Women Leaders

Wonder Woman in Business, Anjli Garg, Esq.

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Anjli Garg, Esq.

AGC, Citi

Anjli Garg, Director, Associate General Counsel, Citibank, N.A.

Anjli Garg serves as a general counsel to Citi’s global commercial cards business, working with Citi’s largest institutional clients.  She is also an active member of Citi Legal’s Global Diversity Council. Before joining Citi, she was in-house counsel at American Express and an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell.  Anjli has also published articles and spoken at conferences and panels on topics as diverse as privacy and data security, unconscious bias, and diversity and inclusion.  She has 20+years of experience as a corporate transactional attorney, and obtained her J.D. from NYU School of Law. 

Anjli is also a Certified Professional Coach and Energy Leadership Index – Master Practitioner through iPEC, which is an International Coach Federation accredited coach training program.  Anjli’s passion as a coach is to help successful people find their missing puzzle piece by clarifying their priorities, tapping into their personal power and charting and navigating their journey there.

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The Warrior and The Queen

Lara and Jasmine are two modern professional women who, like most of us, are fully immersed in their three-dimensional reality. Although the two never cross paths, both are pursuing their passions in the vibrant Petri dish of New York City. When they least expect it, their very way of life is challenged and their foundations shaken to the core. Metaphysical events in their lives cause them to question their entire world-view and sense of identity. They are confronted with forces and past lives that they have no choice but to examine. In the process, they discover hidden depths unknown to them.

Lara and Jasmine will never be the same again. They invite you to join them on their journey of self-discovery, as they navigate a web of royal plots and deadly battles, spanning ancient India and the medieval Europe of the Knights Templar. Although based upon a kernel of truth, their stories are nevertheless a work of fiction. As the reader, you are transported through time and space, and weave through a mosaic of colorful cultures, culinary delights, and webs of intrigue. Their stories will please all six of your senses, as you experience the vibrancy of Lara and Jasmine’s incarnations. Their tales open a window to a metaphysical and spiritual journey that is sure to empower you, as you welcome the challenge. Their stories are presented as is, with no attempt to assert or validate the accuracy of historical events and no espousal of any particular religious beliefs.

Lara and Jasmine simply want to share the unfolding effects of their metaphysical experiences with the world. The Warrior and the Queen, at heart, is an inspirational novel that offers something for every reader. It is as much literary as it is entertaining. It poetically engages the reader in his or her own exploration of what may lie beyond the three-dimensional reality of our five senses. The reader is not alone in that journey – Lara and Jasmine have the same doubts and unanswered questions in their lives. Theirs is a tale where different metaphysical and spiritual tools converge and interact magically to offer answers that all of us have access to. The Warrior and the Queen is an easy read that is best enjoyed with a cup of chai or mint tea in hand.

“The journey of a warrior is not to find meaning in life or in battle but to find his true self.” “Awaken, and once awake, awaken others.” Readers have described the book as: “inspirational…takes you to the 4th dimension…poetic…avant-garde…an easy read…healing…intriguing…enlightening.”

Contact Anjli:

ANJLI GARG, ESQ., CPC, ELI-MP

Executive Leadership Coach

YOUR COACH TO SOAR: anjli@yourcoachtosoar.com

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Wonder Woman in Business, Karen Catlin

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Karen Catlin

#womenhelpingwomen

After spending 25 years building software products and serving as a vice president of engineering at Macromedia and Adobe, Karen Catlin witnessed a sharp decline in the number of women working in tech. Frustrated but galvanized, she knew it was time to switch gears.

Today, Karen is a vocal advocate for inclusion, a leadership coach, a keynote speaker, and the author of three books: "Present! A Techie's Guide to Public Speaking" (with Poornima Vijayashanker), "Better Allies: Everyday Actions to Create Inclusive, Engaging Workplaces," and "The Better Allies™ Approach to Hiring." 

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The Better Allies Approach to Hiring

Are you struggling to diversify your workforce? Is your company consistently missing its diversity goals? You may hear colleagues saying, “We’d hire more women or people of color if we could find them,” but the pipeline isn’t truly to blame. There are proven approaches for connecting with qualified candidates from underrepresented demographics. And when you know how to design a hiring process that will set them up for success, they’ll be eager to accept your offer.

Building on the momentum of her book, "Better Allies: Everyday Actions to Create Inclusive, Engaging Workplaces," Karen Catlin has created this helpful hiring guide filled with best practices to recruit and hire people from underrepresented ethnicities and genders, with non-traditional educational backgrounds, with gaps on their resumes, or from older generations. With examples, stories, checklists, rubrics, and guidelines galore, this unique tool will help you transform your hiring process to attract and retain diverse applicants.

Read this guidebook for actionable steps you can take to fill your pipeline with candidates from underrepresented groups and ensure you have an inclusive interview process that paves the way to a more diverse workforce.

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Better Allies

Are you looking to build a workplace culture with a certain buzz about it? Where employees are thriving and engagement survey scores are through the roof. Where people from different backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, ages, and abilities are hired and set up for success--and they all want their friends to work there too, because it's so awesome.

One secret to creating this kind of workplace is allyship. And it's something anyone can do.

In Better Allies: Everyday Actions to Create Inclusive, Engaging Workplaces, you'll learn to spot situations where you can create a more inclusive culture, along with straightforward steps to take. Leadership coach Karen Catlin will walk you through how to be a better ally, including:

• Hiring and retaining a diverse workforce

• Amplifying and advocating for others

• Giving effective and equitable performance feedback

• Using more inclusive language

Read this book to level-up your ally skills using the Better Allies™ approach and create a culture where everyone, including you, can do their best work and thrive.

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Present! A Techie’s Guide To Public Speaking

The ultimate interactive public speaking guide from tech speakers Poornima Vijayashanker and Karen Catlin that prepares and encourages techies to discover their expertise, confidently share it, and successfully level up in their careers. Techies around the world can now jump start and grow their speaking careers with the book,

Present! A Techie’s Guide to Public Speaking, written by tech leaders, Poornima Vijayashanker and Karen Catlin. The book serves as a resource for technology professionals who want or need to develop the skills to communicate their expertise effectively, whether in a meeting at work or delivering an engaging talk at a conference. Poornima, who is the founder of Femgineer and the founding engineer of Mint.com, collaborated with former Adobe vice president and founder of Karen Catlin Consulting, Karen Catlin, to compile and share their lessons, tips, and techniques learned from their own experiences as professional tech speakers. “Karen and I wanted to write this book so that our fellow techies would have a comprehensive resource to help them with their own public speaking endeavors. So many folks in the tech industry have amazing ideas and experience, but they often feel stuck on how to present them effectively.

Also, our hope is that more women will be inspired by our stories and encouraged to get out there and share their own valuable expertise through public speaking in order to boost representation of women tech speakers,” Poornima said.Present! covers public speaking from A to Z. Through stories, examples, and interactive exercises, Poornima and Karen dive into topics including, overcoming stage fright, exploring personal speaking style, creating the right talk for the right audience, polishing presence and delivery, and nailing any type of talk, whether it’s a lightning or long-form talk or being part of a panel. Karen said, “Even though Poornima and I are professional speakers, we felt it was important to share our own feelings of nerves and uncertainty, and bumps we’ve had along the way - and sometimes continue to experience. It was important for us to communicate that no one is perfect and it really is okay when talks don’t always go according to plan. Our hope is that by being open, we’ll be able to give others the confidence and the techniques to handle situations when they arise, deliver an amazing presentation, and most importantly, have FUN”!

Karen Catlin

Contact Karen:

Karen Catlin (she/her)

Coach | Speaker | Author | Advocate for Inclusive Workplaces

karencatlin.com

betterallies.com




Wonder Woman in Business, Maria Pia Buchi

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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.

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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)

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Miami & Sao Paulo

Anguilla | Bermuda | British Virgin Islands | Cayman Islands | Cyprus | Hong Kong | London | Montevideo | São Paulo | Shanghai | Singapore | Vancouver

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.

Wonder Woman in Business, Brandi Hobbs

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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, Dr. Diane Hamilton

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Dr. Diane Hamilton

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/

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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?

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Dr. Diane Hamilton

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CRACKING THE CURIOSITY CODE

The Key to Unlocking Human Potential

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

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Social Media: @drdianehamilton



 

Wonder Woman in Business, Maya Markovich

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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

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Twitter

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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