Networking. It’s an activity associated with relentless socializing, schmoozing, sales-like superficiality. It’s something that is too often approached as a “has to be done” in…
J. Kelly HoeyMarch 27, 2019
Forbes listed me as an "up and comer" at age 48 for the work I was doing for female founders. I get emails from people…
J. Kelly HoeyJanuary 4, 2019
I am really not a fan of the elevator pitch. Frankly, I don’t know what I find more distasteful: the prospect of one more impersonal…
J. Kelly HoeyJanuary 4, 2019
In a Nutshell: When J. Kelly Hoey decided to make a career change, it took 18 months of hard work to realize her goal. That time together with…
J. Kelly HoeyDecember 27, 2018
A networking question that landed in my inbox last week: "I’m a 15 year old high school student in New York. I’ve been programming for…
J. Kelly HoeyOctober 1, 2018
Ah, August. A heat warning in effect. It is a hot, humid Sunday in New York City as I write this, delightfully the type of…
J. Kelly HoeyAugust 8, 2018
I’ve been described as a super connector. It typically makes me cringe when I hear that. When someone is described as a connector, the first…
J. Kelly HoeyJuly 16, 2018
Articles such as this recent one on Entrepreneur.com offering “3 Tips” to improve your networking typically drive me nuts. How nuts? Nuts enough to write…
J. Kelly HoeyJune 2, 2018
