SPOTLIGHT: LORI GREENE
Founder, LPG Enterprises
Educator, content creator, adjunct faculty member, digital innovator, and university board lead, Lori has been making a difference for organizations and learners for over two decades. A well-known speaker on digital and educational issues, she’s a proven executive highly proficient in training, teaching, content creation, curriculum development, social media, TV and more.
Currently the founder of LPG edu, an education and training consultancy, she was Global Education Manager for Netflix. There she formulated and ran live educational courses in more than 20 countries on 6 continents utilizing her adroit worldwide strategy to scale external training. These included workshops for TV writing, production management, post production, visual effects, and production finance.
Lori conceived and produced the first-ever Netflix virtual course on creating entertainment content and developed several other immersive digital curricula. She envisioned and created the elegantly-built, award-winning Netflix Discovery Hub. There she helped improve the quality, creativity, and efficiency of Netflix titles globally.
An adjunct at NYU and Fordham’s Gabelli Business School, she also launched and runs of an advisory council for Temple’s Fox Business School Digital Marketing Masters and has spoken at major universities across the United States.
A former nonfiction TV producer for Lifetime, Food Network, and The Travel Channel, Lori was nominated for an Ace Award. She ran BBC America Digital, growing revenue and web traffic over 100% and winning Best Cable Website of the Year. At A+E Networks. Lori reinvented the History Channel’s website and Biography.com, leading them both to consistent record-breaking traffic and awards. Her effective strategy balanced editorial concerns with financial goals leading to close to a million dollars in revenue.
As founder of LPG Enterprises, a results-driven consultancy, Lori helped brands such as BRIC TV, Advertising Week, Havas, Intel, Indeed, and the Canadian Consulate, with content creation, training, digital marketing, and new business development. When Content Director at Maxus, she won a Pearl Award, content marketing’s highest honor.
NYWICI WANTS TO KNOW:
If you could have one superpower, which would you choose?
The ability to help people excel in their careers
Tell me about the first job you’ve ever held.
I was a gymnastic counselor at a day camp when I was 14 and started babysitting even before that!
What energizes and drains you when you’re at work?
Energizes – working autonomously on an impactful project with terrific collaborators. Drains – colleagues who are negative for the sake of being naysayers.
What’s your process for turning a bad day into a good one?
Being grateful, finding positivity in my life, and helping others succeed.
Why NYWICI?
I’ve had the good fortune to be involved with NYWICI for over a decade and in that time I’ve found an incredible group of ambitious, strong, women who truly want to help and support others to thrive. There’s so much warmth and camaraderie in the group and the members help each other celebrate our wins.