What they did not teach you in Business School

Guests Monique Hayward is President & CEO of Nouveau Connoisseurs Corporation, which she founded in April 2004. From January 2005 to July 2009, Monique's company owned and operated the award-winning Dessert Noir Café & Bar in Beaverton, Oregon. Monique, whose corporate experience includes a wide range of marketing, business development, public relations, and communications positions at Intel Corporation and Tektronix, Inc., has shared her knowledge and expertise as a contributing writer and interviewee for mainstream media like the Oregonian, Denver Post, and CNN and online and print publications for entrepreneurs like BizChicksRule.com, Entrepreneur, Black Enterprise, and Restaurant Startup & Growth. In January 2009, Monique will publish her first book, Divas Doing Business: What the Guidebooks Don’t Tell You About Being a Woman Entrepreneur. Roxanne Emmerich Roxanne Emmerich is America's most sought-after workplace transformation expert. She is listed by Sales and Marketing Management magazine as one of the 12 most requested speakers in the country for her ability to transform negative workplace performance and environments into "bring it on" results-oriented cultures. Roxanne's new book "Thank God It's Monday" reached and maintained its position as #1 on Amazon's business bestseller list and made the Wall Street Journal's best seller list-all in the first week of its release. As President and CEO of the Emmerich Group, Inc. she has consulted and spoken to most of the financial institutions in the top one percent of performance, as well as clients like Merck, Pfizer, Allianz, Lockheed Martin and hundreds of other leaders in almost every industry. Roxanne was inducted into the National Speaker Hall of Fame for her impact and quantifiable effectiveness.