Both Heather Connors and Cindy Campbell have discovered a profound desire to be entrepreneurial and to impassion others about the importance of personal connections and community involvement. In October of 2007, Heather and Cindy were contributing authors of the book, Awakening Social Responsibility: A Call to Action. They are continuing to work with the other authors on this exciting project by creating a consulting platform on CSR. Recently, Heather and Cindy were interviewed for the M7 Marketing Matters and Chickonomics Podcast shows where they discussed how to implement a CSR program and shared examples of established programs at different companies.

Heather Connors
Heather Connors attended Boston University and got her degree in Exercise Physiology with a concentration in Cardiopulmonary Sciences. During her time at BU she worked as an HR Representative and Researcher in the Diabetes and Metabolism Department of BU Medical School. For the next eight years her research career resulted in several publications in major scientific journals while working in a variety of scientific disciplines for companies including TKT, Calydon and Stem Cells, Inc. She made the transition back to Human Resources in early 2002 bringing a unique perspective to emerging medical device and biotechnology companies like Micrus Endovascular and AngioScore, Inc. Currently Heather is the Director of Human Resources for Illumina, a San Diego based, global biotechnology company innovating the DNA sequencing business. She is currently on the Curriculum Development Advisory Board at Mission College responsible for creating a matriculation educational program that will produce a highly skilled workforce for the bio/pharma industry.

Cindy Campbell
Cindy Campbell is currently a Principal Organizational Development Consultant for C2 Leadership focusing on leadership and team development programs. She has a Bachelors of Science from Arizona State University and worked for Intel Corporation for 18 years. At Intel, Cindy held various management positions in Corporate Purchasing, Training & Development, and she led the International Workforce Development efforts where she was responsible for building educational programs through collaboration with the Ministry of Education Departments in 7 separate countries.

In the past 7 years, Cindy has been in leadership positions in Human Resources focusing on change & transition management and leadership development. She has been on the Board of Directors for Big Brothers/Big Sisters, the NOVA Private Industry Council and led the Corporate Sponsorship Committee at Workforce Silicon Valley.