Executive Women of the Palm Beaches (EWPB) recently welcomed two leading businesswomen, Sophia Eccleston and Dawn Guzzetta, and Emerging Leader Tracey Spence-Banks, to its membership. New members are welcomed to EWPB based upon their stellar business accomplishments, charitable involvements and community impact.
Sophia Eccleston is the External Affairs Manager at Florida Power and Light, where she is responsible for building and maintaining relationships with elected officials within southern and central Palm Beach County. She is also the external FPL representative responsible for working within the community to provide sponsorships and donations to nonprofit organizations. Eccleston has been with Florida Power and Light/NextEra Energy Resources since 2011. Prior to FPL, she worked at Kellogg Brown and Root for six years and was the Senior Subcontracts Manager for two of those years. She also was the Assistant Supply Chain Manger with the United States Army for three years in Heidelberg, Germany. Eccleston serves as a board member for Wounded Warriors of South Florida, the National Society of Arts and Letter and Florida Women’s Business Center. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree from Armstrong Atlantic State University and her Masters of Business Administration degree from American Intercontinental University.
Dawn Guzzetta is in Sales, Marketing and Events at Brookdale Senior Living Solutions, the largest company in the country of its kind, enhancing the lives of more than 100,000 seniors in 47 of the United States. In Florida the company has over 250 communities with many in Palm Beach County. In her role, Guzzetta addresses the needs of families and caretakers exploring the needs and desires of their loved ones as they make the transition into an assisted living or memory care environment. In addition to this role, Guzzetta’s experience includes working with Harper’s Bazaar Magazine as its South Florida Sales Director, New Beauty Magazine as its Regional Manager for the Northeastern United States and Maxim Magazine as its Florida Account Manager. From 1996 to 2000, she worked for the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office as the Community and Governmental Affairs Advisor. Her professional experience includes major fundraising, development and marketing. For almost 10 years, Guzzetta was also actively involved on the Board of the Delray Beach Housing Authority.
Joining the organization as an Emerging Leder is Tracy Spence-Banks. Spence-Banks has over 20 years of clerical and customer service experience and in 2016 became the Founder and Host of the SOM/sistahs Inc. & House of SOMS, a local devotional show on WJFP 107.1 FM radio where she’s interviewed local ministry and business owners discussing topics that interest women from all walks of life. She runs leadership and relationship cultivation workshops as well as publishes a monthly e-newsletter, serves as the Historian of the City of Riviera Beach’s Library Advisory Board and is currently working on her third book, a women’s devotional: That Ain’t Hardly Me! Spence-Banks is engaged in many community service projects including recruitment & management of teams of volunteers through S.E.R.V.E. volunteer initiative at local mega-church, maintaining their databases and training volunteers in the utilization of the database. She has also participated in numerous events through the SOMSistahs Outreach Inc. & Inlet Grove Community High School Key Club.
For more information on the Executive Women of the Palm Beaches, Palm Beach County’s women-led organization dedicated to empowering women to succeed and lead, please visit www.ewpb.org or call (561) 868-7070.
