You're invited to an International Women's Day event presented by KD Leadership Strategies and the COVID-19 Technology Task Force.
Join the event at 1pm ET here: https://betaworks-studios.zoom.us/j/86562414191
Join us as we discuss the challenges we are facing as women in 2021 - our health, the pandemic, inclusion in tech and the workplace, and more.
We will talk through these challenges and actions to move beyond the status quo. What tips and tools should be amplified to create more inclusivity right now? Our conversation will feature Retha Fernandez, Denise M. Brown, Maya Latimore, Toni Thai Sterrett, and more.
About the speakers:
- Retha Fernandez is the newly appointed Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for Suffolk County, a new role created to promote diversity and inclusion in the Suffolk County workforce in coordination with the County Personnel Officer and the County Executive. In this role, Retha leads the development and implementation of Suffolk County’s diversity and inclusion initiatives. She will be responsible for improving diversity and inclusion in County hiring and personnel practices, as well as identifying, evaluating and making recommendations to improve work teams across the County.
Retha most recently served as the Project Director of the State of Black Long Island (SOBLI) Equity Council, a project convened by the Urban League of Long Island where she was responsible for the project delivery of the Council's equity agenda and campaigns. Prior to joining the Urban League, she spent 15 years in the prestige beauty industry leading regional teams and overseeing technology strategy development and execution as an Information Technology Executive. While at Estee Lauder Companies, Inc., one of her key roles was serving as an Inclusion & Diversity Trainer for North America Employees.
- Denise M. Brown launched The Caregiving Years Training Academy in April 2020 after selling CareGiving.com, an online community she launched in 1996.
Through The Caregiving Years Training Academy, Denise offers training and leadership development opportunities for family caregivers and former family caregivers. In January 2016, Denise debuted the Certified Caregiving Consultant training program which helps former family caregivers launch a business to help current family caregivers. She has since added additional programs, including the Certified Caregiving Advocate, Educator, Facilitator and Specialist training programs. More than 200 individuals from five different countries have enrolled in her training programs.
She also manages two online networks — HealingOurWay.com, which helps those healing through loss, and CaringOurWay.com, which helps us harness our resilience to manage the difficult months of the pandemic. In April 2021, she will host The Caring Conference which will feature workshops and sessions that reflect the conference theme, Our Resilient Spirit.
- Maya Latimore is the Director of Business Development at Shine at Work. Maya is a California native but now resides in Brooklyn with her cat Baxter and boyfriend Mustafa. She's worked in tech for the greater majority of her career navigating from a start in staffing/recruiting to working for Headspace, Zenefits and Box. In her current role at Shine, she is building out the B2B business at Shine at Work as an employee workplace wellness benefit.
Shine is the most inclusive and representative mental health product on the market and has built a robust program on the workplace wellness space. Founded by two women of color, Shine is making mental health more inclusive and every piece of content in Shine rooted in Acceptance Commitment Therapy. They were also just named Best of 2020 by Apple for their inclusive approach.
- Toni Thai Sterrett is a writer, director and photographer whose clients have included KMart, AOL, Pantene, The Nicki Minaj Collection and A&E Networks - Toni has directed Short Films, Documentaries and a web series (Potty Break) in which she also wrote, produced and co-starred in. She was a producer and co-star on the Gotham Award nominated film “August The First” and has photographed talent such as Taraji P. Henson, Gladys Knight, Rob Lowe and Tiffany Haddish who is one of Toni’s constant collaborators on Clubhouse. Toni was chosen by Ava DuVernay as Vibe magazine’s Next Female Filmmaker and she’s hosted and participated in a number of film craft related chats on Clubhouse with Ms. DuVernay whom she on-boarded onto the Clubhouse platform. Toni has also hosted numerous clubhouse events and fundraisers raising nearly $180,000. She’s also hosted other meaningful conversations with DJ D Nice, Bevy Smith, Fab 5 Freddy and Tim Story.
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A safe place to have real conversations, solving the real human and business challenges founders are facing navigating the ups and downs of taking their companies to the next level.
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A safe place to have real conversations, solving the real human and business challenges founders are facing navigating the ups and downs of taking their companies to the next level.
Learn moreJoin the event at 1pm ET here: https://betaworks-studios.zoom.us/j/86562414191
Join us as we discuss the challenges we are facing as women in 2021 - our health, the pandemic, inclusion in tech and the workplace, and more.
We will talk through these challenges and actions to move beyond the status quo. What tips and tools should be amplified to create more inclusivity right now? Our conversation will feature Retha Fernandez, Denise M. Brown, Maya Latimore, Toni Thai Sterrett, and more.
About the speakers:
- Retha Fernandez is the newly appointed Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for Suffolk County, a new role created to promote diversity and inclusion in the Suffolk County workforce in coordination with the County Personnel Officer and the County Executive. In this role, Retha leads the development and implementation of Suffolk County’s diversity and inclusion initiatives. She will be responsible for improving diversity and inclusion in County hiring and personnel practices, as well as identifying, evaluating and making recommendations to improve work teams across the County.
Retha most recently served as the Project Director of the State of Black Long Island (SOBLI) Equity Council, a project convened by the Urban League of Long Island where she was responsible for the project delivery of the Council's equity agenda and campaigns. Prior to joining the Urban League, she spent 15 years in the prestige beauty industry leading regional teams and overseeing technology strategy development and execution as an Information Technology Executive. While at Estee Lauder Companies, Inc., one of her key roles was serving as an Inclusion & Diversity Trainer for North America Employees.
- Denise M. Brown launched The Caregiving Years Training Academy in April 2020 after selling CareGiving.com, an online community she launched in 1996.
Through The Caregiving Years Training Academy, Denise offers training and leadership development opportunities for family caregivers and former family caregivers. In January 2016, Denise debuted the Certified Caregiving Consultant training program which helps former family caregivers launch a business to help current family caregivers. She has since added additional programs, including the Certified Caregiving Advocate, Educator, Facilitator and Specialist training programs. More than 200 individuals from five different countries have enrolled in her training programs.
She also manages two online networks — HealingOurWay.com, which helps those healing through loss, and CaringOurWay.com, which helps us harness our resilience to manage the difficult months of the pandemic. In April 2021, she will host The Caring Conference which will feature workshops and sessions that reflect the conference theme, Our Resilient Spirit.
- Maya Latimore is the Director of Business Development at Shine at Work. Maya is a California native but now resides in Brooklyn with her cat Baxter and boyfriend Mustafa. She's worked in tech for the greater majority of her career navigating from a start in staffing/recruiting to working for Headspace, Zenefits and Box. In her current role at Shine, she is building out the B2B business at Shine at Work as an employee workplace wellness benefit.
Shine is the most inclusive and representative mental health product on the market and has built a robust program on the workplace wellness space. Founded by two women of color, Shine is making mental health more inclusive and every piece of content in Shine rooted in Acceptance Commitment Therapy. They were also just named Best of 2020 by Apple for their inclusive approach.
- Toni Thai Sterrett is a writer, director and photographer whose clients have included KMart, AOL, Pantene, The Nicki Minaj Collection and A&E Networks - Toni has directed Short Films, Documentaries and a web series (Potty Break) in which she also wrote, produced and co-starred in. She was a producer and co-star on the Gotham Award nominated film “August The First” and has photographed talent such as Taraji P. Henson, Gladys Knight, Rob Lowe and Tiffany Haddish who is one of Toni’s constant collaborators on Clubhouse. Toni was chosen by Ava DuVernay as Vibe magazine’s Next Female Filmmaker and she’s hosted and participated in a number of film craft related chats on Clubhouse with Ms. DuVernay whom she on-boarded onto the Clubhouse platform. Toni has also hosted numerous clubhouse events and fundraisers raising nearly $180,000. She’s also hosted other meaningful conversations with DJ D Nice, Bevy Smith, Fab 5 Freddy and Tim Story.
You're invited to an International Women's Day event presented by KD Leadership Strategies and the COVID-19 Technology Task Force.
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The Wall Street Journal | Barron’s Group and Betaworks Studios bring you Next Wave, an event series for marketers that tackles the post-coronavirus reality and delivers intelligence on how to respond and thrive at this unprecedented time.
With every challenge comes opportunity, and there are plenty of challenges ahead. At Next Wave: Career Transformation for a New Reality, we’ll tackle the new, unique and thorny challenges marketers are facing and talk through tactics to respond and thrive. From pandemic response to distancing, data privacy to radical digitization, our conversations will help give you perspectives on what skillsets you need to build, acquire and own. From intrapreneurship to career pivots, hyper efficient to robustly human, to embracing risk taking, this event will dig in to how to use experience, ability, adaptability, insight and vision to thrive in a new reality.
The Wall Street Journal | Barron’s Group and Betaworks Studios bring you Next Wave, an event series for marketers that tackles the post-Coronavirus reality and delivers intelligence on how to respond and thrive at this unprecedented time.
Join the event at 1pm ET here: https://betaworks-studios.zoom.us/j/86562414191
Join us as we discuss the challenges we are facing as women in 2021 - our health, the pandemic, inclusion in tech and the workplace, and more.
We will talk through these challenges and actions to move beyond the status quo. What tips and tools should be amplified to create more inclusivity right now? Our conversation will feature Retha Fernandez, Denise M. Brown, Maya Latimore, Toni Thai Sterrett, and more.
About the speakers:
- Retha Fernandez is the newly appointed Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for Suffolk County, a new role created to promote diversity and inclusion in the Suffolk County workforce in coordination with the County Personnel Officer and the County Executive. In this role, Retha leads the development and implementation of Suffolk County’s diversity and inclusion initiatives. She will be responsible for improving diversity and inclusion in County hiring and personnel practices, as well as identifying, evaluating and making recommendations to improve work teams across the County.
Retha most recently served as the Project Director of the State of Black Long Island (SOBLI) Equity Council, a project convened by the Urban League of Long Island where she was responsible for the project delivery of the Council's equity agenda and campaigns. Prior to joining the Urban League, she spent 15 years in the prestige beauty industry leading regional teams and overseeing technology strategy development and execution as an Information Technology Executive. While at Estee Lauder Companies, Inc., one of her key roles was serving as an Inclusion & Diversity Trainer for North America Employees.
- Denise M. Brown launched The Caregiving Years Training Academy in April 2020 after selling CareGiving.com, an online community she launched in 1996.
Through The Caregiving Years Training Academy, Denise offers training and leadership development opportunities for family caregivers and former family caregivers. In January 2016, Denise debuted the Certified Caregiving Consultant training program which helps former family caregivers launch a business to help current family caregivers. She has since added additional programs, including the Certified Caregiving Advocate, Educator, Facilitator and Specialist training programs. More than 200 individuals from five different countries have enrolled in her training programs.
She also manages two online networks — HealingOurWay.com, which helps those healing through loss, and CaringOurWay.com, which helps us harness our resilience to manage the difficult months of the pandemic. In April 2021, she will host The Caring Conference which will feature workshops and sessions that reflect the conference theme, Our Resilient Spirit.
- Maya Latimore is the Director of Business Development at Shine at Work. Maya is a California native but now resides in Brooklyn with her cat Baxter and boyfriend Mustafa. She's worked in tech for the greater majority of her career navigating from a start in staffing/recruiting to working for Headspace, Zenefits and Box. In her current role at Shine, she is building out the B2B business at Shine at Work as an employee workplace wellness benefit.
Shine is the most inclusive and representative mental health product on the market and has built a robust program on the workplace wellness space. Founded by two women of color, Shine is making mental health more inclusive and every piece of content in Shine rooted in Acceptance Commitment Therapy. They were also just named Best of 2020 by Apple for their inclusive approach.
- Toni Thai Sterrett is a writer, director and photographer whose clients have included KMart, AOL, Pantene, The Nicki Minaj Collection and A&E Networks - Toni has directed Short Films, Documentaries and a web series (Potty Break) in which she also wrote, produced and co-starred in. She was a producer and co-star on the Gotham Award nominated film “August The First” and has photographed talent such as Taraji P. Henson, Gladys Knight, Rob Lowe and Tiffany Haddish who is one of Toni’s constant collaborators on Clubhouse. Toni was chosen by Ava DuVernay as Vibe magazine’s Next Female Filmmaker and she’s hosted and participated in a number of film craft related chats on Clubhouse with Ms. DuVernay whom she on-boarded onto the Clubhouse platform. Toni has also hosted numerous clubhouse events and fundraisers raising nearly $180,000. She’s also hosted other meaningful conversations with DJ D Nice, Bevy Smith, Fab 5 Freddy and Tim Story.
In the new world of virtual everything — communication, connection, entertainment — we find ourselves searching for the best ways to meet our social needs, from working with colleagues to just enjoying a beer with friends.
Solving the problem of isolation has opened up new opportunities for tech brands and founders, and we’ve seen a series of innovations in the past three months which change the way we go about our lives. These new platforms help us remotely continue our routines, like caring for the elderly or attending a comedy show. But they also usher in a new set of concerns: how do we stay in touch with our mental health and decompress with all this screen time?
RENDER: Remote World examined these emerging technologies, the innovations we see on the horizon, and suggested how we can cope and thrive within our newly digitized lives.
Missed out on RENDER: Remote World? It's not too late to tune in.
Purchase a ticket to access to the full 3-hour recording.
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RENDER is Betaworks Studios premier conference series. Every other month, we invite leaders and experts to help us dive deep into emerging industries and frontier technologies.
In today’s information ecosystem, we are overwhelmed with the growing inability to know who to trust, what to believe, how to verify credible sources, and how to engage in reasonable discourse. We are fragmenting our experiences and relationships as data-driven businesses are tracking us, segmenting us, and curating our online experiences to perfect an ad-driven personalization process. These technologies which strive to connect us have also been weaponized to target, fragment, tribalize and disenfranchise citizens. And now we struggle as a society to come to a shared consensus on what is true and what is not.
Join us for our latest (virtual) RENDER sessions in which we’ll discuss how we got into this technological and social quagmire, what the big tech platforms, the government, and start-ups can do about it, see demos from some start-ups tackling the disinformation problem, and discuss how to invest in this category.
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RENDER is Betaworks Studios premier conference series. Every other month, we invite leaders and experts to help us dive deep into emerging industries and frontier technologies.
Crypto is here to stay. It walked the Silk Road, catapulted Bitcoin into popular culture, and cemented itself in mainstream financial conversations. For this edition of RENDER, Betaworks Studio’s frontier tech conference series, we’ll shine light on two quickly emerging areas in the crypto space: non-fungible tokens and decentralized finance.
The first half of the day will focus on Non-fungible tokens (NFTs). NFTs are a type of cryptographic token which represents something unique. Non-fungible tokens can be used to create verifiable digital scarcity. As one of our curators Jake Brukhman, Founder and CEO of Coinfund, puts it “NFTs are not just cat pictures that people trade on blockchains. Today digital art, collectibles, and in-game assets are the most visible use cases for these nifty non-fungibles.”
We’ll finish the day focusing on the broader landscape of DeFi. NFTs are just one element in decentralized finance (DeFi), an umbrella term for a variety of financial applications in cryptocurrency or blockchain geared toward disrupting financial intermediaries. “The core innovation of decentralized finance is that the “trust layer” is now the software and code itself. Without the time and cost associated with a high level of intermediation, the promise of DeFi is wide.” writes Sean Lippel, Principal at FinTech Collective and fellow curator of RENDER: NFTs+DeFi, “broader access to financial products, programmable money, real-time risk transfer, and auditability of financial contracts. Moreover, anyone with a computer or mobile phone with an Internet connection can gain access to more open and transparent financial services”
Join us as we explore the past, present and future of NFTs and DeFi through a day of conversations, demonstrations and explanations. From NFTs gaining prominence and earning millions in revenue as in-game objects and digital collectibles to DeFi’s ability to bring banking-style services to those who lack access to financial systems, we’ll examine the impact of these burgeoning technologies on a variety of industries and sectors throughout RENDER: NFTs & DeFi.
RENDER is Betaworks Studios premier conference series. Every other month, we invite leaders and experts to help us dive deep into emerging industries and frontier technologies.
What can’t you do with Transformers? NLP models can build you a website from a URL and one sentence. It can become Google. It can translate legal jargon to conversational language. It’s tremendously powerful, but simple. Everything from Gpt1 to GPTx to models from the Hugging Face hub have changed Natural Language Understanding and generation in a way that has that feeling of magic and untapped opportunity that inspires us to build. Sounds like the perfect topic for our next RENDER. February 26th, Betaworks Studio’s frontier tech conference series will tackle the ins and outs of natural language processors, natural language understanding, and GPT-3.
If the ultimate goal of a Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT) is for computers to understand the human language, what does that mean for products and businesses of the future? During RENDER: GPT-What? we’ll be exploring the possibilities of this emerging platform through the lens of consumer applications. What consumer tech can developers build on top of to improve natural language processing stacks? Where do the investment opportunities lie in this space? Would they fool Alan Turing? What would the Turing Test of tomorrow look like? (that last one was generated by GPT-3, we’re not going to cover that, but actually not a terrible idea...)
Join us for an afternoon of exploring the past, present and future of NLP and NLU. Whether you’re an investor, a founder, a software developer or just a curious onlooker, we encourage you to dive in and learn what you need to know about these technologies and, more importantly, why you need to know it.
RENDER is Betaworks Studios premier conference series. Every other month, we invite leaders and experts to help us dive deep into emerging industries and frontier technologies.
You're invited to an International Women's Day event presented by KD Leadership Strategies and the COVID-19 Technology Task Force.
Join the event at 1pm ET here: https://betaworks-studios.zoom.us/j/86562414191
Join us as we discuss the challenges we are facing as women in 2021 - our health, the pandemic, inclusion in tech and the workplace, and more.
We will talk through these challenges and actions to move beyond the status quo. What tips and tools should be amplified to create more inclusivity right now? Our conversation will feature Retha Fernandez, Denise M. Brown, Maya Latimore, Toni Thai Sterrett, and more.
About the speakers:
- Retha Fernandez is the newly appointed Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for Suffolk County, a new role created to promote diversity and inclusion in the Suffolk County workforce in coordination with the County Personnel Officer and the County Executive. In this role, Retha leads the development and implementation of Suffolk County’s diversity and inclusion initiatives. She will be responsible for improving diversity and inclusion in County hiring and personnel practices, as well as identifying, evaluating and making recommendations to improve work teams across the County.
Retha most recently served as the Project Director of the State of Black Long Island (SOBLI) Equity Council, a project convened by the Urban League of Long Island where she was responsible for the project delivery of the Council's equity agenda and campaigns. Prior to joining the Urban League, she spent 15 years in the prestige beauty industry leading regional teams and overseeing technology strategy development and execution as an Information Technology Executive. While at Estee Lauder Companies, Inc., one of her key roles was serving as an Inclusion & Diversity Trainer for North America Employees.
- Denise M. Brown launched The Caregiving Years Training Academy in April 2020 after selling CareGiving.com, an online community she launched in 1996.
Through The Caregiving Years Training Academy, Denise offers training and leadership development opportunities for family caregivers and former family caregivers. In January 2016, Denise debuted the Certified Caregiving Consultant training program which helps former family caregivers launch a business to help current family caregivers. She has since added additional programs, including the Certified Caregiving Advocate, Educator, Facilitator and Specialist training programs. More than 200 individuals from five different countries have enrolled in her training programs.
She also manages two online networks — HealingOurWay.com, which helps those healing through loss, and CaringOurWay.com, which helps us harness our resilience to manage the difficult months of the pandemic. In April 2021, she will host The Caring Conference which will feature workshops and sessions that reflect the conference theme, Our Resilient Spirit.
- Maya Latimore is the Director of Business Development at Shine at Work. Maya is a California native but now resides in Brooklyn with her cat Baxter and boyfriend Mustafa. She's worked in tech for the greater majority of her career navigating from a start in staffing/recruiting to working for Headspace, Zenefits and Box. In her current role at Shine, she is building out the B2B business at Shine at Work as an employee workplace wellness benefit.
Shine is the most inclusive and representative mental health product on the market and has built a robust program on the workplace wellness space. Founded by two women of color, Shine is making mental health more inclusive and every piece of content in Shine rooted in Acceptance Commitment Therapy. They were also just named Best of 2020 by Apple for their inclusive approach.
- Toni Thai Sterrett is a writer, director and photographer whose clients have included KMart, AOL, Pantene, The Nicki Minaj Collection and A&E Networks - Toni has directed Short Films, Documentaries and a web series (Potty Break) in which she also wrote, produced and co-starred in. She was a producer and co-star on the Gotham Award nominated film “August The First” and has photographed talent such as Taraji P. Henson, Gladys Knight, Rob Lowe and Tiffany Haddish who is one of Toni’s constant collaborators on Clubhouse. Toni was chosen by Ava DuVernay as Vibe magazine’s Next Female Filmmaker and she’s hosted and participated in a number of film craft related chats on Clubhouse with Ms. DuVernay whom she on-boarded onto the Clubhouse platform. Toni has also hosted numerous clubhouse events and fundraisers raising nearly $180,000. She’s also hosted other meaningful conversations with DJ D Nice, Bevy Smith, Fab 5 Freddy and Tim Story.
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You're invited to an International Women's Day event presented by KD Leadership Strategies and the COVID-19 Technology Task Force.
Join the event at 1pm ET here: https://betaworks-studios.zoom.us/j/86562414191
Join us as we discuss the challenges we are facing as women in 2021 - our health, the pandemic, inclusion in tech and the workplace, and more.
We will talk through these challenges and actions to move beyond the status quo. What tips and tools should be amplified to create more inclusivity right now? Our conversation will feature Retha Fernandez, Denise M. Brown, Maya Latimore, Toni Thai Sterrett, and more.
About the speakers:
- Retha Fernandez is the newly appointed Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for Suffolk County, a new role created to promote diversity and inclusion in the Suffolk County workforce in coordination with the County Personnel Officer and the County Executive. In this role, Retha leads the development and implementation of Suffolk County’s diversity and inclusion initiatives. She will be responsible for improving diversity and inclusion in County hiring and personnel practices, as well as identifying, evaluating and making recommendations to improve work teams across the County.
Retha most recently served as the Project Director of the State of Black Long Island (SOBLI) Equity Council, a project convened by the Urban League of Long Island where she was responsible for the project delivery of the Council's equity agenda and campaigns. Prior to joining the Urban League, she spent 15 years in the prestige beauty industry leading regional teams and overseeing technology strategy development and execution as an Information Technology Executive. While at Estee Lauder Companies, Inc., one of her key roles was serving as an Inclusion & Diversity Trainer for North America Employees.
- Denise M. Brown launched The Caregiving Years Training Academy in April 2020 after selling CareGiving.com, an online community she launched in 1996.
Through The Caregiving Years Training Academy, Denise offers training and leadership development opportunities for family caregivers and former family caregivers. In January 2016, Denise debuted the Certified Caregiving Consultant training program which helps former family caregivers launch a business to help current family caregivers. She has since added additional programs, including the Certified Caregiving Advocate, Educator, Facilitator and Specialist training programs. More than 200 individuals from five different countries have enrolled in her training programs.
She also manages two online networks — HealingOurWay.com, which helps those healing through loss, and CaringOurWay.com, which helps us harness our resilience to manage the difficult months of the pandemic. In April 2021, she will host The Caring Conference which will feature workshops and sessions that reflect the conference theme, Our Resilient Spirit.
- Maya Latimore is the Director of Business Development at Shine at Work. Maya is a California native but now resides in Brooklyn with her cat Baxter and boyfriend Mustafa. She's worked in tech for the greater majority of her career navigating from a start in staffing/recruiting to working for Headspace, Zenefits and Box. In her current role at Shine, she is building out the B2B business at Shine at Work as an employee workplace wellness benefit.
Shine is the most inclusive and representative mental health product on the market and has built a robust program on the workplace wellness space. Founded by two women of color, Shine is making mental health more inclusive and every piece of content in Shine rooted in Acceptance Commitment Therapy. They were also just named Best of 2020 by Apple for their inclusive approach.
- Toni Thai Sterrett is a writer, director and photographer whose clients have included KMart, AOL, Pantene, The Nicki Minaj Collection and A&E Networks - Toni has directed Short Films, Documentaries and a web series (Potty Break) in which she also wrote, produced and co-starred in. She was a producer and co-star on the Gotham Award nominated film “August The First” and has photographed talent such as Taraji P. Henson, Gladys Knight, Rob Lowe and Tiffany Haddish who is one of Toni’s constant collaborators on Clubhouse. Toni was chosen by Ava DuVernay as Vibe magazine’s Next Female Filmmaker and she’s hosted and participated in a number of film craft related chats on Clubhouse with Ms. DuVernay whom she on-boarded onto the Clubhouse platform. Toni has also hosted numerous clubhouse events and fundraisers raising nearly $180,000. She’s also hosted other meaningful conversations with DJ D Nice, Bevy Smith, Fab 5 Freddy and Tim Story.
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You're invited to an International Women's Day event presented by KD Leadership Strategies and the COVID-19 Technology Task Force.
Join the event at 1pm ET here: https://betaworks-studios.zoom.us/j/86562414191
Join us as we discuss the challenges we are facing as women in 2021 - our health, the pandemic, inclusion in tech and the workplace, and more.
We will talk through these challenges and actions to move beyond the status quo. What tips and tools should be amplified to create more inclusivity right now? Our conversation will feature Retha Fernandez, Denise M. Brown, Maya Latimore, Toni Thai Sterrett, and more.
About the speakers:
- Retha Fernandez is the newly appointed Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for Suffolk County, a new role created to promote diversity and inclusion in the Suffolk County workforce in coordination with the County Personnel Officer and the County Executive. In this role, Retha leads the development and implementation of Suffolk County’s diversity and inclusion initiatives. She will be responsible for improving diversity and inclusion in County hiring and personnel practices, as well as identifying, evaluating and making recommendations to improve work teams across the County.
Retha most recently served as the Project Director of the State of Black Long Island (SOBLI) Equity Council, a project convened by the Urban League of Long Island where she was responsible for the project delivery of the Council's equity agenda and campaigns. Prior to joining the Urban League, she spent 15 years in the prestige beauty industry leading regional teams and overseeing technology strategy development and execution as an Information Technology Executive. While at Estee Lauder Companies, Inc., one of her key roles was serving as an Inclusion & Diversity Trainer for North America Employees.
- Denise M. Brown launched The Caregiving Years Training Academy in April 2020 after selling CareGiving.com, an online community she launched in 1996.
Through The Caregiving Years Training Academy, Denise offers training and leadership development opportunities for family caregivers and former family caregivers. In January 2016, Denise debuted the Certified Caregiving Consultant training program which helps former family caregivers launch a business to help current family caregivers. She has since added additional programs, including the Certified Caregiving Advocate, Educator, Facilitator and Specialist training programs. More than 200 individuals from five different countries have enrolled in her training programs.
She also manages two online networks — HealingOurWay.com, which helps those healing through loss, and CaringOurWay.com, which helps us harness our resilience to manage the difficult months of the pandemic. In April 2021, she will host The Caring Conference which will feature workshops and sessions that reflect the conference theme, Our Resilient Spirit.
- Maya Latimore is the Director of Business Development at Shine at Work. Maya is a California native but now resides in Brooklyn with her cat Baxter and boyfriend Mustafa. She's worked in tech for the greater majority of her career navigating from a start in staffing/recruiting to working for Headspace, Zenefits and Box. In her current role at Shine, she is building out the B2B business at Shine at Work as an employee workplace wellness benefit.
Shine is the most inclusive and representative mental health product on the market and has built a robust program on the workplace wellness space. Founded by two women of color, Shine is making mental health more inclusive and every piece of content in Shine rooted in Acceptance Commitment Therapy. They were also just named Best of 2020 by Apple for their inclusive approach.
- Toni Thai Sterrett is a writer, director and photographer whose clients have included KMart, AOL, Pantene, The Nicki Minaj Collection and A&E Networks - Toni has directed Short Films, Documentaries and a web series (Potty Break) in which she also wrote, produced and co-starred in. She was a producer and co-star on the Gotham Award nominated film “August The First” and has photographed talent such as Taraji P. Henson, Gladys Knight, Rob Lowe and Tiffany Haddish who is one of Toni’s constant collaborators on Clubhouse. Toni was chosen by Ava DuVernay as Vibe magazine’s Next Female Filmmaker and she’s hosted and participated in a number of film craft related chats on Clubhouse with Ms. DuVernay whom she on-boarded onto the Clubhouse platform. Toni has also hosted numerous clubhouse events and fundraisers raising nearly $180,000. She’s also hosted other meaningful conversations with DJ D Nice, Bevy Smith, Fab 5 Freddy and Tim Story.
A safe place to have real conversations, solving the real human and business challenges founders are facing navigating the ups and downs of taking their companies to the next level.
Learn moreYou're invited to an International Women's Day event presented by KD Leadership Strategies and the COVID-19 Technology Task Force.
Join the event at 1pm ET here: https://betaworks-studios.zoom.us/j/86562414191
Join us as we discuss the challenges we are facing as women in 2021 - our health, the pandemic, inclusion in tech and the workplace, and more.
We will talk through these challenges and actions to move beyond the status quo. What tips and tools should be amplified to create more inclusivity right now? Our conversation will feature Retha Fernandez, Denise M. Brown, Maya Latimore, Toni Thai Sterrett, and more.
About the speakers:
- Retha Fernandez is the newly appointed Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for Suffolk County, a new role created to promote diversity and inclusion in the Suffolk County workforce in coordination with the County Personnel Officer and the County Executive. In this role, Retha leads the development and implementation of Suffolk County’s diversity and inclusion initiatives. She will be responsible for improving diversity and inclusion in County hiring and personnel practices, as well as identifying, evaluating and making recommendations to improve work teams across the County.
Retha most recently served as the Project Director of the State of Black Long Island (SOBLI) Equity Council, a project convened by the Urban League of Long Island where she was responsible for the project delivery of the Council's equity agenda and campaigns. Prior to joining the Urban League, she spent 15 years in the prestige beauty industry leading regional teams and overseeing technology strategy development and execution as an Information Technology Executive. While at Estee Lauder Companies, Inc., one of her key roles was serving as an Inclusion & Diversity Trainer for North America Employees.
- Denise M. Brown launched The Caregiving Years Training Academy in April 2020 after selling CareGiving.com, an online community she launched in 1996.
Through The Caregiving Years Training Academy, Denise offers training and leadership development opportunities for family caregivers and former family caregivers. In January 2016, Denise debuted the Certified Caregiving Consultant training program which helps former family caregivers launch a business to help current family caregivers. She has since added additional programs, including the Certified Caregiving Advocate, Educator, Facilitator and Specialist training programs. More than 200 individuals from five different countries have enrolled in her training programs.
She also manages two online networks — HealingOurWay.com, which helps those healing through loss, and CaringOurWay.com, which helps us harness our resilience to manage the difficult months of the pandemic. In April 2021, she will host The Caring Conference which will feature workshops and sessions that reflect the conference theme, Our Resilient Spirit.
- Maya Latimore is the Director of Business Development at Shine at Work. Maya is a California native but now resides in Brooklyn with her cat Baxter and boyfriend Mustafa. She's worked in tech for the greater majority of her career navigating from a start in staffing/recruiting to working for Headspace, Zenefits and Box. In her current role at Shine, she is building out the B2B business at Shine at Work as an employee workplace wellness benefit.
Shine is the most inclusive and representative mental health product on the market and has built a robust program on the workplace wellness space. Founded by two women of color, Shine is making mental health more inclusive and every piece of content in Shine rooted in Acceptance Commitment Therapy. They were also just named Best of 2020 by Apple for their inclusive approach.
- Toni Thai Sterrett is a writer, director and photographer whose clients have included KMart, AOL, Pantene, The Nicki Minaj Collection and A&E Networks - Toni has directed Short Films, Documentaries and a web series (Potty Break) in which she also wrote, produced and co-starred in. She was a producer and co-star on the Gotham Award nominated film “August The First” and has photographed talent such as Taraji P. Henson, Gladys Knight, Rob Lowe and Tiffany Haddish who is one of Toni’s constant collaborators on Clubhouse. Toni was chosen by Ava DuVernay as Vibe magazine’s Next Female Filmmaker and she’s hosted and participated in a number of film craft related chats on Clubhouse with Ms. DuVernay whom she on-boarded onto the Clubhouse platform. Toni has also hosted numerous clubhouse events and fundraisers raising nearly $180,000. She’s also hosted other meaningful conversations with DJ D Nice, Bevy Smith, Fab 5 Freddy and Tim Story.
A safe place to have real conversations, solving the real human and business challenges founders are facing navigating the ups and downs of taking their companies to the next level.
Learn moreYou're invited to an International Women's Day event presented by KD Leadership Strategies and the COVID-19 Technology Task Force.
Join the event at 1pm ET here: https://betaworks-studios.zoom.us/j/86562414191
Join us as we discuss the challenges we are facing as women in 2021 - our health, the pandemic, inclusion in tech and the workplace, and more.
We will talk through these challenges and actions to move beyond the status quo. What tips and tools should be amplified to create more inclusivity right now? Our conversation will feature Retha Fernandez, Denise M. Brown, Maya Latimore, Toni Thai Sterrett, and more.
About the speakers:
- Retha Fernandez is the newly appointed Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for Suffolk County, a new role created to promote diversity and inclusion in the Suffolk County workforce in coordination with the County Personnel Officer and the County Executive. In this role, Retha leads the development and implementation of Suffolk County’s diversity and inclusion initiatives. She will be responsible for improving diversity and inclusion in County hiring and personnel practices, as well as identifying, evaluating and making recommendations to improve work teams across the County.
Retha most recently served as the Project Director of the State of Black Long Island (SOBLI) Equity Council, a project convened by the Urban League of Long Island where she was responsible for the project delivery of the Council's equity agenda and campaigns. Prior to joining the Urban League, she spent 15 years in the prestige beauty industry leading regional teams and overseeing technology strategy development and execution as an Information Technology Executive. While at Estee Lauder Companies, Inc., one of her key roles was serving as an Inclusion & Diversity Trainer for North America Employees.
- Denise M. Brown launched The Caregiving Years Training Academy in April 2020 after selling CareGiving.com, an online community she launched in 1996.
Through The Caregiving Years Training Academy, Denise offers training and leadership development opportunities for family caregivers and former family caregivers. In January 2016, Denise debuted the Certified Caregiving Consultant training program which helps former family caregivers launch a business to help current family caregivers. She has since added additional programs, including the Certified Caregiving Advocate, Educator, Facilitator and Specialist training programs. More than 200 individuals from five different countries have enrolled in her training programs.
She also manages two online networks — HealingOurWay.com, which helps those healing through loss, and CaringOurWay.com, which helps us harness our resilience to manage the difficult months of the pandemic. In April 2021, she will host The Caring Conference which will feature workshops and sessions that reflect the conference theme, Our Resilient Spirit.
- Maya Latimore is the Director of Business Development at Shine at Work. Maya is a California native but now resides in Brooklyn with her cat Baxter and boyfriend Mustafa. She's worked in tech for the greater majority of her career navigating from a start in staffing/recruiting to working for Headspace, Zenefits and Box. In her current role at Shine, she is building out the B2B business at Shine at Work as an employee workplace wellness benefit.
Shine is the most inclusive and representative mental health product on the market and has built a robust program on the workplace wellness space. Founded by two women of color, Shine is making mental health more inclusive and every piece of content in Shine rooted in Acceptance Commitment Therapy. They were also just named Best of 2020 by Apple for their inclusive approach.
- Toni Thai Sterrett is a writer, director and photographer whose clients have included KMart, AOL, Pantene, The Nicki Minaj Collection and A&E Networks - Toni has directed Short Films, Documentaries and a web series (Potty Break) in which she also wrote, produced and co-starred in. She was a producer and co-star on the Gotham Award nominated film “August The First” and has photographed talent such as Taraji P. Henson, Gladys Knight, Rob Lowe and Tiffany Haddish who is one of Toni’s constant collaborators on Clubhouse. Toni was chosen by Ava DuVernay as Vibe magazine’s Next Female Filmmaker and she’s hosted and participated in a number of film craft related chats on Clubhouse with Ms. DuVernay whom she on-boarded onto the Clubhouse platform. Toni has also hosted numerous clubhouse events and fundraisers raising nearly $180,000. She’s also hosted other meaningful conversations with DJ D Nice, Bevy Smith, Fab 5 Freddy and Tim Story.
A safe place to have real conversations, solving the real human and business challenges founders are facing navigating the ups and downs of taking their companies to the next level.
Learn moreYou're invited to an International Women's Day event presented by KD Leadership Strategies and the COVID-19 Technology Task Force.
Join the event at 1pm ET here: https://betaworks-studios.zoom.us/j/86562414191
Join us as we discuss the challenges we are facing as women in 2021 - our health, the pandemic, inclusion in tech and the workplace, and more.
We will talk through these challenges and actions to move beyond the status quo. What tips and tools should be amplified to create more inclusivity right now? Our conversation will feature Retha Fernandez, Denise M. Brown, Maya Latimore, Toni Thai Sterrett, and more.
About the speakers:
- Retha Fernandez is the newly appointed Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for Suffolk County, a new role created to promote diversity and inclusion in the Suffolk County workforce in coordination with the County Personnel Officer and the County Executive. In this role, Retha leads the development and implementation of Suffolk County’s diversity and inclusion initiatives. She will be responsible for improving diversity and inclusion in County hiring and personnel practices, as well as identifying, evaluating and making recommendations to improve work teams across the County.
Retha most recently served as the Project Director of the State of Black Long Island (SOBLI) Equity Council, a project convened by the Urban League of Long Island where she was responsible for the project delivery of the Council's equity agenda and campaigns. Prior to joining the Urban League, she spent 15 years in the prestige beauty industry leading regional teams and overseeing technology strategy development and execution as an Information Technology Executive. While at Estee Lauder Companies, Inc., one of her key roles was serving as an Inclusion & Diversity Trainer for North America Employees.
- Denise M. Brown launched The Caregiving Years Training Academy in April 2020 after selling CareGiving.com, an online community she launched in 1996.
Through The Caregiving Years Training Academy, Denise offers training and leadership development opportunities for family caregivers and former family caregivers. In January 2016, Denise debuted the Certified Caregiving Consultant training program which helps former family caregivers launch a business to help current family caregivers. She has since added additional programs, including the Certified Caregiving Advocate, Educator, Facilitator and Specialist training programs. More than 200 individuals from five different countries have enrolled in her training programs.
She also manages two online networks — HealingOurWay.com, which helps those healing through loss, and CaringOurWay.com, which helps us harness our resilience to manage the difficult months of the pandemic. In April 2021, she will host The Caring Conference which will feature workshops and sessions that reflect the conference theme, Our Resilient Spirit.
- Maya Latimore is the Director of Business Development at Shine at Work. Maya is a California native but now resides in Brooklyn with her cat Baxter and boyfriend Mustafa. She's worked in tech for the greater majority of her career navigating from a start in staffing/recruiting to working for Headspace, Zenefits and Box. In her current role at Shine, she is building out the B2B business at Shine at Work as an employee workplace wellness benefit.
Shine is the most inclusive and representative mental health product on the market and has built a robust program on the workplace wellness space. Founded by two women of color, Shine is making mental health more inclusive and every piece of content in Shine rooted in Acceptance Commitment Therapy. They were also just named Best of 2020 by Apple for their inclusive approach.
- Toni Thai Sterrett is a writer, director and photographer whose clients have included KMart, AOL, Pantene, The Nicki Minaj Collection and A&E Networks - Toni has directed Short Films, Documentaries and a web series (Potty Break) in which she also wrote, produced and co-starred in. She was a producer and co-star on the Gotham Award nominated film “August The First” and has photographed talent such as Taraji P. Henson, Gladys Knight, Rob Lowe and Tiffany Haddish who is one of Toni’s constant collaborators on Clubhouse. Toni was chosen by Ava DuVernay as Vibe magazine’s Next Female Filmmaker and she’s hosted and participated in a number of film craft related chats on Clubhouse with Ms. DuVernay whom she on-boarded onto the Clubhouse platform. Toni has also hosted numerous clubhouse events and fundraisers raising nearly $180,000. She’s also hosted other meaningful conversations with DJ D Nice, Bevy Smith, Fab 5 Freddy and Tim Story.
A safe place to have real conversations, solving the real human and business challenges founders are facing navigating the ups and downs of taking their companies to the next level.
Learn moreJoin the event at 1pm ET here: https://betaworks-studios.zoom.us/j/86562414191
Join us as we discuss the challenges we are facing as women in 2021 - our health, the pandemic, inclusion in tech and the workplace, and more.
We will talk through these challenges and actions to move beyond the status quo. What tips and tools should be amplified to create more inclusivity right now? Our conversation will feature Retha Fernandez, Denise M. Brown, Maya Latimore, Toni Thai Sterrett, and more.
About the speakers:
- Retha Fernandez is the newly appointed Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for Suffolk County, a new role created to promote diversity and inclusion in the Suffolk County workforce in coordination with the County Personnel Officer and the County Executive. In this role, Retha leads the development and implementation of Suffolk County’s diversity and inclusion initiatives. She will be responsible for improving diversity and inclusion in County hiring and personnel practices, as well as identifying, evaluating and making recommendations to improve work teams across the County.
Retha most recently served as the Project Director of the State of Black Long Island (SOBLI) Equity Council, a project convened by the Urban League of Long Island where she was responsible for the project delivery of the Council's equity agenda and campaigns. Prior to joining the Urban League, she spent 15 years in the prestige beauty industry leading regional teams and overseeing technology strategy development and execution as an Information Technology Executive. While at Estee Lauder Companies, Inc., one of her key roles was serving as an Inclusion & Diversity Trainer for North America Employees.
- Denise M. Brown launched The Caregiving Years Training Academy in April 2020 after selling CareGiving.com, an online community she launched in 1996.
Through The Caregiving Years Training Academy, Denise offers training and leadership development opportunities for family caregivers and former family caregivers. In January 2016, Denise debuted the Certified Caregiving Consultant training program which helps former family caregivers launch a business to help current family caregivers. She has since added additional programs, including the Certified Caregiving Advocate, Educator, Facilitator and Specialist training programs. More than 200 individuals from five different countries have enrolled in her training programs.
She also manages two online networks — HealingOurWay.com, which helps those healing through loss, and CaringOurWay.com, which helps us harness our resilience to manage the difficult months of the pandemic. In April 2021, she will host The Caring Conference which will feature workshops and sessions that reflect the conference theme, Our Resilient Spirit.
- Maya Latimore is the Director of Business Development at Shine at Work. Maya is a California native but now resides in Brooklyn with her cat Baxter and boyfriend Mustafa. She's worked in tech for the greater majority of her career navigating from a start in staffing/recruiting to working for Headspace, Zenefits and Box. In her current role at Shine, she is building out the B2B business at Shine at Work as an employee workplace wellness benefit.
Shine is the most inclusive and representative mental health product on the market and has built a robust program on the workplace wellness space. Founded by two women of color, Shine is making mental health more inclusive and every piece of content in Shine rooted in Acceptance Commitment Therapy. They were also just named Best of 2020 by Apple for their inclusive approach.
- Toni Thai Sterrett is a writer, director and photographer whose clients have included KMart, AOL, Pantene, The Nicki Minaj Collection and A&E Networks - Toni has directed Short Films, Documentaries and a web series (Potty Break) in which she also wrote, produced and co-starred in. She was a producer and co-star on the Gotham Award nominated film “August The First” and has photographed talent such as Taraji P. Henson, Gladys Knight, Rob Lowe and Tiffany Haddish who is one of Toni’s constant collaborators on Clubhouse. Toni was chosen by Ava DuVernay as Vibe magazine’s Next Female Filmmaker and she’s hosted and participated in a number of film craft related chats on Clubhouse with Ms. DuVernay whom she on-boarded onto the Clubhouse platform. Toni has also hosted numerous clubhouse events and fundraisers raising nearly $180,000. She’s also hosted other meaningful conversations with DJ D Nice, Bevy Smith, Fab 5 Freddy and Tim Story.