Mindset For Success

You Have to Deliver - Pam Harris

Pam Harris’s international upbringing fostered her ability to make successful transitions. Her formula for successful brand and team building is a sharp focus on what needs to get done and her innate ability to engage, listen, and motivate people. Sometimes her concern that she may disappoint colleagues and/or her tendency to feel personally responsible for the losses can cause her to self-doubt or fear rejection. To overcome this, she goes back to the basics: do what you need to do to get it done while leaning on her supportive husband and family.

Ride Through Those Cortisol Rushes - Leighanne Neville

Leighanne Neville grew up with 5 brothers and learned how to be comfortable with competition and risk-taking. This served her as a CPA both in traditional accounting firms and then as a CFO in startups. When faced with the Imposter Syndrome, she convinces herself of her strengths and projects confidence, just as she was taught as a young girl. Over time Leighanne has learned that it is ok not to be “one of the boys.” She leans on her emotional side to facilitate authentic communication and self-care, especially during those IPO “cortisol rushes.”

Social Currency Equals the Right Relationships - Camille Jayne

Camille Jayne is a successful turnaround CEO and long-time mentor, and generous fundraiser of women in business. As the youngest of 5 children, she grew up wanting to be heard. This led her to be confident in her ability to talk and engage with people, creating career opportunities. Early in her career, Camille was preoccupied with failing, of being the first of her successful siblings to do so. As she achieved real success, this fear of failure turned into her fear of disappointing people who count on her. A hand-picked peer support group helps her navigate her emotional triggers.

Know Where Your Worth Is - Priscilla McKinney

Priscilla McKinney has built a successful company that opened credit cards for customers, but it did not give her the passion that marketing did. A colleague in marketing saw Priscilla’s potential, and off she went to found Little Bird Marketing. Growing up with missionary parents, she learned the difference between her work worth and her personal worth. A strong marriage, support system, and a “tribe” of (5) sisters keep her authentic and focused.

Never Taking a Risk Won‘t Get You Anywhere - Kirsten Curtis

Kirsten Curtis has spent her successful career in supply chain and executive positions avidly searching out challenges and risks, often as a turnaround CEO. Though her self-confidence is never in question, she can face the fear of failure - often worrying that she is not doing enough for things to work out. To undo this, she works on not seeing things as either a success or a failure. Through supportive mentors and kinder and gentler self-care, Kirsten also has mastered being less concerned about how people see her and being more humorous and accepting of herself.

Women‘s Health Issues Entrepreneur Mental Health - Mary Clavieres

Mary Clavieres is the founder of Brief Transitions, the first to market mesh underwear for women after childbirth and surgeries. She leverages her 15 years of manufacturing at a Fortune 100 Pharmaceutical company to grow her business.
Mary also founded The Transitions Collective, a platform that provides resources and connections for mom business owners. She specializes in teaching entrepreneurs how to work more effectively in their businesses using the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument®.

Female Mentor Mental Health Business Woman - Eve Psalti

Eve Psalti is Google’s Head of Strategic Platforms, leading digital transformation initiatives with enterprise customers. She also held business development, sales, and marketing leadership positions at Microsoft and startups across the US and Europe. Eve is supporting female entrepreneurs through her role on the advisory board of the Women Entrepreneurs Global organization.

Mental Health Business Woman - Juliet Scott-Croxford

Juliet Scott-Croxford moved from the UK to the US to turn around the Guardian’s media content, only to do the same 3 years later for Worth’s media content. Throughout her career-high energy and ambition have pushed her to take on new challenges. Her fear of failure fuels an incredible drive to prove herself. The pandemic has slowed her down and to live in the moment while bringing her personal values back into focus.

People Have More to Offer Than They Think - Connie Kwan

Connie Kwan is a Management executive from Silicon Valley with 15 years of Product Leadership Experience spanning AI, blockchain, digital health, energy, hard tech, and software (Atlassian, MSFT, CY, SPWR). She is an entrepreneur, advisor, and active speaker on the topic of product storytelling. Her class Storytelling for Startup CEOs and Product Leaders has helped over 2000 leaders, most of whom identify as female and minority, build their storytelling skills. You may have seen her speak at e-Cornell, Product Management Festival in Zurich, Google Tech Talk, Health 2.0, and Atlassian Summit.  She has founded 2 startups and helped many founders craft and deliver their product visions.  She is a master at engaging different audiences through powerful narratives. Currently, she lives with her husband and daughter in California and enjoys partner dancing, snorkeling in tropical places, and camping in the great outdoors. Telling a great story starts with knowing your storyteller type. Find your storyteller type at: https://www.productmaestro.com/storyteller.

Always Take A Paycheck - Nancie Simonet

Nancie Simonet opened the Waterwheel Café & Bakery in 1989 in Milford, Pa. She previously attended the School of Visual Arts in New York and lived and studied in Paris during the early 1980s. She has held several jobs in the food industry. While managing a wholesale French Bakery, she called on some of New York’s finest restaurants & hotels, spurring her passion for food, culture, and design while providing her the drive to start her career as a restaurateur at the age of 27.