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Dr. Stephanie Brown is a certified Life Coach who specializes in working with mid-career professionals who desire to show up as their best selves and are motivated to overcome whatever is holding them back in reaching their professional and personal goals. Dr. Brown has coached physicians, executives and business owners dealing with the challenges of life and work transitions, burnout, conflict and challenging relationships.

The professionals she has worked with have provided powerful testimonials about how working with Dr. Brown has transformed their lives. Dr. Johnson expressed it this way, “It was particularly helpful to complete the assessments and homework assignments because it helped me to reflect on who I am and what I want to accomplish. Coaching was an excellent opportunity for personal and professional growth. I wish more opportunities were available for medical students and physicians to be exposed to the benefits of coaching earlier in their careers.”

Stephanie’s coaching philosophy is based on the knowledge that challenging one’s thoughts and beliefs is key to releasing feelings that lead to action or oftentimes inaction subsequently preventing us from experiencing the joy and success that we desire. Stephanie uses the Core Energy model of coaching and is a certified Energy Leadership Master Practitioner. She has been trained and certified to administer the ELI ( Energy Leadership Assessment). Unlike the Myers-Briggs Personality test, the Energy Leadership Index is an individualized attitude assessment that gives you a very accurate picture of how you show up energetically in your life.

This assessment can be the key to unlocking more power, more joy, more clarity and more success in your life. It is often used in corporations and can be done in conjunction with a 360 evaluation but it’s also great for individuals.

Dr. Brown is a family physician with over 23 years of clinical and leadership experience in academic medicine, primary care and urgent care settings. She is passionate about healing. Coaching is the next step in her professional evolution because it allows her to help her clients heal in a multidimensional fashion by addressing the social, emotional, mental, physical and spiritual aspects of their well-being. She has personally experienced the transformative effect of working with a great coach and is excited to share that with others. Because of working with her life coach, she was able to release some internal energy blocks to regain joy in practicing medicine and institute some necessary strategies to get more of what she wanted out of life.

She started her coach training with IPEC in 2017 and subsequently launched her coaching business, Stephanie Brown Coaching LLC. She has served as a physician mentor coach at the SEAK conference in 2018 and 2019. Stephanie’s 12-week Signature Coaching program is her most popular offering, but she believes in working with each client to develop a personalized coaching experience that gets them to their desired goal. She also offers a 6-week group coaching program called the Sister Success Circle. She hosts a podcast and community called S.O.A.R. ( sisters overcoming and rising) where the mission is to give women a platform to speak and tell their stories. Women are empowered to overcome their limiting beliefs by engaging and listening to these authentic conversations and becoming an active member of the community.

Dr. Stephanie has two teenage sons, and very supportive husband that she will be soon celebrating 17 years together. As a family they love to travel, create adventures, and discover possibilities together. In her spare time she enjoys travel, dance, art, poetry, tennis and her Peloton Bike.

Women’s Networking Association Member, Dr. Stephanie Brown, can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.

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Shelly Luhning is a certified nurse educator (RN) with a master’s degree and more than 19 years’ experience in the continuing education industry. Offering over 25 years of experience in healthcare, she is currently the owner and founder of NCLEX Education and Tech 7 Auto Repair. Having owned and sold previous startups, she has a passion for business!

Shelly has developed a NCLEX preparation course for new graduates, first time writers, and repeat writers that has grown into a successful business. This program has had a tremendous success rate and is offered to RN students in Canada, the US  and worldwide who are preparing to take the NCLEX examination.

Most recently, Shelly has spent the last fourteen years teaching in the Nursing Education Program of Saskatchewan and the Saskatchewan Collaborative Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program at Saskatchewan Polytechnic and the University of Regina. She is widely recognized for her collaborative teaching and communication style, along with a particular aptitude for applying an innovation mindset to any situation. Notably, Shelly has an affinity for technology and informatics and has developed a dynamic new application for the nursing program called SNapp-Saskatchewan Nursing Application.

Shelly’s impressive business background and entrepreneurial spirit is also characterized by a former start-up, operation and sale of a successful private medical simulation company in Saskatchewan Shelly continues to work casually at the bedside, as she has a love for the Emergency Department.

Shelly has received several awards including the Saskatchewan Polytechnic Innovation award for SNapp, the Saskatchewan Healthcare Excellence Award and the Saskatchewan YWCA Women of Distinction award.

She is looking for like-minded women and entrepreneurs to learn and grow from. She also hopes to provide mentorship to women in healthcare or healthcare technology related businesses.

Women’s Networking Association Member, Shelly Luhning, can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.

www.nclexeducation.ca/blog

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Minnie Wango is a Licensed Financial Professional for TransAmerica. With a background is in advanced practice nursing administration, she transitioned from healthcare to wealth care management about 4 years ago, offering free financial consultation for all professionals, their families, and small business owners.

Minnie offers the following and more:

tax advantaged long term investment strategies

college planning for kids

cash value life insurance

Indexed Universal Life (IUL)

rolling over 401k, pensions or large sums of cash

tax free retirement income and death benefits

key employee insurance or executive bonus planning for businesses

Personal private pension plans

life insurance comparison quotes with living benefits

Fixed Indexed Annuities (FIA) comparison

financial leadership development to increase household income.

Her mission is to empower her community with financial education, build financial legacies in the community in the upwards of $1 billion dollars. She aims to build financial leadership ambassadors for this mission. She has partnered with only A-A+ rated financial carriers in North America to carry out this mission.

She cares deeply for her community and in her spare time volunteers with various organizations.

Women’s Networking Association Member, Minnie Wango, can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.

 

 

 

Sarissa Farman is CEO of Dot Cubed, Inc. Sarissa firmly believes communication is a key tool for leadership, and that group management and employee contribution creates a powerful workforce. With these tools in her toolbelt, she is able to accomplish goals and projects.

She strives to create opportunities for all minorities, and says when pooling talent and building people as a resource, you create an entity a single individual is not capable of alone. Therefore, it is not the title or position to hold, but the skills and insight you allow others to foster with your support. This is her wish for all.

She is passionate about creating opportunities for women and minorities, and credits her success to communication, group management, and collaboration. She is looking forward to connecting with likeminded professionals.

Women’s Networking Association Member, Sarissa Farman, can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.

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Kerri Anne Kedziora is Owner and Founder of Kedziora Systems. An employee attraction and retention specialist, Kerri assists business owners to overcome obstacles to success with staffing.

In addition, she is an online coach who assists cleaning business owners to grow their business substantially in the first two years of business. She has a successful commercial and vacation rental cleaning business.

Upon overcoming a life filled with childhood trauma and a 27 year battle with alcoholism to now be sober for almost 7 years;  Kerri has found her true passion in life, which is inspiring others to overcome their barriers to find their own personal, financial, and professional success!

Kerri found her freedom from childhood trauma and managed to overcome alcoholism by choosing a better life.

With a combined family she and her husband Peter have five children and 11 grandchildren (and counting), she is on a mission to provide basic happiness for her family by empowering them to achieve their dreams. Kerri has one dream that rules her life. It is to be able to ensure the emotional, physical and financial freedom of her children that will sustain them for generations to come.

By “unleashing the wound” she feels she is breaking the cycle of abuse and addiction for generations to come.

Kerri says, “If I could give my past self some advice it would be to not be so hard on myself. I would explain that there is rarely success without failure and that the lessons learned in failure are the most long lasting and character building lessons you will ever learn!

Upon contemplation, I feel that my greatest influences in business are my employees. When I finally learned that my employees are the most integral part of my business, beside my own ambitions and goals, and began to put their needs first, my business exploded! I am a person that will fight harder for others than I will for myself, therefore, fighting for my employees’ growth and development has driven my personal and business growth beyond measure!”

While her cleaning business continues to grow, she is empowering other cleaning business owners online to learn and grow in order to follow their dreams. She feels truly blessed to have the financial freedom to develop and create this dream at her own pace. Her goal is to have this program “off the ground” by the end of 2022 and continue on to inspire success for more business owners.

Currently Kerri is working on the foundation of her new business venture in which she’ll advise business owners from all service areas on methods to empower and sustain the very best employees.

Five years from now Kerri envisions both businesses to be self-sufficient so that she and her husband can explore the world. Having been recently diagnosed with a hereditary disease that may take her eyesight early in life; she wants to travel far and wide and experience all of its beauty while she still has all of her senses.

Kerris’ absolute favorite thing about her career is the freedom she now has to try other things without the fear of not being able to pay the bills! Having excitement for new opportunities and ideas keeps her motivated to get up and go to her home office every morning.

Realizing that she is well on her way to seeing her dreams come true for her children and grandchildren. Kerri can honestly say that she wakes up every day knowing that if this is as good as it gets, she will never be unhappy!

Kerri was nominated for the RBC Women of Influence Award, 2022, in which the winner will be announced late in the fall, she is also part of the 2nd Edition book called pursuit365 launching June 1, 2022.

 ln celebration of “International Say Something Nice Day”, pursuit: 365 is a book co-authored by 365 people from all walks of life including Dragons Den Manjit Minhas, Moi (Kerri) and many more. Every day in 2022 the book features one of the 365 co-authors and their inspiring story.

See more about Kerri here:

https://freshmag.ca/pursuit-365-day-31-kerri-anne-kedziora/?fbclid=IwAR3_PVHfpezlba6jt2z4Rk3eIHNJMEkoObOr96JMQTZLY_3j-FFsSDs-m6Q

https://dougbennett.co.uk/how-overcoming-lifelong-addiction-created-an-unstoppable-business-owner

 https://okanaganedge.net/2021/01/08/kerri-anne-kedziora/

https://one-funnel-away-stories.simplecast.com/episodes/kerri-anne-kedziora-mentality-shift-through-ofa-peJ4y5y0

Women’s Networking Association Member, Kerri Anne Kedziora, can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerri-anne-kedziora-a8297220a/

https://www.facebook.com/kerrikap

https://www.facebook.com/Kedziora-Systems-100207499295483

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