RAB, BMI and MIW Complete Annual Training Seminar

RADIO ONLINE | Thursday, August 27, 2015

Rising Through the Ranks, Women in Radio Management & Leadership Training Program attendees

The Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB), in conjunction with BMI and the Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio Group (MIW), has announced the successful completion of the eighth annual Rising Through the Ranks, Women in Radio Management & Leadership Training Program. Twenty-one scholarship recipients were welcomed at the BMI offices in Nashville, August 19-20.

Scholarship recipients were selected and awarded by the three organizations. The two-day seminar focused on the specific needs of women in radio management roles and worked to enhance their overall knowledge and skills.

Featured speakers included:

• Lynn Anderson, CEO, Integrated Media Solutions Group
• Becky Brenner, Partner, Albright, O'Malley & Brenner
• Lindsay Cerajewski, Director of Partnership Marketing, Emmis Communications
• Joe D'Angelo, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Broadcast Business, IBiquity
• Kristen Delaney, Regional Market President, iHeartMedia
• Erica Farber, President and CEO, RAB
• Brandeis C. Hall, Vice President, Professional Development, RAB
• Laurie Kahn, President and CEO, Media Staffing Networks
• Val Maki, Market Manager, Los Angeles, Emmis
• Beth Neuhoff, President, Neuhoff Media
• Dolores Nolan, VP Membership, RAB
• Kay Olin, Partner, Olin & Associates
• Dan Spears, Vice President, Licensing, BMI

The customized curriculum featured practical and real world applications that participants of the course can put to use in the workplace immediately. The topics include: managing a team, problem solving, budgeting and forecasting, women in the radio workplace, recruiting, hiring and firing, and building a personal brand.

"For the past eight years, elite female executives have completed this seminar in preparation to be on the frontlines of our business," said RAB President/CEO Erica Farber. "Through this two-day seminar, we have instilled new management skills for these female managers to go back to their stations with a renewed energy to lead and excel within their organizations."

The 2015 Rising Through the Ranks Graduates:

• Kate Bauer, Katz Media Group
• Georgia A. Beasley, Beasley Media Group
• Susan P. Begley, iHeartMedia, Inc.
• Sarah Brandon, BMI
• Andi Brooks, Neuhoff Communications
• Kate Burcham, Great Plains Media
• Judith A. Crocker, Cape Cod Broadcasters Media
• Summer Cummings, Five Star Media Group
• Jasmin Dorismond, Lotus Communications
• Cassi Dowling, E.W. Scripps Company
• Luci Englum, Cromwell Group
• Melissa G. Galliani, Cumulus Media
• Keisha Glenn-Hutton, WCBS 880AM
• Jenny Rose Gonzalez, BCA Radio
• Jessica L. Hagen, Entercom/Kansas City
• Amy Hughes, Entercom/Memphis
• Jenna Kesneck, Cox Media Group
• Shannon R. Kinney, Connoisseur Media
• Lauren Levine, Galaxy Communications
• Elizabeth (Quinn) Mattingly, CBS/Sacramento
• Devon van der Merwe, Entercom Upstate
• Nicole Ondracka, WKQX-FM/Cumulus
• Dawn Pepka, iHeartMedia
• Brittney C. Quarles, Radio One
• Katheryne Rodenfels, CBS Radio
• Lindsay Romano, Neuhoff Media
• Teri Taylor, First Natchez Radio Group
• Christy Wilson, Cromwell Radio

"What an honor and privilege to have been chosen to be amongst such great talent. I left with information overload, yet a clear map of what I need to do in order to achieve my goals," said Entercom Memphis GSM Amy G. Hughes. "My fellow scholarship recipients and I are committed to paying it forward and continue to make positive changes for those that follow in our footsteps in this industry."

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