ABOUT OUR GUEST:  

Mary Verrone is the founder of Change Management Pros consulting where she is passionately committed to driving great user experiences for those whose jobs change due to systems, tool, process, or organizational change.  

 Mary is an industry thought leader, strategist, experienced speaker, trainer and mentor in Organizational Change Management with a wealth of global experience.

 She is a certified Change Practitioner with Prosci and LaMarsh, Project Management Professional (PMP) from PMI and Six Sigma White Belt.

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Prosci Methodology Overview

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QUOTES AND KEY TAKEAWAYS

HBR Definition of Change Fatigue:  “feeling apathetic towards or overwhelmed by too many organizational changes in a row.”

“73% of organizations report they have change saturation but only 20% do anything about it.”

Symptoms of Change Fatigue:  (1) People are overly emotional. (2) Change resistance. (3) People complain more.

What Can You Do About Change Fatigue:  (1) Watch for it.  Check in on people. (2) Have an inventory of all that is going on and its impact. (3) Prioritize those changes. 

“People are told to change but they don’t know how”

Prosci:  “You track the user experience and there’s five stages a user goes through.”  The stages are:  awareness, desire, knowledge, ability, and reinforcement (sustainability) (ADKAR).

When change isn’t done well:  “A lack of trust now.  You are not going to trust future changes.  Somebody does one bad one and your like ‘ugh’. “

Change Mistake:  “Project teams don’t think about the users.  They don’t have a choice; they are going to have to accept it. 

Change Mistake:  “To not have a strong sponsor.  A lot of projects I am on do not have a sponsor.”

ABOUT OUR GUEST:  

Erin Galloway is the founder of The Habitized Life & Habitize Publishing where she helps individuals, families, and large corporations create customized mindful, healthy habits for home, school and work.  

Erin’s entire career has focused on behavior change and how small choices add up to have a big impact. Much of this work has been in supporting families, communities, and schools in building healthy environments that lead to long-term, multi-generational wellbeing. 

She has served on the leadership team that is opening and operating two innovative early childhood education centers for both The Ohio State University and Johns Hopkins University, along with launching unprecedented international service-learning initiatives for both institutions. 

Erin earned a Master's degree in Child and Human Development from The Ohio State University. She is comfortable with being uncomfortable, a problem-solver, and listens to her instincts.

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Atomic Habits

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QUOTES AND KEY TAKEAWAYS

“Momentum over motivation.”

“Figuring out where the flow and the ease is for you during certain seasons of your life. How to make yourself feel good about how your choosing your habits and priorities every day.”

“I often talk about imperfect habits where people can be most successful.  The ones where they say, ‘These are my anchor habits. These are my non-negotiables.’  This list should be really small.”

“Sometimes habits don’t serve us and we have to know when (this is).”

“I think a lot of the public messages, especially those on social media, are either you are good or bad at habits. I like to talk to people about trying to accept that you’re not have all of your habits equally prioritized at the same time.”

“Try to connect a habit more to an emotion than to an outcome.”

“Stick to some level of repetition.  Repetition creates comfort.  It creates expectations.  It reduces yelling and stress.”

“Some habits are sustainable and some are situational.”

Tip #1:  Create a list of habits and prioritize them.  Make this list as short as you can.  Rank them for your good, better, and best days.

Tip #2:  When you are in the new habit building phase, don’t reinvent the wheel.  Find an app or system that already exists and use that tool. Try it for a short period of time. 

ABOUT OUR GUEST:  

Erin Twamley is an award-winning children’s book author and educator. Through her educational consulting group STEM Superheroes™ Erin leads hands-on encounters for kids and writes publications focused on  STEM. 

She aims to share the careers, stories and superpowers of women in STEM careers to spark their interest and build girls' confidence in STEM. She is the coauthor of the award-winning children’s book series, Everyday Superheroes, published by WiseInk and award-winning STEM project-based books by Nomad Press. Her latest book with coauthors Joshua Sneideman and Katie Mehnert, is Everyday Superheroes: Women in Energy Careers.  It was recently released on July 25, 2022 from WiseInk. 

Erin leads monthly virtual hands-on encounters for USA Girl Scouts Overseas and writes for magazines including Reinvented Magazine, the nations’ first print magazine for Women in STEM.

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Everyday Superheroes:  Women in STEM Careers

Everyday Superheroes:  Women in Energy Careers

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A FEW QUOTES FROM OUR CONVERSATION…

“One of the challenges I always had as an educator and even a parent was finding books that had diverse and modern-day role models for my kids.  And really I am talking about women.”

“A lot of barriers when it comes to reaching a diverse population.  Sometimes we have to expand our mindset of who we’re trying to reach.”

Episode 8 (Season 4) 

ABOUT OUR GUEST:  

Kristin Winkle Beck, Kristin Winkle Beck is an enthusiastic coach, optimistic problem solver, and servant leader. Kristin brings a mix of energy, collaboration, and perseverance to her work as an executive coach, entrepreneur, and strategic nonprofit leader. She thrives on building relationships, tackling new challenges, and delivering exceptional results. 

Kristin had her own “Great Resignation” in 2017 taking a personal sabbatical to rest, recharge and refocus her career.  To jumpstart the next chapter of her career, Kristin completed a coaching program accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) which led to the creation of her own executive career coaching and consulting firm, Pivot Point Professionals, LLC. In 2019, she also became the Executive Director for Social Venture Partners Charlotte, a nonprofit organization which invests financial, human and social capital to strengthen innovative nonprofits who are tackling the community’s greatest challenges.

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The First 90 Days

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QUOTES AND KEY TAKEAWAYS

“You won’t learn anything if you don’t do something.”

“This is a game of momentum.  You have to take some type of action. No growth comes from inside your comfort zone.”

“There is something that can be gained in that stillness.  That liberation from obligation. I want to encourage people to do what you can with where you are.  The clarity will come from the action or, in this case, the inaction.”

“People are the key to your next role. Network authentically like you are”

“I really help people become intentional about what is in the realm of possibility of what they might consider.”

Portfolio Career: “For so long we were focused on finding that one perfect job that checked all the boxes. For me, I realized I may never find that perfect job.  And that is okay.” Focused on “doing the right thing at the right time.”

Career Transition Mistakes: 

(1) “They isolate – they think they should be able to figure it out on their own. There is power in connection.” 

(2) “Not recognizing that there is grief here.  People become very methodical but weren’t not robots.  There is emotion here. “Emotion (exists) in the highs and lows of job searching.” 

(3) “We put too much emphasis on the resume. Put too much time and energy into application tracking systems and online portals. We forget that the people making hiring decisions ARE people.”

ABOUT OUR GUEST:  

Jacquie Abram, is the international best-selling and award-winning Author featured in FORBES of Hush Money: How One Woman Proved Systemic Racism in her Workplace and Kept her Job.
 
 Before Jacquie began her journey as an Author and DEI and Antiracism Consultant, she had a career in higher education that she was very good at and that she enjoyed. A career that paid her a lucrative income which, as a single mother of two girls, was the only income that allowed her to provide for her family.  A career that spanned nearly two decades and should have been a successful one. But it wasn’t. Throughout her career, she experienced racism in the workplace and not the kind you see in movies, books, and TVs shows about racism that occurred decades ago during a time when it was more overt and easily spotted, but the kind of racism that is more covert, hidden, and harder to prove.

As her career was derailed multiple times by multiple employers, she suffered racial trauma that, to this day, she has not fully recovered from. And when the same thing happened to others including both of her girls after they began careers of their own, she pulled herself out of corporate America, writing the Hush Money books inspired by true events and co-authored by her girls.

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Hush Money:  How One Woman Proved Systemic Racism in her Workplace and Kept her Job

Hush Money:  The Cost of Being Black in Corporate America

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QUOTES AND KEY TAKEAWAYS

“One thing that I committed to, when I decided to answer the calling, is to really use the pain that I have experienced in my own life and to turn it into power for others. I won’t be silenced regardless of what is happening because we need to give a voice to the voiceless.”

“What I experienced in my career was more sinister, more nefarious because it was hidden.  It was harder to prove. More covert.  Because of that covert nature, you couldn’t tell whether or not what you were experiencing was really racism.”

“It damaged me psychologically…. I found myself suffering from racial trauma . 

“The reason I found myself on the verge of suicide is I thought something was wrong with me.”

“There wasn’t something wrong with me; there was something wrong with the system that allowed me to be harmed in this way.”

“(As a black woman) When you are working in your position, you never really get to a chance to just breathe. You as always operating in a state of hypervigilance.”

“When a racist leader targets us; we’re not just up against them. They use their power and influence to inspire others in the organization to conspire with them.”

“When you are being discriminated against, they are attacking you but they’re ultimate goal is to take away your livelihood.  They does something horrible to you&

ABOUT OUR GUEST:  

Carla Vallone, is a marketing and communications strategist for business-to-business organizations and leaders who are commercializing highly-technical, mission-critical products and services.
 
 Marrying business-to-business insights and buying habits with an organization’s inherent expertise, Portavoce PR mobilizes marketing strategies the remove barriers to activation, generate leads and accelerate the sales process.
 
 She builds marketing communications strategies that are approachable for companies that don’t yet have mature marketing practices. Carla leads her team of specialists to create and deliver content that generates leads in the AI, technology, software, robotics, life science, medical device, biotech, HVAC, manufacturing and industrial spaces.
 
 During her 20-plus years in public relations and marketing, Carla has worked for and represented Fortune 100 companies as well as dynamic start-up companies. In 2011, she founded Portavoce Public Relations, an award-winning marketing communications agency located in Greater San Diego.

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May is Share A Story Month in the UK

National Storytelling Network:  What is Storytelling?

Your Brand Promise

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QUOTES AND KEY TAKEAWAYS

Why tell your story at all?  “Storytelling is a way to attract other like-minded people and really flag in the world what is important to you, what your goals are, and it helps you achieve those goals.”

“It creates a foundation to ask for what you want.”

“Storytelling can help you build your reputation and your authority around a certain subject matter or skill.”

“The 21st Century is the era of telling your own story because now there are all the channels where we can do our own talking for ourselves.”

“Find third party proof point on what your story is relevant now.”

“There are different stories for different environments.  You are not trying to throw everything into your story. You have to think about what is my goal?”

Promoting your story: “You do need to know where your people live that you’re trying to get your message out to. “

Think about “How am I going to amplify my story with photos, video, or audio?

“One mistake I often see with people when they want to start their own personal brand is they bite off more than they can chew.  They think they have to be on every social platform.  Keeping it fresh is important.”

“Storytelling comes in different lengths.”

ABOUT OUR GUEST:  

Jamie Dandar McKinney, MBA, is the best-selling author of Speak Up, Sister! The Professional Woman’s Guide to Confidence and Success as well as a certified professional coach for businesswomen, a keynote speaker, and a virtual workshop leader.

Jamie ignites action by sharing key lessons learned while working her way up in heavily male-dominated industries.  Recognized by the Denver Business Journal as a Top Woman in Energy, she jokes that her stilettos have steel-toes.  Jamie is fully immersed in her company mission to empower women to ditch doubts, speak up, and achieve the careers they deserve and desire.

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Contact Page  Phone: (347) 92 – SHERO

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McKinsey Women in the Workplace - 2021 Report

31 Best Madeline Albright Quotes About Making a Difference

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QUOTES AND KEY TAKEAWAYS

Jamie’s purpose: “Empower women to ditch doubts, speak up, and achieve the careers they deserve and desire”

“Rehearse until it’s verse. Life is one big rehearsal.”

“I didn’t have to be the most experienced person in the room, I didn’t have to be the smartest, or the most male as long as I did one thing – carry myself with confidence. Lead with confidence.  That became my secret sauce.”

Secret to confidence: “Your confidence is not about them; it’s about you.  It’s about how you show up for you.”

What rattles your confidence:  (1) The unfamiliar and (2) High stakes.  “Take steps to familiarize the unfamiliar.

“Ditching doubts has a lot to do with mindset.  Words matter.  The words that we’re telling ourselves are having an impact on our actions that follow.”

“The cells in our body are eavesdropping on our words.”

Your confidence currency: “Your confidence account works just like your bank account. It has your name on it.  You control the password. You make the decisions about how to grow it, how to invest it, and how to spend it…. The only way someone can make a withdrawal from your account is if you give them permission.”

Being a Broken Rung Fixer:  (1) Getting credit for your work (2) Creating visibility and (3)  Building the MAC team (Mentors, Allies, and Champions)

Soundbite:  “Short, succinct statement that contains ~ 20 word or less and it’s said in 10 seconds or less.”
 

Episode 4 (Season 4) of the Empowering Women Podcast

ABOUT OUR GUEST:  

Perri Richman is a strategist and marketer blending leadership at complex global public corporations with advisory of private placement portfolio companies to further ESG principles and winning innovation for consumers, businesses and investors. She has guided communications, brand and digital efforts for industrial technology giants, involved with dozens of M&A transactions and integrations, new product and service innovation commercialization, and award-winning Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) and social impact efforts.

Perri’s passion is bridging corporates and funds with early-stage and privately held companies to advance entrepreneurship and strengthen corporate competitiveness. She is the co-founder of a technology platform called JASPY, and advises women, minority owned early-stage companies as well as biotechnology, enterprise & financial technology, industrial, social impact and professional services companies.

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QUOTES AND KEY TAKEAWAYS

“Manufacturing chose me; I did not choose it…I wanted to work with manufacturers to modernize and stay competitive.”

What Lead Perri to JASPY and Cultivating Innovation:  “Ability to pull together both the intelligence that corporates need with the business productivity that we know manufacturing companies value in order to really accelerate innovation.”

“Twelve industries that are expected to disrupted by technology and challenger start-up companies in 2022.”

“These early-stage start-ups – they’re unencumbered, fast, and purpose-driven.  They know their problem, their customer and they are being funded.”

Manufacturers need to partner up; they need to think differently outside of that “if it’s not created here” mindset and innovate with these start-ups or private companies.”

On Personal Leader Branding :  “Science that looks at behavior, image, and perception that is really designed to create methodical and meaningful lasting change for people.  Makes people stronger and people make businesses stronger…. What better place to do that than with early stage companies?” 

“The most distinctive brand assets and the most memorable thing about a company’s brand is the people.”

ABOUT OUR GUEST:  

Vanessa Mathews ,as the founder and chief resilience officer of Asfalis Advisors, the co-owner and host of the Business Resilience DECODED podcast, and an adjunct professor at Savannah State University, is unmatched in her experience and knowledge with a unique ability to translate complex topics with personal anecdotes

Vanessa is a catalyst for change in the world of business and entrepreneurship. She has a passion for women and the black community in highlighting the systemic challenges minority professionals face in the public and private sectors. Her desire is to create forward moving change and decrease the wealth inequality gap in these communities, by sharing her knowledge and expertise through her energetic and encouraging approach.

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BUSINESS RESILENCE PODCAST (@BRDECODED)

LINKS

Managing the Wealth Crisis Download

McKinsey Study:  The Economic Impact of Closing the Racial Wealth Gap

Video – Racial Wealth Gap Explained

Bloomberg:  The Historic Issues Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Gap

Forbes Article: What The 3Ps Of The Triple Bottom Line Really Mean

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QUOTES AND KEY TAKEAWAYS

On What Brought Vanessa to Become a Thought Leader in Racial Wealth Inequity:  

1. Experiences of my grandparents, my great-grandparents, and my parents
2. Vision for my marriage “We’re hear to change positively change the trajectory of our last name and to create wealth.”
3. Murder of George Floyd in 2020
4. Current state of the black dollar is at a very critical state of emergency (> 50% of black businesses have gone out of business since COVID)

What is Racial Wealth Gap?  “The difference in assets between an ethnic group and another group.” These disparities look like “ the lack of social capital or the lack of access to financial capital.”

900% asset wealth gap between white and black families. 

“Nothing is untouched by racism.”

“People became property for profit. That is where the wealth gap began.”

“Perception acts as a lens through which we view reality.  Perception is a matter of life and death for black people, literally.”

“The United States used poverty, cruelty, and totalitarianism to force us to do what they wanted us to do as people.”

“It’s systemic, its intentional, and it’s built into the fabric, the DNA, of every single thing that we do”

“Changing the policies and the systems, it changes the impact and it changes our trajectory.  It changes your wealth.  It changes our community.”

“Crisis, from a business perspective, impacts your operations, profitability, and your reputation.”

Nicole Calhoun is a high-energy and results-oriented professional who has worked with diverse multi-cultural teams around the world. She brings 25 years of corporate and technology experience to her training workshops. 

Nicole’s technical experience includes enterprise level technology systems with such roles as Software Engineering, Business Systems Analysis and Project Management.  Her industry knowledge includes Financial & Merchant Services, Retirement & Payroll Services, Manufacturing and Automotive.  

Nicole’s work experience includes companies like: JP Morgan Chase & Co., General Motors, Delphi, Detroit Diesel, National Steel Corporation and Electronic Data Systems (now DXC). 

As a certified John Maxwell Team trainer and coach, Nicole is prepared to deliver content that adds value through an inspiring, engaging, and exciting experience that you will enjoy. 

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Book:  Unlocking Your Authentic Self:  Overcoming Imposter Syndrome, Enhancing Self-confidence, and Banishing Self-doubt

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QUOTES AND KEY TAKEAWAYS

“The more I began working with women I began to realize I wasn’t alone. We have this struggle, I realize, as women that we want to advance and we want more but we feel like we’re stuck.”

“One day I realized that we’re not one of the guys and we’re not supposed to be. Many times we start trying to emulate what is around us because we think that is how we want to advance.”

“Yes we learn from each other, but we need to stay true to who we are. We need to be courageous enough to be who we are.”

“What I’ve learned is we will never be fully satisfied until we find out who we are and allow that person to show up everywhere, even in the workplace.”

“As women our tendency is to overlook our own value…. We tend to diminish our own work - what we have done and what we have accomplished. We play it down and praise the work of others.”

“We’re all a package of talents, skills, and abilities, but we don’t even see them because we underplay our own accomplishments.”

Executive Presence:  “Confidence gives that person that ‘wow factor’. When you become comfortable with who you are that confidence shows up.”

Imposter Syndrome:  “No matter the level; we all struggle with it… It comes from a lack of self-discovery or when we’re challenging our limits.”

Universal Misconception of Humility: “T