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Leaders Like Us is a 🌱 Startups for All’s trusted circle of independent experts, mentors, and coaches to help purpose-driven to help 🌱 Startups for All’s diverse community of founders, knowledge workers, and product folx make better decisions to maximize purpose and profit.
Who We Are
Alex Kreuter
Executive Producer/Director/Owner at AK Creative
Storytelling
Film/video direction
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Amy (she/her)
Co-Founder Impact Circles Cooperative
Creating a worker-owned, social-impact incubator for intersectional women.
Business or financial readiness
Community development
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Ariela
Director of Strategy, Education and Community Development, Grouptrail
Community development
Working with Nonprofits
Working with Schools
Strategic partnerships
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Arina Igumenshcheva
Senior Research Scientist
In my work, I strive to be an inquisitive, creative, resourceful and ethical explorer of data. I strongly believe that good empirical research is equitable, transparent, objective and honest.
Technology
Data science
Quantitative research
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Bri (she/her)
Community Marketing Consultant
My passion is to craft intentional and communal spaces where transformation can happen. I do this by partnering with meaningful brands to create programs that turn their superfans into advocates who partner with the brand to scale it.
Brand strategy
Community development
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Bria King (she/her)
Product Discovery Strategist
I've been in tech for 10 years, passionate about taking a people-first approach to product management. This includes how I approach solving problems for users/customers and how I motivate my team. I love working on problems with a social impact and am energized by small, scrappy teams.
Customer discovery or user research
Product strategy
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Chari Smith (she, hers)
Nonprofit Program Evaluation
Chari Smith believes evaluation should be accessible, practical and usable. She founded Evaluation into Action to help nonprofit professionals create realistic and meaningful program evaluation processes.
Nonprofit strategy (includes impact models, evaluation/measuring outcomes)
Working with Nonprofits
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Erin-Kate Escobar (They/Them)
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Consultant
I am a DEI centric, focused on empathy, care and healing while challenging systems of oppression and working to the change status quo.
DEI strategy
Equity-centered or trauma-informed leadership
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Fabien Lamaison, he/him
Product Strategist / Founder & CEO at bunny.money
Building the next generation of purpose banking services to help caring individuals support their communities.
Fundraising - Non-VC (includes crowdfunding, grants, cause-based giving)
Product strategy
Fintech/Neobank as a platform
Blockchain/defi
Public Benefit Company (PBC)
B Lab Assessment
Working with Nonprofits
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Grègoire Landel
CEO@CityTaps
I work to change the world through access to running water at home.
I believe that people everywhere, independent of their means, have a fundamental right to dignity, health, and economic opportunity. Access to running water at home is integral to these rights.
Social impact
Fundraising - Non-VC (includes crowdfunding, grants, cause-based giving)
Working with Cities and Governments
Water/finance
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Jesse Carrey-Chan (he/him)
Creative Consultant and Product Designer
My purpose is to expand consciousness through storytelling. I do this by working at the intersection of creativity and technology, with a passion for human-centric experiences that incite curiosity.
Brand strategy
Product strategy
Storytelling
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John Diaz
Founder and Managing Partner at Stone Mountain Ventures
In my role I look to fund great healthcare, consumer, and technology companies. I work with diverse and passionate founders.
Business or financial readiness
Fundraising - VC
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Josh Stephenson (they/them)
Mobile software development
Building world-class mobile apps since 2008
Technology
Mobile software development
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Justin Yuen (he/him/his)
Founder, Grouptrail
Mission is to scale cradle to career success through data and program tracking for collective equity impact across all stakeholders
B Lab Assessment
Business for Good
Public Benefit Company (PBC)
Public education
Serves social impact organizations
Strategic partnerships
Working with Cities and Governments
Working with Nonprofits
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Kelly McDonald
Early on I discovered that I had a passion for helping others find their unique ability. Today I couple that with empowering those who are under represented to seek equity in all facets of life and a "Seat at the Table"
Business or financial readiness
Sales
Fundraising - Non-VC (includes crowdfunding, grants, cause-based giving)
Fundraising - VC
Go to Market (GTM)
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Lena West (she/her)
Founder | CEO | Inclusive Business Strategist | Digital Transformation
My life’s work is to advance the online business landscape for founders and entrepreneurs by pairing reinvented coaching, community, and funding models with increased digital media representation.
Business or financial readiness
Serves under-represented and under-served populations
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Melissa Carmichael (she/her)
Director of Product Design & User Research
I advocate for inclusive design processes, through Design Thinking workshops and user-centered research activities, which contribute to the high level product strategy and enhance the quality of product outcomes.
Customer discovery or user research
Product design
Growth
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Michael Jonas
Principal Attorney and Owner at Rational Unicorn Legal Services PC
I believe that community and business building go hand in hand. I love helping small business owners, nonprofit organizations, entertainers, artists, and other creatives with their business and intellectual property legal needs.
Business for Good
Legal
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Mina Kumar
Social Sector Strategy & Outcomes Consultant
Mina is an expert project manager with over twenty years of experience with social sector organizations including non-profits, private foundations, socially responsible businesses, and social enterprises. Mina’s passion is managing teams and building culture, stakeholder engagement and facilitation, performance management, and strategy.
Nonprofit strategy (includes impact models, evaluation/measuring outcomes)
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Miracle Olatunji
Founder of OpportuniMe & Her Wallet Media, Author of Purpose, Coach
As Miracle’s name implies, her story is nothing short of a miracle: she was not expected to live to be the age she is now due to prenatal complications that her mother experienced. She is a creator, storyteller, and visionary; her goal is to use her platform, skills, and personal story to inform, uplift, and inspire others.
Brand strategy
PR
Storytelling
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Phim Her, she/her
Business Development Strategist, Designer, Coach
For the last 8 years, Phim Her has been focused on tying together three important threads: what it means to be a creative spirit, a conscious member of society and a genuine leader. You can see this reflected in her work as a designer, marketer, business strategist and a mentor/coach for women of color.
Business or financial readiness
Customer discovery or user research
Community development
Design
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Rebekah Miel (she/they)
Founder and Creative Director
You make the world a better place, we just brag about it. Miel Design Studio helps you amplify your good work through graphic design, digital marketing, social media management, brand strategy, & more
Brand strategy
Identity design
Communication plans
Content planning and strategy
Marketing strategy
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Sandra Camacho (She/Her)
Inclusive Design Strategist
I empower Tech organizations to embrace culture change, fuel product and service innovation, and amplify positive impact by harnessing the full power of diversity, inclusivity and design.
Customer discovery or user research
DEI strategy
Product design
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Tania Sahai
Founder and Consultant
I am passionate about leveling the playing field, whether it is done through mentoring and training, or by cooking and providing access to healthy meals.
Business or financial readiness
Customer discovery or user research
Product strategy
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Area of Expertise
Types of Engagement
Spring 2021 Experts
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