Adrienne Bryant

Adrienne Bryant is the Owner/Designated Broker with Bryant Commercial Real Estate, a women-owned commercial real estate company in Phoenix Arizona. BCRE was founded in 2013 by Adrienne and her daughter, Jonvieve Bryant. BCRE focuses on working exclusively with buyers, franchisor/franchisee, and small- to medium-sized business owners. The BCRE team focuses on understanding the needs of the business owner and identifying the needs whether that be site selection, construction management, low voltage, furniture, and the many other areas that business owners struggle with to open and operate their business. BCRE focuses on providing these solutions to ensure the success of the business and the sustainability for the community by creating a holistic approach to assisting with opening their client’s business location. BCRE represents exclusively franchises that include Club Pilates, Stretchlab, Office Evolution, RowHouse, Pure Barre, Stride, YogaSix, and many more.

As Owner/Designated Broker of Bryant Commercial Real Estate, Adrienne works alongside the BCRE team to plan and execute research and development on commercial real estate sales and leasing projects, identify locations, develop and present proposals, and create financial analysis and projections. She also oversees improvements and construction budgets, and provides updates and reports relating to the project. She also possesses a commitment to her company’s greatest assets: her employees.

A native of California, Adrienne is a member of ICSC, a candidate for CCIM designation, and a board member of the Chandler Chamber of Commerce. She has three children, two of whom are graduates of Arizona State University. What people don’t know about her: “I delivered my second child alone at home.” The best business advice she has to share: “Being in business takes courage, risk, tenacity. You have to begin each new day like it is your first day in business.”

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Shatha Barbour

Shatha Barbour is CEO of Hera Hub Phoenix, an executive work center and meeting space where women business owners and professionals can create and collaborate in a professional, productive, spa-like environment. Hera Hub’s mission to provide women with a productive, professional work and meeting space, where they can connect with a like-minded community to collaborate and flourish, thereby enabling them to be leaders in the local community, impacting positive change. The platform provides members with connections to other business experts, access to educational workshops, and visibility within the community — thus giving them the support they need to be prosperous.

Shatha Barbour is a passionate leader with a global vision. She has a diverse background with broad experience working in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry to co-founding a nonprofit organization to being CEO of Hera Hub Phoenix. After receiving her degree in Healthcare Management & Policy from Univ of Michigan in 2002, Shatha worked with the senior executive team of a hospital undergoing a five-year turnaround plan. From there, she moved on to work for Eli Lilly, a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company, where she covered roles from sales operations to global access strategy, improving the reach of medicine throughout the world among Lilly affiliates worldwide.

In 2010, Shatha moved to Phoenix and took a hiatus from her corporate background. She co-founded a non-profit educational organization called Good Tree Institute, that she actively participates in still. By 2014, Shatha realized she wanted to bridge these broad experiences, from her corporate background to her non-profit startup to pursue her passion: cultivating and empowering women to fulfill their goals and business ideas in a collaborative environment. Shatha started her journey of opening Hera Hub Phoenix in the fall of 2016. After almost 2 years in the making, Hera Hub Phoenix opened its doors in April of 2018. Hera Hub Phoenix is designed as a beautiful landing space and launching pad for the women of Phoenix in all industries and backgrounds, yet not exclusive to just women. It has already become that space with many business owners, professionals, organizations, and companies using the space as a workspace and training center.

Shatha’s ultimate vision is to build bridges between communities, especially women business owners locally, nationally, and internationally. In her free time, you’ll find her hiking, working and facilitation workshops with nonprofits, and spending quality time with her husband and three kids.

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Lindsey Schwartz

Lindsey Schwartz is the founder of Powerhouse Women. This live event and online community were born out of the belief that women are designed to create, and that when women get into action around their big ideas, the world works better (because it does!).

Lindsey Schwartz is a wellness entrepreneur and author of the best-selling book Powerhouse Woman: How to get out of your own way, fulfill your unique purpose, and live a powerful life. After seeing numerous women in her life stop short of pursuing their own entrepreneurial dreams because of fear and self-doubt, she saw the need for more honest conversations about the ups & downs of entrepreneurship in order to show women that they don’t have to have it all together to get started. In 2017 Lindsey founded the Powerhouse Women event as a way to help women get out of their own way and into ACTION around their own big ideas and dreams.

She is passionate about building community and believes that women are most successful when they collaborate and sincerely root for one another to win. Her heart for collaboration led to Lindsey’s latest project, the Powerhouse Women GirlGang, a membership community for like-minded women to connect, grow, and confidently pursue their BIG ideas.

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Cailean Bailey

Cailean Bailey is President of GET Phoenix Young Professionals. GET Phoenix’s official mission is to elevate tomorrow’s Phoenix by advancing today’s leaders. The monthly events provide a variety of professional development opportunities for young professionals. These events are designed to get young professionals involved in the community through volunteering, ongoing development and networking. Attendees of GET Phoenix events are between the ages of 24 -39 in a variety of professional fields such as finance, education, law, energy, insurance, marketing, biotechnology, real estate, medicine, accounting, manufacturing and many more.

Cailean joined Renaissance Personnel Group in 2016 as the Client Services Manager. He previously served as the Southwest Division Manager for a privateeducation firm that focuses on academic mentor-ship and college counseling. Prior to his move to Arizona, Cailean worked in college athletics as an Assistant Men’s Soccer Coach at Yale University, Valparaiso University and University of the Pacific. He was active in recruiting and admissions at all three NCAA Division I institutions. An avid soccer fan, Cailean is still actively involved in youth soccer coaching in the Valley. In his three years coaching soccer at Yale, the team never lost to Harvard!

Originally from rural Illinois, Cailean earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Management & Organizational Leadership from Illinois College and a Master of Science from Valparaiso University. Additionally, he was a member of the men’s soccer and swimming teams at Illinois College. In 2015, he was honored as one of the Top 30 Coaches Under 30 in the United States by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. He holds multiple coaching certifications through the US Soccer Federation. In 2017 Cailean joined the Board of Directors for GET Phoenix Young Professionals, and was elected as the non-profit’s President in December of 2018.

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Culture and Communication

Tasha Hock, Y Scouts

Tasha Hock is Practice Director at Y Scouts, a purpose-based leadership search firm on a mission to connect people to work that matters. They believe that people are the only real competitive advantage in business and the best employer/employee connections start by connecting through a shared sense of purpose and core values. It’s in the spirit of this philosophy that they engage with their clients to understand the client’s business purpose, values, culture, competitive landscape, challenges, and most importantly, their people.

Y Scouts is disrupting traditional, ineffective executive search in a number of important ways. Their approach to leadership search operationalizes their and their clients’ prioritization of core values, purpose, and mission. For their clients, this translates into a competitive advantage as Y Scouts is able to reach top talent who won’t respond to run of the mill firms or recruiters. Y Scouts unites the candidates they support with organizations and employment that inspire them and allow their authentic selves to shine through as strong leaders to drive positive impact. Y Scouts supports clients and candidates across the nation through their SaaS/Technology, FInance, Operations, Human Capital, Legal, Non-Profit and Social Impact Practices.

Learn more about Y Scouts, and connect with them on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

Teresa Marzolph, Culture Engineered

Teresa Marzolph is the founder of Culture Engineered, providing employee feedback tools & support to small & midsized businesses. Services are on-demand and customized to supplement a company’s internal resources to develop & foster a happy, healthy, successful workplace.

If you’ve met Teresa, you’ve likely talked with her about one of two things: company culture or dogs, as she is equally obsessed with both. Teresa’s career in HR allowed her to work with some of the best teams, companies, and leaders in the country. In 2017, understanding the importance workplace culture has on a company’s success and the lack of strategic resources available to small & mid-sized employers, she created Culture Engineered.

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Neel Mehta, EpiFinder and EpiBuild

Neel Mehta is the Co-founder, VP, and COO of EpiFinder and EpiBuild. He has been recognized as the 2018 AZ Top Tech Exec by Phoenix Business Journal, 2017 Arizona Business Leaders in Healthcare Innovation by Arizona Big Media, 35 entrepreneurs 35 and younger, 40 under 40 by Phoenix Business Journal, and has been a millennial keynote speaker at national conferences.

EpiFinder is a healthcare software solutions and neuro-spectrum differentiation company that provides a global screening tool for seizures and epilepsy. The company strives to increase diagnostic accuracy in epilepsy, standardize care and screening practices, and improve the quality of life for epilepsy patients. EpiFinder was recognized as the “Tech Startup of the Year” in June 2018.

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Megan Greenwood, Greenwood Brewing

Megan Greenwood is the founder of Greenwood Brewing. An industrial engineer and business owner, she launched Greenwood Brewing as a contract brewery in 2017 and is building their first brewery and taproom in downtown Phoenix in 2019. Megan is originally from Iowa and went to college at the University of Iowa, graduating with Industrial Engineering, Spanish and International Business. She worked in corporate America until 2018, primarily working in Alternative and Renewable Energy in Boston and Arizona. Megan moved to Arizona in 2012 and began home brewing on a 5 gallon brewery in her kitchen that was originally given to her as a gift. She graduated to a 1BBL brewery hand-built in her garage where she carried up to 8 beers on tap. Greenwood moved to downtown in 2017 where she “fell in love” with downtown and wanted to build her brewery in the artistic heart of Phoenix.

Greenwood Brewing is a woman-owned brewing company where they believe in the power of the purposeful pint. While Greenwood Brewing’s handcrafted ales are for everyone to enjoy, their goal is to create approachable beer to help bring more women into the craft beer industry. They believe that beer isn’t just tasty, but it is an avenue for powerful conversations and positive changes that often begin over a cold one with a friend. They want that friend to be both men and women.

Greenwood Brewing is happily celebrating a successful Kickstarter closed on January 9th, 2019 raising $68,000 to purchase equipment for their new brewery opening on Roosevelt and 5th Street in downtown Phoenix later this year.

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Jeffri-Lynn Campbell

Jeffri-Lynn Campbell is Co-Founder and Brand Strategist at Blaze Experts, a branding agency with a passion to help independent businesses express themselves in a genuine way. Blaze believes brands should reflect the leadership’s passion that drove them to start their business in the first place for that is what attracts the people you want to do business with, allowing you to do your best work.

A brand is more than just a logo, sign and color palette. It is a cohesive and authentic delivery of your message across all channels. Blaze likes to dig deeper and go farther, ensuring the brand is consistently displayed from greeting to goodbye. Often, they include leadership and team onboarding for group participation and collaboration in building out the customer experience by role.

Jeffri-Lynn found her passion with her first byline at the age of 15. Pursuing that passion led her to a bachelor’s degree in communications and an MBA. Her career has taken her from the helm of a media and event company to the Philippines where she marketed an American International School. Upon her return to the US, she became a brand strategist in hospitality and formed a partnership with a creative genius to specialize in branding, marketing, and small business culture. With an affinity for independently-owned and operated businesses, they create strong and sustainable 360º brands based on the values and personalities of the companies’ leadership. Jeffri-Lynn loves all things dealing with brands, marketing strategy, design, and she thinks words are awesome!

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Helen Kim

Helen Kim is the owner and Creative Director of Blue Lemon Productions. Her award-winning production team provides comprehensive video content and brand story marketing to elevate your brand’s value and achieve significant business growth. Blue Lemon Productions believes that your story is powerful. Their expertise is in drawing out those powerful brand narratives and creating video stories that help you become the most attractive choice among your competition. It’s not just their more than 60-years of combined experience, and diverse professional backgrounds in cinematography, photography, marketing, and motion graphic artistry, that sets them apart. It’s their pulse of creativity and ability to customize uniquely powerful stories that sets them apart.

Helen graduated at the top of her class with a Master’s degree from the renowned Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She immediately put her storytelling skills to use as an advertising video producer here in the Valley. As a producer, Helen worked on local and national Telly awards winning campaigns along the way. She also deepened her storytelling skills by diving into micro-documentary production. These in-depth and emotional stories help nonprofits, in particular, communicate their work, drive donor engagement, and influence cultural change.

From shining a light on North Korean Refugees to exposing Genocide Awareness, Helen’s talent at producing evocative stories is undeniable. Her 20 years of storytelling excellence is now the feature differentiator for her company, Blue Lemon Productions. As their tagline explains, “No Project Too Big, No Story Too Small.” Her heart is in helping entrepreneurs and non-profits use the power of storytelling to achieve significant business growth by connecting them with their customers in a powerful, heartfelt manner.

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Taking Care of the Whole Self

Jewish Family and Children’s Service is a non-profit, non-sectarian 501(c) (3) organization dedicated to strengthening the community through quality behavioral health social services, and primary medical care to children, families and adults. Each year they serve over 47,000 people of all faiths here in the Valley of the Sun, helping them to strengthen families, resolve conflicts, and cope with everyday living.

Our discussion focused on integrating mental and physical healthcare and how treating the whole self can increase productivity and engagement as well as reduce stigma and create a positive workplace.

Diane Palacios

Diane Palacios is Clinical Co-Director of the Michael R. Zent Healthcare Center, Jewish Family and Children’s Service

Devon Garza

Devon Garza is Clinical Manager of the Glendale Healthcare Center, Jewish Family and Children’s Service.

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Banking and Financial Outlook for 2019

Trevor Wilde, Wilde Wealth Management

Trevor Wilde is managing principal at Wilde Wealth Management Group, with four branches across Arizona and more than $700 million in assets under management. Learn more about Wilde Wealth Management.

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Mike Brown, Washington Federal

Mike Brown is Arizona president of Washington Federal Bank, where he oversees 31 branches and $1.2 billion in Arizona deposits. Learn more about Washington Federal.

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Timothy Moser, Quarles & Brady

Timothy Moser is a partner at Quarles & Brady in Phoenix. He specializes in commercial, syndicated, real estate, asset based, health care, and structured finance and in asset and mortgage-backed securitizations. Learn more about Quarles & Brady LLP.

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HMA Public Relations is a full-service marketing communications and public relations agency. Founded in 1980, they are the oldest continuously operating PR firm in Arizona and celebrated their 39th year in February 2019.

HMA Public Relations’ capabilities are not limited to any industry, nor bound by geographic boundaries. In addition to their headquarters office in Phoenix, they are a founding member of the Public Relations Global Network, a comprehensive network of independent public relations firms around the globe. They are active members in the Public Relations Society of America’s Counselors Academy, furthering a network of professionals across the country.

For more information, visit HMA Public Relations

Scott Hanson

Scott Hanson, APR, Fellow PRSA, is president of HMA Public Relations. He has been with the firm since 1986. Recognized as an industry leader, he is among only 550 PR practitioners to be admitted to the Public Relations Society of America’s distinguished College of Fellows and among only 20 percent of PR practitioners nationwide to have earned his Accredited in Public Relations certificate from the PRSA. He is also the author of “Who Is Gym?” an Arizona history book that captures the fascinating stories about the names behind high schools and their sports venues, and “What’s Your Number?” a book about the stories behind the retired numbers at Arizona’s high schools.

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Abbie Fink

Abbie S. Fink is vice president/general manager of HMA Public Relations and has been with the firm since 1993. Her varied marketing communications background includes skills in media relations, digital communications/social media strategies, special event management, community relations, issues management and marketing promotions for both the private and public sectors, including such industries as healthcare, financial services, professional services, government affairs and tribal affairs, as well as not-for-profit organizations. Fink is often called upon to present to a wide variety of business and civic organizations on such topics as media relations, social media and digital communications strategies, issues/crisis communications and special events management.

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