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The best strategy for your new PR career? Say yes!
A note about this series: There comes a time in every professional’s life when you want to impart what you’ve learned to those coming up behind you. Fortunately, that’s part of our job description at the Lowe Group—we train financial communicators! Today we begin a series of posts welcoming those fresh college graduates fortunate enough to score a job in the investment industry. If [...]
Meet the Team: An interview with Talia Dunyak
You have a unique academic background. Can you tell us more about your experience studying and working outside of the U.S.? I’ve always been a bit indecisive and possibly a little overambitious, so when it came time to pick my course of study at college, I decided to double major in English literature and German language and minor in sustainable development and creative writing. [...]
Meet the team: An interview with Connie Hanson
Tell us about your academic and professional background? I graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in human resources from UW-Whitewater. Right out of college, I worked in the HR department for the law firm Godfrey & Kahn. Since then, I’ve worked in HR in a wide variety of industries including healthcare, manufacturing, and retail. I mostly held general HR roles but also [...]
Meet the team: An interview with Greg Joslyn
Tell us about your academic background A broad liberal arts program at the University of Texas called Plan II—so broad that there was a running joke on campus—“I haven’t chosen a major, but I Plan II.” My concentration was history and for my senior thesis, I used census data to track immigration patterns in 19th century Texas. This prepared me for getting excited and [...]
Don’t make compliance your enemy
If your company operates in a highly regulated industry like financial services, it’s not uncommon for the approval process for content to become contentious. But when compliance and marketing can’t see eye to eye, it can be both unpleasant and unproductive. Even if you outsource your compliance function, establishing and maintaining solid working relationships with the people who have the final say on your content [...]