Susan Freeman

April 4, 2020

COVID19, Communications, Executive Coaching, Legal Marketing, Marketing

Wonder Woman in Business, Janet Falk

Susan Freeman

April 4, 2020

COVID19, Communications, Executive Coaching, Legal Marketing, Marketing

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Janet Falk is a Communications professional with more than 30 years’ experience in-house, as a consultant and at public relations agencies. As Chief Strategist of Falk Communications and Research, she manages proactive media outreach and has secured placement of executives and events in local, national and international print and broadcast media. Attorneys, CPAs, business executives and consultants rely on her insight, strategy and analysis. Janet is a versatile writer who can prepare newsletters, speeches, presentations and website copy, as well as marketing literature. She has a broad network of contacts among graphic designers, web developers, photographers and printers to meet related client needs. I encourage you to speak with her for a FREE 30-minute consultation to assess your Communications activity and online presence.

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COVID-19 To-Do List: Many people should consider projects they have not focused on and have set aside.

Now is the time to Take it Off the Back Burner:

Connect with Janet:

Janet L. Falk212/677-5770 office | 347/256-9141 cell | www.janetlfalk.com

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Freeman Means Business

Susan Freeman

April 1, 2020

Women Leaders, Wellness, Team Building, Health, Empathy, Executive Coaching

SPECIAL EDITION: Resilience During the Coronavirus Crisis with guest, Renee Branson

Susan Freeman

April 1, 2020

Women Leaders, Wellness, Team Building, Health, Empathy, Executive Coaching

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Certified Resilience Coach (CReC)

As a mental health professional and Certified Resilience Coach (CReC), Renee Branson provides clients with immediately usable tools to increase resilience, well-being, and optimism in the workplace. She works with lawyers, legal marketers, business professionals, non-profit leaders, and others to help them understand and incorporate resilience in their own professional lives and in the teams they lead.

Contact Renee:

Email:

rb@reneebranson.blog

Website:

https://reneebranson.blog/

LinkedIn:

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

Freeman Means Business

Susan Freeman

March 31, 2020

Empathy, Health, Legal, Wellness, Women Leaders, Executive Coaching

Wonder Woman in Business, Anjli Garg, Esq.

Susan Freeman

March 31, 2020

Empathy, Health, Legal, Wellness, Women Leaders, Executive Coaching

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AGC, Citi

Anjli Garg, Director, Associate General Counsel, Citibank, N.A.

Anjli Garg serves as a general counsel to Citi’s global commercial cards business, working with Citi’s largest institutional clients. She is also an active member of Citi Legal’s Global Diversity Council. Before joining Citi, she was in-house counsel at American Express and an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell. Anjli has also published articles and spoken at conferences and panels on topics as diverse as privacy and data security, unconscious bias, and diversity and inclusion. She has 20+years of experience as a corporate transactional attorney, and obtained her J.D. from NYU School of Law.

Anjli is also a Certified Professional Coach and Energy Leadership Index – Master Practitioner through iPEC, which is an International Coach Federation accredited coach training program. Anjli’s passion as a coach is to help successful people find their missing puzzle piece by clarifying their priorities, tapping into their personal power and charting and navigating their journey there.

Your Coach To Soar

*The Warrior and The Queen*

Lara and Jasmine are two modern professional women who, like most of us, are fully immersed in their three-dimensional reality. Although the two never cross paths, both are pursuing their passions in the vibrant Petri dish of New York City. When they least expect it, their very way of life is challenged and their foundations shaken to the core. Metaphysical events in their lives cause them to question their entire world-view and sense of identity. They are confronted with forces and past lives that they have no choice but to examine. In the process, they discover hidden depths unknown to them.
Lara and Jasmine will never be the same again. They invite you to join them on their journey of self-discovery, as they navigate a web of royal plots and deadly battles, spanning ancient India and the medieval Europe of the Knights Templar. Although based upon a kernel of truth, their stories are nevertheless a work of fiction. As the reader, you are transported through time and space, and weave through a mosaic of colorful cultures, culinary delights, and webs of intrigue. Their stories will please all six of your senses, as you experience the vibrancy of Lara and Jasmine’s incarnations. Their tales open a window to a metaphysical and spiritual journey that is sure to empower you, as you welcome the challenge. Their stories are presented as is, with no attempt to assert or validate the accuracy of historical events and no espousal of any particular religious beliefs.
Lara and Jasmine simply want to share the unfolding effects of their metaphysical experiences with the world. The Warrior and the Queen, at heart, is an inspirational novel that offers something for every reader. It is as much literary as it is entertaining. It poetically engages the reader in his or her own exploration of what may lie beyond the three-dimensional reality of our five senses. The reader is not alone in that journey – Lara and Jasmine have the same doubts and unanswered questions in their lives. Theirs is a tale where different metaphysical and spiritual tools converge and interact magically to offer answers that all of us have access to. The Warrior and the Queen is an easy read that is best enjoyed with a cup of chai or mint tea in hand.
“The journey of a warrior is not to find meaning in life or in battle but to find his true self.” “Awaken, and once awake, awaken others.” Readers have described the book as: “inspirational…takes you to the 4th dimension…poetic…avant-garde…an easy read…healing…intriguing…enlightening.”

Buy the book

Contact Anjli:

ANJLI GARG, ESQ., CPC, ELI-MP

Executive Leadership Coach

YOUR COACH TO SOAR: anjli@yourcoachtosoar.com

Freeman Means Business

Susan Freeman

March 30, 2020

Communications, Equity, Team Building, Women Leaders

Wonder Woman in Business, Karen Catlin

Susan Freeman

March 30, 2020

Communications, Equity, Team Building, Women Leaders

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#womenhelpingwomen

After spending 25 years building software products and serving as a vice president of engineering at Macromedia and Adobe, Karen Catlin witnessed a sharp decline in the number of women working in tech. Frustrated but galvanized, she knew it was time to switch gears.

Today, Karen is a vocal advocate for inclusion, a leadership coach, a keynote speaker, and the author of three books: "Present! A Techie's Guide to Public Speaking" (with Poornima Vijayashanker), "Better Allies: Everyday Actions to Create Inclusive, Engaging Workplaces," and "The Better Allies™ Approach to Hiring."

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Are you struggling to diversify your workforce? Is your company consistently missing its diversity goals? You may hear colleagues saying, “We’d hire more women or people of color if we could find them,” but the pipeline isn’t truly to blame. There are proven approaches for connecting with qualified candidates from underrepresented demographics. And when you know how to design a hiring process that will set them up for success, they’ll be eager to accept your offer.

Building on the momentum of her book, "Better Allies: Everyday Actions to Create Inclusive, Engaging Workplaces," Karen Catlin has created this helpful hiring guide filled with best practices to recruit and hire people from underrepresented ethnicities and genders, with non-traditional educational backgrounds, with gaps on their resumes, or from older generations. With examples, stories, checklists, rubrics, and guidelines galore, this unique tool will help you transform your hiring process to attract and retain diverse applicants.

Read this guidebook for actionable steps you can take to fill your pipeline with candidates from underrepresented groups and ensure you have an inclusive interview process that paves the way to a more diverse workforce.

Buy The Book

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Are you looking to build a workplace culture with a certain buzz about it? Where employees are thriving and engagement survey scores are through the roof. Where people from different backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, ages, and abilities are hired and set up for success--and they all want their friends to work there too, because it's so awesome.
One secret to creating this kind of workplace is allyship. And it's something anyone can do.
In Better Allies: Everyday Actions to Create Inclusive, Engaging Workplaces, you'll learn to spot situations where you can create a more inclusive culture, along with straightforward steps to take. Leadership coach Karen Catlin will walk you through how to be a better ally, including:
• Hiring and retaining a diverse workforce
• Amplifying and advocating for others
• Giving effective and equitable performance feedback
• Using more inclusive language
Read this book to level-up your ally skills using the *Better Allies™* approach and create a culture where everyone, including you, can do their best work and thrive.

Buy the book

*Present! A Techie’s Guide To Public Speaking*

The ultimate interactive public speaking guide from tech speakers Poornima Vijayashanker and Karen Catlin that prepares and encourages techies to discover their expertise, confidently share it, and successfully level up in their careers. Techies around the world can now jump start and grow their speaking careers with the book,
Present! A Techie’s Guide to Public Speaking, written by tech leaders, Poornima Vijayashanker and Karen Catlin. The book serves as a resource for technology professionals who want or need to develop the skills to communicate their expertise effectively, whether in a meeting at work or delivering an engaging talk at a conference. Poornima, who is the founder of Femgineer and the founding engineer of Mint.com, collaborated with former Adobe vice president and founder of Karen Catlin Consulting, Karen Catlin, to compile and share their lessons, tips, and techniques learned from their own experiences as professional tech speakers. “Karen and I wanted to write this book so that our fellow techies would have a comprehensive resource to help them with their own public speaking endeavors. So many folks in the tech industry have amazing ideas and experience, but they often feel stuck on how to present them effectively.
Also, our hope is that more women will be inspired by our stories and encouraged to get out there and share their own valuable expertise through public speaking in order to boost representation of women tech speakers,” Poornima said.Present! covers public speaking from A to Z. Through stories, examples, and interactive exercises, Poornima and Karen dive into topics including, overcoming stage fright, exploring personal speaking style, creating the right talk for the right audience, polishing presence and delivery, and nailing any type of talk, whether it’s a lightning or long-form talk or being part of a panel. Karen said, “Even though Poornima and I are professional speakers, we felt it was important to share our own feelings of nerves and uncertainty, and bumps we’ve had along the way - and sometimes continue to experience. It was important for us to communicate that no one is perfect and it really is okay when talks don’t always go according to plan. Our hope is that by being open, we’ll be able to give others the confidence and the techniques to handle situations when they arise, deliver an amazing presentation, and most importantly, have FUN”!

Buy the book

Contact Karen:

Karen Catlin (she/her)

Coach | Speaker | Author | Advocate for Inclusive Workplaces

karencatlin.com

betterallies.com

Freeman Means Business

Susan Freeman

March 28, 2020

Legal, Strategy, Women Leaders

Wonder Woman in Business, Maria Pia Buchi

Susan Freeman

March 28, 2020

Legal, Strategy, Women Leaders

Maria Pia Buchi

Managing Director, the Americas

Maria Pia Buchi’s expertise spans from investment funds and private wealth to all types of finance and corporate transactions.

Before moving to the US to assume overall responsibility for the business development function of Harneys Fiduciary across the Americas, Pia started and developed our Brazil practice. From the Miami Fiduciary (Representative) Office, Pia will be looking to replicate the same success story of Brazil in a tailored country-by-country basis by working with our offices across the region and market participants to explore solutions for international clients.

Pia is fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish.

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Connect with Pia

Maria Pia Buchi

Managing Director, the Americas

Harneys.com

E: maria.buchi@harneys.com

D: +55 11 3434 6599 (São Paulo)

D: +1 305 347.5180 (Miami)

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Miami & Sao Paulo

Harneys Fiduciary (Miami) Inc., 1221 Brickell Avenue, 9° Floor, Miami, FL, 33.131. This email is confidential and may be subject to legal professional privilege. Read more.

Susan Freeman

March 26, 2020

Communications, Legal Marketing, Women Leaders

Wonder Woman in Business, Brandi Hobbs

Susan Freeman

March 26, 2020

Communications, Legal Marketing, Women Leaders

Brandi Hobbs is the Chief Strategy Officer for Bell, Davis & Pitt, a full-service firm based in North Carolina. She has spent eight years serving the legal industry and previously was a speakers’ bureau consultant. Brandi has a master’s degree in law firm management from the George Washington University and a Yellow Belt Certification in Legal Lean Sigma from the Legal Lean Sigma Institute. She is also the mother of two amazing young women - Tatum and Teaghan - who remind her what really matters every day.