Many of us have put networking on the back burner as we waited out the pandemic. And even now, many of us are still working remotely, trying our best to connect over video conference.

But just because we are in this hybrid transition right now doesn’t mean your network has to stop growing. There are still many ways to grow your community, and even some advantages that only exist in a virtual environment.

This episode is a replay of a session from the 2021 National Workplace Summit. Networking expert Cate Luzio shares some of her top tips and tricks for networking virtually, making connections, and nurturing those connections even while social distancing.

Cate Luzio

Cate Luzio is the founder and CEO of Luminary, a membership-based career and personal growth platform and collaboration hub created to uplift and upskill women through all phases of their professional journey. Members are comprised of a multigenerational and intersectional community of individuals, intrapreneurs, entrepreneurs, corporations, and organizations. Before starting Luminary, Luzio spent twenty years in financial services leading global multibillion-dollar businesses. Previously, she was global head of multinational corporate banking for HSBC, and before that, she served as head of multinational corporate banking at J.P. Morgan EMEA based in London. She spent her early years in Latin America with Bank of America across both consumer and wholesale banking. She started her career working in tech in China. Luzio is a graduate of the University of Maryland, and in 2020 was named its Entrepreneur of the Year. She has a master’s degree in International Relations from Georgetown University. A long-time advocate for empowering women and girls, she serves on the national board for Girls Inc., as a WE.NYC mentor, and sits on the Boards of Pomp & Whimsy and WaterAid. Luzio was recognized as one of Forbes’ Next 1000 Entrepreneurs in 2021 and a Top 100 Female Founder by Inc. in 2019. She has been featured as an expert in top-tier financial, business and lifestyle media and is currently a contributing writer to Fast Company, Business Insider, and Worth. @cateluzio

 

Celeste Headlee

Celeste Headlee is a communication and human nature expert, and an award-winning journalist. She is a professional speaker, and also the author of Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving, Heard Mentality and We Need to Talk. In her twenty-year career in public radio, she has been the executive producer of On Second Thought at Georgia Public Radio, and anchored programs including Tell Me More, Talk of the Nation, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. She also served as cohost of the national morning news show The Takeaway from PRI and WNYC, and anchored presidential coverage in 2012 for PBS World Channel. Headlee’s TEDx talk sharing ten ways to have a better conversation has over twenty million total views to date. @CelesteHeadlee

 

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* Cate Luzio’s Luminary is “a membership-based career and personal growth platform and collaboration hub created to address the systemic challenges...