Volunteer of the Year Award

As a WFF Volunteer, Barbara Kane’s contributions in 2008 will be felt for years to come. Chair of the 2008 Executive Women’s Summit, Barbara and her team received the highest levels of meeting overall event expectations in the past 3 years. Participant feedback earned the conference a 90% Top 2 Box score of Excellent or Very Good for educational content.

 

As Committee Chair, Barbara oversees multiple sub-committees whose role is to ensure the delivery of outstanding and compelling executive level content at the 2009 Annual Leadership Development Conference and Executive Women’s Summit. Dedicating over 2 hours a day to this leadership role, Barbara participates on every Conference content call in addition to driving the strategic planning efforts.

 

Barbara helped restructure the Executive Programming Committee so that nearly 40 members have active roles, with a minimum taking on leadership positions. Her ability to manage and mentor her team has driven overall program quality and execution and presented members with an opportunity to enhance their individual skills.

 

Barbara’s contributions to WFF will go well beyond her 2008 efforts. Thanks to her initiation of a strategic planning process for the Executive Programming Committee that will result in a longer-term plan that aligns with WFF’s overall strategic plan which will maximize the committee’s effectiveness going forward.

 

Barbara is Assistant Vice-President of Industry Relations for Ecolab Inc.where she represents Ecolab cross divisionally with all trade associations in the areas of foodservice, hospitality, healthcare, government, education, and manufacturing. She graduated with honors with degree in Business Administration from University of Phoenix.