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Dr. Valerie Mason Cunningham, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Mason & Rice LLC, is an accomplished strategic and value driven executive. With over 30 years of progressive executive leadership and extensive change management experience in operations, sales and marketing, communications, strategic alliances, organizational transformation, and business development, Valerie has a proven history of creating business value. Additionally, as a strategic visionary leader building individual growth and organizational leadership, she has dedicated her life to empowering leadership qualities that initiate success and teaches professionals to focus on accountability and actions, resulting in business growth outcomes and development of high-performance work teams.
Valerie actively engages in the advocacy, discussions and design for a diverse workforce and work environment to embrace the power of inclusion and belonging. Her stated mission and purpose are to share her experiences, to help inspire executives and professional leaders to enhance their skills and maximize their impacts and full potential, both professionally and personally.
Valerie enjoyed an extraordinarily successful career at Xerox Corporation with over 30+ years of progressive executive leadership and management experiences, while driving purposeful and consistent business results. She began her Xerox career as a sales trainee in NY. Her focus on delivering business excellence included managing an $850M business unit and increasing the book of business year over year. She secured the largest cash sale of $68M and contracted the largest IT services contract of $150M in the Healthcare Industry. Prior to her departure, she ascended to the position of Vice President of North America Operations Channel Marketing Group. Among her many other leadership roles at Xerox, Senior Vice President of Sales and Client Services, US Operations, Vice President and Business Transformation Executive of the US Operations Group, Vice President Sales Operations and Business Development Emerging Markets Operations (China, Hong Kong, Russia, and India), and Vice President & General Manager, Production Business Unit in Canada Operations.
Valerie served as a board member on the University of Connecticut, (Stamford location) Business School Advisory Board, and served on the Vendor Advisory Council for CompTIA. Additionally, she served as Chair of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee Chair for Volunteer New York! for the last three years of her nine-year tenure on the board. She lead the organization as chair during a major transition of leadership and through the pandemic leaving the organization in sound business standings with growth in business, resources, and revenue. Prior to Board Chair at Volunteer New York!, Valerie served as the board secretary, governance committee member, strategic planning committee member, and is a graduate of the Leadership Westchester (LW)- class of 2018 and member of the LW Alumni Association. Currently she serves as a member of the Board of Trustees, Development Committee member, and Strategic Executive Search Committee Member at Mercy College and is a member of the “Friends of "URI '' (Urban Resource Institute) focused on Domestic Violence. She is the managing principal of PRIDE Matters, LLC an executive coaching and strategic business consultancy firm.
Valerie earned her Bachelor of Science degree in business management and marketing communications, with a concentration in computer science from the State University of New York Old Westbury. She began her undergraduate education at Spelman College where she studied computer science. Valerie received an Honorary Doctorate of Commercial Science degree from Mercy College. She has received several business and community awards including the Women’s Executive Achievement and Community Service Award from the YWCA Greenwich CT and was featured on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour highlighting Xerox: Strength in Diversity. Most recently, she was awarded the 2023 Trailblazers Economic Development Madam C.J. Walker Award from the Westchester County Executive Office.
Valerie is a certified executive leadership and life coach and certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. She is an exceptional public speaker and business facilitator. In May 2020 she delivered the commencement speech for the School of Business at Mercy College. Most recently, in March 2022, she delivered a TEDx talk entitled, "You Have to Go Through Something to Get to Something.” Valerie has been invited to speak on several Podcasts, at Leadership events, and participating on many executive leadership panels.
Currently, Valerie resides in New York, with her husband and is a dedicated mother to her son who resides in Georgia. She believes that experiences matter, everyone's journey has a purpose in life, and the greatest freedom is the freedom of choice. And she chooses to be ‘sensational by choice” every day.
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