- She was one of the most
  creative and dogged reporters
  I’ve ever worked with.
  If she has researched a topic,
  you can be sure she knows
  more about it that anyone else.
- Amy Dunkin, Director of Academic
  Operations, CUNY Graduate School
  of Journalism
- Toddi brings a unique
  combination of warmth,
  professionalism and business
  perspective. Working with her
  has been both a pleasure and
  a business advantage.
- Kathleen K. Lundquist PH.d,
  Chief Executive Officer, APT, Inc.
- Toddi Gutner is a topnotch
  writer and strategic content
  maker. She delivers on time,
  with enthusiasm and is
  a pleasure to work with.
- Josh Daniel, Managing Editor,
  MSN’s Business On Main
- I have rarely been to a panel
  where people didn’t leave.
  Everyone was mesmerized...
- Marie C. Wilson,
  President and Founder,
  The White House Project
- The Women’s Forum...
  has received strong positive
  feedback about the program,
  including the session
  you moderated. It was funny,
  informative, and honest.
- Jennifer Milliken, Program Director,
  Women’s Forum Global Meeting,
  Deauville, France

About Toddi

Toddi Gutner is an award-winning business journalist who has covered the financial markets, personal finance, small business and women in business for print, television, radio and the web for The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek and Forbes. She is currently a columnist for MSN Small Business Channel and Thomson Reuters. In the Spring of 2011, she joined BlissPR as a senior strategist. BlissPR is a 37-year-old business-to-business (B2B) strategic public relations and marketing communications firm specializing in the professional services, financial services and healthcare fields. She consults on thought leadership and survey programs, contributes to the professional development of staff in areas of critical thinking, media relations and story development, conducts business development, media trains clients, and develops media strategy.

Toddi also heads up her own media relations and corporate communication practice that creates strategies to help companies market to the media, create an effective message to “capture their story” and raise their visibility. She has worked with professional services firms such as Deloitte, Ernst & Young and Accenture to conceive, write and edit thought leadership pieces and other marketing content. Her work also appears in publications for The Conference Board, an economic and business tank, among others.

Toddi was an associate editor at BusinessWeek magazine for 11 years, where she had a proven track record for groundbreaking, provocative stories and special reports. Toddi became the first woman columnist at BusinessWeek magazine when she created and wrote a popular and well-respected weekly column in print and online called HERS, which focused on women and their financial and professional lives. Toddi also edited a page of brief news items.

Before joining Businessweek in 1996, Toddi wrote for Forbes magazine for five years. Prior to becoming a journalist, Toddi was as an economic analyst for five years at a private economic consulting firm, National Economic Research Associates in Washington, D.C.

Toddi has made several TV appearances on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, Power Lunch, Good Day New York, Weekend Today, Lifetime Live, Fox News, and This Week in Business. As a speaker and moderator, Toddi has spoken and moderated at several conferences including, The Women’s Forum for Economy & Society in Deauville, France, The Conference Board, Deutsche Bank's Women on Wall Street, Financial Women's Association and The Corporate State.

Toddi serves on the advisory boards of ITPAR, Nina McLemore, the Belizean Grove and the executive committee of the Winston Preparatory School in Winston, Ct. She is an active member of the International Women's Forum, The Economic Club of New York and Women Corporate Directors (WCD). Toddi received her Masters in Journalism from Northwestern University and a B.A. in economics from the University of Michigan.