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Dr. Lanetta Greer: “You can’t please everybody”

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since she started the nonprofit organization in October 2007. And I was a doctoral student at UW-Milwaukee; completing my final semester of course work, before moving onto prelims. Can you share three reasons with our readers about why it’s important for a business to have a diverse executive team? Become a mentor.

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Dr. Hang Dinh of ExtentWorld: “Don’t focus on age”

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At IU South Bend, I regularly teach a computer literacy course for non-computer science majors. Majority of students in this course are female and many of them are still undecided about their majors. However, I was teaching a course that discussed privacy policies of social media. Marie Curie was my academic role model.

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“Prep the person in advance.” With Chuck Mollor

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As mentioned, you want them to give you their thoughts on how they are doing and what their plans are for progression and course correction if needed. I decided to start my firm in 2007 and became an executive coach. Allow a person to prepare their thoughts on how they are doing. I had a few challenges and failures along the way.

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Conference Twitter Primer #SHRM18

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ardencoaching : Founded in 2007. acumenlearning : We teach top-rated business acumen courses to 22 of the Fortune 50 and more | Visit our website to learn more about our #5drivers model. BenFanning1 : #INC Magazine Leadership Columnist and Speaker: Free report to get the most out of your workforce. Pre-Conference Speakers.

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“Why do they keep coming back?” with Fotis Georgiadis & Daniel DeLeon

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Before taking on Grumpy’s, Daniel has grown six local and diverse businesses from the ground up. In 2007 I opened my first franchise business and that set the course for the rest of my professional life. I quickly realized my entrepreneurial mindset would drive me to want and do much more and ultimately open my own business.

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Doug Wolkon: “It’s so difficult to accept the fact that we are not in control here”

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His finance career was followed by three years of studying economic theory and publishing his first book in 2007. Wolkon moved to Hawaii in 2008, purchased property, and began developing diverse herb and spice gardens with his wife and business partner Genna and a team of gardeners and herbalists.

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Monique Mardinian of Zii Technologies: “Think Big?”

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But of course many tech companies are doing important work making monumental positive changes to society, health, and the environment. My goal was to develop my organization with as much diversity as I could, in order to enhance perspective. I traveled to Egypt in 2007. It’s never a bad thing to reach for the stars. Hmmm, why?”