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STEPHANIE R. DAWKINS is the former Global Senior Vice President for AB Volvo, the first and only African American to hold this position in the 80-plus year history of this Scandinavian company. From her offices in Goteborg, Sweden, and Greensboro, North Carolina, she led an international team in 19 different countries and 180 markets and oversaw more than 100,000 employees worldwide. Stephanie is one of the top African American labor negotiators around the world. Prior to her position with Volvo, Stephanie worked
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in other Fortune 500 companies in both operational and strategic positioning capacities. She is a certified speaker on an international level. Her specialties include global expertise in negotiations, strategies, mergers & acquisitions, human resources, industrial relations and organizational effectiveness. Recognized in 2010 by the United States House of
Representatives and inducted into the Congressional Record for her outstanding work in global business, community service and her affiliations with international women’s organizations, Stephanie holds a seat on board for the Euro-American Woman’s Council (EWAC), whose mission is to strengthen the status of women around the world. She is also a Board of Trustee member for the Business and Professional Woman’s Foundation. She is a member of the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of African-Americans in Human Resources Management, and is a recent recipient of the North American Leadership Award from the World Igbo Congress of Nigeria. She has been awarded an honorary doctorate for her global initiatives. Stephanie is married and has two beautiful children.
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“Stephanie’s story of truly beating the odds is one of incredible inspiration and profound self-awareness. It’s a must-read for those who want to achieve success in any form.”
Roy Willis and Kroghie Andresen making a presentation at an association meeting in 2005.
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“Corporate Coffee mixes memoir with pep talk, yielding a lively chronicle filled with home-truths. As the first African American woman to reach the rank of Senior Vice President at AB Volvo, Stephanie Dawkins provides a glimpse of what it takes to kick open the doors of opportunity. For Dawkins, adversity offers insight, every
negative encounter has an upside and being true to oneself is the key to success.” Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney
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ABOUT THE Te Carolina Decoy Collectors U.S. Representative for District 14, New York “I feel moved by this emotionally charged account of Stephanie’s
childhood, and the corporate beginnings and rise. She has created a most meaningful guide and encouragement to both women and men.”
Association is a private non-profit organization established to promote and enhance the decoy collecting environment for its members. Te goal of the association is to educate its members and promote interest in decoy collecting. Te association usually has meetings
“If you truly want to be inspired, then Corporate Coffee is a must-read. Stephanie
knows how to succeed and takes us on a vivid journey of emotionally heart-wrenching, true-to-life experiences and struggles to the top. Her lessons learned and shared will help women become a champion in their career and in life!”
twice each year which include buy-sell- swap sessions, educational programs, decoy displays, and social events. Tese meetings are a great place for new collectors to learn more about decoy collecting and meet the dealers and fellow collectors. Te association and its members
Buy a copy of Stephanie Dawkins’ book for every girl or young woman (and, boy and young man) you know and care about. It will touch their lives in a deeply significant way.
After reading this book they’ll know if they truly want to achieve greatness, they can!” Bob Burg
maintain relationships with all decoy collecting related entities, such as auction companies, other decoy collecting associations, carvers guides, waterfowl museums and waterfowl festivals. Information about these entities is available for new collectors. Te association established a decoy
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collectors “Code of Conduct” which sets guidelines for selling or trading decoys among its members. New members can be assigned an experienced member as a mentor to help them make their initial purchases. Decoys may be brought to the meetings by the interested public to be appraised or sold.
National bestselling author Co-author of The Go-Giver and Go-Givers Sell More Roslyn Ridgeway
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Business and Professional Women’s Foundation Eva Haller Founder & President,
Campaign Communications Institute of America Philanthropist and activist
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$24.95 U.S.A. Have you ever given up on your dreams?
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yourself a cup of Corporate Coffee. Corporate Coffee: Success Never Tasted So Good is the inspiring story of Stephanie R. Dawkins, a woman who rose from poverty to power as a Senior Vice President for one of the world’s most recognizable international corporations. Part memoir, part mentorship, Corporate Coffee reveals the hard-won lessons that enabled Stephanie R. Dawkins to beat the odds. Raised in a family that was rich in love,
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Stephanie built a strong personal and professional foundation on the principles of survival she witnessed while growing up in Kansas City, Kansas. She shares those principles in Corporate Coffee with humor and down-to-earth wisdom. She also offers practical steps for people in all walks of life who are ready to re-evaluate their lives and take charge of their futures.
Kroghie, with Maggie, after a successful duck hunt at Lake Mattamuskeet, N.C. in 2004.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kroghie Andresen has enjoyed hunting
and the outdoors since his early teens in eastern North Carolina. His waterfowl hunting experiences began when he shot two lesser scaup from a stake blind in the mouth of Bath Creek at the age of fifteen. Since then his passion for hunting has grown and flourished. Kroghie worked as a banker for First
Union National Bank, now Wachovia, for thirty three years before retiring in 2004. Tough his work had no connection with hunting, he continued to pursue his hobby during spare time away from work. While living in Raleigh in 1979, his wife Ross, bought him his first decoy to decorate their new den. Tis started a collection that has grown into over 1,100 North Carolina decoys. An early decision to limit his collection to Back Bay, Virginia, and North Carolina decoys led to a very specialized collection. Kroghie always tried to document the history and provenance of his decoys. Te lack of information on many North Carolina decoys led him to research many previously unidentified carvers as well as those that are well known. Tis research and thirty years of collecting decoys have culminated with this book. Kroghie received a B.S. degree in Civil
Engineering from Te Citadel in 1966 and an MBA from East Carolina University in 1971. He and his wife currently reside in Charlotte, N.C. Tey have two grown children, Clark and Hailey.
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