Barbara serves as the Education & Community Outreach Chair of the Northwestern Mutual Women’s Council in Los Angeles that seeks to elevate women of all tenures and roles by acknowledging their unique strengths and challenges as they strive for academic mastery and career excellence. It fosters ways to achieve optimal work/life balance in pursuit of personal, professional, and financial goals through formalized programs, events, educational opportunities, and philanthropic efforts that attract ideal candidates and clients. Under Barbara’s leadership, the council has created an environment to build bonds between women across the six network offices in Southern California and Nevada, starting with the Big Sister Program, which connects all women joining the network with a woman mentor to help bring them into the fold. Barbara’s role is to help women articulate their goals and connect them to the tools available to bring those goals to fruition.
