I think the value of a program like MOMENTUM to a company like BE&K is probably on two different levels. One, it gives us an opportunity to provide training and education to some high profile, highly motivated and high potential women and gives them a chance to do that right here in Birmingham, Alabama. I think when they come away from it, they will be more valuable to themselves and they will certainly be more valuable to us. And that's what we are trying to do, we're trying to enhance their career and I think this is a program that we willingly and eagerly support. It is, at least in our mind, unique in anything we've found in the state of Alabama.

Ted C. Kennedy, Founder BE&K, Inc
MOMENTUM Inaugural Advisory Board Member

MOMENTUM is building leaders. The program provides women with the tools to become dynamic leaders and make change happen. In the long run, I suspect that Birmingham and Alabama will be the better for MOMENTUM having harnessed, focused, and polished the talents and the energy of the women who have the opportunity to participate.

Helen Kathryn Downs
Partner with Johnston Barton Proctor & Rose LLP
Member of inaugural 2002-2003 MOMENTUM class

The women assembled were such a vibrant, engaged, diverse, open group - it's impossible to imagine them not changing the face of leadership in Alabama.

Deborah Holmes
America's director of the Center for the New Work Force for Ernst & Young
Retreat trainer for MOMENTUM

It was such an honor to be part of the first class of MOMENTUM and such an awesome responsibility as well because it is our responsibility to make sure that it is important and to make sure that it makes lasting contributions to the state. Just the literal interpretation of the word MOMENTUM which, I think, is energy in motion and certainly in thinking that one can understand why that name was chosen for the experience that we’ve just had for the past year. It certainly is energy we hope will remain in motion for quite some time.

Neeysa Biddle
President and COO, St. Vincent’s Hospital
Member of inaugural 2002-2003 MOMENTUM Class
MOMENTUM Alumnae Program (MAP) President

I was impressed at the effort to go from zero to 100 to really make a difference My sense is that people could learn a lot by looking at the model that’s been created here.

Jacqueline McCook, president and CEO, The McCook Group
Curriculum Facilitator

The perception is that if it’s not in New York or Chicago, it’s just not happening. Obviously that’s a terrible misconception.

Carol Frohlinger, JD
Author
MOMENTUM Curriculum Facilitator

This is an extraordinary vehicle for leadership and career development. MOMENTUM captures the collective energy and experiences of a diverse group of women and transfers it to other women through mentoring… simply powerful!

Marsha S. Johnson
Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer, Southern Company
MOMENTUM inaugural Advisory Board member