11:30 - 11:40a: Welcome & introductions
11:40p: Fireside chat begins
12:45p: Q+A session with moderator & speakers
12:55p: Closing remarks
1p: Event ends
Crenshaw Associates
Executive Chairman
Stoke Coworking
Associate Director
Care
Founder
Bill Glenn is the Executive Chairman of Crenshaw Associates, an executive coaching firm that works with CHROS and CEOS at the intersection of executive leadership and corporate strategy. Crenshaw has been committed to the corporate sector for the past forty years in human capital, senior executive development and c-suite transition services. Prior to Crenshaw, he was the CEO of American Express Global Business Travel (GBT) and led the development of the $2B spin-off as a stand-alone, independent company. GBT is the world’s largest corporate travel management company operating in 140 countries around the globe with 14 thousand employees. Bill was President of Amex’s $5B Commercial Services business. He identified operating synergies between the Global Corporate Payments and Global Business Travel divisions, and created a disruptive new business model that capitalized on rapidly evolving technology trends in business travel.
Juli James hit the market the same year as the iconic video game Space Invaders. From there, she and video games grew up together. Juli was a journalism nerd in high school. She followed that sensibility into her professional life, starting as an Army broadcaster and then working in digital media and marketing communications in her early career. Juli didn’t bring video games to work until graduate school. A class, The Persuasive Power of Video Games, changed the trajectory of her life and career. Since that class, Juli has unlocked the Video Game Designer achievement. She created the curriculum used at Arizona State University to teach journalists game design. After winning a Knight Foundation Prototype Fund grant, Juli made a no-code app game design app for educators. Since then, her other achievements include Educator, Entrepreneur, Co-Founder, and Innovator.
Today, Juli puts her experience and skills to work supporting strategy, social impact, and education innovation for entrepreneurs in Denton, Texas.
Founder of Care and Deva, ex-McKinsey who travelled around the world. Care is a burnout prevention tool for remote startup teams and a leadership development platform.
Dima went through burnout, personal transformation and became a well-being “geek” at some point. He has done 10+ retreats, Vipassana, Wim Hof training, 2 years of fasting, and 5 years of therapy.
But then he found his golden middle and became a normal person again 😅
Now, Dima is most curious about the topics of presence, happiness at work, and superpowers.
Shawnee Leonard Consulting
Founder + Creative Director
Shawnee is a social media + marketing consultant, creative director, and event producer currently residing in Dallas, Tejas. She has an associate’s in Fashion Marketing from El Centro College and a Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences with concentrations in Hospitality Management and Communication & Technology from the University of North Texas in Dallas.
She is the founder of Moxie Brides Magazine, a digital publication showcasing inspiration for offbeat, alternative brides, and founder of The Ten Ninety-Nine, a local collective catered towards helping freelancers start, build and grow their business by providing them access to resources, continuing education, work opportunities and more. She has also obtained numerous leadership roles such as being on Method Seven Magazine’s editorial board as their Beauty Director, serving on the Student Event Planners Association’s National Board of Directors, Social Media Manager & Marketing Co-Chair for Dallas Startup Week, and with LAUNCH. as their Marketing Manager and Community + Social Lead.
In her free time, she’s most likely double fisting moscow mules at her favorite happy hour, being a dog mom, playing photographer + editing photos, exploring downtown dallas, and buying Fenty Beauty products from Sephora.
Shawnee Leonard Consulting
Founder + Creative Director
Stoke Coworking
Marketing & Program Manager
Shawnee is a social media + marketing consultant, creative director, and event producer currently residing in Dallas, Tejas. She has an associate’s in Fashion Marketing from El Centro College and a Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences with concentrations in Hospitality Management and Communication & Technology from the University of North Texas in Dallas.
She is the founder of Moxie Brides Magazine, a digital publication showcasing inspiration for offbeat, alternative brides, and founder of The Ten Ninety-Nine, a local collective catered towards helping freelancers start, build and grow their business by providing them access to resources, continuing education, work opportunities and more. She has also obtained numerous leadership roles such as being on Method Seven Magazine’s editorial board as their Beauty Director, serving on the Student Event Planners Association’s National Board of Directors, Social Media Manager & Marketing Co-Chair for Dallas Startup Week, and with LAUNCH. as their Marketing Manager and Community + Social Lead.
In her free time, she’s most likely double fisting moscow mules at her favorite happy hour, being a dog mom, playing photographer + editing photos, exploring downtown dallas, and buying Fenty Beauty products from Sephora.
Lasamee is from Denton, Texas and works as a marketing and program manager at a coworking space and entrepreneur hub, Stoke, @stokedenton. She has worked in professional and technical communication in various roles and in education as an adjunct professor in technical writing and in English composition and developmental writing. She is the newsletter coordinator and a contributing writer for the Lao Food Foundation, @laofoodfoundation, and is the founder and owner of her Lao food and culture business, Good & Golden, @goodandgoldenllc. Her greatest joy comes from connecting people and educating folks about her heritage. When she’s not working, Lasamee enjoys reading, writing, cooking (pasta of any kind is a favorite), tending to her plants and taking care of her cats, and spending time with her husband.
