Valerie Grubb
A sought-after keynote speaker, executive coach and trainer, Valerie M. Grubb is the principal of Val Grubb & Associates Ltd., a WBEC-certified woman-owned business which she founded in 2008 after two decades in senior leadership roles within major corporations.
Prior to founding Val Grubb & Associates, Ltd., Valerie served as the vice president of strategic operations at NBC Universal, where she oversaw business development opportunities and spearheaded on-air quality initiatives for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. Valerie played a seminal role in the 1999 formation and subsequent success of Oxygen Media which led to the company’s purchase by NBCU in 2007. Before joining Oxygen, Valerie was the vice president of operations for Barry Diller during the inception of IAC/InterActiveCorp, where she managed the integration of newly acquired companies including Home Shopping Network, Ticketmaster, and Expedia just to name a few. She began her career as an engineer with Allison Engine Company, a division of General Motors that was purchased by Rolls-Royce in 1995. During her eleven years with Rolls-Royce, she earned increasingly senior assignments, culminating in her appointment as director of public affairs.
Valerie graduated with a mechanical engineering degree from Kettering University and obtained her MBA from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. She is a graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program and Loyola University’s Institute of Politics and she is a member of EO New Orleans Accelerator Program, an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) initiative aimed at helping entrepreneurs drive their growth to $1 million in annual sales (and beyond). Valerie was recently selected for the Leadership Louisiana program sponsored by the Council for a Better Louisiana. She currently serves as President of the Board of Directors for the New Orleans Film Society and is on the Board of the New Orleans Opera Women’s Guild.
Valerie has published two books: Planes, Canes, and Automobiles: Connecting with Your Aging Parents through Travel (Greenleaf) and Clash of the Generations: Managing in the New Workplace Reality (Wiley).