Meet Jody and Joan

Jody Glynn Patrick
Publisher, In Business magazine
608-204-9655
jody@magnapubs.com

Patrick has been publisher of In Business magazine over 10 years, and under her leadership, the magazine received the prestigious "Psychologically Healthy Workplace" award in 2005 from the Wisconsin Psychological Association for "balancing workplace mentorship with ethical business practices that transcend strategic planning sessions to positively impact clients as well as employees."

In addition to her responsibilities with In Business magazine, Patrick is co-author (with husband Kevin) of During: A Couple's Intimate Experience with Breast Cancer Treatment. In 2005, she was recipient of the 2005 Athena Award for her leadership role in mentoring women, and she was a spokesperson (Dane County Salvation Army and Rotary Club International's War on Hunger campaign), Guest of Honor (Madison Club's first charity gala), emcee (Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce's Annual Dinner and Dane County Small Business Awards), host (Extreme Networking Event), and she made 14 guest appearances for In Business magazine and 17 presentations for audiences interested in best practices for breast cancer treatment - including keynote speaker for UW Hospital's annual meeting for hospital administrators. She was featured on the cover of Anew magazine and founded Glynn Patrick & Associates, LLC, which provides genealogical research and historical biographical writing as well as writing for medical professionals on best patient practices for breast cancer patients.

Patrick also on the advisory boards of the Dane County Salvation Army, 4C's and the Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation. She is past president and member of the Business Development Group, an alumni of the Leadership Greater Madison Program, and member of many business and civic organizations. Prior to a publishing career, she was a death and crisis counselor -- Director of Western IL University's Hotline Crisis Center, Manager of the Chicago Ronald McDonald House, and Crisis Interventionist for a suburban-Milwaukee police department. Today, she is a wife, mother, and grandmother who finds great pleasure in family, profession, Madison community service, and co-hosting "In Business with Jody and Joan" on Madison 1670, The Pulse -- Your City, Your Station!

Joan Gillman
Director of Special Industry Programs, Executive Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business
608-262-9982
jgillman@facstaff.wisc.edu

As Director of Special Industry Programs, Executive Education, for the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, Joan's office acts as a conduit between University resources and the business community. In this role, she currently co-hosts a daily radio show, In Business with Jody and Joan on Madison 1670 from 6-7 PM, focusing on local business issues.

Joan's duties span Executive Education from small business and entrepreneurship to teaching managers and designing executive programs. She has taught in both the Small Business Development Center (Business Planning) and Executive Education for the Supervisory Management Series. She was co-director of the Agribusiness Executive Management Program that assisted farmers and agribusinesses in Wisconsin. As founder of The Family Business Center, a regional membership program which addresses the special needs of the family business dealing with succession, communication, and strategic planning issues, she successfully completed succession planning for the center.

From 1989-2006, Gillman's national duties have included Executive Director for USASBE-United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, the national division of the International Council for Small Business. She coordinated the functions of a comprehensive organization of 1100+ outstanding researchers, scholars, teachers, administrators, and policy makers interested in entrepreneurship and small business. Gillman coordinated activities with The Coleman Foundation, the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, and The Edward Lowe Foundation as well as develops strategic alliances for the organization.

Gillman currently serves on the School of Business Advisory Board, Edgewood College, Madison School District's Business & Education Partnership, and as secretary for the Board of Directors - International Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, JJ Strossmeyer University, Osijek, Croatia.

A native of Pittsburgh, she received her B.S. from Indiana University in art education and radio and TV.

Since coming to Madison in 1968, she has worked for the departments of Preventive Medicine, Psychology and Waisman Center. In 1984 Gillman took her GRE's with a pencil that said "Life begins at 40" and completed her Master's in business in December 1986. She has been Program Coordinator, then Director of MadisonÕs Small Business Development Center until 1996 when she started her two new programs. The Madison-SBDC serves 15,000 businesses plus all those thinking about going into business by offering one-on-one counseling and courses in the areas of marketing, management, finance, and business feasibility/strategic planning.

Gillman has two children and enjoys traveling whenever possible. Her most recent travels have been in Croatia, Macedonia and Bulgaria for the Open Society Institute, the nonprofit foundation of George Soros, where she is starting centers for Entrepreneurship. She is also the second woman ever to publicly address men in Saudi Arabia. She is active in many local organizations.