Overview
The Marcum Women’s Forum, presented by the Marcum Women’s Initiative, is a breakfast event geared to executive women, featuring nationally prominent speakers on topics essential to women’s personal and professional well-being. The Marcum Women’s Initiative is dedicated to women having a voice. We are committed to fostering an environment that is diverse and inclusive—one that encourages and enables all of our associates and contacts to be successful and engaged in every aspect of our business.
Individual Tickets: $125
Speakers
Keynote
Amelia Earhart
When Amelia Rose Earhart decided to honor her namesake, aviation pioneer Amelia Mary Earhart, she did it in the biggest way possible — by becoming the first person to pilot a single-engine Pilatus PC-12-NG around the world. The journey to successfully complete this 28,000 nautical miles flight included challenges and obstacles, but ultimately taught her invaluable lessons about life.
Amelia Earhart
When Amelia Rose Earhart decided to honor her namesake, aviation pioneer Amelia Mary Earhart, she did it in the biggest way possible — by becoming the first person to pilot a single-engine Pilatus PC-12-NG around the world. The journey to successfully complete this 28,000 nautical miles flight included challenges and obstacles, but ultimately taught her invaluable lessons about life.
It was an odds-defying achievement that included more than two years of route and logistical planning, extensive flight training, open water survival training, and recruiting, training, and leading a team of 100 people. Utilizing the invaluable concept of a flight plan to achieve her dream, Amelia crafted a strategic business plan to design, fund, and market her flight. In the process, she developed a large and passionate social following and forged almost $2 million in partnerships with 28 corporations. Through the Fly with Amelia Foundation, a nonprofit she founded to foster the next generation of women in aviation, Amelia granted 10 flight training scholarships to women ages 16-18 as she circled the plane over Howland Island, the area of the South Pacific Ocean where Amelia Earhart disappeared.
Amelia’s story of hard work, determination, and dedication resonates deeply with many audiences. She takes them along on her epic flight—from Howland Island to touching down on the same runway where she departed in 1937—drawing powerful comparisons to how we lead, work as teams, handle turbulence, and boldly journey into uncharted territory with confidence. Amelia has earned rave reviews from audiences ranging from the Fortune 500 to the United States Air Force Academy. Her upcoming book, Learn to Love the Turbulence: Flight Lessons on Becoming the Pilot in Command of Your Own Journey teaches readers how to navigate the inevitable storms that come with taking flight toward the life we were meant to live.
Before flying around the world, Ms. Earhart was best known as a television news anchor and reporter, covering breaking news, traffic, and weather in Denver and Los Angeles. She continues to use her professional interviewing and polished presenting skills as an emcee and moderator. Her story has been featured in major media outlets, including CNN, The New York Times, The Today Show, and others.
She is a recipient of the Amelia Earhart Pioneering Achievement Award and was named by the Jaycees as one of the “Top Ten Young Americans.”
Speaker
Laura Fredricks
The Ask Expert, Laura Fredricks, JD trains and coaches individuals, businesses, and nonprofits on How to ASK. She has raised more than $1 Billion for her clients and comes from successful careers in industries known for making the toughest and biggest asks—law and philanthropy. Laura’s 5 Laws on Asking and her prior six books have helped hundreds of global executives, industry trailblazers, accountants, marketing and communication leaders, boards, fundraisers, entrepreneurs, teenagers, artists, philanthropists, and everyday people get their best professional and personal life possible, just by asking. Her most recent book “Hard Asks Made Easy: How to Get Exactly What you Want”, released in June 2023 is Amazon’s #1 for Business Mentoring and Coaching, #5 Personal Laura’s book was named “One of the Top 15 Business Books for 2023.”
Laura Fredricks
The Ask Expert, Laura Fredricks, JD trains and coaches individuals, businesses, and nonprofits on How to ASK. She has raised more than $1 Billion for her clients and comes from successful careers in industries known for making the toughest and biggest asks—law and philanthropy. Laura’s 5 Laws on Asking and her prior six books have helped hundreds of global executives, industry trailblazers, accountants, marketing and communication leaders, boards, fundraisers, entrepreneurs, teenagers, artists, philanthropists, and everyday people get their best professional and personal life possible, just by asking. Her most recent book “Hard Asks Made Easy: How to Get Exactly What you Want”, released in June 2023 is Amazon’s #1 for Business Mentoring and Coaching, #5 Personal Laura’s book was named “One of the Top 15 Business Books for 2023.”
She is the recipient of the Ralph E. Chamberlain Award for extraordinary leadership in the field of fundraising and lifetime of service to the profession, and the New York Nonprofit Network’s 50 Over 50 Award for excellence in media and philanthropy. Since 2005, Laura has been teaching “The Art of the Ask: Effective Communications and Negotiation Strategies” at New York University School of Professional Studies.
In 2018, Laura had the honor of being the opening keynote speaker for Marcum’s Women’s Forum in NYC with Hillary Clinton.
Sponsorships
To secure your sponsorship or inquire about other sponsorship opportunities, please contact:
Gillan Peabody, Marketing Coordinator, Marcum LLP
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Platinum Sponsor $10,000
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- Premium location for tabletop display of your company materials
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- 1 reserved table of 10 for attendees of your choice to attend the forum
Gold Sponsor $7,500
- Company logo displayed during the conference on the main stage throughout the forum
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- 5 complimentary tickets for attendees
Silver Sponsor $5,000
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- Tabletop display for your company materials
- Inclusion in all conference marketing materials/conference website/email blasts
- 3 complimentary tickets for attendees of your choice to attend the forum
Bronze Sponsor $2,500
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- 2 complimentary tickets for attendees of your choice to attend the forum
Other Advertising Options
ADS DUE DATE: Please submit all ads by May 1, 2024 to Gillan Peabody.
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Sponsors
Silver Sponsor
PURE Insurance
Privilege Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange (PURE) Insurance is a property and casualty insurance company designed exclusively for successful, responsible families. We opened for business more than 15 years ago with the goal of offering something different in the insurance space: a company focused on doing what’s right for our membership (policyholders), one that promotes transparency and alignment of interests, and delivers greater value.
Today, after growing at least 15% in each year since we began, we are the most awarded insurer in our category, offer coverage in all 50 states that includes high value homeowners, automobile, collections, watercraft, personal excess liability, fraud & cyber and flood to a membership of more than 100,000 individuals and families.
Bronze Sponsors
Alliance Bernstein
Bernstein Private Wealth Management, Boston serves as confidants to some of New England’s most astute investors, helping them solve complex challenges—ones that extend well beyond wealth management. We combine decades of experience with the “above and beyond” attitude of an intimate boutique.
Our advisory team advises entrepreneurs, ultrahigh-net worth and high-net-worth multi-generational families, non-profit organizations, corporate executives, athletes and entertainers, and professional practice leaders, on planning for—and living with—the complexities that come with significant wealth.
Bernstein Private Wealth Management, Boston, is a business unit of AllianceBernstein, which ranks among the largest investment managers in the world, with offices in major world markets across 26 countries and jurisdictions and nearly $700 billion in assets under management.
Boston Financial Management
Boston Financial Management provides wealth management and investment advisory services for individuals, families, endowments, and not-for-profit organizations. We were founded to answer the unique challenges that come with wealth and continue to provide solutions to our client’s most important financial questions.
Cambridge Trust
Cambridge Bancorp, the parent company of Cambridge Trust Company, is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cambridge Trust Company is a 133-year-old Massachusetts chartered commercial bank with approximately $5.37 billion in assets at March 31, 2024, and a total of 22 Massachusetts and New Hampshire locations. Cambridge Trust Company is one of New England’s leaders in private banking and wealth management with $4.8 billion in client assets under management and administration at March 31, 2024. The Wealth Management group maintains offices in Boston, Massachusetts, Concord, Manchester, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Southport, Connecticut.
Ruberto, Israel & Weiner
Ruberto, Israel & Weiner is a well-established business law firm based in Boston, providing legal services to a diverse client base throughout the region, across the U.S. and internationally. We combine the skills and resources often found in a larger firm environment, with the accessibility and responsiveness a smaller more flexible firm structure provides. Every matter is directly managed by highly experienced attorneys with a well-informed support team to ensure both effectiveness and efficiency.
RIW represents individuals and all forms of business entities in a variety of industries, including technology, manufacturing, securities, banking and lending, hospitality and retail services, construction, insurance, and commercial real estate. Our highly skilled attorneys are also knowledgeable in the practical business issues related to the industries we serve.
The Grossman Companies, Inc.
The Grossman Companies (“TGCI”) is a family-owned real estate investment firm based in Quincy, Massachusetts. With local roots and New England marketplace expertise dating back more than 130 years, the TGCI platform focuses on acquisitions, private lending and asset management. TGCI owns and manages an extensive and diversified portfolio of commercial and residential properties. Additionally, First Boston Capital Partners, a wholly-owned TGCI affiliate and New England’s most active private lender, has originated more than $1.1 billion of acquisition, renovation and construction loans since 2012.
Webster Bank
Webster is a leading commercial bank in the Northeast that provides a wide range of digital and traditional financial solutions across three differentiated lines of business: Commercial Banking, Consumer Banking and its HSA Bank division, one of the country’s largest providers of employee benefits solutions. Headquartered in Stamford, CT, Webster is a values-driven organization with $75 billion in assets. Its core footprint spans the northeastern U.S. from New York to Massachusetts, with certain businesses operating in extended geographies.