Wonder Woman in Business, Manisha Arora

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Manisha Arora

Manisha Arora is director of a team that builds strategic alliances between technology partners and ServiceNow, reporting to the Chief Innovation Officer. She serves as alliance architect for the most strategic platform partners of ServiceNow - driving product planning, engineering, and go-to-market efforts. She is an industry speaker, platform evangelist, and trusted advisor to Fortune 500 executive partners and customers.

Prior to ServiceNow, Manisha spent a decade at Microsoft in a career spanning Azure, Windows Server, and driving enterprise platform initiatives. In these roles, she built and led Technology Adoption Programs for customers to shape Microsoft product roadmaps, delivered showcases, and drove efforts to incubate and pilot new products. She also led global Service Management technical strategy and process definition at Microsoft in partnership with ServiceNow - resulting in lower costs, greater efficiency, and new business capabilities.

Manisha served as President of the Board of Directors at IGNITE Worldwide – an award-winning global non-profit that creates STEM education opportunities for underserved communities, and she remains involved as a Board Advisor. She is a classically-trained violinist that had the opportunity to play in a Carnegie Hall orchestra concert at a young age. www.igniteworldwide.org

Manisha Arora

Connect with Manisha

Personal email:

manisha.k.patel@gmail.com

Work email:

manisha.arora@servicenow.com

LinkedIn:

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



Wonder Woman in Business, Emily Woloschuk

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Emily Woloschuk

Emily Woloschuk is an award-winning marketing and business development professional who helps lawyers build their book of business and deliver outstanding client service.

Driven by the belief that effective communication is key to one’s success, Emily takes pride in providing strategic guidance on business development efforts, marketing and public relations, client feedback programs, and digital marketing.

Most recently Emily was the Director of Marketing & Business Development at a litigation boutique. She worked with the lawyers on business development initiatives that supported the firm’s strategic plan. For her work in helping the firm achieve national recognition as a top-tier trial firm, Emily received a Your Honor Award from the Legal Marketing Association Southeast region (LMASE).

Emily is the 2021 President-Elect of the LMASE Board of Directors.

Her passion for communications can be traced back to the 12th grade, where Emily spent significant time working on a speech honoring the Civil Rights leader Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth at the 1992 opening ceremony of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.

Outside of the office, Emily enjoys cooking, gardening, travel, and yoga.

Emily Woloschuk

Connect with Emily

LinkedIn

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

Email

ebwoloschuk@gmail.com



Wonder Woman in Business, Jory Des Jardins

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Jory Des Jardins

Jory Des Jardins is CMO of the @ Company, builder of an internet protocol designed to put control over online data and user experiences back into the hands of People. She is passionate about making capital funding and business-building resources available to talented, underrepresented founders. She is VC in Residence at the W Fund. Jory pioneered social marketing as Co-Founder and President of BlogHer, a media marketplace representing thousands of digital influencers, which reached 100 million monthly unique viewers at the time of its acquisition. Jory has advised dozens of scaling startups, focusing on companies that are evolving digital influence, social content, media models, consumer marketplaces, eCommerce, Blockchain/token-based economies, and AR/VR/MR. Among the companies she has formally advised are PracticalXR, Lifescape, AIKON, and the entrepreneur network SheWorx.

Jory Des Jardins

Connect with Jory

Company’s Website: https://atsign.com/

This tells the story of The @ Company and how @signs work.

LinkedIn newsletter:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/observations-from-week-work-tech-august-31-4-jory-des-jardins/

Social: @jory

Phone: 415.786.6126

Email: jory@atsign.com



Wonder Woman in Business, Kenya Dunn

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Kenya Dunn

Power Tribe

Kenya Dunn, Founder & CEO of the Power-Filled Woman is a coach, speaker, teacher, community advocate, entrepreneur, and an experienced corporate executive. The Power-Filled Woman’s mission is to impact the lives and businesses of 1 million women across the globe. Kenya is fulfilling her mission through her annual conference, Power-Filled. She also launched the Power Tribe earlier in 2020, a community created with women of color in mind.

Professionally, Kenya has a coaching and consulting firm, PFW, LLC. She helps business leaders improve their bottom line through diversity, equity and inclusion strategic planning, leadership development and cultural transformation.

Prior to starting her own company, Kenya spent 20 years in corporate America. She held executive leadership positions in both Customer Service & Retail organizations, building high-performing teams producing phenomenal results. She also helped countless people grow their own careers and launch businesses. She matriculated from the University of Phoenix with a B.S. in Management.

In her spare time, Kenya enjoys reading books, traveling, meeting new people, and spending time with her family and close friends.

Kenya is a Ted Ex Charleston speaker coach. She was also the YWCA’s 2020 What Women Bring honoree for Women in Business.

Connect with Kenya

Website: powertribecommunity.com

Instagram: @powertribecommunity

Linkedin: in/kenyadunn/



Wonder Woman in Business, Rosalia Labate

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Rosalia Labate

Rosalia Labate practices in financial forensics, largely in divorce matters, navigating the financial issues involved from gathering documents to preparing a Statement of Net Worth to business valuation services to forensic accounting to understanding both the short-term and long-term implications of the financial decisions. She also specializes in litigation support as a part of the "divorce team", working hand in hand with the attorney. Qualified as a financial expert throughout New York.

Rosalia began her career at Deloitte & Touche in Manhattan, one of the most prestigious accounting firms worldwide, for the Internal Audit Division and then went to Salomon Smith Barney. Her experience and financial expertise brought her to the Manhattan firm of Alexandra & James, where she focused exclusively on divorce and mediation. 

When people are going through martial or business divorces, they need someone who will educate and empower them with the right information so you can make smart decisions. Rosalia is that person.  As someone who has experienced the divorce process first-hand (and with hundreds of clients), she has learned how to make the process more efficient so people can move on to their next chapter -- sooner.

Rosalia provides consulting, forensic, business valuation, mediation, and testifying expert services in the financial aspects of marital and business divorces. With a strong attention to detail, she unravels the most complicated financial situations and excels at explaining in plain English, the economics of the situation, as well as the options available for settlement. Anything from investigations to guidance through litigation, Rosalia makes it digestible. As part of the team from start to finish, Rosalia ensures people have the right information to make smart decisions for themselves and their families including financial investigations with the client prior to their hiring their attorney to guidance through litigation.

Rosalia Labate

Connect with Rosalia

LinkedIn: in/rosalialabatecpa

Email: rosalia@labatecpa.com




Wonder Woman in Business, Stephanie Palermo

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Steph Palermo

Steph Palermo, raised in a Sicilian family, taps into her experiences both at home and in Sicily to bring you simple wisdom to transform your life and business. Sicilians are passionate about family, food, love and respect. Steph tackles Sicilian traditions like the family dinner table, forgiveness, loyalty and generosity. She offers tips on incorporating these values and others into your life to strengthen familial bonds, inspire lives and ultimately positively affect the bottom line in your business. As a short story teller, Steph draws you into her world and demonstrates how adopting a Sicilian way of thinking and being, you will begin to value all you have. You will enjoy healthy relationships, inner peace and an increase in productivity at home and work, not to mention an increase in appreciation of mealtime.

If you are of Italian or Sicilian descent, you will identify with Steph's stories as you stroll down memory lane. She will remind you of what you may have forgotten, or you will nod in agreement as a practicing Sicilian.

This book is for anyone who wants to truly embrace life and enjoy every moment. Whether you are interested in positively influencing your family, a single person who desires to offer and receive value in relationships or a business owner who cares about employees and increasing productivity. You will learn what it takes to reach your desired outcomes. Steph Palermo melds old school values with our current, modern day world.

Steph Palermo is an intuitive coach and healer, influencer, talk show host, international speaker, and published author. Steph draws from her ability to read souls, her life experiences, living with a rare disorder, personality, and sense of humor to share her message. Her Sicilian heritage and Boston wit make for an always uplifting and honest message. Steph offers an exclusive membership community 1:1 coaching, workshops and retreats to help people heal and level up their lives, align and live a life of greater purpose that is fun, satisfying and successful.

Steph’s latest book, “It’s Not Personal Sonny. It’s Business: How to run your family, life and business like a Sicilian” is now available for purchase.

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It’s Not Personal, Sonny.

It’s Business

Steph Palermo


Steph Palermo