WINGS Champions2020-09-23T08:38:58+00:00

WINGS’
Champion

WINGS Champions celebrate the opportunity to find purpose in a mentee’s journey. They are the connectors between mentor and mentee while keeping the WINGS leadership team abreast of the progress of their engagements. While participation as a Champion in WINGS is voluntary, we are looking for committed and passionate women and men who are willing to support the program.

Apply to be A Champion

A WINGS’ Champion Is…

  • Has over 10 years of project management experience
  • Is an Innate teacher
  • Has the ability to manage risk proactively
  • Has the ability to build and manage relationships leading to success
  • Can provide career guidance to mentees as required.
  • Will persevere in following through engagement tasks
  • Has the ability to assist mentee in creating her learning development plan

Champions are WINGS’ on the ground advisors and closely aligned to WINGS program methodology. Champions work in close collaboration with their assigned mentors in their engagement, ensuring that the mentee’s development plan is well defined; progress is being closely monitored and documented. They contribute to the evolution of WINGS current methodology.

Championing At WINGS’

  • Manage minimum two engagements (2 mentor/mentee pairs) for 10 months
  • Meet once per week for the first 6-8 weeks and at least once per month thereafter
  • Conduct the monthly check-in process
  • Assist mentors and mentees in coming up with a development plan following guideline in WINGS methodology
  • Play a role as an advisor to WINGS program management team
  • Leverage their network and experience to help mentees achieve their objectives
  • Play a role as a secondary mentor if needed, in case primary mentor is unavailable for an extended period of time
  • Assist mentees in identifying a practice project
  • Assist in evolving methodology and the program as needed
  • Attend connectivity events to support mentees and the organization
WHAT WOULD
SUCCESS LOOK LIKE
  • Engagements conclude successfully with a high percentage of success – this is measured by using the development plan and direct feedback from the mentor and mentee
  • Mentors and mentees feel supported throughout the program
  • Champions will stage engage and maybe become mentor themselves
  • Successfully met all requirements from WINGS Program management

Our Champions

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Angela Alldredge

Senior Vice President at Citi Private Bank

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Karen Dillon

Manager, Environmental Services at PSEG

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Shaunda Edmonds

Vice President, Global Sales and Client Relationships at Fiserv

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Josiane Peluso

Executive Director, Medicare & Retirement at UnitedHealth Group

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Patty Jessie

Senior Manager, HR Operations at Paramount

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Karina Tipton

Environmental Engineer and Sustainability Analyst at Brown and Caldwell

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Lindsey Welcome

Client Service Manager at Brown and Caldwell

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Vandana Khanna

Senior Director Finance, Global Transformation at Johnson & Johnson

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Melissa Maurer

Director at Citi Private Bank

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Lindsey Welcome

Client Service Manager at Brown and Caldwell

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Jaspreet Kaur

Vice President, Technology, PIMCO

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Santhi Nithi

Vice President, Senior Project Manager at Valley Bank

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Linda Zhang

Director, Head of Markets Business Data Science Platform at Barclays

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Karina Tipton

Environmental Engineer and Sustainability Analyst at Brown and Caldwell

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Shivani Kesar

Capital Delivery Project Manager, Public Works, City of Austin

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Karina Tipton

Environmental Engineer and Sustainability Analyst at Brown and Caldwell

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Pallavi Akkapeddi

Vice President at Wells Fargo

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Linda Zhang

Director, Head of Markets Business Data Science Platform at Barclays

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Dilek Uzunalioglu

Head of Food Applications at Motif FoodWorks, Inc.

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Santhi Nithi

Vice President, Senior Project Manager at Valley Bank

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Gustavo Guevara

Vice President | Finance & Business Management | Enterprise Architect

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Santhi Nithi

Program Management | Strategy | Leadership, Former VP at Valley Bank

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Lakshmi Chari

Segment Sales Operations Lead at Medidata Solutions

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Dilek Uzunalioglu

Head of Food Applications at Motif FoodWorks, Inc.

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Neha Madan

Manager, EY Consulting

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Arthy Krishnamurthy

Principal Consultant at Wipro

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Naveed Iqbal

Director - Global Head of Trade Technology, Citi

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Ivonne Mejía

IT Project Management, Sonoma State University

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Jenna Mikus

Founder, Eudae Group

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Gita Natarajan

Program Manager at BD

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Varsha Waishampayan

CEO and Founder WINGSforGrowth

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Josiane Peluso

Director, Sales and Marketing at UnitedHealth Group

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Purvi Patel

Head of Business Operations, The Madison Square Garden Company