KENT, OH – The Kent State University Ambassador Crawford College of Business Entrepreneurship announces Nancy Giordano, author and founder/CEO of Play Big, Inc., as the keynote speaker for the 2022 Spirit of Women in Business Conference. Giordano will present “The Future of Work and Working.”
This year’s event will take place virtually and will feature a different speaker discussing a topic of interest at 11 a.m. each Friday in March. Giordano’s keynote will kick off the conference on Friday, March 4.
Described as endlessly optimistic, Nancy Giordano is a strategic futurist with a drive to help enterprise organizations and visionary leaders transform to meet the escalating expectations ahead.
With growing conviction of what will (and needs to) shift, executives value her unique abilities to sense and synthesize the terrain ahead and guide those ready to build more relevant and sustainable solutions.
A frequent panelist at South by Southwest, global keynote speaker, Singularity University guest lecturer, and world’s first TEDx licensee, Giordano is committed to advancing societal structures and new mindsets necessary to effectively harness the significant technology innovations heading our way… and ensure a safe and thriving future for us all.
Recognized as one of the world’s top female futurists, she has spent her career building, shaping and guiding a portfolio of $50 billion worth of major global brands.
Giordano built a formidable career at several of the most influential ad agencies in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles and for more than a decade has been the Founder/CEO of Play Big Inc., a strategic inspiration company. Her current work dives deeply into the emerging intersection of technology, business and society.
Giordano has a rich history of advising and learning with some of the top companies in the world, including Nestle, Brinker International, The Coca Cola Company, Sprint and Acumen. More recently, she has helped build the team for an artificial intelligence start-up, produced a conference on the seven most disruptive technologies for enterprise, is board member for a non-profit trade organization focused on the future of retail, and is working with a leading fintech/martech provider to ensure the survival of community banks and credit unions nationwide. She also helped usher in the world of distributed applications and computing by championing emergent cryptographic technologies Holochain + Holo.
All events are free. During the registration process, attendees can choose to attend all of the speaker events or attend those events that fit their schedule.
Register for the 2022 Spirit of Business Conference here.
For more information about the Spirit of Women in Business Conference, visit http://www.kent.edu/crawford/swib.
ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY’S AMBASSADOR CRAWFORD COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Kent State University’s Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship is among the fewer than 1% of business schools worldwide to obtain dual accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) in both business and accounting. The college boasts 11 undergraduate majors, 14 minors, three graduate certificates, an undergraduate Professional Sales Certificate program; master’s degrees in accounting (online), business administration, business analytics (in-person and online) and economics; as well as a Ph.D. program with concentrations in accounting, finance, information systems, management and marketing. For more information about Kent State’s Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship, visit www.kent.edu/crawford.
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