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…
Closing the Digital Divide for Women By Makhtar Diop: Managing Director, International Finance Corporation Women in the least developed countries are half as likely to be online as men, curtailing their chance to learn online and improve their lives. The digital divide hurts women and costs the world billions of dollars in GDP every year. A concerted effort by the…
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…
Jill Biden on Teaching as First Lady: ‘I Knew I Could Do Both’ By Darlene Superville Jill Biden says she didn’t doubt that she could keep teaching as First Lady and overcame the skepticism that she could handle both jobs by instructing her staff to “figure it out.” In a new interview in the September issue of Real Simple magazine,…
Building Dream Careers with Chantelle Brinkley Zerotrillion New York’s managing director on helping others achieve their dreams and approaching leadership with a spirit of experimentation By Bossing It Chantelle Brinkley is the managing director of Zerotrillion, New York where she is currently leading expansion into the United States. Prior to joining Zerotrillion, She held diverse roles in both best-in-class agencies…
First Black Woman to Earn a Harvard MBA Paves Path for Underrepresented Communities By Cheryl Robinson The 1960s were a critical moment in United States history; whether living through it or reading about it, there’s no doubt that decade accelerated the civil rights movement, laying the foundation for where we are today. The first of anything monumental is challenging. Individuals…
