Books

Wonder Woman in Business, Suzanne Brown

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Suzanne Brown

CEO, Mompowerment

Suzanne Brown is a strategic marketing and business consultant and work-life balance speaker, strategist, and award-winning author. Tapping into her 20+ years of experience, she helps entrepreneurs and large companies overcome their strategic marketing challenges. And Suzanne empowers working moms and companies to think differently about balance and take action, using her own experience and research as well as tips, insights, and advice from interviews with more than 110 working moms. Find out more about her strategic marketing services at www.oksuzi.com and her work-life balance books and services at www.mompowerment.com. Suzanne and her family live in Austin, TX. 

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Mompowerment: Insights from Professional Part-Time Working Moms Who Balance Career and Family

When moms consider their career options, they traditionally consider working full-time or stay-at-home. What about the huge area in between? How can you be the mom you want to be without walking away from your career and all you’ve worked so hard for? What if you could work part-time, continuing down your professional path, and actually spend quality time with family? Suzanne Brown interviewed more than 110 professional part-time working moms as research for her book, Mompowerment: Insights from Successful Professional Part-time Working Moms Who Balance Career and Family. She shares their stories, advice, and insights to:

• empower you to think differently about career and work-life balance

• provide a guide for transitioning your career model

By the end of this book, you’ll be able to see if the professional part-time option is right for you, think through mindset shifts, make changes at home and at work, and set yourself up for success in your new career approach. This book will help moms who are interested in transitioning to this new career approach or those who have recently made the transition.

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Mompowerment: Insights from Successful Professional Part-Time Working Moms Who Balance Career and Family

You had a picture in your mind of what work-life balance would look like before you had kids, but real life is not quite what you imagined. What if you could be more efficient with the things you must do so that you have more time to do what you want to do?

In The Mompowerment Guide to Work-life Balance: Insights from Working Moms on Balancing Career and Family, Suzanne Brown shares her own experience and thoughts combined with detailed research and tips, insights, and advice from more than 110 other professional working moms to help you:
•shift from feeling overwhelmed to more in control
•become more intentional and efficient with your time at work and at home
•overcome challenges in your work-life balance

Whether you’re a new mom or you’ve been at it for a while, after reading this book you’ll have practical ideas you can implement or adjust to fit your needs. And you’ll feel more empowered to create the work-life balance you crave.

Suzanne Brown



Wonder Woman in Business, Janet Fouts

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Janet Fouts

Janet Fouts

Janet is the CEO of Tatu Digital Media and founder of Nearly Mindful.com She’s a certified coach and resilience facilitator. Her latest book “When Life Hits the Fan” is a mindful guide to self-care for caregivers. Her work as a coach and meeting facilitator touches on topics of resilience, emotional intelligence and stress management. She leads retreats, workshops and speaks about mindful work around the world. 

Janet hosts two podcasts

NearlyMindful offers meditations &

Mindful Social Business offers thought leadership on a mindful approach to work 

Here is a link to Janet’s books on Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/Janet-Fouts/e/B002UK6KJ8

Here's info on the Pomodoro method we discuss in our conversation:

https://www.themuse.com/advice/take-it-from-someone-who-hates-productivity-hacksthe-pomodoro-technique-actually-works

And, lastly, an app that Janet’s clients have found helpful

https://tomato-timer.com/

Janet Fouts




Wonder Woman in Business, Karen Walker

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Karen Walker

Karen Walker is an executive coach and consultant who advises CEOs and senior leaders on thriving in hyper-growth. She has worked with clients including Aetna, AWS, Pfizer, JPMorganChase, and BMC Software, as well as many Inc. 5000 startups. 

Karen is also a board advisor, keynote speaker, and the author of No Dumbing Down: A Guide for CEOs on Organization Growth. As employee 104 and a global VP at Compaq, Karen helped lead the then-fastest growing company in American history, growing it from $0 to $15 billion in revenue.

Karen has been published in Harvard Business Review’s Ascend, and quoted in publications such as The Wall Street Journal and The San Francisco Chronicle.

Karen has a B.S. degree in engineering from Texas A&M University and graduated from the ODHRM program at Columbia University. She has served in an advisory capacity to startups, Rice University, Texas A&M University, and on the executive board of The Alley Theatre. 

She resides in Jupiter, FL, although (until recently!), she was most often be found aloft in seat 2C.

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No Dumbing Down: A No-Nonsense Guide for CEOs on Organization Growth is a book for a company's senior-most leaders looking to make improvements when aligning the organization's internal and external strategies for fast, profitable, and sustainable growth.

This book combines the author's impactful and formative experience with leadership and strategy best practices, helping the reader master the counterintuitive art of actually delivering on the promise made to customers. Readers will learn how and why to put these strategies to work-taking direct aim at pitfalls that can trip up even the most stellar companies.

Karen Walker

Connect with Karen:

Email: karen@karenwalker.us

All social media:  karenwalkerus

Website: www.karenwalker.us



Wonder Woman in Business, Maya Markovich

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Maya Markovich

Chief Growth Officer

Maya Markovich has been central to Nextlaw LabsDentons’ tech-focused innovation catalyst, since its industry-first launch in 2015. With her unique background spanning behavioral science, law, investment, and change management, she delivers next-generation technology, process, and business growth services across the globe for the world’s largest firm and its clients, including acceleration of legal tech startups in the Nextlaw Ventures portfolio.  Collaborating with legal tech communities and experts worldwide, she continually evolves Nextlaw Labs' partnership and investment strategies. 

Maya also serves on the boards of Legal Access AlamedaLexLab, and OneJustice, and as mentor for LegalGeek’s Women in LawTech and University of Arizona TechLaw Fellows programs, supporting legal tech initiatives to improve access to justice and gender equity. She frequently speaks at conferences, broadcasts and writes on legal tech and innovation. She was named one of five “Influential Women of Legal Tech” by ILTA in 2020, a “Woman Leading Legal Tech” by The Technolawgist in 2019, and an ABA Legal Technology Resource Center “Woman of Legal Tech 2018” for her work in encouraging, designing and implementing the future of the legal profession around the globe.

Maya Markovich

Maya’s Favorites:

Podcasts

This one, of course, and…

Scene On RadioStuff You Missed in History ClassMake Me Smart and Marketplace Tech, both with Molly Wood - one of the only women speaking about technology out there, absolutely a can’t miss. 99% Invisible - about the thought that goes into the things we don’t think about; unnoticed architecture and design in our world RadioLabEast Bay Yesterday - Her #1 favorite, about the history of Oakland and surroundsBooksWeapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil The Fuzzie and the Techie: Why Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World by Scott HartleyWTF: What’s the Future? by Tim O’ReillyOther

Resources

Connect with Maya

LinkedIn

Twitter

Dentons US LLP Bingham Greenebaum > Cohen & Grigsby > Sayarh & Menjra > Larraín Rencoret > Hamilton Harrison & Mathews > Mardemootoo Balgobin > HPRP > Zain & Co. > Delany Law > Dinner Martin > For more o…

Dentons US LLP
Bingham Greenebaum > Cohen & Grigsby > Sayarh & Menjra > Larraín Rencoret > Hamilton Harrison & Mathews > Mardemootoo Balgobin > HPRP > Zain & Co. > Delany Law > Dinner Martin > For more on the firms that have joined Dentons, go to dentons.com/legacyfirms


Wonder Woman in Business, Michelle Wimes

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Michelle Wimes

Chief Diversity and Professional Development Officer

Michelle P. Wimes serves as the Chief Diversity and Professional Development Officer at Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C., one of the nation’s largest labor and employment law firms.  In her role, Michelle leads the firm’s efforts to attract, develop, retain, promote and advance a diverse group of attorneys across the firm’s national platform of 53 offices in the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean.  Additionally, Michelle leads the firm’s attorney training and professional development efforts.  She is based in Ogletree Deakins’ Kansas City office.

Michelle has extensive experience in delivering strategic leadership, client development, and talent management programming.  She is deft at implementing change management strategies necessary for comprehensive and effective diversity and inclusion and professional development initiatives and programming.  Previously, Michelle practiced law for 14 years where she handled all aspects of employment litigation while serving as an equity partner at a Kansas City-based firm.  She focused on matters involving employment discrimination, harassment, and civil rights issues while representing clients before the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, the Missouri Commission on Human Rights, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, as well as local, state and federal courts.

Later, Michelle spent four years on the senior management team of a premier Am Law 100 law firm as their Director of Strategic Initiatives, spearheading diversity and inclusion strategies and programming for lawyers across nine offices in the United States and Europe.

Prior to a career in law, Michelle was an elementary and middle school teacher in Kansas City.  She received a B.A. from the University of Missouri and performed graduate work at the University of Seville in Spain and undergraduate work at the University of Xalapa in Veracruz, Mexico.  Due to her studies and her extensive legal work in Latin America, she is fluent in Spanish.  Michelle earned her law degree, with trial advocacy honors, from Tulane Law School.  She is the proud wife of federal district court judge Brian C. Wimes and the mother of three daughters, Sydney, Gabrielle, and Saige.

Michelle Wimes

Connect with Michelle

LinkedIn; https: in/michellepattersonwimes

E: michelle.wimes@ogletree.com

P: (816) 410-1801‬

4520 Main Street

Suite 400

Kansas City MO 64111




 

Wonder Woman in Business, Kimberley Heart

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Kimberley Heart

Kimberley Heart, B.Sc., PA, MA has been a trusted advisor to world-changers and maverick leaders for more than twenty years. She consults and lectures internationally on relationships and the challenge of personal change. She has been featured on CBS and NBC national news and cited in Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and multiple regional newspapers and magazines. She has hosted her own talk radio show on both coasts and has been a guest on over 150 radio stations, including KABC, KFI, KCBS, WOR, WINS, and WCBS. Her first book, When Fairy Tale Romances Break Real Hearts, was met with enthusiastic acclaim from readers and reviewers alike.

As a nationally recognized keynote speaker and change agent, Kimberley is best recognized for presenting forward-thinking topics including “Crisis is your Best Friend”, “Leadership Dilemma: Nothing Changes Until You Do,” “The New Face of Leadership is 30 Years Old” and “Matter and Make Money”. 

"Business With Heart" - where business gets personal is at the core of Kimberley’s strategic business consulting. She discusses with CEO’s why PEOPLE are the bedrock of their business and instructs them on how they can move their business to the next level through proven tactics and processes. 

“I believe that any problem can be solved by creating an organizational awareness that encourages a culture that recognizes individual development needed, empowers employee autonomy, and manages for next-generation leaders. I partner with Executives to identify leadership dysfunction, outdated work processes and individual development needs to affect a cultural shift that will dramatically increase employee engagement & retention while creating an agile workforce. “

Kimberley Heart

Stop Giving and Start Receiving. Here is Why!

Contact Kimberley

Kimberley Heart
President & Founder
Mentoring the Masters
Get Love

(818) 421-3950

Email: Kimberley@getlove.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberleyheart/