Joy Riley, Belinda Kendall, Wade Channell

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Moderator: Mrs. Anar Umurzakova, Director and a Trainer at GOPM startup consultancy firm in Greater Washington Area, with over 13 years of professional PM experience in various organizations such as Accenture, the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and GOPM consultancy. Presidential Scholar of the Republic of Kazakhstan, who graduated with MS in PM from The George Washington University, PMP and PRINCE2 Practitioner. Currently, she focuses on helping executives and PMs create winning harmonious teams and increase productivity through improving morale. She is also a host of podcast "Open School of Business", where she interviews prominent figures in business and entrepreneurship. Speakers: 1. Belinda Kendall, the owner and founder of Promise Media Group, LLC, has spent several years working in media. She had her own talk show on WGIV and Hot77 the Mix where she interviewed celebrities, internationally known pastors, community leaders, professional athletes, and ordinary people with extraordinary stories. Belinda has spent over 15 years in sales, management, and marketing for Fortune 500 companies. Additionally, she has an extensive resume of community service meeting the housing, employment, and financial needs of her community. During her years in media, she has moderated political debates and emceed political events for the NAACP. She has accumulated an audience of over 450,000 friends on Facebook and over 46,000 connections on LinkedIn through her positive posts that include advice and general bits of Christian based wisdom. Some of her posts on LinkedIn have garnered over 4,000,000 views within a matter of days. 2. As a program manager, Joy Riley spent the majority of her professional career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and the International Monetary Fund, mentoring employees, clients, and organizations through transformational change. Personal experiences with her family, friends, and close colleagues led her through her own transformation resulting in retirement from corporate life, more time with her family, and a career in life coaching. Joy focuses on coaching professional working women who would like to better define their career path, change paths, or find improved balance in their lives.