Highlights of the 2019 WOVI Mentor of the Year Recognition Luncheon
2020 Mentor of the year, Dr. Dawn Owens, Program Director of Undergraduate IT and Systems at The University of Texas at Dallas
(nominated by Gaurav Shekhar)
The WOVI 2019 Mentor Recognition Luncheon was a wonderful event celebrating amazing women mentors! The nominees were phenomenal women from across the Dallas/Fort Worth area, coming from corporate, education, nonprofit and the community-at-large. It was amazing to see such accomplished women taking the time to give back by mentoring others. Each one clearly demonstrated their influence and exemplified WOVI’s call to Mentor > Lead > Achieve.
Congratulations to the each of the nominees acknowledged in their respective fields:
June Evens – Mentor of the Year – Founder/CEO Non-Profit
Bobby Blair – Mentor of the Year – Early Childhood Education Teacher
Dr. Dawn Owens – Mentor of the Year – Technology Career & Education
Dr. A. Tracie Brown – Mentor of the Year – Education Administration
Lauren Midgley – Mentor of the Year – Corporate
The 2019 WOVI Mentor Recognition Luncheon was held Friday, October 25, 2019. It featured a special Keynote presentation, “Embracing the Extraordinary You” by Traci Bernard and was led by Emcee Judy Gaman.
Traci Bernard, President
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital
Women of Visionary Influence is excited to announce our 2019 Mentor Recognition Luncheon Keynote speaker is Traci Bernard, President of Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital in Southlake Texas. As a registered nurse, Traci has made it her mission to take her passion for improving healthcare to various health systems. Most recently she served nine years as the Vice President of Operations for Baylor Regional Medical Center of Grapevine. Traci’s role of change agent fostered success by maintaining a balanced focus on improving operations, financial and satisfaction initiatives. Traci has been recognized for her ability to assist organizations in achieving desired results by engaging people and changing behaviors in the workplace.
Judy Gaman, CEO
Executive, Medicine of Texas &
Nationally Syndicated Talk Show Host
Judy Gaman, MSPS, BSHS has been entertaining audiences for years. She’s an award-winning author, speaker, and spent nearly a decade on the airwaves coast to coast as a host of the Staying Young Show. As CEO of Executive Medicine of Texas, she also has the pleasure of hosting the podcast Stay Young America! Side by side with the founding partners of the practice. Her fifth book, a much, anticipated memoir entitled Love, Life and Lucille will be released by, She Writes Press in April 2020.
The 2019 Annual Mentor Recognition Luncheon
was held at
The Hilton Garden Inn
1001 W. President George Bush Hwy
Richardson, TX 75080
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