Getting More out of the Book Club

The Wnet Book Club binds fellow book lovers together! Join the group and register for the next conversation. September/October Book: Getting More: How You Can Negotiate to Succeed in Work and Life by Stuart Diamond. Discussion: Oct. 28, 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. ET/1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. PT

Good News about Our Members and Partners

Congratulations to these 14 Wnet Members who earned the LEAD Certificate for completing the entire PayTechWomenLead Virtual Leadership Education Series. Certificates will be distributed electronically soon.

• Bank of America: Berica Askew-Breier, VP, Third Party Monitoring & Oversight
• Discover: Joanna Hanner, Senior Product Manager
• FIS: Ann Morsch, Client Relationship Manager Senior, and Tracy Korb, Senior Content Marketing Writer
• Fiserv: Katherine Carroll, Sr. Service Professional, and Lori Halfacre, Director, Enterprise Data Architecture
• Global Payments Inc.: Charisse Claytor, Associate Director, Implementation Services; Crystal McCorkle, Client Services Specialist; Elysa Cardenas, Director; Kari Negaard, Sr. Strategic Operations Analyst; and Mary Weston, Associate Director, Client Services Management
• Humboldt Merchant Services: Amanda Beam, Director, Partner Relations
• JPMorgan Chase: Lindsay Kugel, Senior Associate, Corporate Development, and Melissa Theriault, Executive Director 

Wnet Members Genevieve Dozier, Chief Business Development Officer at Merchant's PACT, and Rawan Shawar, Senior Software Engineer & Team Lead at ACI Worldwide, will be presenting at HerSuiteSpot's HerRise Conference, Oct. 15-16. Plus, Wnet Member, Global Speaker and Author Velera Wilson will receive the Yvette Salomon Literary Award.

In honor of National Coming Out Day (LGBTQIAA+) on Oct. 11, explore McKinsey Quarterly: LGBTQ+ Voices: Learning from Lived Experiences. Read more.

Protiviti was named "One of the 2021 Best Companies for Working Mothers and for Working Dads." Read more.

Money 20/20 USA, Oct. 24-27, will include speaking engagements with Wnet Past President Carol Grunberg, Managing Director and Head of Strategic Partnerships and Innovation - TTS at Citi, and Jess Turner, Executive Vice President, New Digital Infrastructure and Fintech at Mastercard.

Congratulations to these Wnet Members who are part of the 2021 RiseUp Cohort for Money20/20:

• Chilli Chilwan, Director, Digital Solutions, Mastercard

• Joanna Hanner, Senior Product Manager, Discover

• Kathryn Kmiotek, Channel Marketing Strategist, BillGO

• Laura Gibson, Senior Manager - Technology Consulting - Payments, Protiviti

• Megan Mountain, Director, Product, PAYA