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The Insiders: Who do Central Mass. power players say are the most influential people in the region?
Updated: May 19, 2025In February, WBJ asked the 400+ people who have ever been on a WBJ power list (Power 100, Power 50, Power Players) to vote for the professionals they believed are the most influential in the region. Nearly 600 votes were cast
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Bill Wallace
Updated: May 19, 2025Not many can claim to have led at a single institution for half a century, but Wallace can. Having joined the Museum of Worcester as executive director in 1976, Wallace has guided the organization through 1/3rd of its existence, and his impact can
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Heather Elster
Updated: May 19, 2025Elster has been with the WCC since 2006, and executive director for a decade, helping the organization fulfill its mission of enhancing the health and well-being of people in the Blackstone Valley.
Updated: May 19, 2025
What is the nature of power? The Power 100 for 2025 provide their insights
Updated: May 19, 2025“Power is the ability to get people to listen to you, even when you're mostly just talking about beer.” - Sam Hendler, Hendler Family Brewing
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Kurt Isaacson
Updated: May 19, 2025As Central Massachusetts continues to reel from the impacts of the ongoing opioid epidemic, Isaacson has leveraged his position as the head of Spectrum to provide services to as many patients as possible in as many locations as possible.
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Susan Gentili
Updated: May 19, 2025Since stepping into her CEO position at SMOC in 2021, Gentili has set all systems go to provide supportive services and housing assistance to those whose needs have fallen through the cracks.
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Sha-Asia Medina & Parlee Jones
Updated: May 19, 2025Following the 2020 high-profile killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, the Village Worcester was born to be an Afrocentric cultural, learning, and healing center in Main South.
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Chelsey Patriss
Updated: May 19, 2025Patriss had never imagined herself in a public health career when she joined the Health Equity Partnership, but here she is, 11 years later, standing at the head of a nonprofit becoming all the more important in a region where healthcare options are
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Joshua Croke
Updated: May 19, 2025Croke has established themselves as not only a safe-space maker for the LGBTQ+ community, but as a leader for municipal change.
Updated: May 19, 2025
The Insiders 2025: Julie Orozco
Updated: May 19, 2025Story by Julie Bowditch, executive director of CASA Project Worcester County
Updated: May 19, 2025
Power 100: WBJ names the most influential professionals in 2025
Updated: May 19, 2025The Power 100 edition is an annual report on how power is shared and expended in Central Massachusetts each year, as told through the 100 people who are most effectively wielding their influence, with a special focus on those creating change and
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Bhaskar Panigrahi
Updated: May 19, 2025Panigrahi leads the charge of ConnectM, which in August was named the second-fastest growing company in Central Massachusetts and the 104th in the nation in Inc. magazine's list of the 5,000 fastest-growing companies
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Mike Hyland
Updated: May 19, 2025Hyland has led one of the region’s largest human services nonprofits for more than a decade and has continued to grow Venture’s presence to support as many individuals with intellectual disabilities and autism as possible across its service reach of
Updated: May 19, 2025
Better Business Bureau CEO departs after one year, succeeded by Hanover Theatre VP
May 13, 2025The president and CEO of the Worcester-based Better Business Bureau of Central New England has stepped down from his position after just one year on the job.
May 13, 2025
Safe Exit Initiative launches sex trafficking outreach program in Baltimore
May 13, 2025Safe Exit Initiative, a Worcester nonprofit supporting those involved in the sex trade, has expanded its reach into the Mid-Atlantic, launching a harm reduction and outreach program in Baltimore.
May 13, 2025
Former Mercy Centre site up for sale for $3.25M after nonprofit’s move to West Boylston
May 12, 2025The site had used by the Mercy Centre until it moved its operations to West Boylston earlier this year.
May 12, 2025
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