Frank Schaeffer In Conversation with Janna Meyrowitz Turner, Exploring Reproductive Freedom and the Future of American Democracy.
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Janna Meyrowitz Turner is an entrepreneur, speaker, advisor, and angel investor who has been building values-aligned coalitions for over 20 years across CPG, fashion, tech, finance, entertainment, politics, advocacy, healthcare, wellness, food and more.
At a young age Janna’s sociologist mother and media theorist father instilled in her a keen awareness of how we come to know what we know, and how media and other forces inform public perception and how we live our lives. At the age of 23 in 2006, after noticing a gap in the existing public relations landscape, she founded Style House, a forward-thinking boutique public relations and brand marketing firm serving fashion, beauty and wellness companies. Over 15 years, Style House became an award-winning strategic communications and business development consultancy known for taking a holistic, progressive, and multicultural lens to brand building, strategic partnerships, platform development, marketing, and communications. The firm’s client work spanned small businesses, globally traded companies (Estee Lauder, Deckers Corp., Global Brands Group), venture-backed startups (Function of Beauty, Werk) and legacy turnarounds (Prescriptives, WNBA).
Today, through writing, speaking, advising and angel investing, Janna harnesses her entrepreneurial spirit and vast network to help executives and entrepreneurs make their impact in the ever-changing world, and grow businesses with intention. Her Personal Brand Alignment work, conducted 1:1 and through keynotes, workshops, and group facilitation, is a blend of leadership coaching, spiritual centering, and talent management, designed to build personal and professional narratives that maximize happiness, impact and earning potential. Janna has spoken for organizations, ERGs and communities including WarnerMedia, Chief, Kindred, iHeartMedia, The What Alliance, Women of Color in Cannabis, Luminary, Palette Community and more.
Janna is also dedicated advisor and angel investor in over 20 portfolio companies led by founders who are ambitious and expansive thinkers, display operational excellence, and are guided by triple bottom line business frameworks (people, planet, profit). She focuses primarily on communities often overlooked or misunderstood by traditional sources of capital -- female, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and the innovative businesses that serve them. Janna has also led and participated in a number of early stage strategic investment syndicates designed to diversify access and ownership for underrepresented investors, as well as to arm founders with powerful catalysts for growth.
Janna sits on the board of A Call To Men, a national violence prevention organization providing training and education on healthy manhood for communities of men and boys. She is also a Small Business Mentor with the NYC Mayor’s Taskforce on Racial Inclusion and Equity. Janna earned her BA in American Studies and Journalism at Brandeis University. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their son.