All The Social Ladies With Carrie Kerpen

Meet Social Lady Stacey Jaffe. Stacey overseas Teach For America's social media and blogging platforms, where she developed strategies to use social media matrix as a focus group upon which to improve the social media experience. Prior, she worked on content development for Nickelodeon's Team Umi Zoomi, which is an educational preschool television show.

Amy Binder is CEO of the New York City-based RF|Binder. For close to 30 years, Amy Binder has been committed to bringing new and innovative thinking to the public relations field. Since founding RF|Binder in 2001, Amy has focused on working with major corporations, brands, government organizations, destinations and institutions on corporate reputation and brand marketing assignments. Previously she was President/Americas for the Ruder Finn Group where she, along with her father David Finn and her siblings, built the company into one of the largest independent public relations agencies in the world. Amy is on the board of the Institute for Public Relations. She also serves on the Media Advisory Committee for Brown University and serves on the Brand Leaders Forum for the Center on Global Brand Leadership at Columbia Business School.

Lori Feldman is Global Head of Social Media for Cigna International, where she is responsible for enterprise social media marketing initiatives, as well as those in support of markets and segments. Lori joined the company in 2012, having spent twelve years with Citigroup Global Transaction Services (GTS). Before joining Citi, Lori spent seven years as a marketing and creative services consultant, with a broad, global client base including firms in pharma/healthcare, technology, shipping, publishing and e-business sectors. She has also held a variety of marketing and advertising management positions at Gannett Newspapers, YM Magazine, CBS/Fox Video and Rolling Stone. Lori was a three-year Co-Chair of Citi’s Women’s Council’s Developing Talent Program, an initiative focused on training and mentoring high potential women. She also supported marketing initiatives for Citi’s Corporate Banking Diversity program. This busy Social Lady is also the co-founder of the Connecticut-based theater group, Two Turkeys Product

Bethany Evans recently joined Southwest Airlines as Business Consultant Social Market Strategy. Prior to joining Southwest, she served as Social Media Manager at JCPenney, where she led the engagement team in content creation and community management across JCPenney’s social channels. Bethany has planned and executed a number of industry-leading campaigns including #JCPCup and #StompALittleLouder, and she has been a featured speaker for SocialMedia.org, discussing how to win at social media contests. A Colorado native, Bethany holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from Washington & Lee University in Virginia.

Mallorie Rosenbluth is the VP of Client Services at Likeable Media. Prior to joining the team, Mallorie was a marketing consultant at Wegmans Food Markets. Her previous roles at Likeable include Director of Small Business and Managing Director of New Client Strategy. Mallorie now oversees both account and creatives service and ensures clients have a “likeable” experience and the teams produce amazing work that get results. Her speaking credentials include Social Media Week, NYU’s Social Media Intensive Week, Digital Summit (Phoenix, Long Island), and others. She was a 2011 recipient of the Social Media Society’s Social Media Star Award and was named a 2014 Rising Social Media Star by Schaefer Marketing Solutions.

Deirdre K. Breakenridge is Chief Executive Officer at Pure Performance Communications. A veteran in PR and marketing, she is the author of five Financial Times books - her most recent book, Social Media and Public Relations: Eight New Practices for the PR Professional, was published in May 2012. Deirdre is an adjunct professor at New York University (NYU), an online instructor for UMASS at Amherst Journalism Department, and she speaks nationally and internationally on the topics of PR, marketing and social media communications. She also serves on the Board of the Social Network Association and is working with the founders on the #50Shows Empowering Women Movement giving women a voice and platform through media.

Jessica Kalbarczyk is the eternal optimist with a passion to learn and expand her already in-depth of knowledge of social and digital communications. A Buffalonian by heart, and South Carolinian by home, Jessica currently manages social media for Furman University in Greenville, SC. Jessica started her own communications consultancy, Glass Half Full Communications. The experience helped to solidify Jessica in the social media industry both on a regional and national scale. Within a year Jessica was hired by Samsung Electronics to manage and build their social media customer support. For close to three years, Jessica went from a one-woman show to seven employees managing all customer concerns via social media. Within that same year, Jessica turned back to one of her first loves, higher education. She has since been with Furman University for almost a year. Doubling followership, increasing engagement by the millions and turning Furman University's social media presence into one of the strongest in the Southeas

Carmen Shirkey Collins has been working on creating 1:1 relationships with customers since before social media was in the lexicon. She has helped pioneer and transform social media programs for several Fortune 500 companies and large brands. (America Online, Verizon, Mozilla Firefox, Citrix and now Cisco.) Her passion for social media aside, she is also an award-winning writer with one book on Amazon and another underway, a wife, mom to a fur-kid, and a world traveler.

Vanessa Sain-Dieguez leads Social Media Planning & Integration at Hilton Worldwide and is focused on promoting the integration of social strategy across the enterprise. Vanessa is particularly passionate about using social media to extend hospitality beyond the front desk via Hilton Worldwide's social customer service programs.

All the Social Ladies with Carrie Kerpen is proud to welcome Kathleen Curtis Wolf to this week's show. Kathleen is a creative person who enjoys working with others to innovate products, services or marketing concepts based on consumer understanding. She considers herself an entrepreneur on the inside of a large company, having spent most of her career in positions that were new or needed be reshaped to evolve to meet business needs. Kathleen is employed by Whirlpool Corporation and is currently the Senior Manager, Corporate Reputation & Interactive Communications.

Katie Cowie is the Social Media Supervisor at Resolution Media based out of Charlotte, NC. In that role, Katie provides social media strategy for Lowe's Home Improvement and leads a team who manages all paid social media for Lowe's. Prior to her role, Katie was the Engagement Marketing Manager for Gazelle, a late-stage consumer start-up based out of Boston, MA, where she managed social media, emerging platforms, events, and launched Gazelle's content marketing program and blog. Katie grew up in Massachusetts and attended Bentley University in Waltham, MA and recently moved to North Carolina. In her spare time she competes in equestrian sports.

Michelle Magoffin is passionate about technology and fascinated by the way people integrate it into the functions of their daily lives. She has 15 years of digital marketing experience, in the retail, real estate, automotive, and financial services industries, working with companies like Edmunds.com, Move.com, technology and ecommerce startups, and a variety of small businesses. Michelle is currently the director of social media marketing at Farmers Insurance, where she leads the content marketing and social media strategy for the Farmers Insurance and 21st Century brands, as well as the Farmers agent social media program. You can find Michelle, and links to all of her social sites, at http://about.me/michellem

Elina Furman is the publisher of A-List Mom and A-List Mom Travel by day and a frequent parenting columnist by night. She is also the author of over 20 books. Constantly on the hunt for new stylish products and new experiences, she believes that some of the best minds have migrated from NASA and are dreaming up the next cool, flying stroller. She lives in Westchester, N.Y., with her husband and 3-year-old son. Send her a tweet at @a_listmom and @alisttravel.

Dorie Clark is the author of Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future and the forthcoming Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It (Portfolio/Penguin, 2015). A former presidential campaign spokeswoman, she is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Entrepreneur. She is recognized as a "branding expert" by the Associated Press and Fortune, and is a marketing strategy consultant and speaker for clients including Google, Microsoft, Yale University, Fidelity, and the World Bank.

Aliza Licht is the SVP of Global Communications at Donna Karan International and DKNY PR GIRL (@dkny on Twitter), the company's award-winning social media personality. Licht was listed as #30 in The New York Daily News "Top 50 Most Powerful Women in New York," she is a an inaugural TEDx Times Square speaker, has been profiled by The New York Times in "PR Girl Revealed as PR Executive," E! News "A Day in the Life," Good & IBM's "Figures of Progress" and TIME Style & Design's "Six Women Who Rule the Fashion World," among many others. Licht's first book, Leave Your Mark, is available on preorder now and due out in May 2015 by Grand Central Publishing (U.S.) & Little, Brown and Company (U.K.).

Petra Nieger is Senior Director, Marketing Communications at Polycom. Prior to joining Polycom, she oversaw a team that managed digital, social and traditional communications at Siemens Healthcare as well as held several social and digital marketing positions at Cisco. She led social business at Cisco, and was responsible for initiatives to deepen and broaden social capabilities, drive participation and scale social media through employee and customer engagement. She was named by FierceCMO a Woman to Watch in B2B Marketing in 2014, received Top Digital Marketer of the Year award in 2013 and was named one of the top 25 Digital Marketers in 2012 by BtoB Magazine, as well as made iMedia’s 10 Hottest Digital Marketers list in 2013.

Julia Pimsleur is the CEO and Founder of Little Pim, the leading system for introducing young children to a second language. Little Pim has won 25 awards and features the proprietary Entertainment Immersion Method. She has raised over $25M including $4.5M in venture and angel funding and $20M in philanthropic dollars. Julia created the Double Digit Academy as a forum to support and mentor women while helping drive the number of women-owned, VC-funded businesses into the "double digits".

Allyson Downey is CEO and co-founder of weeSpring, a start-up that helps new and expecting parents collect advice from their friends about what they need for their baby. Her entrepreneurial spirit dates back to elementary school, when she had a face-painting business for birthday parties, and it's carried her through roles with Random House, Eliot Spitzer, and Credit Suisse. She has an MBA from Columbia Business School, an MFA from Columbia University's School of the Arts, and a BA from Colby College. She serves on the board of Democracy Prep Public Schools, one of the country's top charter management organizations, and lives in New York City with her husband and weeSpring co-founder Jack and their toddler.

Dayna Hathaway joined Extra Space Storage in 1999 after beginning her career in the agency and high-tech worlds. She has played an integral part in growing the marketing department from 3 people to more than 40. In addition, she has helped to grow the organization from 30 retail locations to over 1000+ today. Dayna has overseen marketing activities in various functions for the past 15+ years and has experience in driving integrated marketing plans using interactive, social, television, branding and even local grass roots tactics – all helping her maximize revenue for 1000+ self-storage facilities across the country. Dayna played a pivotal role in the move from yellow page advertising to interactive channels while increasing occupancy and reducing CPAs with more efficient online channels. She currently oversees all social media, content marketing and branding functions for the organization.

Christi McNeill serves as the Social Media and Digital Strategy Manager for Patrón Spirits Company, the world’s no. 1 premium tequila. In addition to her online communications and marketing duties, Christi works as a “voice” behind the Patrón Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook accounts (@Patron). Previously, Christi managed social media communications for Southwest Airlines and was a key developer of the Social Business model and roadmap for airline. She intimately understands the reach of the media and has been the author of several successful story placements creating positive buzz for the brands she’s worked for. She’s been featured in the New York Times, mashable.com, and USA Today as a communicator that “gets it.” Christi was recently named as a Social Media MVP by PRNews. A Texas native, Christi holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth.