Executive Coaching

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Wonder Woman in Business, Gena Cox

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Gena Cox

Organizational psychologist Dr. Gena Cox is deeply interested in the human experience at work. She believes respect is the antidote to most workplace discontent and has codified this in her “Respect to Lead” offerings. 

Gena’s work encompasses executive coaching, speaking, and advising business leaders. The common thread of her work is sharing nuanced, memorable, and actionable insights that her clients highly value.

She is the author of the award-winning and Amazon-bestselling nonfiction book Leading Inclusion, which shows how to counter the typically disappointing outcomes from “diversity, equity, and inclusion” work. Gena’s keynote speech equips leaders with strategies and techniques to boost employee engagement, performance, and results during turbulent and disruptive times. Her TEDx Talk, for a general audience, Yes … and Careers, encourages an exploratory approach to building a purposeful career. Her second book, to be published in 2024, explores the human condition through the lens of workplace interactions.

Gena’s work has been featured widely, including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Fortune, Forbes, US News & World Report, Market Watch/Barrons, Business Journals, BBC Worklife, and Readers Digest.

Gena holds a Ph.D. in Organizational psychology. She currently serves on the American Psychological Association (APA) Committee for the Advancement of General Applied Psychology (CAGAP) and the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP)’s Editorial Board for its Professional Practice Series.

Enjoy the podcast.

Gena Cox

Connect with Gena

Gena Cox, Ph.D.
Founder and CEO
Feels Human, LLC
www.genacox.com
gena@genacox.com

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Wonder Woman in Business, Meg Miller

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Meg Miller

In today’s world, busy has become a badge of honor. We are hyper connected through our screens. Hard to navigate buzz words of burnout & self-care flying at us. We feel exhausted, always on, craving more & unsure where to start. The intention of this movement is built on the power of connection, of community, of real-life conversations mask down & human first, leaving together with science backed microsteps on how to start living, not just existing & sharing in bite size nuggets what it took me 7 years of hard long work to uncover.

Megan Miller is an International Best-Selling Author, TedX Speaker, Intentional Living Expert, & host of Attention to Intention podcast. Megan is dedicated to offering high performing go-getting professionals simple, daily micro-steps for putting attention to intention so they can stop sleepwalking through life and start living with inspiration and fulfillment.

Connect with Meg

o   Website: https://www.megan-miller.com/

o   Instagram: @megan.b.miller

o   LinkedIn: meganmillerintention

o   Free 4 Question Download: MicrostepJournal.com

o   Book: https://www.megan-miller.com/the-book/p/voicesofthe21stcentury

o   TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_wJHAnlqzc

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Wonder Woman in Business, Barbara Kaplan

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Barbara Kaplan

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Barbara Kaplan helps clients generate new revenue, earn client retention and loyalty, and distinguish their businesses in an increasingly commoditized and competitive marketplace. She brings to her consulting and coaching work over 20 years experience as a professional services marketer and 15 helping individual lawyers and law firms define, pursue and win the business they want. She is devoted to helping them make that skill second nature.

Barbara’s in-house experience includes senior-level marketing and business development roles at a global AmLaw 50 firm and a mid-Atlantic regional firm. At the latter, she initiated several firsts including a firm-wide marketing and public relations program, client visit/feedback initiative, lateral integration program, spokesperson training and cross-serving strategies that built business and new-found alliances among offices. 

Barbara’s personal approach and pragmatic perspective derive from her belief that giving people the tools to achieve what they want to achieve yields a confidence and level of skill that turns ideas into action.  

Current work focuses on:

  • Creating customized business development training and coaching programs to meet individual and firm-wide practice goals

  • Succession planning, including establishing future vision, determining strategies and goals, and developing action plans and benchmarks

  • Building enduring relationships in an increasingly disruptive economy

  • Personal branding to ensure uniqueness and longevity

  • Facilitating workshops and retreats on a variety of topics

Barbara is principal of BSK Strategies, a business development consulting practice helping professional services firms earn new and higher-value work, establish thought-leadership and promote competitive advantage. She works with firms of all types, sizes and styles, each with a unique culture and set of challenges. She also teaches the ins-and-outs of client development and networking skills building at the law school level to help students approach future employers with a marketing mindset at the ready. 

Barbara received her MBA in marketing from Northwestern University’s J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Earlier in her career, she pursued her love of French by earning a certificate in French studies from the Universite of Poitiers in Poitiers, France, and a master’s in French language and literature from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. 

Barbara lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia.

Enjoy the podcast.

Barbara Kaplan

Connect with Barbara

Barbara S. Kaplan, BSK Strategies

Win and Keep the Business You Really Want

484.431.7068 | Website | LinkedIn 

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Wonder Woman in Business, Michelle Banks

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Michelle Banks, Esq.

MICHELLE BANKS is a Senior Advisor at BarkerGilmore specializing in providing executive coaching to corporate general counsel. She also leads law department strategic retreats and professional development workshops. Michelle is co-founder of UCLA Law Women LEAD, a network of more than 3,000 women law students and alumnae at her alma mater, where she also guest teaches annually in the professional development program. Before joining Gap Inc. in 1999, Michelle worked as legal counsel for the Golden State Warriors NBA team and in Tokyo as American counsel for Itochu Corporation. Her prior law firm practice with Sheppard Mullin and Morrison & Foerster in California and New York focused on corporate finance and international commercial transactions.

Enjoy the podcast.

Michelle Banks, Esq.

Connect with Michelle

LinkedIn:

in/michelle-banks-a462087

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Wonder Woman in Business, Joyce Kyles

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Joyce Kyles

Joyce Kyles is an award winning, international speaker, 2x Amazon best selling author, life and thriving skills coach, and consultant. She is the CEO of Joyce Kyles Consulting & the Executive Director & Founder of Walking Into A New Life. A graduate of Arkansas State University, she has received certifications from Cornell University in Women’s Entrepreneurship, the University of South Florida in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace, and the National Council for Mental Wellbeing in Mental Health First Aid USA. She as also received certifications in domestic violence, sexual assault, and child sex abuse. Her humbling accolades and published work include features in Huffington Post, The Memphis Flyer, Tri-State Defender, Black Press USA, the New Orleans Tribune, the Welcome Greenbook for Black Tourists and being named the Crime Victim Advocate of the Year. Joyce also wrote PSAs and performed voiceovers used for domestic violence campaigns for 103.5FM, a local Cumulus affiliate station. Joyce currently serves as the Vice President of the Memphis & Shelby Co Domestic and Sexual Violence Council and is a member of the International Coaching Federation-Tennessee Chapter and Philanthroforce.

Enjoy the podcast.

Joyce Kyles

Contact Joyce

Website:

www.joycekyles.com

LinkedIn:

linkedin.com/in/joycekyles/

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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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