Attorney, news anchor, CEO, professor, thinker, agent of change, and game-show winner.
Shari Dunn is a polymath, an accomplished journalist, and a former attorney, news anchor, CEO, and university professor.
Shari's work has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, and she has written for and been quoted by TIME, The Hill, and Fast Company, among others. Shari is also a sought-after speaker. She holds a BA in philosophy from Marquette University and a JD from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. 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.
IMPRESSIVE GROUNDBREAKER WITH SUPERB NARRATIVE SKILLS:
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.
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Chicago, IL
Marquette University // Be The Difference Milwaukee, WI
BA Philosophy
NYU-Stern School of Business- Extension, New York, NY
Certificate of Nonprofit Management
I’ve come a long way from 3322 North 14th Street in Milwaukee, WI. Raised in a working-class, Blue-collar, African-American neighborhood in the industrial mid-west, I am the first in my nuclear family to graduate from college or law school. Through the dedication of my mother, luck and hard work I was able to attend Marquette University, study abroad in Mexico and London and enter the world with the clear understanding that; “I belong in any room that I am in.”
It has been a wild ride with highs and lows! A few stand out moments for me include interviewing civil rights icons, Harry Belafonte and Julian Bond and being a guest on the Oprah Winfrey show and a contestant on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" And the one gift I keep close to my heart is using my legal skills to grant a dying woman her last wish, visitation with her son, nothing will ever matter more to me.
I am here to share what I have learned with all those who wish to hear my message(s). We can reinvent our work, ourselves, and our communities. We can innovate, understand, and transform who are and what we do by excavating our past, holding it up to the light and then charting a new course towards a shared future rooted in understanding.
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