2012 Scheduled Speakers:
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Heather Coleman-Voss
Heather Coleman-Voss is a passionate, sought-after speaker surrounding the topics of dynamic leadership, current job search strategies, employee engagement, job loss and recovery and social media for career and business. She is a contributing author to The LeadChange Group (www.leadchangegroup.com) and www.salary.com, a radio guest and a guest blogger on several career and leadership sites. Heather is also a virtual resume, career and social media coach and owns the company Career Savvy, LLC. Along with Ron Marshall, her career coaching partner in crime, Heather owns the “Career Savvy – A Career, Business and Networking Group” on Facebook. Please ask to join this thriving community!
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Nancy Fishman, Ph.D.
Nancy Fishman is a Psychologist. She is the Co-Author of SMILE, a parent education program currently running in 50 states and internationally for divorcing families. She is the Founder of Forgotten Harvest, 1990, largest fresh food rescue program in the US, providing 24 million meals a year to Wayne, Oakland and Macomb County residents in need.
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David Chasnick, Esq.
Attorney David Chasnick was admitted to the Michigan Bar in 1997 after receiving his Juris Doctor from Michigan State University College of Law. Prior to that, he attended Eastern Michigan University graduating in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Public Law and Government. Attorney Chasnick focuses primarily in the area of family law, which is a benefit as he is able to key in on obscure rules or technicalities specific to that area.
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Vicki McLellan, CFP, CDFA
Vicki D. McLellan, CFP®, CDFA™ is owner and president of Equitable Divorce Resolutions. She provides financial consultation services for divorce as a Financial Neutral or Financial Coach in Mediation or Collaborative Practice. Vicki also provides mediation services upon request.
Before starting her financial coaching practices, Ms. McLellan was head of the Financial Planning Department at the Center for Financial Planning in Southfield, MI.
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Walethia Aquil
Mrs. Walethia Aquil, CEO of Grace and Charm, is a dynamic ball of innovative fire that can help you jump start your business and your brand via her Grace and Charm Success System signature products.
The ‘Grace and Charm’ Success System is a proven proprietary coaching program that provides entrepreneurs and executives with training in proper business decorum and protocol’s in a step by step system that is specific to getting results. Results such as growing profits, taking control, expanding their network.
Her mission is to “Equip entrepreneurs with the skills, training and information necessary to ensure that their personal and professional image does not distract from the productiveness of their professional efforts.”
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Danielle Smith, Esq.
Attorney Danielle A. Smith, J.D., BSW is dedicated to serving her clients’ legal needs with professionalism, expedience and understanding. Ms. Smith recognizes that emotional and financial issues involving families in crisis are difficult for clients and require immediate attention. Her goal is to assist clients through this stressful phase in their lives with an emphasis on providing options for successful resolution and a positive future.
Danielle Smith is educated in Collaborative Practice and facilitative mediation. She was a founding member of Gornbein, Fletcher, & Smith, PLLC which later became Gornbein Smith Peskin-Shepherd PLLC. Prior to that attorney Smith was with Dykema Gossett PLLC of Southeastern Michigan and before that was a partner at Jerome, Austin and Smith, P.C.
Her background in social work is tantamount to entry into domestic relations law. Her focus as an attorney is on helping people restructure relationships and assisting children with the adjustment. She advocates putting children first and diminishing the animosity between parents.
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Lisa Mangigian, M.A. LPC
Lisa Mangigian, is a licensed professional counselor with considerable experience and abundant enthusiasm for guiding people in career transition. After a decade of working with job seekers in higher education, Lisa recently started Ready2Launch where she works with job seekers to find their focus, articulate their best qualities, and polish their resumes and other promotional materials. Lisa also entered the non-profit world while working for the Ann Arbor CIL where her achievements were recognized by Corp! Magazine with the Diversity Award.
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Dr. Joshua Ehrlich, Ph.D.
Joshua Ehrlich, Ph.D. received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Michigan and completed his psychoanalytic training at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. He has a private practice in Ann Arbor where he does therapy, psychoanalysis and consultation. Dr. Ehrlich has a longstanding interest in divorce and has worked with hundreds of divorcing families as a therapist, custody evaluator, and court-appointed parenting coordinator.
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Henry Gornbein
Henry Gornbein is a seasoned matrimonial attorney in based in Bloomfield Hills, MI. Mr. Gornbein is active in the following areas of practice: Matrimonial law, Child custody, Pre- and post-nuptial agreements, Divorce mediation, Arbitration, Paternity, Collaborative Law. He has mediated and arbitrated in hundreds of divorce cases and has been a lecturer on divorce for numerous organizations on this topic, including the Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Family Law Section of State Bar of Michigan, American Bar Association and the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
Mr. Gornbein attended University of Michigan Law School where he obtained his J.D. and did his undergraduate studies at PHB Monteith College, Wayne State University, where he was president of the Monteith College Student Faculty Council. Mr. Gornbein is a Member of the Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honorary Society.
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Mark Bear, Esq.
Mark B. Baer is a family law attorney, mediator, and collaborative law practitioner in Pasadena, California and has been practicing for twenty years. Mr. Baer has received a great deal of media attention regarding his opinions that the family law system in the United States destroys families and his views on better and more constructive ways of handling such matters.
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Lori Becker, Esq
As President and Managing Partner of Becker Legal, P.C., Lori D. Becker believes the success of her clients is what matters most. Her specialized training in the collaborative divorce method, and her designation as a certified mediator, endows her with an ability to listen and negotiate that is rarely seen in family law attorneys. With experience in both Federal and State courts, Ms. Becker is also a skilled litigator capable of assertive and vigorous representation of her clients.
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Barbara Tucker
Barbara Tucker is a registered representative of and offers securities, investment advisory and financial planning services. She provides women with clear, simple and workable strategies to help them achieve financial independence for themselves and their families.
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Jacqueline Roessler
Jacqueline Roessler is one of the premiere divorce financial planners in the Midwest. Jacki, who has been a financial advisor since 1994, provides litigation support to family law attorneys and has helped hundreds of clients understand the short-term and long-term financial impact of any settlement proposal on their financial future—before they sign on the dotted line. In addition, she prepares and reviews Qualified Domestic Relations Orders (QDRO’s) for Michigan attorneys.
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LaShon Williams
LaShon F. Williams is a seasoned and experienced leader in the area of community service and professional development. She has a profound ability to meet the needs of a diverse group of people on various levels as an educator, social worker and business owner of a service organization. Her professional experience truly focuses on service to mankind. Ms. Williams’ founded the organization, Divorce Recovery Today, Inc. after going through a difficult divorce herself, she recognized the difficulty one experiences after divorce and seeks to help individuals make a healthy and positive transition.
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James Windell
James Windell, M.A., parent trainer, family counselor and author, has specialized in work with children and their parents for more than 40 years. He is a court clinical psychologist with the Oakland County (Michigan) Circuit Court’s Psychological Clinic where he conducts group therapy with delinquent adolescents and runs the high-conflict post-divorce group ADEPT. In past years as a psychotherapist, he specialized in work with disruptive and oppositional children and teens.
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