Susan Freeman

February 5, 2021

Curiosity, Diversity & Inclusion, Keynote Speaker, Women Leaders

Wonder Woman in Business, Shani Barrax Moore

Susan Freeman

February 5, 2021

Curiosity, Diversity & Inclusion, Keynote Speaker, Women Leaders

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Shani Barrax Moore (she/her/hers) is a strategic diversity and inclusion practitioner with more than 20 years of experience in training and development, strategic planning and change leadership, and coalition building. Shani currently serves as the Director of Diversity and Inclusion at the University of North Texas (UNT) in Denton (a city in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex) where she leads a learning and development team, executes planning and delivery of the UNT Equity and Diversity Conference, manages employee resource groups, and develops strategic partnerships for the university. At both UNT and Tarrant County College District where she served as the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, she led an institution-wide campus inclusion climate survey and strategic planning process leading to institutional diversity and inclusion infrastructure. She led similar initiatives as the Director of Diversity and Inclusion at Cary Academy, a 6 – 12 independent school in North Carolina, which earned her membership on the Executive Committee of the National Association of Independent School’s Call to Action, the Association’s think tank for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Shani is a partner with Aurora Change Agency, a consulting firm that provides diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic learning and development for corporate, non-profit, governmental, and educational entities.

Shani serves on the boards of Child Care Group, North Texas Diversity Council, and the Social Action Committee of the Lambda Upsilon Sigma chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Incorporated. A Cornell University Certified Diversity Advanced Practitioner and an Intercultural Development Inventory Qualified Administrator, Shani is a native of Raleigh, North Carolina, an alumna of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the mom of two teenage daughters. She is currently a City Council candidate for Carrollton, and is pursuing a doctorate degree in higher education administration.

Learn more about the
EQUITY & DIVERSITY CONFERENCE
Equity and Diversity Conference @ edc.unt.edu
It is virtual and registration deadline is 2/16

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Connect with Shani

Phone: 972-998-1536

Email: tazamadada@gmail.com

LinkedIn: in/shani-barrax-moore-aurorachangeagency/

Susan Freeman

January 26, 2021

Executive Coaching, Keynote Speaker, Legal, Lawyer, Networking, Strategy, Team Building, Women Leaders

Wonder Woman in Business, Deb Feder

Susan Freeman

January 26, 2021

Executive Coaching, Keynote Speaker, Legal, Lawyer, Networking, Strategy, Team Building, Women Leaders

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.

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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

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?

Susan Freeman

January 24, 2021

Equity, Keynote Speaker, Thought Leadership, Wellness, Women Leaders

Wonder Woman in Business, Kat de Haën

Susan Freeman

January 24, 2021

Equity, Keynote Speaker, Thought Leadership, Wellness, Women Leaders

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The Fourth Floor

Kat de Haën is a co-founder of The Fourth Floor, a curated community and tech-driven entrepreneurial ecosystem that seeks to get more womxn on the boards of womxn founded start-ups and established companies, so they can be more successful in raising capital, building wealth, and having a say in the future of industry. She is passionate about women’s initiatives and evolving new opportunities to support other change-makers, leaders, and founders. She delights in bringing together people who can help each other in business, career, and life.

Kat is also an inventor and successful businessperson. She invented and brought to market a popular consumer beauty product and launched an upscale silk fashion line. She started her career in sales and product development in the fashion industry working with major retailers.

Born in Zurich, Switzerland and raised in Seattle. She currently lives in New York City with her husband, Jon Colman and their daughter Sophie.

Connect with Kat and The Fourth Floor

Kat de Haën / Co-Founder
646-528-4279
www.thefourthfloor.co
LinkedIn

Susan Freeman

January 14, 2021

Diversity & Inclusion, Keynote Speaker, Lawyer, Team Building, Thought Leadership, Women Leaders

Wonder Woman in Business Breen Sullivan

Susan Freeman

January 14, 2021

Diversity & Inclusion, Keynote Speaker, Lawyer, Team Building, Thought Leadership, Women Leaders

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.

Follow Breen and The Fourth Floor on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook

Susan Freeman

January 13, 2021

Diversity & Inclusion, Team Building, Women Leaders

Wonder Woman in Business, Manisha Arora

Susan Freeman

January 13, 2021

Diversity & Inclusion, Team Building, Women Leaders

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

Connect with Manisha

Personal email:

manisha.k.patel@gmail.com

Work email:

manisha.arora@servicenow.com

LinkedIn:

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

Susan Freeman

January 10, 2021

Keynote Speaker, MarTech, Strategy, Team Building, Women Leaders

Wonder Woman in Business, Jory Des Jardins

Susan Freeman

January 10, 2021

Keynote Speaker, MarTech, Strategy, Team Building, Women Leaders

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.