Wani Iris Manly, Esq.

Wani Iris Manly, Esq., is a TEDx and award-winning Speaker, a business and IP lawyer, and a three-time bestselling author. An entrepreneur, Wani is the founder of the House of Inspirational Business based in Paris, France, W. Manly, P.A., a boutique business and IP law firm she started in 2008 in Miami, Florida,  and the founder of Where Inspiration Meets Law LLC, which provides legal contract templates, resources and education for coaches, online businesses, and entrepreneurs to help them legally protect their businesses. 
 
Wani is also the bestselling author of “Get Out Of SURVIVAL MODE And Live the Life You Really Want,” along with two other best-selling titles she co-authored and is best known for her daredevil move to Paris in 2012--- a city where she knew no one, not one word of French, without a Plan A, B or C, purely on following universal signs over the course of a year that led her to the iconic French capital, clearly demonstrating that if you're going to live life, why not live it daringly as an adventure.
 
Wani has 19 years of international business, corporate and IP law experience while working exclusively with C-Suite executives of U.S. and foreign public traded companies, including Mastercard, Inc.., Visa, Inc. Office Depot, Inc., small business enterprises, entrepreneurs, individual stockholders, and brokerage companies, throughout her career. During times of major change  and shifts such as mergers and acquisition, organizational restructure, IPOs, market disruption and PR disasters,  she has helped companies, organizations and businesses face the tumultuous emotional landscape of these changes heads on and succeed.
 
What makes Wani stand out is her uniqueness. Wani’s journey has been unconventional and non-traditional from the moment of birth, and it is what has persuaded her to not ever be afraid to take the road less traveled and create a path where none has been carved. Having lived in five countries, learning three different languages, Wani’s unafraid of being out of her comfort zone, always welcoming change, which is what she accredits to her success. 

Wani’s philosophy for success in life and in business is quite simple. You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago.  In other words, change. Evolve. Innovate