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Wonder Woman in Business, Mridu Parikh

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Mridu Parikh

Ready to get control of your demands and distractions so you wake up with a plan and feel less overwhelmed? Then you need Mridu Parikh on speed dial.

As the creator of Life Is Organized, Mridu has helped working women increase billable time from one to five hours a day, create a routine to shed 15 pounds, and save 10 hours a week on emails and texts. She’s also been known to decrease overwhelm from a level 10 to a level 5 in just three sessions. Mridu’s strategies on streamlining tasks and mastering habits have been featured in The Huffington Post, US News & World Report, and Real Simple. With half her career in corporate and half in entrepreneurship, she’s an expert in ditching stress – in the boardroom or in the home office. 

When she’s not wrangling a list or schedule, you can usually find this former professional organizer with her two teens and one husband in Nashville (albeit inseparable from her 917 NY number) enjoying milk chocolate in one hand and red wine in the other.

Join us for this upcoming class:

"Create The Perfect To-Do List And Plan Your Week Like A Boss."  

More here: http://lifeisorganized.com/masterclass/


Mridu Parikh




Wonder Woman in Business, Carmella Glover

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Carmella Glover

Diversity Action Alliance

Carmella Glover joined Page as the Director of DE&I in August of 2020 and has been Executive Director of the Diversity Action Alliance since July of 2019. In her role, she provides strategic direction for Page’s DE&I initiatives and oversees the operations, programs, finances, and strategic plan of the Diversity Action Alliance (DAA). The DAA is a cross-industry coalition led by communications trade organizations with a mission of accelerating progress in the achievement of meaningful and tangible results in diversity, equity and inclusion in the field.

Glover brings 10 years of corporate experience from L’Oréal USA, Procter & Gamble, and Johnson & Johnson where she worked on and led manufacturing, supply chain, and communications teams. Before transitioning into diversity work, Glover was in operations, designing organizational strategy for and leading a team of supply chain managers at L’Oréal U.S.A., where she was responsible for overseeing the successful launch of luxury skin care products resulting in $100+ million in new sales annually. While at L’Oréal, Glover led a capital avoidance project in the fine fragrance manufacturing department, saving the organization $1.5 million in spend, improved the speed-to-market of skincare products and restructured the launch management department to improve efficiency and productivity of launch managers. Other operations in her purview included internal communications for intranet newsletters and blogposts.

In May of 2019, Glover was the recipient of the Logos Institute Rising Leader Award and a keynote speaker at the New York University School of Professional Studies May 2019 commencement. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology and a Master of Science degree in Public Relations from New York University. Glover is an active member of Newark’s Beta Alpha Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, wherein she exercises her passion for diversity initiatives and philanthropy. She resides in North Jersey with her husband and daughter.

Carmella Glover

Connect with Carmella

Carmella Glover, Executive Director

609.464.1215  |  carmella@diversityactionalliance.org  |  She, Her, Hers

“Diversity is the mix. Inclusion is making the mix work”  -Andres Tapia



Wonder Woman in Business, Rebecca Cohen

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Rebecca Cohen

Rebecca P. Cohen is Founder of ShareMyJourney.org, the curated peer hub that connects caring people 1:1 by phone and in small groups online to share knowledge and life experience during challenging circumstances and transitions. Rebecca has been featured as a Mom Boss in the Washington, DC area and is also the founder of BeOutsideAndGrow.com and author of the parenting book Fifteen Minutes Outside: 365 Ways to Get Out of the House and Connect with Your Kids and children's book, PJ's Backyard Adventures. Rebecca has worked with over 6,000 children around the world in making outdoor connections for a healthier life. Her work has appeared in USA Today, Better Home and Gardens, Parenting, Redbook, Working Mother, Family Circle, and Backyard Solutions.

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Rebecca Cohen

Connect with Rebecca

Email: sharemyjourneyorg@gmail.com

Facebook: Facebook.com/ShareMyJourney.org

Instagram: @sharemyjourney_org 

Twitter: @rebeccapcohen

LinkedIn: Rebecca P. Cohen



 



Wonder Woman in Business, Neha Sampat

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Neha Sampat, Esq.

Neha Sampat, Esq. is CEO and founder of GenLead|BelongLab, where she focuses on building belonging and true inclusion. Through consulting, training, speaking, and coaching, she helps organizations create peak‐performance, inclusive teams by addressing hidden barriers to belonging, such as internalized bias, unconscious bias, generational diversity, distrust in teams, and wellness challenges. She is a nationally sought-after expert on disrupting Imposter Syndrome and runs the top-rated “Owning Your Value” program to develop inclusive leadership.

Neha’s insights have been featured in numerous publications, including Time MagazineThrive GlobalABA Journal, and News India Times. Neha holds BAs in Sociology and Political Science from University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign, obtained her JD from UC Berkeley School of Law, holds a Certificate in Graduate Applied Psychology, and is certified in Hogan Assessments. Neha works across industry, from Pixar to Perkins Coie LLP, and UC Berkeley to City of San Leandro. Neha also relishes her role as mama to her two kiddos. You can read more of Neha’s insights at blog.genlead.co, follow her on TW/IG/FB at @belonglab, and reach her directly at neha@genlead.co

 

As mentioned in the podcast:

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable - Luvvie Ajayi's TED Talk

Neha, in print:

On her childhood and the seeds of her drive to create belonging:

Growing Up Brown in America: When Every Day is Halloween

What It Means to Be American: My Journey from "Other" to "Us"

 

On Imposter Syndrome as a stress and mental health issue:

Your Chronic Stress: It's a Matter of Confidence, Not Competence

A call to deal with imposter syndrome, a hidden source of attorney distress

 

On Neha's career journey:

Legal Career Spotlight: From Private Practice to Dean of Students to Belonging Consultant

Neha Sampat

Connect with Neha and learn more about her work:

www.genlead.co

hello@genlead.co

blog.genlead.co

Send a message to connect on LinkedIn

 https://www.linkedin.com/in/nsampat/

Follow on TW/FB/IG

@belonglab

To periodically receive free tips and insights on belonging, leadership, and Imposter Syndrome, visit: https://bit.ly/GLBLemail

To stay posted on upcoming cohorts of her online Owning Your Value course, visit: https://bit.ly/OYVonlineinterest



Wonder Women in Business Ally, Ari Kaplan

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Ari Kaplan

Ari Kaplan, an attorney and legal industry analyst, is an inaugural Fastcase 50 honoree, a fellow of the College of Law Practice Management, and a finalist for the International Legal Technology Association’s Thought Leader of the Year award. He is the author of Reinventing Professional Services: Building Your Business in the Digital Marketplace (Wiley, 2011) and The Opportunity Maker: Strategies for Inspiring Your Legal Career Through Creative Networking and Business Development (West Academic, 2nd Ed. 2016). Kaplan serves as the principal researcher for a variety of widely distributed benchmarking reports, has been the keynote speaker for events worldwide, and is the founder of the Lawcountability® business development software platform and iPhone app. He is an avid swimmer, a self-taught, beginner-level python coder, and a two-time Ironman triathlon finisher.

Contact Ari

Ari Kaplan Advisors LLC
576 Fifth Avenue, Suite 903
New York, NY 10036

(646) 641-0600

Ari@AriKaplanAdvisors.com




Wonder Women in Business Ally, Ross Fishman

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Ross Fishman

Of Counsel magazine wrote “Many people consider Ross Fishman to be the nation’s foremost expert on legal marketing.”

Ross specializes in strategy, branding, websites, and marketing training for law and professional-services firms.  A former litigator, marketing director, and marketing partner, he has helped over 200 law firms dominate their markets and trained over 20,000 lawyers in leading-edge marketing techniques. 

A Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management and 2020 Lawdragon 100 Leading Consultant, Ross was the first marketer inducted into the Legal Marketing Association’s “Hall of Fame.” He has written 300 bylined articles and many popular marketing books, including “The Ultimate Law Firm Associate’s Marketing Checklist,” “The Ultimate Women Associate’s Law Firm Marketing Checklist,” and “We’re Smart. We’re Old. And We’re the Best at Everything,” all available on Amazon.

Ross Fishman