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Global Chamber New York City Power Support and Meet Our Featured Members

Date: March 19, 2026
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CBIZ
730 Third Avenue, 11th Floor
New York, NY
Contact: Susan Assadi

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Global Chamber New York City Power Support and Meet Our Featured Members

  • Thursday, March 19th at 5pm ET / 2pm PT / 9pm London + Accra
  • Location: CBIZ New York Office (730 Third Avenue, 11th Floor )

The Global Chamber NYC Chapter invites members and guests to an in-person program hosted at the CBIZ New York office on March 19th at 5:00 PM.
 
This meeting will feature — Power Support — designed to escalate leads and opportunities for our Chapter members.
 
Here’s how it works:
  • Everyone brings business cards
  • We select three professionals attending in person
  • The NYC chapter rallies to generate leads for them
  • Power Support is our collective effort, focused help, and chapter‑wide backing. Global Chamber NYC isn’t just meeting — we’re actively supporting one another’s business growth in a structured, intentional way. 

Member World Window (MWW) 

We feature a selection of our members to present on their companies.  Each will speak 15 minutes on their companies and then we will have time for Q&A with each after they finish.

Speakers:

  • Nikola Milinkovic, AIFS Professional Services
  • Uvika Sharma, Founder of INTLDA
The meeting will be co-facilitated by Susan Assadi, Executive Director, and Charles Bernard, Advisory Board Chair. Our coordinator Stefanie Eimesser will provide additional support.
 
Speakers:
 
Nikola Milinkovic - Business Partner Manager at AIFS Professional Services

Nikola has committed his career to developing business relationships and optimizing performance, serving as a trusted expert bridging business needs with talent development opportunities. Nikola comes from the tech start-up industry, developing partnerships with global multi-sector companies and academic institutions. He has worked extensively across several industries in the areas of strategic organizational culture, recruitment, and talent development, including leading internship and early career programs for the United Nations. Throughout his work, Nikola has built meaningful relationships with executives, HR representatives, trainers, academics, and attorneys, providing solutions to increase the impact of their business and talent.

In addition to his business experience, Nikola has served as a performance psychology specialist in the professional sports sector (Women's Tennis Association and the Women's National Basketball Association), focusing on teamwork, culture building and performance. Nikola holds a master's degree in Counseling with a Sport and Performance Psychology focus from Boston University and a bachelor's degree in Psychology and Theater Arts from Clark University.

Nikola has traveled, lived, and worked in many countries. He is passionate about establishing relationships and mutual understanding, enhancing creativity, and personal growth through cultural exchange.  He is a frequent speaker and a published author on career development, talent optimization, and reflections on his own immigration journey.

Uvika Sharma - Founder of INTLDA

Uvika Sharma is a global AI strategist and Founder of INTLDA, where she helps organizations move from AI curiosity to AI capability.
 
With over two decades of experience in data and technology consulting, Uvika now advises corporations, startups, and public-sector organizations on AI strategy, governance, and responsible adoption. She specializes in executive AI literacy, AI readiness assessments, use case discovery, and building practical frameworks that balance innovation with risk management.
 
A mentor to founders at Cornell Tech and the Harvard Business School Startup Partners Program, Uvika is passionate about helping both emerging and established organizations use AI to scale intelligently and ethically.
 
Through her work, she focuses on bridging global business strategy with emerging technologies, ensuring companies are prepared not just to experiment with AI, but to integrate it thoughtfully and sustainably.

 

Facilitators: 

Susan Gitenstein Assadi, Executive Director at Global Chamber® New York City

Susan leads GAPR, a PR firm with an emphasis on expert and thought leadership campaigns. She is a highly respected national media strategist who helps her clients to be promoted to the national media, weaving in compelling stories that resonate with top media outlets. Her campaigns have enabled her clients to have features and recurring citations in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Reuters and Bloomberg.  As a result of her campaigns, her clients have been boosted into leaders of their respective fields. Susan has over four decades representing public and private companies in the financial services, corporate governance and the proxy industry, alternative energy, and those with an emphasis on responsible business practices such as ESG. Most recently she has been working with disruptors who are helping to build the domestic supply chain of rare earth materials.  Susan also has represented some leading non-profits. She also co-founded Safed House, a non-profit, that provides a welcoming place for refugees and recent immigrants to share their stories.

Her firm’s campaigns are fresh, creative, tech savvy, and innovative, a cocktail that engenders powerful results.

Prior to founding her own PR firm, Susan was the publicist for PBS MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour.  She received a Master's Degree in Fine Arts from New York University, and obtained a Bachelor's Degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

 

Charles Bernard -  Advisory Board Chair, Global Chamber NYC, Founder and CEO of Criteria for Success 

Charles is an accomplished speaker that has trained thousands of CEOs, Sales Managers, and Salespeople on the art of business relationships, growing revenue, and overcoming challenges. 

With over 20 years of experience in direct sales, sales management, recruiting, and training, Charles is a subject-matter expert with a knack for troubleshooting. 

He was born in Madrid, Spain and was educated in Surrey, England. Currently, Charles resides in New York City where he is authoring his debut book, “Enabling Buying in a World of Selling".  


About Global Chamber

Global Chamber® is a diverse, innovative and positive worldwide platform for CEOs, executives, investors and industry leaders across 195 countries and 605+ metros around the world to find opportunities and effectively empower growth, success and progress. We're the only chamber of commerce operating in hundreds of locations that delivers strategic connections, information and resources to facilitate exporting, importing and investing across regions and borders, while addressing climate change and advancing sustainability. Be global and UNSTOPPABLE! Global Chamber® is a registered trademark of Global Chamber, LLC since 2014.

 

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