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Kumari Williams Experienced certified Talent Acquisition Director with over 15 years. Kumari Williams joined the Executive Board of Perfectly Scarred, Inc. as Vice President in 2017. She has an extensive business operations background having held several director level positions within Human Resources in the public sector; including 6 years with ADP and currently HARMAN International.  As Director […]

Promoting Confident, Heroic,  Inspiring, Courageous moms. (CHICmomorg.com)  Jessica Byrd, mother of two found her passion as a career mom by starting an organization to interact with young mothers to provide them with the tools, necessities, and environment to better raise their children. Jessica firmly believes in not only engaging our children with a positive social environment, but also

Penny served as Executive Director of City Year Detroit (CYD) from 2001-2015, responsible for Michigan’s largest AmeriCorps program, retiring in 2015.  During that period, over 1,000 young adult “corps members” served full time with CYD for up to two years each, providing data-driven all day academic classroom tutoring, mentoring and role modeling to thousands of Detroit’s

Penny Bailer retired in 2015 after 32 years of nonprofit leadership: 14yrs, Executive Director, City Year Detroit and 17yrs, CEO, Michigan Metro Girl Scout Council, receiving CRAIN’s 2nd annual “Best Managed Nonprofit” award. In 1976, Penny helped Co-Found the DPS Golightly Education Center where her children attended grades 1-8.  She served as Founding President of the

For Elizabeth Mays, founder and president of MCS Multimedia, achieving the hallmark of excellence for customers is perhaps her company’s greatest core founding principle and mission. Mays, a millennial, takes great pride in providing the best of services in graphic arts and other media platforms that include digital and offset printing, graphic design, publishing and

This is an enlightening and inspiring interview with Sam Wells, of Flint, who was honored last year by the Michigan Community Service Commission. He was one of those chosen individuals from across the state of Michigan that received the prestigious GOVERNOR’S SERVICE AWARD.  Specifically, Sam was recognized as the “Mentor of the Year.” This award

Women are the fastest growing business owners in the US, especially black women. Although the US ranks #1 in terms of women entrepreneurs (based on a Dell study), there are still many gaps to ensuring that women-led enterprises are successful. Over the last decade Rahama Wright has traveled the entrepreneurial journey, which spans bootstrapping to securing her

Leaders may love where they work, but are yearning for more and don’t know how to excel in their career in a passionate way. In this episode, Nicole Roberts Jones will discuss the key ingredients it takes to not only understand how to align  purpose with roles at work, but how to become a high-performance leader

Juliette Okotie-Eboh, PhD has 30 years working in healthcare, city government, banking, international business and most recently over a decade as Senior Vice President for one of the largest gaming corporations in the United States. These varied professional experiences afforded her the opportunity to maneuver and achieve high levels of professional success. In this podcast

Supremes’ co-founder Mary Wilson discusses on this podcast her courageous life from childhood through the height of the Supremes, to the turn of the century.  Her story from the Brewster projects of Detroit to being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is