“Art of Being” Salon Attendees - Skirting The...
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“The Art of Being” Salon GUEST COMMUNITY JUNE 28, 2016
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“The Art of Being”
Salon
GUEST COMMUNITY
JUNE 28, 2016
• Name: Jocelyn Greenky Herz • Title: Office Politics & Culture Expert. Global Brand
Architect. Innovator. • Description about what she does:
– Her first book, The Big Sister's Guide to the World of Work is an international seller and published by Simon & Schuster. She speaks regularly around the country on the topic of Office Politics.
– As an accomplished office culture and politics expert, she has a deep understanding of issues that cause anxiety for organizations and employees alike. From generational dynamics, politics and culture to leadership, productivity and coaching, her expertise was developed through real-life, practical, trial and error experiences through interactions with global C-Suite leaders, business executives and those in the creative field.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jocelyngreenky
• Name: Tanya Pushkine
• Company: Nestlé Skin Health SHIELD (formerly)
• Description of Company: SHIELD is a global network of innovation and education hubs that gathers today's most creative visionary thinkers from diverse disciplines to generate, develop and incubate ideas to advance skin health for tomorrow.
• Title: Head of Communications
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanya-pushkine-480860
• Name: Summer Rayne Oakes
• Company: Foodstand
• Description of Company:
– Foodstand is the good food community of eaters, makers, and growers that lives in your pocket. Use your good food photos to share, find, and stand up for better food. We're making food photos meaningful to help and inspire each other to be better eaters.
• Title: Head of Marketing, Acquisition & Growth
• Description about what she does:
– She has co-foundedSource4Style (now called Le Souk), an award-winning venture-backed marketplace that connects thousands of designers to sustainable material suppliers around the world; authored the best-selling book Style, Naturally; served as a correspondent on Discovery Networks; designed environmentally-preferable lines with Payless, Portico and Modo eyewear.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/summer-rayne-oakes-53551520
• Name: Olga Vidisheva
• Company: Shoptiques.com
• Title: Founder and CEO
• Description of Company:
• Shoptiques.com is an online fashion marketplace that aggregates inventory of participating local boutiques from across the United States, allowing users to shop their favorite shops in one place. We provide one of a kind fashion curated by boutique owners and personal style recommendations that allows users to always look different. Ever dreamt of shopping your favorite local boutiques online? Now you can with Shoptiques.com.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/olga-vidisheva-56a8363
• Name: Veronica Guzman
• Company: WAM Ventures
• Description of Company:
– WAMVentures is a catalyst for business development that targets & partners with promising companies & leaders. WAMVentures helps you "color outside the lines". WAMVentures serves primarily women & diverse business leaders seeking to move their businesses up-market & reach higher levels of excellence.
• Title: Founder & Innovation Catalyst
https://www.linkedin.com/in/veronicaguzman
• Name: Johanna (Jose) Zeilstra • Company: The Women’s Debate • Description of Company:
• A nonpartisan campaign to urge our presidential candidates to commit to a live presidential debate on women’s economic, health, and safety policies. These are issues that when addressed have the potential to benefit society as a whole. The Women’s Debate is collecting signatures via a petition on change.org to build support for the debate. It is also collecting questions via womensdebate.org that will be presented to the presidential candidates with the aim of securing their participation in a live debate this fall.
• Title: CoFounder • Description about what she does:
– Over the past two decades, has helped launch several consumer-facing businesses as well as worked as a senior executive at PricewaterhouseCoopers and JPMorgan, and with over a dozen client corporations, including Delta Air Lines, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Philips, Lucent, Bank of America, Chase Manhattan, and Occidental Petroleum.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanna-jose-zeilstra-
2289551?trk=extra_biz_connect_hb_upphoto
• Name: Joanna L. Krotz
• Company (Books): Being Equal Doesn’t Mean Being the Same; The Woman's Playbook: A Guide to Business in the She Economy
• Title: Entrepreneur, Author
• Description about what she does:
• Joanna L. Krotz is the author of "Being Equal Doesn't Mean Being the Same," a call to action to women to launch their own businesses to achieve parity, purpose, passion and prosperity. Krotz has been investigating the payoffs and challenges of small business owners, particularly women-led firms, for years. She’s interviewed hundreds of male and female entrepreneurs as a national magazine editor, author and journalist, online small business columnist and host of a Web radio show.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joannakrotz
• Name: Maria Dreyer
• Company: Sony Pictures
• Title: Senior Vice President, Advertiser Sales & Branded Entertainment
• Description about what she does:
– Interact with various business stakeholders in order to ascertain needs and develop solutions to produce successful marketing integrations
– Negotiate multi-platform branded entertainment partnerships on behalf of Sony Pictures Television
– Create branded entertainment proposals for The Dr. Oz Show, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-dreyer-8b466512
• Name: Pam Henning
• Company: Pamalot Entertainment
• Title: Principal
• Description about what she does:
– Creative catalyst and strategist partnering brands to ignite transformational thinking and collaboration, accelerating revenue opportunities through technology innovation, content development and cross-platform integrated marketing initiatives.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pamhenning
• Name: Kim Ann Curtin
• Company: The Wall Street Coach
• Description of Company: As the Founder of The Wall Street Coach, my team and I facilitate conscious leadership and enable our clients to develop attributes and strategies that uplift profit and people. We work with presidents, CEO’s, managing partners, investment bankers, traders and beyond.
• Title: Founder, Author Transforming Wall Street: Conscious Capitalism
• Description about what she does:
– I work with successful conscious executives to accelerate their personal and professional development by expanding their self awareness through executive coaching. My "Five Practices" assist leaders in becoming as successful on the inside as they are on the outside with tools that facilitate mindfulness, self awareness, clarity, confidence, power and peace of mind.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimanncurtin
• Name: Wendi Berger
• Company: Pour le Monde Parfums
• Description of Company:
– Pour le Monde®, (for the world) is the only certified 100% natural fine fragrances in the US market. Our eau de parfums are vegan, animal cruelty free and approved by the Natural Products Association. Each fragrance benefits a special charity. Naturally elegant, sincerely altruistic, Pour le Monde.
• Title: President
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendi-berger-7345b15
• Name: Margaux Caniato
• Company: VP+C
• Description of Company: Veeder, Perman + Caniato is a marketing communications, public relations and corporate event marketing agency that specializes in luxury brands and the designs that surround us. Title: Principal/ Chief Brand Officer
• Description about what she does:
– Design advocate and brand raiser with over 20 years of executive experience in luxury and mass retail brand development and evolution.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaux-caniato-6953682
• Name: Romina DeNicola
• Company: The Economist
• Title: Head of Client Delivery, Global Client Services
• Description about what she does:
– Innovative, analytical, and strategic Mid-level Marketing Manager skilled at developing compelling value propositions for B2B clients that guide business strategy; creatively and efficiently bring them to market. Strong background in the energy, financial, technology, automotive, shelter, beauty, fashion, retail, pharmaceutical, and packaged goods industries.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rominadenicola
• Name: Michelle Byrd • Company: Run It By Byrd, Inc. • Description of Company: Consulting practice and
advisory services assisting non-profits, foundations and social enterprises in achieving their mission through strategic planning, program and partnership development, effective storytelling and technology solutions. Title: Strategist and Relationship Accelerator, Producer of Good Things
• Description about what she does: – Michelle is passionate about the potential of
media and technology to educate, entertain, engage and elevate communities. She is the principal of Run It By Byrd, a consulting practice providing advisory services to assist non-profits, foundations and social enterprises in achieving their mission through strategic planning, program and partnership development, effective storytelling and technology solutions.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellebyrd1
• Name: Leslie Stevens
• Company: LaForce + Stevens (formerly)
• Description of Company:
– Leslie is a PR-world visionary and was the co-owner and President of PR powerhouse firm, LaForce + Stevens for 20 years., working with clients such as Banana Republic, Mara Hoffman, Marissa Webb, Target, Aberombie & Fitch, and Pamella Roland. The firm was dissolved in 2015.
• Title: President
https://www.linkedin.com/in/leslie-stevens-051b444
Name: Sonja Winther Company: Chantelle Lingerie Description of Company:
For more than 130 years, The Chantelle Group offers on the international scale, lingerie brands that develop close ties with their customers. The Group makes the most of its expertise, highlighting the beauty of the female body, and its know-how in all facets of the trade, ranging from design to distribution.
Title: President of Chantelle, USA Description about what she does:
Head of North America/ UK zone Member of the Executive Board for The Chantelle Group
LinkedIn [email protected]
Name: Francis Cholle Company: The Human Company Description of Company:
The Human Company uses the power of intuition and instinct to unleash innovative capacity in people and companies. We design, teach, and implement unique ways to innovate, outperform competitors, and achieve accelerated growth.
Title: Founder & CEO Description about what he does:
International Business Consultant, best-selling author, engaging speaker, and founder of The Human Company. Helps companies rethink business in ways conventional strategic management cannot. Clients include major, mid-size, and emerging firms across multiple industries such as beauty, luxury, pharmaceuticals, communications, media, and information technology.
LinkedIn [email protected]
• Name: Deborah Burns
• Company: Skirting the Rules, DJB Ventures, LLC
• Description of Company:
• Skirting the Rules is a cultural brand platform empowering and connecting women to the intuitive, feminine genius required by 21st Century business, innovation and transformation.
• Title: Founder/ Author of Skirting the Rules, President of DJB Ventures
• Description about what she does:
– As founder and President of DJB Ventures, change-agent Deborah Burns is a strategic global marketing, sales and brand development leader.
• Name: Holly Corbett
• Company: Skirting the Rules
• Description of Company: Skirting the Rules is a cultural brand platform empowering and connecting women to the intuitive, feminine genius required by 21st Century business, innovation and transformation.
• Title: Chief Content Creator
• Description about what she does:
-Previous editor at national outlets such as SELF, Woman's Day, Prevention, MensFitness.com, Parents, and more.
- Co-Author of “The Lost Girls”
-Brainstorms overall content strategy; develops and maintain partnerships; and creates online content.
Name: Eileen McMaster Title: Senior Level Communications Expert Description about what she does:
-Seasoned marketing, public relations and communications expert with proven track record of developing and implementing marketing programs, public relations campaigns, corporate positioning, high profile events and strategic partnerships. Exemplary leadership record complemented by over 20 years experience in fashion, retail, publishing and health and wellness. Founer of “Dance with your Soul” Previously the VP of Public Relations and Internal Communications at UNIQLO,; Corporate Communications for Anne Klein; and Director of Business Integration and PR at Direct Brands, Inc.
Appendix
May Salon Attendees
• Name: Susan Nethero • Company: Goldenseeds, Intimacy Specialty Stores
(former) • Description of Company: Angel Investor Fund,
Premium Lingerie Retail Chain • Title: Entrepreneur & Investor, Founder and former
CEO of Intimacy • Description about what she does:
– Mentor, Business Coach and Angel Investor for Women’s Owned Businesses. Susan is managing director for Golden Seeds, angel investment firm, the largest angel firm in the country dedicated to funding women’s owned and managed businesses in the USA.
– Previously built a specialty lingerie chain of 18 stores in major markets across the USA and grew revenues to 38 million in Sales.
• Name: Kat Vorotova
• Company: Try the World
• Description of Company: Try The World is an online discovery platform for international products. As the first company of its kind, Try The World works with local experts to curate premium gourmet boxes from around the world.
• Title: Founder, CEO
• Description about what she does:
– Entrepreneur; Previous background in strategy consulting, corporate finance, and business development in consumer, technology, and media companies.
• Name: Katharine Zaleski
• Company: Power to Fly
• Description of Company: Matches businesses with women who can work from anywhere. Focus on screening women in tech.
• Title: Co-Founder & CEO
• Description about what she does:
– Before my work improving gender diversity on tech teams, I was in media, where I started my career as the sixth employee of the Huffington Post. I ended up leading and building the site's news team - and writing all the crazy headlines on the front page.
– Loves Chantelle!
• Name: Kristin Gracie • Company: Renaissance Woman • Description of Company:
• The Renaissance Woman Project brings women together in a unique blend of what you would experience at a fun event, a rejuvenating retreat, and a transformational workshop. We focus on feminine energy because that is where our power is and community because that is where our strength is. The mission of The RW Project is to spark curiosity and creativity for discovering passion; to revive the power of feminine energy, and to cultivate a community of women who feel alive in their purpose.
• Title: Founder, Blogger & Personal Coach • Description about what she does:
– Former Big-Four Accountant turned Serial-Entrepreneur. Change-Maker. Community Leader. Dream-Chaser. Dot-Connector. Wanderlust.
– I curate events, retreats, and workshops to bring humans together for the purpose of walking away from it feeling fulfilled with purpose, excited to make dreams happen and grateful they showed up.
• Name: Jenifer Willig
• Company: Motive, Whole World Water
• Description of Company:
– motive - a social impact consultancy working with organizations to help prove, position and scale their social impact investments.
– WHOLE WORLD Water a social enterprise designed to raise money for clean & safe water initiatives around the world.
• Title: Founder
• Description about what she does:
– Formerly, led (RED), the organization founded by Bono and Bobby Shriver to fight AIDS in Africa.
– In 2013 she was named one of the 10 Most Generous Marketing Geniuses by Catch a Fire’s Generosity Series featured on Fast Company and recognized as one of the 40 women over 40 to watch.
• Name: Laurie Meadoff • Company: City Kids Foundation, Laurie Inc & Team • Description of Company:
• CityKids Foundation engages and develops diverse young people to positively impact their lives, their communities and the world by making sure their voices are heard . CityKids has pioneered, maintained and innovated cutting edge youth development programs for three decades training tens of thousands of young people to be leaders and motivated agents of social change.
• Laurie Inc. and Team, a company designed to innovate, connect and, activate brands and media from around the world.
• Title: Founder • Description about what she does:
– Various experiences building social charities focused on a variety of causes from cancer, to helping the planet to empowering city kids.
• Name: Kacy Duke
• Company: Duke Fitness & Wellness
• Description of Company:
• Trains A-list of celebrities and often featured in online media (R29) for health and wellness stories
• Title: Celebrity Trainer, Co-founder Equinox
• Description about what she does:
• Trainer to the stars
• Name: Tracy A. Dennis-Tiwary, Ph.D.
• Company: Personal Zen
• Description of Company: We at Personal Zen are passionate about addressing this failure of the health industry by using cutting-edge science to fuel the development of eHealth tools to empower people to self-curate their personal wellness, as well as to give health professionals and corporations powerful, low-friction tools to prevent and treat psychological conditions.
• Title: Founder
• Description about what she does:
– Neuroscientist, musician, professor and wife of author, playwright and producer Vivek Tiwary.
• Name: Kerry Twibell
• Company: MediaLink
• Description of Company:
– A completely new kind of strategic advisory firm linking the worlds of media, entertainment, finance, and technology. Founded by Michael Kassan—an internationally recognized business strategist.
– MediaLink creates competitive advantage and growth strategies by connecting Silicon Valley, Madison Avenue, Hollywood and Wall Street.
• Title: VP
• Description about what she does:
– Proven track record in growing media businesses across multiple distribution channels (traditional, digital, mobile). Broad background in business development, strategic planning, new ventures and product development for global media brands Hearst Digital, Newsweek, Conde Nast.
• Name: Caroline Hirsch
• Company: Caroline's on Broadway
• Description of Company: The place to see live stand-up comedy since the 1980s. Many comedy legends started out here like Jerry Seinfeld, Rosie O’Donnel, Billy Crystal, Tim Allen, Jay Leno
• Title: Owner
• Description about what she does:
– Skilled at discovering new comedy talent
• Name: Elisa Goodkind
• Title: Co-Founder & Editor in Chief
• Company: Style Like U
• Description of Company:
– StyleLikeU is a media platform that empowers self-expression and self-acceptance.
– With a viral video series, a book, TV show and a Kickstarter-funded documentary in the works, the time to change the conversation on beauty and style is now!
• Description about what she does:
– Mother to Lily
– Former fashion editor at Self and Glamour magazines and a veteran fashion stylist with work published in Interview, InStyle, Vanity Fair, Tatler, L’Uomo Vogue, Italian Vanity Fair, New York Times Magazine and Gotham magazines, among others. Took a break to raise her kids and when she returned, became disillusioned about what the industry had become and inspired to start SLU
• Name: Ellen Abramowitz
• Company: EFA Global Connect
• Description of Company: A boutique marketing and consulting company that specializes in strategic brand development, helping established and up and coming talent/ influencers monetize their equity through commercial opportunities.
• Title: Founder/ Principal
• Description about what she does:
– An expert at positioning talent and brands at the crossroads of their growth for future success
– Successful at architecting strategies and unique partnerships that connect brands with clients across multiple platforms including television, print and digital extensions, and cause related marketing.
