Susan Freeman

October 31, 2020

Books, Blogs, Empathy, Keynote Speaker, Lawyer, Legal, Male Allies, Story Telling, Wellness

Wonder Women in Business Ally, Domenic Cervoni

Susan Freeman

October 31, 2020

Books, Blogs, Empathy, Keynote Speaker, Lawyer, Legal, Male Allies, Story Telling, Wellness

Dom C.jpg — **Domenic Cervoni, JD**

Vice President | Senior Legal Counsel

Domenic Cervoni is Vice President | Senior Legal Counsel at HSBC North America Holdings, Inc. He primarily focuses on litigation for HSBC’s global banking and markets business and high risk US regulatory and investigatory matters. Prior to joining HSBC in the summer of 2013, Domenic was an associate in Mayer Brown’s NY office working on complex commercial and securities litigation as well as regulatory enforcement matters. Domenic is a public speaker on the topics of mental health, well-being, and leadership, and serves as an Advisor to a mental health tech company called AwareHealth.

He has presented a CLE webinar called Strive to Thrive: Why Healthy Lawyers are Good for Business, which is available through the Practicing Law Institute (PLI). Domenic also self-published a book called From Tragedy to Triumph: How My Wife's Courageous Battle With Rare Cancer Has Motivated Me to Live a Better Life Filled With Passion, Empathy, and Gratitude. It’s available on Amazon and all of the profits are donated to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

A student of Stoicism, Domenic is guided by this principle:

“Just that you do the right thing…nothing else matters.”
- Marcus Aurelius)

Cervoni book.jpg — From Tragedy to Triumph

When Domenic's wife, Barbie, was diagnosed with a rare cancer called thymoma for the second time in eight years at age 33, he was confused, overwhelmed, and scared. Their sons were ages 3 and 10 months, and he had just started a new position as an in-house lawyer for a large international bank. While he read tons of inspirational stories about how individuals triumphed over illness, Domenic had trouble finding resources that could help him cope with the sickness of a loved one and show him how to use that turmoil as motivation for making impactful life changes. In From Tragedy to Triumph, Domenic recounts Barbie's courageous battle with rare cancer as a young mother and how it has motivated him to live a better life, filled with passion, empathy, and gratitude. Hundreds of thousands of people are being diagnosed with cancer every year, and Domenic hopes that they and their loved ones can use this story as a source of inspiration and healing.

Buy the Book

Domenic’s Thought Leadership

CLE Presentation: Strive to Thrive: Why Healthy Lawyers are Good for Business

Webinar on Leadership called: Leadership During Crisis: The Power of Empathy and Self-awareness

Domenic C Cervoni
Vice President | Senior Legal Counsel
U.S. Litigation and Regulatory Enforcement | HSBC North America Holdings Inc.
452 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10018

Telephone: +1 212 525 1532

E-mail: domenic.c.cervoni@us.hsbc.com

Website: www.hsbc.com

Twitter: @DomCervoni

Susan Freeman

October 26, 2020

Diversity & Inclusion, Equity, Keynote Speaker, Women Leaders

Wonder Woman in Business, Mita Mallick

Susan Freeman

October 26, 2020

Diversity & Inclusion, Equity, Keynote Speaker, Women Leaders

Mita Mallick

Head of Inclusion, Equity and Impact at Carta

Mita Mallick is a corporate change-maker with a track record of transforming businesses and cultures. Mita is a passionate storyteller who believes in the power of diversity to spur creative strategic thinking which can ultimately transform brands.

She currently serves as the Head of Inclusion, Equity and Impact at Carta. Her writing on diversity, equity and inclusion issues have been published in Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur, Business Insider, Fast Company, Cosmopolitan, Create and Cultivate and The Goor Men Project. She’s also a columnist for SWAAY and a contributor for Working Mother Media.

Mita has a BA from Columbia University and a MBA from Duke University. She lives in Jersey City, NJ with her husband and two children.

In her own words…

I am a passionate storyteller. As a kid, I loved watching commercials instead of actual tv shows. I loved going to the store with my mom, studying The Keebler Elves and Snap, Crackle, Pop from Rice Krispies on shelf. I loved watching Fresh Prince of Bel Air because I saw a family that I could finally relate to. As a kid, I didn’t see many stories being told that included people who looked like me.

I have spent over 15 years as a storyteller. Leading iconic brands like AVEENO, AVON Color Cosmetics, Chapstick, Vaseline, Suave and Dove. Throughout my career, I have fought hard to ensure people like me are included. Ensuring black and brown people were represented in campaigns. Ensuring products we created were for all skin tones. Ensuring we were not reinforcing stereotypes. And a personal career high - signing Viola Davis to be our Vaseline Healing Project Ambassador.

I believe diversity of thought doesn’t happen without diversity of representation. When you have all those points of views, life experiences, and cultural backgrounds coming together around a table. Colliding, clashing, and collaborating- that’s when magic happens. That’s when we come up with that one break through innovative idea, campaign, innovation- to authentically and purposefully serve customers and communities.

Her thought leadership…

Why this workplace microaggression does more harm than you realize

https://www.fastcompany.com/90533252/why-this-workplace-microaggression-does-more-harm-than-you-realize

Do you know why your company needs a chief diversity officer?

https://hbr-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/hbr.org/amp/2020/09/do-you-know-why-your-company-needs-a-chief-diversity-officer

It’s time to rethink corporate bereavement policies

https://hbr.org/2020/10/its-time-to-rethink-corporate-bereavement-policies?ab=hero-subleft-2

I am a monthly contributor for Entrepreneur

https://www.entrepreneur.com/author/mita-mallick

Connect with Mita

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mita-mallick-2b165822/

Susan Freeman

October 21, 2020

Blogs, Health, Strategy, Wellness

Wonder Woman in Business, Mridu Parikh

Susan Freeman

October 21, 2020

Blogs, Health, Strategy, Wellness

Mridu Parikh

Ready to get control of your demands and distractions so you wake up with a plan and feel less overwhelmed? Then you need Mridu Parikh on speed dial.

As the creator of Life Is Organized, Mridu has helped working women increase billable time from one to five hours a day, create a routine to shed 15 pounds, and save 10 hours a week on emails and texts. She’s also been known to decrease overwhelm from a level 10 to a level 5 in just three sessions. Mridu’s strategies on streamlining tasks and mastering habits have been featured in The Huffington Post, US News & World Report, and Real Simple. With half her career in corporate and half in entrepreneurship, she’s an expert in ditching stress – in the boardroom or in the home office.

When she’s not wrangling a list or schedule, you can usually find this former professional organizer with her two teens and one husband in Nashville (albeit inseparable from her 917 NY number) enjoying milk chocolate in one hand and red wine in the other.

Join us for this upcoming class:

"Create The Perfect To-Do List And Plan Your Week Like A Boss."

More here: http://lifeisorganized.com/masterclass/

Connect with Mridu & Enjoy a Few Free Resources:

Free resources: https://lifeisorganized.com/resources/

Best-Selling Book called "Accomplish It": https://lifeisorganized.com/accomplishit/

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

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

LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mridu-parikh/

Susan Freeman

October 16, 2020

Diversity & Inclusion, Women Leaders

Wonder Woman in Business, Rika Nakazawa

Susan Freeman

October 16, 2020

Diversity & Inclusion, Women Leaders

Rika Nakazawa

Rika Nakazawa is a senior executive, entrepreneur, investor in, and frequent public speaker on, technology-powered business transformation. She is also Vice President and Client Partner at Conduent, a $4B revenue global BPO provider to Fortune 100 companies, and is also the Founder and CEO of BoardSeatMeet, Inc. a Silicon Valley, social impact venture, focusing on diversifying the board room by empowering women to build and leverage social capital with modern technology. BoardSeatMeet's mission is to deliver the “High-Performance Board Room of Tomorrow.”

Trilingual in Japanese, German, and English, Rika grew up in Japan and moved to the US initially to attend Princeton University. Rika has since worked internationally over two decades in senior executive roles in strategy, business development, and marketing with Fortune 500 companies - NVIDIA, Sony, Accenture, American Express - and Silicon Valley startups. She is a technology industry veteran and has served on multiple venture boards in next-generation computing and artificial intelligence ecosystems.

Throughout her career, Rika has been an avid advocate for advancing diversity leadership in governance, technology, and business across industry verticals and global dimensions. And she is particularly passionate about deepening the intersection of human and digital paradigms through transformational innovation and the pursuit of purpose-driven collaboration.

Connect with Rika

Rika’s LinkedIn Profile

linkedin.com/in/rikanakazawa

Email

rika.nakazawa@gmail.com

Twitter

@rikamarien

Susan Freeman

October 12, 2020

Wonder Woman in Business, Emily Alexander

Susan Freeman

October 12, 2020

Emily Alexander is an experienced litigator and trial attorney. She has represented business clients as both plaintiffs and defendants in partnership and contract disputes, negligence and malpractice actions, intellectual property and securities fraud claims, and antitrust and regulatory matters.

Ms. Alexander graduated from Fordham Law School, Order of the Coif, and clerked for the Honorable Lawrence M. McKenna of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She is a member of both the New York and California bar.

Emily is not only a successful litigator, she's also a mom on a mission to help tackle racial inequality in education in her role as Board Chair at New Roads School.

ABOUT NEW ROADS SCHOOL

In an authentically diverse community reflective of Los Angeles, New Roads prepares young people for life by developing in them a personal dedication to learning, a respect for independent thinking, an expanding curiosity about the world and its people, and a commitment to the common good.

PHILOSOPHY

We believe that education must not only be about the mastery of foundational facts, knowledge, and skills, but a joint venture among students, parents, teachers, and other stakeholders in the educational village of greater Los Angeles. We must also cultivate habits of mind, habits of character, an ever expanding awareness of the human situation, and the tools needed for intellectual, social, political, and moral participation as well as personal fulfillment. To be truly supportive of young people, our village — teachers, parents, and other adults — must themselves continue to learn so that they may perceive the young accurately and treat them wisely.

To prepare our young people to navigate, contribute to, and improve the quality of life and opportunities for themselves and others as well as to journey on the road untravelled, we uphold certain commitments and expectations for them.
We are committed to:

the creation of a generative learning community where learning is meaningful, relevant, connected, and contextual
the liberation of each student’s curiosity and the development of each student’s full human potential
academic excellence, driven by authentic diversity
excellence in the arts and in athletics
the development of a student population diverse in every way: social, economic, neurological, ethnic, racial, cultural, nationality, ideological, ableness, religious, sexual orientation, gender expression, and family makeup
behaving responsibly and honorably as individuals and as an institution, and serving the larger ecological and social community

We consider certain skills to be essential for all graduates:

to read well and write clearly
to express oneself effectively
to build a foundation for wellbeing
to reason and to question thoughtfully, soundly, critically, and ethically
to approach and solve problems creatively as an individual and as a member of a team
to evaluate and synthesize information in order to advance understanding and innovate responsibly
to study with purpose and perseverance
to demonstrate the flexibility and nimbleness of mind to respond to the demands of a rapidly evolving world
to develop a portable set of skills that can be translated and applied across a variety of contexts
to develop respect for the humanity and ecology of the earth and the sensitivity to appreciate life’s deep joys and mysteries
to invite and seek to understand contradictory and complementary perspectives
to listen and understand empathically

Mindful of the ever-changing world, New Roads School acknowledges a continuing need to evaluate these essential skills.

We understand that there are many kinds of intelligence. As such, our programs call upon our young people to develop and appreciate the value and interdependence of cognition, intuition, imagination, creativity, kinesthetic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal intelligence as well as personal wellbeing. To neglect any of these areas is to limit students in the liberation of their full human potential.

Contact Emily

WEBSITE: https://www.tafsattorneys.com/attorney/emily-alexander/

E-MAIL: EMILYALEXANDER@TAFSATTORNEYS.COM

TEL.: +1 310 961-2536

FAX.: +1 310 526-6852

Susan Freeman

October 12, 2020

Lawyer, Legal, Women Leaders

Wonder Woman in Business, Dina DeGiorgio

Susan Freeman

October 12, 2020

Lawyer, Legal, Women Leaders

Dina DeGiorgio

In Dina’s Own Words:

For 27 years, I have practiced as an attorney and mediator in my own boutique law firm specializing exclusively in Divorce, Family Law, and Mediation. I understand that divorce is scary and it is not only a legal process but an emotional one. My mission is to guide clients through these choppy waters—so they can arrive at their next destination in the best way possible. To do this, I focus on clients’ objectives and critical issues, unravel complicated finances and entanglements, and problem-solve to reach beneficial resolutions. I take the time to understand where each client is and advise them from that place. My clients choose me to be their ally to navigate complicated divorce matters—because of my deep experience and commitment to understand their goals and to avoid protracted and unnecessary litigation.

I leverage my extensive knowledge of the law, litigation experience, and mediator training to help identify the bottlenecks that prevent agreement and craft innovative approaches and solutions to bring resolution without the cost, time, and emotional toll of lengthy litigation. I understand that each client has individualized needs and objectives, and while reaching a fair financial agreement is essential, divorce is an emotional process, and other things such as maintaining strong relationships with children and moving on with your life are often just as important. I work with my clients to achieve a resolution that will allow them to enter into their next chapter. When necessary, I am a tenacious advocate for my clients both at the mediation table and in the courtroom.

As a trained mediator, I am able to simplify complicated issues and focus in on the ones blocking resolution. By understanding the motivations of each party and helping them to separate emotions from their decisions, I bring parties together to reach an agreement—even under the most challenging and contentious circumstances.

For 8 years, I proudly served as Councilwoman in the Town of North Hempstead, representing Port Washington and Manhasset. During my tenure, similar to my private law practice, I was a fearless advocate who stood up for what I believed and, at the same time, developed relationships and collaborated with others to reach resolutions and move forward.

I am a member of the Matrimonial and Family Law Committees of the New York State Bar Association and the Nassau County Bar Association and I am also a member of the New York State Council on Divorce Mediation and National Association of Divorce Professionals (NADP). I participate regularly in peer-group discussions with financial professionals, mediators, and attorneys where I promote and discuss utilizing a team approach to mediation as an alternative to litigation for high net worth divorcing couples. I leverage this network and expertise to benefit my clients and help position themselves for a happy next chapter.