Wednesday, February 25, 2026 - 10 AM TO 12 PM PST / 1 PM TO 3 PM EST 

Public Media Women in Leadership Presents

Purpose to Power - The Leadership Playbook

Get the tools you need to lead with clarity, confidence, and impact. Define your personal purpose through coaching, strengthen your essential soft and strong skills, and learn how to build intentional, relationship-driven networks. You’ll complete this course with practical strategies to grow influence, navigate change, and position yourself for opportunity at any stage of your career, empowering you to lead authentically and effectively in today’s evolving workplace.
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Key Takeaways

  • Clarity on how public media careers are changing
  • Tools to reframe uncertainty as opportunity

  • Insight into future-ready leadership skills
  • Practical steps to strengthen career resilience

About this panel

  • Full date: Wednesday, February 25
  • 10am PT / 1pm ET
  • Virtual
  • 120 minutes
  • Members: $125
    Non-Members: $150 
  • Recorded 
Get the tools you need to lead with clarity, confidence, and impact. Define your personal purpose through coaching, strengthen your essential soft and strong skills, and learn how to build intentional, relationship-driven networks. You’ll complete this course with practical strategies to grow influence, navigate change, and position yourself for opportunity at any stage of your career, empowering you to lead authentically and effectively in today’s evolving workplace.

Who is this panel for? 

  • Emerging Leaders – Early-career professionals in public media or nonprofit media who want to gain leadership skills, confidence, and strategic insight to advance their careers.

  • Aspiring Executives – Mid-level managers, producers, editors, journalists, and other media professionals preparing for higher leadership roles and seeking guidance on influence, decision-making, and career growth.

  • Seasoned Professionals Seeking Growth – Experienced public media leaders who want to strengthen leadership skills, expand networks, or pivot their careers to remain effective and innovative.

  • Media Professionals in Adjacent Sectors – Nonprofit media staff, journalists, communicators, and creative professionals looking to apply leadership strategies, future-proof their careers, and contribute meaningfully to the mission of independent media.

  • Advocates for Public Media and Free Press – Anyone committed to shaping a strong, resilient, and trusted public media ecosystem, who wants to lead with purpose and impact.
Meet the Instructor

Ingrid Goldbloom Bloch

Career and Leadership Coach

Ingrid Goldbloom Bloch is a career development leader, trainer, and speaker with over 20 years of experience. She has worked with individuals and organizations across various industries and sectors, helping them transform their careers and businesses. Ingrid is also an internationally recognized artist known for giving new life to discarded and common objects. Her work has been published in over 50 publications and collected by museums worldwide. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Counseling Psychology from Lesley University and a dual Bachelor of Science degree in Communication Arts and Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ingrid is trained in Structural Consulting from Robert Fritz, Inc., and is MBTI-certified. She is the founder of Mosaic Careers, a consulting company providing career and leadership coaching, training, and employee engagement strategy.


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Iris Drayton-Spann

Executive Recruiter, Executive Coach and Consultant

Iris Drayton-Spann, MA, PHR, CDE, SHRM-CP, is a Managing Director at Stanton Chase in Washington, D.C., with extensive experience in executive search across for-profit, nonprofit, and public media sectors. She specializes in executive placements, board appointments, leadership assessments, succession planning, and DEI-focused consulting, as well as executive coaching.
Prior to Stanton Chase, Iris served as Vice President of Human Resources and Chief Diversity Officer at WETA TV, one of the nation’s largest public television producers.
She holds a Master of Arts from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from Howard University, and is certified by SHRM, HRCI, and The Institute for Diversity as a Certified Diversity Executive. Iris has been recognized among Mogul’s Top 100 DEI Leaders, DCA Live’s 25 HR Leaders of the Year, and received the President’s Award from the DC Chapter of the National Black MBA Association.

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Katherine Reynolds Lewis

founder of the Institute for Independent Journalists

Katherine is a science journalist and author based in the Washington, D.C. area who writes about education, equity, mental health, parenting, journalism, and social justice for publications including The Atlantic, The New York Times, Nieman Reports, Parents, and The Washington Post. Her 2018 book The Good News About Bad Behavior grew out of Mother Jones’ most-read article. A biracial woman (Asian American and White), she previously worked as a national correspondent for Newhouse News Service and Bloomberg News.
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Public Media Women in Leadership Presents

Since 2015, PMWL has supported the professional growth of hundreds of women in the public media system. Our signature mentorship and leadership development initiatives have created meaningful, structured connections among women nationwide—empowering them to grow, lead, and thrive in their careers.

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