Susan Freeman

June 1, 2020

Women Leaders, Legal, Diversity & Inclusion, Empathy

Wonder Woman in Business, Belinda Luu

Susan Freeman

June 1, 2020

Women Leaders, Legal, Diversity & Inclusion, Empathy

Belinda Luu bio pic (3) edited.jpeg — Belinda Luu

Senior Counsel, Kaiser Permanente

Belinda Luu is the leader of enterprise-wide data management and governance. Lead for the Legal Department with respect to the development of data management and governance practices regarding the external and internal sharing of data.

Belinda is a senior technology attorney with 19 years' experience in negotiating upwards of one-billion-dollar technology transactions for Kaiser Permanente - one of the largest health care non-profit organizations. Belinda is experienced in Healthcare Information Technology, complex technology transactions, Big Data management, governance, and strategy, cloud services, AI, strategic innovation collaborations, licensing, professional services, outsourcing transactions, and IP. Prior to Kaiser Permanente, she counseled clients ranging from Fortune 100, and early stage companies in IT, healthcare, software, web-based, e-commerce, automotive, manufacturing, insurance, energy, and banking and financial industries.

Belinda is passionate about equity, inclusion and diversity (EID) matters. She is the Chair of Enrichment and Development Committee of the Legal Department's Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Belinda leads the Enrichment and Development Committee, made up of 10 attorneys and staff, to organize the delivery of unconscious bias training for the Legal Department. Every year, Belinda is the Co-Master of Ceremonies and host of the annual Kaiser Permanente and California Minority Counsel Program MCLE Marathon. She is a speaker on and moderator of panels discussing EID issues within Kaiser Permanente and at EID conferences. Her passion for this work stems from wanting to make the world a better place for her 5-year-old daughter and under-represented communities.

Connect with Belinda

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/belinda-luu-2390782/

Susan Freeman

May 27, 2020

Empathy, Team Building, Women Leaders, Wellness

Wonder Woman in Business, Camila Mize

Susan Freeman

May 27, 2020

Empathy, Team Building, Women Leaders, Wellness

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.

Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett Cheek to Cheek shoot with Steven Klein

2018 with Oji Life Lab’s co-founders, Andrea Hoban and Matt Kursh

Quality Family Time on Mt Tam

Redwoods hikes with The Dude (rescue dog)

SI Women’s Brunch at the Olympic Club hosted by the St Ignatius Alumni Board

Keeping Bees

Susan Freeman

May 27, 2020

Legal, Lawyer, Team Building, Women Leaders, Diversity & Inclusion

Wonder Woman in Business, Daphne Forbes

Susan Freeman

May 27, 2020

Legal, Lawyer, Team Building, Women Leaders, Diversity & Inclusion

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

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/

Susan Freeman

May 22, 2020

Keynote Speaker, Story Telling, Women Leaders, Communications, Marketing, Diversity & Inclusion

Wonder Woman in Business, Julie Kratz

Susan Freeman

May 22, 2020

Keynote Speaker, Story Telling, Women Leaders, Communications, Marketing, Diversity & Inclusion

Julie Kratz Head Shot.jpg — Julie Kratz

Next Pivot Point CEO

Julie Kratz is a highly-acclaimed speaker and trainer who led teams and produced results in corporate America. After experiencing her own career “pivot point,” she developed a process for women leaders to build winning plans. Promoting gender equality in the workplace, Julie is a Tedx speaker, a frequent keynote speaker, and executive coach. She holds an MBA from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, is a Certified Master Coach, and is a certified unconscious bias trainer. Her books include Pivot Point: How to Build a Winning Career Game Plan, ONE: How Male Allies Support Women for Gender Equality, and Lead Like an Ally: A Journey Through Corporate America with Strategies to Facilitate Inclusion. Meet Julie at NextPivotPoint.com

Julie in action…

Contact Julie

Julie Kratz (she/her)

Next Pivot Point CEO

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Lead Like An Ally

Valuable freebies from Julie - www.nextpivotpoint.com/resources

Freeman Means Business

Susan Freeman

May 21, 2020

Blogs, Wellness, Women Leaders

Wonder Woman in Business, Claudine Francois

Susan Freeman

May 21, 2020

Blogs, Wellness, Women Leaders

Claudine Francois

Claudine Francois is a Health & Wellness Coach who helps successful women entrepreneurs achieve the same level of success in their health as they do in their business so they can break the cycle and live out their lives eating the foods they love, waking up full of energy, and loving their bodies. As a former CFO of a multi-national company, Claudine found herself in a constant state of stress, which led her into a cycle of over-indulging in what she later discovered to be harmful foods to her body, and reeling from the consequences (frequent headaches and migraines, sluggishness, inflammation, bloating, leaky gut and weight gain). She decided to take control of her life by leaving that job and starting her own business helping women entrepreneurs step into stress- and toxic-free lifestyles with her own practices, recipes (that taste amazing AND nourish the body) and lifestyle strategies. She is now happy to be the successful woman entrepreneur’s guide to food bliss and enjoying life again! Her website and blog (www.ingoodcleantaste.com) provides tips and recipes for healthy living that are full of flavor to help women feel vibrant, energetic and at their best.

Recipes

Here is a recent post I did on healthy (yet delicious) snacks might be good to include as it links to a variety of recipes people might want to try:
https://ingoodcleantaste.com/healthy-snack-ideas/

Connect with Claudine

IG: https://www.instagram.com/ingoodcleantaste/

FB: https://www.facebook.com/ingoodcleantaste/

Email: claudine@ingoodcleantaste.com

Join her Clean Eating for Successful Women Entrepreneurs Facebook Group here: www.facebook.com/groups/cleaneatingwithclaudine/

Freeman Means Business

Susan Freeman

May 19, 2020

Women Leaders, Equity

Wonder Woman in Business, Melanie Kiely

Susan Freeman

May 19, 2020

Women Leaders, Equity

MelanieKiely

Sr. Counsel, T-Mobile

Melanie Kiely is Sr. Counsel for T-Mobile's Engineering, Products and Information Technology organization’s and partners with her Technology clients in bringing the Un-carrier revolution to T-Mobile’s customers. Her practice includes legal guidance for T-Mobile’s network deployment strategy involving thousands of cell sites, distributed antennas systems (DAS), and in-building facilities providing wireless coverage to T-Mobile’s 100+ million customers and propelling 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT) into the future. She also focuses on commercial transactions involving software licenses, software as a service, cloud computing, data collection, privacy and cyber security and all aspects assisting the digitalization of T-Mobile’s systems. Melanie supports the business with acquisitions, integrations, and divestitures.

Additionally, Melanie was the Chairperson of the Women’s Leadership Network, an internal leadership organization that drives gender diversity at T-Mobile and empowers its 16,000 members across 53 Chapters nationwide reach for opportunity and thrive in their personal and professional lives. She also is a Board Member of Law360’s Telecommunications Editorial Advisory Board and advises the publication on trends in the telecommunications industry. Prior to joining T-Mobile, Melanie served as Managing Attorney at American Tower Corporation and led an organization in the securitization of the company’s most valuable real estate tower assets. Melanie graduated with a J.D. from New England School of Law and a B.A. from Brandeis University, where she was a 3-sport varsity captain and recipient of the Max I. Silber award for being an outstanding student-athlete. She is a champion for diversity and advocate for gender and racial equality.