While Katie Addis was busy changing her major (five times!) and worrying about falling into a career she wasn't passionate about, she didn't realize she was also gaining valuable experience for a job she'd love. While school was important, it was her summer involvement as a counselor, trainer and camp director with Camp Adventure Youth…
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Laurel Mintz
While some women dream of the job they'd like to have, Laurel Mintz unexpectedly happened upon hers. When her father fell ill, someone needed to handle the family business. So, Laurel stepped up and by age 26, was running a team of 60 in two different retail locations. Even after her father reassumed his role,…
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Ami-Lee Kelly
Ami-Lee Kelly knew exactly what she wanted in a job. But finding something with the laundry list of attributes she wanted took time — more than a year, to be exact. Twelve months into her search, she found the perfect-for-her gig as manager of customer experience for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. As a customer…
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Natalie Bowman
Natalie Bowman knew it was time to move on when she was getting bored with making TV ads in her advertising career. Social media was a new territory for brands and an innovating and exciting place to be. Exciting, indeed. Natalie's job as the social marketing director for Bing and MSN has taken her to the…
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Kristin Marquet
As a marketing manager and public relations director at a large law firm, Kristin Marquet found herself doing what she wanted, just not where she wanted. With an undeniable eye for style, Kristin knew her passion burned bright for fashion, not insurance litigation. A few freelance clients and a lot of hard work later, Marquet Media, a…
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Jodi Teti
Jodi Teti spent six years studying English literature and was knee-deep in her PhD program when she realized she was on the wrong career path. She loved teaching, but couldn't stomach the department politics and parameters. Her solution: combine her love of teaching with being her own boss. Consequently, Jodi founded LSAT Preparation, a company…
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Kelly M Parisi
As vice president of marketing and communication at the Ms. Foundation, Kelly Parisi's work isn't just her professional interest — it's her personal passion. As she so eloquently puts it, "I'm able to channel my outrage at women's inequality and gender injustice into action every day." The Ms. Foundation is a national nonprofit aimed at…
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Maria Reitan
Maria Reitan is a senior principal and head of the lifestyle marketing group at Carmichael Lynch Spong, a Minneapolis and New York City-based PR agency. As part of that role, Maria leads the agency's efforts in marketing to women, lending her expertise on how to reach the coveted demographic and uses her television news background…
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Stephanie Cross
Social media has become such an ubiquitous part of life, it's easy to forget how relatively new it is. Case in point: when Stephanie Cross started her marketing career, there was no such thing as "social media marketing strategy." Yet today, she's managing the online marketing strategy for a designed set of Starwood Hotels and…
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Lauren Davis
Lauren Arbittier Davis says she's been an enthusiastic marketeer since her grade school days of "hawking handmade friendship bracelets at the Jersey shore." Today, she's the founder of Alkali, a boutique marketing firm that helps small and medium-sized businesses grow with marketing services of every kind. Before launching Alkali, Lauren honed her skills working in-house…