REMARKABLE FILIPINA WOMEN

Invitation to Power Meeting with Remarkable Filipina Women (March 20, 2007) - New York

Invitation to Power Lunch with Remarkable Filipina Women (March 9, 2007) - San Francisco

Invitation to Power Lunch with Remarkable Filipina Women (Aug. 18, 2006) - San Francisco

Invitation to Power Lunch with Remarkable Filipina Women (May 20, 2005) - San Francisco

ABOUT THE COUNCIL:
The members of the Council are thought leaders and provocative thinkers, women of influence making meaningful change in their particular field, expressing a variety of perspectives. The Council members look outside the traditional world of work and at the broader issues and external forces (social, technological, economic, environmental, political) that influence the business environment. They do not focus on the next financial quarter, or even the next year or two, but on the next ten years. They do not dwell on common preoccupations of organizations today. They look to the future, outside-in thinking.

WHO:
”Remarkable Filipina Women” are entrepreneurs, organizational executives, and thought leaders - some are prominent, some still to be discovered - in fields where the future is being created. They bring to us key developments to watch and issues they track in their respective fields. They come from many areas of specialization - science and technology, culture and civilization, geopolitics and the environment. “Remarkable Filipina Women” stretch our thinking by pointing out issues that may be off everyone’s radar screen, by reframing facts in surprising ways, and by finding connections between divergent developments.

WHAT THEY DO:
Remarkable Filipina Women are willing to:
• Contribute their remarkable insights, original ideas, and deep experience.
• Guide FWN and Filipinas understand the relationships among the external forces shaping our future.
• Stimulate future thinking among FWN members as we head into a decade of complexity and uncertainty.

A little bit of history about the remarkable concept...

Pierre Wack, a visionary strategist at Royal Dutch Shell in the 1970s, popularized the remarkable concept. According to Art Kleiner, author of The Age of Heretics: Heroes, Outlaws, and Forerunners of Corporate Change (1996), the remarkable people concept came from a book called Meetings With Remarkable Men (1950) written by G.I. Gurdjieff, a Russian philosopher/mystic known for future oriented thinking. Gurdjieff defined a remarkable person as having a resourceful mind and a tolerance for different ideas.

Wack meant something quite different. He introduced this concept into the corporate world by systematically seeking out provocative thinkers to help challenge and inform the company's planning. Remarkable people are not traditional experts whose knowledge is deep but narrowly focused. Rather, remarkable people are original, systemic thinkers whose boundless curiosity and passion naturally lead them to explore ideas beyond their own areas of expertise and in places no one else looks. Many other organizations followed this idea and set up their own similar programs. At Global Business
Network, a renowned futures research group, their Remarkable People are the greatest minds on the planet. They are remarkable people because their lives have directly affected the quality of life for many others.

ROLE EXPECTATIONS FROM THE COUNCIL MEMBERS:
• FWN member in good standing.
• Attend at least one of two Remarkable Council events scheduled annually.
The Council will convene in a variety of meeting formats. Members will present/share their global perspectives to the larger FWN group.
• Agree to at least two informational interview requests from FWN members annually. Mentorship Chair will coordinate mutually convenient schedules.
• Ability to sponsor or support an FWN project or event.

Remarkable Filipina Women are:

- Alice Bulos, Founder, Filipino American Grassroots Political Movement

- Agnes Briones, Executive Director, Small Business Commission, City & County of San Francisco

- Charmaine Mesina, Attorney, Managing Director, Corporate Legal Services, Applied Materials, Inc.
- Cora M. Tellez, former President & CEO, Health Net, Inc., Board Member, Institute for the Future
- Delia Menez Rosal, Philippine Consul General San Francisco
- Eleanor Nisperos, Judge, California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board
- Evelyn Dilsaver, Executive Vice President, U.S. Trust Corporation
- Irene Natividad, Executive Director, Philippine American Foundation
- Josie Natori, President & CEO, Natori, Inc.
- Malou Babilonia, President, Babilonia Wilner Foundation
- Malu Rivera-Peoples, Director and Founder, Westlake School of Performing Arts
- Marie Cunning, President and CEO, Arista Development, Inc. and Altair Realty
- Marissa Peterson, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Operations, Sun Microsystems
- Melinda De Jesus, Professor, Asian Pacific American Studies, Arizona State University
- Michelle Watts, Co-Founder, Pilipino American Law Students at Boalt Hall
- Mona Lisa Yuchengco, Publisher, Filipinas Magazine
- Nadinne Cruz, Director, Haas Center for Public Service, Stanford University

- Nikki Santiago, President, Pilipino Student Union, Skyline College
- Pati Poblete, Editorial Writer and Columnist, San Francisco Chronicle
- Paz B. Gomez, CEC, US Navy, P. E.
- Rebecca C. Samson, LTC, IG, XO/OPS Officer, Office of the Inspector General, US Army Reserve Command
- Rowena Sanchez, Philippine Consul General San Francisco (2003 to current)

- Ruth Asmundson, Mayor of Davis, CA
- Sonia T. Delen, Principal, Bank of America Leasing & Capital Group
- Tessie Guillermo, President & CEO, Community Technology Foundation of California
- Velma Veloria, Representative, 11th Legislative District, Washington State
- Vicky Calub, President and CEO, Entrepreneur and Franchise Owner, SubWay and Slender Lady
- Virna S. Tintiangco, Director, Business Development, Jeeba Solutions, Former Executive Chair, Filipina Women's Network
- Yolanda Ortega Stern, President, Federation of Philippine American Chambers of Commerce Inc.

FWN Remarkable Council Co-Chairs
- Tessie Zaragoza, Chair, FWN Board
- Rachel Puno, Esq., Applied Materials, Inc., Trustee, Jefferson Union High School District Board

To nominate yourself or a Remarkable Filipina Woman to the Council,
send an email to remarkable@ffwn.org indicating nominee's name and why she is remarkable.
Attach her bio/2-page resume.

Mail your $75 FWN membership dues or join online (renewable annually at anniversary date) to:

Filipina Women's Network, P. O. Box 192143
San Francisco, CA 94119.