Wonder Woman, Sheenika Gandhi, Brilliant and Beautiful in So Many Ways!

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Sheenika Gandhi

Director of Marketing & Business Development,

Payne & Fears, LLP

Sheenika S. Gandhi leads the development, oversight and implementation of the firm’s strategic marketing and business development objectives.

She is a strong project manager, creative thinker, and a trusted advisor for the firm’s attorneys and management. Her recent notable projects include: an integrated thought leadership strategy, a business development coaching program, and centralized budget and operational processes.

Prior to joining Payne & Fears LLP, Sheenika led the digital marketing strategy for five years at an AmLaw200 firm.

Sheenika received her J.D. from California Western School of Law and her B.A. in Business Administration and International Relations from University of San Diego. Sheenika is a licensed California attorney.

Sheenika is an active volunteer with the Legal Marketing Association, the leading association for legal marketing. She currently assists with programming, communications and sponsorship in her role as Vice-Chair of the Southern California Local Steering Committee.

Committed to helping cultural non-profit organizations grow in their membership and marketing, she has volunteered as a former Co-Chair for both the Young Jains of America and Young Jain Professionals, and served on committees for the Jain Center of Southern California and the Gujarati Society of Southern California. She enjoys yoga, exploring vegan restaurants and traveling.

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Enjoy the podcast.

Sheenika Gandhi

Get Connected:

Sheenika S. Gandhi

Director of Marketing & Business Development

(949) 797-1207

sgandhi@paynefears.com

LinkedIn:

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

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Wonder Woman in Business, Linda Ficano, with the Most Adorable Accent Ever!

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Linda Ficano

Client Solutions Specialist, Neo Design Group

Linda Ficano began her legal marketing career nearly 25 years ago when Paul, Weiss asked her to delve into this new industry where she developed and implemented their first marketing department. Her career led her to the IP specialty firm Fitzpatrick in 2004 when a friend of hers heard they were looking to hire their first seasoned marketing director.  The collaboration was successful and lasted nearly 15 years.

During those years Linda played a key role in many initiatives including project management, PR, redesigned websites, creation of microsites and overall raising recognition of the firm’s name in the New York business and legal communities. 

In January Linda was asked to join Neo Design Group as their client solutions specialist. Linda had worked with Neo Design Group while at Fitzpatrick where they collaborated on the creation of microsites for individual practice groups and the rebranding and redesign of the firm’s website.

Linda’s belief that every law firm would benefit from having a business executive manage client relationships and her passion for branding led to the decision to join the team at Neo Design Group where her role will be a liaison between your company and the design team to ensure exceptional client service.

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Linda and her two daughters went to Thailand for her younger daughter Christina’s 30th Birthday.

One of their stays was at the Four Seasons in the Golden Triangle where they created an elephant sanctuary. Not only did her daughters ride them with the guides, they were able to feed them at breakfast time!

“The trip was so rewarding,” says Linda. They chose Thailand because not only were they looking for beauty but were interested in spirituality, as well. It’s a trip all three of them still treasure.

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Enjoy the podcast.

Linda Ficano, Client Solutions

Neo Design Group

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Wonder Woman in Business, Military Wife, Miracle-Maker Mom & Creator of “Mommy Cookies,” Lauren Lewis

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Lauren Lewis

Founder & CEO,

Pure Pregnancy

Lauren Lewis is the founder of Pure Pregnancy, a health food company designed for pregnant

women. Her background is journalism. After studying at the top rated Missouri School of

Journalism, she launched her career in television- first as a reporter, and eventually as a

network producer in New York. She’s a military spouse, and a mother of two boys. Once she

become a mother, Lauren discovered holes in the market for women, specifically pregnant

women. Frustrated with the lack of healthy food options for pregnant women, she decided to

leave her television career, and launch her own company. Pure Pregnancy just hit the market in

late 2018, and has already been rated #1 new release on Amazon, and an Amazon Bestseller.

More about “Mommy Cookies”…

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Lauren Lewis, Founder & CEO

Pure Pregnancy

Pamela Cone, Turning Acts of Kindness into Sustainable Change for Good

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Pamela Cone

CEO & Founder,

Amity Advisory

Pam is an innovative and transformative executive with 25+ years of success in global marketing, communications programs, and corporate social responsibility for global professional service firms. Expertise establishing strategic marketing communications programs from scratch, growing revenue through new business development, developing high-performing teams across the globe, and building strong and strategic relationships within the actuarial and legal professions.

Pam’s company, Amity Advisory affords clients Social Responsibility Consulting For Legal & Professional Service Firms. They help legal and professional service firms turn their fragmented, random "acts of kindness"​ into holistic, compelling social responsibility and sustainability programs. Is your current CSR & Sustainability program meeting the expectations of prospects, clients and employees? How can you proactively have this conversation with your clients to partner for the UNSDGS / Global Goals 2030?

Pam’s passion for the environment and sustainability germinated in her youth. As a teenager and into college, she spent her summers working in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area of Northern Minnesota, and she has never lost her appreciation for what the natural environment - beautiful forests and calm blue lakes - teaches us, all while restoring us.

Contact Pam:

Pamela Cone, Founder & CEO

Website: AmityAdvisory.com

Email: pamelacone@amityadvisory.com

Phone: 206-499-6890

Schedule a time to chat: https://ApptwithPamCone.as.me/

The Doctor Is In: Wonder Woman in Business, Angela Meyer, Ph.D.

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Angela Meyer, Ph.D.

President & CEO, PLAC

Dr. Angela Meyer is President and CEO of PLAC (The Product Liability Advisory Council), a legal association of manufacturers, retailers, distributors and select outside counsel.  A trained and licensed mechanical engineer, she has been working in the litigation support arena her entire professional career- she is one of the few people that can say “I love lawyers”.

Angela grew up in a military family (father – Marine Corp officer; mother – Naval officer) and moved extensively throughout the US.  She became fascinated with airplanes and chose mechanical engineering in order to join the military and become a commercial airline pilot. After college, when the military wanted her to work on submarines and not aircraft, she went back to graduate school and started working with a pre-eminent aviation forensic investigator, who happened to be her major research professor, and decided that if she couldn’t fly planes, she would figure out why they crashed. She also helped the department recruit women to the engineering program (a sales person was born).

Angela worked as a post-doc at the Canadian Department of National Defense in their military accident reconstruction laboratory in Ottawa and then at the University of California, Berkeley at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories studying advanced materials. She joined Failure Analysis Associates (now Exponent) and worked on a variety of accident investigations.  A twist of fate landed her in the corporate office of the company becoming the first marketing person that the company ever had. As the CEO told her “you have a PhD therefore you can do anything”.   Over the years, Angela took on additional responsibilities for the company – helped with the rebranding and name change to Exponent, was a corporate spokesperson (CNN, WSJ), led the marketing team, wrote two anniversary books, and developed a lead generation group.  She was Exponent’s Vice President of Client Services until she left her post in June 2018 to join PLAC.  
Although technically a “geek”, Angela loves working with people and networking to connect people to solve their challenges.  She is a true believer in “paying it forward”

In addition to her responsibilities at PLAC, she is a business development trainer and coach, a member of the advisory board of Summit Consulting LLC (DC) and the SMU Lyle School of Engineering external advisory board. 

Her son, Nicolas, is a senior at the University of Wisconsin, Madison which make her a rabid Badger fan. Her twin sister, Gabrielle, is also an engineer and commodity trader at ExxonMobil in Texas.

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Enjoy the podcast.

Angela Meyer, Ph.D.

President & CEO, PLAC

Wonder Woman in Business, Gina Rubel, My Sister from Another Mister

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Gina Rubel

Furia Rubel, Founder & CEO

Corporate and law firm leaders call on Gina for high-stakes public relations, crisis planning, and incident response support including high profile litigation media relations. One of the most widely acknowledged experts on legal marketing and law firm public relations, Gina Rubel is a sought-after speaker and media expert. Listed among the 2018 Lawdragon Global 100 Leading Consultants and Strategists to the Legal Profession, Gina founded and continues to lead Furia Rubel Communications, the award-winning PR and marketing agency that has become a leading legal marketing and professional service communications boutique.

The full-service marketing and public relations shop has been listed among the leading agencies by the National Law Journal, The Legal Intelligencer, New Jersey Law Journal, and Philadelphia Business Journal. Under Gina’s direction, Furia Rubel provides strategic planning, marketing, public relations, media training, and content marketing services to a variety of specialized industries.

Gina’s legal background complements her unparalleled intuition as a client advocate and business diplomat, allowing her to partner with professional clients to achieve their objectives. She and the Furia Rubel team are always focused on the clients’ unique selling proposition, brand, key messages, and target audiences. As a result, Furia Rubel has developed and executed award-winning programs with outstanding ROIs. From industry-recognized marketing campaigns to media coverage, Gina and her team deliver exceptional results. Gina didn’t discover legal communications and marketing — she just repositioned it for a new century.

While actively practicing law, Gina served on a Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Disciplinary Board Hearing Committee for six years where she conducted legal ethics reviews of other attorneys. Since then, she has become a nationally sought-after speaker and reveals the secrets to law firm communications success in her book Everyday Public Relations for Lawyers. She regularly presents to legal, financial, and government professionals, corporations and universities regarding ethics, legal marketing, social media, strategic public relations, crisis communications, and media training.

Often asked why, as a lawyer, she pursued a career in communications, Gina says, “The answer is simple. In marketing and public relations, we communicate a message to a target audience to achieve a desired response or outcome. This is like the practice of law except I can be more proactive and creative.”

A graduate of Drexel University and Widener University School of Law, Gina lives in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, with her husband, two children, rabbits, chickens and dogs.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Gina Rubel is actively involved in community organizations. She is a volunteer and child sponsor with Pearl S. Buck International, with which she has traveled to the Philippines on a cultural mission tour, and she supports the mission of CB Cares Educational Foundation.

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In addition, she serves as treasurer/secretary of The Justinian Foundation which provides scholarships to law school students in the Philadelphia region. Gina is a member of the Legal Marketing Association for which she serves on its Ethics and Advertising Advocacy Working Group and on a regional nominating committee. She also is a member of the American, Bucks, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Bar Associations, Justinian Society (past chancellor), Philadelphia Public Relations Association, Public Relations Society of America, and Women Owned Law for which she was a founding member, member of the board of directors, and currently serves on the advisory board. She is the past chair of the Communications Committee for the Drexel University Alumni Association for which she also served as an elected member of the Board of Governors.

INDIVIDUAL AWARDS | RECOGNITION | CERTIFICATIONS – GINA RUBEL

  • 2018 Lawdragon Global 100 Leading Consultants and Strategists to the Legal Profession

  • 2016 White Belt Legal Lean Sigma and Project Management Certificate

  • 2015 SmartCEO Brava Award — 40 of Philadelphia’s Leading Women in Business

  • 2015 Doylestown Rotary Four-Way Test Award

  • 2015 Recognition, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Senate of Pennsylvania, Hon. Charles J. McIlhinney, Jr.

  • 2013 Maxine Elkin Award for Distinguished Service from the Public Relation Society of America (PRSA) Philadelphia Chapter

  • 2011 Super Women List in Suburban Life magazine, December issue

  • 2010 The Justinian Society of Philadelphia, Lisa A. Richette Outstanding Woman in Law Award

  • 2010 The Legal Intelligencer Women Lawyer of Distinction Award

  • 2010 Central Bucks Chamber of Commerce Patricia Clatch Outstanding Woman in Business Award

  • 2010 Citation, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, House of Representatives, Hon. Marguerite C. Quinn

  • 2010 Recognition, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Senate of Pennsylvania, Hon. Charles J. McIlhinney, Jr.

  • 2010 Super Women List in Suburban Life magazine, December issue

  • 2009 eWomenNetwork Foundation International Femtor Award Finalist, Business Matchmaker of the Year

  • 2009 Special Achievement Award in Legal Communications and Media, National Italian-American Political Action Committee

  • 2009 Recognition, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Senate of Pennsylvania, Hon. Christine M. Tartaglione

  • 2008 Women of Distinction, Philadelphia Business Journal

  • 2008 Best 50 Women in Business, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Community and Economic Development, Governor Ed Rendell

  • 2007 Deanne White Award for Community Service from the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Philadelphia Chapter

  • 2004 Twilight Wish Foundation, Outstanding Contributor Award

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Enjoy the podcast.

Gina Furia Rubel

To contact Gina:

Call 215-340-0480 or send an email, or on the web:

https://www.furiarubel.com


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