A new way of connecting with other businesswomen
to develop personally and professionally.

Welcome to the Lancaster Area Express Network. We are a local chapter of the American Business Women's Association (ABWA) national organization.

If you're driven and determined in your vision to succeed, the ABWA Express Network membership is for you. With the Lancaster Area Express Network, you will develop leadership skills, network with business professionals, strengthen business contacts, gain self-confidence and build friendships.

Please attend our next monthly meeting.

LAEN meetings are held over breakfast from 7:30 to 9 a.m. - offering the flexibility you require - and include time to network, a guest speaker, and breakfast buffet. Meetings are held on the third Wednesday of each month. The cost is $20 for ABWA members and $30 for non-ABWA members.  Reservations are required by Monday before the event. 

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This Month's Meeting:  

 “Making a Difference through Chocolate – Empowering the Team”

 

Selina is the owner of Café Chocolate in Lititz.  She became an entrepreneur after administering a government program for Vietnamese refugee women, serving as a hospital CFO and spending a decade as head of international operations for a Wall Street firm charged with rating global insurance companies.  She left her Wall Street position to become COO of Ten Thousand Villages, a fair-trade retail
business enterprise owned by Mennonite Central Committee which is what brought her to Lancaster County.  She says that
she wanted to enjoy herself doing meaningful work, so she left her Wall Street position for Ten Thousand Villages.  Selina stayed with the Lancaster County, Pennsylvania-based organization for only a year before realizing that her true passion was to become a fair-trade business owner.

She was born and raised in Hong Kong and has lived and worked in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States.

Selina earned her doctorate in Asian economics at Princeton University.

This presentation will cover: Entrepreneurship, following your passion, pursuing your dream but doing
your homework first. How your mission statement can reflect commitment in your
business and how to empower the team.

                                                                                  

ABWA Mission Statement:

To bring together businesswomen of diverse occupations and to provide opportunities for them to help themselves and others grow personally and professionally through leadership, education, networking support and national recognition.