Wonder Woman in Business, Shani Barrax Moore

Shani Barrax Moore

Shani Barrax Moore (she/her/hers) is a strategic diversity and inclusion practitioner with more than 20 years of experience in training and development, strategic planning and change leadership, and coalition building. Shani currently serves as the Director of Diversity and Inclusion at the University of North Texas (UNT) in Denton (a city in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex)  where she leads a learning and development team, executes planning and delivery of the UNT Equity and Diversity Conference, manages employee resource groups, and develops strategic partnerships for the university. At both UNT and Tarrant County College District where she served as the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, she led an institution-wide campus inclusion climate survey and strategic planning process leading to institutional diversity and inclusion infrastructure. She led similar initiatives as the Director of Diversity and Inclusion at Cary Academy, a 6 – 12 independent school in North Carolina, which earned her membership on the Executive Committee of the National Association of Independent School’s Call to Action, the Association’s think tank for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Shani is a partner with Aurora Change Agency, a consulting firm that provides diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic learning and development for corporate, non-profit, governmental, and educational entities.

Shani serves on the boards of Child Care Group, North Texas Diversity Council, and the Social Action Committee of the Lambda Upsilon Sigma chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Incorporated.   A Cornell University Certified Diversity Advanced Practitioner and an Intercultural Development Inventory Qualified Administrator, Shani is a native of Raleigh, North Carolina, an alumna of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the mom of two teenage daughters. She is currently a City Council candidate for Carrollton, and is pursuing a doctorate degree in higher education administration.

Learn more about the

EQUITY & DIVERSITY CONFERENCE

Equity and Diversity Conference @ edc.unt.edu

It is virtual and registration deadline is 2/16

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Shani Barrax Moore

Connect with Shani

Phone: 972-998-1536

Email: tazamadada@gmail.com

LinkedIn: in/shani-barrax-moore-aurorachangeagency/

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Wonder Woman in Business, Shaquana Johnson

Shaquana Johnson

Shaquana Johnson is a 34-year-old single mother, healthcare technology attorney, MIT Challenge winner, angel investor, and health advocate. She hails from Raleigh, North Carolina. In her free time she enjoys spending time with her ten-year-old son, Evan, he is the light of her life. Additionally, she enjoys advocating for health while serving on the Healthy Lifestyles Ministry at her church. She is particularly passionate about maternal health and regenerative farming. When she's not watching a movie with Evan or researching the healing powers of food she is deeply invested in reading her bible.

Shaquana Johnson

(She, Her, Hers)

Corporate Counsel | Unite Us

(919) 247-0252

https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaquana-johnson-i-angel-investor-i-mit-challenge-winner-4a1858a7/

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Connect with Shaquana

Shaquana Johnson

(She, Her, Hers)

Corporate Counsel | Unite Us

(919) 247-0252

555 Fayetteville St, Floor 3

Raleigh, North Carolina 27601

LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram

Personal LinkedIn Profile

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Wonder Woman in Business Breen Sullivan

Breen Sullivan

Breen Sullivan is the Founder of The Fourth Floor, an innovative ecosystem reimagining the board room, investment, and how we support female entrepreneurship. Women have a hard time getting board seats and they also have a hard time raising money to scale their companies. To solve for this, the Fourth Floor brings female founders and professionals together to increase the number of women on boards, be more competitive fundraisers, and create wealth for entrepreneurs and investors.

Breen is a C-Suite executive with concentrated experience in operations, commercial contracting, human resources and employment matters; organization, corporate and deal strategy; Board of Director communications and responsibilities; privacy and risk management; financial matters, and occasionally novel challenges. As a career general counsel, Breen has worked with startup and high-growth companies for nearly a decade, specializing in technology, SaaS, energy efficiency, and data science.

Breen and The Fourth Floor have been featured by Forbes, Corporate Counsel Magazine, Law.com, The American Lawyer, Above The Law, Women On The Record Podcast, and Her CEO Journey: The Business Finance Podcast for Women Entrepreneurs. She holds a JD from Tulane and a BA from Yale University. She has earned certificates and completed coursework at Boalt Hall, Berkeley, Universita Degli Studi di Firenzi, and Humboldt-Universität Zu.

Breen also personally invests in startups and enjoys serving as a Board Advisor to startup and growth companies.

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Breen Sullivan

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Wonder Woman in Business, Manisha Arora

Manisha Arora

Manisha Arora is director of a team that builds strategic alliances between technology partners and ServiceNow, reporting to the Chief Innovation Officer. She serves as alliance architect for the most strategic platform partners of ServiceNow - driving product planning, engineering, and go-to-market efforts. She is an industry speaker, platform evangelist, and trusted advisor to Fortune 500 executive partners and customers.

Prior to ServiceNow, Manisha spent a decade at Microsoft in a career spanning Azure, Windows Server, and driving enterprise platform initiatives. In these roles, she built and led Technology Adoption Programs for customers to shape Microsoft product roadmaps, delivered showcases, and drove efforts to incubate and pilot new products. She also led global Service Management technical strategy and process definition at Microsoft in partnership with ServiceNow - resulting in lower costs, greater efficiency, and new business capabilities.

Manisha served as President of the Board of Directors at IGNITE Worldwide – an award-winning global non-profit that creates STEM education opportunities for underserved communities, and she remains involved as a Board Advisor. She is a classically-trained violinist that had the opportunity to play in a Carnegie Hall orchestra concert at a young age. www.igniteworldwide.org

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Manisha Arora

Connect with Manisha

Personal email:

manisha.k.patel@gmail.com

Work email:

manisha.arora@servicenow.com

LinkedIn:

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

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Wonder Woman in Business, Kenya Dunn

Kenya Dunn

Power Tribe

Kenya Dunn, Founder & CEO of the Power-Filled Woman is a coach, speaker, teacher, community advocate, entrepreneur, and an experienced corporate executive. The Power-Filled Woman’s mission is to impact the lives and businesses of 1 million women across the globe. Kenya is fulfilling her mission through her annual conference, Power-Filled. She also launched the Power Tribe earlier in 2020, a community created with women of color in mind.

Professionally, Kenya has a coaching and consulting firm, PFW, LLC. She helps business leaders improve their bottom line through diversity, equity and inclusion strategic planning, leadership development and cultural transformation.

Prior to starting her own company, Kenya spent 20 years in corporate America. She held executive leadership positions in both Customer Service & Retail organizations, building high-performing teams producing phenomenal results. She also helped countless people grow their own careers and launch businesses. She matriculated from the University of Phoenix with a B.S. in Management.

In her spare time, Kenya enjoys reading books, traveling, meeting new people, and spending time with her family and close friends.

Kenya is a Ted Ex Charleston speaker coach. She was also the YWCA’s 2020 What Women Bring honoree for Women in Business.

Enjoy the podcast.

Kenya Dunn

Connect with Kenya

Website: powertribecommunity.com

Instagram: @powertribecommunity

Linkedin: in/kenyadunn/

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Wonder Women in Business Ally, Malur Narayan

Malur Narayan

Co-Founder of Board Seat Meet

Malur Narayan is a proven technology business leader having distinguished himself through his broad business experience in software, telecom, networking and IT products and services.

Malur is also actively involved with several startups as an advisor, investor, and a mentor – specifically as co-founder of BoardSeatMeet, an online platform for diversity in Boards, and with Webware.io, a toolkit to help businesses go online.

He has over 28 years of industry experience having worked in all five continents. He has held a broad range of senior management roles at Nortel and Tata ranging from sales, business development, product management & marketing, and product development/engineering. 

Malur was in a senior leadership role, reporting to the CEO of TCS, to bring TCS's technology solutions to benefit the Tata group companies — specifically digital transformation — including a Big Data Customer insight program. 

Malur pioneered self-managed teams in software development in the early 90s. His research in Reverse Engineering, Inverse resolution and Induction led to the introduction of Adaptive learning algorithms in Machine Learning in 1991.

Malur holds an undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering, a Master’s degree in Computer Science from University of Western Ontario, Canada and a MBA from the University of Ottawa, Canada. He began his career as a software engineer at Nortel.

He has been a speaker at several International business forums including EMBA programs at Cornell University, Imperial College of London, IIM-Ahmedabad and Queens University in Canada. He is known for his positive attitude, people skills, great sense of humor, and is immensely passionate about trail hiking/running, creating music, gardening and writing. He is actively involved in charitable activities for mental health care and awareness.

His story on building relationships and personal brand has recently been featured in a book titled “Get your Next Promotion”, by Manbir Kaur

Malur is based in Austin, Texas.

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Malur Narayan

Contact Malur

Email:

malur@boardseatmeet.com

Malur Narayan on LinkedIn:

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

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