Freeman Means Business' Wonder Women in Business Podcast

Judy Hoberman, President of Walking on the Glass Floor and Selling In A Skirt- International Speaker, Trainer, Coach, Author and Mentor. Her 30 years in business has given her both the knowledge and sense of humor about how men and women sell, work and live differently will enlighten you in learning how both genders can support each other’s successes in a more productive way.

Stephanie Kusibab is an accomplished and versatile strategy consultant with more than twenty years’ experience delivering programs that accelerate growth and mission achievement. Through broad business experience and perspective, she quickly understands and assesses a situation to identify growth opportunities across industries and professions. Stephanie believes the most powerful ideas come from bringing people together. Through deliberate, structured interactions digitally and in-person, she helps organizations tackle high-stakes conversations, mine diverse perspectives, generate new ideas, build stronger teams, and understand market opportunities. Stephanie and her team at Essentiam assist client organizations in defining their future through strategic planning, mission and vision creation, market analysis, leadership development, identification of new business opportunities, new product development initiatives and strategy coaching.

Shannon Knuth is a designer, communicator, tech enthusiast, brand creator, art director, project manager, and graphic storyteller – a true professional generalist who eats and breathes marketing.

Nassim Abdi is an entrepreneur and educator, dedicated to using the medium of documentary film to raise awareness of critical global issues. As the co-founder of StoryBolt, she set out to provide corporate and academic institutions with access to short documentary films from across the world: the platform offers on-demand streaming of over 2,800 short films from 112 countries, tackling subjects including mental health, gender equality, food security, and wartime trauma. Most importantly, StoryBolt connects audiences with the filmmakers themselves, initiating vital conversations through live Q&A sessions.

Sarah Cheek is a certified Lean Leader. Since 2009, she has led multiple organizations in full scale adoptions of Lean Management. Sarah has facilitated hundreds of people in Kaizen (aka rapid improvement) workshops, and she has trained all levels of staff ranging from executives to front line employees in Lean Management.

Dena Samuels, Ph.D., serves as a mindfulness-based diversity, equity, and inclusion author, speaker, leadership trainer, and consultant. As an award-winning tenured professor, Dr. Samuels taught at the University of Colorado – Colorado Springs for 20 years while consulting nationally and internationally. She now consults full-time on mindful, inclusive leadership development. Her passions include inspiring people to raise their personal and social awareness to live more fulfilling, connected, and meaningful lives; and assisting organizations, campuses, and corporations in building more diverse, equitable, and inclusive cultures.

Rebecca Martin’s true passion has always been film. She founded the Chicago Film Lover Exchange in 2011, which now has 6,000+ members. Along with film, Rebecca is passionate about empowering other women to follow their dreams.

Bill Sodeman is an experienced professor, higher education administrator, and corporate learning executive. He earned a Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Georgia, completing his dissertation research on socially responsible investing in 1993. Bill also earned an MBA from Rollins College, and a BA in studio fine art from the College of William and Mary in Virginia.

Dr. Sodeman has published and presented to academic and professional audiences around the world. His work has been published in Business Horizons, the Organization Development Journal, Business & Society, and the New York Times. He has taught at several universities, including Marquette University, Hawaii Pacific University, the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and Clark University.

He is Chief Learning Officer for Seven Hills Foundation, a non-profit human services agency operating in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Bill lives in Worcester, Massachusetts with his wife, Jacki Wolf, and their two rescue dogs, Faith and Kelly. He enjoys working out, reading comic books, cooking, and travel.

Stephanie Dalfonzo is an Integrative Hypnotist, Coach, Speaker, and Author of “Goodbye Anxiety, Hello Freedom: How to Build Resilience and Overcome Anxiety.”

She helps women uncover and heal the things from their past that have been keeping them stuck, freeing them to live the life of their dreams.

Her first career was as Celebrity Radio DJ “Stevie Knox”. After pausing her career to stay home with her children, she discovered she had struggled with anxiety her entire life and didn’t know it. She began researching holistic and natural approaches to learn emotional resilience to overcome anxiety for herself; and then opened and operated a successful Hypnosis practice for ten years. She closed that so she could work virtually (around the globe or around the corner.)

Over the past 20 plus years, Stephanie has helped thousands from tweens to 82 say “Hello Freedom.”

David Smith, PhD, is co-author of the forthcoming book, Good Guys: How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace and Associate Professor of Sociology in the National Security Affairs Department at the U.S. Naval War College. A former Navy pilot, Dr. Smith led diverse organizations of women and men culminating in command of a squadron in combat and flew more than 3,000 hours over 30 years including combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. As a sociologist trained in military sociology and social psychology, he focuses his research in gender, work, and family issues including gender bias in performance evaluations, dual career families, military families, women in the military, and retention of women. He is the co-author of Athena Rising: How and Why Men Should Mentor Women and numerous journal articles and book chapters that focus on gender and the workplace. 

Learn more about David at: davidgsmithphd.com