Susan Freeman

April 6, 2020

Strategy, Women Leaders

Wonder Woman in Business, Amy Volas

Susan Freeman

April 6, 2020

Strategy, Women Leaders

Amy Volas

Founder & CEO Avenue Talent Partners

With more than $100MM in revenue sold, recognized as one of FUND's top 50 in SaaS, and named one of Sales Hacker's Most Dynamic Women In Sales, Amy Volas is a sales fanatic turned entrepreneur. She was bitten by the startup bug many moons ago and couldn't imagine spending her time anywhere else. She created Avenue Talent Partners to help with the tremendous task of growing startups through some of their most valuable assets - sales leaders and enterprise salespeople. She's a sucker for writing, travels with her main squeeze aka her husband, music, quality time in the kitchen, and all things nature... especially her fur baby Roy.

Keynote for Housing Wire's Engage.Talent event in February

Wee Amy selling already

With Founder of Funraise & VP of Sales

Contact Amy:

Amy Volas, Founder & CEO Avenue Talent Partners

Phone: 773.540.8577

Email: amyv@avenue-tp.com

Work: www.avenuetalentpartners.com

Blog: avenuetalentpartners.com/blog/

▻ Join our email list to get our very best sales & recruiting insights▻ Check me out on OpenView Venture Partners

▻ Proud to be one of Sales Hacker's 38 Most Dynamic Women in Sales

▻ Named FUND's SaaS Top 50

'Go out on a limb. That's where all the fruit is.' -Mark Twain

Susan Freeman

March 28, 2020

Legal, Strategy, Women Leaders

Wonder Woman in Business, Maria Pia Buchi

Susan Freeman

March 28, 2020

Legal, Strategy, Women Leaders

Maria Pia Buchi

Managing Director, the Americas

Maria Pia Buchi’s expertise spans from investment funds and private wealth to all types of finance and corporate transactions.

Before moving to the US to assume overall responsibility for the business development function of Harneys Fiduciary across the Americas, Pia started and developed our Brazil practice. From the Miami Fiduciary (Representative) Office, Pia will be looking to replicate the same success story of Brazil in a tailored country-by-country basis by working with our offices across the region and market participants to explore solutions for international clients.

Pia is fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish.

Pia - Argentina El Calafate Trekking.jpg

Pia & bestie - Argentina El Calafate.jpg

Then and Now - Besties from University.jpg

Connect with Pia

Maria Pia Buchi

Managing Director, the Americas

Harneys.com

E: maria.buchi@harneys.com

D: +55 11 3434 6599 (São Paulo)

D: +1 305 347.5180 (Miami)

LinkedIn profile

Miami & Sao Paulo

Harneys Fiduciary (Miami) Inc., 1221 Brickell Avenue, 9° Floor, Miami, FL, 33.131. This email is confidential and may be subject to legal professional privilege. Read more.

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 20, 2020

Books, Legal, Strategy, Women Leaders, Legal Marketing

Wonder Woman in Business, Maya Markovich

Susan Freeman

March 20, 2020

Books, Legal, Strategy, Women Leaders, Legal Marketing

Maya Markovich

Chief Growth Officer

Maya Markovich has been central to Nextlaw Labs, Dentons’ 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 Alameda, LexLab, 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’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

Article - Innovation and Technology Lead to Better, Happier Lawyers - http://nextlawlabs.com/innovation-and-technology-lead-to-better-happier-lawyers-faster-by-maya-markovich/
Article - Female Founders in Legal Tech - http://nextlawlabs.com/maya-markovich-featured-in-thomson-reuters-article-making-the-future-of-legal-tech-female/
Article - Nextlaw and Education for 21st Century Lawyers - http://nextlawlabs.com/nextlaw-labs-and-the-education-needed-to-prepare-21st-century-lawyers/
Interview - Legal Executive Institute “Curious Minds” - https://www.legalexecutiveinstitute.com/curious-minds-maya-markovich/
Interview - Colin Levy of Salary.com - https://www.colinslevy.com/blog/2019/6/1/maya-markovich/
Interview - More than Esquires Network - www.morethanesquires.com/spotlight-features/maya-markovich
Interview - Legalpreneurs Spotlight - https://www.cli.collaw.com/latest-on-legal-innovation/2018/09/27/legalpreneurs-spotlight---maya-markovich

Connect with Maya

LinkedIn

Twitter

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.

Michelle with her younger sister, Raquel “Kelly Rae,” a former radio personality and now a sound engineer.

Michelle all bundled up for her youngest daughter’s soccer game in Kansas City.

Michelle, her hubby, the Honorable Brian C. Wimes (appointed by Barack Obama in April 2012) and their oldest daughter, Sydney, a professional dancer and May 2019 graduate of Oklahoma City University.

The immediate family.

The whole family with Michelle's mom (Marilyn Scott), far left, her sis (Kelly) next to her, me, her hubby & 3 daughters.

Michelle & her mentor, Maurice Watson, Esq. & former Managing Chair of Husch Blackwell in KC.

Michelle & hubby with youngest daughter, Saige, a soccer player at 2019 Women’s World Cup in Le Havre, France.

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

Freeman Means Business

Susan Freeman

March 3, 2020

Communications, Strategy

Wonder Woman in Business, Diane Schwartz

Susan Freeman

March 3, 2020

Communications, Strategy

Diane Schwartz

CEO of Ragan Communications

Diane Schwartz is the Chief Executive Officer of Ragan Communications, a media company that serves communicators with best-in-class events, training, peer-to-peer gatherings and award-winning service journalism via the Ragan and PR Daily brands. Signature conferences cover topics ranging from crisis management to internal communications to PR measurement to employee experience. The Ragan Communications Leadership Council is the premier membership organization for internal communications leaders; and Ragan Training is one of the most-used online training portals for communicators. She joined Ragan after 23 years at Access Intelligence, where she was senior vice president and group publisher of the Media Communications Group. She led the group to unprecedented growth, overseeing brands including PR News, Cynopsis, AdExchanger, Admonsters, Social Shakeup and Folio. Diane has launched more than 100 conferences, web sites, publications, awards programs, books and e-media ventures. Her board experience includes The Institute for Public Relations, the Alliance for Women in Media, the Specialized Information Publishers Association and American Business Media. She is a volunteer for Make-A-Wish and Visiting Nurse & Hospice of Fairfield County. She lives in Wilton, Connecticut, has two children, a dog and one husband. Check out Ragan Communications at www.ragan.com.