Her Hypesquad with Bosstrack

Welcome back to a new episode of Her HypeSquad with Bosstrack!

This week I sat down with Randi Deckard, a Senior VP of Client Engagement, to talk about advocating for yourself, the danger of assumptions, the many benefits of working cross-functionally, breaking down silos, and helping others shine.

We cover so much ground in this conversation - we’ve got something for everyone!

About Randi:

Randi Deckard has over twenty years of commercial healthcare industry experience with a focus on driving revenue growth with a customer-obsessed approach.

She has experience driving revenue and profitability in the Life Sciences, Technology, and Financial Services sectors of Healthcare.

Randi has transformed her clinical scientist data-driven experiments into GTM playbooks that drive profitable sustainable growth.

She’s a Master of Revenue Architecture, a serial learner, and proud mama of two fur babies, Appollo and Luna.

Contact Randi:

LinkedIn: @randisuedeckard

Welcome to this week's episode of Her HypeSquad with Bosstrack where I sit down with Ashton Rodenhiser, Founder, Live Illustrator & Sketchnoting Educator of Mind's Eye Creative Consulting.

We talk about visualizing ideas, idea retention, making others feel heard, and how AI will change creativity at work.

About Ashton Rodenhiser

Ashton Rodenhiser is passionate about lifting the creative spirit in everyone that she meets. She has followed her passion for helping people communicate their ideas and combined that with creativity by founding Mind's Eye Creative Consulting.

Over the years, she has brought over 2500 presentations and conversations to life either on paper or digitally. She’s now on a mission to teach sketchnoting skills to students and professionals on how to use doodling and drawing as their best thinking and learning tool. 

When she’s not working with clients, she’s being silly with her three young kids and husband in rural Canada.

Contact Ashton:

Website: http://www.mindseyecreative.ca/

Website: http://www.sketchnote.school

LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonrodenhiser/⁠

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MindsEyeCCF

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ashtonmindseye/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MindsEyeCreativeCF

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sketchnoteschool

Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/SketchnoteSchool

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mindseyecreative

This is a replay of Episode #13 with Melissa Cohen.

Hello, and welcome back to another episode of Her HypeSquad with Bosstrack!

In this episode, I have a wide-ranging conversation about leading with empathy with Melissa Cohen, a fashion industry executive. She offers some great advice and insight you don’t want to miss!

Melissa and I talk about about what empathy looks like, how to develop empathy, and why it’s so important to have empathy as a leader today. And of course, we talk about Brene Brown because who can have a conversation about empathy without talking about her?

About Melissa Cohen

Melissa Cohen is a fashion industry executive who has led teams at well-known American brands, including Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, and Nautica. She has led product development, sourcing, and production across various categories for men's, women's, and children's apparel. In 2020 Melissa launched her own consulting business, providing her expertise to start-up and growth-stage brands.

Passionate about girls and women's empowerment, she is a founding member of Chief (New York City chapter) - a private network built to drive more women into positions of power and keep them there. Melissa is also deeply involved with Her Move Next - a grassroots 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to empowering women and young girls through chess, community, and competition.

In her free time, Melissa enjoys reading, Broadway musicals, watching sports, and all things pumpkin spice.

Contact Melissa

LinkedIn: ⁠⁠@melissa-cohen-8445067

In this episode, I sit down with Erica Wiederlight, confidence coach and CEO of We the Light. We talk about confidence, the stories we tell ourselves, allowing ourselves to be seen, and our relationship to pleasure.

I loved this conversation and had some great takeaways for myself from our talk!!

About Erica

Erica Wiederlight is THE confidence coach who focuses on self love, sexual empowerment, dating, getting your radiance back and going from autopilot to thriving.

In addition to her coaching practice, she is a professional speaker and podcaster. Her podcast "Welcome To The Wiederlife” is a top rated podcast across many categories including: divorce, love, sexuality, yoga, dating, coaching and marriage!

She has been featured on over 100 other podcasts, in addition to being a wellness expert at NYFW, the UN and in publications such as Epoch Times, Galore and Cosmopolitan magazine.

Contact Erica

Instagram: @wethelight_llc

Website: www.wethelight.org

Welcome to another episode of Her HypeSquad with Bosstrack!

This week I sat down with Yvette Durazo, CEO of Unitive Consulting and author of Conflict Intelligence Quotient - Conflict-IQ (R) : The Missing Piece to Turbocharge Conscious Leaders’ and Organizations’ Emotional Intelligence.

We talk about conflict IQ, negotiating for what you want or need at work, active listening and resolving conflict.

You can find the show notes on our show site: https://thebosstrack.com/her-hypesquad/

About Yvette Durazo

Yvette Durazo, author of the book "CONFLICT INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT "CONFLICT-IQ™," is the founder of Unitive Consulting, specializing in workplace effectiveness, conflict management, and leadership development.

With a master's degree in Conflict Resolution, Negotiation, and Peacebuilding from California State University Dominguez Hills, Yvette holds a PCC coaching credential from the International Coaching Federation.

She brings innovative techniques to promote positive workplace cultures, trust, and inclusion.

Services offered include conflict mediation, training, anti-bullying prevention, settlement negotiations, and addressing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) issues.

Yvette is a former consultant at Santa Clara County, experienced in change management and conflict transformation. Additionally, she serves as a professor at various universities and actively participates in ADR associations and the wellness community.

Contact Yvette

LinkedIn: @yvette-durazo

Website: www.unitiveconsulting.com

It's our 1 year anniversary! I can't believe I've had the privilege to talk with so many inspiring women over the last year. And this week is no exception.

In this episode of Her HypeSquad with Bosstrack, I sit down with Nikki Jones, CEO and Founder of Changility, to talk about change management, confronting fears, embracing change, and being awesome!

About Nikki Jones

Nikki Jones (she/they) is the CEO & Founder of Changility. There, she focuses on the humanity of change management and its effect on people first, and her vision is to change the way the world thinks about change, one human at a time. With this unique approach, she creates a new way of working for her clients and their employees, shifting mindsets on strategy design and planning, change and program management, process improvements, and enterprise goal management.

Prior to Changility, Nikki was NPR's Vice President of Change Management and Transformation. In this role, she worked to ensure NPR delivered on its business and cultural aspirations, developed more inclusive decision-making and transparent ways of setting project plans and accountabilities and built stronger support systems for cross-departmental collaboration.

Prior to NPR, she was the Director of Program Management with SiriusXMRadio, where she coached product teams responsible for digital campaign execution on SiriusXM.com and content management, sales flows, and marketing promotion optimization. As Senior Technical Program Manager with National Geographic Digital Media, she launched the official online experience for the U2 3D film for  NatGeo's Cinema Ventures Entertainment Division and led cross-functional teams for all online programs for NatGeo and NatGeo Magazine. As a consultant with Secured Sciences Group, she re-engineered the IT Governance process for the United States Marine Corps' Manpower Information Systems Division.

Nikki earned her BS in Social Science/Political Science from Coppin State University and her Master of Science in Information Systems Technologies and Advanced Business Technologies from George Washington University.

She served on the board of the National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications in 2015 and served on the Technology and Innovation Committee for the Emma Bowen Foundation from 2019 to 2023. In 2021, she was a fellow for Public Media Women in Leadership’s CEO/COOBootcamp. She currently serves on the Leadership Council for the National Small Business Association.

Nikki was introduced to tech at a young age through video games. Her love for technology led her through database administration and front-end development and grew exponentially when she became a project manager. Her passion for servant-leadership, program management, and transformation drives her to help minorities confront and embrace the challenges that they face in the technology industry.

Contact Nikki

LinkedIn: @nikjjones

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.thechangility.com

In this week's episode, I had the absolute privilege of talking with Richa Batra, VP and General Manager of the Student Success organization at Anthology.

We talk about leading large teams, advocating for equity, confronting bias, being transparent, and modeling trust.

About Richa Batra

Richa Batra is the Vice President and General Manager of the Student Success organization at Anthology. Richa has held various roles within Student Success over the last 13 years and has 20 years’ experience in Workplace Development, Contact Center Operations, Client Experience and Education Technology. Richa oversees a team of over 1,000 front line contact center employees that double in size to support back to school with 8 million annual interactions supporting students.

Richa is passionate about the intersection of higher education, workforce development, employability and customer experience.  Richa learned the “Nordstrom way” in her first job focused on customer experience and has been a focus throughout her career managing clients, teams and contact center operations.

Richa is a first generation college student and is focused on her work to drive increased access and student retention to students from underserved populations.

She holds a BA from the University of Maryland College Park in Communications and an MBA from the George Washington University in International Business.

Contact Richa

LinkedIn: @richabatra

Welcome back to another episode of Her HypeSquad with Bosstrack!

This week I talk with Francine Feder, marketing executive, about building strong teams, understanding your team’s motivations, handling rejection, marketing and women’s sports, respecting your team, promoting work/life balance and so much more.

Francine has so much insight, experience and advice to share from her many years of experience.

About Francine Feder:

Francine is currently working as an independent marketing consultant after her 20+ year career with Foot Locker Inc including 12 years at the VP level leading diverse Marketing teams across Brand Strategy, Creative & Content, Public Relations, Digital Marketing, Paid Media, Social Media, Influencer & Talent Marketing and Events. 

She is an award winning marketer whose accolades include numerous Cannes Lions, Sports Clios and the Effie Award for Sustained Success for Foot Locker campaigns that have garnered national press and recognition.

Her current consulting assignments include amongst others, a role as the VP of Athlete Storytelling and Business Development for Athlete Driven, an integrated marketing agency specializing in working with brands using athletes at the center and also serving as an Executive Advisor to Diseo, a decentralized social media startup platform. 

Francine lives in New York with her husband, and her goldendoodle dog Huey.  She is an avid traveler, wine, food, fitness and boating enthusiast.

Contact Francine:

LinkedIn: @francine-feder-2312192

This week I talk with Suzan Abdurrahman about thinking outside the box, being curious, coaching leadership, and having the courage to speak up.

We also get into a discussion about the value of mentorship.

Suzan has so much great experience and advice to share.

About Suzan

Suzan Abdurrahman is the IT Director of the Project Management Office at White Cap.

She was born to remove barriers, share knowledge, and support all primarily underdogs. She says she accidentally fell into IT and subsequently project management but in retrospect it's where she belonged this whole time.

Suzan kicks ass in solving business problems and leading teams which results in businesses kicking ass in their market area.

She has a passion for exceeding customer expectations, team building, mentoring, and delivering creative out of the box solutions.

Suzan's certifications include: ITIL, Project Management Professional (PMP), Scrum Fundamental Certification, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, CIW Webmaster, Microsoft Certified Professional, and Network Security.

Fun facts about Suzan are she was the first female president of a 25 year old nonprofit organization, she served as a book editor, hosted royal members from Jordan and Egypt, and started career as daycare worker.

Contact Suzan

LinkedIn: @sawad

This week I talk with Mai Moore about social impact, the power of connecting, embracing innovation and ideas of GenZ, and facing your fears.

Mai is so passionate about supporting women and young people and has so much great experience and advice to share.

For show notes and links from the episode, go to the episode page.

About Mai:

Mai Moore is an Award-Winning Social Impact Leader, Co-Founder of EYEJ: Empowering Youth, Exploring Justice, Founder of Setting Off Social Impact, and Boss Me In.

Mai is the visionary Founder of Boss Me In - a purpose-driven organization led by diverse executive women to inspire college-aged women through storytelling, preparing them to become agents of change.

She is also the co-founder of EYEJ: Empowering Youth, Exploring Justice, an innovative and timely non-profit organization committed to driving social justice reform and focused on empowering young advocates for change.

Mai helped two tech start-ups go public; Travelzoo Inc. and United Online, and is an award-winning integrated marketer and producer of social action campaigns and events.

Mai believes in diverse women, BIPOC persons, and our young people to help create a more equitable and inclusive world. She is from Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

Contact Mai:

Linkedin: @maimoore

Website: www.maimoore.com