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Wonder Woman in Business, Bianca N. Cotton

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Bianca N. Cotton

Bianca N. Cotton is a thoughtful, strategic, entrepreneurial leader with extensive nonprofit program management, curriculum development, and training facilitation experience.

Bianca is driven to develop leaders who are managerially and emotionally competent in their professional practices. Passionate about intentionally creating positive social change in underrepresented populations and communities of need, while demonstrating sensitivity and compassion for all stakeholders.

Bianca is the founder and podcast host of “Behind the Confident Smile” about a lifestyle and personal development company inspiring women and girls to walk in love, live in hope and be healed from past hurts utilizing the vehicles of workshops, seminars, and educational materials to propel women and girls into purpose.

Bianca has served as a nonprofit professional for over 10 years. Earning both her Master’s Degree in Consulting in the Nonprofit and Corporate Sectors and Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, her passion is for helping women who suffer silently and smile brightly. It is demonstrated through her passionate writings and speaking. She is a five-time author, wife, and mom, and resides in Chicago, IL.

Enjoy the podcast.

Bianca Cotton

Connect with Bianca

LinkedIn:

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

Website:

behindtheconfidentsmile.com

Wonder Woman in Business, Kaaren Whitney-Vernon

Kaaren Whitney-Vernon

Kaaren Whitney-Vernon is a serial entrepreneur who is interested in solving communication problems. Whether its communication between brands and consumers or employers and job seekers, she believes there is a better way to connect. She has just launched a new venture to help women in tech find inclusive companies to support their growth.

 Before joining Shaftesbury as the head of the XR Department, Kaaren founded two successful companies. The first, Youth Culture Inc., a media agency specializing in helping brands to target millennials’ and working with brands like P&G, L’Oreal and Coca Cola. The second, shift2, created original short-form content for brands such as Walmart, U by Kotex®, Nokia and RBC. Today, at Shaftesbury, Kaaren charges her team to produce original content for television, film, and digital brands designed to drive revenue.


Kaaren has been quoted in BNN, Adweek, The Wall Street Journal, Globe and Mail and on CBC. She founded the North American chapter of the globally organized Branded Content Marketing Association where she was part of the conversation to bring a universally accepted measurement for branded content.


Kaaren also sits on several North American marketing advisory boards and judging panels such as Adweek’s Arc Awards and at Brand Storytelling held each year at the Sundance Film Festival. As an Executive Producer of the scripted digital series Carmilla, 100+ million views, Kaaren has been invited to speak at leading television and content markets.


Kaaren is an Official Member of the Forbes Agency Council.

Specialties: Women in Tech, Equality and Inclusion, VR, AR, Keynote Speaker, Scripted Branded Storytelling, Scripted Digital Series, Short-form content, Millennials, GenZ, Genzennials, Content Production, YouTube, Youth, Digital Series, Leadership, Publishing, Marketing, Sales, Biz Dev

Enjoy the podcast.

Kaaren Whitney-Vernon

Connect with Kaaren

Kaaren’s LINKEDIN Profile

Websites

Twitter

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Wonder Woman in Business, Jennifer Thibodaux

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Jennifer Thibodaux, JD

Jennifer Marino Thibodaux is the founder of JMT Speaks, LLC. She is a seasoned, professional speaker and writer who draws on 15+ years of experience as an attorney and storyteller. She is obsessed with helping other professionals find and embrace their authentic selves to lead their best personal and professional lives. Jennifer speaks about authenticity, overcoming the imposter syndrome, and the art of effective communication.

Jennifer is also a full-time senior editor at a global legal publisher and was previously a partner at the law firm of Gibbons P.C. in Newark, NJ. During her 11 years in private practice, she focused on class action defense, e-discovery management and counseling, and also conducted internal investigations.

Jennifer graduated Seton Hall University School of Law, magna cum laude and Order of the Coif, and Bucknell University, cum laude. She has served as an Adjunct Professor of Appellate Advocacy at Seton Hall Law.

She is an executive committee member of the Women’s Leadership Committee at Seton Hall Law and a longtime trustee of Partners For Women and Justice, a non-profit dedicated to providing pro bono legal services to domestic violence survivors.

Enjoy the podcast.

Jennifer Marino Thibodaux

For more information and to stay connected with Jennifer through her newsletter and blog, visit www.jmtspeaks.com or follow her and JMT Speaks on LinkedIn.

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Wonder Woman in Business, Leigh Dance

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Leigh Dance

CEO

E. Leigh Dance

Corporate legal and compliance leaders turn to Leigh to help them improve performance, develop strategy, promote the value of legal/compliance, advocate for their business, lead remote global teams, organize their retreats and assist with particular needs.
 
Leigh is known for her in-depth international experience, and her unique understanding of both buyers and sellers of legal services globally.  Her entire career experience is multinational, including  more than 20 years living and working in both the US and Europe. Leigh speaks English, French and Italian.

Law firms retain Leigh and ELD International to:  improve strategies and actions in select groups and geographic markets; organize client-facing programs to raise profile and build relationships with legal services buyers; and conduct research with buyers worldwide, to improve marketing and BD initiatives.

Founder and Executive Director of the exclusive roundtable group, Global Counsel Leaders Circle, Leigh develops and moderates many of the Global Counsel Leaders programs, including those of the prestigious Leaders Circle. From 1999-2009, LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell (LNMH) retained Leigh to organize and facilitate Counsel to Counsel: A Forum on Best Practices in Delivering Corporate Legal Services, an initiative she co-founded.  She has participated in hundreds of corporate counsel roundtables in 23 countries on all continents.

Building on a financial services and public policy background, Leigh was a VP at JP Morgan Chase for 7 years, where she had management and director assignment in product management, marketing, business development and new business launches, across 20 countries. 

A recognized thought leader, her articles on the role of the General Counsel, legal risk, regulatory challenges, governance and compliance have been published in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, American Lawyer, Legal Week and other publications. Since 2015, she has been the Global In-House columnist for ALM’s Corporate Counsel.  Leigh’s book BRIGHT IDEAS: INSIGHTS FROM LEGAL LUMINARIES WORLDWIDE, a collection of essays, is available on Amazon. 

Leigh has an MBA (high honors) in International Management and a BA, International Relations (honors).  In 2012, she was inducted as a Fellow in the College of Law Practice Management and in 2016, she was a judge in the British Legal Awards. 

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Thank you to the many corporate legal teams and law firms that ordered our First Annual ESG Report published in December 2020. We contributed $4,600 of our proceeds to 3 non-profits taking action on climate change and critical social issues. Plus, all of our Global Counsel Leaders Circle members received the report free as a member benefit!

We’re so excited to release Global Counsel Leaders’ new 2022 ESG Report in early January 2022! It features Commentaries from various General Counsel, Chief Sustainability Officers and other subject matter experts. You will find useful case examples and get insights on key regulatory and reporting trends in EMEA and North America.

E. Leigh Dance and our research manager assembled this exceptional content for the 2022 ESG Report with Global Counsel Leaders’ own research and findings in conversations with more than 1,000 in-house leaders. The report discusses their ESG roles, approaches, challenges, plus connections to other parts of the business including supply chain, trade and government affairs.

Order your Global Counsel Leaders’ 2022 ESG Report now for $120 USD at the link below. 50% of profits will go to charitable ESG organizations.

For more information and a free download my articles in the Insights section at

 https://globalcounselleaders.com

To order the 2022 ESG Report, this link.  50% of profits from the 60+ page Report are donated to environmental sustainability and social impact non-profits. 

https://globalcounselleaders.com/gcl-2022-esg-report

For the first annual 2021 report, $4,600 was contributed (the lion’s share of profits).

Enjoy the podcast.

Leigh Dance

Connect with Leigh

E. Leigh Dance, Managing Director

ELD International LLC

www.ELDInternational.com     www.GlobalCounselLeaders.com 

Email: eldance@eldinternational.com

LinkedIn: in/e-leigh-dance-661854/

Wonder Woman in Business, Sumathi Pundit

Sumathi Pundit

Sumathi Pundit is a trusted leader in the business intelligence domain for professional services firms. In 2004, Sumathi founded Evalueserve Canada, the Canadian agency for global market intelligence and analytics firm Evalueserve, where she led the initiative to set up offshore market intelligence teams for the Canadian arms of two of the Big 4 accounting firms, among other clients.

Following the sale of her franchise back to Evalueserve, Sumathi continued to act as an advisor to business development and knowledge management teams across the legal services spectrum.
It was while consulting to a top law firm in Canada that she had a lightbulb moment that the current siloed technology landscape of Content Marketing and Business Intelligence vendors meant that client-facing fee earners didn’t have ready access to high-quality sector and company-specific insights that they could use to support proactive outreach to clients and prospects.

Sumathi founded Kaitongo in 2018 to develop an AI-powered sector, client, and market intelligence platform to help sellers turn business insights into meaningful conversations, building deeper relationships and, ultimately, generating higher revenues.

Enjoy the podcast.

Sumathi Pundit

Connect with Sumathi

Sumathi Pundit (she/her/hers)

Founder and CEO

Phone: 416-544-1443 X2001

Website: www.kaitongo.com

https://calendly.com/sumi-pundit/30min

Wonder Woman in Business, Doina Dumitru

Doina Dumitru

Doina Dumitru, PharmD, MBA, FASHP is currently Senior Director, Medical Affairs – Enterprise Medication Management at BD, focused on medication solution development & outcomes research initiatives. Dr. Dumitru has been with BD since 2016, initially as Director of Professional Services, Pharmacy Automation Solutions. Prior to BD, Dr. Dumitru served in various healthcare operations, clinical informatics, and clinical practice and leadership roles, including Director of Pharmacy at Memorial Hermann The Woodlands (near Houston, TX). She created the first multi-site pharmacy residency program in Texas, precepted and mentored PGY-1/2 residents in the Health-System Pharmacy Leadership graduate program, and taught pharmacy law, pharmacy informatics, and leadership principles at the University of Houston College of Pharmacy. Dr. Dumitru’s professional achievements include multiple speaking engagements and publications on pharmacy practice, leadership, and informatics, and she is the author of the book The Pharmacy Informatics Primer and a co-author of the landmark 2017 ASHP Guidelines on Preventing Diversion of Controlled Substances.

Enjoy the podcast.

Doina Dumitru

Connect with Doina

linkedin.com/in/doinadumitru

doina.j.dumitru@gmail.com

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