Professional

Company Name

Voices, Inc. www.VOICESinc.com

Job Title

Owner

Job Description

In 1993, Francine Read founded VOICES, INC. creating the VOICES Contemporary Lectures in Portland. Over the last 17 years, VOICES has featured the world’s most influential women of our time. Both women and men are welcome to participate. At the First Congregational Church, audiences of near 1000 enjoy the intimate environment and the face-to-face experience with such speakers as Madame Jehan Sadat, Honorable Ann Richards, Gloria Steinem, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Erin Brockovich, Arianna Huffington, Valerie Plame Wilson and Elizabeth Edwards. To order and for info: www.VOICESinc.com. While the core business of VOICES, INC. is to produce the VOICES Lecture Series, a portion of the company is dedicated to brokering women speakers through the website GreatWomenspeakers.com, specializing in women speakers, trainers, consultants and celebrities. Launched in July, 2000, it is in the top 2 references on GOOGLE for women speakers. Francine Read was recently selected by The Portland Business Journal as one of its Women in Business Orchid Award recipients for 2010.

Type of business/industry

Event Planning

Education

B.S. Science

Areas of Knowledge

Event management/Speakers Bureau

Other Memberships

Int. Assoc. of Speakers Bureaus