Stephanie Nora White

Stephanie Nora White is founder and managing partner of WPNT Ltd. The U.S.-based firm has provided communications training and strategy to organizations worldwide, from Fortune 300 companies to Silicon Valley start-ups, for more than 20 years. Stephanie is a lecturer at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, Northwestern University’s Graduate Integrated Marketing Communications program and at DePaul University.

Stephanie Nora White is an opinion columnist for the CEOWORLD magazine. Connect with her through LinkedIn.

CEO Journal

Cameras: On or Off in the Online World of Business?

CEO JournalStephanie Nora White

Before the spring of 2020, few executives would have ranked the question, “Cameras: On or Off?” as a hot-button issue within their organizations. But the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting shutdown forever changed the way most knowledge workers interact and work. According to a recent poll by USAToday’s “BLUEPRINT” team, one-third...

Banking and Finance

Want to Get Your Employees Back in the Office? Employ the People Who Want to Be There

Banking and FinanceStephanie Nora White

They have been labeled many things: “Neurodiverse,” “outliers,” even “quirky.” Some of these individuals don’t fall into any of these categories because their differences can be so subtle as to be unidentifiable, or perhaps even imperceptible to many. I’m not referring to the stereotypical, anti-social software coders extraordinaire, who want...

Executive Insider

Employees Behaving Badly? It’s Not Necessarily Who You Think

Executive InsiderStephanie Nora White

Companies Focusing on Workplace Civility as a Differentiator. Like many large companies, my Fortune 100 client annually selects a group of graduate students from the country’s elite universities for a summer program that culminates in job offers for the cream of the crop. In recent years, however, program leadership has...

CEO Advisory

Does “ful” really make it a word? Evolving Language Should Unify and Bind—Not Divide and Confuse

CEO AdvisoryStephanie Nora White

Every year, the world’s prominent English-language dictionaries add anywhere from a few hundred to 1,000 “neologisms”—newly coined words or phrases—to their pages. For Merriam-Webster and Oxford, it’s an exhaustive process that can involve tracking words from sometimes obscure uses into the mass-market national, and even global, lexicon. These arrivals can...

CEO Journal

CAN BUSINESSES SAVE DEMOCRACY?

CEO JournalStephanie Nora White

Business Leaders Play A Role in Alleviating Our Troublesome Times. Amid today’s fractious political times and societal divisions, it may be time for business leaders and their organizations to step into the breach to narrow the divide and help solve societal problems. The very real alternative is continued gridlock, leading to...

CEO Agenda

CEOS: Do you know how much time and money is wasted on interviewing and hiring at your organization—and what it might be costing your reputation?

CEO AgendaStephanie Nora White

Amid a well-publicized worker shortage and near record-low unemployment, Mike Conley, an Indiana-based software engineer seeking a new job faced a seemingly incredulous situation. Conley, who has 25 years of experience, withdrew from consideration for “a role I wanted, the pay I wanted, all the benefits I wanted” at a...

CEO Insider

Honesty and Candor are Differentiators for Successful Leaders and Their Organizations. The Numbers Back it Up.

CEO InsiderStephanie Nora White

A prospective client recently approached me about working with “Ted,” an operations leader at one of the company’s facilities. For years, Ted had been the target of a consistent stream of complaints from his team and their efforts to remove him. We discovered that the problem was that Ted would...

Tech and Innovation

THERE’S POWER – AND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE – IN SOFT SKILLS

Tech and InnovationStephanie Nora White

Much has been written about the increasing importance of soft skills in the workplace. But one is foundational to all others. It’s the source of competitive advantage, the differentiator for the executive, the employee and the organization. It’s communications, the spoken and written word. The pandemic-forced mass migration of business...

CEO Advisory

The Board Room Blind Spot: HR and Communications Expertise Needed

CEO AdvisoryStephanie Nora White

Few will dispute that these chaotic and calamitous times mean corporate executives face some of the toughest challenges of their careers. More companies are recognizing and developing an often-overlooked in-house resource—their boards of directors—to help address new and emerging threats. With the interconnectedness of today’s world and the global events...

Education and Career

Working From Home Post-covid-19: What’s Gained? What’s Lost? What’s The Sweet Spot?

Education and CareerStephanie Nora White

“Our bias against working from home has been completely exploded,” Dan Spaulding, chief people officer of online real estate portal Zillow, recently told researchers studying the global work-from-home phenomenon triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Pre-Covid-19 research documented a slow but steady uptick in the number of people working remotely at...

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