Women Of Influence

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.

https://columbusbusinessfirst.com

Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 23m. Bisher sind 235 Folge(n) erschienen. .

Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 4 days 5 hours 15 minutes

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


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...


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 February 9, 2024  15m
 
 

episode 75: 75. Leah McDougald, Owner, McDougald Research


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...


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 December 8, 2023  16m
 
 

episode 74: Rehgan Avon, Co-Founder & CEO, AlignAI


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...


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 October 13, 2023  25m
 
 

episode 73: Julie Granillo, President & CEO, Paul Werth Associates


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 years settling into a leadership role at the firm...


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 September 22, 2023  19m
 
 

episode 72: Live from the Inaugural Women Of Influence Awards


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...


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 August 18, 2023  30m
 
 

episode 71: Lisa Shuneson, CEO, Whalen CPAs


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...


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 July 21, 2023  25m
 
 

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


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 about that experience, what's on the schedule for this year, and much more...


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 June 16, 2023  27m
 
 

episode 69: Melody Birmingham, Executive VP, NiSource & Group President, NiSource Utilities


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, Melody serves as executive vice president of Nisource...


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 May 19, 2023  26m
 
 

episode 68: Sarah Perez, Managing Partner, Perez Morris


Sarah Perez thinks people should be lawyers, if that’s what they really want to do with their lives.


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 April 14, 2023  19m
 
 

episode 67: Darci Congrove, Managing Partner, GBQ Partners


For the first time in more than 31 years, Darci Congrove isn’t spending this tax season doing taxes.


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 March 17, 2023  24m