Women's Leadership Conference - Women Supporting Women

Sponsored by the Women of Hopkins and the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association

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Can you be professionally driven while also creating an environment of support for other women or are we in constant competition with one another? Through personal stories and professional experience, explore the challenges that can be unique to women in a male-centered professional world. Explore the ways in which we can support one another at every level and still be advocates for ourselves.

Join our panel, Caitlin Donohue, Bus '12, Dara Iserson, SAIS '09, Gisele Moro, and Colleen Stuart, facilitated by Lindsey Hutzler, A&S '12, and Michelle Rhodd, Bus '99, '06

MEET OUR FACILITATORS
Lindsey Hutzler, A&S '12

Lindsey Hutzler is the director of Product Development & Business Strategy for Progressus, Inc., in which she oversees the lifecycle of new products from working with artists in the initial stages to patenting the final innovation with a legal team. Her first design, the Booboo Box®, has been patented in five countries. Her expertise is in emergent markets, sourcing compliance, and infringement research. She is a member of Johns Hopkins – Women in Business Affinity and the IHA – Government Affairs Committee, in which she lobbies for current fiscal and healthcare issues affecting the industry, including tax reform and Proposition 65

Michelle Rhodd, Bus '99, '06

Michelle Rhodd serves as the special assistant to the president and assistant secretary to the Board of Trustees of The Asia Foundation. She is also the founder and CEO of Governance Advantage LLC, and is a seasoned executive with a proven record of directing executive action, piloting governance transformations, and promoting board relations. Adept at leading change to achieve organizational goals and serving as a valued strategic partner and trusted advisor to leaders and senior executives, she served as corporate secretary at the National Restaurant Association where she led Board Operations for an 80-person Board of Directors and for the organization’s Foundation —with a 35-person Board of Trustees.

Prior to her work at the NRA, Michelle Rhodd served as assistant corporate secretary for the American Red Cross. She also served the assistant secretary for USEC Inc. at its Bethesda, Maryland headquarters, where she planned and coordinated Annual Meetings of Shareholders, meetings of the Board of Directors and its committees, oversaw compliance with SEC and NYSE requirements and other governance mandates.

Michelle Rhodd holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., a master’s degree in International Business Law from the University of Manchester in England and a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Wheaton College in Massachusetts.