New Business Frontiers in the Metaverse

Shuchi Dawra is Professor, Chitkara Business School, Chitkara University, Punjab, India. She is a Doctorate in in the domain of human resource management and organizational behaviour from Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. She has varied experience of 16 years in industry and academia with expertise in HRM practices, work-life balance (WLB), TQM, CSR and HR analytics. She is M Com, MBA(HR), UGC(NET); and is HR analytics certified from the IIM, Rohtak. Her area of expertise include Global Practices in HRM, Organizational Behaviour & Research. She has successfully supervised two doctoral research on TQM in Higher Education in Engineering and Work Life Balance; at present she is mentoring 4 Phd Research Scholars(Senior Corporate Executives and academicians) in the Research domains of Self efficacy and Internships, CSR & leadership; and Work life Balance.She has her research publication in reputed international and national journals. She is also a reviewer, and has chaired sessions in the conferences.

Kyla Tennin , a colleague of Space Foundation and NASA employees and a member of a military family with ties to the armed services (such as the Marines, Navy, and Army...) is a United Nations Global Ambassador for Peace (for the African Union 6th Region, African Diaspora) for women’s empowerment, economic development, financial investment, and sustainable development goals achievement. Including an industry practitioner and DM (Doctor) in Management and Organizational Leadership. She focuses on Change Management and mixed methods empirical research as a Management Consultant, for continuous improvement, business transformation, and recovery during and after internal/external crisis to nations, institutions, and individual’s lives. Her career began in December 2002 in banking and financial services at Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (North America), Wells Fargo Financial, LLC, US Bank, and SunTrust Banks, Inc. with affiliate relationships at Wells Fargo Advisors, Wells Fargo Investments, Wells Fargo Business Banking (Commercial), Wells Fargo Student Loans, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, and Wells Fargo Card Services. With roles in/as banker, underwriting, financial crime compliance (OFAC, MTR, CTR, SEC), loan administration, for example, and leadership roles in Credit Management & Analysis, Credit Risk, Risk Management, Cash Management, Front Office (in the Branch) and Back Office (in the operations center), Bank Products and Services (cross-selling), Lending, Suppliers/Vendor Management and Procurement, Operations, and Corporate Banking (like for hospitals and clinics). She has media and press appearance in Forbes, ABC, Fox News, Yahoo! Finance, U.S. News & World Reports, Financial Times, CNBC Arabia on Middle East and US Economic Outlook. She is an on-call Grant Reviewer for organizations like the United States Department of Agriculture (e.g. responsible for awarding funding for programs up to $65M in funding) and other institutions. Inclusive, a part-time PhD Faculty of Corporate Governance at Woolf University and WDC Leadership School UK/USA (see here http://wdc.woolf.university/faculty/93d5d684-4a7a-4f5b-afd3-44645e9ecc90), and Fellow-in-Residence and Lead Researcher at University of Phoenix College of Doctoral Studies, Center for Leadership Studies and Organizational Research (CLSOR). Also, she is a leader in various roles at investment forums, conferences, and summits where she works with Presidents of Nations, Heads of Banks, Prime Ministers, High Commissioners, and Chambers of Commerce and other business leaders to strategize and make business decisions to help businesses start-up, advance, and/or scale to improve economic development, promote social justice, and create jobs in various nations. Including at the World Business Angels Investment Forum (WBAF). An affiliated partner of the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI), where the vision is to promote social justice, create jobs, financial inclusion, and innovative financial instruments for innovators, startups, and SMEs, helping them to scale. Dr. Tennin is also affiliated with the International Monetary Fund, World Bank Group, and Parliamentary Network to enhance economies and various forms of businesses, and has spoken on stages with Ms. Rula Ghani, First Lady of Afghanistan, Princess Dina Mired of Jordan, Ms. Intissar El-Sisi, spouse of Egyptian President, Dr. Mariem Mint Dah, First Lady Of Mauritania, Dr. Madeeha bint Ahmed al Shibaniyah, Minister of Education (Oman), and Ms. Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the UN & Chair of the UN Sustainable Development Group. She is an OB/GYN MD track turned DM (doctor) with background in biology, biotechnology, and organic and biochemistry, with major emphasis in women and gender studies, has project management and lean six sigma certifications, a Master of Business Administration (MBA), and is a Ph.D. Fellow at the Global Peace Institute, headquartered in the United Kingdom. She contributed to the accreditation process at the University of Phoenix College of Doctoral Studies and completed additional studies (to launch and scale corporations) at Harvard, Harvard Law (e.g. contracts and negotiation), Stanford, Yale, University of Cape Town, Cornell University - The Bank of America Institute for Women’s Entrepreneurship at Cornell (certificate in Women’s Entrepreneurship – sponsored by Bank of America), and University of Glasgow to name a few. She has personally written approximately 18 books, 3 book chapters with colleagues, 3 patents, several other intellectual properties, and nearly 85 research reports, later conceptualized into products and services for global businesses. Along with additional major book deals with approximately 8 books in the pipeline with forthcoming publishing. In areas of Financial Crimes, Fraud, Banking, Artificial Intelligence, Case Studies, Sustainable Development (ESG), and forthcoming of Teaching Notes and Textbooks (see a few here ). Pipeline book deals and current book deals with IGI Global Publishing, NOVA Publishers, Emerald Publishing, Springer, Springer Nature, Palgrave MacMillian, Wiley, Routledge, and Taylor & Francis Group (CRC Press). Dr. Tennin has presented research and posters in practitioner and academic conferences, workshops, and international webinars. She has professional experience in the financial services and investments, hospitality, restaurant, consumer products/beauty, and healthcare industries, with 95% of her experience spent in financial services and higher education. Dr. Tennin has 23 years of experience in finance, financial services, and banking industries and 17 years owning her own global conglomerate corporation, which she built while homeless, to recover for self-sufficiency, to recover financially, and create jobs for people. Operating in 31 countries, with 24 locations, on 6 continents, and 2 world headquarters. She was awarded over 30 corporate awards, primarily in the financial services industry, mentored entrepreneurs for 22 years with global organizations and world-renowned corporations and Development Banks and Commercial and Retail Banks as sponsors, and currently owns a business academy, women’s entrepreneurship academy, and women’s entrepreneurship bootcamp program where entrepreneurship, resilience, finance, pricing and tax strategy, research methodology and data analysis for consultants, personal and business credit, corporate governance and risk management, digital transformation, property ownership (real estate (e.g. commercial and residential)), and other courses are taught. Development Banks like Jamaica Development Bank, Qatar Development Bank, Asian Development Bank (ADB), and European Bank for Reconstruction Development Bank for corporations and SMEs. Her areas of expertise and research interests are financial and revenue strategy, entrepreneurship (SME), cosmeceuticals, economic development, emerging markets, multinationals, corporate governance, well-being/burnout, and women’s empowerment.

Sandhir Sharma is Ph.D. in Strategic Management with nearly 22 years of experience in higher education and 5 years in Telecom industry. With more than 43 research papers to his credit published in various journals and conferences at national & international level, Dr. Sharma has developed his core expertise in the area of Strategy formulation. His research has widely published in various newspapers. Currently, he is serving as Dean, Chitkara Business School & visiting faculty to Binus University, Indonesia and University of Applied Sciences, Osnabruck, Germany. He has been instrumental in scaling Chitkara Business School operations from 60 students & one program to 1200 plus students & more than 12 programs with in span of 8 years. In his last assignment, Dr. Sharma set up a B-School in Ludhiana and was instrumental in taking that B-School to pinnacle of glory in the region. [Editor]