Denver Program

	Kate Paul President and CEO, Delta Dental of Colorado Kate Paul currently serves as the President and CEO of Delta Dental Plan of Colorado, a dental benefit service corporation that serves 1 million enrollees in Colorado. Revenues exceed $215,000,000 per year with a staff of 110. Delta Dental Plan of Colorado is a member of Delta Dental Plans Association, the largest dental carrier in the United States. Ms. Paul also serves on the Board of the Delta Dental Plans Association. Prior to this position Mrs. Paul served as President, Group Operations West, for Kaiser Permanente. She assumed this role in 1999 and was responsible for KP’s operations in Colorado, Kansas City, Portland and Hawaii. She was also President of Kaiser/Group Health, the entity that supports KP’s affiliation with Group Health Cooperative. Her area of responsibility included organizations with combined revenues of $2.5 billion and 11,000 employees. She assumed the role of President of Kaiser Permanente's Rocky Mountain Division in 1994 having held several management positions of increasing responsibility with in Kaiser Permanente in Northern California, the Northeast and Ohio beginning in 1970. Mrs. Paul received her B.A. Degree in Sociology from the University of California and her Master of Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley, where she majored in Hospital Administration. She also completed the Advanced Management Program in 1984 at Harvard University. Mrs. Paul is the past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Denver Branch. She currently serves as a Director of the Colorado Trust, the Denver Art Museum, and Volunteers of America. She has been a Director of two publicly traded companies, Chairing Governance & Compensation Committees. She has also served on the Board of Trustees of a number of other non-profit organizations including Mile High United Way, the Denver Zoological Foundation, and the Economic Club of Colorado.
	Stephanie Allen Principal, The Athena Group, LLC Stephanie Allen is a Principal of The Athena Group, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in organizational culture change, multidimensional leadership and workforce excellence. She has 35 years experience in leadership, leadership development, and program development as a workshop facilitator and speaker. Her work has taken her into corporations, professional firms and associations throughout the US, including Andersen Consulting, John Hancock, Hewlett Packard, AICPA, and Telstra, Australia’s second largest corporation. Stephanie served as CEO of Management Support Technology, a software development company that she took public, and as Senior Vice-President of Performance Training Corporation, where she trained corporate executives in communication skills. She is the founder and Board Vice Chair (having served for nine years as the Chair) of the Women’s Vision Foundation, a 3,500 member organization that is dedicated to the advancement of women corporate leaders and provides leadership development programs, events and networking resources. Stephanie has held board positions in over 20 organizations. She recently retired from the board of HealthONE, a major hospital system, where she served as Chair and Founder of the Ethics Committee. This year she joined the board of the Colorado CPA Society, is a member of the YESS Institute’s Wisdom Council, has served for the past 4 years on Global Leadership Council for the College of Business as Colorado State University. She has raised over $50 million for educational organizations and founded Explo: The Career Education Fair, which served over 150,000 school children in Metropolitan Denver, and Spree: The Colorado Celebration of the Arts. She received the US Small Business Administration’s Regional Women in Business Advocate of the Year award in 1996, the University of Denver Dan Ritchie Colorado Ethics in Business award in 1999 and the Colorado Women’s Leadership Coalition’s Colorado Women’s Leadership Award in 2004. She is a 2006 inductee in the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame. With her sister, Carolyn, she is co-author of Doing It All Isn’t Everything: A Woman’s Guide to Harmony and Empowerment.
	Kathy J. Cunningham Past President, National Association of Corporate Directors Kathy Cunningham has served in a number of roles as either CFO or COO of various high technology Companies including Novatix Corporation, Webroot Software, Requisite Technology and NxTrend Technology Inc. Kathy has also worked as a CFO for publicly held firms including US West Inc., First Interstate Bancorporation and Government Employees Financial Corporation Kathy is immediate Past President and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Corporate Directors – Colorado Chapter. She currently serves on the Board of Quality Rail Services and Novatix Corporation and on the Advisory Board of Q Advisors, LLC, an investment banking firm. Until May 2006, Kathy was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Raindance Communications, and served on its audit and compensation committees. Kathy also served on the Board of Directors, audit and finance committees of J D Edwards Corp. prior to its’ acquisition by Oracle Corp. and on the Board of Directors and audit committee of Activant Corporation, of Austin, Texas. Kathy is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Audit Governance series and the Directorship Corporate Governance and Leadership forum and holds the NACD Director certificate. Kathy is past President of Financial Executives Institute and past Chair and co-founder of the Colorado Software and Internet Association. Kathy's undergraduate degree is from the University of Wisconsin (Madison) with majors in Economics and Political Science and she has an MBA degree in Finance from the University of Denver.
	Panel Facilitator Christie Doherty Principal, The Athena Group, LLC Christie is a principal of The Athena Group LLC, a consulting firm that specializes in organizational culture, multidimensional leadership and workforce excellence. As a former telecom and cable executive, she has extensive experience successfully leading large, complex organizations through organizational change and transformation. Christie is also the President of the Women’s Vision Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on the development and advancement of corporate women. The Women’s Vision Foundation has over 3,800 members and provides leadership development programs, events and networking resources to its members. Christie was Vice President of Wholesale Service Delivery at Qwest, with responsibility for Customer Service Operations for Wholesale customers, managing over 1,700 employees and having revenue responsibility for $3.2 billion. She held a number of positions in the telecom industry, including assignments in Strategic Planning, Customer Operations, Marketing, Sales, and Organization Effectiveness. For three years she was Vice-President of Marketing and Sales for Time Warner Communications, with responsibility for the development of the company’s integrated cable/local phone business. Christie is a member of the International Women’s Forum; Board Secretary and Chair for Board Development INROADS—Rocky Mountain Region, and Chair for the Foundation for Asia Pacific Education. A graduate of Regis University with a degree in Business, Christie also sits on the Regis University Executive Advisory Council. She is the recipient of the US West Chairman’s Award for Leadership, the Women’s Leader of Excellence Award, and the 2004 Woman of Vision Award.