Women of Business

Steady is the head that wears the crown: Meet Leah Roddenberry, the longest-reigning Miss Tampa, future lawyer, author and advocate. When she was crowned in March 2020, Roddenberry looked forward

Tampa Bay Wave is accepting applications for its 2021 TechWomen Rising Accelerator program. The 90-day program was created to help women-owned tech startups. To apply for the program, the startup

Rita Lowman, president of Pilot Bank, received the 2021 Dottie Berger MacKinnon Woman of Influence Award by the Tampa Bay Chamber. The Woman of Influence Award recognizes a woman whose

Welcome to St. Petersburg, Florida: home of the badass businesswoman. She’s not the official city symbol (that honor goes to the brown pelican), but perhaps she should be. Studies continue

The Tampa area is home to some of Florida’s most impactful business leaders. A select few make the annual Florida 500 list, which highlights influential executives among different economic sectors.

Jennifer Locklear is passionate about nurturing diverse leadership. As chief talent officer of ConnectWise, and co-founder of Fe League (alongside Keri Higgins-Bigelow), a Tampa Bay area women in leadership group

After graduating from Indiana University School of Law, Kelsie Ackman thought her work trajectory was set to “lawyer life.” Then she joined a firm where no female attorney seemed to

For TBBW’s most recent “Women of Influence” event, we pulled together women working and leading the charge on cannabis businesses in the Tampa Bay area. The event was held at The

Philanthropy, real estate dealings and hotel development with a side of reality show stardom: When it comes to well-rounded influence, Torrie Jasuwan looks to cover every square inch. The St.

In what is traditionally an extremely male-dominated industry, the Tampa Bay area breaks that tradition. With three local electric companies being run by women, this edition of the “Women of

Meriann Metz, a longtime in-house lawyer for Publix, was promoted to vice president, general counsel and secretary in 2019. She says that one of the perks to her new role

The Tampa Bay area is booming with women in sports leadership roles, which was the topic of discussion for this installment of Women of Influence, held at the Adventhealth Training