Wealthy Sistas® WIPP President & CEO Barbara Kasoff

Barbara Kasoff is the President and CEO, and Co-Founder of Women Impacting Public Policy, Inc., a non-profit, nonpartisan public policy advocacy organization with over half a million members including 54 business organizations, educating and advocating on economic issues for women in business.     

Other companies that she has owned and managed, are Voice-Tel of Michigan, the fourth largest voice messaging company in the United States, Voice-Tel of Central Michigan, and Voice Response Corporation, a telemarketing and database marketing company.  Barbara also opened and developed Voice-Tel of Australia, a company with 11 offices throughout Australia and New Zealand for the Voice-Tel franchisor.  With her experience, Barbara has incorporated her skills in management, her strengths in communications, and her considerable energies in powering her fledgling companies to secure a solid foothold in the rapidly expanding world of communications. Prior to becoming a business owner, Barbara previously served as Vice President of Customer Service and Senior Vice President of Research and Software Development for World Computer Corporation in Michigan for ten years, where her team designed and installed new financial services software for credit unions.  Altogether, she has been a business owner and corporate executive for 20 years and successfully sold three of her four companies.    

Barbara was named on October 15, 2007 to the National Women’s Business Council.  The Federal appointment is for a 3 year term and recently cited as CEO of one of the top 3 most powerful non-profits in Washington, DC.   

Barbara has served as a Delegate to the White House Conference on Small Business, was an invited delegate to President Clinton’s Midwest Regional Economic Summit.