Women Leaders on the Move - by HerCsuite® Radio

In today's episode, special guest Robyn Bolton and host Natalie Benamou discuss what igniting disruptive innovation can do for your organization. They share how innovation can help you retain more female talent.

About Our Guest:

Robyn Bolton is the founder and Chief Navigator at Mile Zero. She is a corporate innovation expert, an experienced intrapreneur consultant, speaker, and advisor to leaders working to build companies that repeatedly innovate and grow revenue.

Connect with Robyn Bolton:

• Mile Zero
• LinkedIn 

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HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

In today's episode, special guest Vanessa Santos and host Natalie Benamou discuss her career journey and everything you need to know about creating impact at all stages of your career.

About Our Guest:

Vanessa Santos is partner and co-CEO of We All Grow Latina and a strategic advisor speaker investor. She is an award-winning entrepreneur, global brand strategist, certified business & life coach, and heart-centric speaker with success in transforming mindsets and driving business innovation. Vanessa is furthering her commitment to the growth of women of color by joining #WeAllGrow Latina as Partner and Co-CEO.

Connect with Vanessa Santos:

• Website
• LinkedIn
• TikTok
• Instagram

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HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

In today's episode, special guest Sasha Stair and host Natalie Benamou discuss everything you need to know about how authentic leaders embrace failure. Embracing failure can help build trust in your team.

About Our Guest:

As an executive in the trenches, Sasha Stair is on a mission to help leaders and companies trade burnout for fulfillment and successfully evolve into the future of corporate leadership.  Sasha is an executive leadership coach and founder of The Lead From Within Method.™ In her No. 1 best-selling book, The Inside Job: Master the World Within to Lead the Future of Corporate, she provides a blueprint for leaders to create a more positive and fulfilling workplace, while breaking away from the legacy-style of leadership that no longer serves.

Connect with Sasha Stair:

• Website
• LinkedIn
• Facebook
• Instagram

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

In today's episode, special guest Tracy Hazzard and host Natalie Benamou discuss how to make content that connects with your customers and increases their engagement with your brand. They offer expert advice on creating binge-worthy content.

About Our Guest:

Tracy Hazzard is a seasoned media expert with over 2600 interviews from articles in Authority Magazine, BuzzFeed, and her Inc. Magazine column; and from her multiple top-ranked video casts and podcasts like The Binge Factor, The Next Little Thing and Feed Your Brand – one of CIO’s Top 26 Entrepreneur Podcasts. Tracy brings diverse views from what works and what doesn’t work in marketing, branding and media from thought leaders and industry icons redefining success around the globe. Tracy’s unique gift to the podcasting, marketing, and branding world is being able to identify that unique binge-able factor – the thing that makes people come back again and again, listen actively, share as raving fans, and buy everything you have to sell.

Connect with Tracy Hazzard:

• Website
• LinkedIn
• YouTube
• Facebook
• Instagram
• TikTok

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

In today's episode, special guest Michele Brown and host Natalie Benamou offer practical advice on how to get an executive sponsor. Learn the benefits of having a sponsor and what to look for in a sponsor.

About Our Guest:

Michele Brown is the principal and CEO of IntuAction Coaching, a New Jersey based executive coaching and talent management consulting firm. Michele and her team have experienced and highly skilled subject matter experts in the field of leadership development and cultural transformation and have developed extraordinary leaders for more than 15 years. Michele is a certified executive coach and talent management specialist. Her focus has been developing and transforming talent and organizations within the United States and abroad as an executive coach, trainer and consultant. She partners with business owners, executives, and emerging leaders to help them with their career goals while achieving outstanding business results.

Connect with Michele Brown:

• InTuAction Coaching
• [email protected]

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

In today's episode, special guest Shira Miller and host Natalie Benamou discuss what it takes to live the life you want. If you're feeling stuck, this conversation can help you get out of your rut.

About Our Guest:

Shira Miller, CPCC, is a two-time TEDx speaker, Author, Certified Professional Co-Active Coach and Chief Communications Officer of a $2 billion corporation. Her new book, Free and Clear: Get Unstuck and Live the Life You Want, features a step-by-step process for getting unstuck and staying that way for good. Shira is helping people - and companies - get unstuck from whatever is holding them back. Getting unstuck is her superpower, and she is passionate about teaching people how to do the same for themselves.

Connect with Shira Miller:

• Website
• LinkedIn
• Quiz: Which Type of Stuck are You
• Instagram
• Facebook 

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

In today's episode, special guest Anna Runyan and host Natalie Benamou discuss what it takes to make your dreams come true. They share how to make an action plan to have career fulfillment.

About Our Guest:

Anna Runyan is the creator of CLASS: The Love Your Work and Life System and CEO of Classy Career Girl International. She’s a former corporate consultant turned entrepreneur and her website was picked as one of Forbes Top 100 Websites For Women and one of Forbes 35 Most Influential Career Sites. She’s been featured on Fox, The Wall Street Journal and People StyleWatch magazine. Anna was nominated as San Diego Magazine’s Woman of the Year and her podcast was named as Yahoo’s 10 Best Podcasts. She helps millions of women design and launch their dream careers, businesses, and lives through her website, online courses and social media channels.

Connect with Anna Runyan:

• Toggl
• LinkedIn
• Classy Career Girl
• Instagram
• Facebook
• Free Planner

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

In today's episode, special guest Xandra Laskowski and host Natalie Benamou discuss an insider view of female angel investing. Learn what you need to know as a startup and what angel investors look for.

About Our Guest:

Xandra Laskowski is an angel investor and startup advisor with over 25 years of entrepreneurial experience with large multi-national tech companies, as well as startups as the founder investor advisor and board member, she's held positions as worldwide commodity manager and national major accounts, managerial roles, before moving into the angel investment and startup worlds. She founded OSEA Angel Ambassadors in 2017, a women focused angel investment group based at the UCI, University of Irvine, California.

Connect with Xandra Laskowski:

• LinkedIn
• OSEA

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

Understanding Angel investing is important for all startups. Take a listen to this conversation with Xandra Laskowski and host Natalie Benamou, as they discuss An Insider View of Female Angel Investing.

Learn what you need to know as a startup and what angel investors look for and everything in-between. 

Xandra Laskowski is an angel investor and startup advisor with over 25 years of entrepreneurial experience with large multi-national tech companies, as well as startups as the founder investor advisor and board member, she's held positions as worldwide commodity manager and national major accounts, managerial roles, before moving into the angel investment and startup worlds. She founded OSEA Angel Ambassadors in 2017, a women focused angel investment group based at the UCI, University of Irvine, California.

How Angel Investors Help:

• Take a deeper dive by modeling scenarios and looking at all of the factors.
• Determine how how long your runway is, if you're profitable, how much funding is needed to secure or cut back if needed.
• Figure out who might be in trouble.

Why OSEA is Unique:

• The mission is to create more women angel investors.
• Innovation in the market is important.

What to Prepare for Pitching to Angel Investors:

• Be passionate about the problem you're solving.
• Do your research.
• Ask yourself, is there a market there?
• Understand your metrics.
• Know your numbers.

"There are a lot more venture capital funds being created by women and they want to create innovation and companies that are founded by women." - Xandra Laskowski

Xandra Laskowski | LinkedIn | OSEA

HerCsuite™ offers customized mentorship programs including the Coupa Empower's Cross Corporate Mentorship Program where mentors and mentees were matched 1:1 across four organizations, Coupa, Commvault, Freshworks and Greif.  Organizations like Terumo BCT are using HerCsuite™ platform as a mentorship circle hub and mentors were matched to groups of mentees for their women's ERG.  Find out more about how your organization can develop and keep more female talent with mentoring at HerCsuite™ Solutions and Schedule a Demo

Natalie Benamou is the Founder of HerCsuite™ and was a featured speaker for OSEA on podcasts.  HerCsuite™ provides organizations a framework to keep and develop more female talent at every career phase with mentorship programs, turnkey speaker programs and masterminds for women leaders. Our DEI Council is a cross organization peer-to-peer learning circle providing strategic insights to link initiatives to the business goals. Check out the Newest Leadership Circle HerCsuite™ NEXT for Women over 50.

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This podcast is sponsored by HerCsuite™ Events.  Credits: Thanks to Julie Deem and the Business Podcast Editor for editing our podcast!

In today's episode, special guest Alan Berkson and host Natalie Benamou discuss how to get the most out of mentoring. Wherever you are in your career, having more than one mentor over the arc of your professional life will add to your ability to find career fulfillment.

About Our Guest:

Alan Berkson is a member and Ally of HerCsuite™ and the Coupa Empower Cross-Organization mentorship program. Alan is the asker of questions and host of the podcast, Cosmic Street Corner. He is also the Director of Thought Leadership at FreshWorks where he sets the strategy and creates an industry leading through leadership platform that will elevate the perceptions of FreshWorks as a trusted partner.

Connect with Alan Berkson:

• LinkedIn
• Twitter

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.