Loyola University Chicago

Executive and Professional Education Center

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Nicole Emerick

As a recent college grad, Nicole Emerick kept hearing the same thing from women all around her: is this really it? So, like many other ambitious yet unsatisfied young women, she started a blog without knowing anything about blogging.

Nicole's former blog- Ms. Career Girl - existed to help ambitious young women find out who they are, what they want and how to get there. As her blog's community grew, brand partnerships followed and Nicole knew that social media would change business at large forever. Five years later, Nicole left her career in banking, started a new chapter as a marketer and sold her blog.

Today Nicole is VP, Director of Social Media and Influencer Marketing at global advertising agency FCB Chicago. Nicole believes that the most fulfilling and successful career paths are the curated ones. Her project, The Curated Careerist, leverages Nicole's life-long studies of personal development, her experience coaching hundreds of emerging leaders and insights from working with the world's biggest brands and influencers, to give people the mindset and tools they need to step into the next season of their career.