Cathie Black

Cathie Black is a media executive, best-selling author, and an advisor, board member, and investor in digital start-ups and entrepreneurial companies. Black was president, then chairman of Hearst Magazines, and oversaw such titles as Cosmopolitan, Food Network Magazine, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, and O, The Oprah Magazine. Called “the First Lady of Magazines,” Fortune magazine and Forbes named Black to their annual “Most Powerful Women in Business” lists numerous times. Black’s best-seller, BASIC BLACK: The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work (and in Life) offers invaluable lessons about the workplace with stories of working with media greats like Oprah Winfrey, Rupert Murdoch, and Gloria Steinem.