The BOLD Podcast

Alfonso Cornejo is a 30-year resident of Montgomery, where he and his wife Marilyn raised three children. Cornejo was born and raised in Mexico. He is a business consultant that helps small companies do business in Latin America.  Cornejo moved to Cincinnati with P&G 30 years ago and continued in HR positions with Clorox and Chiquita before retiring in 2002.  Alfonso has been president of the all-volunteer Hispanic Ch...

Beth Hartman has over 24 years of banking experience at both Fifth Third Bank and National City Bank / PNC Bank.  She is a Certified Treasury Professional (CTP) and payments expert.  Beth manages a team of five treasury sales professionals who support the Greater Cincinnati, Dayton, and Northern Kentucky markets.

Beth is a BOLD 1 graduate and currently serves as Vice President of the Southwest Ohio Association fo...

Mike Sipple Jr. is the president of Centennial and co-founder of Talent Magnet Institute. He is also the host of the Talent Magnet Institute Podcast. He has spent over 20 years investing in individual and organizational leaders. He has been a leader who is constantly learning as well as teaching and showing others how to lead well. He has a passion and desire for people and our world that many feel is contagious. He is a visio...

Maribel is a BOLD 4 graduate and GE Aviation Sr Technical Project Manager working on an important migration project across the whole engineering community. Born and raised in Mexico City, Cortes Conde holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from the Polytechnic Institute in Mexico. Her career in a male dominated industry includes managing outsourcing IT operations with teams in Mexico, India, China and USA. Some of the client...

Michael Moore is the founder of Black Achievers, a networking organization with over 27,000 members nationwide. Michael's mission is to build a network of Black professionals who can work together to make the world a better place for everyone to live.

Michael is also the author of "Achieve Your Dreams, The 9 Principles of African American Success"

At age 19, Michael taught himself how to write computer code. He started designi...

BOLD is grateful to call Janice Weiss of Mayerson Academy a BOLD faculty member.  As Senior Manager Strengths-Based Initiatives, Janice collaborates with organizations and businesses to infuse workplace cultures with a strengths-based mindset, sharing hands-on character-strength tools uniquely designed to inspire authentic employee well-being and everyday associate engagement. She’s a serial entrepreneur who launched a fruit a...

Jenni Frazer is group vice president in the Bank’s Supervision, Credit Risk, and Statistics Department. In this role, she leads supervisory programs at the largest and most complex banking firms in the Fourth Federal Reserve District and serves as deputy regional officer at the Bank’s Cincinnati Branch.  Frazer joined the Bank in 2001 as an associate examiner. Prior to joining the Cleveland Fed, she served as a credit administ...

As Senior Manager of Strengths Based Initiatives, Philip works to strengthen workplaces, universities and neighborhoods across Cincinnati and beyond. He focuses primarily on Mayerson Academy’s Strong Cincinnati Institute, which engages cohorts of local organizations in using strengths-based practices to transform workplace cultures and unleash the potential of people in order to increase performance. In addition, Philip also provid...

Do you know what it takes to lead on a nonprofit board?  Have you ever wondered if there is a community of practicing nonprofit board leaders?  The BOLD Blog was created by Leadership Council for Nonprofits and the BOLD program for conversations dedicated to the practice and experiences of nonprofit board leaders. We wanted to create a community of practice around nonprofit board leadership. This podcast will provide you ...

Improving refugee and immigrant lives, a tidbit at a time.  Heartfelt Tidbits provides support to refugees and recent immigrants living in Southwestern Ohio by facilitating integration and self-sufficiency through our innovative education, cultural and employment-enhancing programming.  Transitioning to American life is multifaceted and not easily achieved for refugees and recent immigrants.  That's why Heartfelt Tid...

Colleen Houston’s mission in life is to help people discover their creative genius and connect with their communities through art. She believes that “everyone who has ever been a child is an artist”—and that by tapping into our creative energy, we can deepen empathy, strengthen social bonds, tackle tough issues, and unleash the potential of individuals and communities alike.

She was 18 years old when she joined ArtWorks as a Youth ...

In 2014, Megan was pregnant with her second child and learned diapers are not covered by food stamps or WIC. She read stories about babies being left in the same diaper for days, disposable diapers being reused, and the infections children get from a lack of clean diapers. As a parent, she couldn’t imagine what it would feel like to not be able to provide for the basic needs of your babies, and tried to find a diaper bank in Cincin...

Maurice was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and he grew up in the English Woods neighborhood. He is a 2004 graduate of Jacobs High School. Maurice received a BA in Organizational Leadership from the University of Cincinnati in 2016 and a MS in Organizational Leadership with graduate certificates in Human Resource Management and Nonprofit Leadership in 2018. Maurice works as Program Director for UpSpring, the only local nonprofit th...

Michele joined Gilman Partners in 2004 and is the co-leader of their Nonprofit Leadership Practice. Michele enjoys leading nonprofit searches because of the deep relationships she builds with search committees and the impact each hire has on both the organization and the community. In addition to her work with nonprofit organizations, Michele leads executive/C-suite searches as well as senior-level searches in finance and accountin...