2022 WOMEN WELDING THE WAY COLUMBUS CALENDAR
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2 02 2 WO M E N W E L DIN G THE WAY ®
C O LUM B US CA L EN DAR
OUR VISION FOR THE FUTURE:
WELD is the model for implementing strategies to advance women
to higher levels of leadership and economic strength for the nation
to follow. We deploy significant financial and influential resources to
accelerate educational programming and research missions to empower
women to take on the challenges and leadership positions with their
organizations, businesses and communities. When you join WELD, you
have the opportunity to expand your professional horizons, develop
your leadership skills and pay forward your success.
Join us, because you make a difference!
Visit www.weldusa.org for more information.
It is so easy to view opportunity as ripe for taking rather than primed for sharing.
The elimination of the multi-faceted disparities that marginalized, underrepresented
individuals endure requires leadership that will define and empower all of us to
reconstruct a world where economic equity, social justice, health and safety are
a reality rather than just a slogan in social media, neatly tucked into a square.
The confluence of events in 2020-2021 birthed the demand for leaders who are
truthtellers unafraid to confront the naked facts in front of them and brave enough to
forge forward on indicated actions.
Meet our 2022 Women WELDing the Way® calendar honorees. We elevate
these women as individuals masterfully exhibiting Leadership in a New Era, our
2022 calendar theme. Our newest cohort of honorees excels at leading diverse
organizations, dealing with ambiguity and paradox, navigating through enormous
change and inspiring the strength needed to transcend some of the darkest moments
our world has seen in recent history. They have the grit and courage to lead through
difficult times and are wise enough to see resilience, versatility and adaptability as
strengths rather than weaknesses.
This diverse group of leaders has a long track record of collaborating constructively
rather than sowing divisiveness. Their presence fosters teamwork and alignment that
bring clarity to challenges and fuel progress toward solutions.
It is with gratitude that we celebrate these women for their accomplishments
and contributions to our businesses and community. They are at the heart of the
effort to open doors to women and women of color and expand opportunities for
women-owned businesses to drive economic prosperity in Central Ohio and beyond.
We look forward to them sharing their leadership journeys at our 2022 Emerging
“In our world, divide and conquer Professionals’ Series events.
must become define and empower.” Leadership in a New Era demands that the voices of women and women of color
be at the table in our board rooms and C-suites to create the best opportunity for
— AUDRE LORDE
increased prosperity and more inclusive, equitable success. That sound you hear is
our 2022 calendar honorees pulling up their chairs and taking a seat.
Empower women leaders. Visit www.weldusa.org for more information.
Barb Smoot
President & CEO, WELD
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2022 HONOREE LUNCHEON
January
MARY AUCH
Regional President, PNC Bank Columbus
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Live in such a way that if someone should
speak badly of you, no one would believe it.
Mary E. Auch is the Regional President of PNC Bank in Central Ohio, a role Notes:
she has held since 2019. Mary previously served as Senior Vice President
and Managing Director in the Financial Institutions Group within PNC
Capital Markets. Her career at PNC spans 25 years and includes roles
ranging from branch manager to Senior Vice President in the corporate
banking space. Mary has extensive banking experience and currently
leads 1,500 employees in Central Ohio, managing client relationships, local
initiatives, a seven-figure community investment budget and employee
engagement for the region.
While working in the traditional banking world, Mary joined several
boards to garner diverse perspectives and to give back to the community.
These perspectives have helped to shape her philanthropic focus in
the community. Mary currently serves as chair and leads the executive
committee of the metropolitan board for the YMCA of Central Ohio
and serves on the boards of Future Ready Columbus and Experience
Columbus. She is also a member of the Columbus Partnership, the Ohio
Business Roundtable and the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland’s
business advisory council.
Mary believes Leadership in a New Era is about authenticity, trust and
building on genuine connections. Her advice to young leaders is to
lead with empathy and confidence. Mary sees sponsorship as the key
to empowering young women. Young women “need advocates that can
speak for them when they cannot speak for themselves.” During the
pandemic, Mary developed opportunities for young women to help with
networking and outreach in the community.
As Mary continues her career as a successful banker, she focuses a
portion of her community work on creating equitable access to improved
educational opportunities, housing and workforce development. Mary is
excited about her involvement with the Columbus Partnership’s diversity,
equity and inclusion initiative, specifically around community partnerships.
This work supports the Columbus Partnership’s vision to have more
people gain access to improved economic and social well-being.
Mary hopes her legacy will be not just her role as a banker, but will also
include her impact on the community, as well as her role as a wife and a
mother to her two daughters.
February
SUMITHRA JAGANNATH
President, ZED Digital
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Embrace that vision and use it to
make necessary change.
Sumithra Jagannath started her software consulting firm, ZED Digital, Notes:
after completing her master’s degree in computer science over 25 years
ago. ZED Digital provides contactless travel planning options for check
in/check out, real-time occupancy, auto payment and personalized
greeting to customers when they arrive at the client’s location, among
other applications. All the services from ZED are focused on safety and
convenience, keeping customer top-of-mind. ZED currently has over
50,000 users with over 3 million trips planned, earning over $150K in
revenue with a 97% hands free payment system. Sumithra is able to
contribute and make a difference in peoples’ everyday lives during
these times because she saw an opportunity to help those in the
transportation industry connect to customers with options that were
previously out of reach.
Sumithra is also involved in several organizations for women and children.
She works with ASHA-Ray of Hope, an organization that offers support to
South Asian women and children who are victims of domestic violence
in Central Ohio. She teaches the women of ASHA-Ray new technology
skills, which improves their confidence and resilience. She is also a board
member of Women’s Board of Central Ohio, actively working to improve
workforce opportunities for women. Sumithra continues her support of
women by co-chairing the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association’s
effort to empower women in the healthcare workforce. She started an
annual event bringing in speakers from various areas to encourage
professional development.
Pre-pandemic, leaders focused on getting people physically to work and
being physically present. Post-pandemic, leaders in this new era have
found a new level of trust and interaction with their employees. Building
this new level of trust will motivate leaders and employees to step up and
perform at the level that is needed to change the future. Adversity gives
opportunities for real change. Sumithra feels her biggest impact in the past
year has been helping women get to work. Over 60% of the riders who
use her solution are women, allowing those in underserved communities
who do not have access to a car find better, higher paying jobs.
March
JOY BIVENS
Deputy County Administrator for Health & Human Services
Franklin County, Ohio
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Love is free. It doesn’t cost
a thing to love somebody.
Joy Bivens is the Deputy County Administrator for Health & Human Notes:
Services in Franklin County, Ohio and a graduate of Capital University.
Joy oversees the Franklin County Board of Commissioners’ Health
and Human Services agencies. As Deputy County Administrator, she
leads the Department of Job and Family Services, the county’s largest
agency and a core social safety net. She oversees the Office on Aging,
Child Support Enforcement Agency and the Office of Justice Policy
and Programs. In her current role, she is responsible for about 1,000
employees and $190M budget. Their role is to leverage the dollars to
ensure they are touching more people and being strategic and not
duplicating the same programs. Joy’s job is to make sure the dollars get
dispersed among the entire community.
Joy believes a person’s past sets them on the path for their future.
Growing up, Joy experienced homelessness first-hand, followed by time
in the foster care system and an institutional children’s home, both of
which were violent situations, before finally reuniting with her mother.
Joy did not allow herself to be defined by those challenges or the
opinions of others but persevered to graduate from college and start a
home care agency. She fights on today to repair the disjointed systems
and policies that continue to hold people back.
Leadership in a New Era means something different to Joy: risk.
She believes that past methodologies led to systemic inequality
and, to change the future, new leaders must rise and risk leaving the
comfort of ‘safe’ (failed) policies to innovate fresh solutions to civil
injustice and discrimination.
One way Joy exemplifies this fearless innovation in her own life is
through the concept of ownership. She and her husband vowed twenty
years ago that “nothing we have is our own,” and as a result, share their
resources readily with those in need, offering a safe home to more than
30 young people over the years. Joy mentors her wards while they are
in her care, teaching them to be intentional and to lead authentically,
guiding them to be both kind and compassionate, but also to take
calculated risks.
April
WENDY SHERMAN HECKLER, Ph.D.
Provost and Senior Vice President, Otterbein University
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Always live with integrity
in everything you do.
Wendy Sherman Heckler was the first in her family to earn a bachelor’s Notes:
degree, and she raised the bar by achieving her Ph.D. She started her
career teaching high school physics, chemistry, and math. In 2000, she
accepted a role as an education professor at Kent State and then moved
to a faculty position at Otterbein University in the fall of 2007. In 2012, she
was offered an administrative role in the University’s Academic Affairs
division as Dean and Associate VP. In 2019, she became Provost and
SVP, where she oversees approximately 380 employees including faculty
and staff. Part of her responsibility as Provost is to manage the Academic
Affairs budget which is about half of Otterbein’s total annual budget.
Dr. Sherman Heckler used her position and budget responsibility to
bring the vision of the school back to its roots of acceptance. When
she joined the administration, she believed the school could better
leverage its resources to provide more opportunity and access for the
largest school district in Central Ohio, Columbus City Schools (CCS). At
that time, Otterbein did not reflect the community of students it hoped
to serve. She brought Otterbein and CCS teachers together to talk and
bridge communication for growth of their students. She worked with the
enrollment manager and together they implemented creative ways to
improve access and affordability for more first-generation students,
lower-income students and students of color to attend Otterbein University
– resulting in improved rates of retention and success.
Dr. Sherman Heckler loves education, driving the mission of Otterbein
and participating in the community she serves. One of her most treasured
responsibilities is teaching the Women’s Leadership course which
introduces first year women to multiple aspects of effective leadership with
emphasis on the public good. She stresses importance of leaders in a new
era to share the diversity of experiences of the people they lead. “The goal
is to support our differences, not show our dominance over the people
we lead,” she says. Dr. Sherman Heckler models leadership that does not
connote power in the sense of control, but the power in behaving ethically
and with consistent integrity. She inspires the next generation of leaders to
be constant learners who are collaborative and humble, never forgetting to
uplift and empower those that come behind them.
May
LILLIAN MORALES-LASTER
VP, Human Resources Director, United Midwest Savings Bank
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I like the word ‘brave’ because it takes
a brave person to step out of their
comfort zone to be seen and heard.
A dedicated change-maker and advocate, Lillian has combined her Notes:
passion for diversity and inclusion with her experience in human
resources to lead teams and organizations in the development of
supportive work environments. Recruited to the role of VP, Human
Resources Director for United Midwest Savings Bank, a company of
130 employees, Lillian is a leading voice in HR best practices and has
had the opportunity to learn more in this role than anywhere else. Her
aptitude for engaging employees in philanthropy, while empowering them
in professional ownership, has dynamically shaped the organization’s
culture and boosted morale.
She sees Leadership in a New Era as shifting from “building power” for
yourself to “providing empowerment” to others. For Lillian, a coaching
mindset is the new normal for leaders to help future generations achieve.
She keeps a fear of failure at bay and leans into the vulnerability that
comes with being in an uncharted territory.
As the Program Director for the Latina Mentoring Academy (LMA), Lillian
serves in a pivotal role in the program’s goal to assist Latina professionals
in advancing their careers through professional development workshops
and a dedicated mentoring program. For Lillian, LMA is a community of
women supporting and engaging with each other. She emphasizes the
importance of not only empowering women to be in the spaces they want
to be, but also equips them with the tools to navigate those spaces.
Advocacy work is also essential to Lillian, serving as a grant writer for the
Women’s Fund as well as participating in conversations surrounding equal
pay and gender bias. It is the belief that not many of us can make it unless
we have an advocate along the way that drives her goal to advocate for
as many people as she can.
Lillian was previously on the board of the local chapter of League of
United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). Her work with LULAC allowed her
to serve their mission of advancing the economic condition, educational
attainment, political influence, housing, health and civil rights of the
Hispanic/Latinx population of Columbus, Ohio.
June
LETHA PUGH
Co-Founder, Bake Me Happy
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I am because you are.
A N A NCI E NT A F R I CA N CONCE P T
Taking inspiration from the book “The Warmth of Other Suns,” Letha Notes:
acknowledges the difficulty of making changes and the risks that comes
with those decisions. She then reminds herself that the possibility of
making a difference in one’s own life and inspiring others to do the same
are well worth the risk. The great migration made Omaha, Nebraska
a new home for Letha’s family, where she went to the University of
Nebraska to become a nurse and learned the skill of empathy for people.
Since moving to Columbus, Ohio in 2001, Letha took the path of
entrepreneurship starting her journey with River’s Crossing Home Health,
where professional and compassionate care was provided based on the
dignity and worth of everyone. After selling that business in 2014,
Letha and her wife, Wendy, started Bake Me Happy, a gluten free bakery.
Bake Me Happy has 19 employees at 2 different locations and has
adopted inclusivity and love as core principles, enjoying double digit
growth annually since inception with their employees. While keeping
employees’ safety a top priority, Letha cares about their well-being and
the community that surrounds them.
Her thoughts on Leadership in a New Era center around people, “to have
a different outcome, we must lead differently.” Active listening and having
empathy for others are a part of her blueprint for leadership. She makes
herself approachable and available for young women, while making them
feel valued and needed in the community.
The driving force for her activism within her community is the belief that
representation does matter especially for women, LGBTQIA+ and small
business owner communities. Advocacy, mentorship and education are
at the heart of “Black, Out, and Proud”, a non-profit co-founded by Letha
with a vision of celebrating Black LGBTQIA+. During COVID-19, Letha
and others in the restaurant industry started SERVICE!, a relief effort
for hospitality workers. The non-profit group raised $150K in donations,
served more than 10,000 meals to unemployed service-industry
professionals and their families and gave away $60K in grants to address
short-term hardships. Letha embraces the idea that humans cannot exist
in isolation; rather, we depend on connection, community and caring.
July
MERRY KORN
Founder, Pearl Interactive Network
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I try to live every day by asking myself
what positive impact have I had today.
Merry Korn immigrated to the United States from Germany with her Notes:
mother and sister after WWII. While in high school, she began helping
people on probation gain employment. This led Merry to find her passion
for what would become her life’s work. After graduating with her master’s
degree in social work from The Ohio State University, she started her own
practice and wellness program at Doctors Hospital. In 2004, Merry started
Pearl Interactive Network, a social enterprise that reduces barriers to
employment, particularly in rural and Historically Underutilized Business
(HUB) Zones. By the end of 2021, Pearl expects to employ 1,000,
73% whom are women and have sales of over $35M.
Merry believes Leadership in a New Era debunks the myths surrounding
the image people have of power. Career is now integrated with the
importance of family, and women are recognized for their individual
strengths. Using this definition, Merry is bold enough to think big, live
fearlessly and move forward regardless of struggles and challenges.
This includes empowering and lifting other women up through her senior
leadership team, providing skills training and individualized coaching for
people with barriers to work and creating home-based jobs that minimize
childcare and transportation challenges.
Tenacious in her determination to build pathways to success for others,
Merry works closely with the Ohio Women’s Coalition and NAWBO to
lobby for women owned businesses. Through these efforts and a myriad
of strategies, Merry opens doors for women business owners to access
greater support and opportunity. Her own operating model challenges the
status quo and incorporates inclusivity, engagement and growth to drive
broader community impact.
Merry is a mentor to women business owners through a program she
developed called “Feeling Fear and Getting the Job Anyway.” This will be
taught in high school and to non-profits who assist people with barriers
to employment. Merry also advises young professionals to have big and
limitless goals and encourages them to find a mentor, find their tribe and
lead by example.August
LACHANDRA BAKER
Senior Director of Employee Engagement, National Church Residences
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We matter. We have a voice.
We want to be seen.
Lachandra B. Baker recently joined an amazing team as a Senior Director Notes:
of Employee Engagement and DEI at National Church Residences. In
August 2021, they launched their Office of Employee Engagement, which
focuses on creating a preferred employee experience for the 2,900+
employee workforce. Prior to her role at National Church Residences,
Lachandra worked in employee engagement at CoverMyMeds in
Columbus, Ohio. Lachandra grew CoverMyMeds from 700 people to
5,000 before her departure. She is very proud that the engagement work
she was able to accomplish has impacted so many lives.
Lachandra was raised by her mother and grandmother. Her mother, a
STEM scholar, was the first in her family to go to college, and this inspired
Lachandra at an early age. Lachandra received her bachelor’s degree in
Hospitality Management and Communications from Central Washington
University and her Marketing MBA from the University of the Southwest.
She is a graduate of Cornell University’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Certification Program, a four-time TEDx speaker and is one of Columbus’
Future 50 Leaders.
Lachandra sits on the Board for Healing Broken Circles, which helps the
formerly incarcerated re-enter the workplace and serves their families as
well. She also serves on the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee
of the Besa organization. Lachandra believes pursuing excellence over
perfection is critical in leadership and she encourages both her mentees
at Zora’s House, a gathering space for working women of color and
others she works with to embrace failure for lifelong growth.
For Lachandra, Leadership in a New Era is defined by adaptation,
flexibility, innovation and creativity. She believes that modern leaders
must be both inclusive and responsive to the needs of those they
lead and the communities they serve. Lachandra notes that the global
pandemic has inspired young, organic leadership, and she is thrilled to
see so many diverse leaders defining the age by declaring together, “I’m
100% me. I lead the way I lead.” For Lachandra, this level of authenticity is
a positive change in leadership. Whether that’s full of emotion and vigor
or if it’s silently confident, it’s whatever you are. You can be that leader.September
LC JOHNSON
Founder & CEO, Zora’s House
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Creativity, hope and the courage to envision
different futures are necessities for great leaders.
LC Johnson is an award-winning writer, entrepreneur and activist with a Notes:
passion for uplifting and empowering women and communities of color.
After graduating from Duke University with a degree in Women’s Studies,
she began a career in the non-profit sector, seeking out a range of
opportunities that mirrored her passions.
Her first job out of college was teaching a class called “Power, Identity,
and Privilege” as part of the Sadie Nash Leadership Program, a young
women’s leadership organization in NYC. On her first day, it was clear
that her Women’s Studies “credentials” hadn’t prepared her for the task
of explaining institutional racism to a group of fifteen-year-old girls in
language they would both understand and relate to. What followed were
the most challenging and transformative six weeks of LC’s life and the
beginning of her career as a feminist educator and activist.
Today, LC is a dynamic, creative and committed social justice professional
with a well-established entrepreneurial spirit. LC has more than ten years
of experience with curriculum development and facilitation, program
design, public speaking and community building. She is a recognized
subject matter expert whose work and writings on the topic of race and
gender have appeared in outlets such as Forbes Magazine, Huffington
Post and Black Enterprise.
In 2018, LC founded Zora’s House – a coworking space and leadership
incubator created by and for women of color. Since then, Zora’s House
has helped 3,000+ women of color from all walks of life – artists, activists,
healers, educators, entrepreneurs, as well as women who are struggling or
unemployed – to build community, navigate job losses and other COVID-19
related transitions, incubate businesses and activate their leadership in
their families, neighborhoods and workplaces.
LC is a humble servant leader. She believes that “the new era requires
leaders to speak up for what is right, even when it is not popular.” She is
deeply passionate about helping others and is continually inspired by the
creativity, resilience and radical imagination of Black women and
other women of color. “Nothing is created in isolation. We are as
strong as our community and tribe around us.”October
LAURIE AM HOMMEMA, MD
Senior Medical Director
Provider and Associate Well-Being, OhioHealth
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It’s time to do the next right thing.
Dr. Laurie Hommema is the Senior Medical Director of Provider and Notes:
Associate Well-Being, where she develops, leads and executes strategic
and operational initiatives to improve well-being at OhioHealth. Laurie
received her bachelor’s degree in Microbiology from The Ohio State
University and her Doctor of Medicine degree from the OSU College
of Medicine. She is a co-creator of WE LEAD (Women Empowering
Leaders, Educators, Administrators and Doctors), an OhioHealth business
resource group to serve as a peer group for herself and others in need of
mentorship and resources in the medical field, develop female leaders and
create a culture of inclusion and well-being. Laurie also provides medical
directorship to the OhioHealth Well-Being Center and leads the OhioHealth
Well-Being Team. Helping over 400 residents, 3,000 physicians and
advanced practice providers and 29,000 associates, her teams are working
towards creating an environment where all may thrive and speak openly
about their stress, burnout or personal mental health struggles.
Laurie felt compelled to work in family medicine because she could help
institute meaningful change for families by driving generational shift
through preventative health. For Laurie, Leadership in a New Era means
finally breaking the glass ceiling that so many powerful women have
cracked over the years. The post-COVID-19 era needs different norms.
‘Normal’ led to women leaving the workforce in droves and millions of
deaths due to the pandemic. She believes the mission of new era leaders
should be to close disparities, create equity across communities and
organize to provide opportunities for everyone to thrive.
Her most powerful relationships are those with the women she sponsors,
mentors and works with on her team. Laurie encourages young
professionals to ignore the status quo and follow the path to success
through innovative thinking. Laurie’s own innovation helped create the
“Food is Health” program at Riverside Hospital, helping patients with
diabetes manage their disease without fears of food insecurity. Her
program provides healthy produce and shelf-stable items for a patient’s
entire family, without need for pre-approval. Laurie’s patients are her
motivation every day and reason for everything she does.November
ANGELA CORNELIUS DAWSON
Executive Director, Ohio Commission on Minority Health
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As you climb, you are required to lift others.
Angela Cornelius Dawson serves as the Executive Director of the Notes:
Ohio Commission on Minority Health, addressing disparities in health
status between majority and minority populations. Angela received her
bachelor’s degree in Rehabilitation Education and dual master’s degrees
in Counseling and Guidance and Rehabilitation Counseling from Wright
State University.
Early on, Angela was taught by her grandmother that service is the price
you pay for living; it’s what you give back for what you’ve been given.
Angela’s professional journey is rooted in that same faith and fortitude.
To Angela, Leadership in a New Era means leading with one eye steadfastly
on the future. She believes no action exists in a vacuum and that long-term
purpose must drive any mission.
Angela mentors young women through volunteering with The Ray Miller
Leadership Institute and the Progressive Leadership Academy. She
provides her mentees with the tools necessary to lead in the new era and
achieve a balanced life. She tells young women to “pack light – you don’t
need 100 friends. Surround yourself with a few women who will support
you, then prioritize.”
Angela has served at Project Linden and as the first African American
Director for the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction services
with a staff of 110 and a budget of $198M. Angela’s leadership follows the
spiritual principle that nothing done in a right manner comes back void.
For Angela, the right manner is always focused on the true needs of the
people. Her intentional and strategic leadership therefore works to achieve
equity in Ohio and this nation. She explains, “COVID-19 changed both
individual realities and global perspectives, exposing the underbelly of
systemic racism. One key to new leadership is to address those changes
head-on and embrace this critical paradigm shift. With an eye on the
consequences of our choices today, we can leverage the world’s focus
and create lasting change.”
The late Congressman John Lewis said, “get into good trouble.” Angela has
been getting into ‘good trouble’ her entire career. She campaigns against
inequality by raising questions designed to root out institutionalized
racism in organizations and examine their policy practices.December
SAMANTHA ANDERSON, CFP ®
Senior Wealth Manager, Budros, Ruhlin & Roe, Inc.
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Speak your truth and speak into others. Successful
women need to believe in women, especially when
they may not be able to believe in themselves.
Samantha Anderson grew up in a small town in Ohio and moved to Notes:
Columbus to be the first person in her family to earn a college degree.
After graduating in 2009 from The Ohio State University in the height
of the recession, she took an entry level position at JPMorgan Chase &
Co. In 2011, Samantha took a role at Budros, Ruhlin & Roe and currently
serves as a Senior Wealth Manager. She is passionate about helping
clients achieve goals they never thought possible and ensuring both
spouses’ voices are heard. She currently advises on over $375M in
investments for 50 clients.
Samantha sees opportunities in the field of financial advising when it
comes to women’s inclusion. With only 23% of advisors in the U.S. being
female, it is important to her to bring more women into this industry.
Samantha mentors women inside her organization as well as externally
through financial organizations. In 2016, Samantha was responsible
for the launch of a $1,500 Women in Wealth Management Scholarship
and paid internship. To date, six women have been hired into full-time
positions out of this program, increasing the firm’s female CFP® count
to nearly 30% above the national industry average. “It’s about finding
people with that spark,” she says, “and helping turn that into a flame that
spreads to others and creates change.”
Samantha has volunteered at the New Directions Career Center teaching
Financial Wellness Seminars to college students, new graduates, and
women in their careers. With pro-bono planning at New Directions, she
was able to help woman financially who were re-entering society find
new jobs or restart their careers. Samantha encouraged these women to
get started and then grow from there. “If you can see it, you can be it”.
In this new era, leaders are more comfortable talking about equality. “It
is fantastic to know that every voice is being heard and more people are
open minded.” Successful leaders in this era listen more, accept new
views, continue to learn and hold people accountable for inclusiveness
and respectful discussions. Samantha encourages people to stop
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