Board Members

Renie Cavallari - Founder & Chairman
Renie Cavallari, Chief Inspiration Officer and CEO, founded Aspire Marketing & Training in 1995. She is an energetic trainer, strategist, speaker, author and leader who has delivered measurable performance results for businesses around the world over the past 20 years. Renie started her career with Sheraton Corporation, and has worked in operations, sales and marketing, organizational development and strategic positioning.

In 2007, Renie founded Wings to Fly. By integrating inspiration, knowledge, research-based resources and coaching into daily life, Cavallari had a vision to create a camp to encourage and educate young women to live life fully by finding their gifts and making choices from a place of self confidence and self respect; ultimately designing the life they dream and becoming the leaders of tomorrow.

Passion. Vision. Courage…are the gifts she brings as she personally leads Wings to Fly camps.

Jennifer Higgins - President
Jennifer is a VP and Commercial Loan Officer at Sunrise Community Bank, specializing in relationship banking for small business owners in Arizona. A graduate of the University of Rochester, with a BA in Economics, Jennifer spent 18 years in the health club industry before making the switch to banking in November 2000.

Jennifer’s commitment to encouraging and advancing the education of children is also represented as a Board Member of the Arizona Character Education Foundation as well as a volunteer for The Foundation for Public Education.

Leadership. Commitment. Desire... are the gifts she brings to grow the organization and ensure a bright future for Wings.

.Heather Tripp - Treasurer

.Kathleen Glenn- Secretary

Candace Banning - Director of Camps

Candace is Director of Field Sales & Marketing Services for Destination Hotels & Resorts. She has 18 plus years in hospitality sales & marketing, the last 5 years have focused on developing business analytic reporting tools, database management and training for group sales and catering to drive revenue and increase ROI. She is also a corporate event planner responsible for producing a national sales meeting, annual Chairman's Club recognition event and various regional meetings.

Candace is also the Camp Director for Wings to Fly where she is responsible for the logistics of camp. 

Creativity. Enthusiasm. Organization... are the gifts she brings as she works through the details of camp and promotes the Wings to Fly message.

Kimberley Seeley - Community Outreach

Growing up in the Canadian Rockies, Kimberley Seeley learned from an early age to follow her sense of adventure. This led to a love of competitive sports, followed by an entrepreneurial career working in marketing and business development at three start up companies including First Advantage, ITax Group Inc. and LeapSource.  The motivational skills and creative thinking she honed in the board room have certainly been put into practice while raising her 6 year old, 4 year old and 1 year old.

Kim is thrilled to join the Wings to Fly Board of Directors in 2010. Her mission is to help build the sponsorship program and camp attendance, enabling girls to follow their spirit and desire to design the life they dream.

Adventure. Optimism. Passion...are the gifts she brings in helping grow the Wings To Fly organization.  

Tim Vetscher: Media Relations

.Dana Sherman - Parenting Advisor

Debbie Johnson - Fundraising Advisor

Debbie Johnson, President & CEO of the Arizona Hotel & Lodging Association and Arizona Tourism Alliance, has spent over fifteen years representing the voice for the lodging and tourism industry in Arizona. Her tourism career began in 1995 and has encompassed the industry’s many successes and challenges over the years.

 Debbie was born and raised in Wyoming, but is a 25-year Arizona resident and an Arizona State graduate, where she received her Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing.  As a working mother of three, Debbie has experienced first-hand the positive influence of Wings to Fly and that appreciation of the program is reflected in her service as a Board member.