Although he and his advisers say there is no personal edge to his campaign, Mr. Hewlett is directly confronting Ms. Fiorina, who was recruited from Lucent Technologies two years ago. HGTV co-founder Susan Packard authors new book for women in business By Kristin Farley, WATE 6 On Your Side Reporter. Theyve guided our work as a family foundation in which the next generation is deeply engaged. Susan Packard is an American business executive and author who was a cofounder of HGTV, DYI Network and several other Scripps Networks Interactive (SNI) network channels. Because of their shareholdings as individuals and in family trusts and foundations, though, the founders' children, now ranging in age from late 40's to early 60's, are being forced to take a stand. Id throw my hat in the ring that day for the title, the power, ego drivers. During the first 5 years of her teaching career, Dr. Packard worked concurrently as a psychologist at a facility providing outpatient therapy for adults, with a focus on treatment of depression, anxiety, trauma, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and eating disorders. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. You might want to consider telling it. And so I sat back and said, What is the story? They combine a deep dedication to the issues we work on with extraordinary humility and kindness. The companys media portfolio includes popular lifestyle television brands HGTV, Food Network, DIY Network, Cooking Channel, country music network Great American Country (GAC) and the Travel Channel. Their partnership was transformational for us in many ways., To make HGTV viable to sell, the consumer was always the first priority, she recounts. Orr and Burnett are daughters of David and Lucile Packard and two of the organization's longest-serving trustees. New channels under the SNI umbrella that Packard helped start include Food Network, DIY Network and Cooking Channel. Packard held a variety of senior positions at Scripps Networks Interactive, (NYSE: SNI), the leading developer of lifestyle-oriented content for television and the Internet. Under Packards helm, HGTV became one of the fastest growing cable networks in television history. ''It was an amicable splitting. Lesson: Dont defeat yourself before you get started or get overwhelmed. Log In. She admits she didn't have a clue how to read things like an income statement, so she asked for training. Packard held a variety of senior positions at Scripps Networks Interactive, (NYSE: SNI), the leading developer of lifestyle-oriented content for television and the Internet. Such deals, it says, create disruption as the merged companies try to meld disparate operations and corporate cultures. And guess who else lived on Shalawn Street? She also served on the Hewlett-Packard board for 7 years (19932001),[1] leaving shortly before the Compaq merger. (John Black Photography). But he will make his own decision, and he says the prospect weighs on him as he works the fields and greenhouses of his business, the Elkhorn Native Plant Nursery in Moss Landing, Calif. Hewlett-Packard may be a big global corporation, but for all the family members, the decision will be both personal and local. [2] Orr currently is founder and CEO of Telosa Software. She helped lead a movement in climate philanthropy that now generates well in excess of $1 billion dollars a year. The network is much jazzier today, with "Property Brothers," "House Hunters" and "Love It or List It" drawing viewers. Mr. Hewlett, then, is in an unusual, touchy position. We can feel their influence in everything we do at the Foundation. Mr. Hewlett's firm, Friedman Fleischer, has made its presentation to that board, too. Susan Packard is co-founder of Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI) and former Chief Operating Officer of HGTV. In those days, they vacationed together, and even today the Hewletts and the Packards jointly own land, including a 28,000-acre ranch in Northern California. She has served on the University of Tennessees College of Communications Board of Advisors and in 2004 she was named a College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Alumni at Michigan State University. "Everything around transparency is a really important management philosophy. But the composition of the board -- particularly the members who are likely to shape the discussion -- and what is known of the foundation's review process suggest that the merger stands a far better chance of receiving a nod of approval from the Packard Foundation than it did from Walter Hewlett or David Woodley Packard. Today HGTV is available in more than 99 million U.S. homes and distributed in 175 countries and territories. Because you see, we know that as women, two things can be true at the same time. Under Packards helm, HGTV became one of the fastest growing cable networks in television history. Following an 11-year career as a case . In addition to the Packard Foundation, she is a current or previous board member of several prominent nonprofit organizations including Stanford University and the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford. the truth for you, until you can know it for yourself. And, of course, all employees benefit, as does the company., Cynthia Gibson, executive vice president and chief legal officer for Scripps Networks Interactive, also cheered Packard: Susans passion for doing everything she does at 100% and her unquestioned integrity were key components of her success at HGTV.. The unlikely face-off pits Mr. Hewlett, 57, a consulting professor of music at Stanford University and a genial intellectual with advanced degrees in music, engineering and operations research, against Ms. Fiorina, 47, a forceful, charismatic outsider brought in by the board to shake things up at Hewlett-Packard -- a model company in many ways, but one that had become inbred and sluggish. [12] In addition to her business duties, she aligned Scripps corporate citizenship with external organizations, including Mobile Meals and Habitat for Humanity.[13]. Great American Country and Travel Channel were later additions to the family of networks while she was there. ''I worked there for 33 years,'' Mr. Platt said late last week. Packard held a variety of senior positions at Scripps Networks Interactive, (NYSE: SNI), the leading developer of lifestyle-oriented content for television and the Internet. In a merger with Compaq, Ms. Fiorina says, Hewlett-Packard will combine with a company that is pursuing much the same strategy and that has some overlapping and some complementary businesses. In fact, if I thought about this one long enough, my insides hurt. In the quiet of a grieving time, something new began to take shape. In that capacity, she served on the Audit, Strategic Planning, and CEO Succession committees. We use cookies to make Arreva's community a better place. Yet they share a common lineage and legacy, and a few inherited the engineering gene. So some people have commented that these seem to skew gender female. The second half of the book deals with emotional maturity. [3] Like both of them, she attended Stanford University, where she graduated with a BA in economics (1968) and an MBA (1970). They have more skin in the game., Gibson says Packard lives that: Susan really cares about people, within the company, the industry and the community. After receiving her undergraduate degree in advertising from Michigan State University,[1] in 1979 she graduated with a masters in advertising from the same school. We just keep marching ahead in lifethe next goal crossed off the list, the next job, the next home project that needs work. Rumi said: Be a lamp, a lifeboat, a ladder. Make more money in stocks with 2 months of access to IBD Digital for only $20! Theyve pushed us to pursue big ideas, learn from others, and take risks to help people and protect nature, while modeling the empathy and humility that our family so values. She has been recognized by industry peers, colleagues and employees as an innovator, role model and mentor. ''We need to take a bold step to address these challenges now.''. This is her third book about emotional fitness and the many shapes it takes in people's lives, and how it is essential to living with peace and joy. Your email address will not be published. While at CNBC, she received a call one day from Ken Lowe, who was in charge of E.W. She was also president of worldwide distribution for the Scripps cable brands. And we're all still friends! So fast forward to today. Learn how you can make more money with IBD's investing tools, top-performing stock lists, and educational content. The following Monday morning, I pulled my name from consideration. He is survived by his wife, Martha Susan Thomas Rudisill, daughter, Mary Harden Rudisill, both of Daniel Island, Charleston, daughter, Susan Reeves Rudisill Myers and her husband, Lt. Col. (retired) Andrew Herbert Myers, PhD., grandsons, Thomas Jesse Benjamin Myers and William Joseph Rudisill Myers, all of Spartanburg, S.C., a sister, Cecily . She is past vice chair of the board of an independent collegiate day school and an advisor on job training programs for the homeless as board member of Lazarus Ventures LLC. We might be able to create workarounds if issues arose with the distributor and advertiser, but if we didn't deliver with the consumer, nothing else much mattered. For more than three decades, the Stanford r Its been said a friend is someone who knows We are made to be in kinship with others, but if youre anything like me, you forget. She was the 2nd employee of SNI and helped to build the company to a market value of over $10 billion. Get market updates, educational videos, webinars, and stock analysis. Packard was the first woman elected to serve on the board of directors of Churchill Downs, Inc. (NASDAC: CHDN), the owner and manager of the Kentucky Derby and other horseracing properties. In recognition of her outreach work, she received the E.W. And out of that came these core values. Contemporary Economics, a high school textbook, profiled her as an entrepreneur in the field of media specialization. And were all still No one will say precisely what went on in the board meetings. In his meetings with major investors, Mr. Hewlett has been presenting the arguments laid out in a 69-page analysis of the deal prepared by his adviser, Friedman Fleischer & Lowe, a San Francisco investment firm. Today I write, I teach a practice of meditation called Centering Prayer at a lovely little retreat house in the Smoky Mountains, and I work with women one-on-one to help them manage all the areas that they battle in the workplace every day. ''We're not diversified like other foundations,'' said George Vera, its chief financial officer. In recognition of their service and contributions, Orr and Burnett have been appointed honorary trustees emeriti of the Foundation. You know theres so much literature around emotional intelligence books written about it, online quizzes to test your EI, books for kids on how to learn emotional intelligence but very little on emotional maturity. And its such a critical leadership skill. Susan Packard is co-founder of Scripps Networks Interactive and former chief operating officer of HGTV. She the cofounder of Scripps Networks Interactive and former chief operating.