Women Of Influence

May 10 2024 103 ep. 23 mins 309
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From Columbus Business First, Women of Influence is an interview series showcasing some of the most powerful women in the Central Ohio business community. Hosted by Eleanor Kennedy, Assistant Managing Editor.

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78. Helen Speiser, Owner & Founder, Third Street Digital

May 10 2024 14 mins  
Today we are joined by the Founder and Owner of Third Street Digital, Helen Speiser, to chat about her career journey, what inspired her to launch an agency of her own, and how she walks the walk as a people-first employer.Learn more at https://columbusbusinessfirst.comProduced by Crate Media.

77. Heather Hiller, General Counsel and Senior Vice President, The Daimler Group

Apr 19 2024 14 mins  
Today's featured business leader is Heather Hiller, General Counsel and Senior Vice President at The Daimler Group.Heather illustrates her experience as a woman in a male-dominated field, surveys the shifting landscape of remote vs. office working, shares some great career advice and transports us to the new Downtown Columbus district that's earning favorable comparisons to the cit

76. Brooke Minto, Executive Director & CEO, Columbus Museum of Art

Feb 09 2024 15 mins  
Today we're joined by Brooke Minto, the Columbus Museum of Art's new Executive Director and CEO.With over 20 years of curatorial, educational, and fundraising experience all around the world, Brooke brings a fresh approach and big goals to the 145-year-old museum on East Broad Street.We talk about her early experiences in the city and in her role, what's in store for the future of

75. Leah McDougald, Owner, McDougald Research

Dec 08 2023 16 mins  
Today's guest, Leah McDougald, works in the field of design research, studying our world and people in it on behalf of Columbus's biggest brands, to innovate better experiences, products, and services.It's wide-reaching work: even as she now runs her own business, Leah remains closely involved in the firm's projects, working on her business, and working in it, at the same time.She'

74. Rehgan Avon, Co-Founder & CEO, AlignAI

Oct 13 2023 25 mins  
Rehgan Avon felt the time had come to start her own company. She had been thinking about it for a while, reflecting on the ways artificial intelligence was impacting businesses and the unsolved issues she saw across industries.So she made the jump, putting in her notice and readying for her next phase in February of 2020. Of course, that's when the world changed. The arrival of the

73. Julie Granillo, President & CEO, Paul Werth Associates

Sep 22 2023 19 mins  
Julie Granillo didn't expect to take the top job at Paul Werth Associates when she did. Her aunt and mentor, Sandy Harbrecht Ratchford, died this summer after decades running the family business.Just four years earlier, she'd suggested Julie, then living in Nashville, come back to Ohio and join her at Paul Werth. The Western native took her up on the offer and spent the ensuing yea

72. Live from the Inaugural Women Of Influence Awards

Aug 18 2023 30 mins  
For nearly five years, our Women of Influence podcast has featured conversations with some of the most influential female executives in Central Ohio. This year, Columbus Business First decided to take things a step further with the launch of our inaugural Women of Influence Awards.We fielded 126 nominations, ultimately honoring 27 outstanding women in six categories: nonprofit lead

71. Lisa Shuneson, CEO, Whalen CPAs

Jul 21 2023 25 mins  
When Lisa Shuneson talks about accounting, it makes you want to be an accountant. Her passion for the industry is all the more notable given her path to it — while she studied accounting in school, she took a long break to have a couple kids before finally taking the CPA exam. But in the years since she’s risen quickly, and now leads Whalen CPAs as its CEO. Lisa recently visite

70. Christy Farnbauch, Exec. Director, Contemporary Theatre of Ohio

Jun 16 2023 27 mins  
Christy Farnbauch serves as executive director of the Contemporary Theatre of Ohio. If that name's not familiar to you, perhaps you might know the organization by its former brand: CATCO.The just-completed and revealed rebranding is one of the first major projects undertaken by Farnbaugh since she joined amid the uncertainty of Spring 2020.She recently visited our office to talk ab

69. Melody Birmingham, Executive VP, NiSource & Group President, NiSource Utilities

May 19 2023 26 mins  
Melody Birmingham was a bit of a “unicorn” early in her career. There weren’t many young Black women from the Midwest in management at the Rochester, New York car factory she started her career at after college. But while she did stand out during her time there and later in the utilities industry, that didn’t change anything about the way she approached her work. Today, Mel