How Carly Bigi Is Using AI to Eliminate Fashion Waste Problems By Amanda Breen It’s mid-July, and the yacht on the Hudson is called Praying for Overtime — an apt name for the boat hosting the Laws of Motion event, where founder Carly Bigi and her crew’s passion for beautiful, perfect-fitting clothing bubbles up alongside the Aperol spritzes at the bar. Bigi herself wears a vibrant…
How Success Happened for Wendy Lund, CCO of Organon By Robert Tuchman From an early age, Wendy Lund’s entrepreneurial mindset was inspired by her father, a CFO of a major retail chain in New York, who taught her about the power of building something from the ground up. Her dad showed her that companies aren’t built by one person, but…
How Greenberg Fosters Psychological Safety By Pauleanna Reid With 220 million meetings conducted each year, there is no doubt that it is an essential forum for exchanging information, building relationships and enabling collaboration in business. However, as essential as meetings appear to be to our professional lives, not all of them are as productive, impactful or collaborative as we intend. While the…
The Women in Business Interview: Julia Wada “I love that many women are now focusing on paying it forward and lifting others.” By Brian Ashcraft Julia Wada, who retired in April 2022 after over three decades at the auto giant, joined Toyota Motor Sales right out of graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked her way up…
Xendit COO Makes Leap From Investment Banking To Electronic Payments By Ardian Wibisono When Tessa Wijaya decided to make a job switch in 2016 from investment banking to an Indonesian electronic payments startup, it wasn’t because the money was better, as she took an 80% pay cut. The native of a small town in West Java says she was okay…
This Founder Developed A Device To Tackle Surface Germs Amid Covid By Monica Haider What started as grief over a friend’s staph infection that rapidly led to an emergency room visit and the friend’s untimely death turned into brainstorming and a new perspective on germs, healthcare and innovation by Debra Vanderhoff. The infection that gripped Vanderhoff’s friend had taken her…
Karren Brady on Taking Up a Side Hustle By Karren Brady Apprentice star and West Ham United vice-chair Karren Brady answers your career questions and meets an inspirational CEO. Here she gives a reader advice on how to take up a side hustle in tutoring. Q) I’m a teacher and recently a friend asked if I could tutor her son…
Role Models: Women Lead in Business and Media By Ben Mackin As a way to help Frankfort celebrate Women’s Equality Day on Aug. 27, The State Journal has spoken with local women in leadership roles in various industries for a three-part series entitled Role Models. In part one, published on Aug. 5, we spoke to leaders from local government, law…
Women Lead in Government, Law, Tourism, & Activism By Anna Latek This month, The State Journal is focusing on the ever-expanding roles of women in leadership in anticipation of Frankfort’s celebration of Women’s Equality Day on Aug. 27. Each week, the newspaper will profile extraordinary women in several categories; business, education and this week we are profiling four women who…
Penguin Random House’s CMO On The Future of Publishing By Amy Shoenthal Every so often, Penguin Random House’s Chief Marketing Officer Sanyu Dillon hears someone say that publishing is a dying industry. After two decades of seeing that industry cycle through societal changes and evolving consumer reading habits, Dillon has learned not to dwell on such critiques. She simply does the same…
