Helen’s kaleidoscope career offers decades of experience from newsrooms to corporate boardrooms, from startups to established publishers, and from nonprofits to government agencies.
She has been an entrepreneur and executive at the confluence of digital media and business disruption. As a multi-platform journalist, media coach, and media relations pro, writer, and trainer, Helen has been a strategic business and editorial advisor to executives and entrepreneurs, media networks, nonprofits, government agencies, and corporations.
Storytelling is in Helen’s DNA and at the heart of everything she creates. She built a career as a journalist in newspapers, magazines, radio, and online, including working for local, national, and international television news divisions.
In recent years, Helen took her skills to public service communications serving the City of New York and Westchester County.
Helen is known as a public speaker on the craft of communication, strengthening advocacy, resiliency in the face of life’s challenges, life-work balance, leadership, and the advancement of women.
She has moderated and organized panels for leading conferences, including Forbes Women’s Summits, Working Mother Best Companies, and the Swedish-American Executive Women’s conferences in the US and Stockholm. Helen has been called upon to emcee events for nonprofit corporate/fundraising and industry associations.
Resources:
Helen Jonsen Amazon author page
John Colquhoun, cartoonist and illustrator
Love Her, Love Her Not, the Hillary Paradox Edited by Joanne Bamberger
Excerpt from the Six Degrees of Hillary Clinton by Helen Jonsen
Hillary Clinton's book What Happened
Forbes: The Balancing Act. Click Here to See Videos (for the archived page, click here)
CureSearch for Children’s Cancer @CureSearch (insta)
Hole in the Wall Gang Camp @HoleWallCamp (insta)
Listen: Be Business Savvy: Girl Talk to Woman Talk
Gretchen Grant LinkedIn
Elisa Camahort Page at Optionality
WFUV Radio Ceol na nGael
About This Kaleidoscope Career Podcast
As a professional communicator, Helen Jonsen has a kaleidoscope career with decades of experience as a journalist, storyteller, media coach, voice-over talent, writer, media relations pro, and strategist. Helen is now taking the next step in her ever-growing kaleidoscope career with her new podcast, "This Kaleidoscope Career." Join Helen each week as she talks with leading women across various industries about the keys to unlocking a successful kaleidoscope career. Helen is available as a speaker on topics that will resonate with your audience. Find more here.
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