Women Leaders

Wonder Woman in Business, Deb Scaringi

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Deb Scaringi

Deb Scaringi is a marketing and business development professional advising lawyers and law firms across varied practice specialties. Whether as an independent consultant or an integral part of an in-house marketing team, Deb has the sophistication and experience to handle marketing and business development initiatives that directly contribute to the success of law firms and their professionals. Deb works with clients on strategic business development planning and coaching, comprehensive content creation and editing initiatives, existing marketing tool audits, website and blog development and maintenance, social media programs, skills trainings and presentations, event management and other crucial relationship building activities. Deb also helps firms to transition established marketing programs during mergers, build departments from scratch and functions as both a fractional CMO and on-call project manager.

In a nutshell, Deb is not a ‘one size fits all’ consultant. She believes that personal relationships are the most stable foundation for business development. While there are certainly similarities and best practices to follow, ultimately each lawyer and law firm has variables affecting their success. Deb works with leadership to uncover how each firm ‘ticks’ so that she may lay out the best possible path for successful marketing and business development. 

Deb’s clients thrive through her organic approach, personal connections and dedication to maneuvering through unique situations. She is known to build relationships for the long haul, baking trust into every step. She works collaboratively with each client, providing reflection, advice and recommendations that drive firms towards successful outcomes as a result of their work with her.

Deb is a go-getter in the legal marketing industry. She served the Legal Marketing Association (LMA) in many roles over her career. She currently co-chairs the first Experienced Marketer Special Interest Group for the LMA Northeast region. She also served on the Northeast region’s conference committee in 2019, was the Immediate Past President of the organization’s inaugural Northeast Regional Board of Directors, served as the New England Chapter’s President and ran the local organization’s educational and networking events as the programming chair for over 5 years. Deb also served as the President’s Committee Chair for the International Legal Marketing Association Board of Directors.

As a recognized leader in legal marketing, Deb is honored to be the recipient of the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly “Excellence in the Law” in legal marketing in 2018. Deb was selected through the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly’s Reader Polls in the category of Best Business Development Coach for 3 consecutive years (2017-2019) and was named a top Executive Coach in 2019. She was named a Distinguished Member of the LMA’s Northeast region in 2018 and is also the proud recipient of an LMA New England region’s Star Award, an award given annually to one person who tirelessly contributes to the legal marketing industry and community.

Deb is grateful to be invited to speak on a variety of marketing and business development topics for organizations such as the Boston Bar Association, the Legal Marketing Association, the Woman’s Bar Association, and at the In Practice and Firm Future conferences. Clients also invite her to give in-house presentations and training courses on similar topics.

Prior to assisting clients in a consulting capacity, Deb served as the Director of Marketing for New England-based law firms. In this role, she served as a top-level professional responsible for developing and executing all strategic marketing and business development initiatives, working directly with the firm’s leadership. Prior to joining the legal industry in 1998, Deb was a marketing professional in the Healthcare industry. 

Outside of the office, Deb is the chair of the Northborough-Southborough Music Association, where she leads a team of volunteers to raise funds and support award-winning music programs in grades 4-12 in both communities. Deb earned two Bachelor of Arts degrees in English and Music, cum laude, from Muhlenberg College in 1991.

Perhaps it goes without saying, but Deb and her husband are most proud of their three children and their collective accomplishments.

Deb Scaringi

Contact Deb

Deborah C. Scaringi

Business Development & Marketing Consultant

Scaringi Marketing

(508) 944-4164

www.scaringimarketing.com 

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

@DebScaringi




Wonder Woman in Business, Karen Walker

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Karen Walker

Karen Walker is an executive coach and consultant who advises CEOs and senior leaders on thriving in hyper-growth. She has worked with clients including Aetna, AWS, Pfizer, JPMorganChase, and BMC Software, as well as many Inc. 5000 startups. 

Karen is also a board advisor, keynote speaker, and the author of No Dumbing Down: A Guide for CEOs on Organization Growth. As employee 104 and a global VP at Compaq, Karen helped lead the then-fastest growing company in American history, growing it from $0 to $15 billion in revenue.

Karen has been published in Harvard Business Review’s Ascend, and quoted in publications such as The Wall Street Journal and The San Francisco Chronicle.

Karen has a B.S. degree in engineering from Texas A&M University and graduated from the ODHRM program at Columbia University. She has served in an advisory capacity to startups, Rice University, Texas A&M University, and on the executive board of The Alley Theatre. 

She resides in Jupiter, FL, although (until recently!), she was most often be found aloft in seat 2C.

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No Dumbing Down: A No-Nonsense Guide for CEOs on Organization Growth is a book for a company's senior-most leaders looking to make improvements when aligning the organization's internal and external strategies for fast, profitable, and sustainable growth.

This book combines the author's impactful and formative experience with leadership and strategy best practices, helping the reader master the counterintuitive art of actually delivering on the promise made to customers. Readers will learn how and why to put these strategies to work-taking direct aim at pitfalls that can trip up even the most stellar companies.

Karen Walker

Connect with Karen:

Email: karen@karenwalker.us

All social media:  karenwalkerus

Website: www.karenwalker.us



Wonder Woman in Business, Josie Morgan

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Josie Morgan

Josie Morgan is the Director of Marketing & Administration at BoyarMiller, a law firm in Houston, Texas. For over two years she has been leading their strategic marketing activities and overseeing daily administrative operations for the entire firm of just under 50 people. She is an experienced business development leader with more than 12 years in professional services and the legal industry.

In 2017, Josie was named to the “Women to Watch” category in the Houston Business Journal’s Women Who Mean Business awards that recognizes professional women for career achievement, contribution to a company and city success, community involvement and leadership. An accomplished public speaker, she has been selected to present at national industry conventions. Josie is passionate about giving back to the Houston community through her continued service with the Junior League for over 13 years where she has held many leadership roles, including serving on their board of directors. She is active in the Legal Marketing Association Houston City Group and has led the local chapter and chaired several committees. Additionally, Josie is currently on the board of directors of Young Audiences of Houston and is a member of the Hermann Park Conservancy and the Asante Society at the Houston Zoo. A graduate of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, Josie holds a BBA in Organizational Business and a BA in Psychology.

She is a mom to two young boys and a native Texan.

Josie Morgan

Connect with Josie:

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Wonder Woman in Business, Ruth Gotian, EdD, MS

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Ruth Gotian, EdD, MS

RUTH GOTIAN, Ed.D., M.S.
Inaugural Assistant Dean of Mentoring

Executive Director, Mentoring Academy

Chief Learning Officer in Anesthesiology

Assistant Professor of Education in Anesthesiology

Weill Cornell Medicine

Dr. Ruth Gotian is Assistant Dean of Mentoring and Executive Director of the Mentoring Academy at Weill Cornell Medicine, Chief Learning Officer and Assistant Professor of Education in Anesthesiology. Dr. Gotian received her B.S. and M.S. in Business Management from the University at Stony Brook in New York and certificates in Executive Leadership and Managing for Execution from Cornell University. She earned her doctorate at Teachers College Columbia University where she studied Adult Learning and Leadership and focused her research on optimizing success.

Dr. Gotian publishes in both medical education and adult learning journals on topics ranging from diversity and inclusion, networking, mentoring, leadership development and optimizing success. She is the co-editor of a book on medical education and won numerous mentoring awards. She has personally mentored 302 undergraduates and 304 MD-PhD students during her career. She now oversees the success of nearly 1,800 faculty members at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Dr. Gotian credits two of her mentors for their unwavering support. Dr Bert Shapiro oversaw all MD-PhD Programs at the National Institutes of Health. When Dr. Gotian approached him about her idea to return to graduate school and to study successful physician-scientists, he fully embraced the idea and encouraged her wholeheartedly. Most importantly, he checked in with her regularly to provide support and guidance.

Her doctoral advisor, Dr. Marie Volpe, a true renaissance woman, pushed Dr. Gotian further than she ever thought possible. She helped make the impossible, possible. 

Ruth Gotian, EdD

Stories by Ruth Gotian, EdD:

Mentoring During the COVID-19 Pandemic

By Ruth Gotian

nature.com — Credit: Adapted from Evgeny Karandaev/Shutterstock The coronavirus outbreak has left many of us feeling frightened, worried and overwhelmed. This is affecting people in different ways, but concerns relating to a lack of focus or productivity are not uncommon. Mentors should always provide a support system for trainees and encourage them to prioritize their health above their productivity: especially in testing times such as these.

How Perceptions of a Successful Physician-Scientist Varies with Gender and Academic Rank: Toward Defining Physician-Scientist's Success

By Ruth GotianOlaf S. Andersen

bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com — AbstractBackgroundPhysician-scientists (the physician-scientist workforce) are aging, and there are too few physician-scientists in the pipeline to replace those who retire. Moreover, the pipeline is leaky because some trainees and junior physician-scientists choose other career paths. Significant attention has been directed toward patching the leaking pipeline, thereby increasing the quantity of physician-scientists.

Five ‘Power Skills’ for Becoming a Team Leader

By Sarah Groover, Ruth Gotian

nature.com — Leading a diverse team requires effective communication and organization.Credit: Getty Many scientists will oversee a team at some point in their careers, whether it is one or two undergraduates doing a summer internship, an entire research group, or a department with students, technicians and postdoctoral researchers. Scientists are trained in their discipline, but are rarely, if ever, trained in how to manage and mentor trainees.

Put Participants First in Conference Design

By Hannah TurbevilleRuth Gotian

nature.com — Credit: Adapted from VictoriaBar/Getty Picture this: it’s 7:30 a.m., and conference participants are barely awake. Coffee in hand, they blink sleep away as they enter the room. Rows of chairs lead to a distant stage, and large monitors display the speaker’s slides. One hour of information-packed slides rolls into the next, and attention begins to wane. Students look around eagerly, wondering how they’ll manage to connect with academic luminaries in the five minutes between presentations.

Networking for Introverted Scientists

By Ruth Gotian

nature.com — Credit: Alashi/Getty Many scientists struggle with networking. If you’re one of them, don’t despair. A structured, scientific approach could be all you need. Networking starts at home. Before you go to a conference or another event, identify a core group of people, likely to be there and whom you’d like to meet to advance your career. These might be potential collaborators, employers, funding sources or future conference program organizers.

What Happens When Female Physicians Gather?

By Ruth Gotian, Rache Simmons

blogs.scientificamerican.com — Credit: Robert Daly Getty Images On a recent warm fall day, hundreds of female physicians from all of the New York Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) campuses in New York City convened for the first time at the New York Academy of Medicine to discuss the overt and covert benefits and challenges of being a female physician in academia. This was not a meeting that encouraged or even provided a platform for whining or preaching to the choir.

Why You Need a Support Team

By Ruth Gotian

nature.com — Credit: Adapted from Wei/iStock/Getty It’s crucial to have a ‘personal advisory board’. This is a group of dependable, reliable, clear-eyed peers — who can be nearby or scattered worldwide — from whom you can seek advice, counsel, support and perspective (and to whom you can, in turn, offer those things). Sometimes, perhaps even often, others’ points of view can help to inform your own decisions, and can prompt you to find a solution to what might otherwise have seemed an insurmountable obstacle.

Three Steps to Landing an Undergraduate Research Internship

By Ruth GotianUshma S. Neill

nature.com — Credit: Adapted from Getty Research-intensive internship programs for undergraduates offered by medical and graduate schools are always in high demand. Here, based on our 25 years of collective experience running these programs in the United States, we outline the three most essential components of a successful application.

Lame Advice for Female Professionals

By Ruth GotianUshma S. Neill

blogs.scientificamerican.com — Even Olympic athletes have coaches. So it stands to reason that two fairly accomplished academics who have given their fair share of public talks might attend a seminar about how women, in particular, could improve communication skills, or at least, be aware of how we are often perceived so we can adjust accordingly in an effort to ensure that a message is delivered effectively. The presenter was a communications expert experienced at training C-suite executives.

Academics Should Provide More Platforms to Learn from Each Other at Their Own Institutions (essay)

By Ruth Gotian

insidehighered.com — During my academic career, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to receive three degrees from two educational institutions; one was a state institution, the other an Ivy League. And for the last two decades, I have had the distinct privilege of working with three top-tier institutions of higher learning. I led classes and workshops, participated in meetings, and learned formally and informally from spectacular, award-winning faculty members. The best part?

Contact Ruth Gotian, EdD:

Ruth Gotian, EdD, MS

www.ruthgotian.com

https://twitter.com/RuthGotian

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

https://www.instagram.com/ruthgotian/



             

Wonder Woman in Business, Amy Volas

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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.

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/ 

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▻ 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

SPECIAL EDITION: Resilience During the Coronavirus Crisis with guest, Renee Branson

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Renee Branson

Certified Resilience Coach (CReC)

As a mental health professional and Certified Resilience Coach (CReC), Renee Branson provides clients with immediately usable tools to increase resilience, well-being, and optimism in the workplace. She works with lawyers, legal marketers, business professionals, non-profit leaders, and others to help them understand and incorporate resilience in their own professional lives and in the teams they lead.

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Contact Renee:

Email:

rb@reneebranson.blog

Website:

https://reneebranson.blog/

LinkedIn:

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