Understanding Invisible Disabilities in the Workplace
Apr 28, 2022 / 2:00 - 2:30 PM EST
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Join Sheryl Goldstein, EVP, Chief Industry Growth Officer at IAB, Jill Griffin, Career Strategist & Executive Coach, Laurel Rossi, Chief Marketing Officer, Infillion, and Sarah-Jaana Nodell, Board Certified Patient Advocate, Health Administrator, and Disability Life Coach, as they discuss the false perceptions, judgements and most importantly, lack of understanding for people with invisible disabilities in the workplace.
Sheryl Goldstein is the Executive Vice President, Chief Industry Growth Officer at the IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau). In her role, she oversees engaging the IAB’s 650+ members across all of the IAB’s vast initiatives, activities and thought leadership programs. Under Sheryl’s watch are the Member Engagement, Centers of Excellence, Research and L&D teams. She also spearheads talent development, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and runs the IAB CRO Council.
Sheryl Goldstein is a “net vet” with over 20 years of driving meaningful revenue growth through consultative selling in the dynamic digital landscape (Yahoo, AOL, About.com). She is adept at building successful teams, developing go-to-market strategies and gaining consensus across key stakeholders. Her background includes a wide variety of digital media platforms and technologies and numerous leadership roles.
In addition to her experience as a sales leader, Sheryl brings years of talent development and training to her role and is committed to making the digital media landscape a great industry for diverse talent to thrive and have a long and exciting career.
Sheryl is a current board member for 212NYC, Makers and was a past Board member of She Runs It. She serves on the Rutgers Business School Advisory Board for Marketing and is helping RBS craft a digital marketing graduate program. In addition, she has served on Boards and Committees for the NY Ad Club, Women in Communications, Inc. and the IAB and is a member of Chief. She is an award-winning sales leader (Yahoo Accelerator Award, AOL Best Media Partner presented by Verizon, AOL Presidents Club, AWNY Crystal Award Winner).
Sheryl is a graduate of Syracuse University Newhouse School and lives in New Jersey with her partner Cindy and dogs Pancho and Camden. On the weekends, you can catch her on the pickleball court or riding around the Jersey Shore on her new electric bike. Her daughter Sarah-Jaana lives in the Boston area with her husband Michael.
Jill Griffin’s executive career coaching, strategy and innovation has generated multi-millions in revenue for the world’s largest agencies, start-ups and well-known brands.
For 20+ years her approach to busting through the BS (which stands for belief systems)and building a culture from the strengths of both the team and leadership is responsible for creating repeated and consistent results. She has worked with the brands we all know and look up to including: Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Samsung, Mondelez, and Honda.
Advertising Age recognized Jill as one of the “25Women to Watch”, and she was named one of the “50 Most Influential People in Content Marketing” by NewsCred. She’s also a two-time winner of AdWeek-Mediaweek’s Media Plan of the Year.
As a founding member of 212, NY’s Digital Advertising Club, Jill was a recent visionary award recipient along with the other founding members.
Jill has written articles for HuffPost, Fast Company, and Metro. She’s been quoted by leading media outlets like AdWeek, Advertising Age, Forrester Research, The New York Times, Newscred, MediaWeek, Departures, and The Wall Street Journal.
Whether she’s working with startups, thought leaders or renowned global organizations Jill has sat on all sides of the table. She is able to blend cultures and help people feel understood while up-leveling their performance regardless of the environment.
Jill’s an experienced Gallup® Certified Strengths Coach. She works with organizations to create strengths-based cultures to increase performance, motivation, productivity, and retention.
Sarah-Jaana is a Board Certified Patient Advocate, Certified Health Administrator, disability life coach, and public speaker. She graduated from Guilford College with a degree in Peace and Conflict studies and Quincy College with a certificate in Medical Administration, Billing, and Coding. For the past few years Sarah-Jaana has been deeply involved in the medical cannabis community both professionally and as an advocate for best practices. She is the founder of the “Spoonie Advocate Associates”, a group of disabled professional consultants providing and developing tools for patients, clinicians, and businesses to meet quality of life and affordable ADA standards. They are a graduate of the New Leaders Council, and an advisor to CRX Magazine. As part of her work in patient advocacy Sarah-Jaana can often be found speaking at public engagements defending patients rights.