2010 Conference Speakers

	Ron Crane - Boise Idaho State Treasurer - Host As State Treasurer, Mr. Crane is responsible for management of both the state and local government investment pools with a daily balance in excess of $2.2 billion dollars. He directs receipt of all state monies, the accounting and disbursement of public funds, invests general account and pooled agency cash in government securities, bank certificates of deposit and commercial paper to produce significant new non-tax revenue for the State of Idaho. Read More >>
	Carolyn Holly - Boise News Anchor - Emcee After over 20 years of working in the field of broadcast news, Carolyn Holly is one of Idaho's most experienced and best known television personalities. Indeed, she has been instrumental in helping KTVB become Idaho's news leader. Read More >>

Keynote Speakers

Dawn  Wells - Boise Actress, Entrepreneur, Motivational Speaker There is so much more to Dawn Wells than Mary Ann from Gilligan’s Island! She is an actress, author, journalist, motivational speaker, adventurer, business woman, entrepreneur, teacher and president of her family foundation that focuses on helping women and children in Northern Nevada. A fourth-generation Nevadan, Dawn was once Miss Nevada in the Miss America Pageant. Always proud of her heritage, she was honored to receive Reno’s most prestigious award as one of Nevada’s outstanding entertainers. She was also presented with the 2009 Award for Outstanding Foundation of Northern Nevada for the Terry Lee Wells Foundation, whose focus is mainly on health, education, and the arts. Dawn is extremely proud of the work the foundation is doing for the Washoe County School District as well as the rural areas of Northern Nevada. Dawn was part of the cast of Gilligan’s Island, the longest-running show in the history of television syndication and she received the most fan mail as Mary Ann. She starred in over 150 television shows, and has also graced a number of feature films. However, Dawn’s first love is theatre. Dawn has appeared in over 70 theatrical productions ranging from Neil Simon to Tennessee Williams throughout North America and Canada. In addition, Dawn has produced and hosted the Children’s Miracle Network Telethon for fifteen years in Mid Missouri, produced her own female fishing show in Canada called Dawn Wells’ Reel Adventure; fly fishing all over the world. When she is not on-camera hosting or serving as a spokesperson in commercials, Dawn’s voice can be heard in numerous voice-overs and narration for which she is justifiably proud. As Dawn is the author of the best-selling Mary Ann’s Gilligan’s Island Cookbook, it is no surprise that she appeared on the Food Network for an entire week as “Chef du Jour”! She has appeared on many talk shows, including NBC’s Today Show and 5 appearances on The Tonight Show as well as The View, Entertainment Tonight, CBS Morning News, and many more. Miss Wells’ most exciting educational endeavor has been establishing the Dawn Wells’ Film Actors Boot Camp in Driggs, ID. For one-week sessions during the summer, young actors are given intensive classes, learning the art of acting on camera as well as the business of the film industry. Her focus has been to encourage young artists through education, mentoring and hands-on experience. Dawn was also the founder and producer of the annual Spud Drive-In Family Film Festival at the historic Spud Drive-In Theatre in Driggs, ID. Desiring to embrace world cultures, Dawn is an experienced world traveler, circling the globe she experienced first-hand the diversity of women and children and captured much of what she saw with her own video camera. She has climbed the mountains of Rwanda to view the mountain gorillas and canoed the Solomon Islands where women have never been before. Because of her world travels, Dawn has also become one of the country’s leading women motivational speakers, addressing the needs and the concerns of the American independent woman and the comparisons of cultures throughout the world. Her work has been recognized with the Outstanding Alumna award …Stephens College, Case Award for Education , the YMCA Woman of the Year, Outstanding Alumna for Alpha Chi Omega National Chapter and the American Icon Award…Women in Film and Video. Obviously, there is so much more to “Mary Ann” than just coconut cream pie !

Conference Coaches

Jordan  Goodman - Boise Author, Speaker Jordan E. Goodman is “America’s Money Answers Man” and a nationally-recognized expert on personal finance. He is a regular guest on numerous radio and television call-in shows across the country, answering questions on personal financial topics. He appears frequently on NBC’s The Today Show, Fox News Network, Fox Business Network, CNN, CNBC and CBS evening news. For 18 years, Jordan was on the editorial staff of Money magazine, where he served as Wall Street correspondent. While at Money, he reported and wrote on virtually every aspect of personal finance. In addition, he served as weekly financial analyst on NBC News at Sunrise for 9 years and the daily business news commentator on Mutual Broadcasting System’s America in the Morning show for 8 years. He is the author / co-author of 12 best-selling books on personal finance including Fast Profits in Hard Times, Everyone’s Money Book, Master Your Money Type, Barron’s Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms and Barron’s Finance and Investment Handbook. He has also written 6 special focus editions of Everyone’s Money Book on College, Credit, Financial Planning, Real Estate, Retirement Planning and Stocks, Bonds and Mutual Funds. Jordan is also a speaker and seminar leader on personal finance topics for business executives, students, associations, investment clubs, employees and others. He lives in New York with his wife and son. Read More >>

Hall of Fame Inductees

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