All About YOU
This interactive session is guided by audience discussion. If you have a goal that you’ve wanted to achieve but not certain where to start this panel of expert has been gathered to help you take the first step.
PANEL
Stephanie Dalfonzo “Architect of Change”
In addition to her speaking engagements and corporate workshops, Stephanie offers individual and group sessions at her office in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
Stephanie’s presentations are highly-informative and delivered with a healthy dose of compassion, enthusiasm and humor. Known for her quick wit and friendly approach.
Stephanie helps participants tap into their own power to make lasting changes in their lives, including stress management, smoking cessation, career advancement, concurring fears and phobias and weight control.
Stephanie teaches tools and techniques for immediate use to make positive changes in people’s lives to achieve a balanced, happy life.
Beatrice Ferry, MBA
Beatrice Ferry is a Director in Regulatory Finance at United Healthcare and also teaches at Tunxis Community College (TCC) as an Adjunct Accounting Professor. Additionally, she serves as Vice President of Membership on the Board of the Connecticut Chapter of the National Society of Hispanic MBAs. She is also an Advisory Board member of the Connecticut Forum. Beatrice is an excellent motivator in possession of keen business acumen. She is a seasoned and mature leader with at least 10-15 years of broad finance/accounting experience, including serving as CFO managing the strategic and financial aspects of insurance organizations, and public speaking experience that includes delivering keynote address to graduating class at TCC. Her professional background includes Finance, Accounting, Tax, Insurance (Healthcare, Personal/ Commercial Property and Casualty), Estate/Trusts, and Sarbanes-Oxley Audits. She has owned and operated various businesses. Her talents also include performing as a classical pianist and producing and hosting her own television and radio shows.
Ms. Ferry holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Connecticut and a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Central Connecticut State University. Ms. Ferry is in the process of writing her memoirs about her experience as a foreigner in the United States, with admonitions about what she believes it takes to be successful, and why she thinks each one of us has a duty to nurture our gifts and share those gifts with society. Ms Ferry is quoted as saying: “I like to live on the outer edges of my abilities. That’s how I learn and grow.”
Lesley Ingves, Success Coach and owner of Clear Pathway, LLC.
Life changes, even when you don’t think it will….
Lesley always provided top notch managing and organizing services to her employers and thought a lifelong career in construction development was her path. A shift came back in 2004, while working on a project that seemed to “suck the life out of her” and this misery spilled out into her personal life, deteriorating her marriage and health.
Change came after a tear filled commute, in the form of a sign which read: “Remember who you wanted to be.” Realizing that the heartfelt fulfillment she longed for was hidden in dreams of the past began her the journey to rediscover “who she wanted to be.”
This realization prompted her to immediately take steps to create her own business. Duplicating the steps she took on her own breakthrough, Lesley set her mission to help others recognize their special gifts and use them to live a better life.
Utilizing years of experience organizing and managing project offices, and combining this with personal talents, Lesley coaches clients through the process of business startup and building, particularly stressing the need for clarification and planning.
Lesley is the Work Readiness Certification Instructor, training entry level workers to prepare for the demands of employment, through OIC of New London County, a non-profit organization. She is also the author of the “Career Breakout Program” home study guide.
Jessica Pizano, Owner of Fit to You, LLC
Fit to You, LLC offers personalized training programs and health counseling. Her concentrations include general fitness, weight loss, food allergies/sensitivities, post-rehabilitative work, training/nutrition for medical conditions, obesity intervention, pre- and post-natal exercise and nutrition, and Pilates.
A certified personal trainer and a corrective exercise specialist through the National Academy of Sports Medicine, she is also certified in mat Pilates through PHI Pilates and earned her Clinical Exercise Specialist and Longevity Wellness Specialist through the American Council on Exercise.
She completed her training to practice Health Coaching at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, which is the only nutrition school integrating all the different dietary theories—combining the knowledge of traditional philosophies with modern concepts like the USDA food pyramid, the glycemic index, the Zone and raw foods. She is certified as a holistic health coach through the American Association of Drugless Practitioners.
Currently, Jessica practices personal training and health counseling in Glastonbury. Jessica also serves as an instructor in the Professional Fitness Training program at Branford Hall Career Institute in Windsor, CT.
Moderator Endia DeCordova
Endia DeCordova is the Acting Associate Dean of Institutional Advancement at Manchester Community College (MCC). She was formerly the Associate Director of Institutional Development & Community Engagement at MCC. She is an innovative, comprehensive communications professional recognized for creating, designing, and executing, strategic public relations initiatives, development and fundraising programs, marketing and development communication plans, as well as community outreach programs. Additionally, Ms. DeCordova is an adjunct faculty member at MCC teaching courses in sales and advertising.
Prior to joining MCC, Ms. DeCordova was the Director of Public Relations and Marketing Communications for the Salvation Army, Southern New England Division in Hartford. She currently serves as the immediate past-president of the Public Relations Society of America-Connecticut Valley Chapter (PRSA-CVC), a community of public relations and communications professionals with members representing nearly every practice area and professional and academic setting within the public relations field. Ms. DeCordova also serves on the board of directors for Greater Hartford Habitat for Humanity and a member of the Connecticut Network of Women in Higher Education . Previously, she served on the Board of Directors for NBC Connecticut’s “Black Perspective” public affairs program as producer and host.
Ms. DeCordova holds a master of business administration degree from the University of Hartford Barney School of Business and a bachelor of science degree in Communications from Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. Ms. DeCordova resides in Windsor, CT with her eight-year-old son Jaiden.
