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Awards and Certifications From October 26

Marisa Smith Selected 'Top-Idea Maven' by Woman's Advantage: Marisa Smith, president of Ann Arbor's Whole Brain Group, was selected from over 5,000 submissions to be featured in The 2011 Woman's Advantage Shared Wisdom Calendar. The calendar provides advice for women business owners from influential women leaders across the United States and Canada. The calendar was released Oct. 1. "Marisa Smith's quote was selected because it was powerful yet easy to understand," said Mary Cantando of The Woman's Advantage. "Her idea is relevant to almost every woman in business today. Women business owners and those who dream of starting a business will learn so much from the advice provided by Marisa and the other successful women quoted in the calendar." The Woman's Advantage 2011 Calendar provides sound bites of advice on key business issues including: organization, promotion, sales, and human resources. Smith is the president of the Website and software development company The Whole Brain Group. The Whole Brain Group works to help organizations obtain their triple bottom line (people, planet, profits) by introducing clients to electronic solutions to help them work more efficiently. Smith also co-chairs the Communications Council and is a member of the executive advisory board for Women Impacting Public Policy. Woman's Advantage is a line of information products, including books, workbooks, audio CDs, and calendars designed exclusively for successful women business owners. For more information, visit www.WomansAdvantage.biz.

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