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Speakers
Janice Omadeke CEO and Founder The Mentor Method Joseph Kopser Innovator/Author/ Speaker The Grayline Group Online on Zoom 5:30-6:30pm CDT |
Technology has a fast rate of evolution and change, and Austin has a rapidly growing tech sector. Together, this means achieving and sustaining success and growth requires continuous, effective personal and professional development and growth. Mentoring can play an important role in helping one grow, recognizing important opportunities, and pivoting/changing as necessary to excel in such rapidly evolving fields and times. Joseph Kopser and Janice Omadeke, proven innovators and leaders of technology companies and programs, will lead a live online conversation about the power of mentorship in technology careers and companies. Please pull up a chair (and webcam, mic, and a drink if you like) and join this conversation to learn and share on this important topic!
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Janice Omadeke is the CEO and Founder of The Mentor Method, an enterprise platform helping companies keep and develop their diverse talent using the proven power of mentorship. Using a double-blind algorithm, The Mentor Method is closing the opportunity equity gap in the workplace. Janice is a 2020 Austin Under 40 nominee and winner of DivInc’s Champion of Change Diversity Champion of the Year for the city of Austin. Venture-backed by funds including Backstage Capital and Capital Factory, Janice's company was a finalist at the Grace Hopper annual conference in 2018, is a MassChallenge Texas Gold winner, a 50 on Fire winner for both Austin and DC Inno, and a 2017 Startup Grind Global Exhibition selection. Black Enterprise recognizes Janice as one of DC’s top 5 black women in tech. She has also been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur magazine, and she was a subject matter expert at the 2016 White House Summit on Building the Tech Workforce of Tomorrow. Janice is certified in Entrepreneurship from MIT, and is PMP certified with over 10 years of corporate leadership experience for Fortune 500 companies.
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Joseph Kopser co-founded a company, built it from scratch, then sold it to Mercedes. He stayed on with them to advise their senior leadership and assist in their evolution as a mobility company. From those experiences, he wrote the book, Catalyst, chronicling the opportunities and challenges in the 21st Century economy for business and policy makers. He's an active investor and mentor to dozens of companies. After running for Congress, he served a year as an Executive-in-Residence at the McCombs School of Business at UT-Austin. Today, he's using those experiences as well as his own 20 years of service in the Army (including time as a Special Assistant to the CEO of the Army) to build the next generation of leaders in some of the most exciting companies and public entities in America. He advises leaders and teams in business, non-profit and academia.
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