CAREER INSIGHTS & ADVICE AND ARCHIVE
Christine Elliott: Leading With Confidence and Vulnerability
In this episode of WomenHeard Changemakers, we chat with Christine Elliott, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Moody's Corporation and a 2023 NYWICI Matrix Award winner. Elliott began her 25-year career in communications with ABC News and later worked for American ...
All About NYWICI’s Roadmap For Change
Over the past 23 years, the NYWICI Scholarship program has given more than $2 million to nearly 400 students. And in 2022, NYWICI partnered with Kaplow Communications to launch the Roadmap for Change initiative, an apprenticeship that’s a response to ...
Women’s Entrepreneurship Day: Empowering Equality
The U.S. Small Business Administration reports that there are more than 12 million women-owned businesses in America, employing 10.1 million workers. While these figures demonstrate the tremendous impact of women entrepreneurs, there’s still significant progress to be made. In 2022, ...
From College to Colleague: Making and Maintaining Connections in the Industry
There is no set formula to follow in order to pave a successful career in the communications field, and this reality can be daunting for college students who are transitioning to professionals in the industry. Some students spend time every ...
The Time I Learned to Tell and Sell at the Same Time
Several editor-in-chief jobs ago, I had the most useful media training of my professional life. I had done dozens of morning television talk show appearances for magazines over the years to promote stories that my teams of journalists had researched ...
Mindy Henderson: Turning Lemons into Lemonade
In this episode of WomenHeard Changemakers, host Georgia Galanoudis interviews Mindy Henderson, Editor-in-Chief of Quest Media, a lifestyle platform for the Muscular Dystrophy Association that supports more than a million Americans with tools and resources to help them live their ...
Female Empowerment and Embracing Change at the 2023 Matrix Awards as a Young Member of the Media
The 2023 Matrix Awards presented by NYWICI meant celebrating past, current, and future leaders in all fields of communications through female empowerment. It was a night of “Champions of Change” and using our voices to motivate and stimulate continuous action ...
Navigating AI with Cathy McPhillips
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a hot topic of discussion lately. These days, the technology seems to be affecting just about every aspect of our daily lives, from our workplaces to the media we consume online ...
From Girlhood to Girlboss: Advocating for Leadership Programs for Girls
The term girlboss was coined in 2014 by Sophie Amoruso and was a best-selling book, a Netflix show and for some a way of life. To be a girlboss was about being a confident and capable woman who is successful ...
Nancy Weber and the Art of Grace
With experience comes depth and Nancy Weber is the culmination of a career fulfilled. Listen to this episode for grounding advice from the former NYWICI President and former EVP, Marketing and Integrated Communication at Dotdash Meredith, on the heels of ...
Finding Inspiration and Community: Reflections on Superpowers from Table 53 at the 53rd Matrix Awards
Coincidentally, I sat at table 53 at the 53rd Matrix Awards held at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in Manhattan on September 20th. I was seated with new members of NYWICI who were attending the ceremony for the first time, just like ...
NYWICI’s 53rd Annual Matrix Awards-Champions of Change [2023 IPG scholarship recipient perspective]
Lights, camera, action! Words can’t describe how surreal the 53rd Annual Matrix Awards felt. From the moment I stepped inside the Ziegfeld Ballroom, I was in awe of everything and everyone around me. On September 20, 2023, I had the ...
