A Useful Company
Since 2009 Ilene Rapkin has provided one on one access to select businesses for customized executive coaching programs. She is an expert in coaching C-level executives and senior leaders in tech, media and entertainment industries. Ilene has also developed deep expertise in transforming workplace environments from stressful to healthy and productive. I Openers' coaching programs develop skills in self-awareness and authentic leadership, integral to producing successful team efforts and retention of talent.
In addition to our existing partnership with a Director of Insights and a Crisis Management and PR expert, the team at I Openers now includes a distinguished psychologist to work with select clients. In today’s workplace environment it is critically important to lead with empathy, strive for flexibility, and model ways to prioritize mental health and well-being. We strive to be at the front line, helping our clients lead in this area and to drive ROI and high performance through relatable and results-driven best practices.
I Openers also has a 18-year track record of success developing and delivering integrated programs, market position, and mission-driven ROI in the worlds of tech, ad tech, entertainment, content, media, health, fitness, wine and food, active lifestyle, event strategy, personalities, and consumer products. We provide these custom services backed by research, strategic insights, and trending information to deliver the most powerful consultation for our clients. I Openers is known in the industry for unmatched client service, and for transformative, and long term, revenue-driving victories for our clients.
Unlike many executive coaching firms, we not only bring evidence-based best practices to our work with corporate leaders, but direct experience in the functional, P&L-based operational and strategic details of enterprise management.
Over the years, I Openers has worked at C-level on strategic programs with some of the greatest brands in media, entertainment, luxury, auto, health & wellness, lifestyle, and travel, and these diverse experiences inform and empower our executive coaching practice. Our expertise across multiple verticals in go-to-market, sales, audience building, branding, marketing across platforms, experiential and event execution, large-scale management, and all aspects of enterprise strategy provide us with the knowledge necessary to understand our coaching clients’ challenges as well as opportunities.
As a result, our clients find I Openers executive coaching and strategic consultation truly useful—modern and relevant, specific, and grounded in the real world of corporate leadership.
I Openers Executive Coaching Offerings:
Authentic leadership coaching
Development and execution of offsites with outcomes
Crisis communications
Executive media training
Public speaking coaching
Exclusive leadership networking experiences
Booking leaders for high profile panels and keynotes,
Positioning and placing Founders and C-level executives as pundits in top media
Placing opinion and thought leadership articles in influential media publications.
I Openers Marketing Offerings:
Branding
Audience building
Social media
Go-to-Market strategy
Experiential development
Execution across multi-channel platforms
Our Team
Ilene Rapkin,
President and Founder
Ilene Rapkin was an established expert in the media and marketing industry and is now known for her executive coaching of C-level and senior leaders in tech, media and entertainment industries. When she held corporate roles, she was a revenue-driving, brand-building and results-oriented executive and strategic leader. This knowledge base informs her executive coaching as she has her own successful track record in leadership, operations, strategy and delivering ROI.
Prior to founding I Openers, Ilene held senior marketing and management positions at top brands and media companies including American Express Publishing, Condé Nast, Ziff-Davis and Primedia.
Greg Hittelman,
Senior Communications Consultant
Greg Hittelman is an executive and leader with a record of high performance in the field of international communications, with expertise in public relations, thought leadership, media training, alliances, campaigns, events, and crisis strategy. His career and expertise spans groundbreaking impact across multiple sectors and issues, including the environment, technology, entertainment, culture, human rights, and international security.
Dr. Mary Jo Wilson,
Consulting Psychologist
Dr. Mary Jo Wilson, for more than 35 years, has utilized her broad knowledge of human behavior to help her clients understand themselves and their underlying issues, communicate more effectively, and improve the quality of their lives. Philosophically, through humor and positivity, she and her clients address complex stage of life, career, and mental health concerns that can create momentum to effect enduring change and personal fulfillment.
She holds a PhD from The New School of Social Research in Clinical Psychology, a MA Degree from NYU in Clinical and Social Psychology, and a MA Degree from CUA in Administration and Business Management. She studied post graduate studies at Metropolitan Institute in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy and was certified by New York State in the treatment of substance abuse. She is an active member of APA and NYSPA. Her specializations include career disruptions and transitions, and first- time parenting.
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