ABOUT NANCY ANCOWITZ

Nancy Ancowitz is a business communication coach specializing in career advancement and presentation skills and author of Self-Promotion for Introverts®: The Quiet Guide to Getting Ahead (McGraw-Hill), a Publishers Weekly "best book" selection. The book offers a gentle but results oriented approach to helping those who talk less to get heard more.

Nancy is a thinking partner and stalwart supporter for her clients, who range from CEOs to emerging leaders in the business and creative worlds. She is an adjunct instructor at New York University, where she teaches Self-Promotion for Introverts®, presentation skills, interview skills, and communication skills; she's also spoken at the Smithsonian Institution, the US Navy, New York Life, and a wide range of corporate and professional organizations.

A blogger for Psychology Today, her media coverage also includes careerjournal.com, the executive career site of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Newsday, Monster.com, CNN.com, WABC-TV, 1010 WINS radio, and CIO, Woman’s Day, and Marie Claire magazines.

Nancy 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 she did graduate work at NYU Stern School of Business Administration. She is a member of the Financial Women's Association. She has been 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. A two-time marathoner and vegetarian, Nancy is committed to lifelong fitness and wellbeing.