hundreds of business owners and non-profit leaders to volunteer and mentor middle/high school students to create their own businesses.
Among other honors, Fisher received the Small Business Administration’s Regional Women in Business Award, the Athena Award and was the first recipient to receive the Women in Business Advocate Award from the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. She was also recognized by the Philadelphia Business Journal as a Woman of Distinction and as one of Pennsylvania’s Best 50 Women in Business.
She has served on myriad boards including: Women’s Way, the PA Small Business Development Center, Main Line Health’s Women's Health Advisory Board, NAWBO, Haverford Area YMCA and was the President of the Haverford School District Education Foundation.
She is very involved in her community and lives in her childhood home.
Elle Patout
Managing Member, Communications Preferred LLC
NAWBO National Director of Public Relations
Elle leverages on air, on the record and on the Hill experience to help clients in government and the private sector more effectively connect with audiences, influence legislation, change perspectives and create quantifiable results. She served as a Press Secretary in the U.S. Senate, Communications Director in the U.S. House of Representatives and Congressional and Public Relations Manager for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy. Prior to her career in D.C., Elle spent time working as a news anchor and reporter for an ABC affiliate in Alabama.
For more information about this program, please contact Mikaele Racine, NAWBO Greater Philadelphia Advocacy Chair at racinechamps@aol.com
