Wonder Woman in Business Monique Burt Williams

Monique Burt Williams, CEO

Monique Burt Williams is the Chief Executive Officer of Cadence Counsel, a certified Women’s Business Enterprise and sister corporation to both Lateral Link and Bridgeline Solutions. She is deeply committed to helping corporations and other organizations diversify their in-house legal divisions as they strive to reflect a global economy.  

Monique formerly worked for a prominent boutique litigation firm, and was subsequently asked to join the legal services division of a global workforce solutions company.  While there, she created a consulting practice to address the various concerns of corporate law departments: legal operations and administration, playbook development and outside counsel management, cost containment, permanent and interim search, talent development, diversity and inclusion initiatives, and remote workforce management.  Immediately prior to joining Cadence Counsel, Monique directed national business and strategy development for one of the largest privately held legal outsourcing providers in the country.

She earned a B.A. with honors from the University of Michigan, and her J.D. (Order of the Barristers) from the Indiana University Mauer School of Law.  In addition, she studied International Business Transactions at the Université de Paris – Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris, France. 

Enjoy the podcast.

Monique Burt Williams

Contact Monique:

MONIQUE BURT WILLIAMS
CEO, CADENCE COUNSEL

Certified Women Business Enterprise (WBE)

330 North Wabash Avenue, Suite 2300
Chicago, IL 60611

O. 812.219.4968 C. 812.219.4968 F. 866.728.3096

mburtwilliams@cadencecounsel.comwww.CadenceCounsel.com
Connect with me on LinkedIn

Together with our sister divisions, Lateral Link and Bridgeline Solutions, we deliver top permanent and temporary legal talent to law firms and corporations worldwide.

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Wonder Woman in Business, Neha Sampat

Neha Sampat, Esq.

Neha Sampat, Esq. is CEO and founder of GenLead|BelongLab, where she focuses on building belonging and true inclusion. Through consulting, training, speaking, and coaching, she helps organizations create peak‐performance, inclusive teams by addressing hidden barriers to belonging, such as internalized bias, unconscious bias, generational diversity, distrust in teams, and wellness challenges. She is a nationally sought-after expert on disrupting Imposter Syndrome and runs the top-rated “Owning Your Value” program to develop inclusive leadership.

Neha’s insights have been featured in numerous publications, including Time Magazine, Thrive Global, ABA Journal, and News India Times. Neha holds BAs in Sociology and Political Science from University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign, obtained her JD from UC Berkeley School of Law, holds a Certificate in Graduate Applied Psychology, and is certified in Hogan Assessments. Neha works across industry, from Pixar to Perkins Coie LLP, and UC Berkeley to City of San Leandro. Neha also relishes her role as mama to her two kiddos. You can read more of Neha’s insights at blog.genlead.co, follow her on TW/IG/FB at @belonglab, and reach her directly at neha@genlead.co. 

As mentioned in the podcast:

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable - Luvvie Ajayi's TED Talk

Neha, in print:

On her childhood and the seeds of her drive to create belonging:

Growing Up Brown in America: When Every Day is Halloween

What It Means to Be American: My Journey from "Other" to "Us"

On Imposter Syndrome as a stress and mental health issue:

Your Chronic Stress: It's a Matter of Confidence, Not Competence

A call to deal with imposter syndrome, a hidden source of attorney distress

On Neha's career journey:

Legal Career Spotlight: From Private Practice to Dean of Students to Belonging Consultant

Enjoy the podcast.

Neha Sampat

Connect with Neha and learn more about her work:

www.genlead.co

hello@genlead.co

blog.genlead.co

Send a message to connect on LinkedIn

 https://www.linkedin.com/in/nsampat/

Follow on TW/FB/IG

@belonglab

To periodically receive free tips and insights on belonging, leadership, and Imposter Syndrome, visit: https://bit.ly/GLBLemail

To stay posted on upcoming cohorts of her online Owning Your Value course, visit: https://bit.ly/OYVonlineinterest

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Wonder Woman in Business, Julie Baker

Julie Baker, Esq.

Julie Baker is Sr. Counsel, Employment Litigation for Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL).  JLL is a Fortune 500 professional services firm that specializes in real estate and investment management.  In her role, Julie manages the Company’s employment litigation across the United States.  This includes developing case strategy, managing outside counsel in lawsuits and agency charges, conducting internal investigations, and advising business partners to mitigate litigation risk. 

Prior to working at JLL, Julie worked at Jones Day representing a wide variety of employers in labor and employment matters.  She graduated with her B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.  Although she has returned to her beloved Chicago (or at least a nearby suburb), Julie bounced around for a number of years – almost 5 years in London as a kid, a semester abroad in Santiago, Chile during college, and 2 years living and teaching fourth grade in Brownsville, Texas as a Teach for America corps member.

Julie and her husband, John, are busy raising their two daughters to be adventurous, open-minded, and empathetic.

Enjoy the podcast.

Julie Baker

Connect with Julie:

Julie M. Baker

Sr. Counsel, Employment Litigation

JLL

200 E. Randolph Drive

Chicago, Illinois 60601
T +1 312 228 2283  

julie.baker@am.jll.com 
jll.com
One of the 2020 World’s Most Ethical Companies®
Jones Lang LaSalle

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliembaker1/

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Wonder Women in Business Ally, Steve Camac

Steve Camac

CEO, CenterForce

Steve Camac is the founder of Centerforce, a conference and events company focused on Diversity & IP topics.  For over 10 years, he has set the strategic direction for the company as well as each summit's editorial content. His focus is to develop quality conferences that cover hot button topics and provide high-level networking opportunities for business communities. Steve's conference and trade show experience includes leadership positions at IQPC (International Quality and Productivity Center) and IIR (Institute for International Research). Centerforce is run with the core belief that conferences, when done well, are a powerful platform for education, networking, and creating change.

Steve moved from his native England to the U.S. in 1991 and not only graduated with a B.A. and M.A. in History from Montana State University (MSU), but was also an all-conference collegiate tennis player. Go Bobcats!

Most weekends, Steve can be found either cooking and hosting friends for dinner or on a tennis court somewhere contemplating a comeback.

Enjoy the podcast.

Steve Camac

Contact Steve

Steve Camac, CEO

CenterForce USA 

42 West Street, 2nd floor Brooklyn, NY 11222

P: 516.241.9158 

E: steve.camac@cfconferences.com

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Wonder Woman in Business, Belinda Luu

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.

Enjoy the podcast.

Belinda Luu

Connect with Belinda

LinkedIn:

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

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Wonder Woman in Business, Daphne Forbes

Daphne Forbes, Esq.

AGC, Microsoft

Daphne Turpin Forbes is a trusted legal and business advisor at Microsoft with 20+ years of practice in the U.S. Public Sector and Commercial Regulated Industries.  Her corporate experience spans in-house at companies like Microsoft, Discovery Communications, ACS State & Local Solutions (formerly Lockheed Martin), Hyatt Hotels, and General Motors. 

At Microsoft, Daphne is the lead counsel responsible for supporting a $7B segment of Microsoft’s U.S. Public Sector enterprise operating unit.  She manages a legal team that supports public sector and commercial sales, state government affairs, PR/marketing, professional consulting services, devices, and product leadership teams in the Federal Civilian, State & Local Government and Education verticals on various legal matters including; complex technology and professional services negotiations, legal and regulatory issues related to digital transformation strategies, data privacy and security matters, critical infrastructure considerations, product/solution development, government and enterprise cloud, Artificial Intelligence (“AI”), public sector contracts/procurement law and ethics, public policy; matters raised by U.S. Attorneys General; financial services and healthcare regulations.

Daphne is a leader who is passionate about diversity, inclusion, and equality.  She has participated and collaborated with various organizations as a champion for diverse lawyers and legal professionals, and women - with a focus on women of color.  In addition, Daphne is the U.S. Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) lead for Microsoft’s Global Commercial Field Group and, has served as a corporate leader for the company’s African American Employee Network.  A former Human Resources professional, who claims civility and problem-solving as her superpowers, Daphne is effective at and enjoys leading people, projects, and process. In addition, she is active in her community, and enjoys long-standing memberships in several community service organizations.  She has served on various non-profit boards and advisory councils nationally and in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.  She currently serves as Chair and Commissioner of the Liquor Board in Prince George’s County, Maryland.  Daphne is also an adjunct law professor at the Howard University School of Law where she co-teaches a class on Technology and the Law.  Daphne is a member of the Maryland State Bar and National Bar Associations. 

Daphne is the recipient of various corporate awards for her D&I and client work.  Most notably, she is the corporate recipient of the Microsoft MVP Circle of Excellence (Gold Club) Award, and the National Bar Association’s Clyde E. Bailey Corporate Leadership Award.  She is a graduate of Michigan State University, and the American University Washington College of Law.  Daphne lives in Prince George’s County, Maryland with her husband and two “almost grown” children.

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

— Maya Angelou

Enjoy the podcast.

Daphne Forbes

Connect with Daphne

Daphne Turpin Forbes (CELA)

Senior Attorney | US Public Sector – State & Local Gov/Education/Federal Gov (Civilian)/Citizenship

5404 Wisconsin Ave – Suite 500

Chevy Chase, MD 20815

Office: 301-771-8367 | Email: dforbes@microsoft.com

LinkedIn: in/daphneturpinforbes/

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