• Member of the Year
• Business of the Year

CBW Award: Colorado Business Member and Business of the Year

For Member of the Year, who do you know in our membership with:

• Outstanding career achievements
• Outstanding community service
• Taken a role as mentor
• Been an outstanding supporter of women’s issues
• Worked as a champion for equality in the workplace

For Business of the Year, which businesses in our membership have:

• Provided outstanding opportunities for upward mobility and additional training for female employees
• Established a job evaluation system that creates salary levels that provide equal pay for equal work and allows for salaries based on comparable worth
• Exhibited sensitivity to the needs of female employees
• Provided support for dependent care

We need to know about these women and businesses!

Please contact Melissa Wilson

2022 CBW Colorado Business Women Award Winner: 

 Spring is here and at CBW we have room to bloom!   Our annual May Celebration of Women was well attended and we recognized our fabulous president, Marcia Pinkstaff,  for her commitment to  CBW during the last few years and for her ability to shift her business model and continue to build a thriving business. Thank you to our members and guests for attending this 2022 live event, playing our scavenger hunt, and sharing how your business had to shift through the pandemic. At CBW, we are women with passion and purpose! 

  

 We wish to take a moment and celebrate one special woman who has journeyed through the pandemic with grace and fortitude.  She’s been a part of Colorado Business Women for the last four years and immediately got involved in taking on various leadership roles.  Now enter the pandemic.  Her party plan business took a significant hit when we could no longer meet in person.  Still, this didn’t stop her.  She made some adjustments and went virtual like so many of us, which led to amazing growth in her Touchstone Crystal by Swarovski business.

 While making adjustments in her business, she also was leading this organization as our President. With tenacity and commitment, she lead our group to make adjustments, go virtual, return to in-person and continue to build a community that supports today’s women in business. 

She navigated this organization through a time of unknown with sparkle and a smile!

www.touchstonecrystal.com/marciapinkstaff

      2021 CBW Colorado Business Women Award Winners:

Our 2021 Business of the Year: Amara Martin and Dress for Success Denver

 

     Our Business of the Year recipient is the embodiment of leadership, business savvy, ingenuity and so much more!  She is passionate about her faith, her fur kids and volleyball.  Taking the helm of a non-profit is no easy task, yet this Denver native brought Dress for Success Denver to a new level when she started volunteering in 2007.   In May 2017, Amara Martin was appointed as Director for DFSD and continues to set her sights on continued growth with their Success Bag program and serving the community with style, grace and gratitude.   DFSD will be celebrating 15 years of making a difference for working women throughout Colorado in September.  https://denver.dressforsuccess.org

 

Below is an email from the Board Chair of Dress For Success after the event:

Hello Melissa,   

Many thanks to you and your CBW membership for honoring Amara and Dress for Success Denver as Business of the Year. You did a wonderful job of interviewing Amara and highlighting what a special person and leader she is, as well as sharing how we have pivoted as an organization this past year, to continue to serve our clients . As you know, we would not be where we are without her tireless efforts. 

We truly appreciate CBW's ongoing support and commitment to us. Your membership truly embraces our mission. Your donations and financial support have allowed us to continue to help women fulfill their dreams of becoming economically independent. 

With gratitude,

Patricia F. Vernon

Board Chair, Dress for Success Denver

 

 

Our 2021 Member of the Year: Karleen Wagner 

      A newer member to Colorado Business Women, our Member of the Year joined our organization with enthusiasm, high energy and a giving spirit just a year ago. Karleen is a wife, mother of 2 sons, has her Black Belt in martial arts and runs her own health and wellness business. She brought her creativity, and passion to serve, to our organization. She has been Sponsorship Chair, VP of Membership, and now serves as VP of Marketing at CBW. She has spent countless hours connecting with members and potential members and organizing this valuable information.  Karleen loves to read and learn and in 2021 introduced a CBW Book Club.   She found a passion for serving and helping people be their best through her Arbonne business.  

      As a kidney transplant recipient, Karleen knows the importance of work, health, and life balance and passionately shares this through her business and as a podcast guest and speaker.    www.karleenwagner.com

 

Our 2021 Member of the Year:Suzy Zeng

      Our second recipient of Member of the Year discovered CBW by attending a CBW business after-hours event.  After living in Chicago and Boulder, as well as being an expatriate living in China, her sense of adventure opened opportunities to explore new connections and she joined our organization.  Suzy graciously offered to take on the position as VP of Marketing in Jan. 2020.  Her warm smile, engaging personality and "can do" attitude are assets to her three businesses and to CBW.  Suzy is known as Mom by her son and twins, leading a busy household with her husband, while embracing being an entrepreneur, scientist, fitness coach, and a corporate guru in finance and food.   Her passion and philosophy are to assist others in achieving holistic wellbeing through a balance of health, connections, and financial literacy.      www.FoodaFit.com     www.Z-Choice.com  

 

Congratulations again to our C.O.W. winners of the year, and looking forward to seeing more amazing business women join our amazing CBW!

Melissa Wilson,

Member at Large, CBW

2018 CBW AWARD Winners: 

CBW Member Cathy Reilly received the award for 2018 CBW Member of the Year at the May Celebration of Women luncheon.

CBW Member Dr. Lee Weisbard received the award for 2018 CBW Business Woman of the Year at the May Celebration of Women luncheon.

Dr. Lee Weisbard graduated from the University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine in 1984. After serving in the United States Public Health Service Corps. for 6 years she opened a start-up practice in The Denver Tech Center. In 2013 Dr. Weisbard opened a new state of the art dental facility on Quebec Street in Greenwood Village.  Dr. Lee Weisbard practices General Dentistry with special emphasis on Cosmetic and Implant Restorative Care. Her goals are giving to each of her patients a comfortable, positive experience and treat everyone with respect and integrity. She has had a special relationship with Dress For Success for many years and believes it is important to give back to her community.