Elizabeth has had the pleasure of working with the leaders of Intel, Welch Allyn Protocol, Mentor Graphics, InFocus and FLIR to name a few. In contrast to traditional headhunters, Elizabeth utilizes her background in psychology to identify with her clients and work with them to uncover jobs during recession.  Since 2006, she has been a contributing member of the IEEE-USA and has published 9 articles in Today’s Engineer, all of them with a focus on teaching professionals how to market themselves. For more about Elizabeth or her book please visit www.elizabethlions.com

Tom Cox is a successful consultant, author and speaker. He has worked in industries ranging from retail to wholesale to manufacturing to government to business services. He has worked at IBM, Oracle, TRM, Tektronix, SCIF, ODOT, Intel, Regence Blue Cross, Standard Insurance and dozens of others.

Tom's volunteering includes the City Club of Portland, where he serves on the Board of Governors. Tom is the author of one book, countless articles, and he co-authored the chapter on Metrics and Performance Improvement for a textbook on Medical Trauma Care.

Tom has a unique ability to work across industry boundaries. If your business involves people, Tom can help you.

Starting in 2009, Tom's "Tom on Leadership" internet radio program on Linked 2 Leadership Radio is a Top Five hit on Google.  (The companion blog is here.)

Ed Perkins currently works as a consultant in IT Governance, risk management and risk auditing; process automation; and technology documentation, and holds a Certified Internal Auditor designation. He has over 30 years industry experience, in electronic design automation, program and project management, mixed-signal test development, design services management, chip architecture development, software development, and real time systems programming. He has worked as design services manager for a telecom start-up, as an R&D program manager for a local tech company, and for a large multinational in central engineering where he was responsible for management of CAE services and support to engineering groups worldwide and before that as a principal software engineer in real-time operating systems. He is past Chair of the IEEE-USA Career and Workforce Policy Committee, and is IEEE Region 6 Director-elect 2009-10. He has a BSEE and MSCS from WPI (Worcester, MA) and most recently an MS ECE specializing in VLSI design and test from Portland State University (Portland, OR).

For 25 years, Penny has been connecting the right people with the right positions. For most of her career she has been integral in enabling her company’s C-level team to realize their business vision through people. Her work in California, Massachusetts, South Carolina, Oregon and Washington has shown the value of differences in producing successful organizations – because if it doesn’t fit, it’s gonna quit.

Penny believes the Pacific Northwest is primed to evolve the relationship between employer and employee by encouraging both sides to focus on the fit. In this relationship, employees must take the responsibility to understand and convey how their career aligns with an organization’s objectives. Her presentations are designed to provide a fresh, energizing and sometimes irreverent perspective on how the employee can find the right fit – and what to do if it’s not.