Susan Freeman

June 1, 2020

Women Leaders, Legal, Diversity & Inclusion, Empathy

Wonder Woman in Business, Belinda Luu

Susan Freeman

June 1, 2020

Women Leaders, Legal, Diversity & Inclusion, Empathy

Belinda Luu bio pic (3) edited.jpeg — Belinda Luu

Senior Counsel, Kaiser Permanente

Belinda Luu is the leader of enterprise-wide data management and governance. Lead for the Legal Department with respect to the development of data management and governance practices regarding the external and internal sharing of data.

Belinda is a senior technology attorney with 19 years' experience in negotiating upwards of one-billion-dollar technology transactions for Kaiser Permanente - one of the largest health care non-profit organizations. Belinda is experienced in Healthcare Information Technology, complex technology transactions, Big Data management, governance, and strategy, cloud services, AI, strategic innovation collaborations, licensing, professional services, outsourcing transactions, and IP. Prior to Kaiser Permanente, she counseled clients ranging from Fortune 100, and early stage companies in IT, healthcare, software, web-based, e-commerce, automotive, manufacturing, insurance, energy, and banking and financial industries.

Belinda is passionate about equity, inclusion and diversity (EID) matters. She is the Chair of Enrichment and Development Committee of the Legal Department's Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Belinda leads the Enrichment and Development Committee, made up of 10 attorneys and staff, to organize the delivery of unconscious bias training for the Legal Department. Every year, Belinda is the Co-Master of Ceremonies and host of the annual Kaiser Permanente and California Minority Counsel Program MCLE Marathon. She is a speaker on and moderator of panels discussing EID issues within Kaiser Permanente and at EID conferences. Her passion for this work stems from wanting to make the world a better place for her 5-year-old daughter and under-represented communities.

Connect with Belinda

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/belinda-luu-2390782/

Susan Freeman

May 27, 2020

Empathy, Team Building, Women Leaders, Wellness

Wonder Woman in Business, Camila Mize

Susan Freeman

May 27, 2020

Empathy, Team Building, Women Leaders, Wellness

Camila Mize

Director of Partnerships at Oji Life Lab

Camila Mize is passionate about emotions. She believes that emotional intelligence skills hold the key to unlocking our potential to be our best selves and increase the quality of our lives at work, at home and everywhere in between.

She currently serves as the Director of Customer Success at Oji Life Lab in San Francisco. Founded in 2018, Oji Life Lab is focused on helping adults gain essential soft skills like Emotional Intelligence and Decision-making and more. Her team consists of top scientists from Apple, Microsoft, Robert Half and Yale University. Camila caught the bug for emotional intelligence while an undergraduate when she worked as an assistant on Dr. Marc Brackett's early RULER research. After graduating from Fordham University with degrees in Economics and Psychology, Camila changed paths and enjoyed a decades-long career in working in finance. She was hired by world-renowned Economist, Bernard Connolly to launch a macroeconomic research firm in New York City. There, she worked with the world's top hedge fund managers, central bankers, and sovereign wealth fund managers. In New York, she nurtured her creative spirit by working as a performance artist which led to her being featured on Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett's Cheek to Cheek album artwork. In 2015, she returned to California and worked in private wealth management before transitioning back to her original passion: emotional intelligence. In addition to her work, she serves on the Alumni Board of St. Ignatius College Prep in San Francisco and is a dedicated beekeeper. She loves her rescue pups, hiking in the California redwoods and learning everything she can about the natural world. Her current obsession? Mycology.

Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett Cheek to Cheek shoot with Steven Klein

2018 with Oji Life Lab’s co-founders, Andrea Hoban and Matt Kursh

Quality Family Time on Mt Tam

Redwoods hikes with The Dude (rescue dog)

SI Women’s Brunch at the Olympic Club hosted by the St Ignatius Alumni Board

Keeping Bees

Susan Freeman

April 1, 2020

Women Leaders, Wellness, Team Building, Health, Empathy, Executive Coaching

SPECIAL EDITION: Resilience During the Coronavirus Crisis with guest, Renee Branson

Susan Freeman

April 1, 2020

Women Leaders, Wellness, Team Building, Health, Empathy, Executive Coaching

RB COVID19.jpg — Renee Branson

Certified Resilience Coach (CReC)

As a mental health professional and Certified Resilience Coach (CReC), Renee Branson provides clients with immediately usable tools to increase resilience, well-being, and optimism in the workplace. She works with lawyers, legal marketers, business professionals, non-profit leaders, and others to help them understand and incorporate resilience in their own professional lives and in the teams they lead.

Contact Renee:

Email:

rb@reneebranson.blog

Website:

https://reneebranson.blog/

LinkedIn:

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

Freeman Means Business

Susan Freeman

March 31, 2020

Empathy, Health, Legal, Wellness, Women Leaders, Executive Coaching

Wonder Woman in Business, Anjli Garg, Esq.

Susan Freeman

March 31, 2020

Empathy, Health, Legal, Wellness, Women Leaders, Executive Coaching

Anjli 2.jpeg — Anjli Garg, Esq.

AGC, Citi

Anjli Garg, Director, Associate General Counsel, Citibank, N.A.

Anjli Garg serves as a general counsel to Citi’s global commercial cards business, working with Citi’s largest institutional clients. She is also an active member of Citi Legal’s Global Diversity Council. Before joining Citi, she was in-house counsel at American Express and an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell. Anjli has also published articles and spoken at conferences and panels on topics as diverse as privacy and data security, unconscious bias, and diversity and inclusion. She has 20+years of experience as a corporate transactional attorney, and obtained her J.D. from NYU School of Law.

Anjli is also a Certified Professional Coach and Energy Leadership Index – Master Practitioner through iPEC, which is an International Coach Federation accredited coach training program. Anjli’s passion as a coach is to help successful people find their missing puzzle piece by clarifying their priorities, tapping into their personal power and charting and navigating their journey there.

Your Coach To Soar

*The Warrior and The Queen*

Lara and Jasmine are two modern professional women who, like most of us, are fully immersed in their three-dimensional reality. Although the two never cross paths, both are pursuing their passions in the vibrant Petri dish of New York City. When they least expect it, their very way of life is challenged and their foundations shaken to the core. Metaphysical events in their lives cause them to question their entire world-view and sense of identity. They are confronted with forces and past lives that they have no choice but to examine. In the process, they discover hidden depths unknown to them.
Lara and Jasmine will never be the same again. They invite you to join them on their journey of self-discovery, as they navigate a web of royal plots and deadly battles, spanning ancient India and the medieval Europe of the Knights Templar. Although based upon a kernel of truth, their stories are nevertheless a work of fiction. As the reader, you are transported through time and space, and weave through a mosaic of colorful cultures, culinary delights, and webs of intrigue. Their stories will please all six of your senses, as you experience the vibrancy of Lara and Jasmine’s incarnations. Their tales open a window to a metaphysical and spiritual journey that is sure to empower you, as you welcome the challenge. Their stories are presented as is, with no attempt to assert or validate the accuracy of historical events and no espousal of any particular religious beliefs.
Lara and Jasmine simply want to share the unfolding effects of their metaphysical experiences with the world. The Warrior and the Queen, at heart, is an inspirational novel that offers something for every reader. It is as much literary as it is entertaining. It poetically engages the reader in his or her own exploration of what may lie beyond the three-dimensional reality of our five senses. The reader is not alone in that journey – Lara and Jasmine have the same doubts and unanswered questions in their lives. Theirs is a tale where different metaphysical and spiritual tools converge and interact magically to offer answers that all of us have access to. The Warrior and the Queen is an easy read that is best enjoyed with a cup of chai or mint tea in hand.
“The journey of a warrior is not to find meaning in life or in battle but to find his true self.” “Awaken, and once awake, awaken others.” Readers have described the book as: “inspirational…takes you to the 4th dimension…poetic…avant-garde…an easy read…healing…intriguing…enlightening.”

Buy the book

Contact Anjli:

ANJLI GARG, ESQ., CPC, ELI-MP

Executive Leadership Coach

YOUR COACH TO SOAR: anjli@yourcoachtosoar.com

Freeman Means Business

Susan Freeman

March 25, 2020

Communications, Empathy, Team Building, Strategy, Women Leaders, Curiosity

Wonder Woman in Business, Dr. Diane Hamilton

Susan Freeman

March 25, 2020

Communications, Empathy, Team Building, Strategy, Women Leaders, Curiosity

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?

Take the Assessment

**CRACKING THE CURIOSITY CODE**

The Key to Unlocking Human Potential

Buy the book

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

Freeman Means Business

Susan Freeman

March 9, 2020

Communications, Empathy, Legal Marketing, Legal, Politics, Story Telling, Team Building, Women Leaders, Strategy, Equity, Books

Wonder Woman in Business, Michelle Wimes

Susan Freeman

March 9, 2020

Communications, Empathy, Legal Marketing, Legal, Politics, Story Telling, Team Building, Women Leaders, Strategy, Equity, Books

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.