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Wonder Woman in Business, Michelle Tillis Lederman -- Take II

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Michelle Tillis Lederman

Michelle Tillis Lederman, one of Forbes Top 25 Networking Experts, is the author of four books including the internationally known, The 11 Laws of Likability, and her latest The Connectors Advantage. Michelle is a connection creator and CEO of Executive Essentials, which provides customized communications and leadership programs for fortune 500, non-profit, university and government clients. A former finance executive and NYU Professor, Michelle is a regular in the media appearing on NBC, CBS, Fox, NPR, the Wall Street Journal, NY Times, CNBC, and others. Michelle is known for helping people work better together and advance their individual impact.

Michelle Tillis Lederman, CSP, PCC Michelle Tillis Lederman, is known for her energetic, engaging, and authentic presentations. An expert on workplace communications and relationships, Michelle's mission is to help people work better together and advance their individual impact. She is an accomplished speaker, trainer, coach, and author of four books including the #1 new release The Connectors Advantage and the internationally recognized, The 11 Laws of Likability. Michelle, named one of Forbes Top 25 Networking Experts, is a connection creator and CEO of Executive Essentials, which provides customized communications and leadership programs for fortune 500, non-profit, university and government clients. Her clients include JPMorgan, J&J, Deutsche Bank, Michigan State University, MetLife, Sony, Ernst & Young, the Department of Environmental Protection, and Madison Square Garden. Passionate about education, Michelle served as an Adjunct Professor at NYU, on the faculty of the American Management Association, Lehigh Executive Education, and Rutgers Executive Education. A former finance executive and NYU Professor, Michelle is a regular in the media appearing on CBS, NBC, Fox, NPR, CNBC, the NY Times, the Wall Street Journal, Working Mother, US News & World Report, MSNBC, Forbes and USA Today among many others. Michelle spent a decade in finance with positions in audit, M&A, financial consulting, VC, and hedge fund investing. She received her BS from Lehigh University, her MBA from Columbia Business School, and her coaching certification from iPec and holds the PCC certification from the International Coaching Federation. Michelle earned the Certified Speaking Professional designation for the National Speakers Association. Executive Essentials is a certified Women Business Enterprise.

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Michelle Tillis Lederman v. 2

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Wonder Woman in Business, Laraine McKinnon Celebrating our 100th podcast!

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Laraine McKinnon

Founder of LMC17 & President of The Women’s CLUB of Silicon Valley

Laraine McKinnon is founder of LMC17, a strategic consulting firm that blends behavioral science, big data and practical implementation ideas to address hard to solve problems. The firm currently focuses on HR initiatives that drive employee engagement: diversity & inclusion, key talent processes such as hiring, retention and promotion, talent development for under-served populations, and retirement readiness.

Laraine is also an Advisor and Talent & Culture Strategist for Emtrain, a CultureTech firm focused on creating healthy workplace cultures. Laraine guides progressive companies through initiatives for sexual harassment prevention, diversity, inclusion & belonging, and managing unconscious bias, and delivers data and insights on their unique workplace behavioral dynamics to help uncover blind spots and opportunities to create more respectful workplaces.

Prior to these roles, Laraine was a Managing Director at BlackRock where she worked with HR and Finance executives at Fortune 500 companies to optimize retirement readiness. Laraine specialized in using 401(k) plans to increase employee engagement, improve workforce management, and deliver better outcomes in retirement. She is the author of “Known: How to Create a Great 401(k)” and serves as an Advisor to Betterment for Business. 

In a volunteer capacity, Laraine is President of The CLUB Silicon Valley, a diverse community of professionals helping women leaders accelerate their careers. She founded and runs the CLUB’s talent Incubator to help high-performing, high-potential women get around career roadblocks and become known for their expertise. 

Laraine was named a Silicon Valley Business Times “Woman of Influence" in 2018 and holds a women's studies and political science degree from Wellesley College, and a certificate in Diversity and Inclusion for HR from Cornell University.

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Laraine McKinnon

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Learn more about Laraine’s Diversity & Inclusion consulting practice

Hire Laraine as your Career Advocate

Book Laraine for an Unconscious Bias Workshop

Learn more about The CLUB, a Bay Area women’s leadership community

Learn more about the Incubator Program (in person, Palo Alto CA)

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Behavioral finance and investment theory tell us exactly how to design the 401(k) plan to enable retirement readiness for millions of employees. So why aren’t most 401(k) plans optimized? Known: How to Create a Great 401(k) explores that question, bridging insights from academia with real world organizational behavior to provide practical advice for plan sponsors and advisors looking to drive decisions to improve retirement outcomes. Author Laraine McKinnon brings her unique perspective to this hard-to-solve problem, drawing upon her experience as a 401(k) plan sponsor, decades of experience in retirement investing and hundreds of hours of strategic discussions with many of the largest 401(k) plan sponsors in the US. McKinnon provides compelling proof points to three overarching concepts: Why we must grow savings, drive diversification, prevent leaks and reduce unnecessary risks in the 401(k) How we can implement learnings from behavioral science to influence decision-makers and improve the 401(k) structure Why improving 401(k) plans in this way is a “win-win-win” (for the participant, their employer, and America)

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Contact Laraine:

Founder & CEO, LMC17

Talent & Culture Strategist, Emtrain

President, The CLUB Silicon Valley

Founder, The CLUB Incubator

Phone: 415 246 5960

Email: laraine@lmc17consulting.com

Website: lmc17consulting.com

Wonder Woman in Business, Vivian Santora

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Vivian Santora

President & CEO of PowerPlay NYC, Inc.

Vivian Santora is President & CEO at PowerPlay NYC, Inc. PowerPlay NYC advances the lives of girls through sports, helping them grow physically, emotionally and academically stronger. We build girls' confidence and resiliency by creating safe spaces where girls learn from one another and from strong female role models.

As President/CEO I direct all aspects the organization which has an annual budget of $2.4 million, 6 FTEs, 35 PTEs, 200+ volunteers, and 1800 participants. Accountable for strategic planning, human resources, finance management, fundraising, and policy making (in partnership with Board of Directors).

Prior to joining PowerPlay NYC, Vivian worked extensively in fundraising, politics, and government affairs in New York, Boston, and Washington, DC. She worked on President Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign, Hillary Clinton's 2000 Senate race, re-election campaign and leadership PAC, government affairs for Cablevision, for the Girl Scouts of the USA and Women's World Banking. In 2005, she started her own consulting company, providing strategic advice in fundraising, event management, and government affairs for public and private sector clients. Vivian graduated from American University in 1997 with a Master's in Public Administration and a focus in public policy. In addition to earning an MPA, Vivian also holds a bachelor's in both English and Women's Studies from The University at Buffalo.

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Mom Lead by Example…

My mother (pictured below) who is now 87, used to play basketball in college when girls were only allowed to play half-court for fear that they may over exert themselves! Can you imagine? She was my first teacher and my first cheerleader. Growing up, I was both - a basketball player and a cheerleader. I also played soccer, field hockey, and loved to dance. Admittedly, I was no 'star athlete' (definitely didn't earn a scholarship) but I felt strong, learned from my teammates and felt empowered. I ran for student council positions and wasn't afraid to speak my mind. All of this helped shape who I am today and why I chose to focus my energy on supporting women and girls.

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Vivian Santora

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More from Vivian:

Sports Business Journal Awards - PowerPlay Received the Celebration of Service Award - May 2019 

STARS CGI 5th Annual Leadership Summit April 2019

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PowerPlay Annual Gala, May 2019 SSLA Participants Reflect

Participants Tiffany & Janen

Highlights

20th Anniversary, May 2018 President/CEO Vivian Santora

Contact Vivian:

Vivian M. Santora 

President & CEO

44 Court St., Suite #815

Brooklyn, NY 11201

646-518-4041 

www.powerplaynyc.org

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@vsantora73 - personal instagram 

@PowerPlayNYC - Instagram, Facebook, Twitter

@Awe_NYC - my passion project that I co-founded “Awesome Women Entrepreneurs” 

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Wonder Woman in Business, Heather Willems

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Heather Willems

Founder of Two Line Studios

Heather Willems: Facilitating Clarity Through Creativity™: Author. Speaker. Visual Storyteller.

Heather Willems is the Co-Author of Draw Your Big Idea and visual strategist. She has made it her life work to help others gain Clarity Through Creativity™. As an artist, graphic facilitator, and mentor, Heather helps top executives operate more efficiently using visuals as a tool for unlocking solutions to their toughest challenges. Building on her experience as co-founder of ImageThink, she mentors entrepreneurs scaling to $1MM, moderates leadership masterminds, and leads accountability groups for female business owners.

After 15 years of facilitating breakthroughs with clients, she helps organizations work more purposefully by activating their vision, mission, and values. She visualizes big ideas for the world's most influential thought leaders and companies, including Disney, AOL, FedEx, Google, Lego, and NASA. Her work has been featured on TED, The Today Show, MSNBC, Inc., Forbes, Mashable, and The Wall Street Journal.

Whether she’s leading workshops or speaking about the power of visual storytelling in both her personal life and in organizations, she has a passion for making connections. She’s spoken at New York Times Small Business Summit, Conference for Women, Columbia University, SXSW, Comic-con, PTTOW! and more.

Heather lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. 

Visuals engage. Stories captivate.

Together, they offer Visual Storytelling, one of the most powerful facilitation tools in business leadership today.

Visual Strategy creates clarity, communication, and change. During Clarity Through Creativity™ sessions, teams draw their thoughts in iterative collaborative exercises to make ideas tangible, clarify the complex, and inspire swift action. The results: breakthrough results and visual metaphors that map the journey to achieve your goal.

Beyond a facilitation tool, Visual Strategy offers a new kind of communication strategy: compelling, shareable, complete. It turns dreams into reality.

TwoLine is your source.

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Enjoy the podcast.

Heather Willems

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Draw Your Big Idea

In this increasingly visual age, images speak louder than words. Studies show that images also help people think. Visual note-taking such as doodling increases memory retention rates by nearly 30 percent, and opens creative pathways, strengthens focus, and inspires self-expression. Driven by these groundbreaking findings, entrepreneurs Nora Herting and Heather Willems founded ImageThink, a graphic facilitation firm that has helped an elite roster of clients—from Google to Pepsi to NASA—visualize their ideas and transform their creative processes using simple drawing techniques that anyone can master. Draw Your Big Idea presents their sought-after guidance and more than 150 drawing exercises tailored to brainstorming, refining, and executing ideas in the home, design studio, and office. With this workbook, readers will learn to beat creative block—for good!

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Contact Heather:

Heather Willems
Cell: 646-488-8295
Heather@heatherwillems.com
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Draw Your Big Idea: The Ultimate Creativity Tool for Turning Thoughts Into Action and Dreams Into Reality

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Wonder Woman in Business, Judy Hoberman

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Judy Hoberman

Walking on the Glass Floor and

SELLING IN A SKIRT

Judy Hoberman, President of Walking on the Glass Floor and Selling In A Skirt- International Speaker, Trainer, Coach, Author and Mentor. Her 30 years in business has given her both the knowledge and sense of humor about how men and women sell, work and live differently will enlighten you in learning how both genders can support each other’s successes in a more productive way.

Her audiences, from 10 to 10,000 are engaged with details wrapped in memorable      stories that are easily implemented that same day. In 2016 she was a TEDx speaker talking about pre-judging people, something we all do without even thinking. She is the author of “Selling In A Skirt”, “Famous Isn’t Enough”, “Pure Wealth” and newest book, “Walking on the Glass Floor”. A complete training program rounds out the training and development of women in leadership and the men that champion them. As her book was coming off the printing press, Judy completed a program from Cornell University's College of Business in Women in Leadership and a second program for Women in Entrepreneurship.

She was named as a “Woman to Watch” for International Women’s Day 2019 from Thrive Global.

Judy’s mission…to help One Woman A Day by following an important philosophy-“Women want to be treated equally, not identically” ™

Judy says, “Family first”! Below are pictures of her books and her family.

CLICK LINK BELOW to view Judy’s TEDx Talk

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Judy Hoberman

Contact Judy:

"Women Want To Be Treated Equally...Not Identically"™

TEDx Speaker https://youtu.be/Kgk-3QEM6tw 

Women to Watch 2019 https://bit.ly/2u2tp26

C-Suite Radio https://bit.ly/33xjtgI

Email: judy@sellinginaskirt.com

Phone: 203-605-3635

www.sellinginaskirt.com

www.walkingontheglassfloor.com

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Wonder Woman in Business, Stephanie Kusibab

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Stephanie Kusibab

Stephanie Kusibab is a strategy consultant with more than twenty years’ experience assisting client organizations with strategic planning, mission and vision creation, market analysis, leadership development and identification of new business opportunities. Her broad business experience and perspective help her to quickly understand and assess a situation and identify growth opportunities across any industry or profession. As a skilled facilitator she leads high-stakes conversations and training that resets expectations and establishes ground rules for ongoing success of leadership teams and boards of directors. Stephanie also helps organizational leaders guide their teams during uncertain times with leadership, change management and strategy coaching and serves as a sounding board and unbiased observer to help identify opportunities for improved performance.

Stephanie owns and manages Essentiam, a strategy consultancy serving both non-profit and for-profit organizations and their leaders.

Prior to starting her own firm, Stephanie applied her core competencies as a primary driver in the ongoing growth of numerous SmithBucklin association management clients, including in staff roles for the Legal Marketing Association (LMA), the Clinical Laboratory Management Association (CLMA), Palo Alto Networks’ User Group (Fuel), and the Battery Council International (BCI). As a consultant and strategic advisor at SmithBucklin, Stephanie contributed to strategy and change management initiatives for client organizations across a wide variety of industries and professions, including healthcare, accreditation, technology, telecommunications, building products, retail, hospitality, professional services, manufacturing and transportation.

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Stephanie Kusibab

Contact Stephanie:

Stephanie Kusibab

Principal Consultant

312.343.0074

Strategy|Governance|Leadership|Growth

www.EssentiamStrategy.com

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