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Catherine Connelly is Co-Founder and SVP, Marketing for The Meet Group, which owns dating apps including MeetMe, Tagged, Skout, and GROWLr. In 2020, The Meet Group joined forces with Parship, to become the ParshipMeet Group, after being acquired by ProSiebenSat.1 and General Atlantic for approximately $500 million, and now powers many of the world’s top social apps via its livestreaming video and creator economy solutions. Connelly was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award Winner for the Philadelphia region (2011) and serves as both a Council Member at Women in Dating, the organization to drive meaningful change toward a diverse and inclusive dating industry; plus an Advisor for the Think Tank, Oasis Consortium, which aims to advance ethical standards across three core pillars: safe online communities, data privacy, and diversity and inclusion. She holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BSBA, Operations and Information Management & Marketing (with a minor in Psychology) from Georgetown University.
Catherine Connelly
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In a data-rich environment, marketers can do so much more to understand the value of individual members.
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Inspiring employees to address current business challenges—transparently and collaboratively—enables the opportunity to find innovative solutions for business growth. Tapping into the ideas of the people you work with each day is an effective way to foster the spirit of intrapreneurship on the job. It can move the company closer to its mission to spark innovation that has a positive influence, in-house and externally, in the marketplace. An employee's concept may seem risky or unconventional, at first, but as a leader, being willing to facilitate a safe space for staff critical thinking and creative experimentation will help the business and its team stay fresh, collectively, moving forward with better outcomes for the organization and attainable solutions for its current and potential clients and customers. Below, 14 experts from Fast Company Executive Board are sharing their best practices to inspire innovation and intellectual freedom that will excite your team.
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Nov 22, 2022
Entrepreneurship comes with risk, and it takes some time and practice to manage how you deal with those uncertainties.
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Aug 9, 2022
It’s a new world, full of possibilities, running parallel to our physical-based existence—and possibly more boring—daily lives.