Podcast conversation about what it takes to shift from overworked and doubting oneself to stepping fully into your leadership. I share how I let go of people-pleasing, set boundaries, and finally started leading on my own terms.

This engaging presentation explores the powerful synergy that emerges when Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging (DEIB), Emotional Intelligence (EI), and Leadership intersect and align to develop dynamic and productive high-functioning team environments.

Whether you are a GRC professional, data protection analyst, Privacy professional or a business leader looking to leverage this powerful synergy, this presentation will provide a roadmap to the evolving terrain of regulatory compliance, risk management, and data protection. Join us as we illuminate a path navigating and harmonizing required “convergence” to secure our digital futures.

A detailed risk focused breakdown of the growing unmitigated exposure homogeneous Security teams pose for the companies they work for and the consumer data they are responsible for protecting. The session will detail how unfettered industry bias and outdated misconceptions about “who should be in Security” continue to widen the exposure gap not just for companies but also for the consumer whose data company security teams are responsible for safeguarding. In this session she will also speak to how the lack of diversity on Security teams reduces the teams effectiveness, creativity and flexibility, specifically in the face of an ever-changing and expanding attack surface. Her risk assessment of the issue will compare threat actor demographics against U.S. Security team demographic to not only illustrate the variety of differences but to demonstrate how minimizing those differences through team diversification can lead to more strategically successful security teams.

This is a talk that focuses on Intergenerational trauma (sometimes referred to as trans- or multigenerational trauma) which is defined as trauma that gets passed down from those who directly experience an incident to subsequent generations. We will discuss and explore multigenerational trauma, transgenerational trauma, and historical trauma.

The goal of this presentation is to show organizations how a dynamic and holistic approach to risk management helps build agility in how to respond to risk while also gaining a clearer, more accurate understanding of their risk exposure. By using this approach decision makers are able to make risk-based decisions, reach optimal outcomes that are consistent and align with the organization's strategy while remaining within their established risk thresholds.
Learning Objective #1: Learn what a dynamic holistic risk approach is and how to apply and adapt it to their organizations.
Learning Objective #2: Understand how to create, define and determine a risk profile unique to their organization
Learning Objective #3: Learn to create a common language around risk to align various types of risk to define a risk criteria that will be used for measuring risk exposure.
Learning Objective #4: Understand how a risked-based decision model can be utilized on the foundation of this approach to help leadership formulate more organic holistic solutions.

This is a open discussion about the various negative stereotypes that exist around women of color, their behaviors and the way in which individuals react to them an their stereotypes. Collected first person experiences are peppered throughout the discussion that centers around how these stereotypes come into existence. How they vary from culture to culture. This will explore the harmful effects of women of color stereotypes on women of color, women in general, men and society.

An approximately 1 hour interactive discussion on what boundaries are, why they are important, how to identify them and how to create them. There are opportunities for discussion, interactions, and exercises to help in boundary awareness.

A discussion about owning your cultural identity and shaping your narrative. Marissa will share her experience on branding herself in the corporate world, while staying true to ones roots. She will also demonstrate how to develop shape your unique cultural narrative in this age of story by communicating and weaving storytelling elements into your career identity.