Freeman Means Business' Wonder Women in Business Podcast

Stephanie Kusibab is an accomplished and versatile strategy consultant with more than twenty years’ experience delivering programs that accelerate growth and mission achievement. Through broad business experience and perspective, she quickly understands and assesses a situation to identify growth opportunities across industries and professions. Stephanie believes the most powerful ideas come from...

Shannon Knuth is a designer, communicator, tech enthusiast, brand creator, art director, project manager, and graphic storyteller – a true professional generalist who eats and breathes marketing. Marketing is a vital service line for many industries, and the demand for visualization and communication in how and where we work is higher than ever. Navigating through today’s ever-changing work experi...

Nassim Abdi is an entrepreneur and educator, dedicated to using the medium of documentary film to raise awareness of critical global issues. As the co-founder of StoryBolt, she set out to provide corporate and academic institutions with access to short documentary films from across the world: the platform offers on-demand streaming of over 2,800 short films from 112 countries, tackling subjects in...

Sarah Cheek is a certified Lean Leader. Since 2009, she has led multiple organizations in full scale adoptions of Lean Management. Sarah has facilitated hundreds of people in Kaizen (aka rapid improvement) workshops, and she has trained all levels of staff ranging from executives to front line employees in Lean Management.

Dena Samuels, Ph. D., serves as a mindfulness-based diversity, equity, and inclusion author, speaker, leadership trainer, and consultant. As an award-winning tenured professor, Dr. Samuels taught at the University of Colorado – Colorado Springs for 20 years while consulting nationally and internationally. She now consults full-time on mindful, inclusive leadership development. Her passions include...

Rebecca Martin’s true passion has always been film. She founded the Chicago Film Lover Exchange in 2011, which now has 6,000+ members. Along with film, Rebecca is passionate about empowering other women to follow their dreams.

Bill Sodeman is an experienced professor, higher education administrator, and corporate learning executive. He earned a Ph. D. in business administration from the University of Georgia, completing his dissertation research on socially responsible investing in 1993. Bill also earned an MBA from Rollins College, and a BA in studio fine art from the College of William and Mary in Virginia. Dr. Sodema...

Stephanie Dalfonzo is an Integrative Hypnotist, Coach, Speaker, and Author of “Goodbye Anxiety, Hello Freedom: How to Build Resilience and Overcome Anxiety.” She helps women uncover and heal the things from their past that have been keeping them stuck, freeing them to live the life of their dreams. Her first career was as Celebrity Radio DJ “Stevie Knox”. After pausing her career to stay home with...

David Smith, PhD, is co-author of the forthcoming book, Good Guys: How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace and Associate Professor of Sociology in the National Security Affairs Department at the U.S. Naval War College. A former Navy pilot, Dr. Smith led diverse organizations of women and men culminating in command of a squadron in combat and flew more than 3,000 hours over 30 years...

Sarah Tetlow is an experienced productivity consultant, trainer, and speaker for attorneys and other legal professionals.  She uses her past experiences, organizational and strategic thought process, education, and training to help law firms increase their bottom line and operate more efficiently.  More importantly, attorneys see a reduction in stress and anxiety and an increase in focus...

Charmaine Caccioppi serves as the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the United Way of Southeast Louisiana and oversees United Way’s Governmental Relations and Community Impact departments. She is responsible for the development and implementation of the government relations strategies related to United Way’s three goal areas, including education, income and health, through th...

Alexis Vigier Miranne works every day to change the way we build interior spaces! In her business development role at AOS Interior Environments, she acts as a go-to Manufactured Interior Construction educator and serves as a project liaison to the internal team of designers. Her primary goals are cultivating relationships across the Gulf Coast region; raising the company’s and the manufactured con...

Kristy Wallace is the CEO of Ellevate Network, and is responsible for executing Ellevate Network’s mission of changing the culture of business from the inside out by providing professional women with a supportive community to lean on and learn from. She directs the Network’s staff, is responsible for business growth and strategy, and works closely with Ellevate's Chapter Leaders, Business Partners...

Meet Kathryn Fantauzzi, Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder Kathryn Fantauzzi is the chief executive officer and co-founder at Apollo Neuroscience, Inc. where she leads all Apollo strategy and development. Kathryn is experienced in leading cross-functional teams to bring products and services to market. As CEO, she recruited a seasoned team of business leaders, engineers, designers, and physicians...

Deirdre Breakenridge in her own words... I’ve been a career-long storyteller and Chief Relationship Agent (CRA), helping professionals to get unstuck in their communication and creating opportunities that result in business impact. As a communications consultant and CEO of Pure Performance Communications, my focus is marketing strategy and planning. I’ve launched marketing and PR programs (from Fo...

Svetlana Kamyshanskaya is an accomplished attorney with 20 years of successful experience in legal practice and business. Svetlana has an extensive experience of providing full legal support to privately-held businesses in connection with various corporate matters including entity formation, corporate governance, advising clients on a wide range of commercial and financial issues including capital...

Michelle R. Wheeler is a Junior Partner, Marketing Strategist, and Website Developer at PSM Marketing. She is a staunch believer that “everyone deserves kickass marketing,” which is why Michelle absolutely loves helping clients (large and small) achieve marketing success. She helps drive opportunity and growth for all her clients, regardless of their industry. In joining PSM’s leadership as a Juni...

Allison Nussbaum's career has been spent at the intersection of law, technology, and client growth. I have a proven track record of building, maintaining and expanding networks and client relationships and delivering superior business results. I have recruited, led, and coached high-performing, cross-functional teams to achieve both revenue goals and client satisfaction. My passion is connecting p...

Christie J. Lawler – Founder & Owner of CJL CONSULTiNG and Founder, The WITI Group Christie founded CJL CONSULTiNG in 2009 while completing her MBA as a way to stay engaged in her career while completing her studies. As Founder & Owner of CJL CONSULTiNG, Christie supports clients by creating beverage marketing and training programs for the likes of Alamo Drafthouse, American Social, Arcis...

Ana Borich has dedicated her career to working on complex system implementation programs including organizational transformation, and her life to helping humanity transform effectively. For over 19 years, Ana served clients across IT, automotive and industrial equipment, retail, gaming and consumer goods industries. Ana now works as Strategic Initiatives’ Program & Change Senior Manager at a g...

Jennifer S. Bankston has spent her career ACTIVATING IDEAS and elevating brands. With years of in-house experience at law firms, tech companies and start-ups, she has an innate ability for storytelling blended with a technology-driven, pragmatic approach for delivery.  On the technology front, she has conceptualized, developed and implemented applications and products for a multitude of busin...

Rannah Gray is a Louisiana public relations consultant whose career highlights include two of her state’s favorite pastimes—politics and sports. Politics Magazine named her one of the Top 100 Influencers in Louisiana; and she was honored as Marketer of the Year and one of Baton Rouge’s Influential Women in Business by the Baton Rouge Business Report. She previously served for 13 years as Associate...

A senior marketing executive with broad experience across business-to-business marketing in large, medium and small sized law firms, Jennifer’s key strengths lie in strategic and organizational development. She is currently the Chief Marketing Officer at Connolly Gallagher LLP. As a founding member and past-President of the Legal Marketing Association-Metro Philadelphia Chapter, Jennifer is active...

As a graduate of UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Kristin Campbell fell in love with the smell of wine in the barrel rooms of her winery clients during inventory counts, while obtaining her Certified Public Accountant license with KPMG more than 25 years ago.  Soon after, a young, introductory level sommelier, working the floor at Left Bank in Menlo Park, opened her eyes to wine in a ne...

For over 25 years, Kimya S.P. Johnson has been a champion for her clients in a career that spans law, politics, education, and diversity & inclusion management. Kimya serves as Co-Chair of the Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Practice at Ogletree Deakins, one of the nation’s largest labor and employment law firms. Kimya supports a wide range of employers in their efforts to provide legally-...