Nancy Spears

Buddhist, Business leader, Change Agent, Entrepreneur, Idea generator, Investor, Journalist, Philanthropist, Social entrepreneur, Writer/Editor

Nancy Spears is currently the CEO of genConnect, a social networking website designed to connect users to experts across generations. The site’s value proposition is to enhance peoples lives by providing quality content delivered by experts in career, love and health and delivering online experiences for users to learn, discuss and engage. Formerly, Nancy was the Founder and CEO of a national marketing agency with offices in 7 cities coast to coast, Nancy’s marketing expertise includes providing strategic communications counsel and services to fortune 100 companies who value quality of thinking, execution and service. Nancy sold the company she founded—Creative Event Marketing, Inc.to IPG, (The Interpublic Group) in June 2000. CEM was renamed CrossMedia as a division of Golin/Harris International. As Executive Vice President of CrossMedia, Nancy managed the group that provided integrated communications solutions to its clients. Her wide-ranging experience includes marketing, strategic planning, branding, meeting and event design and production, collateral design, audio/video production, speech writing and promotions for numerous Fortune 500 Clients including Eli Lilly and Company, Glaxo Wellcome Pharmaceuticals, Master Card, Johnson & Johnson, Turner/Time Warner, BMG, Toyota and AIG. During the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, Nancy and her team designed and produced programs for Coca Cola, John Hancock, Lucent Technologies, Descente, and Nextel. For the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, Nancy developed and oversaw the production of over 57 events and projects in 17 days for many top sponsors including Xerox, AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Swatch, Sara Lee Corporation, John Hancock and Texaco. In 2008, Nancy published: Buddha: 9 to 5, The Eightfold Path to Enlightening Your Workplace and Improve Your Bottom Line. The book was published by Adams Media and Nancy is represented by The Miller/Dupree Agency in Dallas, Texas. The book offers profound ways to integrate values based leadership into corporate America. http://www.buddha9to5.com/ Giving back to the world to help make an impact is one of Nancy’s primary goals. To that end, she services numerous non-profit organizations including the Children’s Health Foundation, Shambhala and the Aspen Youth Experience. Nancy holds a B.A. in Journalism with a major in Public Relations from West Virginia University. She and her 11 year old twins, Clark and Gwyneth reside in Aspen, Colorado. In addition to running genConnect and being a mother, her interests include writing, skiing, snowboarding, mountain biking, hiking, green building and writing poetry. www.nancyspears.com

Compassion, Giving Back, creating businesses, cultivating employee gifts, associating with others who have vision and integrity and want to give back, leaving a legacy of doing the right thing.

..Two years ago I published Buddha: 9 to 5: the Eightfold Path to Enlightening the Workplace and Improving the Bottom Line. This timeless philosophy can help to turn around corporate America as we know it in 2009 and return it to a flourishing culture. By integrating integrity and compassion into the workplace, we can be happy, productive and enjoy abundance. ...............We are out of the information age and into the recommendation age. genConnect is a website designed to connect generations to learn from each other. By connecting experts to users in career, love and health, genConnect can change lives through the power of social networking by providing viable recommendations in the areas of life we all care most about. There are no longer hard lines between generations..

networking, parenting, snowboarding, being a best friend