Women CEO In Reflection

Deborah Smith is Co-Founder and CEO of The CenterCap Group and heads the firm’s Strategic Capital and M&A and Execution efforts. Prior to CCG, Deborah served as Co-Head of M&A and Senior Managing Director with CB Richard Ellis Investor, and led their negotiation and acquisition of majority interest in Wood Partners, one of the largest multifamily developers in the United States. Throughout her career, Deborah has worked with Lehman Brothers, Wachovia Securities, Morgan Stanley, and been involved in over $100+ billion transactions.

www.centercapgroup.com

Sue Ann Hong is the President & CEO of the Center for Asian Pacific American Women. Prior to joining the organization in 2018, Sue Ann's career spanned over 28 years at State Farm Insurance Companies, in areas of Data Processing, Diversity & Inclusion, Corporate Business & Technology Portfolio Management and P&C Auto Claims. She has led teams of up to 600 employees in multiple locations, managed 1000 contract employees and supported customers and State Farm agents in 23 states. 

Sue Ann Hong, President & CEO for the Center for Asian Pacific American Women orr CAPAW.org

My name is Jen Beck and for the last 15+ years, I have worked with clients dealing with chronic conditions to folks that have struggled with their weight their entire lives, and across all age spectrums from kids to 80 year olds – so I know no 2 bodies are alike, nor are their issues are the same.

Most people struggle to make sense of all the so-called expert advice out there. It breaks my heart to see people fail through 15 different diets, suffer through knee surgeries, wake up feeling like crap, and going through life believing “this is as good as it gets”… and I see this with people in their 30’s! I was just like that, and I turned it around.

I can help you figure out exactly what you need and how to make it work within your busy lifestyle!

I will be your guide, cheerleader, and support along your journey to find what your body needs specifically for you to feel fantastic, so you can fall in love with your food, body and life again.

I swore in my 20’s that I would do whatever it takes to make it so that no family had to endure what we did. I have been on a mission ever since!

In my 20’s, I was living on coffee, Diet Mountain Dew, sugar and convenience foods. I was dragging through the day, getting sick a couple times a year and just not feeling awesome, but I had no idea how bad it had gotten, because my health had declined so gradually I hadn’t noticed.

Then I got a wakeup call!

I was 26, standing in my mom’s living room watching her entire life being sorted through as she was being packed up to move into a nursing home at 49 years old!

Through research, I found that with a different lifestyle, this situation may have been completely avoidable, or at least delayed by many, many years.

I saw people reverse disease, reclaim their health from “terminal” and chronic diseases that I had previously believed were life sentences.

Dr. Robyn Short is the founder and CEO of Workplace Peace Institute, an organization development, consulting, leadership training, and research firm that brings peace and dignity to the workplace. She also works as a peace-building trainer, mediator, racial equity consultant, and restorative justice facilitator.
Dr. Short is also the founder and publisher of GoodMedia Press, founder and board chair of the Peace & Conciliation Project, and an adjunct professor at both Southern Methodist University, and Bay Path University has authored four books on peace building.

Workplace Peace Institute
www.workplacepeaceinstitute.com

Joanna Medin started out in a family business in injection molding, with a father who was raised not to respect women in the workplace. In growing her career and moving on to work with other companies, she found her niche in the startup environment as a driven and determined woman, often working in male-dominated fields. Joanna is now CEO of OntheMUV, a company providing accessible fitness equipment that is used while seated and focuses on aging, education, and the mantra that Movement Unleashes Vitality.

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Jen Sapel is a recovering over-achiever who overcompensated financially after living with a mother who struggled financially after a divorce. She describes her childhood home as one that pretended tough subjects like rape, death, sex, and of money, didn’t exist. Jen is driven to succeed, and through her curiosity, and astonishing ability to problem solve, propelled her to success in financial services industry winning awards while often being the only woman leader in the room.

Jen started Utor Wealth after tiring of long-winded meetings and over-emphasis on products and sales quotas. Utor is latin for: to use, to employ, to enjoy. Jen believes that every dollar we touch and how we send it out into the world is shaping both the world we live in and the one we aspire to. Every woman deserves to do it intentionally and with confidence, that is exactly how she helps her clients.

Utor Wealth, utorwealth.com

Lisa Lewis began her career as a graduate of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College. With a BA from Brandeis University and a Master’s Degree in Clown/Circus History from NYU, she co-founded the Super Scientific Circus, and spent many years working with the Big Apple Circus in multiple capacities.

Her passion for sharing the magic of the circus inspired her to reimagine the art form of circus for 21st Century audiences through Omnium: A Bold New Circus, where she is Founder and Executive Director. Sharing in the joy and excitement of the performing arts is an experience that should be available to everyone, regardless of background, race, gender or ability. Omnium makes that happen.

Omnium Circus
www.omniumcircus.org

Hope Zvara is a movement and lifestyle expert, speaker, CEO of Mother Trucker Yoga, and the creator of STIFF Mother Trucker Pain Relief Cream. From yoga teacher to trucking fitness expert Hope has helped change thousands of lives over the last 20 years using her simple step-by-step strategies and what she calls her "toolbox", and has been showing drivers how they can go from unhealthy and out of options to feeling good again with her unique easy to follow approach to health, fitness, and life all while living over the road as a trucker.

She believes it’s about the small, simple changes that lead to the big results in life so that you can feel good again. Hope has been featured in Forbes, Yahoo News, Overdrive Magazine, SiriusXM Radio, Truckers News, and dozens of radio and podcast shows.

Mother Trucker Yoga
www.mothertruckeryoga.com

Allison Fine is the President of Every.org, which helps nonprofits raise money and build strong relationships with donors.
Allison is a pioneer in the use of technology for good. She is the author of four books on the topic, most recently, The Smart Nonprofit: Staying Human Centered in an Automated World with Beth Kanter. She was the Founder & CEO of Innovation Network, Inc, a nonprofit helping organizations define and measure their success.
Allison Fine
President
Every.org

Asher Jay, is a National Geographic explorer turned tech entrepreneur, and founder of Henoscene, a blockchain application that brings transparency and accountability to Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Social Governance aligned impact initiatives. Asher is an international adventurer and public figure whose career arc has taken her from fashion designing on Seventh Avenue to campaigning against illicit contraband on Billboards worldwide. Jay’s work has contributed to raising consumer awareness and empowering citizen action for well known brands like Prada, Adidas, Citizen Watches, Loreal and others. From business to design, Jay’s efforts have always pushed the boundaries on and explored technology as the final frontier to promote access, scale transformation and solve for inequity.

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www.henoscene.com
henoscene is the App, and incorporate Inc is the holding company