Women in Communication: Thought Leaders
The Kopenhaver Center’s Thought Leaders Experts List compiles information on women scholars, media leaders and corporate experts in the field of communication who can provide world-class ideas and expert guidance on contemporary issues to ensure positive transformational conversations and change.
The Center provides training programs for young women to enable them to move into management positions in the professions we serve. Women are 51 percent of the population, yet there are few women in leadership roles in the communication industries. In fact, according to Forbes.com, only 14 percent of women are senior managers in all industries
When half the population is female, those who are the communication providers must ensure that the messages our society receives about itself are representative of all of its population. The Kopenhaver Center’s goal is to provide leadership training and mentorship programs to enable young women to have the tools to be better represented at the table where the decision-making process is taking place.
We thus hope to build more diversity in leadership, resulting in a new and exciting group of managers and leaders who reflect the population of this country.
Our roster of top leadership speakers and world-class experts in the field brings together today’s top preeminent minds in the field of communication, including leading journalists, executives, media experts, thought leaders, strategists and visionaries in order to help organizations achieve these goals. Their areas of expertise follow:
- Business and management
- The Academy
- Change management
- Broadcast, print, digital, public relations advertising
- Corporate culture
- Diversity and inclusion
- Innovation
- Leadership
- Technology
- Motivation and empowerment
- Work/life balance
- And more
The innovation and thought leadership speakers on the Kopenhaver Center’s Experts List of address topics like teambuilding, motivation, innovation, empowerment and leadership, from entry-level to mid-level. These industry and academic experts will help cultivate women leaders within your organization, and in turn, create a culture that not only withstands, but embraces and harnesses the forces of today’s global marketplace.
As competition in all of the communication industries intensifies, it is more important than ever to focus on innovation and creativity and to embrace the technologies that will turn opportunities into reality. And even more crucial is to ensure that women are represented at the table where decisions are made. The Kopenhaver Center’s Experts List speakers can be the catalyst to open doors for you.
The Kopenhaver Center offers seminars and webinars throughout the year as part of its Leadership Webinar and Leadership Seminar series.
The center also offers a workshop, Women Faculty Moving Forward, each summer at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication for young women assistant professors on a tenure-track to help them meet the challenges of moving ahead in the academic world, with the goal of their considering leadership roles in the academy.
“Diversity and Inclusion” is a key to the work of the center, with the goal of expanding the number of young women of all races, ethnicities, and cultures who are ready to move into positions of responsibility in the nation’s communications industries.
The center’s website at kopenhavercenter.fiu.edu provides a comprehensive summary of activities over the past several years of operations, including our first national conference in the spring of 2016, as well as subsequent conferences in 2017 and 2018.
The Kopenhaver Center Experts List is designed to provide information on women leaders in all the fields of communication who can serve as a resource to a broad range of academic institutions, professional organizations, the media and other entities related to the field of communication. These are individuals who can speak or comment on issues of relevance to the communications industries and profession, and particularly to the issues of women in those areas. It is also a recognition that there are a large number of women who are experts and can be called upon to comment when the media look for experts.
Our Thought Leaders are divided into two categories, Professional Leaders and Academic Leaders.