Corry Joe Biddle

Corry Joe serves as the vice president of Community Affairs for the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC), promoting the association’s mission to improve metro Milwaukee as a place to invest capital, grow business and create jobs. She is also the executive director of FUEL Milwaukee, the MMAC’s talent attraction and retention organization serving young professionals. Corry Joe is responsible for the oversight and development of programs, services and events benefiting FUEL’s members and corporate sponsors. She’s also involved in the development of MMAC’s workplace talent initiative, “Making Milwaukee a Region of Choice for Diverse Talent,” which seeks to increase the numbers of African American and Latino/Hispanic professionals in leadership roles.

Formerly the executive director of America’s Black Holocaust Museum, Corry Joe offers a unique perspective on the relationship between diversity, economic development and community engagement.

Corry Joe graduated from Mount Mary College with degrees in business administration and professional writing and has earned a certificate of leadership from the Cardinal Stritch African American Leadership Program. She is the recipient of the U.S. Postal Service’s Growing Leadership Award, has been honored as one of the Milwaukee Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 and was also named a “Rad Woman” by the Greater Milwaukee Women’s Fund.

Favorite Quote:
“Your future will unfold when you tell the truth.” – Sandye Brown, Leadership Coach

Denise Domian

Denise Domian is a human resources professional with more than 20 years of repeated success in designing and delivering human capital strategies and HR programs that drive organizational change and operational excellence. For the past three years, she has been the chief human resource officer at Johnson Financial Group (JFG). She spent the bulk of her human resources career leading HR for The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. prior to joining JFG.

Her philosophy is that human resources should be the light not the lampshade, shining a light on opportunities to always do better. Denise is passionate about culture and DEI, establishing DEI programs at Bon-Ton Stores and Johnson Financial Group. She identified the Corporate Equality Index and the Disability Index as opportunities at JFG, achieving a 100% rating on both indexes in 2022.

Denise loves food, and therefore, married a professional baker. She, her husband and daughter enjoy the outdoors and spend a fair amount of time climbing outside and at the local gym.

Lucia Galezewski

Lucia leads people to succeed. She was born and raised in Ecuador, coming to the U.S. at the age of 17. She has an accounting degree from UW-Milwaukee and an MBA from Marquette University. She works as a finance business partner at Rockwell Automation. With over 17 years of experience in manufacturing fields, Lucia has led diverse teams across the globe and supported functional and business unit leadership to achieve their goals. She also has served the Rockwell Latinx Professional Network board as president, vice president and advisor. With a daring and energetic attitude, she follows her passion and calling – anywhere from being a mom to being a servant leader to the organization and the Hispanic and African American communities.

Lucia lives in Wisconsin with her husband of 20 years and their four kids.

Ellen McGirt

Ellen McGirt is a senior editor at Fortune magazine, where she established the race and culture beat in 2016. In addition to long-form magazine features, she writes “RaceAhead,” a regular column on race and inclusion in corporate life and beyond. The column has received a New York Press Club Award for commentary, a National Headliner Award and the Steven Heller Prize for Commentary from the AIGA. She is the editorial director of Fortune Connect, a membership community of mid-career executives focused on purpose, stakeholder capitalism and anti-racist inclusion. Ellen is also the co-chair of Fortune’s CEO Initiative and Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit and the co-host of Fortune’s Leadership Next podcast.

Previously she’s written for Money, Time and Fast Company, where she wrote or contributed to more than 20 cover stories and created the digital series “The 30 Second MBA.” Her reporting has taken her inside the C-suites of Facebook, Nike, Twitter, Intel, Xerox and Cisco; on the campaign trail with Barack Obama and across Africa with Bono to study breakthrough philanthropy. McGirt was the editor for “Your First Leadership Job,” a book published by Wiley in 2016. Ellen attended Brown University.

The New York City native now mostly lives in the Midwest with her family. Ask her about fly-fishing if you get a chance.

Isioma Nwabuzor

Attorney Isioma Nwabuzor is Associate General Counsel & Assistant Corporate Secretary at Modine Manufacturing Company, an international, thermal engineering company. Previously, Attorney Nwabuzor served in both the financial services and financial technology (“fintech”) spaces.

She presently serves as a board member for the Sports & Entertainment Law Section of the State Bar of Wisconsin; Professional Dimensions; and the Association of Corporate Counsel – Wisconsin Chapter. She is a TEDx speaker and the founder of the DREAMer Next Door, Inc.

She has been recognized as a “40 Under 40” award recipient by the Milwaukee Business Journal; an “Up and Coming Lawyer” by the Wisconsin Law Journal; a 6th District Difference Maker by the 6th Aldermanic District of the City of Milwaukee; and as a National Alumni Award recipient by Marquette University Law School.

She holds a BA in Political Science & Psychology from Marquette University and a JD from Marquette University Law School.

Shary Tran

Shary Tran is the global diversity equity and inclusion leader for Amazon Worldwide Operations. Prior to her role at Amazon, Shary spent eight years as director of diversity and inclusion at Froedtert Health and 15 years in manufacturing with companies such as Briggs & Stratton and Johnson Controls. Shary is also a co-founder of ElevAsian, whose mission is to elevate the visibility of the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community in Milwaukee, and a co-founder of the AAPI Coalition of Wisconsin, a statewide advocacy group to advance policies and programs that impact the AAPI community. Shary is also a board member of HPGM and Sojourner Family Peace Center and an advisory board member of Teens Grow Greens.