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In today´s episode of ‘Your Business Greatness,’ host Simone Sloan, Executive Strategist, Founder, and Executive Coach at “Your Choice Coach,” speaks with guest Alexander Kopelman, Co-founder, President, and CEO of the ‘Children's Art Guild’ as well as a Writer, Advocate, and Social Entrepreneur. He talks about his personal and professional journey and how he arrive to a space of authenticity. Alexander reveals that how he grew up in the Soviet Union in the 60s and later moved to the US.

Episode Highlights

Alexander’s wisdom is that we all have wisdom inside if we know how to ask ourselves the right questions.​​

Resources Mentioned:  The Empress Has No Clothes: Conquering Self-Doubt to Embrace Success 

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In today's episode of ‘Your Business Greatness,’ host Simone Sloan, Executive Strategist, Founder, and Executive Coach at “Your Choice Coach,” speaks with guest Ingrid Naranjo, an Investment Banker Executive with two decades of experience working across four continents. She's passionate about diversity, equity, inclusion, education, and non-profit work to improve communities.

Words of wisdom: Work with a professional executive coach.  If you are driven or if you want to succeed, or if you want to be in a ‘C’ Suite position, what you need is to get a coach and learn how to deal with the stress, your past, coworkers, etc. Because each of us comes with baggage that others may not understand.

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In today´s episode of ‘Your Business Greatness’, host Simone Sloan, Executive Strategist, Founder, and Executive Coach at “Your Choice Coach”, speaks with guest Dr. Donna-Demetri Friedman, Executive Director of Mosaic Mental Health.

Dr. Friedman shares the work that she’s doing with Mosaic Mental Health and the services that they are  providing. She also discusses some of her accomplishments in her professional career.

About Dr. Donna Friedman:

Dr. Donna Demetri Friedman is Executive Director of Mosaic Mental Health , adjunct associate professor at NYU, mother-infant microanalyst trained by Dr. Beatrice Beebe, graduate of the Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program ; co-editor of “Attachment-based Clinical Work with Children and Adolescents”; and and recipient of the Outstanding Alumna Award at NYU and the Emily Fenichal Award from Zero to Three.

Three Key Points:

‘We Mosaic’ has been around for a long time. They started a very small grassroots practice in 1959 when deinstitutionalization was happening. Its mission has been to remain a small, nimble organization that's rooted in the community serving the diverse community that they are in and providing a range of mental health services. They have expanded the breadth and range of services that they provide. Hence, they are a mosaic of community members that they serve. They have housing and crisis services as well as psychotherapy and medication management.

They are focused on integrating their care and providing integrity for the folks that they serve and also promised to the people who are coming to them because they see people with chronic mental illness working and helping others. So, it's not only a place to heal, but it's a place to feel hopeful about one's own future, and that's something that they really feel so strongly about.

They do let people know that they are out there and their clients are very grateful and receptive, word of mouth is one of their greatest marketing tools because they serve in many cases. Entire families come to them and they have something called the ‘Family Support Centre’, where they have groups for parents and their children of all ages. That's been a wonderful program that has some of the kids that were taught and now they're going off to college and they write to them and let them know how much they've helped them and share their successes with them.

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In this episode, Marla Persky, CEO and President of WOMN LLC, talks about her experience serving on Corporate Boards of Directors.  If you are thinking about serving on a board, Marla shares questions you should consider and reflect on before  deciding to pursue  board service.  She provides tips on how to best position yourself to be considered for a corporate Board position. Talks about the  types of  experiences and expertise one should  develop, including  the” ins and outs'' of board service.

WOMN LLC is a company dedicated to helping women succeed in the business of law by increasing their knowledge of and acuity with financial drivers, client development, and leadership. Throughout her professional life, Ms. Persky has had the opportunity to understand and practice business principles that lead to personal and company success.

About Marla Persky

Ms. Persky retired in 2013 as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for Boehringer Ingelheim Inc., where she oversaw a department of over 70 individuals. She also was a member of Boehringer’s executive management team and a director of the company and several of its subsidiaries. Prior to joining Boehringer Ingelheim, Ms. Persky spent 19 years at Baxter International Inc. where she held numerous business and legal positions, the most recent of which was Acting General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. During her career at Baxter, Ms. Persky managed global legal services, was General Manager of an international medical device business, led international crisis management teams, acquired and integrated international businesses, and designed/implemented strategies to manage global mass torts.

Ms. Persky currently serves on the Audit and Chairs the Governance Committees of Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: XERS), a specialty pharmaceutical company that leverages proprietary non-aqueous formulation technology platforms. She is also on the Audit and Strategic Planning Committees of the Board of Directors of YGEIA, a medical informatics technology company, and is on the Board of Advisors of Text IQ, a technology company that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to prevent legal, compliance and reputational disasters. Previously, she served on the Board of Directors of Cytyc Corporation (NASDAQ: CYTYC) a device and diagnostics company. She was also on the Board of Boehringer Ingelheim Corporation, the world’s largest privately owned pharmaceutical company. Ms. Persky was a director of Watermark, Inc. a private publisher and broker of children’s literature.

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Glenville (Glen) Forde is Founder & CEO of Elevate 360 and an entrepreneur.  Glen founded Elevate 360 to provide consulting, coaching and inclusion practices for organizations and individuals but with a geared focus on elevating underserved groups and the power of women.  He believes there are 3 strategic actions in building an authentic sense of belonging in any culture/organization:

1. Having a reflective practice.

2. Adopting an intercultural growth mindset.

3. Developing your purpose.

Glen is passionate about inclusion and belonging where he believes these behaviors are the core of DEI work.  He is completing his doctorate degree with a focus thesis on Thesis: Multicultural Belonging - The Importance of Inclusion for Under-served Groups & Elevating Women in the Workforce.  The Need to Drive Systematic Change for Equality is part of inclusion work.

Glen has been in the HR arena for over 25 years in leadership/executive roles and has worked with people from diverse backgrounds contributing to solutions that impact the world in positive ways.  His personal mission is to create a more equitable and inclusive society.  He is an advisor to organizations like Incluzive.com and aimient.com who are focused on equitable hiring and the representation of BIPOC’s at executive and board roles.  Glen is a member of the National Diversity Council, D&I Leaders and Global Diversity KPI Alliance.

Glen is an avid reader and blogger and you can go here to learn more about him, see what he’s reading and thinking about during these current times.

Connect to Glen Forde: 

https://twitter.com/Elevate3602

https://www.instagram.com/elevate360_1/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/elevate360/

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In this episode,  Barbara  Jones, Founder/CEO of Lillii RNB Inc., shares her journey as a woman in technology and entrepreneur. Eight years in business, she shares her fears and courage that enabled her  to propel and scale her company. She says  she values her team.  She is Founder of Freeing Returns,  an Enterprise SaaS platform that helps retailers with store returns management. Today returns account for over $207B dollars  in losses in the US alone. Last year, due to COVID-19, mass returns and retailers moving to e-commerce, this amount grew to over $325B, that’s a 25% increase in losses for retailers.

Freeing Returns is designed to solve these problems by connecting enterprise POS systems with the most innovative store returns management applications.   We save retailers TIME and MONEY on system integration costs, allowing them to offer more cutting edge technology quickly!

Barbara says “this is NOT our first Rodeo.  My team and I have been on the founding team of retail technology startups that have exited and this is our 3rd one, we are going for a THREE-PEAT.  Our technology moves store returns management to the cloud, making it easy for retailers to stay on top of store returns fraud.”

About Barbara Jones:

Founder/CEO of Lillii RNB Inc. is a retail technology product and services company.  She has been  in retail my entire life. She started out as a cashier , graduated from UT Austin with a Computer Science degree and was recruited by a Startup in Austin, TX that was building Point of Sale software.  After that company was acquired, she founded  Retail Technology System Integration firm in 2013.  In the past 3 years,  Lillii RNB Inc have consistently generated close to $1M in revenue.

Over the years, Barbara noticed that we were doing the same  integrations but for different retailers and different POS systems and most of the integration were for store returns.  We decided to productize our offering allowing retailers to get pre-integrated, latest and greatest store returns management applications - that work with their existing POS systems.

Barbara’s hot nuggets: Set yourself up for a strong transition into entrepreneurship. As you figure out what you like to do in your business, leverage others by building a team to do the rest. Develop a CEO mindset to support your business growth.

Connect with Barbara Jones:

Websites: www.lilliirnb.com and our Freeing Returns software platform: www.freeingreturns.com

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Resource Mentioned:

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210216005491/en/Morgan-Stanley-Selects-11-Startups-for-5th-Cohort-of-Multicultural-Innovation-Lab-Supporting-Diverse-Founders

In this episode, Phil Jalovec defines “relationship.” He says it starts with a relationship vision.   He also shares how to tell when we are emotionally unavailable and its impact on our ability to build strong bonds.  He explains the degrees of safety either physical, financial,  or  emotional and how these  feelings of safety either allow or block our  ability to build trust with others.  Relationships are about you honouring yourself. To begin to honour self, Phil says to get clear on what you want, what you do not want, how you would like to show up in a relationship, and have a clear direction. Ultimately, it begins with  gaining  a better understanding of the relationship you have with yourself.

About Phil Jalovec:

I have been a relationship coach since 2015. I help people transform their relationships with their partners through getting clear on what they want, reconnecting with who they are, understanding their partner and creating a vision for Love.

Phil's words of wisdom: Start with Heart.

To connect to Phil Jalovec:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-jalovec/

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In this episode Monica Dema, CEO of MDINC, shares her perspective on digital content trends and how to distinguish between “good” and “bad” content.

About Monica Dema:

After working in a life sciences consultancy, Monica worked with Silicon Valley's best and realized there was still more to achieve. She created a digital agency that helps small companies leverage an on-demand marketing team and helps large companies augment tasks so they remain focused on the core business of their business. The firm approaches global content with a localized feel and ultimately provides the end-user with the best experience.

Words of wisdom:  Be Cheeky!

To connect to Monica Dema  and MDINC.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/mdinc/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/monicadema/

https://www.instagram.com/mdinc_co/

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In this episode, Simone Sloan, explores teaming. The idea of collaborating to leverage skillsets to bring a higher level of value to clients. Her co-collaborators include Elizabeth Eiss, Deborah Boulanger, and Ruchi Pinniger. Listen and learn how these four dynamic women bring teaming to life. 

About Elizabeth Eiss:

Elizabeth Eiss is a results guru who helps others get work done well. She’s a thinker, creator, people and project leader, technology systems designer and an expert in today’s ‘Gig Economy.’

A technology pacesetter, Elizabeth is the founder and CEO of ResultsResourcing®, an online talent curation platform Elizabeth designed and co-developed. ResultsResourcing curates on-demand or freelance talent to help small and mid-sized businesses get more done for less. She is passionate about empowering the purpose of others through win/win solutions for buyers and sellers in today’s fluid talent market.

A serial business executive, Elizabeth is an accomplished, innovative leader who has successfully led multi-billion dollar organizations as well as start-up ventures in technology, alternative investments, and staffing. Elizabeth has a track record of progressive accomplishments in the C-suite, including roles in operations, business expansion, turn-arounds, M&A, as well as leveraging technology to build business value. She has had a particular focus on knowledge work and how technology can make experts readily available when their expertise is needed.

About Deb Boulanger:

Deb Boulanger is the CEO of The Great Do-Over, founder of The Launch Lab for women entrepreneurs and host of the Life After Corporate podcast. She helps smart, accomplished women leaders make the leap from Corporate to entrepreneurship.

Over the last 20 years, Deb has launched dozens of services that generated hundreds of millions in revenue for her clients and launched and grew a single division from 0 to $32 Million in 30 months. She has taught and advised hundreds of new and aspiring women entrepreneurs to use these same proven strategies to test their business ideas and validate their money-making model.

About Ruchi Pinniger:

Ruchi Pinniger is the founder of Watch Her ProsperTM, an organization dedicated to providing the financial mentorship, support and services that creative, women-led businesses need to succeed in today’s world. A former Wall Street executive, Ruchi brings to the table over 25 years of experience in financial management and helping business owners weather economic ups and downs. What makes Watch Her Prosper different from other financial support service providers is their fierce dedication to small business owners and the relationships they build with their clients. Sometimes called a “financial therapist” by her clients, Ruchi’s mentorship goes deep, and works at the intersection of personal and business. Ruchi prides herself on that personal touch and her commitment to women business owners creating prosperity on all levels - so that the passion and purpose they carry on the inside matches their bank account on the outside.

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In today´s episode of ‘Your Business Greatness’, host Simone Sloan the Executive Strategist, Founder and Leadership & Executive Coach at “Your Choice Coach”, speaks with guest Bice Del Gado, Founder and CEO of ASD Solutions, a Non-profit organization. The organization’s objective is to provide various resources for Career Development, Life Coaching Community Support and Advocacy for the Neuro-diverse population. Having a daughter with autism, she has a deep understanding of this journey and is driven to help others with the same situation.

Bice shares her work as an advocate and coach with neurodiverse populations. Neurodiverse applies to a community of people whose members are neurodivergent. The conditions of ADHD, Autism, Dyspraxia, and Dyslexia make up 'Neurodiversity'. Neurodiversity is a viewpoint that brain differences are normal, wired differently, rather than deficits.  The idea of neurodiversity can have benefits for people with learning and thinking differences. This concept can help reduce stigma around learning and thinking differences. Some individuals who support the use of neurotypical and neurodiverse believe that autism doesn't need a cure. They believe the differences it presents in people should be respected, not feared or belittled. Neuro-differences are recognised and appreciated as a social category on par with ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, or disability status.

Words of Wisdom:

About Bice Del Gado:

She founded ASD Solutions Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose purpose is to provide comprehensive resources for career development, life coaching, community support, and advocacy. Having a daughter with autism/learning differences, she has a deep understanding of this journey and is driven to help others. She is now dedicated to educating and advocating for neurodiversity, which covers a wide range of cognitive differences such as ADHD, autism, Tourette’s, dyslexia, dyspraxia and dyscalculia. It’s a natural variation of human genetics. It’s not a disorder that needs to be cured; it is a difference in brain function that can be an asset with the right accommodation and support.

Connect to Bice Del Gado:

www.AsdSolutionsinc.org

Resources Mentioned:

https://conference-board.org/blog/postdetail.cfm?post=3676

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