Spirit of Women in Business

THE SPIRIT OF WOMEN IN BUSINESS 2024

SAVE THE DATE: MARCH 7, 2024

Kent State Student Center

The Spirit of Women in Business (SWIB) Conference is an annual event hosted by the Kent State University Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship. The conference brings together women from diverse professional backgrounds. 

Registration

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2024 KEYNOTE SPEAKER

HANNAH UBL

Co-Founder of Good Company Consulting and Author 

Hannah Ubl's core mission is to create organizations that don’t suck. She’s devoted her career to flipping the traditional workplace script, throwing out the old “employees are lines on a spreadsheet” in favor of treating people at work more like… well, people.

As Co-founder of Good Company Consulting, she’s sought after for her bold take on building workplaces that prioritize the human experience while simultaneously increasing the bottom line. Hannah’s dedicated the past decade to researching people at work - not just top talent

and leadership - but everyone in between. She’s discovered a strangely well-kept secret for recruiting and retaining the workforce of the future: the best recipe for organizational success is rooted in mindfulness, empathy, and kindness.

Hannah’s work is a fresh approach to the standard (and outdated) workplace narrative. Not afraid to ask the hard questions, she pushes audiences towards self-inquiry to help them become better leaders, better managers, and better colleagues.

With heart, deep conviction, and a good dose of self-deprecating humor, Hannah will sweep you along on a journey of insights that lead to deep, lasting mindset shifts about how work works.

2024 SPIRIT OF WOMEN IN BUSINESS AWARD RECIPIENT

ROSE CRANE

Crane has 40 years of experience in the healthcare industry, with a strong focus in operations, commercialization and acquisitions. She has more than 25 years of therapeutic and consumer drug launch experience. Crane served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Mela Sciences, a medical technology company, and was a Partner at Appletree Partners. She also served as President and Chief Executive Officer at Epocrates, where she lead a very successful IPO.

Crane served in various senior executive positions at Johnson and Johnson, including as Group Chairman, OTC & Nutritional Group and as Group Chairman, Consumer and Specialty Pharmaceuticals. Prior to that, at Bristol Myers Squibb,Ms. Crane managed a $7 billion dollar business as President US Primary Care. Crane had held positions of increasing responsibilities in marketing, product development and global marketing at Britol Myers Squibb, where she started her career as a sales representative. She has served on the Board of Directors at Tarsus Pharmaceuticals since 2021, the Board of Directors at Catalent since 2018 and the Board of Directors at Teva Pharmaceuticals since 2016, where she is currently Chair of the Human Resource Compensation Committee. She ia also Chair of the Foundation Board at the State University of New York at Oswego.

Crane received an MBA from Kent State University in 1986 and a B.A. on Communications and English from SUNY Oswego in 1981.

CONTACT:

• Kristin Williams: kwill100@kent.edu

• Mickey McGregor: mmcgrego@kent.edu