Warsaw Sports Marketing Center – Warsaw Thurston Award
Auction Ends: Apr 26, 2012 08:00 PM PDT

Unique Experiences

Career Management Sessions by Cathy Griffin

Item Number
114
Opening Bid
33 USD

Item Description

Win a one hour session with Cathy Griffin. Cathy will assit with career managment including resume revirew, reccomendations and career planning. Griffin leads her company, The Griffin Network, an executive recruitment, business development, marketing, and project management consulting firm leveraging Griffin's experience and contacts in entertainment, media, sports, consumer products, new media, communications, executive search and career management. A familiar speaker and panelist, Griffin worked as a guest reporter for local television and hosted her own radio show in New York City.

Before starting her own company, Griffin worked as a leading executive recruiter heading up the Sports Entertainment and Sports Consumer Products Practice for Korn/Ferry International and AT Kearney. Prior to entering the executive search field, Griffin spent 20 years in the business of television, new media, sports, publishing, consumer products, apparel/footwear, and entertainment industries. Griffin helped Pepsi-Cola Company build the largest grass roots sports program for adults in the United States in the 1980's. She worked on the Olympics in Los Angeles, Sarajevo, Seoul, and Calgary. Her corporate life encompasses strategic marketing, sponsorship, promotion, and event management experience at Pepsi-Cola Company, Time Warner, World Cup '94 and consulting for NIKE.

Ms. Griffin is Board Member/Treasurer of the International Wildlife Conservation Society and volunteered in 2004 for the organization's Water for Wildlife Project in the jungles of Nepal. She serves on the Board of Upward Bound House and chair's the Marketing Committee. She has been named one of the top 25 female sports executives in Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal. Griffin is a founding Board Member of World Team Sports, a seven-year veteran Trustee of the Women's Sports Foundation and Advisor to the National Sports Marketing Network. Her personal accomplishments include climbing Africa's Mt. Kilimanjaro with mentally handicapped adults, which aired as a CBS television special and won an Emmy Award.

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