WIRe's Annual Webinar Series, sponsored by FUEL + The Focus Room, provides free educational content for the Market Research and Insights community on topics most impactful and relevant to diverse professionals. This year's theme, "Building Solid Foundations," addresses some of the fundamental concerns and obstacles women and diverse professionals experience today such as job loss, career planning, sexism, and more.
Upon registration, you will be registered for all three of our 2024 sessions:
June Session | June 25th, 10 AM PST
Anticipating Growth: Cultivating a Portfolio Career
Some careers are a straight line from one role to the next, but most are composed of twists and turns that can be difficult to navigate and hard to imagine. WIRe Founder Kristin Luck will sit down with industry veteran Eileen Campbell to have an honest and informative conversation on the topic of building a portfolio career, diving into the details of what it takes to do so, tactics to mitigate the stress of change, and how to come out on top.
July Session | July 25th, 10 AM PST
The Changing Workplace: What You Need to Know
With remote and hybrid work becoming the new norm, how we connect with our companies, colleagues, and office spaces is changing. But the -isms are still there… sexism, racism, and ageism. We need to adjust and adapt to today’s office landscape in ways that allow us to still tackle and deal with these issues.
August Session | August 29th, 10 AM PST
So You Lost Your Job, Now What?
Whether you’ve been downsized, laid off, or simply can’t find the right fit, job loss is an uncomfortable struggle many experience but few truly discuss publicly. This interactive session will look at the timeline of job loss: from the first pangs of concern, to the dreaded call from HR, and the weeks (or months) of job searching afterwards. Regardless of where you are in your career, this session will set you up for success by preparing you for transitioning between roles smoothly.
January is an accomplished results-driven leader, proven in cultivating high-performing cross-functional teams and strategically leveraging relationships while focusing on the bottom line and transforming business models to create scalable ongoing impact. She has nearly 20 years of experience in online data collection in various roles in Sales, Product, and Operations both the vendor (GMI, Kantar, Dynata) and agency side (Hall & Partners and SE/ASI).
Lindsey is an insights leader specializing in shopper insights with 15 years of experience across a variety of industries. She is known for her consumer centric mindset and storytelling abilities, as well as being highly caffeinated and highly curious. Lindsey lives north of Dallas with her husband and 2 amazing kids, and is excited to find the next organization where she can bring insights to life and help build out new capabilities.
Meet Eileen Campbell. She describes herself as “The Fairy Godmother of the Insights Industry." She's been conquering the business world since her first job at 14 and entered the insights industry at the ripe old age of 19 while still in university. After starting her career in Toledo, Ohio, she opened her first office for an agency in Minneapolis one week after her 26th birthday and went on to build the US operations of the Angus Reid Group before moving to Toronto to help launch ARG’s global efforts. Eileen served as Global CEO at Millward Brown (now Kantar), steering the organization to become a $1B consultancy during her 14 year tenure. After leaving Millward Brown, Eileen briefly retired before becoming CMO at IMAX. During her tenure, IMAX experienced its highest growth cycle & stock performance and she was named one of Hollywood’s most influential marketing executives by Variety (she also got to meet a lot of VERY cool people!) She then co-founded Reid Campbell Group, now Rival Group, growing it to nearly $30MM in revenue in under 5 years. While she’s recently stepped away from an active role in Rival Group management, she remains an investor in the company and the team’s biggest cheerleader!
Eileen currently serves on the board of Pure Spectrum and Preface Global and was previously a member of the board of NASDAQ-listed Monotype prior to its take-private sale to private equity investors. These days, Eileen’s time is filled with writing, consulting, and advisory work under the banner of Womintuition. When she’s not working, Eileen enjoys life in the country in the tiny village of Creemore, Ontario where she gardens, golfs and generally lazes about (if you’ve seen any Hallmark movie ever, that’s life in Creemore!). She is married to her beloved husband, Struan Robertson, and is active in efforts to raise awareness of the life-giving power of organ donation as well as organizations committed to advancing social justice and women’s careers.
Earning her BA in Psychology in 2005, Mika began her career in social worker in Los Angeles. She later found her passion in Human Resources and completed her Professional Human Resources certificate from HRCI in January 2013. Continuously learning, Mika is an active member of SHRM and regularly attends organizational development trainings to ensure that she is on the cutting edge of HR trends.
Mika has spent the last 14 years in HR, spanning across the market research, and other tech-based industries. She returned to the market research industry after beginning her career with the founding team at uSamp/Instantly.
Mika is passionate about people, inclusivity, and professional advancement, working to set an example to her daughter every day. She is dedicated to making the business world a better place and demonstrate for her family that anything is possible.