And the Winners Are …
Rolling out held its First Annual Top 25 Women of Chicago awards ceremony at the famed DuSable Museum in Chicago on Thursday, Dec. 2. The accomplished and celebrated women who were honored on the auspicious occasion represented the best in their respective fields and stand-outs from a diversity of backgrounds and professional callings.
The honorees hail from industries and professions as varied as construction and medicine and as distinct as broadcasting and business development. Chicago’s 2010 winners were selected from a wide contingency of nominees, all of whom are distinguished and remarkably accomplished in their fields.
Cheryl Pearson-McNeil, a 2010 honoree and senior vice president of public affairs and government relations at the Nielsen Company, lead the guest speaker portion of the evening’s program with a discussion of the intricacies of being a successful woman — both professionally and personally. Her well-received comments drew raucous applause from audience members, many of whom related to her accounts of love and success. The busy executive advises women in business to ”trust your gut [and] treat everyone, regardless of their position, with equal respect and dignity.”
Joining Pearson-McNeil in the Top 25 panel discussion, Andrea Nichols-Everett, founder and CEO of D3 and Dre’s Diesel Dome both health and fitness concerns, explained that she realized that by giving equal effort to her passion of living a healthy lifestyle she could build a career that would move and encourage others to achieve their own goals of physical and mental well-being.
Faith Morris, president of the Owens-Morris Communications Agency and a former Top 25 winner provided the final guest speaker comments. Morris addressed honorees and audience supporters regarding the power of being a woman and the importance of combining experience, expertise and business savvy to achieve professional and business goals. -roz edward
