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Oct. 17, 2022

2022 Outstanding Women in Business

When WBJ asked the nine winners of this year’s Outstanding Women in Business Awards for their advice to women in the workforce, their responses – while detailed and varied – boiled down to two things: persistence and support. Their keys to the paths of success are having the determination to overcome and the network of people to support those efforts.

Two Blackstone Valley warehouses, totalling 2M sq. ft. begin construction, amid Route 146 industrial development bonanza

Timothy Doyle

Two massive industrial projects, each approximately 1 million square feet, are beginning construction in Sutton and Douglas.
2022 Outstanding Women in Business

2022 Outstanding Women in Business
Outstanding Women in Business: Friel's impressive career is just beginning

Susan Shalhoub

Natalie Friel took the concept of getting out of one’s comfort zone to a whole new level when she worked for biotech giant Roche in Switzerland. A director of quality control for a department of 300 employees, she had to learn to speak German.
2022 Outstanding Women in Business

2022 Outstanding Women in Business
Outstanding Women in Business: Steen guided a nonprofit through a milestone merger

Susan Shalhoub

The transaction involved combining three budgets, three office properties, and numerous camp properties. Steen was the perfect person for the job.
2022 Outstanding Women in Business

2022 Outstanding Women in Business
Outstanding Women in Business: Cruz rewrote the narrative

Susan Shalhoub

Born in Puerto Rico and moving to Southbridge as a toddler, Elizabeth Cruz lived in Pennsylvania briefly, but has mainly been in Central Massachusetts all along. During that time, she’s made her presence known as a business leader.
2022 Outstanding Women in Business

2022 Outstanding Women in Business
Outstanding Women in Business: McEvoy pulled off the celebration of the century

Susan Shalhoub

City pride drives the volunteerism of Kate McEvoy, who grew up on Main South’s Beaver Street near Clark University, even when that means taking on projects she knows she shouldn’t, like the Worcester Tercentennial Celebration. It may not be her favorite community project, but it is the one of which she is most proud.
2022 Outstanding Women in Business

2022 Outstanding Women in Business
Outstanding Women in Business: Krasnecky brings a world of experience to Old Sturbridge Village

Susan Shalhoub

Revenues have increased by 57%. The endowment more than doubled, with full-time employees growing from 82 to nearly 130. Special event programming increased to more than $1 million a year.
2022 Outstanding Women in Business

2022 Outstanding Women in Business
Outstanding Women in Business: Pelletier connects the business community together

Susan Shalhoub

As executive vice president of the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce, Karen Pelletier has had a central theme in her career: Connections.
2022 Outstanding Women in Business

2022 Outstanding Women in Business
Outstanding Women in Business: Thomas-Bonnick makes community central to banking

Susan Shalhoub

Monica Thomas-Bonnick is a pro at packing boxes and coming into new communities. And, of course, she wouldn’t dream of not getting involved in community causes once there.
2022 Outstanding Women in Business

2022 Outstanding Women in Business
Outstanding Women in Business: Giampa is a volunteering powerhouse

Susan Shalhoub

With leadership roles in a full slate of local charitable organizations, it would be a safe guess to say Diane Giampa of Bay State Savings Bank has done more than a little bit. Her calendar is full, just the way she likes it.
2022 Outstanding Women in Business

2022 Outstanding Women in Business
Outstanding Women in Business: Smith is leading a major biopharma expansion

Kevin Koczwara

The hardest part for Odile Smith when she joined as vice president and Devens campus lead for Bristol Myers Squibb, a biopharma firm with $50 billion in annual revenue, wasn’t the work.
Advice

Advice
Emotional intelligence is a supreme competency

Bonnie J. Walker

Let’s hold ourselves accountable for strengthening our EQ-i, in the same way we do other leadership competencies.
Advice

Advice
5 Things I know about ... Getting a mortgage in a rising rate environment

Darryl Caffee Jr.

If you were like many in Central Massachusetts looking to buy a home at the start of the pandemic, you may be among the countless house hunters who were discouraged by the market.
Advice

Advice
101: How to manage burnout as a leader

Laura Finaldi

Here are some ways to manage burnout when it happens, without anyone even noticing.
Advice

Advice
Lower your cyber insurance rates

Michelle Drolet

The rule is simple: The greater the cyber risk, the greater the insurance cost.
Opinion

Opinion
A Thousand Words: Route 146 development

Ramón L. Sandoval
Opinion

Opinion
Viewpoint: Merit shops comprise majority of construction workforce

Jason Kauppi

When it comes to counting members, organized labor includes those swinging golf clubs along with those swinging hammers. Dues-paying retirees are counted along with working members.
Editorial

Editorial
Editorial: Starting lean

A restaurant only open for two days a week hardly seems like a model for the future of the hospitality industry, but maybe its owners realize something the rest of the world is just catching onto: Pre-pandemic life will never fully return, and it’s time for businesses to innovate in ways they may not have thought of before, embracing a changed future where they find success in new ways.
Movers & Shakers

Movers & Shakers
Movers & Shakers for Oct. 17, 2022

People are on the move at Milford Federal Bank, UMass Memorial Health, and more.

Today's Poll

Poll Description

As part of the Thanksgiving shopping weekend, local retailers rely on Small Business Saturday to kickstart their revenues for the holiday season, as an alternative to customers looking for Black Friday deals at larger chain stores.

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