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04/30/2025

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04/08/2025

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02/28/2025

You've helped to keep me in the running ... please keep voting and spread the word --> I made it to the next phase --> please vote for me today -->

One visionary will be featured in Forbes, receive a one-on-one mentoring session from Daymond John, and take home $25,000.

02/24/2025

Every vote continues to count! Thank you all so much for ensuring that I remain in the competition. Your help in voting each day and asking your network to vote for me would be greatly appreciated!

One visionary will be featured in Forbes, receive a one-on-one mentoring session from Daymond John, and take home $25,000.

02/21/2025

Thanks to you all ... I've advanced to the top 5! This REALLY is a marathon :-D Your continued daily votes made the difference. Please continue to vote for me. Thank you so much!!

One visionary will be featured in Forbes, receive a one-on-one mentoring session from Daymond John, and take home $25,000.

01/03/2025

We are hiring in Oregon -- please spread the word:

Must be a resident of either Yamhill, Washington, Tillamook, Columbia, or Clatsop Counties Full-Time Dental, Life, Medical, Retirement, Vision $17.68 to $19.60 per hour Crown Grace International is seeking a qualified, trained, and capable individual to serve as a Work for Warriors Outreach Counselo...

12/11/2024

Last night, I had the honor of receiving the Daily Record ICON Honors award - along with so MANY distinguished folks in Maryland!

- Cynthia Bambara - President - Allegany College
- Paul Bekman - Partner - Penman, Marder, Hopper, Malarkey & Perlin, LLC
-Brian Brown - Managing Partner - Brown & Barron, LLC
- Patricia Browne - President & CEO - National Children's Center
- Mickey Burnim - President Emeritus - Bowie State University
-Joseph Demattos - President & CEO - Health Facilities Association of Maryland
- Philip Federico - Partner - Baird Mandalas Brockstedt & Federico
- Gary Goldstein - President & CEO -Kennedy Krieger Institute
- Michael Hankin - President & CEO - Brown Advisory
- Donna Hargens - Superintendent of Catholic Schools - Archdiocese of Baltimore
- Honorable Michele Hotten - Senior Justice - Maryland Supreme Court
- Francis Kelly, Jr. - Chairman & Co-Founder - Kelly & Associates Insurance Group
- Lawrence Kurzius - Executive Chairman of the Board - McCormick & Company
- Moira Larsen - Physician Executive Director - MedStar Health
- Gloria Lawlah - Former Secretary of Aging - Maryland Department of Aging
- Patricia McCarron - Head of School - Notre Dame Preparatory School
- Ted Millspaugh - Chair of Real Estate Group - Venable, LLP
- Bonnie Phipps - CEO (retired) - St. Agnes Hospital/Ascension
- Sharon Pinder - President & CEO - Capital Region Minority Supplier Development Council
- Honorable Irma Raker - Justice, Senior Judge (retired) - Maryland Supreme Court
- Elizabeth Rendon-Sherman - CEO & CFO - LG-TEK
- Karen Rothenberg - Former Dean - University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
- Owen Rouse - Senior Vice President - MacKenzie Commercial Real Estate Services
- Ralph Semmel - Director - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
- Irena Stein - Founder & Creative Director - Alma Cocina Latina
- Paul Stein - Retired - Stein Sperling

CONGRATULATIONS to ALL the Honorees!

10/15/2024

Mitigate Machine Bias
Control machine bias to prevent discriminating against your consumers and damaging your organization (from our Info Tech Partner)

• AI is the new electricity. It is fundamentally and radically changing the fabric of our world, from the way we conduct business, to how we work and live, make decisions, and engage with each other, to how we organize our society, and ultimately, to who we are. Organizations are starting to adopt AI to increase efficiency, better engage customers, and make faster, more accurate decisions.
• Like with any new technology, there is a flip side, a dark side, to AI – machine biases. If unchecked, machine biases replicate, amplify, and systematize societal biases. Biased AI systems may treat some of your customers (or employees) differently based on their race, gender, identity, age, etc. This is discrimination, and it is against the law. It is also bad for business, including missed opportunities, lost consumer confidence, reputational risk, regulatory sanctions, and lawsuits.

Some Thoughts
Critical Insight
• Machine biases are not intentional. They reflect the cognitive biases, preconceptions, and judgement of the creators of AI systems and the societal structures encoded in the data sets used for machine learning.
• Machine biases cannot be prevented or fully eliminated. Early identification and diversity in and by design are key. Like with privacy and security breaches, early identification and intervention – ideally at the ideation phase – is the best strategy. Forewarned is forearmed. Prevention starts with a culture of diversity, inclusivity, openness, and collaboration.
• Machine bias is enterprise risk. Machine bias is not a technical issue. It is a social, political, and business problem. Integrate it into your enterprise risk management (ERM).

Impact and Result
• Just because machine biases are induced by human behavior, which is also captured in data silos, they are not inevitable. By asking the right questions upfront during application design, you can prevent many of them.
• Biases can be introduced into an AI system at any stage of the development process, from the data you collect, to the way you collect it, to which algorithms are used, to which assumptions are made, etc. Ask your data science team a lot of questions; leave no stone unturned.
• Don’t wait until “Datasheets for Datasets” and “Model Cards for Model Reporting” (or similar frameworks) become standards. Start creating these documents now to identify and analyze biases in your apps. If using open-source data sets or libraries, you may need to create them yourself for now. If working with partners or using AI/ ML services, demand that they provide such information as part of the engagement. You, not your partners, are ultimately responsible for the AI-powered product or service you deliver to your customers or employees.
• Build a culture of diversity, transparency, inclusivity, and collaboration – the best mechanism to prevent and address machine biases.
• Treat machine bias as an enterprise risk. Use your ERM to guide all decisions around machine biases and their mitigation.

09/30/2024

Scale Up Your Requirements Management Practices
Embrace business analysis at the speed and scale of your organization.

• Poor requirements are correlated with failed projects. Poor requirements are to blame for as much as 78% of project failures (ZipDo, 2024).
• As more teams shift to Agile and hybrid methodologies, there is often a struggle to develop consistent practices for requirements management.
• Often, business analysts (BAs), or the role tasked with business analysis or requirements management, haven’t developed the right competencies to successfully execute and add value.

Our Advice
Critical Insight
• Contrary to popular belief, business analysis and requirements management are not dead. They are more critical than ever in an environment of continual disruption and upheaval.
• Good requirements practices are the key to unlocking project and product value and reducing technical debt.

Impact and Result
• Develop an outcome-based common framework for requirements management that works across teams and methodologies.
• Standardize the management of evergreen requirements (requirements as an asset), not one-time change requirements.
• Align requirements management with product backlog management and product delivery processes.
• Develop a requirements management playbook that extends your solution delivery framework.

09/26/2024

Exponential technologies are advancing rapidly. Already, we’ve been seeing an increase not only in the number of and iterations of Gen AI tools but also the application of these tools across multiple industries. In the automotive industry for example, in-car gen-AI enhanced experiences were announced by multiple manufacturers this year. Let's discuss some of the most convincing near-term technology advancements that will change how IT operates and brings accelerated value to the enterprise. Let's discuss how you can leverage an actionable Exponential IT framework to help IT embrace exponential technologies and embark on the Exponential IT journey.

09/19/2024

Seeking An Event / Meeting Planner in the DC Area - MUST HAVE existing Public Trust Clearance or Higher!

We are seeking an experienced Event/Meeting Planner with an active Public Trust or higher clearance to join our team! You will be responsible for organizing important events from conception through completion. Based on conference and event management best practices, the meeting planner will implemen...