Communications

Wonder Woman in Business, Dr. Diane Hamilton

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Dr. Diane Hamilton

Dr. Diane Hamilton is the Founder and CEO of Tonerra, and Co-Founder of DIMA Innovations, which are consulting and media-based businesses. She is a nationally syndicated radio host, keynote speaker, and the former MBA Program Chair at the Forbes School of Business. She has authored multiple books which are required in universities around the world, including Cracking the Curiosity Code: The Key to Unlocking Human Potential. She is the creator of the Curiosity Code Index® assessment, which is the first and only assessment that determines the factors that inhibit curiosity. Her groundbreaking work in the area of curiosity helps organizations improve innovation, engagement, and productivity. Thinkers50 Radar chose her as one of the top minds in management and leadership. Her work has been endorsed by some of the most respected names in leadership, including Steve Forbes, Keith Krach, Ken Fisher, Dave Ulrich, and Verne Harnish.  She is a highly sought-after keynote speaker who has shared the stage with top speakers including Marshall Goldsmith, Martha Stewart, Daymond John, Travis Bradberry, and Jeffrey Hayzlett. She has been featured on Forbes, INC, Investors Business Daily, First for Women, Investopedia, SHRM, International Institute for Learning, International Coach Federation, HR Virtual Summit, Flerish YOU app (in association with Reid Hoffman), Cross Knowledge (Wiley), Training Industry, ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox.  

Helpful Links

https://drdianehamilton.com/news-and-media/

https://drdianehamilton.com/curiosity-code-system/

Social Media @drdianehamilton

Questions

1.     I understand you have a background in behavioral issues in business.  What led to your interest in studying psychology-based issues in the workplace?

2.     You created the first and only assessment that determines the factors that impact curiosity. What made you curious about studying curiosity?

3.     Why do we lose curiosity and how do we get it back?

4.     Why is curiosity important to engagement, innovation, and productivity?

5.     You serve on multiple boards.  How have you incorporated your work with curiosity and behaviors into how you help with your work with boards? 

6.     You teach, speak, and run your organization to help train people to be curious.  You also have a nationally syndicated radio show.  How did you get involved in that?

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Dr. Diane Hamilton

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CRACKING THE CURIOSITY CODE

The Key to Unlocking Human Potential

Contact Diane

Diane Hamilton, Ph.D.

Nationally Syndicated Radio Show Host, Speaker, and

Author of Cracking The Curiosity Code and the Curiosity Code Index (CCI)

Thinkers50 Radar

602-616-7867

https://drdianehamilton.com

https://curiositycode.com

Media One Sheet

Social Media: @drdianehamilton



 

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, Diane Schwartz

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Diane Schwartz

CEO of Ragan Communications

Diane Schwartz is the Chief Executive Officer of Ragan Communications, a media company that serves communicators with best-in-class events, training, peer-to-peer gatherings and award-winning service journalism via the Ragan and PR Daily brands. Signature conferences cover topics ranging from crisis management to internal communications to PR measurement to employee experience. The Ragan Communications Leadership Council is the premier membership organization for internal communications leaders; and Ragan Training is one of the most-used online training portals for communicators.  She joined Ragan after 23 years at Access Intelligence, where she was senior vice president and group publisher of the Media Communications Group. She led the group to unprecedented growth, overseeing brands including PR News, Cynopsis, AdExchanger, Admonsters, Social Shakeup and Folio. Diane has launched more than 100 conferences, web sites, publications, awards programs, books and e-media ventures. Her board experience includes The Institute for Public Relations, the Alliance for Women in Media, the Specialized Information Publishers Association and American Business Media.  She is a volunteer for Make-A-Wish and Visiting Nurse & Hospice of Fairfield County. She lives in Wilton, Connecticut, has two children, a dog and one husband. Check out Ragan Communications at www.ragan.com.

Diane Schwartz

Contact Diane:

E: DianeS@ragan.com

P: 203-529-3016

W: ragan.com

LinkedIn

Twitter



Wonder Woman in Business, Melissa Dinwiddie

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Melissa Dinwiddie

Melissa Dinwiddie’s superpower is enabling creativity, whether you believe you’re creative or not, helping you push to the fearlessness side of things to spark innovative ideas all throughout your company. Using LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®, she helps your team “think with their hands,” getting their ideas on the table in 3D. As a visual practitioner, she gets their ideas up on the wall in graphic form, so you can see the big picture—themes AND gaps. Whether in a half-day workshop, a multi-day offsite, or anything in-between, her methods are fun and engaging, and people feel heard and respected while activating both left and right sides of the brain. Teams rave for months about how much fun they had learning. Melissa is a mutiply-certified facilitator of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methods and materials. A professional artist & calligrapher for 15 years, I bring a creative outsider’s perspective to your corporate setting, and now channel my background into graphic facilitation. Also, as a trained improv performer and jazz singer, Melissa teaches teams the skills of collaboration, communication & leaning into uncertainty in high-stakes contexts. As an online business owner since 2010, Melissa has developed the skills to deliver online sessions for distributed, virtual, or hybrid teams.

Melissa Dinwiddie

Melissa’s Book:

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The Creative Sandbox Way

Want to live a full-color life? Need a boost in your momentum and confidence? Life is too short to not express the innate creativity inside of you and The Creative Sandbox Way is your path to living a more creative life than you ever thought possible.

Filled with paradigm-shifting lessons and stories, journal questions, thought-provoking creative prompts and coloring pages, The Creative Sandbox Way will help you take the fear out of creating and bring back the joy.

An excellent antidote for creative burnout, as well as a primer for anyone just getting started with creative pursuits, whatever your form of creative expression and expertise this playbook for creative living will help you learn to be comfortable with and embrace your own, authentic creativity, while offering a compassionate approach to dealing with your demons.

You’ll learn:

Melissa’s 10 fool-proof Guideposts that have helped thousands get joyfully creating.

5 reasons why creative play is good for you, AND for the world (it’s neuroscience, baby!)

Why “I’m not creative” is always a lie, and how to bust it.

How to turn creative blocks into friends.

In short, The Creative Sandbox Way is a new approach to your creativity that will transform how you relate to it forever. Whether you’re stalled by perfectionism, impostor complex, or any other form of resistance, this book will help you move forward, learn to play again, create more work, and infuse your life with more happiness as a result.

Contact Melissa:

Creative Sandbox Solutions™ 

I help large and mid-sized tech companies unleash creativity at every level to...

...increase productivity

...foster innovation

...improve customer satisfaction

...be more competitive

How? Through PLAY!

Custom-designed and facilitated workshops and offsites using LEGO® Serious Play®, applied improvisation, art methods, and graphic facilitation.

Watch Melissa in action:
https://youtu.be/99_8ADMsqHw

Author of The Creative Sandbox Way

http://creativesandbox.solutions <--consultancy website

http://melissadinwiddie.com <--personal website

http://creativesandboxway.com <--book website

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

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/a_creative_life/



Wonder Woman in Business, Karen Kupetz

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Karen Kupetz

Karen Kupetz is the Senior Director of Legal Recruiting for Goulston & Storrs, resident in the New York office. She leads the firm’s legal talent acquisition efforts with a specific focus on lateral partners and the successful integration of their practices into the firm. Karen brings an innovative and strategic approach to talent acquisition and integration that is grounded in best practices across recruiting, business operations, marketing, business development and client service.

Karen brings over 15 years of recruiting experience to her role at Goulston & Storrs, both as a recruiter in search agencies as well as in law firms. As a search firm recruiter, Karen often worked alongside law firm leadership and corporate CEOs to identify top talent that aligned with their business and talent management goals. Karen recently served as the National Director of Recruiting for an Am Law 100 firm where she achieved above-market growth and surpassed diversity and inclusion hiring targets while using the most cutting-edge methods available.

Having begun her career as a bankruptcy lawyer in New York and Los Angeles, Karen has first-hand knowledge of what is important to successful attorney integration and uses that experience to help partners make career transitions smoothly.

Karen Kubetz

Contact Karen

Karen Kupetz*

Senior Director of Legal Recruiting

kkupetz@goulstonstorrs.com

New York

+1 212 878 5049

LinkedIn: in/karenkupetz




Wonder Woman in Business, Maria Ross

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Maria Ross

Maria Ross, the founder of brand consultancy Red Slice, believes cash flow, creativity and compassion are not mutually exclusive. She advises entrepreneurs and fast-growth businesses on building irresistible brand stories to better connect with customers. Maria is the author of several books, including Branding Basics for Small Business and Rebooting My Brain and her new book is The Empathy Edge: Harnessing the Value of Compassion as an Engine for Success. She understands the power of empathy on the brand and personal levels: In 2008, shortly after launching her business, she suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm that almost killed her and inspired her memoir, Rebooting My Brain. Maria has spoken to audiences ranging from The New York Times to BlogHer and has appeared in numerous media outlets, including MSNBC, ABC News, Forbes.com and Entrepreneur. She also writes for many outlets, including columns on Entrepreneur.com and Huffington Post. Maria lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, young son, and precocious mutt.

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The Empathy Edge: Harnessing the Value of Compassion as an Engine for Success

Being empathetic at work means seeing the situation from another’s perspective, and using that vantage point to shape your leadership style, workplace culture, and branding strategy. Pairing her knowledge as a branding expert with proven research and fascinating stories from executives, change-makers and community leaders, Maria Ross reveals exactly how empathy makes brands and organizations stronger and more successful.

Ross shows why your business needs to cultivate more empathy now, and shares the habits and traits of empathetic leaders who foster more productivity and loyalty. She gives practical tips, big and small, for how to align your mission and values and hire the right people, cultivating a more empathetic―and innovative―workplace culture. Finally, she gives you the goods on building your empathetic brand in an authentic and proactive way, and shows how doing so results in happier customers, innovative work cultures and increased profits.

In this practical playbook for businesses of all types, Maria Ross proves that empathy is not just good for society―it’s great for business, and may transform you at a personal level, too.

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Thanks for listening to us on Freeman Means Business “Wonder Women in Business” podcast! Empathy is not just good for society, it's great for business. Discover why cash flow, creativity, and compassion are NOT mutually exclusive, but actually co-exist beautifully for your organization's success!

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Five Ways Empathy Benefits Your Business

A few of the amazing women who have inspired Maria. Check them out here:

Contact Maria:

Maria Ross
Speaker - Brand Strategist - Author, Red Slice

Website: www.red-slice.com

LinkedIn: in/mariajross

Twitter: redslice

IG: @redslicemaria

FB: /redslice

Available now for pre-order: THE EMPATHY EDGE: Harnessing the Value of Compassion as an Engine for Success (A Playbook for Brands, Leaders, and Teams) www.theempathyedge.com