The power of purpose is to live a meaningful existence.

The power of purpose is to live a meaningful existence.

Jul 3, 2020 | Business, Leadership, positively powerful woman

The power of purpose is to live a meaningful existence.

Purpose answers the questions: Why do I exist? What is my calling? How am I called to serve? Discovering one’s purpose and living it can be one of the biggest breakthroughs of life. The pandemic, racial injustice, and #BlackLivesMatter have made my commitment to living my purpose more of a priority than ever before. My purpose is to change lives and businesses for the better.

Regardless if this is the 1,000,000th time or the first time, take this opportunity, during this time, to ask yourself again: What brings you joy in the giving? What interests have you consistently been about since you were a child and why? When you think about the legacy you would like to leave, what comes to mind? What is the highest and best use of you, your time, your attention, and your intention?

Regardless of what it is that you do, like a job, like “the who, what, and where of it,”… the “why” of it will have you touching on your purpose. You are ‘here,’ being who you are for some reason. Some legacy, some unique heartfelt mission, that you are following. There is something now, midst this chaos, that is so important to you that you feel compelled to take action. That is “Your Purpose”. 

Hold it tight. You will be better for it and you will live longer because of it. “Lifelong health is not about defying death – for we all must die at some point – rather it is a means of fulfilling the purpose of life itself. Lifelong health means living the journey fully and completely until it is over.” Source: Sound Mind, Sound Body: A New Model For Lifelong Health by Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier, Professor of Medicine, Stanford University Center for Research.

“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live… I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is not a brief candle for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”  George Bernard Shaw

If you would like to have a complimentary conversation with Dr. Joel P. Martin about living purposefully and being in purposeful action, connect with her.

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Dr. Randal Pinkett, Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of BCT Partners, uses Precision Analytics to level the playing field for equity.

Dr. Randal Pinkett, Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of BCT Partners, uses Precision Analytics to level the playing field for equity.

Apr 10, 2020 | Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Women

“To compete in the 21st century, you must be able to leverage technology and data to foster greater insights about diverse people”

Dr. Randal Pinkett, CEO BCT Partners

Dr. Randal Pinkett, Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of BCT Partners, uses Precision Analytics to level the playing field for equity.

bct Rockefeller foundation grantWhile I am familiar with the use of analytics to build website traffic, evaluate social media, and determine the return on investment for diversity, inclusion and other initiatives, there was a broader use of analytics that I’ve come to understand and appreciate through my colleague and friend Dr. Randal Pinkett. His company has the analytical ability to answer the questions that lead to the actual transformation of lives, to social change, and to equity. 

BCT Partners is a highly regarded and sought after multimillion-dollar research, training, consulting, technology, and data analytics firm headquartered in Newark, NJ. Their mission is to provide insights about diverse people that lead to equity. The company has developed solutions for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) US Department of Labor, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation among others. In September 2019, the Rockefeller Foundation awarded grants to fuel plans for Equitable Investment in Opportunity Zones in Washington, DC, Oakland, Dallas, and St. Louis. LISC and BCT Partners were named National Partners. The initiative will help cities build a pipeline of projects and small business investments that move beyond the early stages of planning and attract private investment in economically-distressed areas.  

Because of BCT Partners leadership, consulting services, analytical abilities, and corporate culture, BCT Partners is on the Black Enterprise’s BE 100 list of the nation’s largest African American-owned businesses and most recently was named to the Forbes list of America’s Best Management Consulting Firms.

Watch this video of Dr. Randal Pinkett as he talks about the lessons he’s learned from Technology. One lesson, primed for the times for all of us is this: 

“Everyone of us can move from being a technology consumer to being a technology producer…Find the harmony in disconnected disciplines and bring them back into the harmony for which they were always destined.” 

Dr. Randal Pinkett. Lessons I’ve Learned From Technology. TEDx NJITN

Dr. Randal Pinkett is a thought leader who holds five academic degrees including a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University; a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Oxford in England; and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, MBA, and Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Most notably, he was the first and only African-American to receive the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship at Rutgers University.

He is the author of Campus CEO: The Student Entrepreneur’s Guide to Launching a Multimillion-Dollar Business and No-Money Down CEO: How to Start Your Dream Business with Little or No Cash and, Black Faces in White Places: 10 Game-Changing Strategies to Achieve Success and Find Greatness.  Dr. Pinkett has launched the “Campaign to Redefine the Game” which represents a call to action for Americans to level the playing field in the 21st-century workplace. For more information about BCT Partners visit https://www.bctpartners.com/

Dr. Joel P. Martin is the president of Triad West Inc. Dr. Martin is a thought leader in transformational leadership thinking to change lives and businesses for the better. She is the author of How To Be A Positively Powerful Person. She has a Bachelor of Education in Visual Communications, a Master of Psychology, a Ph.D. of Communications, and is a Wharton Fellow of Wharton Business School. Her commitment has taken her to clients in China, Malaysia, Russia, the Republic of South Africa, the United Kingdom, Latvia, France, and across the US. 

Her company is a 20-year-old Arizona based coaching, consulting and training company that specializes in leadership development, diversity and inclusion, employee engagement, alignment, and team building. To learn about our Diversity and Inclusion approach, engagements and programs please visit https://www.positivelypowerful.com/Insights/di/ 

Dr. Joel P. Martin is also the Founder of Triad West Positively Powerful Programs. The April 17, 2020, Positively Powerful Conference featuring the Education Summit and Woman Awards Program with Dr. Randal Pinkett and other esteemed speakers was postponed because of COVID-19. The new date planned for the Positively Powerful Conference: Education Summit and Woman Awards is Friday, October 16, 2020. The event will be held at the Arizona State University 365 Community Union, a collaborative partner for the event. 

Island Liaison founder Claudia Kaercher will receive the Positively Powerful Woman Nonprofit Leadership Award on October 16, 2020.

Island Liaison founder Claudia Kaercher will receive the Positively Powerful Woman Nonprofit Leadership Award on October 16, 2020.

Feb 21, 2020 | conversation on leadership, diversity and inclusion, Domestic Violence Prevention, empowerment, Leadership, Women

Island Liaison founder Claudia Kaercher will receive the Positively Powerful Woman Nonprofit Leadership Award on October 16, 2020.

2020 Positively Powerful Honoree Claudia Kaercher

I received an email from my friend Marian Yim, Esq. who nominated Claudia Kaercher to be a recipient of the Positively Powerful Woman Awards. Here is her message: “In 2014, at the PPW event, my friend Claudia Kaercher told me that she was inspired to found a nonprofit to aid Pacific Islanders. She founded Island Liasion, dedicated to healthcare, education, and culture.  Last fall, when news of a Marshallese baby-selling scheme broke, she had a network in place and was the best prepared person in Phoenix (and perhaps the nation) to get these women the healthcare and resources that were needed.  

I met with Claudia Kaercher and discovered that she was also a long-time employee of Southwest Airlines, the Official Airlines of the Positively Powerful Woman Awards, and Triad West client Mountain Park Health Center was the organization she chose to take care of the pregnant Marshallese women so desperately in need of support and medical attention. Claudia Kaercher served with and was mentored for five years by Mrs. Cindy McCain, founder of the American Voluntary Medical Team (AVMT).

Please meet nonprofit leader Claudia Deleon Guerrero Fajardo Kaercher, the Positively Powerful Woman, who will be acknowledged for her many contributions on October 16, 2020:

I am Claudia Deleon Guerrero Fajardo Kaercher of Chamorro-Filipino descent from the Mariana Archipelago in Micronesia a region in the western pacific.  My family and I spent 10 years on Majuro Atoll in the Marshall Islands while my father worked for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands U.S. administration.  I graduated from John F. Kennedy High School, Tumon, Guam a U.S. Territory. I was one-year old when the U.S. military on Bikini atoll conducted the thermal nuclear “Castle Bravo” test in 1954.

As a resident of Arizona for over 35 years, I am an active and positive contributor to my community and acknowledge all for embracing my Micronesian background.

Claudia Deleon Guerrero Fajardo Kaercher

I founded the nonprofit organization Island Liaison to serve as a resource providing awareness of locally available health and educational agencies and providers to help Pacific Islanders with focus on the Independent island nations of the Freely Associated States (FAS), i.e., the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), and the Republic of Palau.  They are under the Agreement of Compact of Free Association (COFA) with the US and living in Arizona which allows them to freely travel within the US without a visa and with no time restraints.  These Islanders are not eligible for many federal or state services.  Unlike our neighboring Islanders from the US Territories of Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), who are U.S. citizens and have the ability to access many federal or state funded services.

I’m a Fellow of Leading For Change Fellows 2014/2015  I’m a member of Lau Kanaka No Hawai’i Hawaiian Civic Club of AZ, Phoenix Chinese American Citizens Alliance and, Mountain Park Health Center (MPHC) Diversity Site Council. I serve on the Board of Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) AZ and the City of Phoenix Police Chief’s Advisory.

I provide community outreach to Arizona State University (ASU) Asian Pacific American Studies (APAS) program Asian Pacific Advocacy, Culture, and Education (APACE) Academy and Maricopa Community Colleges Chancellor Advisory.

My previous community service includes Commissioner for the City of Phoenix Pacific Rim Advisory Council (PRAC), Board member of Asian Chamber of Commerce AZ and, Member of Governor Janet Napolitano’s Asian-American Advisory Council.

During the 2010 U.S. Census, I was the Partnership Assistant for the Pacific Islanders in Arizona and on occasion assisted the state of Nevada.

My Awards include the Arizona Aloha Festival “2011 Kokua” Fostering a better understanding of Pacific Islanders, ASU “2015 Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion” and, the Pan Asian Community Alliance Tucson “2019 Friend of Pan Asian Community”.

This is an open invitation to all who know, would like to know or whose lives were touched by Claudia Deleon Guerrero Fajardo Kaercher. Join us. Become a sponsor. Attend as a guest. Connect and make an impact at the Positively Powerful Conference, Friday, October 16th at ASU Community Union, Sun Devil Stadium, 500 East Veterans Way, Tempe, AZ. The Education Summit breakfast and registration begin at 7:30 a.m. Speakers program from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Following the Summit, we host the Positively Powerful Woman Awards in celebration of the accomplishments of the 12th Annual Positively Powerful Woman Award recipients. Sponsorship Information and Registrations are available online.

 

October 16th, Intel Vice President Barbara H. Whye will be acknowledged as the 2020 Positively Powerful Woman Global Leadership Award recipient.

October 16th, Intel Vice President Barbara H. Whye will be acknowledged as the 2020 Positively Powerful Woman Global Leadership Award recipient.

Feb 19, 2020 | Business, Domestic Violence Prevention, global, Leadership, PPW Awards, Women

October 16th, Intel Vice President Barbara H. Whye will be acknowledged as the 2020 Positively Powerful Woman Global Leadership Award recipient.

2020 Positively Powerful Award Honoree Dr. Barbara H. Whye Intel Corporation @BarbaraWhye

The Positively Powerful Woman Awards Mission is to shine the light on women who are creating a pathway so that all people can follow in their footsteps, be “self-actualized”, and live their dreams. Barbara H. Whye is a visionary and a role model who walks her talk in the technology space. It is for this reason that I was delighted and honored when Barbara H. Whye said “Yes” to receiving the Positively Powerful Woman Global Leadership Award.

Barbara H. Whye is Intel’s Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer and Vice President of Human Resources. She leads Intel’s Diversity in Technology $300M initiative which resulted in reaching full representation in Intel’s U.S. workforce in October 2018. The company’s workforce now reflects the percent of women and underrepresented minorities available in the U.S. skilled labor market.

A champion of Intel’s culture of inclusion, with 24 years of experience, she develops strategies that accelerate progress and integrate diversity and inclusion across the ecosystem to enhance innovation and drive business results. Barbara joined Intel in 1995 as an engineer and held a number of leadership roles driving large scale and enterprise wide change. Prior to joining HR and Global Diversity and Inclusion in 2015, she spent 15 years in key leadership and project engineering roles responsible for acquiring and starting up new facilities for Intel Corporation worldwide, including Talent Management as an expatriate in San José, Costa Rica.

Barbara also led the investment strategy for Intel’s global (STEM) education portfolio, with an emphasis on girls and underserved populations, and was a strategist on Girl Rising, a global campaign for girls’ education and empowerment. Barbara earned her bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of South Carolina and her MBA from the University’s Darla Moore School of Business.

Recognized as a force for positive social change, she has been awarded with the 2014 National Society of Black Engineers Career Excellence Award, a 2015 Society of Women Engineers Spark Award, a 2016 Inspiring Women of South Carolina Award, 2019 BLACK ENTERPRISE Most Powerful Women in Corporate Diversity Award, 2019 Most Influential Women in Corporate America Award, and 2019 NAFE Women of Excellence Corporate Women’s Champion Award.

Dr. Maya Angelou said, “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” Dr. Angelou’s quote describes Barbara H. Whye to me. Dr. Joel P. Martin, Triad West Inc.

Join us for Positively Powerful Conference, Friday, October 16th at ASU Community Union, Sun Devil Stadium, 500 East Veterans Way, Tempe, AZ. The Education Summit breakfast and registration begin at 7:30 a.m. Speakers program from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Following the Summit, we host the Positively Powerful Woman Awards where we will acknowledge Barbara H. Whye as one of this year’s 12th Annual Positively Powerful Woman Award recipients. Sponsorship Information and Registrations are available online.

“Diversity & Inclusion Social Justice, Equity, and Ethics”

“Diversity & Inclusion Social Justice, Equity, and Ethics”

Sep 9, 2019 | Business, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership

“Diversity & Inclusion Social Justice, Equity, and Ethics”

Sept. 23rd, 7 am to 9 am, three highly regarded attorneys join Triad West President, Dr. Joel Martin as Panelists for this important Conversation. Meet them and join the Dialog at  Hera Hub, 2111 E. Highland Ave. Suite 240. 

Triad West Inc. is dedicated to creating Diversity and Inclusion in our workforces, workplaces, and communities. It’s for this reason that we present this month’s Monday Morning open to the public Diversity and Inclusion Conversation On Leadership (COL) Breakfast. The environment is inclusive, the conversations dynamic, connections are made, and information is shared so that we can know better, do better, and be better collectively. Meet the three Panelists. Register Here

 

ATTORNEY DONNA WILLIAMS

The Donna Williams Group

Donna Williams is an attorney and professional mediator licensed to practice law in Nevada, Maryland, and Arizona.  She has been an attorney for over 22 years and a trained mediator for 16 years.  

Donna engages clients through her firm, The Donna Williams Group, helping them manage and resolve conflict around workplace, family and small business disputes. 

Mediation and EEO Investigation Services

She is a contractor with the Arizona Department of Education, providing mediation services, and a federal contractor providing both mediation and EEO investigation services.  Donna has also been a certified University of Phoenix faculty member since 2012, teaching on criminal justice, dispute resolution and ethics topics. Donna regularly gives her time and talent as a volunteer mediator for the Arizona Attorney General’s Office of Civil Rights Division.  

Prior to founding her law practice in 2010, Donna held positions with the Maricopa County Superior Court as a judicial officer and court administrator. In her most recent role, she served as the Court Administrator and General Counsel for Probate Administration.  As an administrator, Donna provided oversight of court processes and the supervision of over 100 professional staff.

Donna has lived in the Phoenix Metro area for over 18 years and has served on several nonprofit boards.  She currently serves on the boards of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Phoenix Metropolitan Chapter and the Children’s Museum of Phoenix.

ATTORNEY LEON SILVER

Managing Partner, Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani’s Phoenix

Leon Silver is the managing partner of Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani’s Phoenix office where he is responsible not only for his legal practice but also for recruiting and hiring.  He is the national leader of the firm’s Retail & Hospitality and Governmental & Administrative Law practice groups.

Deeply committed to Diversity and Inclusion

His commitment to diversity and inclusion is evidenced not only by the variety of backgrounds of the lawyers he’s recruited to his firm but also by his volunteer efforts.  Leon currently serves on the board of directors of “Take the Lead”, a women’s leadership training organization; is the founder and leader of the Liberty Project, a reproductive rights think tank at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at ASU; is a former Board Chair and Trustee of Planned Parenthood Arizona; and former board member of the YWCA of Greater Phoenix. He has been honored by the latter two organizations with their respective lifetime achievement honors; The Peggy Goldwater Award and the Tribute to Leadership Advocacy Award. 

With this background, Leon has expertise in personal privacy and gender equality issues and has lectured and published articles on the importance of inclusion and gender parity in law firms.  The highly regarded “Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession Review” included one of his articles in its 2017 edition: On a Mission to Bring “True Diversity” to the Field of Law; and in 2015 the Huffington Post ran an article titled:  The Evolution of Male-Female Relationships: An Interview with Leon Silver. 

Leon has been recognized as a “Top Ten Commercial Litigator” and one of the “100 Best Lawyers in Arizona.”

ATTORNEY MARIAN YIM

Owner, Yim Law Office, PLLC

Attorney Marian Yim has advocated for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession at the state and national level.  

A Positively Powerful Change Maker  

Marian was the first Asian female to work at the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, the Arizona Supreme Court, and the City of Phoenix Mayor’s Office.  She was Founding President of the Arizona Asian American Bar Association (AAABA), and a charter member of the Arizona State Bar Committee on Women and Minorities. She chaired the education subcommittee on the American Bar Association’s Council on Racial and Ethnic Justice  

In 2014, Marian received the inaugural Senator Daniel K. Inouye Trailblazer Award from the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA). She is also a past recipient of awards for Advancing Equal Opportunity in the Profession and being a Positively Powerful Woman. 

Marian earned her B.A. from Vassar College and J.D. from Cornell Law School. She owns Yim Law Office, PLLC, and counsels nonprofits and minority-owned businesses on grants and asset management. She also volunteers as an advisor to several community organizations, including the Phoenix Civic Improvement Corporation, Asian Corporate and Entrepreneur Leaders (ACEL), and Arizona State University’s President’s Minority Advisory Council.

Diversity And Inclusion Workshop

Diversity And Inclusion Workshop

May 8, 2019 | Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership

Diversity And Inclusion Workshop

LESSONS IN PRIVILEGE & BIAS: HUMANITY 101

With Dr. Joel P. Martin And Guest Facilitator, ASU’s Dr. Neal A. Lester

May 24, 2019, 9 am – 4 pm

Hera Hub, 2111 E. Highland Ave, Ste 240 Phoenix, AZ 85016

 

Register Now $199.

Event producer, Dr. Joel P. Martin is dedicated to changing lives, businesses, and communities for the better. She is president of Triad West Inc. a global company which provides customized consulting, coaching, and training services in Transformational Leadership Development, Diversity & Inclusion, Team Buiding, and New Tech Manager Effectiveness. She is also an author, speaker, and the Founder of the Positively Powerful Woman Awards and Programs.

Guest Facilitator Dr. Neal A. Lester is a Foundation Professor of English and Founding Director of Project Humanities at Arizona State University. He has published, lectured, and taught extensively in the area of African American Studies. Among his many accomplishments, his course, “The N-word: An Anatomy Lesson,” the only such course taught in the country, has garnered local, national, and international attention. (Read more)

The morning session, facilitated by Guest Dr. Neal A. Lester, strives to do more than provide short-lived cathartic experiences. Real community and social change, however, begins internally with each individual, ultimately creating new and different ways of thinking, acting and being–long after a workshop. The goal of this workshop then is to engage participants in critical conversations about “difference” that move beyond typical “diversity training” to explore systems in which we all exist. Ultimately, the workshop challenges us to recognize and promote our individual and shared humanity through seven values Arizona State University’s award-winning Project Humanities initiative identifies as Humanity 101—respect, integrity, compassion, kindness, forgiveness, empathy, and self- reflection. The success of the workshop depends on each participant’s willingness to challenge their own assumptions about others and to be self-empowered. This workshop concludes with a discussion of the real social, political, and cultural ramifications of unchecked privilege and bias and will arm participants with strategies and resources to become true agents of change.

The afternoon session, Unconscious / Conscious Disconnect Of Inclusion, facilitated by Dr. Martin is an interactive workshop focusing on the Micro-inequities that separate us…what is it that we are unaware of, as well as those that we are aware of, and what this disconnect is producing in our relationships, communities, and among the workforce. “What to do about it” is presented as a facilitated action strategy dialog. The day will end with an appreciation and discussion of what might be possible when there are no barriers to inclusion.

“Separate as the Fingers, Yet One as the Hand”

 

Who Should Attend:

Open to the public, we ask community leaders, students, organizations’ work groups, members of corporations, entrepreneurs, trainers, and others to join us for this important topic.

The Diversity & Inclusion Workshop is open to the public.