Celebrating Women's Success: A Conversation with Sylvia Allen
March 4, 2014
Hosted by Kimberly Stewart
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Episode Description
Have you ever paved your own path? Lead the charge? Done something that was frowned upon and realized success? This month, Kimberly Stewart is celebrating Women’s Success! Kicking off the month is a woman who started her own company when that was taboo. She paved her own way, and after 36 years is still in business, still successful, and still passionate about what she does. Sylvia Allen, co-founder of Allen Consulting, a PR, sponsorship and integrated marketing communications firm, joins Kimberly Stewart to share her adventure on how she started and grew this dynamic company. Sylvia will kick off Celebrating Women’s Success on Tuesday, March 4 at 6 PM Eastern Time (3 PM Pacific Time). How do you pave your own path?
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Stepping Stones to Everyday Success provides advice and guidance to the professional whether a team member, manager, or organizational leader on the stepping stones to everyday success. We tell stories, collaborate on tools and techniques, and share our experiences on realizing success and value every day. The show will evolve with you! We invite you to interact with us and participate in the program. The show will give you practical and straight forward tidbits and tools that you can mold and apply. From each show, our goal is for you to have at least one memorable tidbit that you can use in your everyday work life.
Kimberly Stewart
Kimberly Stewart founded Stepping Stone Consulting, LLC with the vision to apply her twenty plus years of information technology program management to small businesses and organizations helping them implement successful projects and sustain effective business processes. Ms. Stewart has worked with and for non-profits, private industry, and the Federal Government experiencing and navigating through a spectrum of organizational processes, politics, and hierarchy. Today, Ms. Stewart works directly with her Federal government and small business clients’ program managers to support them in their program executions. She has successfully implemented multi-million dollar IT systems that have been integral to the organizations’ supply chains, set-up program management offices that were key to receiving national award recognition, and consulted with small businesses and their program managers. The key tenets to Stepping Stone Consulting’s business philosophy are partnership, knowledge sharing, collaboration, and creative problem solving. Ms. Stewart is a member of the Program Management Institute, U.S. Women Chamber of Commerce, and National Association of Professional Women. In addition, Kimberly is an active community advocate being on the Associate Board of Directors for Wolf Trap Foundation, an avid supporter of Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and a Girl Scout Troop Leader.
