In-person

Embracing CHANGE as a Superpower

June 8, 2023

5:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Members & Non-Members: $47.00

2655 NW Market Street, Seattle, WA 98107

206.789.5707

Finding joy in times of transition and EMBRACING CHANGE as our superpower is the theme for our June in-person event. Join us for a powerful conversation with Monica Huntsberry (Writer, Speaker and RevelEleven Advisor), Donna Moodie (Marjorie Restaurant/Community Roots Housing) and Petra Hilleberg (Hilleberg the Tentmaker) in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood.

Monica Huntsberry left her 25-year corporate career and began to pursue a creative journey focused on the topic of leaving. She’ll talk about her conversations with more than 50 women about their experiences in making a change.

Donna will share insights on how she manifests and embraces change, including making a big decision to close her iconic Seattle restaurant Marjorie’s and open up in a new location, step into a new career, and leverage her experience in creating community on a broader scale.

Petra will talk about the importance of accessing nature as a touchstone in times of transition. She will also focus on ways to re-energize in the outdoors and how we make personal discoveries and find courage during times of change.

Appetizers and wine will be served.

The event will be hosted at the National Nordic Museum, beautifully designed by local architecture firm Mithun and opened in 2018 in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood. The Museum’s achievements were acknowledged in 2019 with the Museum was designated as the National Nordic Museum by an act of Congress. In building embodies Nordic design and functions both as museum and community gathering place.

Speakers

Donna Moodie

Donna Moodie is a well-known Seattle restauranteur, owning Marjorie Restaurant for the last 14 years.
Bio

Donna Moodie

Donna Moodie is a well-known Seattle restauranteur, owning Marjorie Restaurant for the last 14 years.

She’s also VP of Community Roots Housing. Donna is embraces changes and annually, around the new year, approaches it as an opportunity to look at life with a 180 perspective of her life. Donna also created the much-loved Miss Marjorie’s Steel Drum Plantains which is currently going through its own evolution to be launched nationally within the next year.
Monica Huntsberry

After exiting her 25-year corporate career, Monica began to pursue a creative journey focused on the topic of leaving.
Bio

Monica Huntsberry

After exiting her 25-year corporate career, Monica began to pursue a creative journey focused on the topic of leaving.

She has interviewed more than 50 women about their experiences in making a change, including women who left professional careers to pursue a different calling. She now writes, speaks, and mentors on the topic of leaving and embracing change. She is also an advisor and event host for RevelEleven.
Petra Hilleberg

Petra Hilleberg, CEO of Hilleberg the Tentmaker & Honorary Consul of Sweden
Bio

Petra Hilleberg

Petra Hilleberg, CEO of Hilleberg the Tentmaker & Honorary Consul of Sweden

Petra Hilleberg is the President and CEO of Hilleberg the Tentmaker. Growing up in northern Sweden and alongside the eponymous family company her parents started 51 years ago gave her both a big passion for the outdoors and a fascination for business. When she was 12 she told her father that she would one day sell tents in the US, and, after graduating from Seattle University in 2000, she did just that: she started the US side of the well-recognized Hilleberg tent company two days after graduation and sold her first tent one day later. She is now the President of Hilleberg, Inc, the US office, President of Hilleberg AB, the Swedish office, as well as the CEO of the Hilleberg Group, where she oversees the operations in Sweden, the US and the factory in Estonia.

In 2012 Miss Hilleberg was named an honoree of two prestigious 40 Under 40 awards: the 2012 SGB (Sporting Goods Business) 40 Under 40 Awards by the SportsOneSource Group and the 2012 Puget Sound Business Journal 40 Under 40 Awards. These awards honor outstanding leaders under the age of 40 within the sporting goods industry and in the Puget Sound community, respectively.

In 2022, Miss Hilleberg was awarded the “Female Shooting Star” prize by Ernst & Young at the Entrepreneur of the Year gala for Northern Sweden.

The Governor of Washington State, Jay Inslee, recognized Miss Hilleberg as the “Washingtonian of the Day” on September 16, 2022.

In 2019 Miss Hilleberg was appointed as Honorary Consul of Sweden to Washington and Oregon. She is very active in the vibrant Nordic community in the Northwest where she served as President of the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce in Seattle for many years. Since its inception in 2018, she has been part of the core steering committee for the Nordic Innovation Summit hosted by the National Nordic Museum. She is an Honorary Trustee on the board of Directors for the National Nordic Museum, Member of the Consular Associations of both Washington and Oregon, Board member of AFUU, American Friends of Uppsala University, and she serves on the jury for the Queen Silvia Award for Nursing at the University of Washington.

In addition, when time allows, she teaches both Alpine- and Telemark skiing for Snow Performance, a high end ski coaching business, and she is a former Divisional Clinic Leader for Telemark for the Northwest division of the Professional Ski Instructors of America (PSIA-NW). When not in the outdoors, working or skiing, she trains and competes in dressage with her horses Boogie Woogie and Vilano. In 2018, she was the National Amateur Champion at Intermediare II and in 2019 the Regional Amateur Grand Prix Champion with Boogie Woogie.