Wonder Woman in Business, Rebecca Cohen

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Rebecca Cohen

Rebecca P. Cohen is Founder of ShareMyJourney.org, the curated peer hub that connects caring people 1:1 by phone and in small groups online to share knowledge and life experience during challenging circumstances and transitions. Rebecca has been featured as a Mom Boss in the Washington, DC area and is also the founder of BeOutsideAndGrow.com and author of the parenting book Fifteen Minutes Outside: 365 Ways to Get Out of the House and Connect with Your Kids and children's book, PJ's Backyard Adventures. Rebecca has worked with over 6,000 children around the world in making outdoor connections for a healthier life. Her work has appeared in USA Today, Better Home and Gardens, Parenting, Redbook, Working Mother, Family Circle, and Backyard Solutions.

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Rebecca Cohen

Connect with Rebecca

Email: sharemyjourneyorg@gmail.com

Facebook: Facebook.com/ShareMyJourney.org

Instagram: @sharemyjourney_org 

Twitter: @rebeccapcohen

LinkedIn: Rebecca P. Cohen



 



Wonder Woman in Business, Meghan Lundeen

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Meghan Lundeen

Meghan Lundeen is an entrepreneur that has started four businesses.  She is also an HR Business Partner for a Fortune 100 company with a passion for all things talent and leveraging talent to compete in an ever-changing business landscape. Her background is in communications and she’s supported the CIO and CFO’s of a Fortune 100 company as a communication consultant.

Meghan started her professional career in the news business, working in Peoria, IL, followed by a top 40 market in South Carolina.  She left the news business to work for a federally funded Housing Authority. After a short time, she became the Director of Business Development & Marketing for the Housing Authority, where she founded the Access to Resource and Referral Opportunities, also known as the ARRO program, all while leading strategy and implementation of the authority’s first public image campaign. 

Meghan graduated from Illinois State University with a Bachelor of Science in Mass Communication. She has a Master of Science in Organizational Leadership with an emphasis on Human Resource Management from Colorado State University. She was in the 2010 class of 40 Leaders Under 40, and is a recipient of the Prescott E. Bloom Distinguished Service award.  

Meghan co-chairs the self-reliance grant review team for Heart of Illinois United Way, founded the Tri-County Interagency Council, helped launch Emerging Philanthropists of Central Illinois within the Community Foundation, and more.  Meghan is a past president of the Board of Directors for Peoria Friendship House and the former chair of the Board for Methodist College. She also led a fundraiser for several years to rappel off historic buildings for Peoria Friendship House, where she humbly served on the Board for six years.

Meghan lives for her husband, two girls, and any international travel she can possibly squeeze in.  This January, she went to her 15th country and has a long list of locations she’s working on as soon as Covid-19 is over.

Meghan Lundeen

Connect with Meghan

Email:

Lundeen_Meghan@cat.com

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/meghan-lundeen-shrm-scp-941ab19/



Wonder Woman in Business, Janet Miller Evans

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Janet Miller Evans

Janet Miller Evans, MPA, PCC, EQCC, is Founder and CEO of Entevos, an international coaching and professional services company. She shares her knowledge gained from diverse business, professional, and personal experiences to empower leaders to build trust. She guides teams to productive collaboration, business owners to increased profits, and organizations to make diversity, equity, and inclusion a normalized part of their culture. Recognized as a thought leader in business and her community leader, Janet is known for achieving results through effective strategic planning, coaching winning teams, building excellent client relationships, and her collaborative negotiation skills. Janet has coached clients in 28 different countries. She has bee a featured speaker on many live learning sessions, panel discussions, podcasts, and conferences.

Janet is a Certified Professional Coach with the International Coach Federation (ICF) and is a certified Emotional Intelligence Coach with Six Seconds. She will receive her Certified Team Coach certification from the Global Team Coaching Institute and EMCC certification in the fall of 2020. Her previous corporate experience includes leadership and management roles at Fortune 100 companies, FedEx, IBM, UPS, and Comcast. Janet was the first Black female District Sales Manager for FedEx. She quickly progressed up the ranks from starting as an Account Executive to District Sales Manager, National Accounts Manager, Global Account Manager, and Regional Sales Manager. She held the leadership role of Project Executive with IBM, responsible for teams delivering operations and sales services to her clients. Janet has led teams of over 150 employees in sales, marketing, and service delivery. She attained target sales revenue goals of 450 million dollars, managed P&Ls of two million dollars. Janet received excellent reviews for fostering successful client experiences, delivery on key performance indices, as well as many sales and leadership honors, and recognition. She earned Fed Ex National Account Manager of the year and achieved five President’s Club awards.

Janet is a Member of the Advisory Board for Oji Life Labs and Board Member for The Gratitude Network. She volunteers as a Coach for How Women Lead, Women Leaders for the World Cohort, and Network Leader for Six Seconds. Professional memberships include International Coach Federation (ICF), The Club of Silicon Valley, Her pastimes are hiking, bike riding, hanging out at the beach, reading, swimming, and travel. Janet is married and has two daughters.

Janet Miller Evans

Contact with Janet

 Janet Miller Evans 

Founder & CEO 

Entevos 

www.entevos.com 

Email: janet@entevos.com

LinkedIn: in/janetmillerevans/




Wonder Woman in Business, Lindsey Nehls

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Lindsey Nehls

Lindsey Nehls is an Executive Coach and Leadership Development Trainer. She brings the perspective and understanding of what it is like to sit in the seat and be in the board room. Lindsey was previously an executive and an SVP of Sales where she scaled sales organizations - created the vision, culture, and go-to-market strategy, developed sales talent, and established effective processes to drive success. Over her tenure, she has successfully managed turnarounds increasing sales by 1000%, led $200 million business units, and delivered a billion dollars in enterprise sales. Lindsey has also helped lead two successful company acquisitions and is an expert in change management and communication.

Lindsey is a Harvard Business School and Middlebury College alumna. She is certified in New Ventures West Coaching to Excellence, DISC, Booth, and Center for Creative Leadership 360 assessments. When she is not with her clients, she is mountain biking, skiing, and spending time with her family.

Lindsey Nehls

Contact Lindsey

Email:

lindsey.nehls@gmail.com




Wonder Woman in Business Monique Burt Williams

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Monique Burt Williams, CEO

Monique Burt Williams is the Chief Executive Officer of Cadence Counsel, a certified Women’s Business Enterprise and sister corporation to both Lateral Link and Bridgeline Solutions. She is deeply committed to helping corporations and other organizations diversify their in-house legal divisions as they strive to reflect a global economy.  

Monique formerly worked for a prominent boutique litigation firm, and was subsequently asked to join the legal services division of a global workforce solutions company.  While there, she created a consulting practice to address the various concerns of corporate law departments: legal operations and administration, playbook development and outside counsel management, cost containment, permanent and interim search, talent development, diversity and inclusion initiatives, and remote workforce management.  Immediately prior to joining Cadence Counsel, Monique directed national business and strategy development for one of the largest privately held legal outsourcing providers in the country.

She earned a B.A. with honors from the University of Michigan, and her J.D. (Order of the Barristers) from the Indiana University Mauer School of Law.  In addition, she studied International Business Transactions at the Université de Paris – Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris, France. 

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Contact Monique:

MONIQUE BURT WILLIAMS
CEO, CADENCE COUNSEL

Certified Women Business Enterprise (WBE)

330 North Wabash Avenue, Suite 2300
Chicago, IL 60611

O. 812.219.4968 C. 812.219.4968 F. 866.728.3096

mburtwilliams@cadencecounsel.comwww.CadenceCounsel.com
Connect with me on LinkedIn

Together with our sister divisions, Lateral Link and Bridgeline Solutions, we deliver top permanent and temporary legal talent to law firms and corporations worldwide.


Wonder Woman in Business, Neha Sampat

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Neha Sampat, Esq.

Neha Sampat, Esq. is CEO and founder of GenLead|BelongLab, where she focuses on building belonging and true inclusion. Through consulting, training, speaking, and coaching, she helps organizations create peak‐performance, inclusive teams by addressing hidden barriers to belonging, such as internalized bias, unconscious bias, generational diversity, distrust in teams, and wellness challenges. She is a nationally sought-after expert on disrupting Imposter Syndrome and runs the top-rated “Owning Your Value” program to develop inclusive leadership.

Neha’s insights have been featured in numerous publications, including Time MagazineThrive GlobalABA Journal, and News India Times. Neha holds BAs in Sociology and Political Science from University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign, obtained her JD from UC Berkeley School of Law, holds a Certificate in Graduate Applied Psychology, and is certified in Hogan Assessments. Neha works across industry, from Pixar to Perkins Coie LLP, and UC Berkeley to City of San Leandro. Neha also relishes her role as mama to her two kiddos. You can read more of Neha’s insights at blog.genlead.co, follow her on TW/IG/FB at @belonglab, and reach her directly at neha@genlead.co

 

As mentioned in the podcast:

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable - Luvvie Ajayi's TED Talk

Neha, in print:

On her childhood and the seeds of her drive to create belonging:

Growing Up Brown in America: When Every Day is Halloween

What It Means to Be American: My Journey from "Other" to "Us"

 

On Imposter Syndrome as a stress and mental health issue:

Your Chronic Stress: It's a Matter of Confidence, Not Competence

A call to deal with imposter syndrome, a hidden source of attorney distress

 

On Neha's career journey:

Legal Career Spotlight: From Private Practice to Dean of Students to Belonging Consultant

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Connect with Neha and learn more about her work:

www.genlead.co

hello@genlead.co

blog.genlead.co

Send a message to connect on LinkedIn

 https://www.linkedin.com/in/nsampat/

Follow on TW/FB/IG

@belonglab

To periodically receive free tips and insights on belonging, leadership, and Imposter Syndrome, visit: https://bit.ly/GLBLemail

To stay posted on upcoming cohorts of her online Owning Your Value course, visit: https://bit.ly/OYVonlineinterest