Anne Doyle - Auburn Hills Councilwoman, Forbes columnist, and founder of AnneDoyleStrategies.com - met at the Townsend in Birmingham with four southeast Michigan senior executive business owners this week - to discuss her book, Powering Up: How America's Women Achievers Become Leaders, and to enjoy fellowship and networking.

Councilwoman Doyle's book is now in its third edition, and Councilwoman Doyle has just been invited by the State Department to speak in Trinidad on March 8, International Women's Day, at the new Trinidad Women's Leadership Institute.

Pictured in the photo, from left to right: Councilwoman Doyle, Jessica Hatchigan, Ceil Michalik, Karen Kittrell, and Sherry Welsh. Hatchigan is the founder of PersonalHistorianPlace.com, a business that specializes in recording family histories in book format; Michalik is the owner of Michalik Consulting LLC; Kittrell is co-owner of Independent Business Advisors, a business and franchise brokerage; and Welsh is the founder of BlueSkyTransformations.com, a leadership coaching practice that focuses on empowering women leaders to thrive in both their professional and personal lives.