Michele will be speaking to us about her career, the steps she took to become one of the Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Colorado and how you can become the next CEO or board member for corporations and non-profits. We hope you will join us and learn from this amazing woman! 
 
Michele Ashby is CEO & Founder of ACE LLC, Ashby Consulting Enterprises LLC. Here, her focus is on educating, supporting and teaching women how to attain corporate board positions through her unique program, ACE Board Certification for Women. Ms. Ashby has a diverse background which includes 30 years as a gold specialist/analyst, financial expert, independent corporate director and successful entrepreneur. She was awarded, one of the Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Business in Colorado for 2019 by Colorado Chamber of Commerce for Women, for her work in training 1,000 women to get on corporate boards. She is a subject matter expert on Board Governance, Finance, and Strategy.

Michele has professional experience including finance, marketing, international business, organizational and strategic planning, while working with hundreds of CEO’s of public and privately held international companies and large institutional investors to improve values and capitalize major projects.

Angela P. Dodson is author of “Remember the Ladies:  Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box” about women suffrage movement in the United States and women’s political gains up to the present.  Ms. Dodson is an independent editor, writer and consultant.  She founded an editorial services company, Editorsoncall, LLC in 2012 to link freelancers to clients in need of writing, editing, graphics and photographic services.  

She earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism at Marshall University and a master’s degree in journalism and public affairs from the American University. She is a former senior editor and former Style editor for the New York Times.  She has recently been an online editor and book reviewer for DIVERSE:  Issues in Higher Education.  She is the former executive editor of Black Issues Book Review.  She has worked on several start-up publications and websites. Ms. Dodson has edited and ghost-written books for major publishers and numerous self-published authors of fiction and non-fiction. 

Ms. Dodson is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the National Congress of Black Women, the National Association of Black Journalists and the Central New Jersey Chapter of Gospel Music Workshop of America.    Her interests include collecting art, black collectibles and antiques.  She enjoys reading history, researching genealogy, cooking and line dancing.