SE Lady Bosses Affinity Group

Please join Inforum’s Lady Bosses Affinity Group

for

BREAKING THE BIAS

A conversation with women paving the way professionally in areas or methods that challenge societal assumptions

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

10:30 a.m. – Noon

PARTNR HAUS

2139 Cole St, Birmingham, MI 48009

We are honored to have a fantastic panel that includes:

Sahir Al-Salam

Sahir has a diverse background community engagement. With a passion for the advancement and centering of minority communities. Spending nearly a decade as a dialysis tech, she recognized the need to increase pain management options for those living with chronic illnesses. This experience lead her to organize caregivers who focused on medicinal medication as a holistic experience. The drive to provide a holistic experience ignited her to starting her own cultivation service.  She learned not only how to cultivate the plant itself, but how to plant seeds of prosperity within her community. Establishing two investment groups that have raised (to date) over $200,000. Creating a network of black investors dedicated to obtaining generational wealth and dismantling poverty systems in black communities. Her community networking and investment opportunities led her to establish a consulting company Sahir Al-Salam Consulting which offers development of grow facility plans, grow op development, marijuana investments, and dispensary scales and marketing. Sahir Al-Salam Consulting has developed a scale and succession plan for a medical marijuana dis- pensary. As a consultant, she assisted the dispensary with structural lay out. This dispensary passed state licensing inspection and to open June 27th 2020.  Detroit Life lounge is her most intimate project. She seen a need for the community to have access to resources to help get into the marijuana industry. High Prophecy Is Sahir’s most recent project. Being a grower it was important for her to have a brand and cannabis strain that represent who she is. High prophecy will be released in Michigan 2023. Sahir believes life experiences are our most impactful teachers. We have all the knowledge we seek within. Within our communities, our cultural practices and ourselves. Her leisure time is usually spent traveling for personal development, informing the community concerning legal changes in the marijuana industry, and teaching patients how to cultivate and self advocate.

Aundrea is the owner of Spaulding Decon, a restoration company covering all of SE Michigan. Aundrea works closely with her husband and her all-female team of technicians to provide water damage restoration, mold remediation, biohazard cleanup, hoarding cleanouts, rodent dropping removal, odor removal and meth lab cleanups. Being one of the few female-owned restoration companies in this area, she prides herself on her ability to connect with her customers by being empathetic during some of the hardest times of their life.

Aundrea lives in Sterling Heights with her husband Jesse, son Jack, and their four rescue pups and one rescue cat. She enjoys reading, traveling both domestically and internationally and working with pet rescues to help save at-risk animals from being euthanized.

Kendra is the Michigan Market Development Director for Accenture, a leading global professional services company. She works collaboratively in the Michigan market to bring the best of Accenture to their partners and the community, and works to increase engagement of the 1500+ employees based in Michigan. Prior to her current role, she spent 20 years in Accenture’s Talent & Organization practice working with clients to implement large-scale change initiatives. In addition to her career at Accenture, Kendra runs a home-based bakery business, Save Your Fork Desserts. As a small business owner, she leverages her consulting mindset, creativity, and love of desserts to make her customers’ special events a little sweeter.

Kendra lives in Troy with her husband Michael. She has two college-age children, Kane and Kaiya, and a 13-year-old silver Labrador retriever. She enjoys baking, fitness, and spending time with family and friends.
 

The purpose of the Lady Bosses is to provide educational programming (speakers, workshops), support, inspiration, accountability to and from other Inforum business owners or prospective owners. While much of the Inforum membership is in the corporate world, Lady Bosses Affinity Group is designed to meet the unique needs of business owners. It can also become a catalyst to encourage women to start or purchase their own businesses. The group also can provide and gain synergy from Inforum’s inGAGE strategy. 

First Wednesday of the month, 10:30 a.m. – noon

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Group Leadership

Carol C. Ward, (248) 590-7190, cward@frannet.com

Michelle Cantor, (248) 705-9008, michelle@volarconsulting.com

Andrea Walker andrea@walkerpublicity.com