Networking is a crucial aspect of any business. Whether you are just starting out or a seasoned business professional, building relationships can help you gain valuable insights and find new business opportunities.  This series shares conversations with four extraordinary business women, from the Warrior community, to discuss the skills of networking. Many people struggle with networking, or get started too late, and this is the conversation to put us on the right path. We will discuss how we can cultivate the proper mindset and what tips, stories and perspectives we can learn that will make us better networkers.

We continue our series with Nancie McDonnell Ruder and she will share with our community her foundational principals of true relationship building.  She embodies concepts like “help and kindness”and shows us what good practices are around networking and relationship building.  She has a very thoughtful way of approaching these ideas, bringing clear and actionable tools that someone either early or late stage in their career can benefit from. 

Nancie McDonnell Ruder has dedicated her career to strengthening brands and the people who build them.

With over 25 years of experience in marketing strategy, marketing training, branding and consumer research, Nancie has vast experience accelerating growth for companies by helping build their internal marketing strength – so external marketing efforts are focused and most effective. 
Nancie began her professional career with the Leo Burnett Company in Chicago, Illinois, where she spearheaded Leo Burnett’s global new business efforts. Since launching Noetic Consulting, a marketing and leadership consultancy in 2002, Nancie has provided strategic guidance to clients large and small, including: AT&T, Discovery Channel, Georgetown University, Nike, Vail Resorts, Samsung Electronics, SC Johnson, Mayo Clinic, the Walt Disney Company and others. Noetic is proudly female owned and WBENC-Certified as a diversity owned business.

(3:30) Nancie shares her philosophy and mindset around relationship building?

(5:40) How does she teach her philosophy to people coming to work at Noetic?

(9:38) Does Nancie find there is a difference between relationship building and networking?  How does she define each concept?

(14:26) How does Nancie evaluate the health and well-being of her network?

(16:40) The power of thoughtful introductions and how Nancie’s philosophy is so effective.

(20:09) - What advice does she have for someone who is in the early stages of their career?

(23:52) When thinking about the arc of her own career, what stands out to Nancie as a pivotal relationship building experience?

(26:53) How do these skills help Nancie in her personal life?

(29:03) What does Nancie ask, offer and acknowledge to the Warrior community. 
 
Connect with Nancie McDonnell Ruder
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancieatnoetic/


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