Ellen Leikind

After 15 years as a successful marketing executive working for Fortune 500 companies, Leikind took a one year hiatus from her career and rediscovered poker, a game she had learned as a teenager. It was at that time she first made the connections explored in her book. "The more she played poker, the more she saw the similarities between the card game and the larger 'game' of business and personal fulfillment. Ellen Leikind founded POKERprimaDIVAS, www.pokerdivas.com a company that empowers women to become fearless and decisive through the skills they acquire at the poker table. She teaches women how to get what they want by piling up the chips, making the most of the cards they are dealt, how to win and if you lose, how to get back in the game.Poker like much of corporate America is a boys club and she encourages women to get in the game and not wait for an invitation to do so. She is the President of EDL Marketing Group in New York and has an MBA in marketing from Fordham University. She is a devoted native New Yorker and dog lover.