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Leadership Series with Ciemone Sheppard 
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CONTENT  CATALOG ~ 76 Episodes | 573 Schools

Leadership Series featuring :
Tracey Edmonds | Inspiring Persona II
Ben Wilson
Enviromental Law

“This world… it’s an international multi-ethnic experience. It’s important not to limit yourself to only one experience you feel most comfortable in. You’ve got to push yourself outside your comfort zone to grow and evolve.”

 

Tracey Edmonds has created and produced groundbreaking projects for television, film, music, and digital media. She served as co-host of Extra TV alongside Mario Lopez and Charissa Thompson for three years, where she earned an Emmy Award. Edmonds currently serves as CEO and President of Edmonds Entertainment. She is also the Founder and Editor of the lifestyle, health, and wellness media brand, AlrightNow.com.

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Leadership Series featuring Ambassador Kenton Keith
First of His Kind

Ambassador Keith was a career Foreign Service Officer with the United State Information Agency. He retired from USIA with the rank of Career Minister. At the time of his retirement, Ambassador Keith was Director of USIA’s Office of North African, Near Eastern, and South Asian Affairs, managing field operations, public diplomacy activities, and budget for the Agency’s largest geographical bureau.

 

From 1992 to 1995 he served as Ambassador to the State of Qatar. Previous assignments were Counselor for Press and Cultural Affairs in Cairo, Senior Cultural Affairs Officer in Paris, and various posts in the Near East and Brazil. In this episode, Keith discusses his family and growing up, college, the Navy, and signing up for the foreign service.

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Sharon Reynolds II
Leadership Series featuring Sharon Reynolds
Resolve & Resilience II

Sharon W. Reynolds, President/CEO, launched DevMar Products with an idea to distribute environmentally-conscience, pathogen remediation products.Sharon is the founder of DevMar Global Healthcare Solutions, a distributor of human donor milk for at-risk infants in the NICU, Bryla J Couture Clothiers, designer-inspired fashion for a purpose for the fashion conscience woman, and DevMar Manufacturing, a facility providing quality control oversight for its specialty products.

 

A serial entrepreneur, Sharon was named the Top 20 in 2020 for Enterprising Women, 2019 WBE Star by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), and the 2019 Enterprising Woman of the Year award by Enterprising Magazine. 

Leadership Series featuring : Jonathan Glickman
A Pathway Paved With Passion | Part II
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“Panoramic is the word I kept returning to when thinking about a broad, forward-thinking view of the changing media business. Taking from my experience on the producing, financing, and executive sides of the business, we’ve created a strong, nimble structure that allows established and emerging talent to control the creative and financial destiny of IP and original stories.”

 

In the second part of our conversation, former MGM Motion Group president, Jonathan Glickman, discusses his time as a studio head and how he came to launch his own production banner. Panoramic Media is a multi-platform content venture with creations across film, television, podcast, and digital platforms.

 

Glickman is currently in production on ‘Creed III’ directed by and starring Michael B. Jordan; the Netflix series ‘Wednesday’ directed by Tim Burton and starring Jenna Ortega; ‘California King’ with Travis Bennett and Jimmy Tatro; as well as preproduction on director Janet Mock’s ‘Scandalous!’ which stars Jeremy Pope..

Tracey Edwards
Leadership Series featuring :
Tracey Edmonds | Inspiring Persona

“This world… it’s an international multi-ethnic experience. It’s important not to limit yourself to only one experience you feel most comfortable in. You’ve got to push yourself outside your comfort zone to grow and evolve.”

 

Tracey Edmonds has created and produced groundbreaking projects for television, film, music, and digital media. She served as co-host of Extra TV alongside Mario Lopez and Charissa Thompson for three years, where she earned an Emmy Award. Edmonds currently serves as CEO and President of Edmonds Entertainment. She is also the Founder and Editor of the lifestyle, health, and wellness media brand, AlrightNow.com.

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Sharon Reynolds
Leadership Series featuring Sharon Reynolds
Resolve & Resilience

“I come from a long line of hardworking champions on both sides of my family who persevered through the toughest times you can ever imagine.” In this episode Ms. Reynolds shares stories of growing up , overcoming tragedy and the impact of moving into their own home. 

 

Founded on a dream and a mission, DevMar Products, LLC embodies environmental initiatives that will help sustain our planet for generations to come. In 2007, Sharon W. Reynolds, President/CEO, launched the company with an idea to distribute environmentally-friendly products including green cleaning solutions and office products. Her quest is to provide the highest level of knowledge, expertise, discretion, and integrity in the development of business opportunities for the company while sustaining the environment.

Leadership Series featuring Angeline Boulley
debut novel Firekeeper's Daughter
Angeline Boulley
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"Even though the story has this exciting plot this indigenous Nancy Drew meets 21 Jump Street at its core it's a coming of age story about a young woman claiming her identity and finding her place in the world."
                         ~ Angeline Boulley on her first novel Firekeeper's Daughter
 

Angeline Boulley, an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, is a storyteller who writes about her Ojibwe community in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She is a former Director of the Office of Indian Education with the U.S. Department of Education.
 

Angeline lives in southwest Michigan, but her home will always be on Sugar Island. Firekeeper's Daughter is her debut novel, and was an instant #1 NYT Bestseller. It also won the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature (Teen category) in 2022.

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Jon Glickman
Leadership Series featuring Producer Jonathan Glickman
A Pathway Paved With Passion

Jonathan Glickman is a highly successful film producer and seasoned veteran of over 25 years in the entertainment industry. His career took off after producing films such as the Rush Hour franchise, While You Were Sleeping, and Grosse Pointe Blank. He later served as President of Spyglass Entertainment and served a nearly nine-year tenure, from 2011 to 2020, as President of MGM Motion Picture Group.

Glickman oversaw film development and production, including reviving the Rocky franchise with Creed and Creed II, as well as shepherding the James Bond trio Skyfall, Spectre, and No Time to Die. He founded the Glickmania Media Group, an independent production company in February 2020. In 2022, Jonathan Glickman launched his own production banner, Panoramic Media, a multi-platform content venture with creations across film, television, podcast and digital platforms. Glickman’s new company will expand upon his existing slate of projects set up at Netflix, Amazon, MGM, Warner Media, Paramount, and MRC, as well as a joint podcast venture with iHeartMedia.

Leon Kennedy
Colorful Conversations  with Leon Isaac Kennedy
 

“I started very young doing radio when I was 15 as a disc jockey in 5 major markets. Television by the time I was 18. Major motion pictures by the time I was 26. I always had to figure out how I was going to get in. How am I going to get past the gatekeepers? I was a very determined kid. If you don’t let me in the front door, I’m coming in the side door, the back door, a window, a crawl space, somehow some way I’m getting in. I never took no for an answer. No was not acceptable to me.”

 

Director / Writer / Actor / Producer / Evangelist, Leon Isaac Kennedy is most famously known for his portrayal of Martel Gordone in the 1979 movie ‘Penitentiary.’ After leaving Hollywood for many years, he recently returned to the movie business with his latest project.

 

‘The Observers,’ a documentary with a fresh perspective that explores and discusses ufology, with scholars, investigative journalists, and experts in the field including: Whitley Strieber, Linda Moulton Howe, John Greenewald, William Henry, Jimmy Church and more. Join us for a Colorful Conversation that may come with some controversy around Kennedy’s startling, provocative, and eye-opening documentary. “Knowledge, if you have an open-mind, is constantly evolving.”

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Deval Patrick
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