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  • Salon: Trump’s Plan to Dismantle DEI is Jim Crow 2.0 → Read here
  • TIME Magazine: “Imposter Syndrome Isn’t a Personal Flaw, It’s a Systemic Issue,” Read here 
  • Fortune: Competency Checking of Kamala Harris → Read here
  • Fast Company: Published excerpt, “3 ways ‘competency checking’ can impact your workplace,” Read here
  • Publishers Weekly: Best book in Business and Economics, Spring roundup, Read here
  • The Hill: It’s time corporate attorneys shifted from defense to offense on DEI  Read here 
  • Yahoo Finance Wealth Show:  Economic Boycott and Qualified full video Watch here 


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Shari Dunn

Shari Dunn is a polymath, an accomplished journalist, and a former attorney, news anchor, CEO, university professor, and game-show winner. She is an American Leadership Forum Fellow and has been awarded the prestigious Executive of the Year Award in 2018, the 2019 Women of Influence Award (Portland Business Journal), the Associated Press Award for Best Spot News, and the Wisconsin Broadcasting Association Award for Best Morning News Show. Her work has been cited in the Wall Street Journal and quoted in Ad Age and the Chronicle of Philanthropy, among others. She is also a sought-after speaker and holds a BA in philosophy from Marquette University and a JD from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.

Shari is an innovator and thinker who helps organizations and individuals “change their thinking and their lives/organizations.” She weaves history, current learning, and disparate thought into narratives that allow listeners and readers to discover their own “a-ha” moments of understanding and change. Shari brings cross-sector experience from the law, media, education, and social enterprise to create several new “takes” on issues such as “Imposter Syndrome” and original scholarship, giving voice to what has for too long had no name, Competency Checking.

Shari says that she believes she is here to share what she has learned with all those who wish to hear her message(s). We can reinvent our work, ourselves, and our communities. We can innovate, understand, and transform who we are. But the only way to achieve all of this is by excavating our past, holding it up to the light, and charting a new course toward a shared future rooted in understanding.