SHE-EO 11.0 2022
You are welcome to the 11th edition of She-EO. For the first time in our history, She-EO will be a week-long experience open to women of African descent living in every corner of the world. This means that whether you decide to join us in person in Houston on Friday, 21st and Saturday 22nd of October; or you decide to join our lunch time conversations from October 17th to 19th, you can be rest assured that you will be a part of tough and difficult, but life changing conversations that will leave you inspired and empowered to grow.
Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, The Money Coach®, is a personal finance expert, speaker, and author of 15 money-management books, including the New York Times bestseller Zero Debt: The Ultimate Guide to Financial Freedom.
Lynnette has been seen on more than 1,000 TV segments nationwide, including television appearances on Oprah, Dr. Phil, The Dr. Oz Show, The Steve Harvey Show, Good Morning America, The TODAY Show and many more. A former financial news journalist for The Wall Street Journal and CNBC, Lynnette is the CEO of TheMoneyCoach.net LLC, a financial education company that she runs with her husband and co-founder, Earl Cox.
Lynnette earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of California, Irvine. She also holds a Master of Arts degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Southern California. She is a native of Los Angeles who spent 20 years on the East Coast, but now lives in the greater Houston area.
Lynnette and Earl are the proud parents of 3 children – including one recent college graduate, one current college student and one college-bound teenager.
To learn more about Lynnette, stop by her personal site, LynnetteKhalfaniCox.com, visit her financial advice blog, AskTheMoneyCoach.com, check out her video-based financial courses at MoneyCoachUniversity.com, or connect with Lynnette on social media via LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
Princess Ghaneeyyah Sulaiman-Olokodana is a trained Clinical Psychologist, a practicing Faith-based Psychotherapist/Relationship & Family Life Therapist, a passionate Speaker and Mental Health Advocate. Ghaneeyyah is passionate about all things healthy; body and soul. For the past 18+ years, her dedication to her Purpose of continuously generating promotions to a healthy lifestyle has seen her not only speaking at different fora; professional, religious or business, but also running a private therapy practice where she provides services in Individual and Relationship Education, Counselling & Therapy.
Ghaneeyyah is on a Mission:
1. To make people and relationships better
2. To make better people and relationships.
The first is about helping them to heal, and overcome the challenges they face, whenever they fall short.
The second is about teaching them the skills they need to continuously improve on themselves and their relationships.
To help her achieve these, she has earned a BSc (Hons.) Second Class Upper Degree in Psychology and an MSc Degree in Clinical Psychology. She also has Certifications in Entrepreneurial Management and Family Systems Engineering. Her focus on Mental Health and Interpersonal Relationships stem from her Research Works during both of her academic degrees. As an undergraduate, her BSc thesis was one of the pioneering studies in Nigeria advocating support for a two-dimensional approach in Mental Health Assessment.
She also pioneered research in Dating Anxiety Amongst Muslim Singles, during her Master's program. And as a lifelong learner, she continues to participate and train in several local and international Mentoring, Business Entrepreneurial and Networking Programs.
Femi Shabiolegbe is an Executive Director and leads HR for the Firm’s global Finance division. She joined Morgan Stanley in 2017 and has held a number of HR and DE&I leadership roles during her tenure. Prior to Morgan Stanley, she worked at UBS for over a decade as a global HR Business Partner and as a Talent Development leader across the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific.
Femi started her career as an Auditor and then a People Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers Nigeria. She holds a BSc. in Economics from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, and an MBA from Howard University. She also holds a NextGen council position within a national non-profit focused on developing ethical leaders (FRED Leadership).
Femi is an accomplished speaker, singer and performer, and is actively involved within her local theater community – she can sometimes be seen on stage in revues, plays and musicals with local theater companies.
Abidat Lawal is a scientist with an interdisciplinary background in microbiology, environmental science, and molecular pathology. She works as the Technical lead in the National wastewater surveillance project at the bureau of laboratory services in Houston. She strives to push boundaries and explore exciting ways of adding value wherever she is while staying true to her authentic self. She is married to Engineer Folorunsho Lawal with 3 children. Proudly an Ijebu woman of noble heritage from the Okusi family in Ijebu Ode, she has a passion for business, learning new languages, mentoring youths, and advocating for women. She enjoys reading and spending time with her family. She volunteers for youth development, public health and women empowerment causes. Abidat has lived in 6 countries, speaks multiple languages and aspires to impact West Africa on a large scale by creating science and technology-based opportunities that can help women and talented youth translate their intellectual capabilities into solution-driven enterprises.
Munitrat Tam-Balogun is the Tax Managing Director at Deloitte Tax LLP. Prior to her current role, she had held the positions of Tax senior, Excise Tax Manager, Excise Tax Senior Manager and Tax Managing Director at Deloitte.
Dr. Jumoke Adedoyin was born in Nigeria. She attended Howard University College of Dentistry, graduating #1 in the class of 2001.
She maintains an extraordinarily successful practice that is exclusively dedicated to Implant dentistry in Cartersville, Georgia and is the Director for Clinical Relations for Affordable Care Incorporated, a Dental Service Organization serving 700+ dentists with 382 locations. Dr. Adedoyin spends most of her time supporting dentists as they navigate through their career journey.
In addition to being a dentist, Dr. Jumoke is a speaker and a coach: She has maintained her presence on the national stage as one of the few Black female Key Opinion Leaders in implantology and continues to blaze the trail in teaching about practical Christianity in the workplace and in life!
She is a serial entrepreneur, who scaled her dental practice to a 7- figure business just one year after opening her doors, Dr. Jumoke is passionate about equipping women, not only to show up in their feminine strength while taking their seat at the table in the workplace, but also encourages them to discover God’s purpose for their lives and how they can maintain a harmonious balance of work and life while living life at its best.
She currently resides in the Atlanta area with her husband and three sons. You can connect with her using social media handle @DrJumoke.
Judge Collier is the presiding Judge of 113th district, Texas. She is Board Certified in Civil Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and was recently awarded the 2021 Jurist of the Year for the Texas Chapters of the American Board of Trial Advocates.
Judge Collier serves on the Curriculum Committee for the Texas Center for the Judiciary, which is comprised of approximately 15 judges that develop judicial education for all Texas judges. She also currently serves as an executive board member for the Association of District Judges and a board member of the Asian American Bar Association of Houston.
Judge Collier believes that judicial integrity is the necessary requirement to uphold the sanctity of our laws. As judge, she demands that the law is followed in each case and judged on the merits of the case free from bias and prejudice. As a native Houstonian, Judge Collier serves as the judge of the 113th Judicial District Court of Harris County.
She is a graduate of Kingwood High School in Houston, Texas. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government from the University of Texas at Austin. She earned a Juris Doctor degree from Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston, Texas. Rabeea is married to Robert Collier, an attorney. They have two sons and live in North Houston.
Dr Stanley (Okey) Okpor is a pharmacist with the third largest retail pharmacy corporation in the US. He is also the creative director and brains behind Oktionz Images, a image, graphic design and publishing consulting company. He brings the concierge in photography to you as part of his mission to take your images to the next level.
He is the Co-Author, A Little Medicine for a Growing Marriage; and Co-hosts, Grey Couch Conversations with his wife Dr Otito Okpor.
Kola Fagbayi is the Vice President Strategy & Governance at BP America.
Prior to his current position, he was the VP Low Carbon 7 Sustainability at bpx energy and Vice President HSE and Engineering authority
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee is an influential and forceful voice in Washington. She is serving her fourteenth term as a member of the United States House of Representatives. She represents the 18th Congressional District of Texas, centered in Houston, which is the energy capital of the world. Considered by many as the “Voice of Reason”, she is dedicated to upholding the Constitutional rights of all people.
She sits on three Congressional Committees — a senior member of the House Committees on the Judiciary and Homeland Security and appointed by the leadership as a Member of the crucial Budget Committee.
In the previous Congress, she authored, introduced and saw passage of the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act. Additionally, she introduced several bills including the Juvenile Accountability Block Grant Re-authorization and Bullying Prevention and Intervention Act, H.R. 71, the Federal Prison Bureau Nonviolent Offender Relief Act of 2015, and H.R. 4660, an Amendment to the Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2015 affirming the authority of the Attorney General to reduce prison overcrowding by developing and implementing lawful policies relating to requests for executive clemency from deserving petitioners.
Dr. Adeola is a Sr. Director Contract Services, Pharmacy at Apexus LLC a subsidiary of Vizient Inc. She has a Doctor of Pharmacy and Masters in Public Health . She describes herself as a citizen of the world and a natural networker with over 15 years of experience building/optimizing organizational processes for business results.
Her intuition and genuine interest in others help her build long-lasting, fruitful relationships with her team, business partners and clients to drive consistent, recurring revenue for my organization. She values constant collaboration, different ideas and insights in our changing world.
Denrele Jimoh is a Houston Divorce & Family Law Attorney with over 15 years of professional experience as a family lawyer. Adenrele Oladapo-Jimoh takes her role very seriously as an advocate for the people. She is an ethical and responsive lawyer who handles cases efficiently and with great care.
Sanmi Segun-Oki is an ardent advocate of mental wellness. My journey unto its path, practice and promotion was inspired by a particularly turbulent period in my life marked by the loss of a close friend, and heightened pressure from life’s demands.
His background as an Engineer underpins my approach of self-inquiry to better understand and nourish the mind. He is enthusiastic about sharing my knowledge and experiences in the hopes of providing others with autonomous means of sustaining positive mental health. His principal focus is Mindfulness meditation. He is a certified Mindfulness teacher and have been a dedicated practitioner of this discipline for over half a decade.
He holds a BEng in Chemical Engineering and an MSc in Environmental Technology. He has over 17 years of experience in the upstream and midstream Oil & Gas industry in both operational and managerial roles, and have contributed technical publications to the Society of Petroleum Engineers’ body of knowledge.