Better Leaders #13 - Reneé Kaplan on Lasting Change, Grit, and Serendipity
About Our Guest:
Reneé Kaplan, the incoming Director of News at European news channel ARTE, is a highly experienced digital media transformation expert.
Before joining ARTE, Renée was the Head of digital editorial development at the Financial Times, where she lead teams working on innovation, new editorial products and much of the FT's digital journalism, including newsletters and podcasts. She also focused on new forms of distribution, and new ways to monetize digital journalism.
Before coming to the Financial Times, she was Deputy Editorial Director of news network France 24, and has worked as a journalist on staff at numerous U.S. media including CNN, CBS and the New York Observer. She is Franco-American and lives in London.
About Your Host:
Anita Zielina is the CEO and founder of Better Leaders Lab. She's also an Executive in Residence at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, where she spent the last few years leading all continuing and executive education initiatives. Anita serves as the inaugural Board Chair of News Product Alliance (NPA) and is a member of the board of directors at the Austrian Public Broadcaster ORF.
For the past 15 years, Anita held senior executive positions focused on product, strategy and innovation in various media and education organizations as Chief Product Officer, Managing Editor Digital, Editor-in-Chief and Director Strategic Initiatives. She has worked with around 500 managers, leaders and entrepreneurs as a consultant, coach and educator.
She holds a Master in Law from Vienna University and an Executive MBA from INSEAD. Anita is an alumna of the Stanford Knight Journalism Fellowship and the Oxford Reuters Institute Fellowship.
About Better Leaders Lab:
Better Leaders Lab is a Do and Think Tank for good leadership and smart management in media and beyond and a boutique strategic advisory firm. BLL specializes in organizational change, strategy and scenario planning, leadership development and executive recruiting research. Its goal is to empower managers, leaders and organizations in the broader media, digital & innovation space to build successful, sustainable, modern and healthy businesses.
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