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Althea Ledford is Founder, Editor and Chief Creative Officer of E The Magazine for Today’s Female Executive, which she designed to “help women find their inner voice and power” and which covers business, technology, global issues, lifestyle, fashion, food, and wine. She is also a public speaker and author of the terrific 2013 book The Playground Dynamic, subtitled Getting Rid of Bullying and Other Toxic Behavior While Building a New Era of Social Skills and Power Thinkers Starting on the Playground. She founded the Gatebook Company, a publishing, and social media company, and wrote the Kids GateBook series, guides for personal development for children. She also wrote What’s Your Vision: A Guide for Designing the Life of Your Dreams with Vision Boards. Althea worked for more than 20 years in financial markets and strategic business development and worked with nonprofits, small businesses, startups, and foundations. NAFE particularly honors her for her work as Director of the NAFE Los Angeles network. Althea holds an MS in Management of Information Systems and an MBA from the Drucker Graduate School of Management. She is married with two children, 31 and 29, and lives in Redondo Beach, CA.

As Editor and Chief Creative Officer of E The MagazIne for Today's Female Executive, it is my pleasure to bring business, technology, global issues, food, wine and lifestyle issues to Executive women globally.

Take a look below at one of the Magazine's preview videos.

Previous to this present position, I hold over 20 years of experience in financial markets and strategic business development. She’s worked with a variety of organizations including emerging markets, start-ups, large corporations, nonprofits, community development organizations, private investment, and institutional projects. She’s designed advanced market projects and endowment funding. Althea has recognized a significant connection between social integrity and the global message we broadcast to the rest of the world.

On a personal note, we should never underestimate the power of great vision and fearless love. Love can actually be a measurable mass, a palpable substance that when applied, permeates, changes, grows and heals.

Editor of “E” The Magazine for Today’s Female Executive and CEO of ETM media network Each month ETM media produces a monthly publication titled E The Magazine for Today’s Female Executive. Over the last quarter, E Magazine is moving from a monthly publication to a daily news platform provide current issues, forums, and breaking news. The only difference is ETM will present News From a Balanced Perspective. Meaning Women will be equally represented in the discussions, forums, and interpretation of issues. While the website is currently under remodeling the lastest 12 issues can be viewed at this link. https://www.facebook.com/femaleexecmagazine/app/123743911011091 E Magazine started 2 years ago quite accidentally when Althea was invited to be the director of NAFE Los Angeles. Having already published 6 books on topics ranging from children to social and business issues, she recognized an opportunity to showcase the talent from the NAFE speakers. After a few drafts and a rocky start, E Magazine was born. In the beginning, all the writers came from the Nafe pool of talent. And aggressively promoted by NAFE leadership specifically Robbie Motter, the NAFE Global Coordinator. Over time the magazine has grown to over 60 writers in 7 countries. The distribution started with NAFE and is now reaching a base of 1.4 million women and men. E Magazine now has readers on every continent which grows each month. With the launching of ETM news media site, E Magazine will experience another area of growth placing it within the group of small media networks. These are still the early days, but E Magazine and ETM media networks have landed on a niche that will be around for a long time to come. More on Background and Education She is also the founder of The GateBook Company, a publishing, and social media company. Althea holds over 20 years of experience in financial markets, business development, and technology startups. She’s interviewed hundreds of small business owners, families, innovators and entrepreneurs. Peter Drucker granted her the honor of opening one of his classes with a lecture on “expert systems”-she didn’t ask him, he asked her. She has a Masters in Management of Information Science from Claremont Graduate University, SISAT School of Information Systems and Technology and an MBA from The Drucker Graduate School of Management. She has designed several systems and software specifically, an analytical software that facilitates cognitive recognition of high volume data, hyperdynamic or complex data.

Althea Ledford has just launched a new magazine called “E” The Magazine for Today’s Female Executive. Althea understands the layers of complexity within a woman’s life on a daily basis. As Editor and Chief Creative Officer, she designed “E” to (a) bring relevant topics and resources to women who make up 46.9% of the population and (b) help grow the National Association of Female Executives (NAFE), -especially since women are founding businesses at a rate of 1.5 times the national average. Althea is also the Director of NAFE Los Angeles. With over 2 million working women in the Los Angeles Area, her goal is to grow, promote and support female executives throughout the Los Angeles area and promote the NAFE network nationwide. Althea Ledford is also the author of The Playground Dynamic and six other books including 10 Minute Hero. She is also the founder of The GateBook Company, a publishing, and social media company. Althea holds over 20 years of experience in financial markets, business development, and technology startups. She’s interviewed hundreds of small business owners, families, innovators and entrepreneurs. She has a Masters in Management of Information Science from Claremont Graduate University, SISAT School of Information Systems and Technology and an MBA from The Drucker Graduate School of Management.

Meet Althea Ledford Althea Ledford is the Editor and Chief Creative Officers of "E" The Magazine for Today's Female Executive and Entrepreneur. E Magazine represents one of the most powerful target markets in the Country-Working Women.

Althea is also the Director of NAFE Los Angeles, CA. Her goal is to grow, promote and support female executives and entrepreneurs throughout the Los Angeles area and promote the NAFE Network nationwide.

Althea Ledford is also the author of The Playground Dynamic and six other books including 10 Minute Hero./ She holds over 20 years of experience in financial markets, business development, and technology startups./ She's interviewed hundreds of small business owners, families, innovators and entrepreneurs.

She has a Masters in Management of Information Science from Claremont Graduate University, SISAT School of Information Systems and Technology and an MBA from The Drucker Graduate School of Management.

Her goal is to create as many tools and avenues of opportunity for women and people in general to improve their lives and the lives of others.

Althea has been an expert in Financial Markets for the past 20 years. She's worked with non-profit organizations, small businesses, foundations, endowments creations, and complex structured investments. She's now published a fantastic tool called 10-Minute Hero. The 10 Minute Hero was created to help you; help people in short powerful pockets of time.

Social Media has given us the opportunity to jump-start a new wave of social integrity, direction, and awareness.

Other publications include:

10 Minute Hero

10 Minute Hero "The Journal", A companion to the 10-Minute Hero book

Gatebook 2012, Datebooks track time, Gatebook tracks your life

Gatebook Connect, Make all your connections count!

Early life
Born Althea Goode on February 12, 1960, Althea is the daughter of Jewel Maxie Goode and Arabella Bowman. Althea was named after her paternal Grandmother Althea Walton (born 1894 previously known as Althea Morgan). Her father Jewel retired as a professor from Stanford University, Army Corp of Engineers. Her mother retired as a teacher some years later. During the early years, Althea and her sister were watched by her grandmother and grew up in southern California. The neighborhood was, at the time, traditional middle class. The women stayed at home while the husbands worked. Lawns were cut, rose busses trimmed and porches sweep. During the summer, in fact, every summer, Althea and her sister played outside in the middle of the streets until the street lights came on. Ten a neighborhood had a milkman, an ice cream truck, Helms bakery truck, a corner store that sold an entire assortment of candy and gum for a nickel. Her grandmother would have breakfast cooked every morning, lunch and dinner. Althea remembers neighborhood club meetings and bridge parties with Jello rings and pineapple chunks in it. Little crackers and chicken salad. They took piano lessons down the street and ballet lessons every Saturday morning at Mildred Conns Dance studio in Lemert park.

Education
Althea completed Masters in Business Administration, Claremont Graduate University - The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, 2001 Masters of Science in Management of Information Systems, Claremont Graduate University, School of Information Science, 2001 Wharton School of Business-Mergers and Acquisitions Certification Bachelor of Science in Business Administration-Marketing, California State University, Los Angeles 1988

Career
In 1990, Althea became a stockbroker and worked for a small boutique firm in West Los Angeles. Over the next several years she worked independently as a consultant and financial advisor. Interviewing and structuring financial plans for hundreds of families. She designed intergenerational plans for nonprofit organizations, institutions, universities, and foundations. In 2014, Althea started ETM Media.

Media and Publications
ETM Media started with its flagship magazine E The Magazine For Today’s Female Executive-three and a half years ago, 2014. E The Magazine started with a foundation organization called NAFE National Association of Female Executives. Over the next 3 years, E Magazine would grow to partner with half a dozen women’s organizations and a direct circulation of 1.4 million. E Magazine is on its 40th publication.

Based on the success of E Magazine and realizing Men would benefit from their own awesome publication, this spring we will launch M The Magazine with Real Success Talk for Men.

ETM Media (ETMMedia.net) was initially launched to house the magazine’s 200 columnists and it’s 2,500 articles and features. As the concept of ETM Media grew, we discovered other great attributes we’ve acquired as a company just because we listened to feedback from our readers, viewers, and listeners. We also realized early on that we were providing something no one else on any other media platform was doing. Going deeper on the issues and giving our readers an opportunity to participate. We realized that real change was a consensus through a process of information, feedback, more information, discussions, and consensus. We know everyone won’t agree about everything, but amazingly enough, there is a lot we do agree on. And these areas of agreement can be global at times. Furthermore, there are a lot of people are willing to do for other people if that interaction is easy, accessible and painless. From this revelation, we developed our tagline. ETM Media “Inspiring Humanity to Engage Upon Itself”. As you read this Private Placement Memorandum Summary, know that ETM media actually does represent the next phase in media platforms.

An Overview of ETM Channels The ETM Business Channel brings top stories, training and advice from business experts around the world. Coaches, team builders, HR experts, small business resources and education on business trends. Non-Profit Business Development. Our writers come from all over the world. They include practitioners, graduate students, university organizations, business experts and brilliant entrepreneurs. How readers, viewers and listeners can interact with this channel? They can buy the authors books, attend speaking engagements, conference, download the free gifts and information and set up a meeting with the author. Get coaching for your small business.

The ETM Science & Technology Channel brings top stories on technology and technological developments from a variety of industries including business, gaming, medical, social media, education and much more. Our writers are from all over the world and various technology backgrounds. How readers, viewers, and listeners can interact with this channel? They can contact the authors, follow their blogs, buy their books, attend the conference or get their coaching packages.

ETM Health and Wellness Channel bring a wealth of knowledge and resources from a variety of health-related areas. The topic of health is complex and covers mind, body, spirit, inner health, our environment, children, workplace, managing stress and much more. How readers viewers and listeners can interact with this channel? By connecting directly with authors, health experts, supporting organizations, sharing information. There is quite a bit of support and information within this industry.

The ETM Finance Channel brings financial resources, education and advice ranging from small business funding to stock market analysis. Each of the areas has experts and practitioners sharing information and bringing years of experience to the table. How readers viewers and listeners can interact with this channel? By connecting directly with the author(s). Asking the experts direct questions, accessing other sources of information. Developing financial literacy.

The ETM Arts and Entertainment Channel bring top stories in the arts and entertainment industry. This channel brings attention to innovations and developments in these areas. ETM Art and Science feature artists and multi-medium creatives (individuals breaking new ground in the expression of art). How readers, viewers, and listeners can interact with this channel? By experiencing art from a variety of perspectives including social art, public art, bringing art education back into schools. They can interact and connect with artist and entertainment experts.

Other Channels available on ETM Media. ETM Food and Wine ETM Sports and Entertainment ETM Lifestyle ETM The Franchise Channel ETM Conference Channel ETM Analytics & SEO Channel ETM Conference Channel ETM Education Channel ETM Fashion & Beauty Channel ETM Politics Global Channel ETM Spiritual Health & Wellness Channel