Wonder Woman in Business, Shaquana Johnson

Shaquana Johnson

Shaquana Johnson is a 34-year-old single mother, healthcare technology attorney, MIT Challenge winner, angel investor, and health advocate. She hails from Raleigh, North Carolina. In her free time she enjoys spending time with her ten-year-old son, Evan, he is the light of her life. Additionally, she enjoys advocating for health while serving on the Healthy Lifestyles Ministry at her church. She is particularly passionate about maternal health and regenerative farming. When she's not watching a movie with Evan or researching the healing powers of food she is deeply invested in reading her bible.

Shaquana Johnson

(She, Her, Hers)

Corporate Counsel | Unite Us

(919) 247-0252

https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaquana-johnson-i-angel-investor-i-mit-challenge-winner-4a1858a7/

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Connect with Shaquana

Shaquana Johnson

(She, Her, Hers)

Corporate Counsel | Unite Us

(919) 247-0252

555 Fayetteville St, Floor 3

Raleigh, North Carolina 27601

LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram

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Wonder Woman in Business, Deb Feder

Deb Feder

Deb Feder is a business development coach, strategist, owner and CEO of Feder Development LLC, a consulting firm focused on helping lawyers bring in consistent clients through curious, confident conversations and changing the way we view productivity for professionals. 

Deb believes in dropping excuses and simple productivity solutions. Using LinkedIn as a platform to validate and share ideas, Deb helps professionals engage in meaningful content and connections. For the last decade, Deb has committed herself to changing the way we think about work-life balance and tackle high stakes work, allowing for big careers and enjoying our free time. Deb leads the community in dropping excuses, getting productive, and bringing in business through the monthly membership program, Focus30.

Prior to founding Feder Development, Deb practiced corporate law for 15 years and holds a history degree from the University of Michigan and her JD/MBA from the University of Iowa. Deb completed her coach training and certification through New Ventures West and completed the training in The Daring Way™, which is based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown. As a contributing author to the best-selling anthology #Networked, Deb shares her common-sense approach to building business relationships. Deb is a frequent speaker at conferences, podcasts, CLE programs, and corporate retreats on business development, productivity, networking, authenticity, and communication.

#Networked

If Giovanni Boccoccio Zoomed into 2020, was a lawyer instead of a writer, and spent copious amounts of time writing posts on LinkedIn rather than writing Italian Renaissance literature, The Decameron may have looked a lot different. Replace the bucolic Florentine countryside with a fast-paced social networking site, the ten carefree Italian youths with fifty ambitious, hard-charging women lawyers, and The Decameron may look a lot like #Networked, the first book of its kind to emerge from the COVID-19 global pandemic.#Networked is the much anticipated 20-chapter anthology written by 20 women lawyers who met through a networking group on LinkedIn in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Much like the framework of the Decameron, each chapter in #Networked is written by one woman describing both her individual and collective experience and role within the group. The women’s stories touch upon many of Boccaccio’s universal themes of the human condition: human will, love, virtue, and societal tension. Make no mistake, not all themes in #Networked transcend time, this is a modern anthology. The protagonists are all very much entrenched in 2020 with plenty of emphasis given to careers, work-life balance, and the best lighting for virtual calls. The multi-dimensional characters also dig deep conquering topics such as infertility, addiction, allyship, feminism, and mental health. Their stories are familiar. They are the stories of thousands of other professional women living during this era. They serve as inspiration and offer hope that the pandemic wasn’t a time of destruction at all, but rather a time of opportunity and growth. As one of the authors wrote “It was the birth of a whole new me, or rather a whole new we.”

Buy the Book

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Deb Feder

Connect with Deb

Business Development Coach & Consultant

Focus30: https://store.debfeder.com/Focus30 

Website: debfeder.com

Connect to #BizDeb: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bizdeb/

Phone: 816.309.5297

Are you ready to build your business for the life you want to live?

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Wonder Woman in Business Breen Sullivan

Breen Sullivan

Breen Sullivan is the Founder of The Fourth Floor, an innovative ecosystem reimagining the board room, investment, and how we support female entrepreneurship. Women have a hard time getting board seats and they also have a hard time raising money to scale their companies. To solve for this, the Fourth Floor brings female founders and professionals together to increase the number of women on boards, be more competitive fundraisers, and create wealth for entrepreneurs and investors.

Breen is a C-Suite executive with concentrated experience in operations, commercial contracting, human resources and employment matters; organization, corporate and deal strategy; Board of Director communications and responsibilities; privacy and risk management; financial matters, and occasionally novel challenges. As a career general counsel, Breen has worked with startup and high-growth companies for nearly a decade, specializing in technology, SaaS, energy efficiency, and data science.

Breen and The Fourth Floor have been featured by Forbes, Corporate Counsel Magazine, Law.com, The American Lawyer, Above The Law, Women On The Record Podcast, and Her CEO Journey: The Business Finance Podcast for Women Entrepreneurs. She holds a JD from Tulane and a BA from Yale University. She has earned certificates and completed coursework at Boalt Hall, Berkeley, Universita Degli Studi di Firenzi, and Humboldt-Universität Zu.

Breen also personally invests in startups and enjoys serving as a Board Advisor to startup and growth companies.

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Breen Sullivan

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Wonder Woman in Business, Manisha Arora

Manisha Arora

Manisha Arora is director of a team that builds strategic alliances between technology partners and ServiceNow, reporting to the Chief Innovation Officer. She serves as alliance architect for the most strategic platform partners of ServiceNow - driving product planning, engineering, and go-to-market efforts. She is an industry speaker, platform evangelist, and trusted advisor to Fortune 500 executive partners and customers.

Prior to ServiceNow, Manisha spent a decade at Microsoft in a career spanning Azure, Windows Server, and driving enterprise platform initiatives. In these roles, she built and led Technology Adoption Programs for customers to shape Microsoft product roadmaps, delivered showcases, and drove efforts to incubate and pilot new products. She also led global Service Management technical strategy and process definition at Microsoft in partnership with ServiceNow - resulting in lower costs, greater efficiency, and new business capabilities.

Manisha served as President of the Board of Directors at IGNITE Worldwide – an award-winning global non-profit that creates STEM education opportunities for underserved communities, and she remains involved as a Board Advisor. She is a classically-trained violinist that had the opportunity to play in a Carnegie Hall orchestra concert at a young age. www.igniteworldwide.org

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Manisha Arora

Connect with Manisha

Personal email:

manisha.k.patel@gmail.com

Work email:

manisha.arora@servicenow.com

LinkedIn:

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

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Wonder Woman in Business, Jory Des Jardins

Jory Des Jardins

Jory Des Jardins is CMO of the @ Company, builder of an internet protocol designed to put control over online data and user experiences back into the hands of People. She is passionate about making capital funding and business-building resources available to talented, underrepresented founders. She is VC in Residence at the W Fund. Jory pioneered social marketing as Co-Founder and President of BlogHer, a media marketplace representing thousands of digital influencers, which reached 100 million monthly unique viewers at the time of its acquisition. Jory has advised dozens of scaling startups, focusing on companies that are evolving digital influence, social content, media models, consumer marketplaces, eCommerce, Blockchain/token-based economies, and AR/VR/MR. Among the companies she has formally advised are PracticalXR, Lifescape, AIKON, and the entrepreneur network SheWorx.

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Jory Des Jardins

Connect with Jory

Company’s Website: https://atsign.com/

This tells the story of The @ Company and how @signs work.

LinkedIn newsletter:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/observations-from-week-work-tech-august-31-4-jory-des-jardins/

Social: @jory

Phone: 415.786.6126

Email: jory@atsign.com

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Wonder Woman in Business, Jasmine O'Brien, Esq.

Jasmine O’Brien, Esq.

Principal

Jasmine prides herself on the strength of her client relationships.  She believes that lawyers need to be customer-centric problem solvers who partner with business to achieve their commercial objectives.  She’s not afraid to do things differently and is at her happiest when she is getting results for her clients.  She understands that every business was once somebody’s dream and brings that awareness to her work.

Jasmine practises across all areas of employment law, industrial relations, and discrimination, harassment and bullying.

Jasmine's Principal Areas of Practice:

• business restructuring, including overseeing large scale redundancies and employee issues arising from a transfer of business;

• preparing employment contracts and policies;

• disciplinary issues and performance management, including dealing with difficult employees;

• enterprise agreement negotiation and drafting;

• industrial action contingency planning;

• litigation and dispute resolution;

• workplace investigations, including responding to allegations of discrimination, harassment or bullying;

• independent contractors;

• restraint of trade and protection of confidential information; and

• workplace relations training.

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Jasmine O’Brien

Contact Jasmine:

Jasmine O'Brien | Principal

T   03 9611 0149
M   0401 926 108
F   03 9620 9288

Level 5, 707 Collins Street, Melbourne, 3008, Victoria, Australia

jobrien@sladen.com.au | www.sladen.com.au

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