Manciagli joins Gilda’s Club as keynote speaker for Eastside Breakfast in Redmond

Published 1:04 pm Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Gilda’s Club, an organization that offers broad, community based programs of social, emotional and educational support for cancer survivors, their loved ones and friends, has announced that Dana Manciagli, who works and lives on the Eastside, will be the keynote speaker at its Eastside Breakfast.

The event will take place Sept. 24 at the Redmond Marriot Town Center. Registration is online at www.gildasclubseattle.org.

Manciagli has had a career in global sales and marketing roles in Fortune 500 corporations. Recently retired from a decade’s tenure at Microsoft as worldwide sales general manager, she is now a global career coach and professional speaker. She is also the author of “Cut the Crap, Get a Job!” and a nationally syndicated columnist. She is also facing her third bout with breast cancer and is passionate about seeing Gilda’s Club’s programs accessible to everybody.

The event directly benefits expansion of family programs on the Eastside and allows Gilda’s Club to continue to offer programs free of charge to participants. The program serves anyone touched by cancer across the cancer continuum — from diagnosis, through treatment, survivorship, and bereavement, including children, teens, adults and whole families.

“This is a new endeavor to expand Gilda’s Club to the Eastside community,” said Anna Gottlieb, Gilda’s Club executive director. “With Dana’s deep connection to our cause and passion for our mission we anticipate our expansion of services to be very successful.”

Gilda’s Club is named in honor of Gilda Radner, who, when describing the emotional and social support she received when she had cancer, called for such places of participation, education, hope and friendship to be made available for people with cancer and their families and friends everywhere.