Our Mission	History	Scholarships	Networking
Women's FOCUS, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to provide a networking opportunity to support its members and their businesses. The goal and responsibility of the organization is to educate, provide connections, and different avenues for personal growth of its members.	An Idea Emerges On a fall day in 1978, in the Ozaukee County community of Grafton, Wisconsin, at SEEK, Incorporated (then known as CEEK Office Services, Inc.) a discussion of the need for a business women’s group was taking place. At that time, women’s participation in organizations traditionally reserved for businessmen was not in vogue...More	Awarded Annually Each year a scholarship of up to $1,000.00 per semester is awarded to an outstanding, female student seeking a degree at Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC). The scholarship is renewable each semester, and is dependant upon specific criteria being met. Interested individuals are encouraged to apply...More	Women's FOCUS, Inc. is a rather unusual networking group in that our membership is capped at 100 members. Other organizations subscribe to the theory that more is better. While philosophy has its benefits, our founding mothers had a different concept in mind: quality over quantity. Check our Calendar and plan to visit us soon.
Next meeting: May 15, 2013	Membership	May Newsletter
Speaker: Sue Gresham, Not on LinkedIn? You need to be. Sue Gresham is a Certified Social Media Trainer & Strategist and owner of Innovative Client Solutions. Sue hosts a number of training workshops on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, social media strategy, in-person networking skills and time management. She will be speaking to our members about LinkedIn—the professional site to find and be found. She will cover how to search for, connect, and develop relationships with others on LinkedIn and answer the question, “How do I make time for this, too?” If you are not on LinkedIn, you need to be. Come and find out why. Make Your Reservations Here! To make your reservations,click on the Add to Cart button below. When you click the button, a new page opens which shows the total due for each luncheon. If you are making reservations for more than 1 person, enter the number of luncheons in the Quantity box and click the Update button to recalculate the total due. When you are satisfied with your order, click the Check Out or Check Out with PayPal button to complete your transaction. Click Add to Cart to make Reservations and Pay thru PayPal: The deadline for reservation and payment for the monthly luncheons is the Friday before the scheduled date. Cancellations on or after the Monday immediately before the Wednesday luncheon are non-refundable. Prepaid reservations are required. PREPAID MEMBERS: If you took advantage of the prepayment option at the beginning of the year, please confirm that you will be attending the luncheon this month. Click Here to Confirm Attendance: Prepaid Reservations Only Prepaid 2013 Reservations: Click Here Click to View Full Monthly Calendar: Last Year \| Current Year	Prospective members must be currently engaged in a business, in a position of management and/or ownership or in a profession. All applicants must be recommended to the membership committee chairperson by a current member. We invite qualified women to contact us and to attend one of our meetings...More	A Note From Our President Dear "Women with Focus" Your "how to make Focus better" thoughts from our March meeting have been compiled and disseminated to our Focus Board. They will become an agenda item for the Board’s next meeting in May. We’ll be putting your ideas into action! At our April meeting, Mary Roeming gave the 5-minute Focus member presentation on her life after the death of her husband. She shared her Life B-Navigating through transitions in your life ... what a powerful way to make positive out of negative. Following Mary, our April speaker, Tamara Leigh, gave us lots of great information about today’s new mobile and social marketplace ... or, as she put it, today’s way of doing business! Women of Focus are entrepreneurs, natural leaders, and .........More

Our Mission

History

Scholarships

Networking

Women's FOCUS, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to provide a networking opportunity to support its members and their businesses.

The goal and responsibility of the organization is to educate, provide connections, and different avenues for personal growth of its members.

An Idea Emerges
On a fall day in 1978, in the Ozaukee County community of Grafton, Wisconsin, at SEEK, Incorporated (then known as CEEK Office Services, Inc.) a discussion of the need for a business women’s group was taking place.

At that time, women’s participation in organizations traditionally reserved for businessmen was not in vogue...More

Awarded Annually
Each year a scholarship of up to $1,000.00 per semester is awarded to an outstanding, female student seeking a degree at Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC). The scholarship is renewable each semester, and is dependant upon specific criteria being met.

Interested individuals are encouraged to apply...More

Women's FOCUS, Inc. is a rather unusual networking group in that our membership is capped at 100 members.

Other organizations subscribe to the theory that more is better. While philosophy has its benefits, our founding mothers had a different concept in mind: quality over quantity.

Check our Calendar and plan to visit us soon.

Next meeting: May 15, 2013

Membership

May Newsletter

Speaker: Sue Gresham, Not on LinkedIn? You need to be.

Sue Gresham is a Certified Social Media Trainer & Strategist and owner of Innovative Client Solutions. Sue hosts a number of training workshops on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, social media strategy, in-person networking skills and time management. She will be speaking to our members about LinkedIn—the professional site to find and be found. She will cover how to search for, connect, and develop relationships with others on LinkedIn and answer the question, “How do I make time for this, too?” If you are not on LinkedIn, you need to be. Come and find out why.

Make Your Reservations Here!

To make your reservations,click on the Add to Cart button below. When you click the button, a new page opens which shows the total due for each luncheon. If you are making reservations for more than 1 person, enter the number of luncheons in the Quantity box and click the Update button to recalculate the total due. When you are satisfied with your order, click the Check Out or Check Out with PayPal button to complete your transaction.

The deadline for reservation and payment for the monthly luncheons is the Friday before the scheduled date. Cancellations on or after the Monday immediately before the Wednesday luncheon are non-refundable. Prepaid reservations are required.

PREPAID MEMBERS: If you took advantage of the prepayment option at the beginning of the year, please confirm that you will be attending the luncheon this month. Click Here to Confirm Attendance: Prepaid Reservations Only

Click to View Full Monthly Calendar: Last Year | Current Year

Prospective members must be currently engaged in a business, in a position of management and/or ownership or in a profession.

All applicants must be recommended to the membership committee chairperson by a current member.

We invite qualified women to contact us and to attend one of our meetings...More

A Note From Our President
Dear "Women with Focus"

Barb Dickmann

Your "how to make Focus better" thoughts from our March meeting have been compiled and disseminated to our Focus Board. They will become an agenda item for the Board’s next meeting in May. We’ll be putting your ideas into action!

At our April meeting, Mary Roeming gave the 5-minute Focus member presentation on her life after the death of her husband. She shared her Life B-Navigating through transitions in your life ... what a powerful way to make positive out of negative. Following Mary, our April speaker, Tamara Leigh, gave us lots of great information about today’s new mobile and social marketplace ... or, as she put it, today’s way of doing business!

Women of Focus are entrepreneurs, natural leaders, and .........More

FOCUS 2013 MONTHLY CALENDAR OF EVENTS
January	February	March	April
FOCUS Board of Directors Meeting, January 3, 12:00 pm FOCUS Monthly Luncheon January 16, 11:30 am Speaker: Wesley Manko of Defenceworks	FOCUS Monthly Luncheon February 20, 11:30 am Speaker: Joan Stewart, Using Pinterest for Business Girls Night Out, February 19 Sister Act at the Marcus Center	FOCUS Board of Directors Meeting, March 6, 8:30 am FOCUS Monthly Luncheon March 20, 11:30 am Speaker: Mark J. Goldstein, Affordable Care Act	FOCUS Monthly Luncheon April 17, 11:30 am Speaker: Tamara Leigh, Engaging Your Audience and Being Visible as a Business in Today’s New Mobile & Social Marketplace Girls Night Out, April 4 Toute Sweet, intriguing stories about Paris with Paige Engle
May	June	July	August
FOCUS Board of Directors Meeting, May 1, 8:30 am FOCUS Monthly Luncheon May 15, 11:30 am Speaker: Sue Gresham, Not on LinkedIn? You need to be.	FOCUS Monthly Luncheon June 19, 11:30 am	FOCUS Board of Directors Meeting, July 10, 8:30 am FOCUS Monthly Luncheon July 17, 11:30 am	FOCUS Monthly Luncheon August 21, 11:30 am
September	October	November	December
FOCUS Board of Directors Meeting, September 4, 8:30 am FOCUS Monthly Luncheon September 18, 11:30 am	FOCUS Monthly Luncheon October 16, 11:30 am	FOCUS Board of Directors Meeting, November 6, 8:30 am FOCUS Monthly Luncheon November 20, 11:30 am No Speaker, General Meeting Professional Showcase! Holiday Gift Boutique after Monthly Luncheon	FOCUS Holiday Party December 11, 11:30 am

FOCUS 2011 MONTHLY CALENDAR OF EVENTS
January	February	March	April
FOCUS Board of Directors Meeting, January 17th, 5:30 pm FOCUS Monthly Luncheon January 19th, 11:30 am Speaker: Debra J. Schmidt Building Customer Loyalty from the Inside Out	FOCUS Monthly Luncheon February 16th, 11:30 am Speaker: Joan Stewart, The Publicity Hound Publicity via Social Media	FOCUS Board of Directors Meeting, March 7th, 5:30 pm FOCUS Monthly Luncheon March 16th, 11:30 am Speaker: Jeff Percival, Goal Achievement vs Goal Setting	FOCUS Monthly Luncheon April 20, 11:30 am Speaker: Carole Blaney, C-Management Solutions, The FOCUS Website
May	June	July	August
FOCUS Board of Directors Meeting, May 2nd, 5:30 pm FOCUS Monthly Luncheon May 18, 11:30 am Speaker: Patti Genko, Communication for your Business	FOCUS Monthly Luncheon June 15, 11:30 am Speaker: Doris Appelbaum, Interpersonal Networking	FOCUS Board of Directors Meeting, July 11th, 5:30 pm FOCUS Monthly Luncheon July 20, 11:30 am Speaker: Rebecca Ryan, Intergenerational Workplaces	FOCUS Monthly Luncheon August 17, 11:30 am Speaker: Patricia Clason, Emotional Intelligence
September	October	November	December
FOCUS Board of Directors Meeting, Sept 12th, 5:30 pm FOCUS Monthly Luncheon September 21, 11:30 am Speaker: Kimberly Kane, TV Personality, President of The Novo Group and Tempo	FOCUS Monthly Luncheon October 19, 11:30 am Speaker: Scott Shully, Shully's Fine Cuisine	FOCUS Board of Directors Meeting, Nov 7th, 5:30 pm FOCUS Monthly Luncheon November 16, 11:30 am No Speaker, General Meeting Professional Showcase! Holiday Gift Boutique after Monthly Luncheon	FOCUS Holiday Party December 14, 2011 Program: Out of the Costume Closet — A Grand Tour of The Milwaukee Rep's Costume Closet

FOCUS 2012 MONTHLY CALENDAR OF EVENTS
January	February	March	April
FOCUS Board of Directors Meeting, January 9th, 5:30 pm FOCUS Monthly Luncheon January 18, 11:30 am Speaker: Leonard Peace, FBI Goals, Dreams and Unique Careers	FOCUS Monthly Luncheon February 15, 11:30 am Speaker: Gigi Pomerantz Youth Haiti	FOCUS Board of Directors Meeting, March 7, 5:30 pm FOCUS Monthly Luncheon March 21, 11:30 am Speaker: Paul Burstein Hormones and Osteoporosis	FOCUS Monthly Luncheon April 18, 11:30 am Speaker: Windy Lindy, Professional Clown, Clown College Convention
May	June	July	August
FOCUS Board of Directors Meeting, May 2, 5:30 pm FOCUS Monthly Luncheon May 16, 11:30 am Speaker: Donna "Kinza" Christensen, Light Up Your Life with Laughter	FOCUS Monthly Luncheon June 20, 11:30 am Speaker: Alamelu Vairavan Healthy Spices from India	FOCUS Board of Directors Meeting, July 11, 5:30 pm FOCUS Monthly Luncheon July 18, 11:30 am Speaker: Edie Schafer Shanghai Ghetto Survivor	FOCUS Monthly Luncheon August 15, 11:30 am Speaker: Cynthia Wollershiem How to Succeed as a Woman in the ‘Old Boys Club’
September	October	November	December
FOCUS Board of Directors Meeting, Sept 5, 5:30 pm FOCUS Monthly Luncheon September 19, 11:30 am Speaker: Adele Lund The Art of Active Listening	FOCUS Monthly Luncheon October 17, 11:30 am Speaker: Jackie Mortenson Why Go Red?	FOCUS Board of Directors Meeting, Nov 7, 5:30 pm FOCUS Monthly Luncheon November 14, 11:30 am No Speaker, General Meeting Professional Showcase! Holiday Gift Boutique after Monthly Luncheon	FOCUS Holiday Party Date: Wednesday, December 12, 11:30 am