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Expert 1
	Mary Cantando Growth Advisor The Woman's Advantage Expertise: Mary Cantando has written four books for women entrepreneurs and writes regularly for Entrepreneur magazine and Enterprising Women magazine. Cantando also has been featured in national publications including O, The Oprah Magazine and The Wall Street Journal. Six Tips to Make 2010 Your Best Year Ever In pole vaulting and in business, your goal is to get over the bar...not to set it so high that you always fail. Each day is not about what you tried to do, it's about the results. Treat your customers as if they were someone else's prospects, because they are. You get what you tolerate. As women, we are always juggling. Your job is to recognize which balls in the air are rubber and which are glass. Asking questions may be the answer. Selected from The Woman's Advantage Shared Wisdom Calendar, which provides 365 snippets of advice from WBEs across the country. The calendar is published annually by The Woman's Advantage. www.WomansAdvantage.biz Send your questions to: AsktheExpert1@wbenc.org

Expert 2
	Jason Moore IT Manager WBENC Expertise: Jason Moore is our Information Technology Manager and leads WBENC’s Technology initiatives. He has served as a Director for many companies and agencies to include the Central Intelligence Agency, IBM, BAE Systems, and US Department of Agriculture. Jason also is a High School Varsity Basketball Coach, and the President of his fraternity at the graduate and post-graduate level. Jason’s work has been published in University of Maryland College Park Nyumburu Cultural Leadership Journal. Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership (Part 1 of 5) Leadership experts, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, introduced five leadership practices that transcend any and all types of businesses, personalities, corporate structures, and everyday organizations. When getting extraordinary things done, leaders engage in these five practices: Modeling the Way Inspiring a Shared Vision Challenging the Process Enabling Others to Act Encouraging the Heart Modeling the Way Leaders will always have operational and strategic plans, but exemplary leaders know they must be models of the behavior they expect of others. Exemplary leaders are not defined by elaborate designs but instead: The power of spending time with someone. Working side by side with someone. Telling stories that made values come alive. Being visible in times of hardship and uncertainty. Asking questions to get people to think about values and priorities. Modeling the way is about earning the right and the respect to lead through direct involvement and action. People first follow the person, then the plan. Send your questions to AsktheExpert2@wbenc.org

Expert 3
	Beverly White President BKW Tranformation Group Expertise: BKW Transformation Group is a business process management consulting company specializing in program and project management and business analysis for strategy, process, technology support and organizational change, including green business process operations. Hiring: The Right Fit for the Right Job Recently, I was asked if I preferred MBAs when recruiting professionals. My answer: "Yes." However, an MBA alone does not make the best candidate. Finding the right fit for the right job could be compared to finding the perfect mate - you want perfection. The truth we face about ourselves and others is that no one is perfect. What do we do? We list our must-haves, like-to-haves and nice-to-haves; then we prioritize. Perfection is work in progress. In business, we seek expertise that not only fit our solution and service-delivery model for our corporate culture, mission and vision, but also the right fit for our clients. Ultimately the person we hire can impact our relationships with our teams and our client stakeholders. MBA or not, the right fit for the right job is most often balance - education, experience, skill, personality, leadership, follow-ship, flexibility and integrity. Congratulations, you're hired! Send your questions to AsktheExpert3@wbenc.org

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