Wonder Woman in Business, Joleen Hughes

Joleen Hughes

The Lawyer Who Rocks

Joleen Winther Hughes is the founder, principal, and fearless leader of HMLG. With experience that spans the technology, entertainment, and digital media world, Joleen created HMLG specifically to support entrepreneurs, innovators, and visionaries of all sizes who push the boundaries in business.

As a longtime entrepreneur herself, Joleen also understands the practicalities of starting and running a successful business. Over the years, Joleen has contributed her expertise and insight as a strategic advisor to companies navigating all aspects of their business from formation/structuring, operations, launch, fundraising, growth, strategic relationships and alliances, implementation of processes, and – her favorite – deal-making.

Joleen has been an important team member on her clients’ executive staff for nearly 2 decades in businesses ranging from gaming, product development, technology, consumer products and services, motion pictures, e-commerce, and everything in between.

Prior to owning and operating her firm, Joleen served as Senior Counsel to the media/technology company that invented streaming media and was one of the first lawyers who created the business and legal models which brought media to consumers via online and mobile platforms. 

As an entrepreneur, Joleen owned a successful artist management and production company during the height of the 90’s Seattle music explosion. She sold a successful Irish pub business co-owned with her husband. She also is an acting CEO for a worldwide stationery company and a best-selling romance author under her pen name.

Joleen regularly speaks at events and conferences on entrepreneurship, media, and business matters. You can hear her interview business badasses on her podcast The Lawyer Who Rocks.

Joleen’s also an avid supporter of the arts, serving as Vice President on the Seattle International Film Festival Board and as a Music Commissioner with the City of Seattle.

Enjoy the podcast.

Joleen Hughes

Connect with Joleen:

Joleen Winther Hughes

HUGHES MEDIA LAW GROUP

Founder and Principal

3213 Harbor Avenue SW, Suite A2

Seattle, Washington 98126

www.hmlglaw.com

Office: 206-774-0879

Direct: 206-452-1553

Mobile:  206-794-6844

Fax: 206-260-9300

PODCAST: “The Lawyer Who Rocks”

Joleen chats with fellow entrepreneurs about what they do, how they do it, and what they’ve learned along the way. From founders of startups making waves in tech and media, to authors, musicians and VC’s – The Lawyer Who Rocks is amplifying their badassery to the world at large.

https://www.hmlglaw.com/blog/the-lawyer-who-rocks

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lawyer-who-rocks/id1449307652?mt=2

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Wonder Woman in Business, Olivia Vizachero

Olivia Vizachero, Esq.

Certified Life Coach

Olivia Vizachero, a former BigLaw litigator turned solo-practitioner, runs The Less Stressed Lawyer, a boutique life coaching practice for lawyers. As a Certified Life Coach, she works with lawyers were are over-worked, over-stressed, overwhelmed and over it. Through her coaching work, she teaches lawyers how to practice emotional management, improve time management, balance their workload and make themselves and their wellbeing their top priority so they can start living lives with less stress and far more fulfillment.

In addition to her one-on-one work with clients, Olivia hosts a variety of online events geared at helping as many attorneys as possible apply her coaching concepts themselves to transform their everyday lives. She currently hosts a monthly learning series, Less Stressed Sessions, where each month she focuses on one particular problem, like time management or people pleasing, and teaches attendees comprehensive strategies for solving it. Olivia also hosts a weekly Zoom meet-up for lawyers on Sunday evenings called Less Stressed Sundays, where lawyers come together to recount the previous week, specifically focusing on what worked and what didn’t, and then discuss what they’ll do differently in the coming week in order to remedy what didn’t work.

In June 2020, Olivia hosted the first THRIVE in FIVE Virtual Summit, a five-day virtual event designed to help attorneys leverage quarantimes by giving them the tools to develop personally and professionally. To do this, THRIVE in FIVE brought together over 30 experts over five days to discuss five topics: mindset, relationships, branding, legal innovation, and leadership, giving attendees an opportunity to understand what’s not working in every area of their lives and develop a comprehensive plan to fix it.

Most recently, Olivia co-authored a pandemic anthology titled #Networked with 19 other women lawyers. #Networked, which hit #1 on Amazon’s New Release charts, tells the story of how these 20 women came together in March 2020 an overcame the confines of COVID-19 social distancing to create connections, cultivate community, and build businesses in the midst of a global pandemic. 

Before launching her coaching practice Ms. Vizachero worked as a complex commercial litigation associate at Michigan’s largest AmLaw 200 firm and as a criminal defense attorney at the boutique criminal defense firm where she previously worked as a full-time clerk while she attended Wayne State University Law School as an evening student. 

Still having a passion for criminal justice, Ms. Vizachero continues to practice law on a limited basis, putting her needle-in-the-haystack research skills to good use by taking on select criminal defense matters in Detroit.

Enjoy the podcast.

Olivia Vizachero

Connect with Olivia — it will change your life!

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/oliviavizachero

Website: thelessstressedlawyer.com

Less Stressed Sessions — A Monthly Virtual Learning Series: lessstressedsessions.com/signup

Olivia Vizachero

Certified Life Coach

The Less Stressed Lawyer

thelessstressedlawyer.com

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Wonder Woman in Business, Meenakshi Iyer

Meenakshi Iyer

Meenakshi Iyer is a global citizen, an inclusive and collaborative servant leader, and a professional thinker and doer.  "Stop. Breathe. Think. Act." is her motto.

Born and raised in India, she has been in the US for over a decade now. She is fluent in four languages; and has lived and worked in 10+ cities in India and the US. She is passionate about democratizing access to, and opportunity for, people development across the world.

Meenakshi founded NorthStar Solutions and Services in August 2019 – as a 100% virtual business - to partner with mid-career IT/Agile professionals and leaders, and small to medium-sized businesses, globally, in designing successful outcomes for their transformation journeys, especially in this digital, VUCA economy. She partners with them to help them learn and adopt ‘Future of Work’ skills and behaviors such as: agile, collaborative, and inclusive ways of working; remote leadership; and impactful change communication.

A T-shaped servant leader with a 22-year international and interdisciplinary career in IT, Agile/Business Process Transformation, international healthcare, HR, and Training, she is a champion of cross-cultural and cross-functional leadership. Having started off in the non-profit healthcare sector in India where, among other things, she learned the inner workings of a regional eye bank, the breadth and depth of her professional experience span cultures, geographies, industries, and hierarchies.

Meenakshi is an IC Agile certified Agile Coach (ICP-ACC), and her Agile experience is in B2B product development and client implementation in the healthcare space in the US. She excels in the application of Lean and Human-centered Design in organizational and agile transformations. ​

As a professionally trained and an experienced ESL Trainer, she has helped hundreds of aspiring and working professionals become proficient in their use of business English. She is particularly empathetic towards the challenges faced by non-native speakers of English in the workplace; and has consistently worked towards making culturally competent communication central to creating inclusive work environments.

Meenakshi holds an Executive MBA from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; a BS in Physics from Bharathiar University, India, and an Advanced Diploma in Software Engineering also from India. She has an Executive Master's Certificate from MIT Sloan School of Management in Business Process Design for Strategic Management; and is a Scrum Alliance Certified ScrumMaster®. She is currently on her path to earning an ICF-PCC credential as a Professional Coach.

An active member of the Lean In Agile community – a professional networking group for women professionals in the Lean/Agile space - Meenakshi is on the Catalyst team for the Washington DC area Spiral group. She lives in Ashburn, Virginia in the US, with her husband. In their free time, they enjoy going on road trips to the countryside, and visiting local wineries and breweries.

Enjoy the podcast.

Meenakshi Iyer

Contact Meenakshi

Website: https://www.northstaratwork.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meenakshi-iyer-northstar/

Twitter: @NorthStar_Nova

YouTube: NorthStar Solutions and Services - YouTube

Facebook: @northstaratwork

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Wonder Woman in Business, Sarah Feingold

Sarah Feingold

About Sarah:

Sarah Feingold is a co-founder of The Fourth Floor, a next-level community democratizing womxn's access to board seats and investments to drive systemic change. Previously, she was the General Counsel and first lawyer at Etsy and Vroom. She is a creator and producer of Legal Madness, an NYU Law School Engelberg Center fellow, a board member, an investor, and a speaker. You can also find Sarah hammering silver, eating candy, and chasing her child.

Sarah’s passion project:

Legal Madness: Legal Madness (www.legalmadness.party). Lawyers inside tech companies have powerful, hilarious and maddening stories, but confidentiality obligations have kept them silent. Until now. In collaboration with NYU Law School, I collected secret stories from attorneys, turned their tales into monologues, and hired actors to perform them on stage.  Our first (and only) live production was a sold out, hilarious, success.  The tech and legal communities showed up!  I have spent the pandemic scaling the production and talking with TV and theater insiders.  I’d love any connections! Let’s bring the madness. 

Enjoy the podcast.

Sarah Feingold

Learn more about Sarah

Sarahfeingold.com

legalmadness.party

linkedin.com/in/sarahfeingold

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Wonder Woman in Business, Shani Barrax Moore

Shani Barrax Moore

Shani Barrax Moore (she/her/hers) is a strategic diversity and inclusion practitioner with more than 20 years of experience in training and development, strategic planning and change leadership, and coalition building. Shani currently serves as the Director of Diversity and Inclusion at the University of North Texas (UNT) in Denton (a city in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex)  where she leads a learning and development team, executes planning and delivery of the UNT Equity and Diversity Conference, manages employee resource groups, and develops strategic partnerships for the university. At both UNT and Tarrant County College District where she served as the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, she led an institution-wide campus inclusion climate survey and strategic planning process leading to institutional diversity and inclusion infrastructure. She led similar initiatives as the Director of Diversity and Inclusion at Cary Academy, a 6 – 12 independent school in North Carolina, which earned her membership on the Executive Committee of the National Association of Independent School’s Call to Action, the Association’s think tank for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Shani is a partner with Aurora Change Agency, a consulting firm that provides diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic learning and development for corporate, non-profit, governmental, and educational entities.

Shani serves on the boards of Child Care Group, North Texas Diversity Council, and the Social Action Committee of the Lambda Upsilon Sigma chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Incorporated.   A Cornell University Certified Diversity Advanced Practitioner and an Intercultural Development Inventory Qualified Administrator, Shani is a native of Raleigh, North Carolina, an alumna of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the mom of two teenage daughters. She is currently a City Council candidate for Carrollton, and is pursuing a doctorate degree in higher education administration.

Learn more about the

EQUITY & DIVERSITY CONFERENCE

Equity and Diversity Conference @ edc.unt.edu

It is virtual and registration deadline is 2/16

Enjoy the podcast.

Shani Barrax Moore

Connect with Shani

Phone: 972-998-1536

Email: tazamadada@gmail.com

LinkedIn: in/shani-barrax-moore-aurorachangeagency/

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Wonder Woman in Business, Shaquana Johnson

Shaquana Johnson

Shaquana Johnson is a 34-year-old single mother, healthcare technology attorney, MIT Challenge winner, angel investor, and health advocate. She hails from Raleigh, North Carolina. In her free time she enjoys spending time with her ten-year-old son, Evan, he is the light of her life. Additionally, she enjoys advocating for health while serving on the Healthy Lifestyles Ministry at her church. She is particularly passionate about maternal health and regenerative farming. When she's not watching a movie with Evan or researching the healing powers of food she is deeply invested in reading her bible.

Shaquana Johnson

(She, Her, Hers)

Corporate Counsel | Unite Us

(919) 247-0252

https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaquana-johnson-i-angel-investor-i-mit-challenge-winner-4a1858a7/

Enjoy the podcast.

Connect with Shaquana

Shaquana Johnson

(She, Her, Hers)

Corporate Counsel | Unite Us

(919) 247-0252

555 Fayetteville St, Floor 3

Raleigh, North Carolina 27601

LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram

Personal LinkedIn Profile

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