Diversity & Inclusion

Wonder Woman in Business, Neha Kunte

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Neha Kunte, CEO

MNK Infotech

Neha Kunte has over 20 years of work experience and over 15 years as an entrepreneur.
Recognized as a business leader, Neha can quickly apply marketing and business concepts to project management decisions. She is a strategic/tactical/creative thinker and a proven negotiator. With almost two decades of cross-cultural (professional work experience of India, Japan, and USA) and bilingual background, she finds it easy to break the barriers and also educate business leaders around her. Some of her lunch and learn workshops offers topics of:

  • Unconscious bias

  • Global leadership

  • Cultural diversity

Neha speaks six languages, holds a degree in Indian Classical dance, and is a Henna Artist. For over 25 years, Neha has created a wide array of designs and has developed strategies of diversity and inclusion through art.

Neha is a passionate business owner, trendsetter, and lifelong learner. Apart from that, she is a proud wife, mother of two and tries to keep a healthy work-life balance.
With a warm heart to help others and make a difference, she also possesses the strength to make tough business decisions.

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Contact Neha

MNK Infotech Inc

469- 867- 8239 (Direct)
412-213-8665 (Off)
972-528-8012 (fax)

http://www.mnkinfotech.com

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Wonder Woman in Business, Tammy Ramos

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Tammy Ramos, Esq.

TAMMY RAMOS, J.D. is an Executive Consultant for Inclusion Inc. with over 20 years of experience in executive coaching in diversity, equity and inclusion, leadership development, career consulting, program design and workshop facilitation. She is especially adept at coaching through difficult situations and partnering with executives to develop resiliency and positive outcomes. She enjoys helping organizations to develop customized Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiatives and programs to create company cultures that value every individual for their uniqueness. Tammy is especially skilled at facilitating groups with people from diverse backgrounds, bringing them together to accomplish a shared mission for success. She approaches every training with the end in mind – a greater sense of appreciation for the individual, and the team as a whole to drive positive outcomes. She is trained in both the Inclusive Leader 360™ and the Global Inclusion Scorecard. She provides one on one coaching, group coaching, team building, conflict resolution and retreats to organization who desire to build strong, effective teams.

A world traveler, Tammy has visited over 15 countries and lived in both Mexico and England, speaks fluent Spanish and brings a wealth of knowledge about cross cultural skills, cultural humility, inclusion, and understanding the traditions and customs that define a culture. She loves to help organizations transform their corporate cultures to become places where all employees feel like they belong. These transformations happen when leaders commit to, and do the work to become inclusive leaders.

Tammy has successfully established herself across several industries with direct experience in corporate, law, academia, technology, faith-based organizations and nonprofits, healthcare systems, and consumer products. She earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Notre Dame Law School and her Bachelor of Science in Economics & Business Administration with a double major in Spanish from Saint Mary’s College of California.  She serves on the University of Notre Dame’s Board for the Sacramento Club as the Diversity Coordinator.

A first-generation Latina, Tammy has been an inspirational keynote speaker and facilitator at conferences and workshops. As the Executive Director of LatinaVIDA, a nonprofit organization with the mission to inspire the next generation of Latina executives, Tammy has grown the organization by expanding services to include a stellar coaching program with Latina coaches throughout the world.

In her free time, Tammy is an avid hiker who has hiked hundreds of miles of trails and climbed numerous mountains throughout Northern California. She uses these adventures to share real life stories of perseverance, determination, and an attitude that says, “Yes I can and yes I will!”

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Tammy Ramos

Connect with Tammy

Tammy Ramos, J.D.|Executive Director "Inspiring the Next Generation of Latina Executives"

Cell (707) 208-5446
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Wonder Woman in Business, Stacia Garr

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Stacia Garr

Stacia Sherman Garr is a researcher and thought leader on employee engagement/experience, leadership, D&I, people analytics, and HR technology. A frequent speaker and writer, her work has been featured in Fortune, Forbes, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal as well as in numerous HR trade publications. She has been listed as a Top 100 influencer in HR Technology and in D&I. Stacia co-founded RedThread Research in 2018, after leading talent and workforce research for eight years at Bersin by Deloitte. Before Bersin, Stacia spent nearly five years conducting research and creating learning content for the Corporate Leadership Council, part of CEB/Gartner. She has an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree from the London School of Economics.

About RedThread

Sure, we’re experts in performance, people analytics, learning, and D&I – and we’re well-versed in the technologies that support them. But we’re also truth-seekers and storytellers in an industry often short on substance, and too full of @#$%. Our mission (indeed, our very reason for existing) is to cut through the noise and amplify what’s good. We look for the connections (or red threads) between people, data, and ideas – even among seemingly unrelated concepts. The result is high-quality, unbiased,  transformative foresight that helps you build a stronger business.

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Connect with Stacia

Stacia Sherman Garr

(pronounced Stay-sha ;))

Co-founder & Principal Analyst

RedThread Research

202-957-4130

stacia@redthreadresearch.com

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Wonder Woman in Business, Lori Gibson-Washington

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Lori Gibson-Washington

Lori Gibson-Washington, AKA Lori Gee Dub - the lady with 3 names is a laid-back facilitator, a calming speaker, an engaging mediator and a witty blogger that makes her The Calming Communications CoachTM.

Formerly, an instructor for International Business Negotiations at the University of California, Berkeley's International Diploma Program, Sacramento Area resident, Lori Gee-Dub has over 20 years’ experience consulting and coaching in the areas of differences in communications, conflict resolution, and leadership.

A wife, a bonus mom of 2, Gigi of 2 grandsons, a singer, Lori was educated at Georgetown University and UCLA. A certified Transformational Life Coach through the Life Mastery Institute, she is also certified in such personality styles instruments as Myers-Briggs, LIFO, and FIRO Element-B.

GeeDub loves consulting with groups to improve team dynamics for better productivity and profitability, and coaching individual professionals and leaders who are embattled and weary in their current work situations who want to use their wealth of experience to make major mindset and life changes.

Gibson Washington Consulting and Calming Coach Programs include:

  • Creating a Career that Feeds Your Soul - What Will Be Your Legacy?

  • Do You HEAR What I Hear? - The 4 Broadband “Soulutions” for Differences in Communication

  •  The 4 Sacred Shifts to Your Next Best SeasonTM-Choosing Your Thoughts, Words, and Dreams

  •  The 3R’s of Leadership - Going High When “They” Go Low

  •  Funneling Your Way to Success - Market Strategies that Convert Strangers to Clients

As a DEA strategist, program designer and facilitator Lori has:

  • Created and facilitated mentor programs for people of color wanting to promote into leadership positions

  • Designed and moderated DEIA dialogue sessions exploring intergenerational and cultural differences, assumptions, and biases

  • Conducted DEIA audits of websites and social media.

  • Made recommendations for images and correspondence to ensure inclusion and access for women of color.

  • Designed and conducted cultural competency assessments to explore cultural blindspots.

  • Generated reports with results.

  • Held sessions to generate action plans.

Lori Gibson Washington

Contact Lori

Lori Gibson-Washington
The Calming Communications Coach, Gibson Washington Consulting & Coaching

415-225-7128 | LoriGW@thecalmingcoach.com

www.thecalmingcoach.com | www.gwcdiff.com



Wonder Woman in Business, Mindee Mosher

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Mindee Mosher

As an ICF-certified Leadership and Career Transformation Coach and Owner of Better With ROSE LLC, Mindee Mosher works with growing professionals to find potential, possibilities and greater fulfillment. Using principles and insights from her experience in Psychology, Education, Marketing and Business Development, Mindee provides the “Career Change Method” online course and coaching packets that are accessible to everyone, in addition to one on one virtual coaching. Mindee also serves as Director of Marketing at Whiteford, Taylor & Preston LLP, a mid-size, regional law firm in the Mid-Atlantic.

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Wonder Woman in Business, Meenakshi Iyer

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Meenakshi Iyer

Meenakshi Iyer is a global citizen, an inclusive and collaborative servant leader, and a professional thinker and doer.  "Stop. Breathe. Think. Act." is her motto.

Born and raised in India, she has been in the US for over a decade now. She is fluent in four languages; and has lived and worked in 10+ cities in India and the US. She is passionate about democratizing access to, and opportunity for, people development across the world.

Meenakshi founded NorthStar Solutions and Services in August 2019 – as a 100% virtual business - to partner with mid-career IT/Agile professionals and leaders, and small to medium-sized businesses, globally, in designing successful outcomes for their transformation journeys, especially in this digital, VUCA economy. She partners with them to help them learn and adopt ‘Future of Work’ skills and behaviors such as: agile, collaborative, and inclusive ways of working; remote leadership; and impactful change communication.

A T-shaped servant leader with a 22-year international and interdisciplinary career in IT, Agile/Business Process Transformation, international healthcare, HR, and Training, she is a champion of cross-cultural and cross-functional leadership. Having started off in the non-profit healthcare sector in India where, among other things, she learned the inner workings of a regional eye bank, the breadth and depth of her professional experience span cultures, geographies, industries, and hierarchies.

Meenakshi is an IC Agile certified Agile Coach (ICP-ACC), and her Agile experience is in B2B product development and client implementation in the healthcare space in the US. She excels in the application of Lean and Human-centered Design in organizational and agile transformations. ​

As a professionally trained and an experienced ESL Trainer, she has helped hundreds of aspiring and working professionals become proficient in their use of business English. She is particularly empathetic towards the challenges faced by non-native speakers of English in the workplace; and has consistently worked towards making culturally competent communication central to creating inclusive work environments.

Meenakshi holds an Executive MBA from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; a BS in Physics from Bharathiar University, India, and an Advanced Diploma in Software Engineering also from India. She has an Executive Master's Certificate from MIT Sloan School of Management in Business Process Design for Strategic Management; and is a Scrum Alliance Certified ScrumMaster®. She is currently on her path to earning an ICF-PCC credential as a Professional Coach.

An active member of the Lean In Agile community – a professional networking group for women professionals in the Lean/Agile space - Meenakshi is on the Catalyst team for the Washington DC area Spiral group. She lives in Ashburn, Virginia in the US, with her husband. In their free time, they enjoy going on road trips to the countryside, and visiting local wineries and breweries.

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Contact Meenakshi

Website: https://www.northstaratwork.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meenakshi-iyer-northstar/

Twitter: @NorthStar_Nova

YouTube: NorthStar Solutions and Services - YouTube

Facebook: @northstaratwork