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Boss Talks Chicago Chapter Launch Featuring Ilyce Glink

Boss Talks Chicago Chapter Launch Featuring Ilyce Glink

Wed Jan 27, 2021 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST

Online, Zoom

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ABOUT YOUR MENTOR:

Ilyce Glink is an award-winning television and radio personality, a communications and media strategist, an innovator in content marketing, a popular speaker, and the founder of four Chicago-based companies.

She is a nationally-syndicated financial columnist, a best-selling author, and a radio talk show host for WGN Radio. She is the author of more than a dozen books, including the best-selling 100 Questions Every First-Time Home Buyer Should Ask (4th ed. Published Feb 2018), and has nearly 1 million books in print. She spent eight years as on-air talent/producer for WGN-TV and nearly 18 years hosting a top-rated Sunday talk show and filling in for syndicated talk show host Clark Howard for WSB-AM, in Atlanta, has hosted two syndicated radio programs, was a top blogger for 10 years for CBSNews/MoneyWatch, and has appeared on hundreds of television programs, including every major network’s morning news programs, The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNBC, CNN, and Fox Business.

She is also the founder/CEO of Think Glink Media. a media and content communications strategy and production company that provides consultative services as well as innovative products and services to help global companies connect in a smarter way with their customers, clients and employees. Her clients include Equifax, Discover Card, Countrywide Mortgage, AARP, Humana, and Quill, a unit of Staples, Yahoo!, AOL, HUB International, among others.

Her latest company is Best Money Moves, a cloud-based, mobile-first financial wellness technology platform and solution that companies provide to their employees to help them pay down personal debt and improve their financial lives. The result is lower turnover, absenteeism and financial stress, higher employee engagement and productivity, and better health outcomes. As a response to the Covid Pandemic in 2020, Glink launched the NextSteps Employee Resource Center, a tool to help employees who have separated from their company. In 2021, the company will launch Best Money Moves Premium, an AI-powered algorithm that pushes the right benefit to the right employee at the right time, and Best Money Moves Connect, an interactive financial wellness tool for financial services companies.

Awards and Recognition

Glink has won numerous awards throughout her career from the National Association of Real Estate Editors and the Society of Business Editors and Writers (SABEW), including multiple Best Column and Best Blog awards. She also received the first Money $mart Week award from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the Outstanding Supporter of Enrolled Agents Award from the National Association of Enrolled Agents, and two Peter Lisagor Awards for Exemplary Journalism from the Chicago Headline Club. She received the SABEW President’s Award in 2015. In 2006, she was nominated for an Emmy® Award. She was co-founder and co-publisher of The Medicare Newsgroup, and part of the team that won the 2012 Web Marketing Association’s award for outstanding achievement in web development for MedicareNewsGroup.com.

In 2017, Best Money Moves placed third in the Next Great HR Tech Company Competition, sponsored by HR Tech. Every quarter since, the company has been named a Top Financial Wellness provider by MyShortlister.com. Best Money Moves has been named to the Workplace Magazine Financial Wellness Hotlist 2017-2020, listed as a Top 50 Startup to Watch by Built in Chicago, and was a finalist for the 2019 Health Value Awards and the Chicago Innovation Awards. Glink was named a 2020 Top 10 Wealth Management Influencer by GlobalData Plc. and received the 2021 Social Innovator Award from World of Money.

ABOUT BOSS TALKS

Boss Talks is a global community empowering women entrepreneurs and business leaders to step out of isolation and level up their businesses and careers to unleash their revenue potential. We provide mentorship by top women entrepreneurs and a safe space where professional women can learn and ask for what they need with no negativity, no judgment, and no fear. We are women who use their collective knowledge and connections to help one another succeed, and who are authentic, unapologetic, and genuinely support one another. We provide the opportunity for women to achieve financial freedom and the power to choose their own destiny. Our mission is to elevate women in business and increase the economic footprint of women globally. We have currently have 10 chapters in the U.S. and Canada including Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Seattle, Toronto and Vancouver. To learn more about joining Boss Talks, visit us as www.bosstalks.com/memberships.

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