Betty Spence’68 has a passion for encouraging and empowering women leaders.  Her passion is so strong that she has two leadership roles herself, as president of the 60,000-member National Association for Female Executives (a position she’s held since 2001) and as founder of the non-profit educational association EqualVoice.org, whose mission is to challenge the stereotypes about woman leaders.  How does she juggle?  “When you’re really motivated, you work really hard, it’s that simple. I love what I do,” she says.

Betty often appears in the national news, including ABC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, CNN, The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Business Week, Fortune and Forbes.   The former English major and student newspaper writer who was also a Laurentian Singer and studied on St. Lawrence’s program in France is the author of Be Your Own Mentor, a book on propelling your own advancement that was published by Random House in 2001, and she oversaw the editing and publication of two books, Advancing Women in Business: Best Practices from the Corporate Leaders (1998) and Creating Women's Networks (1999).  In her spare time (huh??) Betty is building a house in West Cornwall, Conn.