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Wonder Woman in Business, Maryam Crogman

Dr. Maryam Crogman

Dr. Maryam Crogman is a distinguished multicultural/racial/lingual French Caribbean artist, educator, author, and entrepreneur. Born and raised in France, the Caribbean, and Gabon and Cameroun, she hails from a family of artists, and her artistic journey beautifully captures the essence of her Western and Afro-Caribbean roots.

As a biracial individual, Maryam has navigated challenges related to racial identity, colorism, and societal divides. Her vibrant and expressive art serves as a powerful medium to address these issues and create bridges between races. Through minimal lines, acrylic portraits, bold colors, chains, gold, and spray paint, she paints figures of different cultural and marginalized groups, sharing their stories, dreams, fights, and creativity. Maryam aims to challenge preconceived notions about different cultures and celebrate the inherent beauty in diversity.

Maryam's artistic achievements include features in renowned exhibitions and events such as Riverside Artscape, Ontario Museum of History and Arts, Riverside Artwalk, Eastside Arthouse shows, The Riversider, Voyage LA, Journey In Pictures, Reach Inland, Press Enterprise, Altura Credit Union for the Arts and more. Her impactful street murals across the Inland Empire have left an indelible mark on the local landscape.

In addition to her artistic pursuits, Maryam is the proud owner of L’Expression Creative Studios, a community hub, and art center dedicated to fostering creativity and uniqueness in individuals of all ages, backgrounds and skill levels. The Center is a multicultural paint party company, and event space in Southern California, USA, on a mission to promote "Arts in Diversity."

Maryam's commitment to cultural exploration and inclusivity extends to her work with children. As an author, she has penned "A Bull In The Air; How Mr. Moo saved his MootTube Channel” the first in a series featuring Mr. MOO and his incredible journeys to understand himself and accept others. Through stories and art, Maryam continues to address cultural questions for all audiences.

Beyond her artistic endeavors, Maryam holds a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of California Merced, focusing on visuospatial learning in individuals with dyslexia. She also earned a Masters’ degree in Counseling from La Sierra University and a Bachelor's in Psychology from Montpellier 3 - Paul Valery University in France.

Maryam Crogman's multifaceted career includes being a professor, athlete, and advocate for social justice. Actively involved in creating series with strong social justice themes, emphasizing the human condition, colorism, and facial expressions, she is currently conceptualizing an art curriculum and workbook focused on Black Art and contributions to society. Maryam is dedicated to making a meaningful impact through her art and educational initiatives.

Dr. Maryam Crogman has a rich background in teaching, advising, and counseling, contributing to the academic and personal development of students. She has been a professor in the UC, Cal State and Community College Californian systems since 2012. She has taught around the world, and has served Institutions like the Boys and Girls Club of America, Group Homes, Foster Care groups, rehabilitation hubs and more.

Dr. Maryam Crogman has been actively engaged in research, contributing to various projects that span developmental psychology, social issues, and education. She has mentored undergraduates in research, has done research in several academic institutions such as UCR and Loma Linda such as and data analysis for the County of Riverside, she has successfully written academic and business grants.

Besides academia, Dr. Maryam Crogman has been Program Coordinator for the Partnerships for Improving Community Health (PICH) Grant, leading a team in education-based actions against youth tobacco consumption and exposure. She has ran teams as a Telecounseling Center Manager and International Relations and Graduate Students Assistant Counselor.

She was the first Black female President of the UC Merced Graduate Student body, created an annual Psychology symposium and a brown bag seminar which was transformed into a graduate class at UC Merced.

Enjoy the podcast.

Maryam Crogman

Connect with Maryam:

L'Expression Creative Studios Inc.

ALL EVENTS: https://www.lxpstudios.com/events

Website: https://www.lxpstudios.com

Instagram: @lxp_studios

Facebook: L'Expression Creative Studios Inc.

Maryam's Personal Website and Portfolio 

Maryam's Academic Website 

Press and Features

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Wonder Woman in Business, Marcie Dickson

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Marcie Dickson

A respected and experienced business executive, Marcie Dickson is pursuing her vision to make alternative dispute resolution more transparent, inclusive, and diverse – by opening it up beyond the small club of insiders who dominate the industry. Leveraging nearly 20 years of business development experience – including as the only Black female Chief Marketing & Business Development Officer in ADR nationally and one of only a handful in the legal industry – Marcie now leads an experienced team and a prominent and diverse panel of neutrals at Alterity ADR.

Bloomberg Law, Forbes, The American Lawyer, Law360, and the American Bar Association have recognized Dickson’s work. She is a guest host of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section podcast, “Resolutions” and serves as a steering committee member of the Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge (ERA) and the Black In-House Counsel Black Diamond Series. Additionally, Dickson is a member of several organizations, including the Atlanta International Arbitration Society, the National Association of Women Lawyers, the National Bar Association, the American Marketing Association, and the Legal Marketing Association (LMA). Marcie is an executive member of the Atlanta Business Chronicle Leadership Trust and Forbes Business Council and serves as an editorial advisory council member of Southern Lawyer and Harvard Business Review.

She is a proud graduate of the University of Virginia and resides with her family in Atlanta.

Enjoy the podcast.

Marcie Dickson

Connect with Marcie

Email:

marcie@alterityadr.com

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/marciedickson/

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Wonder Woman in Business, Maddy Carroll

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Maddy Carroll

Madison Carroll is a multidimensional singer and storyteller. Her intelligence shows through her musicianship, acting, writing, and political research and activism. Madison’s abilities, coupled with her dedication to practice and performance has led her to fruitful opportunities both professional and personal. 

The innate urge to move and heal others (and herself) through fields such as music, theatre, and writing, is what inspires Madison to create and share. She cares deeply about those around her and uses her identity and privilege to advocate for others whose voices are systemically and traditionally silenced. 

Originally from the small town of Hanover, Massachusetts, Madison always knew she stood out. She began singing as early as she can remember. Her mother says it’s because she almost died of suffocation during childbirth, but Madison likes to think it’s all the music her parents played and sang to her in her early years. Throughout school she became increasingly interested in writing, theatre, and politics. Singing was always her home, but she craved more knowledge and more people. 

This need to grow led Madison to Ithaca College where she blossomed into a competent musician, writer, actor, and activist. At Ithaca, and within the community, she studied all of these subjects with some of the best experts in the field. Here she worked with musicians such as Wynton Marsalis and Kim Nazarian. She workshopped her writing with authors such as Therese Marie Mailhot, Bryan Washington, Rajpreet Heir, and Jericho Brown. She studied with published political and sociological theorists such as Naeem Inayutullah, Rebecca Plante, and Sumru Atuk. Madison even worked as an assistant for the college’s Piano Technician- sparking another passion she wishes to pursue. 

She has performed in front of audiences ranging anywhere from two to one-thousand people. Some of her favorite venues include the nursing home she worked at in high school (this held some of her most enthusiastic audience members), her living room, and Boston’s TD Garden. 

Her music, both solo (Madison Carroll) and collaborative (Quail), can be found on numerous streaming platforms such as Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Music. The tunes can also be purchased on Bandcamp where, unlike streaming platforms, the majority of the proceeds go to the artist. 

More Than Words

Princess Maddy and her companion, Kittles, take a stroll through the forest when they suddenly find a ring beneath the leaves! On her journey to return the ring to its rightful owner, Princess Maddy encounters a giant glass castle; meets a royal dog named Ruberious; and falls instantly in love with a beautiful saxophone-playing princess named Princess Nikki. By the end, Princess Maddy returns the ring to Princess Nikki and the two rejoice outside the castle alongside Ruberious and Kittles.

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Enjoy the podcast.

Maddy Carroll

Connect with Maddy

Music:

madisonanncarroll@gmail.com

@madisonannmusic on Facebook and Instagram

Writing:

maddycwriting@gmail.com

@mdcrrll on Twitter and Instagram

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Wonder Woman in Business, Jan Anne Dubin

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Jan Anne Dubin

A legal industry pioneer, Jan Anne Dubin is CEO and Founder of Jan Anne Dubin Consulting.  Jan is an award-winning consultant with over 35 years of experience leading, innovating, and serving as a change agent and connector. 

Celebrating more than 10 years of delivering value and results to more, JADC assists organizations and individuals to better serve client needs by focusing on developing long-term relationships, strategic communications, revenue generation and by building brand, profile, and visibility.  Jan serves as an executive coach, providing strategic guidance and counsel to organizations and individuals by assisting them to achieve breakthroughs.  Jan has coached hundreds of lawyers, law students, and marketing professionals, including corporate law department and law firm leadership as well as high-potential individuals.  Jan is a career-long champion of diversity and inclusion and is passionate about her work in this area.

She serves as a strategic business partner to the Association of Corporate Counsel and has worked with ACC to create an executive coaching program and career development workshops.  She is a partner to Seyfarth Shaw’s The Belonging Project having created a three-part series for them on Empowered Resilience: Tools for Thriving in 2021.  She is also an advisor and business partner to the Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute and provided instrumental assistance to create and deliver its forum on Women’s Transformative Leadership: Empowerment by Improving Participation and Representation.

Jan served as the Chief Growth Officer of LifeXT, LLC (lifecrosstraining.com), where she was responsible for new client engagements by educating organizations on LifeXT’s wellbeing tools and resources.   Prior to starting JADC, she served as the first North American Business Development Director for Baker & McKenzie LLP and as the Director of Client Relations for DLA Piper US LLP and its legacy firms, where she held various senior management and leadership roles for more than 17 years.

Selected by StreetWise, Inc., as one of 20 recipients of its 2019 Inspiring Chicagoan award, Jan was also selected by Chicago Business Journal as one of its 2018 Women of Influence.  Jan was inducted in 2017 as a Fellow into the College of Law Practice Management (COLPM) and in 2016 into the Legal Marketing Association Midwest Chapter’s Hall of Fame.  She has been recognized by Today’s Chicago Woman magazine as one of 100 Women Making a Difference and has received the Anti-Defamation League’s Distinguished Community Leadership Award.

In 1994 Jan was recruited by former First Lady Michelle Obama (then executive director of Public Allies Chicago) to join its board of directors; Jan later became its board chair and today serves on the emeritus board.  In 2020, Jan was recruited to serve on the i.c. Stars Chicago board and has been active in the Anti-Defamation League’s Women of Achievement annual dinner committee, having previously chaired the fundraising event for 27 years.

A 1994 M.B.A. graduate of The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, she holds a B.S. degree from the University of Kansas, William Allen White School of Journalism.  Jan lives in Chicago with her fiancé David Abrams and Shetland sheep dog Quinn.

Enjoy the podcast.

Jan Anne Dubin

Connect with Jan Anne

Jan Anne Dubin, MBA

CEO and Founder

312.399.3116

jan@janannedubinconsulting.com

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/janannedubin

Twitter: @JanAnneDubin

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Wonder Woman in Business, Bianca N. Cotton

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Bianca N. Cotton

Bianca N. Cotton is a thoughtful, strategic, entrepreneurial leader with extensive nonprofit program management, curriculum development, and training facilitation experience.

Bianca is driven to develop leaders who are managerially and emotionally competent in their professional practices. Passionate about intentionally creating positive social change in underrepresented populations and communities of need, while demonstrating sensitivity and compassion for all stakeholders.

Bianca is the founder and podcast host of “Behind the Confident Smile” about a lifestyle and personal development company inspiring women and girls to walk in love, live in hope and be healed from past hurts utilizing the vehicles of workshops, seminars, and educational materials to propel women and girls into purpose.

Bianca has served as a nonprofit professional for over 10 years. Earning both her Master’s Degree in Consulting in the Nonprofit and Corporate Sectors and Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, her passion is for helping women who suffer silently and smile brightly. It is demonstrated through her passionate writings and speaking. She is a five-time author, wife, and mom, and resides in Chicago, IL.

Enjoy the podcast.

Bianca Cotton

Connect with Bianca

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/biancacotton/

Website:

behindtheconfidentsmile.com

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Wonder Woman in Business, Leigh Dance

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Leigh Dance

CEO

E. Leigh Dance

Corporate legal and compliance leaders turn to Leigh to help them improve performance, develop strategy, promote the value of legal/compliance, advocate for their business, lead remote global teams, organize their retreats and assist with particular needs.
 
Leigh is known for her in-depth international experience, and her unique understanding of both buyers and sellers of legal services globally.  Her entire career experience is multinational, including  more than 20 years living and working in both the US and Europe. Leigh speaks English, French and Italian.

Law firms retain Leigh and ELD International to:  improve strategies and actions in select groups and geographic markets; organize client-facing programs to raise profile and build relationships with legal services buyers; and conduct research with buyers worldwide, to improve marketing and BD initiatives.

Founder and Executive Director of the exclusive roundtable group, Global Counsel Leaders Circle, Leigh develops and moderates many of the Global Counsel Leaders programs, including those of the prestigious Leaders Circle. From 1999-2009, LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell (LNMH) retained Leigh to organize and facilitate Counsel to Counsel: A Forum on Best Practices in Delivering Corporate Legal Services, an initiative she co-founded.  She has participated in hundreds of corporate counsel roundtables in 23 countries on all continents.

Building on a financial services and public policy background, Leigh was a VP at JP Morgan Chase for 7 years, where she had management and director assignment in product management, marketing, business development and new business launches, across 20 countries. 

A recognized thought leader, her articles on the role of the General Counsel, legal risk, regulatory challenges, governance and compliance have been published in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, American Lawyer, Legal Week and other publications. Since 2015, she has been the Global In-House columnist for ALM’s Corporate Counsel.  Leigh’s book BRIGHT IDEAS: INSIGHTS FROM LEGAL LUMINARIES WORLDWIDE, a collection of essays, is available on Amazon. 

Leigh has an MBA (high honors) in International Management and a BA, International Relations (honors).  In 2012, she was inducted as a Fellow in the College of Law Practice Management and in 2016, she was a judge in the British Legal Awards. 

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Thank you to the many corporate legal teams and law firms that ordered our First Annual ESG Report published in December 2020. We contributed $4,600 of our proceeds to 3 non-profits taking action on climate change and critical social issues. Plus, all of our Global Counsel Leaders Circle members received the report free as a member benefit!

We’re so excited to release Global Counsel Leaders’ new 2022 ESG Report in early January 2022! It features Commentaries from various General Counsel, Chief Sustainability Officers and other subject matter experts. You will find useful case examples and get insights on key regulatory and reporting trends in EMEA and North America.

E. Leigh Dance and our research manager assembled this exceptional content for the 2022 ESG Report with Global Counsel Leaders’ own research and findings in conversations with more than 1,000 in-house leaders. The report discusses their ESG roles, approaches, challenges, plus connections to other parts of the business including supply chain, trade and government affairs.

Order your Global Counsel Leaders’ 2022 ESG Report now for $120 USD at the link below. 50% of profits will go to charitable ESG organizations.

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https://globalcounselleaders.com/gcl-2022-esg-report

For the first annual 2021 report, $4,600 was contributed (the lion’s share of profits).

Enjoy the podcast.

Leigh Dance

Connect with Leigh

E. Leigh Dance, Managing Director

ELD International LLC

www.ELDInternational.com     www.GlobalCounselLeaders.com 

Email: eldance@eldinternational.com

LinkedIn: in/e-leigh-dance-661854/

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