Speaker Biographies
Heather Smith Talent Elevated Founder & President
Heather Smith established her company, Talent Elevated, to help small to mid-sized businesses and leaders envision their desired employee culture and then employ practical strategies to elevate their talent and bring that culture to a reality. Heather’s career in healthcare, technology and telecommunications has taught her that businesses of all sizes often struggle to align their people and culture strategies to support the successful achievement of business objectives. Yet, when strategies are integrated successfully within an employee and leader’s daily work, transformation happens for both the individual and the company overall. Heather has a passion for unlocking employee potential and
has seen first-hand that when this happens across an organization the work environment transforms, joy returns to the workplace, and goal achievement is accelerated. As a working mom previously in the corporate environment and now to the entrepreneurial world, Heather understands the criticality of finding passion and purpose in your work to keep burnout at bay and see that her working hours make an impact in the lives of others. Her daily work helps people uncover where they can elevate the talent of those on their teams and personally identify what growth can do for their legacy and business or team.
Lynn Terwoerds NWMC Board President
For more than 21 years, Lynn Terwoerds has been a technology thought leader and cybersecurity strategist for global companies – Microsoft, Barclays PLC, Oracle. Her career journey spans from hands-on experience running global security incident response to top secret clearance working on critical infrastructure long-term security strategy. Lynn’s background also includes leadership positions in multiple vertical markets ranging from technology to banking and healthcare. Combining a postgraduate degree in Classics, a passion for technology, and a multi-cultural upbringing, Lynn is uniquely positioned to connect the dots between people, process, and technology transformation globally.
Lynn Terwoerds recently served as the Executive Director for the Executive Women’s Forum, the largest membership organization for women in cybersecurity, IT risk, and data privacy. Today, her portfolio includes serving as board President of the Northwest Maritime Center and on the advisory boards of the EWF and cloud security startup, Containn which is also an angel investor. She is also CEO of her own cybersecurity consulting firm, Digital Resilience. Lynn is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and was in the first group to earn the NACD Directorship Certification™.
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