Team Building

Wonder Woman in Business, Courtney Jenkins

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Courtney Jenkins

Courtney Jenkins is the Vice President and General Manager of ENGIE North America’s Public Sector Energy Services organization, focused on designing, financing, and building transformative sustainability solutions for educational, governmental, and healthcare entities across the U.S. In this role, Courtney oversees all U.S. business operations within the Services team, inclusive of engineering, financial performance, and strategic growth for this 200+ person clean-tech division, which is a key part of ENGIE’s deep-rooted commitment to a zero-carbon future. The work that she and her team do has generated over $2.5 billion dollars in savings for public agencies across the U.S., generated tens of thousands of local green construction jobs, inspired over 50,000 students and teachers through pioneering STEM educational programming, reduced the carbon footprint of campuses and city facilities, and transformed physical infrastructure to be more conducive to the future of education, health, and work. Prior to this role, Courtney served in a series of expansive management roles within key commercial and project leadership functions with ENGIE, OpTerra, and Chevron’s clean-tech division, where she had the opportunity to work directly with schools, cities and counties all throughout the Western U.S. on these types of trailblazing, award-winning public-private partnerships.

Courtney has led business turnaround and transformation efforts, co-founded ENGIE’s Women in Networking group, sits on the company’s North American Culture and Values Leadership Team, and is a ferocious champion for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace to empower women, people of color, the LGBTQ+ community, and other groups in their professional growth. She also sits on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Energy Services Companies (NAESCO). Recently, Courtney was named one of the Top 100 Women of Influence by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. A graduate of Brown University (AB) and University of Oxford (MSc), where she graduated top of her class with first-class distinction, Courtney and her spouse live in San Francisco, California. In her free time, she enjoys golfing, traveling, reading (especially historical non-fiction related to Eastern Europe and Russia), trying cafes across America in search of the world’s finest iced espresso beverages, and watching her beloved Oakland A’s when baseball is in-season. 

Courtney Jenkins

Contact Courtney

Courtney Jenkins

Vice President and General Manager

ENGIE North America

(m) 510.502.7314

courtney.jenkins@engie.com



Wonder Woman in Business, Kathryn Jarrett

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Kathryn Jarrett

PT, DPT, MS

Kathryn Jarrett guides the busy woman on how to find "A Pretty Balance", allowing her to recognize and harness her power in relationships, health, and business. She is a branding expert, top income earner and elite team leader in a strong network marketing company. Kathryn's six figure income is reflective of the large team that she is building and supporting. They collectively generated $2.2 Million in team sales for 2019 and are on track to surpass $3M in team sales for 2020. She has reached the top of her company’s pay plan and now leads other women towards the same. 

Through her branding work, Kathryn currently offers a course called "Balanced Branding" in which she helps business women establish a powerful and effective online branding strategy. She specifically helps women in business strengthen their online presence and following, so they may generate significant income and impact.  

Kathryn is a Mom, CEO of a busy, blended family and has her Doctorate in Physical Therapy. She is an active part of the South Shore, MA community and is a supporter of small businesses and women empowerment. She is creating an amazing impact both online and locally to help hundreds of women discover and leverage their power within to reach greater balance and success in both business and life. Kathryn calls this, A Pretty Balance.

Kathryn Jarrett

Connect with Kathryn

Instagram account www.instagram.com/aprettybalance  

Facebook community www.facebook.com/groups/aprettybalance/

Email: kathrynilean@gmail.com



Wonder Woman in Business, Alexis Gladstone

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Alexis Gladstone

Founder of Inteleaad

Alexis Gladstone is the founder of Intelead, a Chicago-based consulting practice dedicated to aligning people strategies and business results. Intelead designs strategies and programs to help clients develop current and next generation leaders, increase the effectiveness of individuals in sales, and drive organizational change that delivers results. 

Alexis has a passion for empowering women and helping them succeed and is a sought out voice, trainer, and coach on the topics of women and leadership and helping clients attract and develop female talent. She has worked domestically and internationally across a variety of industries, including manufacturing, financial and legal services, and not-for-profit.

Alexis Gladstone



Wonder Woman in Business, Camila Mize

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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.

Camila Mize


www.freemanmeansbusiness.com

www.freemanmeansbusiness.com


Wonder Woman in Business, Daphne Forbes

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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

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/




Wonder Woman in Business, Susan Schwartz

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Susan Schwartz

Susan Schwartz has led a variety of corporate and government teams through organizational change and technology transformation. Her change toolbox combines Emotional Intelligence, Lego Serious Play, and knowledge sharing methods. She equips subject experts transitioning into leadership roles to hone their communications and relationship building skills enabling them to become world class managers. Susan is the author of Creating a Greater Whole: A Project Manager’s Guide to Becoming a Leader and co-author of Turning Ideas Into Impact: Insights From Silicon Valley Consultants.

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Creating a Greater Whole

Creating a Greater Whole unlocks the not-so-secret secrets of what aspiring managers need to become strong leaders. This information-rich, easy to understand guide offers readers an immediate clear path to honing their leadership skills using the rigor and discipline of project management principles. Topics include stakeholder management, collaborative communication, multi-criteria decision making, and conflict management. Reflective exercises in each chapter raise key questions for readers to craft their own development path. The process invites emerging leaders to draw from their past experiences, recognize their intrinsic capabilities, and identify specific skills to cultivate.


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Turing Ideas Ito Impact

Silicon Valley is recognized globally as a hotbed of innovation and entrepreneurship. It's the birthplace of world-famous companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook and home to a few legends such as NASA at the Ames Research Center. Our 16 authors have created 16 high-impact chapters that can give you and your business the Silicon Valley advantage.

Why is Silicon Valley such an entrepreneurial place? A major contributor to the phenomenon is our diversity--half of us don't speak English at home. But our diversity goes far beyond ethnicity. A wide variety of perspectives, thinking styles, and work approaches also contributes to the magic of Silicon Valley, creating breakthroughs that have disrupted business models (Airbnb and Lyft) and even shifted our perception of the future of meat (the "Impossible Burger").


Susan Schwartz

Blog Posts:

People: The Essential Component for Digital Transformation Success 

Wanted:  Engineers with Both Technical and Soft Skills    

Contact Susan:

Susan G. Schwartz, PMP

The River Birch Group

sgs@riverbirchgroup.com

703-395-1219 

Author, Creating A Greater Whole:

A Project Manager’s Guide to Becoming a Leader

Co-Author, Turning Ideas into Impact, Insights from 16 Silicon Valley Consultants