Wonder Woman in Business, LB Adams

LB Adams

LB Adams is an award winning TEDx Speaker and Emcee, and the CEO of Practical Dramatics. It’s her quest & vocation to awaken women to the strategic power of what their voice can accomplish. Through deliberate language, positive word choices and all-around killer communication skills, LB works to help women step into their confidence and achieve the life and relationships they desire. During her multi-pathed career, LB has been an actor, corporate executive, director/producer, and, yes, even a shark-diving scuba instructor. She recently released her debut book, The Irreverent Guide to Spectacular Communication (available in paperback, ebook & audiobook) to rave reviews. You can see LB’s popular Zoom-based interview show, Snack-Sized Business - 1 show, 2 people, 3 questions, 4 minutes, each week by subscribing to Practical Dramatics’ YouTube channel. She is a transplanted New Yorker soaking up the sun outside of Charleston, SC and lives with her husband, daughter and Golden Retriever.

The Irreverent Guide to Spectacular Communication: Take Charge of Your Words and Craft a Greater Life

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CONNECT with LB

LB Adams, CEO  

Practical Dramatics

843.771.0753

www.practicaldramatics.com

lbadams@practicaldramatics.com

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Wonder Woman in Business, Joyce Kyles

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Joyce Kyles

Joyce Kyles is an award winning, international speaker, 2x Amazon best selling author, life and thriving skills coach, and consultant. She is the CEO of Joyce Kyles Consulting & the Executive Director & Founder of Walking Into A New Life. A graduate of Arkansas State University, she has received certifications from Cornell University in Women’s Entrepreneurship, the University of South Florida in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace, and the National Council for Mental Wellbeing in Mental Health First Aid USA. She as also received certifications in domestic violence, sexual assault, and child sex abuse. Her humbling accolades and published work include features in Huffington Post, The Memphis Flyer, Tri-State Defender, Black Press USA, the New Orleans Tribune, the Welcome Greenbook for Black Tourists and being named the Crime Victim Advocate of the Year. Joyce also wrote PSAs and performed voiceovers used for domestic violence campaigns for 103.5FM, a local Cumulus affiliate station. Joyce currently serves as the Vice President of the Memphis & Shelby Co Domestic and Sexual Violence Council and is a member of the International Coaching Federation-Tennessee Chapter and Philanthroforce.

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Joyce Kyles

Contact Joyce

Website:

www.joycekyles.com

LinkedIn:

linkedin.com/in/joycekyles/

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Wonder Woman in Business, Maddy Carroll

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Maddy Carroll

Madison Carroll is a multidimensional singer and storyteller. Her intelligence shows through her musicianship, acting, writing, and political research and activism. Madison’s abilities, coupled with her dedication to practice and performance has led her to fruitful opportunities both professional and personal. 

The innate urge to move and heal others (and herself) through fields such as music, theatre, and writing, is what inspires Madison to create and share. She cares deeply about those around her and uses her identity and privilege to advocate for others whose voices are systemically and traditionally silenced. 

Originally from the small town of Hanover, Massachusetts, Madison always knew she stood out. She began singing as early as she can remember. Her mother says it’s because she almost died of suffocation during childbirth, but Madison likes to think it’s all the music her parents played and sang to her in her early years. Throughout school she became increasingly interested in writing, theatre, and politics. Singing was always her home, but she craved more knowledge and more people. 

This need to grow led Madison to Ithaca College where she blossomed into a competent musician, writer, actor, and activist. At Ithaca, and within the community, she studied all of these subjects with some of the best experts in the field. Here she worked with musicians such as Wynton Marsalis and Kim Nazarian. She workshopped her writing with authors such as Therese Marie Mailhot, Bryan Washington, Rajpreet Heir, and Jericho Brown. She studied with published political and sociological theorists such as Naeem Inayutullah, Rebecca Plante, and Sumru Atuk. Madison even worked as an assistant for the college’s Piano Technician- sparking another passion she wishes to pursue. 

She has performed in front of audiences ranging anywhere from two to one-thousand people. Some of her favorite venues include the nursing home she worked at in high school (this held some of her most enthusiastic audience members), her living room, and Boston’s TD Garden. 

Her music, both solo (Madison Carroll) and collaborative (Quail), can be found on numerous streaming platforms such as Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Music. The tunes can also be purchased on Bandcamp where, unlike streaming platforms, the majority of the proceeds go to the artist. 

More Than Words

Princess Maddy and her companion, Kittles, take a stroll through the forest when they suddenly find a ring beneath the leaves! On her journey to return the ring to its rightful owner, Princess Maddy encounters a giant glass castle; meets a royal dog named Ruberious; and falls instantly in love with a beautiful saxophone-playing princess named Princess Nikki. By the end, Princess Maddy returns the ring to Princess Nikki and the two rejoice outside the castle alongside Ruberious and Kittles.

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Maddy Carroll

Connect with Maddy

Music:

madisonanncarroll@gmail.com

@madisonannmusic on Facebook and Instagram

Writing:

maddycwriting@gmail.com

@mdcrrll on Twitter and Instagram

Wonder Woman in Business, Geneviève Pépin

Geneviève Pépin

Wellness through comedy & play

Geneviève Pépin is an accredited life coach (IAPC&M), certified mindset specialist, productivity and leadership development coach (Fortune 500 companies), improv facilitator, and podcast host. She is passionate about helping high achievers go from busy & stressed to happy & productive, as a result of her own journey in the professional world.

Before coaching, Geneviève built her career internationally in event management and marketing, living, working, and traveling in more than 20 countries, in four different languages.

Connect with her on LinkedIn! Or learn more here www.nettolacoaching.com.

Stop boring your team with bland wellbeing tricks. 🛑 It doesn't work. And the problem is: a stressed workforce is costing you BIG dollar$. Since the pandemic started, we are facing unprecedented levels of depression (up 53%), and anxiety (up 55%) in the workforce (Oracle).

In fact, $300 Billion is lost by US businesses each year as a result of workplace stress. Plus, 86% of employees and executives cite a lack of collaboration or ineffective communication for workplace failures (Salesforce).

And YET, the market is flooded with training on “stress management” and “work performance”, the vast majority of which are bland, boring and cite basic tips and strategies that can be found on Google in 10 seconds or less.

The problem with these types of solutions is that they are just like infomercials – they make sense in the moment, but most people forget and never take action once the show is over.

That is why Geneviève created Joy Not Stress.

👉Let’s take wellness, mental health, and healthy performance from theory to practice.👈 And have a laugh in the process. 😂

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Geneviève Pépin

FreemanMeansBusiness.com

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Wonder Woman in Business, Jan Anne Dubin

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Jan Anne Dubin

A legal industry pioneer, Jan Anne Dubin is CEO and Founder of Jan Anne Dubin Consulting.  Jan is an award-winning consultant with over 35 years of experience leading, innovating, and serving as a change agent and connector. 

Celebrating more than 10 years of delivering value and results to more, JADC assists organizations and individuals to better serve client needs by focusing on developing long-term relationships, strategic communications, revenue generation and by building brand, profile, and visibility.  Jan serves as an executive coach, providing strategic guidance and counsel to organizations and individuals by assisting them to achieve breakthroughs.  Jan has coached hundreds of lawyers, law students, and marketing professionals, including corporate law department and law firm leadership as well as high-potential individuals.  Jan is a career-long champion of diversity and inclusion and is passionate about her work in this area.

She serves as a strategic business partner to the Association of Corporate Counsel and has worked with ACC to create an executive coaching program and career development workshops.  She is a partner to Seyfarth Shaw’s The Belonging Project having created a three-part series for them on Empowered Resilience: Tools for Thriving in 2021.  She is also an advisor and business partner to the Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute and provided instrumental assistance to create and deliver its forum on Women’s Transformative Leadership: Empowerment by Improving Participation and Representation.

Jan served as the Chief Growth Officer of LifeXT, LLC (lifecrosstraining.com), where she was responsible for new client engagements by educating organizations on LifeXT’s wellbeing tools and resources.   Prior to starting JADC, she served as the first North American Business Development Director for Baker & McKenzie LLP and as the Director of Client Relations for DLA Piper US LLP and its legacy firms, where she held various senior management and leadership roles for more than 17 years.

Selected by StreetWise, Inc., as one of 20 recipients of its 2019 Inspiring Chicagoan award, Jan was also selected by Chicago Business Journal as one of its 2018 Women of Influence.  Jan was inducted in 2017 as a Fellow into the College of Law Practice Management (COLPM) and in 2016 into the Legal Marketing Association Midwest Chapter’s Hall of Fame.  She has been recognized by Today’s Chicago Woman magazine as one of 100 Women Making a Difference and has received the Anti-Defamation League’s Distinguished Community Leadership Award.

In 1994 Jan was recruited by former First Lady Michelle Obama (then executive director of Public Allies Chicago) to join its board of directors; Jan later became its board chair and today serves on the emeritus board.  In 2020, Jan was recruited to serve on the i.c. Stars Chicago board and has been active in the Anti-Defamation League’s Women of Achievement annual dinner committee, having previously chaired the fundraising event for 27 years.

A 1994 M.B.A. graduate of The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, she holds a B.S. degree from the University of Kansas, William Allen White School of Journalism.  Jan lives in Chicago with her fiancé David Abrams and Shetland sheep dog Quinn.

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Jan Anne Dubin

Connect with Jan Anne

Jan Anne Dubin, MBA

CEO and Founder

312.399.3116

jan@janannedubinconsulting.com

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/janannedubin

Twitter: @JanAnneDubin

Wonder Woman in Business, Sonja Elise Freeman

Sonja Elise Freeman

Sonja Elise Freeman, EMBA BA CTM; Inaugural Ms. WIBOP 2020; Miss WIBOP Photogenic 2020; and Women in Business Pageant

Resplendent, Compassionate, Inspiring, and Beautiful are some of the words often used to describe Sonja Elise Freeman, Inaugural Ms. WIBOP 2020 and Miss WIBOP Photogenic 2020, Women in Business Pageant system, who is driven by her faith in God, love for serving the community with her platform with the Diva’s Diamonds: Words to Inspire, Empower and Encourage Online Empowerment Movement by sharing her gift of encouragement on Anchor.fm and Instagram Live weekly. She is the Sole Proprietor of Divine Voices Media, a multimedia production, brand marketing strategy and entrepreneurial consulting firm. She is also a critically acclaimed Off-Broadway & Broadway Producer/Star of Strength of a Woman: A Phyllis Hyman Tribute of the only Phyllis Hyman tribute approved and supported by the Hyman Family, Friends and New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and former Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray of the City of New York. 

She is a proud HBCU 2x time PVAMU Alumna and a PVAMU Alumni Affairs 5 Year Class Reunion Ambassador at Prairie View A&M University College of Arts & Sciences, a part of the Texas A&M University system, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Vocal Performance with a minor in Fashion Merchandising & Design in 1991. She is a recent MBA-Executive Magna Cum Laude with a 3.75 GPA/4.0 GPA scale graduate from Prairie View A&M University College of Business Class of 2021 where she was a member of Graduate Student Organization, Toastmasters International, and National Association of Black Journalists. She also earned a Doctorate in Divinity (Honoris Causa) in 2021 from the Omega Bible Institute and Seminary in  Monroe, Louisiana for 30 years of service as a Psalmist and Christian Multimedia Educator as a recording artist, radio personality, podcaster, publisher, and inspirational influencer. She completed a Women’s Entrepreneurship Certification from Cornell University/Bank of America Institute, WE NYC Kauffman FastTrac Powered by Grow with Google Entrepreneurship Program in New York City, Rice University Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies in Music Business & Law, Leadership Certificate Charter Class Inspire Women Leadership Institute at the Dallas Theological Seminary in Houston, Texas, Certificate of Achievement from Fashion Institute of Technology State University of New York Beauty Essentials and Bloomberg Market Concepts Certificate from Bloomberg LP.

She is competing in the Ultimate Queen WBLEP Pageant 2022 on June 16-19,2022 for the “Queen of Queens” Business Pageant within the Women Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs Pageant system and presently working with the Rhythm and Blues Preservation Society in Atlantic City, New Jersey as an Artist-in-Residence, VP and COO to get funding for recording a tribute album and documentary of her Phyllis Hyman tribute. She has a beautiful and talented 24-year-old daughter named Gabbie Gabs, an award-winning Toastmaster, Filmmaker, and Music Video Director. She is an alumna of University of Rochester with a Bachelor of Arts in Film Media Studies.

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Sonja Elise Freeman

Connect with Sonja Elise Freeman

Rev. Dr. Sonja Elise Freeman "Queen Diva"

Founder/Sole Proprietor

Divine Voices Media

Email: sef@divinevoicesmedia.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/divinevoicesmedia/

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