Feb. 6, 2023 - Worcester Business Journal

Arts & Entertainment

🔒Q&A: Burncoat Center ties together arts and wellness

Hopes were high in January 2020 when the Burncoat Center for Arts and Wellness opened in Worcester. Two months later, COVID struck, and those plans went out the window.

Opinion

🔒A Thousand Words: Lack of gender diversity among local CEOs

Central Massachusetts has no public company CEOs who are women.

News

🔒Editorial: Diversifying your leadership pipeline

Since May, none of the 15 Central Massachusetts public companies listed on either on the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ have been led by a female CEO.

Opinion

🔒Viewpoint: Uplift people with different experiences

If you hire someone to do a job, trust that you made the right choice and allow them to get it done: Don’t micromanage, and make sure to acknowledge their contributions. New, outside perspectives should be welcomed.

Banking & Finance

Movers & Shakers for Feb. 6, 2023

People are on the move at Vision Advertising, Hospitality Insurance Group, and Bay State Savings Bank.

Advice

🔒101: How to pick a commercial property for your business

Purchasing a commercial property for your business can reap enormous rewards, but plenty of complex risks impede the road to getting there.

Advice

🔒Know when it’s time to bring in a marketing agency

Business owners are constantly analyzing expenses and looking to cut back costs while bringing in more revenue. Marketing is one of the most enigmatic spends in the business industry.

Advice

🔒4 Things I Know about … Making your benefit program a powerful retention and recruitment tool

Beyond wages, your benefit program can be a key tool to help you retain and hire the best. Ensure your benefit program is an effective asset.

Advice

🔒When trees fall in the forest, they do make sound

Assumptions carry many unknown gaps, experience, understanding. These gaps lead to misunderstanding, insensitivity, and a lack of empathy and compassion, and those things lead to a weakened, if not broken, organizational culture.

Diversity & Inclusion

🔒Samantha McDonald found a niche in commercial real estate and encourages other women to do the same

Samantha McDonald has risen to partner at Bowditch following an untraditional career path.

Diversity & Inclusion

🔒The president of Wormtown

In the wake of a scandal, Worcester’s largest brewer needed someone to show it how to be a great company. Kimberly Golinski answered the call.

Diversity & Inclusion

🔒No Central Mass. public company has a female CEO, although that’s not deterring young professionals

The landscape for women’s business leadership at the highest level in Central Mass. has taken a hit, but for women professionals in the region, it is yet another motivator to empower one another in traditional and non-traditional ways.

Diversity & Inclusion

🔒YWCA Central Mass. has become a launching pad for political involvement

YWCA Central Mass. made it its mission to eliminate racism and empower women. It can now count not only State Sen. Robyn Kennedy but members of the Worcester's school committee and city council as former board members.

Banking & Finance

🔒Brilliant move: Jordan eyes seamless transition, new priorities as she ascends to top of Seven Hills

When Kathleen Jordan took a job at her university’s advancement office, she could not have predicted it would be the beginning of a decades-long career in fundraising.

News

🔒From the Editor: Hitting pause on The Boardroom Gap

For five years, WBJ published its annual The Boardroom Gap report, meant to hold to account the business community’s commitment to diversity.

Arts & Entertainment

WooSox to temporarily take over space originally slated for delayed bioscience facility

The Worcester Red Sox plan on temporarily taking over the space set aside for the delayed Left Field Building, which is part of a five-building planned development slated to help pay for the $160-million public baseball stadium.

Feb. 6, 2023Edition

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