Patti Gribow is CEO of Gribow Entertainment Inc. a production company dedicated to producing programs that inspire and empower viewers with insightful issues. For the past three years Patti has co- produced and hosted Southern California talk shows The Patti Gribow Show & Patti Gribow's RoundTable providing viewers with in-depth conversations with people who are making an impact on the global community. Some of her guests include Senator John McCain, Dan Rather, Judy Woodruff, Pete Carroll, Denise Brown, Barbara Sinatra, Riane Eisler, Rod McKuen, Steve & Candice Garvey, Gloria Alred and General Bernard Trainor.

Patti is the perfect picture of the modern woman, a girl of the sixties and a woman of the new millennium. She has savored life's opportunities by delving into new projects with passion and reinventing at every turn.

Over the years Ms. Gribow has pursued a host of careers in entertainment beginning in the mid 1970's when she was recruited from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music to become Captain of the Golddiggers on the Dean Martin Show and Jonathan Winter's Show. Through the 70's and 80's, she and the Goldiggers toured with Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Milton Berle, Jerry Vale, Bobby Goldsboro, Joan Rivers and Petula Clark. Ms. Gribow boasts roles in films such as "Best Defense", and on over 30 television shows such as Happy Days, Days of Our Lives, Charlie's Angels, Fantasy Island and Quantum Leap. Musically, Patti pursued her individual singing career, and has had the honor of singing for both President Ronald Reagan and President Gerald Ford.

Over the past 25 years, Patti has served on philanthropic boards and/or volunteered for numerous non-profits in Los Angeles and the Coachella Valley such as: Thalians, City of Hope, Cardiac Arrhythmia Research and Education, American Friends of the Hebrew University in Los Angeles, Children’s Discovery Museum of the Desert, National Charity League and John F. Kennedy Memorial Foundation. In 1998 Patti was co-founder of The Ophelia Project, a program in support of young women in their quest for self-realization. Then in 2001 she was invited to the board of the Women’s Leaders Forum where she served as President for 3 1/2 years. WLF is a non- partisan, non-profit organization that provides leadership opportunities and education to women of all ages. Today she is Chairperson and Co-Founder of the President's Circle of WLF. In addition Gribow is Vice President of Palm Springs Women in Film. Her advocacy for women has earned her several awards including the "Women Leaders Forum 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award", an Athena Award for Entrepreneurship from the city of Palm Desert, the George Berkey Palm Desert Citizen of the Year, and the "2009 Making a Difference Award" by the Soroptimist International of Palm Desert-Sunrise.

In February 2009, Steven B. Sample, President of the University of Southern California, under the recommendation of Dean Madeline Puzo appointed Gribow to a three-year term on the Board of Councilors of USC School of Theater.

This season Patti will host "Conversations with..." a series of intimate, "living room" discussions with celebrity guests. The programs will held in the Indian Wells Theater on the Palm Desert Campus of Cal State University San Bernardino. In addition, Patti will be the Host/Producer of "Leading Experts" a television show produced at Palm Springs Studios.

Patti's passion as a women’s advocate led her to give birth to Strictly Speakers, Inc. a full service speaker’s bureau specializing in Southern California experts with an emphasis on Women'’s Empowerment. Today Ms. Gribow is a most sought after speaker on the topics of leadership and reinvention.

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