Susan Freeman

March 5, 2020

Women Leaders

Wonder Woman in Business, Jennifer Hicks

Susan Freeman

March 5, 2020

Women Leaders

Jennifer Hicks

Jennifer Hicks, Director of Client Development at Capital Fund Law Group, joined the firm in the early part of 2018 and has quickly become an integral team member. She liaises with the in-house attorneys, assists prospective and current clients with their fund planning and formation process and provides guidance to emerging managers on non-legal fund-related matters. Furthermore, Ms. Hicks organizes the firm's investment fund events and is the point of contact for our Managing Partner, John Lore.

Ms. Hicks, who has been a lifelong student of the legal field, held a career in law enforcement in the state of Utah prior to becoming a part of Capital Fund Law Group. Having been a first responder allowed Ms. Hicks the opportunity to gain valuable skills, which include investigative research, critical thinking, extreme attention to detail and multitasking – all skills required to make the transition to the corporate side of the law. While her client base is now fund managers and not the public, Ms. Hicks understands the importance of public relations and perception. In fact, she partakes in podcasts and interviews showcasing her transition from one area of the law to another.

Given her time as a civil servant, Ms. Hicks continues to fuel her passion for giving back and serving the community. During her law enforcement career, Ms. Hicks was nominated as Police Association President, a volunteer role, where she organized a police and fire charity event to raise money and awareness for a child in her community. In her personal life, Ms. Hicks actively organizes events and projects, often surrounding military causes and children in her community.

Ms. Hicks holds an Associate’s Degree in Criminal Justice and her Paralegal Certification. She has also earned several advanced certifications in communications and investigations. Awards include the Police Combat Cross medal for her response and action taken during a 2015-armed assailant situation.

Connect with Jennifer:

Jennifer Hicks | Director of Client Development

Capital Fund Law Group | 1700 Broadway | New York, NY
e: jhicks@capitalfundlaw.com | w: www.capitalfundlaw.com
p: 212.203.4300

Freeman Means Business

Susan Freeman

March 3, 2020

Communications, Strategy

Wonder Woman in Business, Diane Schwartz

Susan Freeman

March 3, 2020

Communications, Strategy

Diane Schwartz

CEO of Ragan Communications

Diane Schwartz is the Chief Executive Officer of Ragan Communications, a media company that serves communicators with best-in-class events, training, peer-to-peer gatherings and award-winning service journalism via the Ragan and PR Daily brands. Signature conferences cover topics ranging from crisis management to internal communications to PR measurement to employee experience. The Ragan Communications Leadership Council is the premier membership organization for internal communications leaders; and Ragan Training is one of the most-used online training portals for communicators. She joined Ragan after 23 years at Access Intelligence, where she was senior vice president and group publisher of the Media Communications Group. She led the group to unprecedented growth, overseeing brands including PR News, Cynopsis, AdExchanger, Admonsters, Social Shakeup and Folio. Diane has launched more than 100 conferences, web sites, publications, awards programs, books and e-media ventures. Her board experience includes The Institute for Public Relations, the Alliance for Women in Media, the Specialized Information Publishers Association and American Business Media. She is a volunteer for Make-A-Wish and Visiting Nurse & Hospice of Fairfield County. She lives in Wilton, Connecticut, has two children, a dog and one husband. Check out Ragan Communications at www.ragan.com.

Speaking at Communications Week

Biking the Tour de Cure for her Mother

Diane and her family.

Mark Ragan Handing over the CEO Reins

Diane Speaking at a Conference

Contact Diane:

E: DianeS@ragan.com

P: 203-529-3016

W: ragan.com

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Twitter

Freeman Means Business

Susan Freeman

March 3, 2020

Communications, Story Telling, Strategy, Team Building

Wonder Woman in Business, Melissa Dinwiddie

Susan Freeman

March 3, 2020

Communications, Story Telling, Strategy, Team Building

Melissa Dinwiddie’s superpower is enabling creativity, whether you believe you’re creative or not, helping you push to the fearlessness side of things to spark innovative ideas all throughout your company. Using LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®, she helps your team “think with their hands,” getting their ideas on the table in 3D. As a visual practitioner, she gets their ideas up on the wall in graphic form, so you can see the big picture—themes AND gaps. Whether in a half-day workshop, a multi-day offsite, or anything in-between, her methods are fun and engaging, and people feel heard and respected while activating both left and right sides of the brain. Teams rave for months about how much fun they had learning. Melissa is a mutiply-certified facilitator of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methods and materials. A professional artist & calligrapher for 15 years, I bring a creative outsider’s perspective to your corporate setting, and now channel my background into graphic facilitation. Also, as a trained improv performer and jazz singer, Melissa teaches teams the skills of collaboration, communication & leaning into uncertainty in high-stakes contexts. As an online business owner since 2010, Melissa has developed the skills to deliver online sessions for distributed, virtual, or hybrid teams.

Melissa’s Book:

The Creative Sandbox Way

Want to live a full-color life? Need a boost in your momentum and confidence? Life is too short to not express the innate creativity inside of you and *The Creative Sandbox Way* is your path to living a more creative life than you ever thought possible.
Filled with paradigm-shifting lessons and stories, journal questions, thought-provoking creative prompts and coloring pages, *The Creative Sandbox Way* will help you take the fear out of creating and bring back the joy.
An excellent antidote for creative burnout, as well as a primer for anyone just getting started with creative pursuits, whatever your form of creative expression and expertise this playbook for creative living will help you learn to be comfortable with and embrace your own, authentic creativity, while offering a compassionate approach to dealing with your demons.
You’ll learn:
Melissa’s 10 fool-proof Guideposts that have helped thousands get joyfully creating.
5 reasons why creative play is good for you, AND for the world (it’s neuroscience, baby!)
Why “I’m not creative” is always a lie, and how to bust it.
How to turn creative blocks into friends.
In short, *The Creative Sandbox Way* is a new approach to your creativity that will transform how you relate to it forever. Whether you’re stalled by perfectionism, impostor complex, or any other form of resistance, this book will help you move forward, learn to play again, create more work, and infuse your life with more happiness as a result.

Buy the book

Contact Melissa:

Creative Sandbox Solutions™

I help large and mid-sized tech companies unleash creativity at every level to...

...increase productivity

...foster innovation

...improve customer satisfaction

...be more competitive

How? Through PLAY!

Custom-designed and facilitated workshops and offsites using LEGO® Serious Play®, applied improvisation, art methods, and graphic facilitation.

Watch Melissa in action:
https://youtu.be/99_8ADMsqHw

Author of The Creative Sandbox Way™

http://creativesandbox.solutions <--consultancy website

http://melissadinwiddie.com <--personal website

http://creativesandboxway.com <--book website

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

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/a_creative_life/

Freeman Means Business

Susan Freeman

February 28, 2020

STEM, Women Leaders, Equity

Wonder Woman in Business, Kwanza Price

Susan Freeman

February 28, 2020

STEM, Women Leaders, Equity

Kwanza Price

Global Health Economics and Outcomes Research

Kwanza Price moved to Silicon Valley in 2018 from NYC after being recruited by a mid-sized pharma company based in Palo Alto. Kwanza has worked in healthcare for more than a decade and has a graduate degree from Columbia University. Prior to grad school, she worked for an international non-government organization focused on development in Africa. She lived in Niger for two years helping to oversee a multi-million dollar project aimed at reducing food insecurity. Kwanza studied French and Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College.

In the community, Kwanza is part of a Black Biotech group focused on developing an African-American Art museum and Center of Inclusive Innovation along the San Francisco Bay pier. She is also in discussions with leaders in East Palo Alto to renovate the library there.

Kwanza is a health economist in her current role and has a strong interest in technological innovation and opportunities to address inequality. She grew up in Washington, DC and still has a large extended family there. This is her first time living in California and she is based in Menlo Park.

Connect with Kwanza

Freeman Means Business

Susan Freeman

February 28, 2020

Empathy, Health, Male Allies, Wellness

Wonder Women in Business Ally, Dr. Parikh

Susan Freeman

February 28, 2020

Empathy, Health, Male Allies, Wellness

Dr. Neesheet Parikh- with title and website.jpg — Dr. Neesheet Parikh

Dr. Neesheet Parikh is a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine. He practices Lifestyle Medicine, Primary Care, Family and Sports Medicine.

He is the CEO of ParikhHealth, a Medical and Wellness Center located in Santa Clara, CA. Dr. Parikh whole-heartedly believes in caring for patients in a compassionate way, where he can be fully present and empathize with each one of his patients.

He created Lifestyle Medicine to afford him the time to provide personalized medical care and coaching to patients no matter where they are. Lifestyle Medicine gives patients a 360-degree approach to preventative care, healing, and transformation; focusing in areas such as stress, relationships, food, exercise, habits/mindset, and sleep.

He’s has served on the California Interscholastic Federation Sports Medicine Committee. Dr. Parikh regularly teaches for the Yale School of Medicine and Georgetown School of Nursing. He works with some of the top athletes in the world including Olympic athletes, team USA athletes as well as NFL, NBA, NCAA and X-Game athletes from his sports medicine knowledge.

Through his experiences in the fast-paced high demand world of sports, Dr. Parikh has taken that mindset and has been applying it to high-level executives in Silicon Valley. Just as an athlete doesn’t like to sit on the sidelines, neither do executives, parents, or anyone who wants a fulfilling and thriving life.

He's happily married to his wife, Mansi, for 14 years, and has 3 daughters and 1 son. He enjoys cooking, trying new foods and restaurants, and traveling.

Original Artwork By Dr. Parikh’s Baby Girls

Contact Dr. Neesheet Parikh:

Parikh Health - Medical and Wellness Center

Website: https://www.parikhhealth.com/lifestyle-medicine

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LifestyleMedicineSVD/

Email: Concierge@ParikhHealth.com

Freeman Means Business

Susan Freeman

February 27, 2020

Equity, Story Telling, Women Leaders

Wonder Women in Business, Kate Isler & Sharon Harris of Be Bold Now

Susan Freeman

February 27, 2020

Equity, Story Telling, Women Leaders

About Kate

Author, Speaker, Board member & International Executive.

LinkedIn:

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

Email:

kate@bboldnow.com

Kate has over 20 years of international executive leadership gained working for fortune 100 companies to startups and has now turned her passion for supporting gender parity into a thriving business. Kate is the Co-Founder and CEO of Be Bold Now, a conscious consulting practice whose mission is to build an intersectional community of women and men, who strive to inspire, empower and support each other to take bold pragmatic action to accelerate gender parity and support the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Kate is a change agent and thought leader. Her experience in high tech as a CEO of a digital health startup, and as an Executive at Microsoft where she spent many years living and working overseas, provides a powerful platform of real-world expertise and examples to draw from when addressing gender equity and balanced management practices.

Kate’s journey of leadership, challenging the status quo, overcoming adversity and breaking gender stereotypes motivates and inspires. She has successfully navigated the complexity of a global company and tested her agility and ability to innovation leading as an entrepreneur.

She is a published author and recently completed her memoir to be released by HarperCollins Leadership in 2020.

Kate is an active and committed mentor for the International Women’s Forum, and, serves on the global board of Girl Rising, and several startup advisory boards.

Kate has over 20 years of international executive leadership gained working for fortune 100 companies to startups and have now turned my passion for supporting gender parity into a thriving business. I am the Co-Founder and CEO of Be Bold Now, a conscious consulting practice whose mission is to build an intersectional community of women and men, who strive to inspire, empower and support each other to take bold pragmatic action to accelerate gender parity and support the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Kate is a change agent and thought leader. My experience in high tech as a CEO of a digital health startup, and as an Executive at Microsoft where I spent many years living and working overseas, provides a powerful platform of real-world expertise and examples to draw from when addressing gender equity and balanced management practices.

Her journey of leadership, challenging the status quo, overcoming adversity and breaking gender stereotypes motivates and inspires audiences, teams and individuals. I have successfully navigated the complexity of a global company and tested my agility and ability to innovate as an entrepreneur.

Kate is a published author and recently completed my memoir to be released by HarperCollins Leadership in 2020.

Kate is an active and committed mentor for the International Women’s Forum, and, serves on the global board of Girl Rising, and several startup advisory boards.

About Sharon

Speaker & International Executive.

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-harris

Email:

sharrisny@hotmail.com

Sharon Harris is the Vice President, Alliance Relations at Google Marketing Platform Alliance with Deloitte Consulting

Sharon is an experienced digital media professional. She has over twenty years of cutting-edge knowledge in branding and launching numerous campaigns and products for several world-renowned brands. Microsoft, T-Mobile, and Reuters are just a few of the leading companies that she has worked with to help them define and translate their brand and business strategies in revenue.

Sharon made her mark at Microsoft as the Senior Global Product Marketing Manager, becoming a fundamental launch contributor for Microsoft Windows 8 Ads-in-Apps. She constructed the fall 2012 launch of advertising on Microsoft Windows 8. In early 2012, Sharon coordinated the launch of advertising on Skype mobile, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2010. Mastering many challenges, she also designed the sales coordination efforts, as well as the overall messaging for advertising on Microsoft Windows 8.

Ms. Harris managed multimillion-dollar accounts and directed company-wide projects for companies like IAC, and Discovery Networks. Presently, she is employed by Deloitte Consulting as a Senior Manager serving as the VP of Alliance Relationships supporting its Google Marketing Platform Alliance.

Sharon’s tenacity of being a seasoned advertising and digital media professional does not limit her ability to give back to the community. Being an advocate of change, she has been an active participant in diversity and inclusion efforts in advertising and technology, while mentoring college students who are interested in both fields of study. She also serves on several non-profit boards including, The Marcus Graham Project, Be Bold Seattle - International Women’s’ Day, Challenge Day, Ignite and the Sustainable Impacts and Strategic Global Initiatives (SISGI).

Sharon is from a small town in Louisiana, but her accomplishments since leaving home have been anything but small. Ms. Harris studied American Studies at Yale University and graduated with honors from New York University with a B.A in Literature.

Sharon loves to travel and enjoys cooking creole cuisine.

International Women’s Day (IWD) is a day to acknowledge and celebrate women’s cultural, social, and economic contributions but is also a call to action for women and their allies to take action to accelerate gender parity. IWD has been celebrated for 111 years and recognized by the UN since 1975.

2020 will mark the fifth annual Be Bold Now International Women’s Day celebration, March 5, 2020, at Benaroya Hall. The event is an evening celebration where we share women's stories to inspire the audience to take action to promote gender parity. The evening is anchored on the data from the World Economic Forum Gender gap report (WEF) to ground women and our allies in the work that needs to be done to close the current estimate of over 200 years for women to achieve parity.

We hope you will join us for the uplifting and inspiring evening. ASL Interpretation will be available at this presentation.