A business communication coach specializing in marketing and presentation skills, Nancy Ancowitz is a thinking partner and stalwart supporter for her clients, who range from CEOs to emerging leaders in the business and creative worlds. Nancy helps her clients advance in their careers, build their professional networks, and gain the recognition they deserve.

The creator of Self-Promotion for Introverts®, Nancy speaks at New York University, Columbia University, the Smithsonian Institution, and a wide range of corporate and professional organizations. She has written for careerjournal.com, the executive career site of The Wall Street Journal, and has been quoted in The New York Times, Newsday, WABC-TV Eyewitness News, Self, Woman’s Day, and Gotham magazines, monster.com, and a Wharton study on introversion in the workplace.

Nancy has managed marketing communications for a multibillion-dollar business as a vice president at JP Morgan Chase & Co. Earlier in her career, as a jewelry designer, Nancy’s clients included Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstrom, Henri Bendel, and I. Magnin; her promotional efforts resulted in national press coverage, including Glamour (cover), Cosmopolitan’s Beauty Guide (cover), Mademoiselle, Essence, Saturday Review, and New York magazine’s “Best Bets.”

Nancy’s creative expressions include her after-hours life as a playwright. Her Cemetery of Lips was selected into the CUNY Human Rights Theatre Project, the New York International Fringe Festival, and the Six Figures Theatre Company Artists of Tomorrow Festival. A staged reading of her Hablo, Diablo (translation: I Speak, Devil) played to sellout audiences at Makor (the West Side Center of the 92nd Street Y) and was featured in New York magazine.

Nancy holds a BS in communication from Boston University School of Communication and did graduate work at NYU Stern School of Business Administration. She was a director of the International Association of Business Communicators-NYC and vice president of the International Coach Federation-NYC; she is an ICF certified coach.