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.

C-Suite Advisory

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

Stephanie Nora WhiteC-Suite Advisory

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...

Future of Work

CAN BUSINESSES SAVE DEMOCRACY?

Stephanie Nora WhiteFuture of Work

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...

C-Suite 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?

Stephanie Nora WhiteC-Suite Agenda

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.

Stephanie Nora WhiteCEO Insider

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...

Business Transformation

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

Stephanie Nora WhiteBusiness Transformation

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...

C-Suite Advisory

The Board Room Blind Spot: HR and Communications Expertise Needed

Stephanie Nora WhiteC-Suite Advisory

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...

Executive Education

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

Stephanie Nora WhiteExecutive Education

“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...

C-Suite Advisory

What Can Trump Teach Us About Communicating through Uncertainty? Not Very Much

Stephanie Nora WhiteC-Suite Advisory

History will be the final judge of how U.S. President Donald Trump handled the global COVID-19 pandemic, but an array of elected and appointed officials and political observers have found his leadership and communications lacking in the face of the worst crisis faced in at least a generation. Even more...

C-Suite Advisory

Follow the Leader…If You Can Tell Who It Is

Stephanie Nora WhiteC-Suite Advisory

I recently sat in on a team meeting with the senior lieutenants of a key function for a professional services company. Not knowing any of them, it occurred to me that there were no visual, outward signs to suggest who might be the leader. For decades, it was easy to...

Executive Education

Hey Boss…Time for a Name Change

Stephanie Nora WhiteExecutive Education

Never before have so many new words entered the English lexicon at such rapid speed. Inspired largely by the never-ending proliferation of technology in our lives and a rash of national political and social movements, we now have "political words of the year," "digital words of the year," and even...

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