Overview
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Get a practical and inspirational guide to breaking into the media industry.
Syllabus
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Career Trajectory
- Pinnacle moments
- Building a women’s network in the digital era
- The creation of “real” TV
- Advice on breaking into the entertainment business
- Spending time with the characters
- Responding to audience feedback
- Your gifts
- The gift of timing
- Relationships drive show success
- Relationships are everything!
- What drives Jeanine as a leader? “My team and I”
- Qualities of team leaders and ideas at BET
- Mentoring to make a difference
- Be open to learning
- Getting hired by BET
- How to break into the media industry
- Diversity at BET: Diversity of color is nonnegotiable
- Breaking through the glass ceiling: Creating a more diverse workplace and world
- Vulnerability in leadership
- Fears that inform leadership
- Lessons from my children
- Career life balance
- BET is igniting change in all of the industry
- Jeanine: Making a difference
- Being Mary Jane
- Boomerang and American Soul
- Authentic leadership
- Lessons from Jeanine’s mentors
