Executive Director Pamela Estes
National African-American Women’s
Leadership Institute
Board of Directors
Juna Jones-Moore, Chair Karyn Nesby, Vice-Chair Amber Cabral, Secretary Yolanda Bryson-Durant, Treasurer Pamela K. Estes, Executive Director Patricia Sharp, Member
2018 Class
Headquarters 6010 West Spring Creek Parkway Suite 249 Plano, TX. 75024 www.naawli.org info@naawl.org Session I:
Discovery Leadership Session II:
Building Leadership Capacity Session III:
Integrate Learning & Commitment to Action
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Not Pictured: 2018 Fellow, Kristine Wine
Congratulations 2018 Fellows! “A genuine leader is not a searcher of consensus
but a molder of consensus�
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Session III Integrate Learning & Commitment to Action September 16 - 19
Reflections & Commitments
September 16
Aliah Henry, MBA, leads The Henry Group, a consulting firm specializing in organizational strategy, fund development and communications/social media for nonprofits and small businesses. However, navigating through her career and getting to a place where she’s “living in her passion” was not always easy.
Henry openly shared (with Fellows), her professional journey and how she mustered up the courage and took a leap of faith to follow her passion. In addition to her consulting firm, Henry is committed on the issues of homelessness and is actively involved in her community. NAAWLI Fellows left feeling inspired and ready to live their best lives.
Leading Change
In Session III, Bailey focused on Leading Change. This interactive session touched on current change initiatives in our organization, what worked, what did not work and lessons learned. By the end of the session, Fellows were able to identify steps to effective Change Management.
To that end, NAAWLI Fellows participated in an exercise to help identify strategic areas within their organizations by using Arenas, product categories; Vehicles, internal development; Differentiators, how will we win; Staging & Pacing, sequence of initiatives; and Economic Logic, cost and scale. One of the main take away was to put on your calendar (one-hour) to think of something strategic.
National African-American Women’s Leadership Institute
Rita Rita Bailey Bailey Rita Bailey is the owner of Up to Something, LLC. Her work is focused on creating immersive experiences for leadership teams who want to push limits outside their executive comfort zone.
September 17
Strategy is an integrated, overarching concept of how the business will achieve its objectives. Dr. Suzanne Carter, Executive Director of Texas Christian’s Executive MBA Program, provided NAAWLI Fellows with key applications to understand how to think strategically — see the big picture, making choices about what you do, what you won’t do and carrying out those choices.
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Aliah Henry MBA, leads The Henry Group, a consulting firm specializing in organizational strategy, fund development and communications/social media f o r n o n p r o fi t s a n d s m a l l businesses.
September 17
Organizational changes can be difficult to experience. However, as organizations go through transitional periods, employees can navigate the changes by understanding the framework and tools necessary to effectively lead strategic change initiatives. During Session I, Rita Bailey, international speaker and consultant, discussed Leading Difficult Conversations to 2018 NAAWLI Fellows.
Strategic Thinking and Leadership
Aliah Henry
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Suzanne Carter
Suzanne Carter, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of TCU’s Executive MBA Program. C u r r e n t l y, a P r o f e s s o r o f Professional Practice in Strategy within the Management, Entrepreneurship, and Leadership Department.
Session III Integrate Learning & Commitment to Action September 16 - 19
Financial Acumen
September 18
Let’s Do Business! It set the tone for the opening session on September 18th. Dr. Janice Cobb, financial and managerial accounting professor at Texas Christian University (TCU), brought her contagious, high-energy spirit and her financial acumen skills. Coupled together made the session super fun with numerous learning opportunities.
First, we started with and high-paced exercise on the flow of money that occurs in a business setting. Then we took a deeper dive into interpreting financial statement information, from assets, liabilities and net earnings to financial statement analysis and examining the relationships among financial statement line items and the trends in reported amounts over time. This was done by reviewing and pin-pointing potential financial risks and downfalls business experience (i.e., Neflix, Amazon, Apple).
Strategic Branding
September 18
Returning from Session I, Dr. Olga Taylor is back and this time, the topic is Strategic Branding. In this highly interactive session, NAAWLI Fellows created or refined a branding strategy that embodied their values, passions, and talents. In particular, the importance of clarity, consistency and authenticity were highlighted. Through deliberate, focused effort, NAAWLI Fellows gained ground in shaping how they are perceived by others.
NAAWLI Fellows were taken through several exercises where they identified characteristics of themselves, defined their aspirations, and tips on effective communication using Edward Hall’s, Proxemic Theory. At the end of the session, NAAWLI Fellows were able to create their own Brand.
Community Service Projects
Janice Cobb
Janice Cobb, Ph.D., has been teaching at Texas Christian University (TCU) since 1997.. She teaches a broad range of classes related to financial and managerial accounting.
Olga Taylor
Dr. Taylor, Ph.D., two signature programs, Global Intercultural Competence@Work and Effective Presentations, exemplify her approach to training-pragmatic; real-world application enjoyable.
September 19
Since NAAWLI’s inception, community service has been one of the key tenets of the Leadership Institute. Each fellow who has completed the nine-week program has completed a community service project in conjunction with Leadership training.
Juna Jones-Moore, current NAAWLI Board Chair, provided guidance and key advise as Fellows developed their CSP’s. As a past NAAWLI Fellow, JonesMoore still continues to partner with her CSP constituents and mentors young girls. She stressed the importance of community service as a core leadership characteristic.
Juna Jones-Moore
Since NAAWLI’s inception, community service has been one of the key tenets of the Leadership Institute. Each fellow who has completed the nine-week program has completed a community service project in conjunction with Leadership training.
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Fireside Chat with
Matrice Ellis-Kirk
Moderator: Paula R. Parker The 2018 National African-American Women’s Leadership Institute (NAAWLI) culminated with an evening of excellence. Leaders from corporations across the United States were in attendance to congratulate the eleven National African-American Women’s Leadership Institute Fellows for their participation in the program.
The Recognition Program kicked off with a Fireside Chat with guest speaker, Matrice Ellis-Kirk and moderator Paula R. Parker. The main topic centered around African-American women and how to navigate their careers in a male dominated field.
About Matrice Ellis-Kirk Matrice is a senior member of RSR Partners Board Recruiting and Chief Executive Officers Practices. She also serves as a member of the RSR Partners Executive Committee. She has one 20 years experience in the executive search industry. Before RSR Partners, Matrice led board and CEO assignments at two large global search firms. She began her search career in their Consumer Goods and Services and Private Equity Practices, as well as the Financial Officers Practice. Her early career was as an officer in commercial banking at MBank, the vice president of the Office of Management and Budget at Dallas Area Rapid Transit, and leading the
Dallas office of investment banking firm Apex Securities.
Matrice graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. She and her husband Ron are empty nesters mostly living in Dallas, Texas. Her interests span the arts, education, and transportation. Matrice chairs the AT&T Performing Arts Center and is a Dallas City Council appointed board member of the DFW Airport Authority. Her two daughters live in New York City.
About Paula R. Parker Paula is a Dallas native and has been very instrumental in aligning herself while giving her time and support to many organizations that elevate, enrich and inspire women. She is a champion for issues that involve women, children, education, and health and wellness.
Paula has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Texas Christian University and have worked as an R.N. in hospitals across the country while raising her three children, Jonathan, Michael and Lauren. Married to Ronald (Ron) Parker, formally Senior Vice President - Human Resources PepsiCo North America and now President and CEO of the Executive Leadership Council (ELC) they reside in Plano, TX. They have one grandson and expecting another grandchild in June.
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Community Service Projects (CSPs)  
Pace Center for Girls
98%
Sustainability
STEMage is Everything
Job Preparation for At-Risk Youth in Philadelphia
>$20K
The Ladder Alliance Career Boot Camp
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Donation
Igniting STEM Learning in Girls
Foster Care
Job Preparation for At-Risk Youth in Philadelphia
Media Covera
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Going the Distance - Passion4Promise
Senerity Transformation Home - Impact of Literacy on repeat Teenage Childbirth
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Partnership
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Andrealynette Chelley
Amy Howard
LaTanya Johns & Felicia Williams
Sharon Phillips Clark & Laquitta Thomas
Elaine Mitchum
Zakiyah Johnson
Pace Center for Girls
STEMage is Everything
April Morrison Job Preparation
Job Preparation for At-Risk
Foster Care
Jacqueline Nivet Passion4Promise
The Ladder Alliance
STEM Learning
Kristine Wine
Senerity Transformational Home
2018 Recognition Reception…
…Job well done!
The National African-American Women’s Leadership Institute 2018 Fellows embarked on this journey in March 2018. Starting with the Welcome Reception, the excitement was in the air and the anticipation was apparent throughout the room. The topic for Session I was Discovery Leadership but we also discovered a bond (between the Fellows) that was inevitable and lasting friendships were created that day. We also became chefs for a day while also bonded via Team Building exercises. Session I was behind us but we felt energized and anxiously awaiting the next session.
Session II, Building Leadership Capacity was our topic co-hort in June 2018, We completed a Community Service Project (CSP) at Heart House, which started us on our way to planning and/or completing our very own CSP. We met https://www.linkedin.com/company/naawli-inc/ with our mentors and networked with Fellows (past and present) and Board Members.
A compilation of learning outcomes in Sessions I and II, along with the work done our CSP’s, led us to the final Session, Integrate Learning & Commitment to Action. We welcomed back facilitators from previous sessions, embraced new facilitators, listened to inspiring life journeys, finalized CSP’s and Fellow video and celebrated each other successes!
https://www.facebook.com/NAAWLIINC/ Thank you NAAWLI!
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NAAW LI Fellows CEO’s Connected ~ Empowered ~ Opulent
National African-American Women’s Leadership Institute ~ 2018 Fellows