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Join PPWLN's upcoming Learning Circle webinar on networking, featuring a panel discussion with industry experts! Advance your career and elevate your professional profile today. 

New Digital Work Product!

Connect, Share, Inspire: Voices of Women in Packaging and Processing is designed to help women identify opportunities, recognize obstacles, and navigate a career in manufacturing.

CONNECT WITH WOMEN IN PACKAGING

Take advantage of a FREE forum to connect with other women in packaging to share your experiences, discuss your specific challenges and benchmark with your peers.

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Be sure to check out our video library to watch past presentations from the Packaging & Processing Women's Leadership Network Meetings.

Read New Blog Posts

Check out the latest news for what's happening in the packaging and processing industry for women, including tips, career advice, what to look out for and more by reading out latest blog posts. 

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Check out the most recent PPWLN e-newsletter. 

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NEW PODCAST: Changing the Rules of the Game

Neil and Hudson detail her journey from the advertising industry to designing packages as a brand manager for Clairol to executive leadership roles at Pepsi and the NFL. She describes her earliest days when only 1 in 10 in advertising were female and navigating the male-dominated rooms she walked into in the NFL.

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Join the #PPWLN Facebook group and LinkedIn group to connect with other women in Packaging & Processing.

Welcome

The Packaging & Processing Women's Leadership Network serves to recruit, retain and advance women's careers in packaging and processing. We do this through online and in-person events, information-sharing and networking. Join the Packaging & Processing Women’s Leadership Network group on LinkedIn to connect with peers and learn about upcoming events.

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PPWLN Learning Circle Webinar Series: Networking

PPWLN Learning Circles

Do you want to advance your career in the packaging and processing field? Don't miss the upcoming PPWLN Learning Circle webinar on networking! This panel discussion with industry experts, Melanie L. Denny and Nancy Wilson, will take place June 20 at 2 p.m. EDT and will be an interactive extension of the Connect, Share, Inspire: Voices of Women in Packaging and Processing.

This free webinar discussion will cover the importance of networking within your organization/industry, examples of what works and what doesn't in networking, and actionable takeaways for the audience to implement in their own careers.

Hear Melanie L. Denny, a personal branding consultant and self-marketing expert, share her expertise on personal branding and how to market yourself both online and in-person to advance your career within your current company. Nancy Wilson, the CEO of Morrison Container Handling Solutions, will provide her insights on the importance of networking within your own organization for career advancement, based on her distinguished 25-year career in leadership positions at Ford Motor Company and as an executive council member of PPWLN.

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RESOURCE

women in packaging and processingTo demonstrate how far modern manufacturing has come and the need for diversity in the industry, PMMI’s Packaging & Processing Women’s Leadership Network (PPWLN) has an ongoing program in place that connects multiple generations of women currently in the industry or interested in learning more.

Now, PPWLN and the OpX Leadership Network have teamed up to deliver an easy to access digital resource that outlines five core characteristics that will help women navigate a career in manufacturing. In the following pages you will hear from subject matter experts in the areas of business acumen, negotiation, communication, emotional intelligence, and networking. You will also be inspired by the stories of women leaders who reflect on their personal experiences, offering advice to others entering the manufacturing and packaging industries.

FEATURED PODCAST

Dawn Hudson

Changing the Rules of the Game

Hear Dawn Hudson describe her earliest days when only 1 in 10 in advertising were female and navigating the male-dominated rooms she walked into in the NFL.