Organization seeks to honor outstanding businesswomen

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Business Leader Media is currently accepting nominations for its 10th Annual Women Extraordinaire Awards. The Women Extraordinaire Awards honor top women business leaders in the South Florida community.

Winners will be selected based on the following criteria:

· Candidate must be an influential leader within her company or business, with an extraordinary impact on its economic success and forward-thinking strategies;

· Candidate must be actively involved in the professional organizations and associations related to her industry;

· Candidate must be active in her community by utilizing her skills and/or time to promote philanthropic organizations or causes; and,

· Candidate must be a recognized mentor and example to other women in her industry, especially by maintaining a high functioning work-life balance.

Winners will 1) be honored at a ceremony on December 8, 2011 (2) be interviewed on wsRadio; and (3) be featured in our next issue of Business Leader magazine.

Nominations can be submitted at http://www.businessleader.com/commonevent/nominations.aspx?id=3

The nomination form takes less than five minutes to complete, and winning gives your candidate a chance to be honored among some of the South Florida’s top leaders, including:

2010 Women Extraordinaire:

· Aliette D. Rodz - Shutts & Bowen LLP

· Andrea Whilby, LEED AP - Providian Construction Group

· Audrey Ross - Esslinger Wooten Maxwell, Inc. Realtors

· Barbara W. Goldberg - O’Connell & Goldberg Public Relations

· Bernadette A. Morris, MPA - Sonshine Communications, Black PR Wire & Women Grow Strong

· Boo Zamek - JustAskBoo, LLC

· Brittany H. Rawlings, Esq. - Aaron Resnick, PA

· Cindy Kushner - Crowe Horwath LLP

· Cindy W. Baldwin, CGC, LEED AP - ACAI

· Claudia U. Orrett, Ph.D - Cherry Blossom Learning Center

· Debra Friefeld Bachenheimer, CPA - Goldstein Schechter Koch

· Dr. Helen Z. Cornely - Florida International University

· Edith Osman - Carlton Fields

· Effie D. Silva - Baker & McKenzie LLP

· Genie Milgrom - Farma International

· Ileana Ros-Lehtinen - House Committee on Foreign Affairs

· Janet T. Munn, Esq. - Rasco Klock

· Katherine Amador-Fortuny, Esq. - Infante, Zumpano, Hudson & Miloch LLC

· Katherine Fernandez Rundle - Miami-Dade County State Attorney

· Kimberly Gramm, MBA - Florida Atlantic University, College of Business

· Lauren Gail Stover - Miami-Dade Aviation Department, Miami International Airport

· Lea Souza-Rasile - Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP (Miami)

· Linda J. Walsh - Virtual Training Systems, Inc.

· Marcia K. Cypen - Legal Services of Greater Miami, Inc. (LSGMI)

· Mary Olszewska, Esq. - Law Offices of Ronald Weil, P.A.

· Melissa Rubin - Platinum Properties International (“PPI”)

· Melissa T. Nash - Accounts Receivables Inc. (A.R.I.)

· Michele L. Stocker - Greenberg Traurig, LLP

· Michele Sutton - Sutton Ferneries

· Michelle Oliva, CPC - Inktel Direct, Corp.

· Michelle Payer - The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C.

· Nancy B. Lash - Greenberg Traurig, LLP

· Niki Dunbar - 3Cinteractive

· Patricia Ann Seitz - United States District Court

· Patricia Junquera, M.D. - Department of Psychiatry, University of Miami

· Robyn Fern Perlman - CoreStrategies for Nonprofits, Inc.

· Rosalyn “Sia” Baker-Barnes, Esq. - Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, P.A.

· Sandra Bernard-Bastien - The Children's Services Council of Broward County

· Sandra Greenblatt, Esq. - Sandra Greenblatt, P.A.

· Sheri F. Schultz, CPA, ABV, CFF - Fiske & Company

· Stacy Bercun Bohm - Akerman Senterfitt, LLP

· Vivian Dimond - Avatar Real Estate Services, LLC



Nominations can be submitted at http://www.businessleader.com/commonevent/nominations.aspx?id=3

Thank you for your participation,


Karen Massey

Events Manager

Business Leader