Wonder Woman in Business, Ana Borich

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Ana Borich

Senior Program Manager - Change Management at ServiceNow

Ana Borich has dedicated her career to working on complex system implementation programs including organizational transformation, and her life to helping humanity transform effectively. For over 19 years, Ana served clients across IT, automotive and industrial equipment, retail, gaming and consumer goods industries. Ana now works as Strategic Initiatives’ Program & Change Senior Manager at a growing Bay Area company – ServiceNow. She is responsible for successful internal and external adoption of innovative software solutions such as the Digital Transformation application.

During times of transition from current to future states, Ana partners with leaders cross-functionally to drive the people side of business change, reduce program risks and manage resistance in order to achieve lasting change in an organization. She is known for her program leadership, successful planning and end to end execution of complex change efforts reaching global audiences of over 120K. She leads change journeys at all levels of the organization from executives, to developer, sales teams, and business partners to ensure products and services are successfully delivered to customers.

Having built her change expertise in consulting industry, received her Change Management Certification from Prosci, and more importantly having been through her weight-loss and lifestyle transformation (-70lbs), Ana truly lives change professionally and personally. 

“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.”

- Bruce Lee

Ana’s love for transformation is a recurring theme in her life and passions outside of work too. She has been trained in Meisner acting technique, acts and models as a hobby. She has been featured in the motion picture The Valley, We did it for Love TV series, Chance TV Series, and done commercial and print work for companies such as Logitech, CoolSculpting, Mac House Productions and Casa De Las Madres - shelter for women and children in San Francisco. She is particularly passionate about helping women achieve their professional and life goals. Ana’s motivational quotes about change, writing, and artistic work of her and her children, can be found on Instagram. 

Connect with Ana:

Ana Borich, Senior Program Manager - Change Management

Website: ServiceNow

Email: ana.borich@servicenow.com

Mobile: 310-809-1907

LinkedIn: in/ana-borich-4148565

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Wonder Woman in Business, Jennifer Bankston

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Jennifer Bankston

President of Bankston Marketing Solutions

Jennifer S. Bankston has spent her career ACTIVATING IDEAS and elevating brands. With years of in-house experience at law firms, tech companies and start-ups, she has an innate ability for storytelling blended with a technology-driven, pragmatic approach for delivery.  On the technology front, she has conceptualized, developed and implemented applications and products for a multitude of business solutions.

Jennifer has served as Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer for three law firms, including an AmLaw 200 firm, where she led the building of creative and sophisticated service offerings for its clients. At Labaton Sucharow, Jennifer was a member of the leadership team that transformed an unknown law firm into a leading litigation boutique for global institutional investors and business clients in a highly competitive marketplace.  

Today, Jennifer partners with law firms and companies to provide marketing and business development strategies paired with technology solutions. She utilizes her storytelling mastery to activate ideas at all levels of the organization - from the executive level to sales teams, partners and marketers. Jennifer's vast exposure to global business and culture propagates an exciting, thoughtful, and intelligent perspective to client work. 

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Enjoy the podcast.

Jennifer Bankston, President

Connect with Jennifer:

Jennifer Bankston, President

Bankston Marketing Solutions

Activating Ideas | Aligning Brand, Content + Strategy

Website: www.bankstonmarketingsolutions.com

Email: bankstonmarketingsolutions@gmail.com

LinkedIn: in/jennbankston

Wonder Woman in Business & in Sleuthing, Rannah Gray

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Rannah Gray

Rannah Gray Communications

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Familiar Evil

With raw honesty and unparalleled access, Familiar Evil tells the story of one man's international search for a child predator-how perseverance, courage, and the enduring belief in good over evil prove the power of one. Twenty years before this story begins, a hung jury in England allowed Scott Rogers, principal at a performing arts academy, to avoid prison on charges of sexual assault against a young student and quietly slip out of the country. Ethan, a successful businessman, husband, father, and former academy student, always knew the jury got it wrong. He knew his classmate had told the truth, and he knew Rogers would continue to abuse until somebody stopped him.

Rannah Gray is a Louisiana public relations consultant whose career highlights include two of her state’s favorite pastimes—politics and sports. Politics Magazine named her one of the Top 100 Influencers in Louisiana; and she was honored as Marketer of the Year and one of Baton Rouge’s Influential Women in Business by the Baton Rouge Business Report.

She previously served for 13 years as Associate Athletic Director at LSU, managing marketing, promotions, radio, television, and ticket sales for 20 college sports. Prior to that she was Undersecretary to the Louisiana Secretary of State. Rannah currently provides expertise in advertising and public relations to a broad base of clients. She is a graduate of LSU with a B.A. and a Master’s degree in Journalism.

Her first book, Familiar Evil, sent shock waves from Louisiana to London and follows the international search for TV personality that exposed his dark side as a child predator. Familiar Evil has won 13 national and international book awards, including eight Gold Medals for Best True Crime and Best New Nonfiction. It was the subject of the premiere episode of Lies That Bind, a 2019 primetime television series on the Investigation Discovery (ID) Network.

Rannah serves on a committee of experts for the National Center for Child Policy; and was a presenter at the 10th International Congress on Child Abuse held in Coventry, England in 2018. She conducted workshops on how dark side personalities use power, fear and deception to manipulate others at the 2018 Krimes Against Kids Conference held at Walt Disney World and the 2019 National Association of Social Workers Louisiana Conference.

Her second book, Case of the Missing Poodle, a junior mystery based in New Orleans, was written with her 9-year-old twin great nieces. Released in December 2018, it was named Best Chapter book by two national independent publisher awards and received the Silver medal for Best Children’s Mystery at the 2019 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards.

Just a few of the remarkable accomplishments in Rannah’s robust career are as follows:

BOOK TALK ON LIES THAT BIND:  Mary Jane Marcantel, the paralegal involved in the Familiar Evil case and book, and Baton Rouge Police Captain Don Kelly (ret), who had such a strong negative feeling about Scott Rogers that he warned his Police Chief to stay away from him, joined me for a talk following the premiere of Lies That Bind, a true crime series on the Investigation Discovery Network at premiered with an episode on Familiar Evil.

Library Program: Have spoken throughout the country and in the UK on Familiar Evil, explaining how dark side personalities use power, fear and deception to manipulate people.

Women in Communications: Discussing how a child predator fled the UK, landed in Louisiana and reinvented himself as a popular television personality honored as a Model Foster Parent, Women in Communications learned how so-called “celebrity” spokespersons can damage an organization’s reputation.

BASPCAN – Presented the case study behind Familiar Evil at the 10th International Congress on Child Abuse, sponsored by the British Association for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (BASPCAN) held in Coventry England in 2018.

LPB THE STATE WE’RE IN:  Interviewed on raising awareness on how to prevent child sex abuse.

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Enjoy the podcast.

Rannah Gray

Connect with Rannah:

Rannah Gray Communications

838 North Boulevard

Baton Rouge, LA 70802

Phone: 225.381.3036

Email: Rannah@rannahgray.com

LinkedIn: in/rannah-gray-1628954/

Wonder Woman in Business, Kimya Johnson

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Kimya Johnson

Ogletree Deakins

For over 25 years, Kimya S.P. Johnson has been a champion for her clients in a career that spans law, politics, education, and diversity & inclusion management. Kimya serves as Co-Chair of the Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Practice at Ogletree Deakins, one of the nation’s largest labor and employment law firms.

Kimya supports a wide range of employers in their efforts to provide legally-compliant, effective, and organizationally-integrative diversity and inclusion plans. She represents clients by providing D&I-related compliance and risk-reduction services, D&I program assessment and implementation assistance, and D&I-integrated business strategy and leadership development opportunities.

Prior to joining Ogletree Deakins, Kimya served as the first Director of Diversity & Inclusion at an AmLaw 100 law firm and she also practiced law in the labor and employment group. In her diversity management role, Kimya led the firm’s efforts to recruit, develop, retain, promote and advance diverse attorneys across the firm’s 26 offices in the U.S., Europe and Canada.  Working closely with executive leadership and management across company functions, Kimya built systems, developed processes, and executed a host of programs designed to increase diversity within the firm and to promote its core value of inclusion.  As an employment lawyer, Kimya handled the myriad of employment and labor-related matters, including affirmative action/EEO law, employment discrimination claims, complaint reporting, procedures and investigations, downsizing processes, wage and hour disputes, and union/management relations at the state and federal levels.  She also provided human resource counseling, management/workforce training, human resource policy and handbook creation, and litigation defense to clients across a range of industries.

Kimya was recognized as a “Lawyer on the Fast Track” by The Legal Intelligencer, as a “PA Rising Star in Employment & Labor” by SuperLawyers Magazine, and as an “Influential Woman” by the NAACP, Philadelphia Chapter.  She also received the “MultiCultural Leadership Award” from the National Diversity Council.

Kimya has been directly engaged with a host of community, educational, political and social service endeavors for decades.  Before practicing law, Kimya was a public elementary school teacher in South Bronx, New York and received the Sallie Mae Excellence in Teaching Award. More recently, she served as Campaign Manager for a candidate for U.S. Congress who garnered more votes than any other primary challenger candidate in the state. Further, Kimya has first-hand experience with non-profit incorporation, management and governance through, among others, Dare to Imagine—an organization that began in her home in 2014 and has since grown to over 700 members with a campus in East Mount Airy, Philadelphia.  She currently serves on the boards of Big Brothers Big Sisters Independence Region, Dare to Imagine Church, Inc., and Dare to Imagine Community Development Corporation.

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Enjoy the podcast.

Kimya Johnson

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Wonder Woman in Business, Jennifer Smuts

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Jennifer Smuts

CMO, Connolly Gallagher

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A senior marketing executive with broad experience across business-to-business marketing in large, medium and small sized law firms, Jennifer’s key strengths lie in strategic and organizational development. She is currently the Chief Marketing Officer at Connolly Gallagher LLP.

As a founding member and past-President of the Legal Marketing Association-Metro Philadelphia Chapter, Jennifer is actively involved at the regional and national levels of this organization. She also served as co-Executive Editor of Strategies, the Journal of The Legal Marketing Association. 

Most recently Jennifer joined the 2020 Women On Boards campaign and co-chairs the Wilmington Steering Committee. The overall goal is to educate women about how they can navigate their own contacts to get on corporate boards and be a part of the larger national conversation. 

Prior to building her marketing career in the U.S., she lived and worked overseas. In Melbourne, Australia she worked as a Marketing Analyst for the Bank of Melbourne (now ANZ bank). In Kwazulu Natal, South Africa she worked as a contract marketer for Unilever and volunteered at the U.S. Consulate General.

With a strong desire to raise awareness about the environment and energy consumption in general, Jennifer co-founded aFewSteps.org, a community organization that raises awareness and promotes environmental responsibility in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania and neighboring communities.

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Enjoy the podcast.

Jennifer Smuts

Connect with Jennifer:

Jennifer L. Smuts, Chief Marketing Officer

CONNOLLY GALLAGHER LLP 

1201 North Market Street  ·  20th Floor  ·  Wilmington, DE 19801

Tel: 302-888-6206 

Website:  www.connollygallagher.com

Email: jsmuts@connollygallagher.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennsmuts

Wonder Woman in Business, Kristin Campbell

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Kristin Campbell

San Francisco Wine School, CFO, Co-Owner

As a graduate of UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Kristin Campbell fell in love with the smell of wine in the barrel rooms of her winery clients during inventory counts, while obtaining her Certified Public Accountant license with KPMG more than 25 years ago.  Soon after, a young, introductory level sommelier, working the floor at Left Bank in Menlo Park, opened her eyes to wine in a new way and inspired her even further.  From there, her passion for wine and food excelled quickly as did her career in the High-Tech Startup world of Silicon Valley.  Kristin held various management and executive positions in finance and operations until 2001 when she began independently consulting for young technology companies, helping CEOs build their businesses from the ground up.  During that time, Kristin also donated her time extensively to education, holding various board and committee seats in the Menlo Park City School District.

In early 2013, the universe conspired to reunite her with that inspirational, now Master Sommelier, 16 years after her memorable encounter at Left Bank. This time she was inspired by the business trifecta - wine, education and another startup challenge.  Together, Kristin and David Glancy, MS CWE partnered to write the business plan for his visionary San Francisco Wine School, now the largest wine school in the U.S.  Today, Kristin is Co-Owner and Chief Operating Officer, a California Wine Appellation Specialist CWAS® and the San Francisco Bay Area Ambassador for Women of the Vine & Spirits.  Forever in search of the perfect bite, she enjoys hiking, cooking, fine dining and experimenting with food and wine pairings.  

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November 2, 2019 Luxury Wine Anniversary Celebration & Scholarship Auction!

A Glancy Wine Education Fund Benefit

Event Description

You won't want to miss this year's Luxury Wine Anniversary Celebration & Scholarship Auction the evening of Saturday, November 2nd! Guests will be welcomed by a Luxury Wine Tasting Bazaar featuring some of the finest producers from around the globe, the opening events for San Francisco Wine School’s wacky Somm Service Olympics and a silent auction full of unique wine items and experiences you won't find anywhere else! 

Then, we'll all sit down to the main event: a live 4-course food pairing competition between 2 of the Bay Area's top young sommeliers: Jienna Basaldu of The Morris, San Francisco and Mark Guillaudeu of Commis, Oakland.  This Battle of the Bay will be moderated by VIP judges, Leslie Sbrocco, host of PBS’s hit series, Check Please! and celebrated wine author, Alder Yarrow.  Guests will indulge in the epicurean dining experience created by Chef Danae McLaughlin and Master Sommelier David Glancy as they cast their vote for the best pairings of the night!  They’ll also love the opportunity to bid in a live auction for the ultimate luxury wine lots and experiences and support the next generation of wine professionals!

All event & auction proceeds will benefit the 501c3 qualified Glancy Wine Education Fund, providing scholarships to low income students looking to start or advance a career in wine or hospitality. Learn more, donate or apply.

Watch Our Prior Year Event Recap Video

Read Somm Journal Article About the Event "Action Packed Philanthropy!"

Date & Time

Saturday, November 2, 2019

6:00 PM -  8:00 PM

  • Luxury Wine Bazaar

  • SFWS Somm Service Olympics

  • Silent Auction

8:00 PM - 11:00 PM

  • The Ultimate Food Pairing Competition

  • Live Auction

Ticketing

Early Bird Pricing:

$295 Before October 15th


Subject to Availability:

$345 October 16th - 31st

$395 After October 31st

To give our guests the highest quality experience possible, seating is extremely limited. Don't wait to buy your tickets - last year's pairing competition SOLD OUT!

Additional Event Information

Want to support the cause, but can't attend the event this year?

Donate directly to the Glancy Wine Education Fund instead!
Want to provide press coverage of the event and interview the panel?

Media may apply for access here!

Want to donate auction items, volunteer, or nominate a contestant?
Let us know!  

About the Glancy Wine Education Fund 

At San Francisco Wine School, we believe that every motivated and engaged student should have access to high quality, professional education in their trade. Since our inception in 2011, we have been providing tuition assistance and internship programs to worthy students interested in starting or advancing their career in the wine industry.  In 2017, we launched the Glancy Wine Education Fund allowing us to greatly expand financial assistance to those in need. 97% of our applicants earn less than living wage. Learn more, donate or apply

Learn more about San Francisco Wine School's Vision

Requirements

All attendees must be at least 21 years of age

Location

San Francisco Wine School
415 Grand Ave #301
South San Francisco, CA 94080
Click for parking, transit & hotel information

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Enjoy the podcast.

Kristin Campbell

CONTACT KRISTIN:

Email: KCampbell@SFWineschool.com

LinkedIn: in/kristin-campbell-70059568

Kristin Campbell, CWAS, Chief Operating Officer

O: 650.763.1324

M: 650.868.6703

Website: www.sfwineschool.com

See Our Upcoming Certification Programs, Workshops, & Special Events!

Enjoy the video of the venue…

Founded by David Glancy, MS, The San Francisco Wine School is the largest wine school in the US offering the most thoughtful approach to study for professionals and enthusiasts everywhere. Follow David as he gives a grand tour of our beautiful education facility and all of it's many offerings from professional programs to private events both large and small.
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