Dottie Lamm and Marilyn Van Derbur Atler

Dottie Lamm, former first lady of Colorado and 1998 Colorado Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, is a keynote speaker and workshop leader on Risk Taking and Living with Success and Failure.

As an official U.S. delegate to the U.N. Cairo Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Conference on Women during the Clinton administration, Dottie has spoken on the rights of women in places as diverse as Palo Alto, California; Salt Lake City, Utah; Farmington, New Mexico; Hanover, New Hampshire and Barcelona, Spain.

In her seventeen years as a columnist for the Denver Post, Dottie addressed an array of personal, political, economic, environmental and social issues. Her latest book, “Daddy on Board,” published by Fulcrum Press in Nov. of 2007, describes and analyzes 21st century parenting roles.


Marilyn Van Derbur was crowned Miss America and then graduated from the University of Colorado with Phi Beta Kappa honors. Marilyn chose motivational speaking as her career and was named “Outstanding Woman Speaker in America” after 30,000 questionnaires were sent to business and civic meeting planners asking whom they considered to be the outstanding speaker.

The culmination of Marilyn's work is her book, Miss America By Day which won the prestigious Writer's Digest award.