Legal Marketing

Wonder Woman in Business, Brandi Hobbs

B Hobbs.JPG

Brandi Hobbs

Brandi Hobbs is the Chief Strategy Officer for Bell, Davis & Pitt, a full-service firm based in North Carolina. She has spent eight years serving the legal industry and previously was a speakers’ bureau consultant. Brandi has a master’s degree in law firm management from the George Washington University and a Yellow Belt Certification in Legal Lean Sigma from the Legal Lean Sigma Institute.  She is also the mother of two amazing young women - Tatum and Teaghan - who remind her what really matters every day.   

Brandi Hobbs

Contact Brandi

Brandi Michelle Hobbs

C: 575.308.1220

H: brandi.m.hobbs@gmail.com

LI: linkedin.com/in/brandi-michelle-hobbs-615b6832




Wonder Woman in Business, Maya Markovich

Headshot 9.25.18.jpg

Maya Markovich

Chief Growth Officer

Maya Markovich has been central to Nextlaw LabsDentons’ tech-focused innovation catalyst, since its industry-first launch in 2015. With her unique background spanning behavioral science, law, investment, and change management, she delivers next-generation technology, process, and business growth services across the globe for the world’s largest firm and its clients, including acceleration of legal tech startups in the Nextlaw Ventures portfolio.  Collaborating with legal tech communities and experts worldwide, she continually evolves Nextlaw Labs' partnership and investment strategies. 

Maya also serves on the boards of Legal Access AlamedaLexLab, and OneJustice, and as mentor for LegalGeek’s Women in LawTech and University of Arizona TechLaw Fellows programs, supporting legal tech initiatives to improve access to justice and gender equity. She frequently speaks at conferences, broadcasts and writes on legal tech and innovation. She was named one of five “Influential Women of Legal Tech” by ILTA in 2020, a “Woman Leading Legal Tech” by The Technolawgist in 2019, and an ABA Legal Technology Resource Center “Woman of Legal Tech 2018” for her work in encouraging, designing and implementing the future of the legal profession around the globe.

Maya Markovich

Maya’s Favorites:

Podcasts

This one, of course, and…

Scene On RadioStuff You Missed in History ClassMake Me Smart and Marketplace Tech, both with Molly Wood - one of the only women speaking about technology out there, absolutely a can’t miss. 99% Invisible - about the thought that goes into the things we don’t think about; unnoticed architecture and design in our world RadioLabEast Bay Yesterday - Her #1 favorite, about the history of Oakland and surroundsBooksWeapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil The Fuzzie and the Techie: Why Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World by Scott HartleyWTF: What’s the Future? by Tim O’ReillyOther

Resources

Connect with Maya

LinkedIn

Twitter

Dentons US LLP Bingham Greenebaum > Cohen & Grigsby > Sayarh & Menjra > Larraín Rencoret > Hamilton Harrison & Mathews > Mardemootoo Balgobin > HPRP > Zain & Co. > Delany Law > Dinner Martin > For more o…

Dentons US LLP
Bingham Greenebaum > Cohen & Grigsby > Sayarh & Menjra > Larraín Rencoret > Hamilton Harrison & Mathews > Mardemootoo Balgobin > HPRP > Zain & Co. > Delany Law > Dinner Martin > For more on the firms that have joined Dentons, go to dentons.com/legacyfirms


Wonder Woman in Business, Michelle Wimes

MPW non OD headshot.jpg

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, Julie Savarino

PIC - Julie Savarino - taken 2.4.2020.jpg

Julie Savarino

Julie Savarino serves as Chief Client Service & Development Officer at Business Development Inc. She holds an MBA, a JD, and is a licensed attorney. Over her 30+ year career, she has built a reputation as a leading international, award-winning business and client development coach and strategist for lawyers, law firms, and other professional services providers and firms.  She has successfully served in-house in client and business development positions for the law firms of Dickinson Wright and Butzel Long and for the accounting firm Grant Thornton.

COVER - ebook w #1 icon - 12.7.18.jpg

Click below to…

Julie Savarino

Connect with Julie:

Follow Julie on Twitter and LinkedIn or contact her at +1 (734) 276-1900, Julie@BusDevInc.com.



Wonder Woman in Business, Ellen Cohen

Ellen.jpeg

Ellen Cohen, J.D., CPCC, PCC

ELLEN COHEN, J.D., CPCC, PCC is an executive, business, career and wellbeing coach with over 10 years; experience, certified by both CTI (CPCC) and International Coach Federation (PCC) who works with corporate executives and lawyers across many industries to enhance their productivity and effectiveness, build leadership skills, and cultivate wellbeing and resiliency. Her coaching style incorporates scientific/neuroscience-based coaching, emotional intelligence skills and well-being modalities all designed to help her clients stand out.

With 20 years’ experience as an entertainment attorney, Business Affairs attorney and senior executive negotiating high level talent and business deals in film, TV and digital for major studios including Disney, Sony, Microsoft, Fox, and Showtime, Ellen has a particular expertise in working with lawyers both in law firms or in corporate environments including General Counsel, Business/Legal Affairs and Corporate Legal departments to help them and their team/associates (1) build relationships across different internal functions and clients, (2) enhance their ability to be influential, develop a meaningful professional brand and departmental mission statement and (3) cultivate powerful relationships.

Ellen is an enhanced practitioner in Conversational Intelligence (CIQ) which is about the neuroscience of communication and how our interactions impact our neurochemistry. Additionally, she has studied the neuroscience of stress and its impact on performance, leadership, team building, and interpersonal relationships and her programs incorporate this knowledge to improve productivity, effectiveness and job satisfaction.  As a result, she has many resources to offer her clients to deepen their own knowledge, develop new skills and explore new behaviors and habits both within their professional and personal lives.

Representative clients include EVP/SVP/VP level corporate executives in many areas from IT to Finance to Sales to Business Development; Attorneys including Partner/executives at major law firms, General Counsel and in-house attorneys; medical professionals including doctors, medical director; and PhDs at such prestigious companies as Latham & Watkins, Boston Scientific, IMAX, Kaiser Permanente, City National Bank, University of Pennsylvania, Los Angeles County Health, The SEC, CVS, BMI and Cap Gemini.

Ellen received her J.D. from Emory University School of Law and a double B.A. from Brandeis University in Philosophy and French Language & Literature. She also admitted to practice law in the state bars of CA, NY, FL & GA. She earned her coaching certification credentials from CTI and was awarded the PCC credential from International Coach Federation (ICF). She is also a 200 hour Certified Meditation Teacher (Unplug Mediation) and a 550 Hr. Certified Yoga instructor (YogaWorks). She is a contributing editor to Attorney At Law Magazine - Los Angeles edition where she writes about executive coaching issues facing attorneys. She is also a member of the ABA Attorney Well-being committee.

You can find out more about Ellen at Ebccoaching.com

Ellen Cohen, J.D., CPCC, PCC

Founder/Principal

Ellen Cohen

WOMEN LEGAL 2020

Discount Code =

WL2020SPK

Contact Ellen:

EBC COACHING & CONSULTING

Enhancing Productivity - Building Leadership - Cultivating Wellbeing 

Executive|Business|Career|Wellbeing Coaching for Lawyers & Executives

https://ebccoaching.com/

Office:    310-283-8686

Mobile:  310-393-8686

ARE YOU FEELING OVERWHELMED AT WORK?  Take the assessment to find out how you can get more done, feel better and be more effective at work!  

https://assess.coach/ebccoaching



Wonder Woman in Business, Sam McKenna

Sam LI Picture.png

Sam McKenna

#samsales

Samantha McKenna is the founder of #samsales Consulting, former head of LinkedIn Sales Solutions, Enterprise, NYC, and VP of Sales at ON24.  She is an award-winning leader, who has broken over a dozen sales records across three different companies, created seven global sales programs for culture, training and onboarding, and has been named a Top 50 Leader by Outreach.io, and Top 50 Women in Revenue by Engagio.io.  She has been an individual contributor and executive in sales for the last 12 years and has spoken globally on the topics of sales, leadership and technology.

Check out…

#samsales


Who is Sam otherwise?

Overly enthusiastic, speaker, fulfilled by helping others succeed, strategic thinker, volunteer to support financial literacy, dog lover, Swiss Miss, die hard competitor, writer, Barefoot Contessa fan, former Nickelodeon game show contestant, OrangeTheory devotee, wanderlust'er, podcaster, extrovert, voracious reader, self-deprecating humor expert and willing to walk through fire to make you laugh.

Sam McKenna of #samsales

Contact Sam:

LinkedIn: in/samsalesli

Phone: 7034020980 (Mobile)

Email: samantha.mckenna@gmail.com

Twitter: smckenna719