Inspiring Women Leaders

Wendy Pace is the driving force behind Pace Setting Media, a trailblazer in the world of social media management and content marketing. With a solid background in corporate marketing, Wendy transitioned seamlessly into entrepreneurship when the need to stay home with her children arose. Over the past eight years, she has cultivated an in-depth understanding of messaging and its dissemination, earning a degree in communications along the way. Wendy's approach is strategic and results driven. Leveraging her expertise, she shifted from content writing to becoming a key player in social media management (SMM). At the core of Pace Setting Media's services is a comprehensive suite, ranging from content writing and blogs to direct mail marketing and email blasts. SMM stands as the bread and butter, while Wendy also dabbles in website design. Notably, her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and Black Enterprise Magazine, emphasizing financial independence and planning. To Wendy Pace, success isn't just measured in big contracts; it's the sum of small victories that lead to significant impacts. Pace Setting Media stands as a testament to her commitment to helping businesses thrive in the ever-evolving digital landscape.In this episode, Wendy and I chatted about:Her leadership roles Her leadership style Her leadership journey The leaders that helped her rise The challenges she faced on her journey How she navigated those challenges How she thinks you can become a strong and kind leader Her ‘take home’ leadership messages for the listeners, and What she is currently excited to be working on.Wendy can be found and/or contacted via the following online platform addresses:Websites: https://www.pacesettingmedia.comEmail: [email protected]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendy-pace-177559a/Please reach out to Dr Harrison for individual coaching and/or organisational training via [email protected] web address and social media profile links / handles include:www.dradamharrison.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/dradamharrison/www.youtube.com/c/DrAdamPhysicianCoachhttps://www.facebook.com/coachingmentoringdoctors/https://www.instagram.com/dradamharrison/

Jules Harrison-Annear is the founder of two companies (JHA Consulting and the Humans at Work podcast and blog) and co-founder of a third (JERICA).She is driven to bring uniqueness and humanity to the challenge of creating bolder, fairer andaudaciously regenerative futures for our societies, our natural ecosystem, and the sustenance of our planet.Jules is passionate about innovation that enhances the ability of diverse individuals to make anappreciable difference. She focuses on storytelling as a key enabler of change, and as a way of creating connections across organisations, communities, industries and countries. Her key strengths are vision, insight, drive for change, and an indefatigable sense of calm and humour in the face of chaos and challenge.Jules is currently living near Wellington, New Zealand, with her family and two miniature schnauzers. She grew up in Africa, and lived her teens and 20s in England.In this episode, Jules and I chatted about:Her leadership roles Her leadership style Her leadership journey The leaders that helped her rise The challenges she faced on her journey How she navigated those challenges How she thinks you can become a strong and kind leader Her ‘take home’ leadership messages for the listeners, and What she is currently excited to be working on.Jules can be found and/or contacted via the following online platform addresses:Websites: https://www.jhaconsulting.org/ https://www.humansatwork.org/podcastLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julesharrisonannear/The 'seven generations' concept:https://www.ictinc.ca/blog/seventh-generation-principlePlease reach out to Dr Harrison for individual coaching and/or organisational training via [email protected] web address and social media profile links / handles include:www.dradamharrison.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/dradamharrison/www.youtube.com/c/DrAdamPhysicianCoachhttps://www.facebook.com/coachingmentoringdoctors/https://www.instagram.com/dradamharrison/

Kim Downey is a physical therapist, with extensive work experience in hospitals, sub-acute rehab facilities, outpatient settings, homes, and schools. She is also a recent 3-time cancer survivor, experiencing thyroid and bilateral breast cancer all since the Covid pandemic.Based on Kim’s unique perspective as both a healthcare professional and a patient, she has a broad understanding of the current challenges facing both doctors and patients. She started her YouTube channel 4-months ago, “Stand Up (for) Doctors!” where she interviews primarily doctors, as well as patients, and others who intersect with healthcare, and has already published 26 episodes up to today.Kim has become a fierce advocate for physician well-being, and her mission is to effect positive change in healthcare, for doctors and patients.In this episode, Kim and I chatted about:Her leadership roles Her leadership style Her leadership journey The leaders that helped her rise The challenges she faced on her journey How she navigated those challenges How she thinks you can become a strong and kind leader Her ‘take home’ leadership messages for the listeners, and What she is currently excited to be working on.Kim can be found and/or contacted via the following online platform addresses:Website: https://kimdowney.org/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kim-downey-a9307b72/Kim's KevinMD.com author page:https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/kim-downeyDr Michael Hersh:https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-hersh-md/Please reach out to Dr Harrison for individual coaching and/or organisational training via [email protected] web address and social media profile links / handles include:www.dradamharrison.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/dradamharrison/www.youtube.com/c/DrAdamPhysicianCoachhttps://www.facebook.com/coachingmentoringdoctors/https://www.instagram.com/dradamharrison/

Hailing from Belize, being a single mother and possessing an MA in Human Communication, Dorothy Enriquez's journey is one of inspiration. Her unwavering dedication to fostering leadership excellence compelled her to establish a ground-breaking firm, 'The Ellevate Collective' - A premier learning and leadership entity on a mission to redefine leadership across all tiers and transform businesses from the inside out.Dorothy has been a teacher, an instructional designer and a learning architect for the last 10 years - empowering corporate Americans to find success both in work and life.She really cares about her clients and works extremely hard on their behalf, but underlying that lies something special: a deep understanding of what aspiring leaders really need to hear but perhaps don't want to admit. If there's one person who can answer tough questions with honesty? That would be Dorothy.Dorothy's compelling vision has led her and her team to collaborate with prominent names such as Nestle, Campbell's, North-western Mutual, Kohl's, and the Boys & Girls Club, reinforcing their firm’s commitment to both individual achievement and the creation of harmonious, successful teams across diverse sectors. In this episode, Dorothy and I chatted about:Her leadership roles Her leadership style Her leadership journey The leaders that helped her rise The challenges she faced on her journey How she navigated those challenges How she thinks you can become a strong and kind leader Her ‘take home’ leadership messages for the listeners, and What she is currently excited to be working on.Dorothy can be found and/or contacted via the following online platform addresses:Website: https://www.theellevatecollective.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dorothyenriquez/Instagram: @theellevatecollectivePlease reach out to Dr Harrison for individual coaching and/or organisational training via [email protected] web address and social media profile links / handles include:www.dradamharrison.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/dradamharrison/www.youtube.com/c/DrAdamPhysicianCoachhttps://www.facebook.com/coachingmentoringdoctors/https://www.instagram.com/dradamharrison/

Dr Sonali Kinra is a General Practitioner (Family Physician) and the Deputy Medical Director of North Central London Integrated Care Board. She completed her undergraduate training in India, moved to England in 2004, and began practising as a GP in 2008. She has held multiple clinical leadership roles across NHS at system and national level, improving patient and staff experience and outcomes.She set up the first sponsorship program in 2022 across the Midlands region for women working in General Practice and Primary Care, which had resounding success.Sonali’s commitment to workforce equity and improved accessibility to excellent healthcare has been recognized with the Professional excellence Award 2021 by the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO) and in her inclusion on the Health Service Journal’s 2022 Rising start list of 50 most influential BAME people in health.She is also one of the youngest trustee Board members of Royal College of General Practitioners. She lives in London with her surgeon husband.In this episode, Sonali and I chatted about:Her leadership roles Her leadership style Her leadership journey The leaders that helped her rise The challenges she faced on her journey How she navigated those challenges How she thinks you can become a strong and kind leader Her ‘take home’ leadership messages for the listeners, and What she is currently excited to be working on.Sonali can be found and/or contacted via the following online platform addresses: Email: [email protected]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonali-kinra-6a4155114/X (Twitter): @SonaliKinraPlease reach out to Dr Harrison for individual coaching and/or organisational training via [email protected] web address and social media profile links / handles include:www.dradamharrison.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/dradamharrison/www.youtube.com/c/DrAdamPhysicianCoachhttps://www.facebook.com/coachingmentoringdoctors/https://www.instagram.com/dradamharrison/

Natalie Davis has the following incredible LinkedIn headline:"I believe in People and I believe in Change. Entrepreneur | Listener | Advocate | CEO | Friend, wife, mom [of four], woman."Natalie has worked for nearly two decades shaping and implementing American healthcare policies to improve the lives of all people.In 2018, she and fellow national health care leader Andy Slavitt, co-founded and launched United States of Care to ensure that everyone in the country has access to quality, affordable health care regardless of health status, social need, or income.She is relentless in her person-centred approach to building health care solutions and has a history of building partnerships – with organizations, patient advocacy groups and everyday people – that work to create positive change in our country’s health care system.Natalie believes that it has never been more important to make our health care system work better for everyone. She is dedicated to bringing together leaders and advocates from across the country who can help create meaningful change in our nation’s inequitable health care system. In this episode, Natalie and I chatted about:Her leadership roles Her leadership style Her leadership journey The leaders that helped her rise The challenges she faced on her journey How she navigated those challenges How she thinks you can become a strong and kind leader Her ‘take home’ leadership messages for the listeners, and What she is currently excited to be working on.Natalie can be found and/or contacted via the following online platform addresses: Website: https://unitedstatesofcare.org/bio/natalie-davis/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalie-davis-70124311/Please reach out to Dr Harrison for individual coaching and/or organisational training via [email protected] web address and social media profile links / handles include:www.dradamharrison.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/dradamharrison/www.youtube.com/c/DrAdamPhysicianCoachhttps://www.facebook.com/coachingmentoringdoctors/https://www.instagram.com/dradamharrison/

For the past 25 years, Dr. Jes DeShields has studied, evaluated, and applied models of leadership, organizational behaviour, and systems change across multiple sectors.From Fortune 250 and privately-owned companies to local, national, and global non-profits to entire communities, Jes’s work has ranged from preparing leaders to successfully run their organizations to improving the trajectory of organizations in crisis and those poised for growth to executing system-wide responses to existential threats, such as competition, and most recently, the pandemic.While writing her dissertation, Jes was told, “Just put pen to paper! It doesn’t have to become your life’s work.” And yet, the conceptual framework of Jes’s original research manifests daily in her work with Leaders, Teams, and Organizations. Elements of an environment reciprocally influence each other, creating a reinforcing context. The reciprocal influence and reinforcing context breed conditions for evolving and convoluted organizational problems.A Leader’s role in untangling or further tangling these issues is inevitable. How people lead and the type of culture they perpetuate has the most profound impact on how effectively they can untangle the system.Jes founded Crescent Leadership, a business consulting and executive coaching firm based on Leader-First® strategies, her distinct methodology for organizational change. Leader-First® strategies challenge leaders and teams of leaders first to examine how their action or inaction reinforces conditions for enduring growth and vitality or stagnation and decline.Jes’s essential research was published in her book, '9 Leader Touchstones', which hit shelves earlier this year.Known as a passionate and engaging storyteller, Jes cultivates client relationships of transparency, trust, and authentic connection. Her consulting approach focuses on the long game, applying the appropriate infusion of innovation with endurance-based strategies and conscientious culture mapping.Prior to launching Crescent Leadership, Jes led the Leadership Consulting team for Girl Scouts of the USA. She and her team served as thought partners and consultants to CEOs across the 50 states, their senior team members, and their Boards, where they navigated dynamic and frenetic operational environments daily.Jes earned her Ph.D. in Management - Leadership and Organizational Change - in 2014. She currently teaches at Cornell in Executive Leadership, Women’s Leadership, Change Leadership, and Non-profit Management Certificate programs and is a Lecturer at The Brooks School of Public Policy.She is one of 98 Fascinate® Certified Advisors, one of 6,300 Certified Fund-Raising Executives worldwide, and has Certificates in Leading Remote Teams, Non-profit Finance, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.Jes regularly speaks and writes on the topics of leadership, team dynamics, and organizational change.While she is zealous about leadership, equity, and causes related to self-sustainability and women, Jes’s first love is family. She and her husband, Dr. Brian DeShields, live in Greenville, South Carolina, with their daughters, Madeleine and Emily, and their furry companions Amos, Atlas, and Archer, where they regularly fulfil their curiosity and passion for adventure.In this episode, Jes and I chatted about:Her leadership roles Her leadership style Her leadership journey The leaders that helped her rise The challenges she faced on her journey How she navigated those challenges How she thinks you can become a strong and kind leader Her ‘take home’ leadership messages for the listeners, and What she is currently excited to be working on.Jes can be found and/or...

Dr. Omolara Thomas Uwemedimo is a healthcare founder, social entrepreneurship coach, healthcare practice funding consultant and growth strategist for women of color in healthcare.Her career as a pediatrician spans almost two decades and includes her work as a public health researcher & professor for over a decade. Her work has been defined by a passion for social justice, serving as an advocate and working as a global physician across sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean.In 2019, she co-founded 'Strong Children Wellness', a multi-award winning, healthcare practice network in NYC, providing integrated physical health, mental health and social services for minoritized, low-income children and families. Her healthcare network has been featured in the New York Times, NY1 News and Crain's for their reverse integration model, embedding care within community organizations including nonprofits and foster care agencies.Given her expertise and success as a healthcare founder & owner of multiple healthcare practices, Dr. Omolara went on to found 'Melanin & Medicine', a premier social entrepreneurship & funding consulting company to help mission-driven practices secure capital, without incurring debt or diluting equity, to grow their own income streams and social impact. To date, Melanin & Medicine has helped hundreds of healthcare professionals through our workshops, courses and programs to build social impact businesses and achieve health equity for communities. In addition, they support thousands more through our popular 'Funding Your Healthcare Vision' weekly podcast.Dr. Uwemedimo is an expert in purpose-led entrepreneurship, securing funding for healthcare, addressing medical racism for marginalized providers and patients and building socially-responsive healthcare spaces. Her work has been featured in several media outlets including People.com, NBC News, Medscape, Essence.com, Newsweek, Crain’s, Politico, Reuters, and NPR. Dr. Uwemedimo lives in Long Island, NY with her husband, Ilahi, and her two powerhouse daughters, Idara & Tolani.In this episode, Omolara and I chatted about:Her leadership roles Her leadership style Her leadership journey The leaders that helped her rise The challenges she faced on her journey How she navigated those challenges How she thinks you can become a strong and kind leader Her ‘take home’ leadership messages for the listeners, and What she is currently excited to be working on.Omolara can be found and/or contacted via the following online platform addresses: Websites: https://strongchildrenwellness.com/ and https://melaninandmedicine.co/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dromolara/Podcast: https://fundingyourhealthcarevision.buzzsprout.com/Please reach out to Dr Harrison for individual coaching and/or organisational training via [email protected] web address and social media profile links / handles include:www.dradamharrison.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/dradamharrison/www.youtube.com/c/DrAdamPhysicianCoachhttps://www.facebook.com/coachingmentoringdoctors/